Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero

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He Lost SIX FIGURES in 35 Minutes | Then the Casino Offered Him a Free Room

August 18, 2026

He walked into Parx Casino with a school bag full of money that wasn't his. 35 minutes later, it was gone — and the casino's response was to offer him a free hotel room. In this episode of Nothing's Off the Table, I sit down with Danny, a compulsive gambler nearly two years into recovery, for a raw conversation about gambling addiction and what it really costs. We go deep on his last bet, the decade of lying that kept his gambling addiction alive, what it did to his marriage and his relation...

He Robbed His Own Mother for Crack | Now He's 38 Years SOBER

August 13, 2026

In November of 1987, Dan Ryan was a broken man. He'd spent most of that year living between crack houses, under bridges, and in the back of a friend's van. He hadn't seen his children in a year. He'd robbed his own mother that summer. This was a man who once managed on Wall Street — climbing the ladder, doing well — until addiction stripped everything away. When he finally got a shot at help, he missed the bus to the shelter. And in that moment of defeat, the demons called him back. He retur...

I Was a Heroin Addict in Kensington | Now I'm 13 Years Sober

August 11, 2026

Westley Morris was supposed to be a farm boy. His family still owns a 500-acre working farm in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. Instead, addiction took him to the darkest corner of America — the open-air drug markets of Kensington and North Philadelphia — where he watched people overdose and die on the sidewalk and wondered how any of it could be happening in this country. His last day using was December 22, 2012. What got him out wasn't willpower. It was his sister — 30 days clean herself — asking...