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Ben Owen

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

So hold on, hold on.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

Never happens again. Well, you constantly have to increase the amount of dope you're doing. You can get pretty close to it again or you can get it again. But it's taking more and more dope. The more dope you're adding, like, the chances you're going to kill yourself keeps climbing. You know what I mean? And so I got to the point where I was shooting a gram at a time sometimes.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

Never happens again. Well, you constantly have to increase the amount of dope you're doing. You can get pretty close to it again or you can get it again. But it's taking more and more dope. The more dope you're adding, like, the chances you're going to kill yourself keeps climbing. You know what I mean? And so I got to the point where I was shooting a gram at a time sometimes.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

Never happens again. Well, you constantly have to increase the amount of dope you're doing. You can get pretty close to it again or you can get it again. But it's taking more and more dope. The more dope you're adding, like, the chances you're going to kill yourself keeps climbing. You know what I mean? And so I got to the point where I was shooting a gram at a time sometimes.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

I mean, that's, like, I don't know how I never OD'd. You never OD'd? Never. I've always had a really weirdly high tolerance to things. So...

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

I mean, that's, like, I don't know how I never OD'd. You never OD'd? Never. I've always had a really weirdly high tolerance to things. So...

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

I mean, that's, like, I don't know how I never OD'd. You never OD'd? Never. I've always had a really weirdly high tolerance to things. So...

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

Yeah. Yeah, that I did. But I wanted to stop because it controlled every aspect of my life. I couldn't even sleep without getting dope sick. Did your wife know? Well, it started in Halloween. She figured it out end of June. How'd she figure it out? She found a box of syringes in the garage. I was not very good at hiding things. She'd known something was up.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

Yeah. Yeah, that I did. But I wanted to stop because it controlled every aspect of my life. I couldn't even sleep without getting dope sick. Did your wife know? Well, it started in Halloween. She figured it out end of June. How'd she figure it out? She found a box of syringes in the garage. I was not very good at hiding things. She'd known something was up.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

Yeah. Yeah, that I did. But I wanted to stop because it controlled every aspect of my life. I couldn't even sleep without getting dope sick. Did your wife know? Well, it started in Halloween. She figured it out end of June. How'd she figure it out? She found a box of syringes in the garage. I was not very good at hiding things. She'd known something was up.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

I mean, like, our business is falling apart. I bounced payroll. That's never happened. I look like somebody coming out of a concentration camp. I looked like death. I weighed like 130 pounds maybe, you know. And I'm not drinking. So she knows it's not that. She knew something was up. She found that box of rigs that day and lost it on me. I've never seen her that upset in my whole life.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

I mean, like, our business is falling apart. I bounced payroll. That's never happened. I look like somebody coming out of a concentration camp. I looked like death. I weighed like 130 pounds maybe, you know. And I'm not drinking. So she knows it's not that. She knew something was up. She found that box of rigs that day and lost it on me. I've never seen her that upset in my whole life.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

I mean, like, our business is falling apart. I bounced payroll. That's never happened. I look like somebody coming out of a concentration camp. I looked like death. I weighed like 130 pounds maybe, you know. And I'm not drinking. So she knows it's not that. She knew something was up. She found that box of rigs that day and lost it on me. I've never seen her that upset in my whole life.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

And I hopped in the GTO and went to where I go for comfort. South Memphis. And, uh, I'd waited just to punish myself until I was good and dope sick. I wanted myself to suffer. I had this sick self-hatred because of the situation I'd created. Where did she go? To her dad's down in Mississippi. And, um, I'm going, I don't know, 70, 80 miles an hour down East Parkway in Memphis and I ran a red light.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

And I hopped in the GTO and went to where I go for comfort. South Memphis. And, uh, I'd waited just to punish myself until I was good and dope sick. I wanted myself to suffer. I had this sick self-hatred because of the situation I'd created. Where did she go? To her dad's down in Mississippi. And, um, I'm going, I don't know, 70, 80 miles an hour down East Parkway in Memphis and I ran a red light.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

And I hopped in the GTO and went to where I go for comfort. South Memphis. And, uh, I'd waited just to punish myself until I was good and dope sick. I wanted myself to suffer. I had this sick self-hatred because of the situation I'd created. Where did she go? To her dad's down in Mississippi. And, um, I'm going, I don't know, 70, 80 miles an hour down East Parkway in Memphis and I ran a red light.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

And I T-boned an F-350. And, uh, spun and I hit a light pole and the inside of the car burst into flames. I'm pinned underneath the steering wheel. My face hit the steering wheel so hard that my teeth, I had to pull my lip off of my teeth. Like they'd gone all the way through it. I've got bones sticking out of my foot and I'm engulfed in flames.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

And I T-boned an F-350. And, uh, spun and I hit a light pole and the inside of the car burst into flames. I'm pinned underneath the steering wheel. My face hit the steering wheel so hard that my teeth, I had to pull my lip off of my teeth. Like they'd gone all the way through it. I've got bones sticking out of my foot and I'm engulfed in flames.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

And I T-boned an F-350. And, uh, spun and I hit a light pole and the inside of the car burst into flames. I'm pinned underneath the steering wheel. My face hit the steering wheel so hard that my teeth, I had to pull my lip off of my teeth. Like they'd gone all the way through it. I've got bones sticking out of my foot and I'm engulfed in flames.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

I had a fire extinguisher in the car for that exact scenario, should it ever happen, and I deployed it. Nothing happened. And I threw it out the window, which I guess alerted somebody that was out there that, hey, there's a live person still in that vehicle.