Rehab Confidential

Joe and Amy sit down with former professional heavyweight boxer, competitive chess player and best selling author Ed Latimore. We talk racism, alcoholism, his faith based recovery, the boxing world and how not to care what people think.

Joe and Amy sit down with Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden's son, to talk about his new addiction memoir "Beautiful Things". We discuss Hunter's recovery, family trauma, the Biden lineage of alcoholism, the stigma of drugs and of course, being in the crosshairs of the social media. .

Joe and Amy sit down with Dave from the famed Dopey Podcast. Dave confesses his resentments, talks about tennis balls filled with heroin and relays his take on Cali Sober, DMX and Tiger Woods.

Joe and Amy sit down with Nebraska state senator, Anna Wishart about her proposed legislation regarding medical cannabis. She explains how it could help an aging population, kids with intractable epilepsy, and aid in economic growth all while her opposition worries about the impact on goats.

Joe and Amy chat it up with former NYPD officer and chief of police of Burlington, VT, Brandon Del Pozo about his transition to being a scholar, reforms in policing and how we can all do a better job with drug policy.

Joe and Amy sit down with John Swab, writer/director of the new film "Body Brokers" to discuss the film and the "multi-billion dollar insurance scandal within the substance abuse treatment industry." We talk about the low rate of success within the treatment industry, the predatory nature of the business and "how capitalism fails addicts."

Joe and Amy sit down with Dr. Douglas Mungin, Communications Studies Professor and "Skid Row historian" who has been shot to fame by the Netflix four-part documentary "Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel". Dr. Mungin talks to us about gentrification, racism, "containment", mental illness, drug addiction and the everyday lives of the unhoused community.

Amy and Joe sit down with writer, activist and speaker David Poses and talk about his highly anticipated darkly funny addiction memoir "The Weight of Air: a memoir of a double life, fueled by addiction and mental illness". Poses explains why he thinks depression is the gateway drug and discloses that he's been on Suboxone for 13 years for his heroin addiction. We talk about religious discrimination in AA, 12 step's resistance to medication, drug policy, science and how Dr. Carl Hart has rocked the recovery community with his admission that he's used heroin "recreationally" for 5 years.

Joe and Amy talk to Emmy winning director, Stanley Nelson about his new documentary: "Crack: Cocaine, Corruption and Conspiracy" on Netflix. The film examines the crack era of the 80's and how crack fueled racial and economic inequality, the hyper-aggressive policing, the government and police corruption and the sentencing disparities between powdered cocaine and crack. We ask Nelson his thoughts on the "war on drugs", defunding the police, the legalization of drugs, what white communities need to know and how we can start to heal the racial divide.

Joe and Amy sit down with Harry Cunnane, co-author of "Under our roof". Harry shares his perspective about his addiction and recovery as well as his mother's, who is Madeleine Dean, congressional representative for the critical PA-4th. Joe and Amy talk Biden Administration embracing harm reduction and which religion is craziest.