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Shit he use to tell his family and friends give me only gift LOMM: Can’t we take your photo for the article please?
cards for birthdays, holidays, then take the gift cards and Murfee: I am an addict who drinks too much I did not say
trade them in for cash. Sick ass comedy. My duder gets his I was stupid.
girl high, that’s how you control ‘em, keep them up.
Give the drug experience they deeply desire, the one they LOMM: May we take your picture and hide your identity?
long for, dream of ya’ know. Sort of a dominant style Please? Will that work for you?
personality, some chicks get a taste of the music and drug Murfee: Yeah, I guess I might let you do that.
world, well you know. I‘ve had addict buddies their whole
mission in life is to screw their employers out of money, LOMM: Great, thank you kind sir. Oh, by the way, may
screw their families or total strangers. Manipulating cons, we ask your drugs of choice?
some of them the best. Hey to keep a drug habit up to date Murfee: (Giggle) Man you are one funny weird dude. I
is tough. Sui-hab can be an alternative. He robbed the know I feel you, I know you don’t mean any harm, I feel
people who cared a lot about him, people loved him, he that too. I might give you what you’re digging for Captain
robbed his employers. One man scared him when he got Obvious, maybe. Listen, when you do drugs with people or
caught the first time, his employer did not put him in jail. He deal drugs, man you get wise to the hearts of other people
said, “I love you as a human, a person and a brother”. and quick. You learn to read people in a way like no other.
That was a while ago my buddy said, so, everybody moved Some of us don’t just see through the layers, we recognize
on, we hope. My buddy moved on, he got caught again, what we are seeing and we reach in and touch it. You want
in other words, hey he screws people and they need to get me to give you my trash? You want it? You want my trash
over it. Get over it man there is worse things in the world. Captain Obvious? What’s it worth?
He said his boss tried to control him, but really his drug
dealer controls his entire life. He even got him to start deal- LOMM: May I ask again please, Murfee what are you
ing. Beware of a charming man with a dark soul, but even drugs of choice?
they know when it’s really time to get up and go.
Murfee: Well, look man, I do whatever is quick, cheap,
LOMM: Excuse me for interrupting, is this familiar, close close, what my friends are doing, what I want. Smoking
to you, do you know this person well? weed is totally normal I round out the day with beer. Pain

Murfee: (with laughter) Like I say, wise the fuck-up man, pills, opioids, mix with other stuff will give you what you
need. Spent a lot on coke for me and my girl, cheap coke at
drugs are a business and everybody’s playing their role. that. Molly, X, is cheap everywhere, we get it. Dude heroin
Yeah, it’s familiar, Captain Obvious. It’s me dumb-ass. I or heroin light, can be five to ten a day now. You don’t have
mean no offense, but man, I speak about myself in the third to even look for it, it comes to you when people know you’re
person, because when I am on drugs I am a different per- using. A cheap ass dealer on every block, in every bar, top
son. I am not the real me. I am an addict who drinks and to bottom. Tell me Cap come on, what’s your high Cap?
smokes too much. I probably have lung cancer now, I been
smoking for over 20 years. The real me disappeared, I live LOMM: How do you see your future, do you want a
for drugs and alcohol until I die from drugs and alcohol or family, do you want children?
somehow get saved. I’m agnostic I don’t believe in Gods, Murfee: Nobody knows the future man, that’s part of
I don’t mean get saved like a Christian, I mean get saved what is special about it. No guarantees beyond us right
from myself and get saved from my crappy ass dealer (more here right now. Recognize the past it’s you, keep track of the
laughter). Man, it’s been okay talking. This is different, good and the bad, but when you are really sick, its back to
you ask a lot of stuff, this doesn’t mean anything, it ain’t Mom and Dad. No kids. You think. Why we have clinics?
going to change anything, we are who we, you are who
you are, they are who they are. So what man. And when I LOMM: Unusual spelling to your name, Murfee, based on
get caught, I will be the victim. I am going to go and play M-u-r-p-h-y?
music. I am good at it and music has saved me for real. Like
I said, I gave up women and jobs over music and drugs. Murfee: Murfee is Gaelic and means Sea Warrior. I think
Music saved me. Just wish I could get off the booze, smokes my name is pre-Irish. Gaelic. Look man, everybody has
and drugs. Hey, there are no winners in dealing or addic- issues, some sort of hole to fill. We are human,
tion, everybody loses. What the fuck you expect from me? everybody’s got damage Cap, some more. I have always
Sorry man, life just ain’t cool sometimes. been taught make a decision and stick to your guns.

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