Football Hooligan, Who Taxed Drug Dealers For a Living
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Who is the guest and what is the episode’s opening introduction?
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And boom, we're on. And today's guest we've got Mikey Dawson. Mikey, how are we?
Oh good, thanks, mate. Oh, for uh good journey up here. Yes,
roasting in London, I think it's thirty-eight degrees.
Yeah, thirty-eight today.
You've got some colour anyway.
Yeah, I just well went over More Bay about a month ago and then come back at the at the first heat wave and uh Just been like sexy beast right winston out the back like I cover catching more right. Yeah, yeah.
Football hooligan, heroin addict. Off it, on it, off it, on it. Mad story, mad life. This is why you're here today, brother. But first and foremost, thanks for coming on the show. Before I get into everything though, always like to go back to the start of my guests. Get more of a bit of understanding about you, Mikey, where you grew up and how it all began.
Aye. It's uh I gr I grew up in Plymouth, uh my dad or Glaswegian come down here and met my mum, uh had me grew up in Plymouth and um Probably a lot of people ain't even gonna know where Plymouth is, James. You know, it's like people think it's like a little village down in Cornwall, but in it's it's in Devon, it's a city. And it's a fucking hard city as well. It's like um many a football firm, many an odd man has come down into Plymouth and been sent packing o over the years. It's like We had the world famous Union Street. It's a a mile long, just pubs, clubs next door to one another. Kick out 2 a.m. in the morning, 30,000 people in Union Street. But we also had we had uh Danport Dockyard one side, we had the Marines based at Beckley on another side, and we had the commandos upon Plymouth.
MFO. So when they used to c all all the men like older than me and all that back in the day, they're obviously having a fight for their fucking women down there because you got and all these like service personnel. And mate, it was fucking like the World West down there with like in the Union Street days. And I I started like venturing down there. I w I went from that area, but I was always fighting, getting into trouble from the area that I came to. And then me and my mate, like I was I was I was boxing as a kid and uh always battled me weight and um We ventured down into Union Street, seventeen years old. I'd put the weight at a loss back on, but I could still fucking hit like a f sledgehammer. And uh so we ventured down there, obviously on the pest, and I started fucking knocking out doormen at 17 and like fighting these armed men down down there and other people was like, What who the fuck's this?
And um That's when I guess like the football lads fr that lived in in the city must thought we need to get this fucker along to the football with us. And um my upbringing, my d my dad was Graduation. And he he was an old carleck. He he he he used to keep it under but mate, It's like the times it smashed my mum up, smash the house up. For some reason it smashed me up, ev even as a kid. And um so when I met this football firm, Like that belonging. that that feeling of like a proper close knit family, it's like it it pulled me in straight away. So it's um And these p these people they they have the same mentality and um Yeah, just loved it. Loved it from the start, mate, really. How many's in the firm at Plymouth at that time?
Back back in, we it's bro we probably had a good hundred, hundred and fifty on like a good day, but it's different than today. It's like 'cause I've obviously gone back into it in the year in the 2000s, from about 2010. And uh this was the late eighties, early nineties. And and back then, you ever ran or left one of your pals to get an off, you would be battered and you would never step foot inside the ground ever again. And like when I went back Like this was happening all the time and I was like scratching my head. But I was up there having what midlife crisis at probably about forty fucking years old.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Who is the guest and what is the episode’s opening introduction?
0:06–6:14
2
How does Mikey Dawson describe his childhood and early life in Plymouth?
6:14–1:13:32
3
Why does Mikey say he relapsed after 22 years of sobriety?
1:13:32–1:25:22
4
How does the conversation shift to the hidden danger of gambling addiction?
1:25:22–1:48:07
5
What role do vaping, coffee and energy drinks play in his current routine?
1:48:07–2:07:10
6
What are Mikey’s plans for his book, publishing and the next chapter of his life?
2:07:10–2:15:07
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