Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

By: Dave & Chris

Language: en

Categories: Health, Fitness, Mental, Alternative, Comedy

Dopey Podcast is the world’s greatest podcast on drugs, addiction and dumb shit. Chris and I were two IV heroin addicts who loved to talk about all the coke we smoked, snorted and shot, all the pills we ate, smoked, all the weed we smoked and ate, all the booze we consumed and all the consequences we suffered. After making the show for 2 and a half years, Chris tragically relapsed and died from a fentanyl overdose. Dopey continued on, at first to mourn the horrible loss of Chris, but then to continue our mission - which was at its co...

Episodes

Dopey Emergency Episode: The Nick Reiner Tragedy
Dec 15, 2025

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This two-hour emergency Dopey  episode compiles all of Nick Reiner’s appearances — spanning relapse, heart attack, family pressure, recovery attempts, weed/Adderall use, and wild stories. Dave and Chris walk through Nick’s upbringing as the son of Rob Reiner and grandson of Carl Reiner, the contrast between privilege and addiction, and the comedy-tragedy tension that defines Dopey.

Nick describes relapsing with an old dealer, falling back into heroin and cocaine, and ultimately having a cocaine-induced heart attack mid-flight. He wakes up in a Bosto...

Duration: 02:42:12
ANDY DICK COMES CLEAN ABOUT HIS RECENT OVERDOSE! EMERGENCY DOPEY
Dec 12, 2025

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EMERGENCY ANDY DICK INTERVENTION!!!!

Thanks to hard core dope Keaton Hudema - we catch up with Andy Dick to find out all about his recent overdose incident involving fentanyl, We talk a bunch of shit - and i try and 12 step him. All that and more on this Andy Dick Emergency Broadcast of Dopey!


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Duration: 00:30:28
Dopey 561: CLASSIC DOPEY From Fake AIDS to Real Crack: The Completely Deranged Life of Hairy Tongue Will
Dec 12, 2025

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This Week on a super classic episode of Dopey! Dave is visited by local Long Islander - Will P. AKA Hairy Tongue Will. Dave opens the show drinking Ryze mushroom coffee while talking about how cold his recording room is. He announces that Dopey will be releasing five episodes per week throughout December, including replays, Patreon teasers, deep cuts, and new interviews.

He gives sobriety shoutouts — notably Lauren’s three-year milestone and Maddie Veitch from Leftover Salmon celebrating her own recovery marker. He encourages listeners to email in clea...

Duration: 02:52:28
Chris’s Prison Stories Vol.1 – Shooting Meth, getting Staph & pushing the Fucking Panic Button
Dec 11, 2025

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This Week on Dopey! Dave kicks off the new Thursday Retro Replay / Greatest Hits concept and explains the new Dopey weekly schedule before throwing back to one of the most beloved early episodes: Chris’s Prison Stories Part One (Dopey 67). After a classic call from Dave’s dad Alan complaining about the website reviews and telling his own fake “Fort Apache” jail story, Chris dives into his very real first sentence in Orange County Jail. He breaks down race politics, Woods and Sureños, getting classified as a high...

Duration: 01:19:19
'Coke and Porn Go Together Like Bacon and Eggs' Sleaford Mods': Jason Williamson's Incredible Saga PLUS a guy in a butcher shop put a pipe up his Arse!
Dec 10, 2025

This week on Dopey! Dave talks to Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods about growing up in grim small-town England, discovering punk and mod culture, and using booze, speed, ecstasy and finally cocaine to numb himself through factory jobs, failed bands and a brutal home life. Jason breaks down how club and rave culture in the ’90s felt like utopia, how Sleaford Mods was born from a eureka moment shouting over a looped metal sample, and how his addiction eventually narrowed into solitary marathons of cocaine and online porn in hotel rooms and crack houses. He opens up about childhood tr...

Duration: 01:55:42

Tuesday Teaser - Can you live in Fear and Love at the same time? Fake Meditation - Reddit Roundup
Dec 09, 2025

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Duration: 00:14:44
Dopey REPLAY - Charlotte McKinney! LSD SPRAY! Psychedelics! Ketamine! Quaaludes! Psilocybin! Recovery
Dec 08, 2025

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This Week on Dopey REPLAY! We are joined by our amazing guest, comedian, actress, model and person in early recovery, Charlotte McKinney.

Charlotte joins at around 45 days sober. She talks about her early sobriety, feeling scared to fully commit, and using comedy as her “secret life.” She opens up about her old weed habit, quitting cold turkey, partying with boyfriends, and chasing drugs through different phases of her life. She shares some of her craziest stories — including taking LSD and going to family dinners and spending holidays totall...

Duration: 01:15:45
Dopey 560: Darrell Hammond, SNL to Crack House to Stroke Ward back to SNL! Cutting, Coke, SMI, Recovery
Dec 05, 2025

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This week on Dopey! Comedy Legend and serious recovery survivor Darrel Hammond comes on the show! We dispose of a dead opossum. We reads listener messages about Patreon, Pearl Jam, the Charlotte McKinney episode, Spotify reviews, Theo Von speculation, “Many Rivers to Cross,” NA vs AA, and future guests like Tim Dillon. There’s a voicemail about colonoscopy propofol and an email from Canadian listener Dylan about secretly smoking purple fent in rehab and still graduating before getting three years clean on methadone. Dave tells his own storie...

Duration: 02:05:31
Carolyn 'Mountain Girl' Garcia - Grateful Dead - Merry Pranksters - Ken Kesey - Psychedelics - Jerry Garcia - Dopey Retro Thursday Replay
Dec 04, 2025

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Replay from June 2022 - Carolyn 'Mountain Girl' Garcia tells her story! From ibogaine in Palo Alto, to LSD with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Going on the road and starting a family with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead. Ultimately enduring a marriage with a total heroin and cocaine addict as husband and father of her children. This is a very, very special Dopey indeed! Plus emails, and a bit more on an extra long, extra heady episode of the good ol' Dopey show!

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Duration: 02:28:03
Fentanyl, Coke, Speed, Blues, Heroin & Methadone: The Noddy God Story
Dec 03, 2025

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Dave kicks off the first-ever Wednesday Dose of Dopey talking about post-Thanksgiving food insanity, a brownie-topped cheesecake Linda brought home, and his evolving stance on cheesecake as a “real” dessert. He updates the Dopey Nation on the Dopey Fitness Challenge, his failed attempt at jogging with his dog Winnie that ends with him eating pavement, ripping his pants, smacking the dog in frustration, and then feeling guilty about it all week. Dave reads an email from Haley in Mississippi, who loved the Glenis and Billy Stri...

Duration: 01:21:54
Can you use Meth without Consequences? Alan-On x Raytreon Hybrid - Thanksgiving Recap, Bashing old people TEASER
Dec 02, 2025

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Duration: 00:16:30
Dopey REPLAY - Billy Strings - FULL INTERVIEW, Loss, Grief, Meth, Weed, Music, Recovery, Trauma
Dec 02, 2025

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Billy Strings sits down for one of the rawest, heaviest, and most honest conversations ever recorded on Dopey. In this replay, Billy talks openly about growing up in chaos, losing his dad to heroin at age two, his mom’s crack and meth addiction, violence in the home, poverty, hunger, couch-surfing, and the wild, psychedelic, musical household that shaped him. He walks through the exact moments his childhood shifted from love and music into danger, raids, labs, dealers, and watching addiction take over everyone around him.

Billy tells st...

Duration: 02:07:00
Dopey 559: Charlotte McKinney Takes Homemade Quaaludes and uses Candy Flip Spray, THANKSGIVING SPECIAL! PLUS Steve Poltz on the Mysterious Life and Death of Todd Snider RIP!
Nov 27, 2025

This Week on Dopey! Our annual Thanksgiving episode opens with a Dopey holiday song and gratitude messages from the Dopey Nation. We remember the brilliant Jimmy Cliff and play a few tunes. We read Billy Strings reviews and talk shit about AI! PLUS DOPEY NATION GRATITUDE before introducing guest Charlotte McKinney.

Charlotte joins at around 45 days sober. She talks about early sobriety, feeling scared to fully commit, and using comedy as her “secret life.” She opens up about her old weed habit, quitting cold turkey, partying with boyfriends, and chasing drugs through different phases of her life. She...

Duration: 02:33:44
After Billy Strings Show - Cookies - AI - Heroin -Recovery
Nov 25, 2025

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The teaser opens with you explaining the whole point of a Tuesday teaser: push listeners “like little dogs or lemmings” to Patreon, where the full episode lives. You pitch the Wednesday Patreon Zoom, the Saturday Zoom, the Recovery Zoom, the bonus videos and episodes, and joke about your inconsistent track record of scheduling Patreon Zooms.

You welcome the massive influx of Billy Strings fans after the huge episode—Rolling Stone, People Magazine, Yahoo News, and a pile of country sites covered it. You read a handful of Spotify comments reacting to the in...

Duration: 00:27:32
Dopey 558: Billy Strings Comes Clean! Losing his Parents to Meth and Heroin, Crack, weed addiction, Braids, Razor Blades & a Briefcase
Nov 21, 2025

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This Week on Dopey! Billy Mother Fucking Strings comes on to share his truth! But first Dave meditates, reads spotify reviews, reads an email about premature ejaculation, and a voicemail from Dopey OG Alex on meth, fent and needing makeup! Then Billy joins Dave on Dopey to talk openly about addiction shaping his entire life—from his dad dying of a heroin overdose when he was two, to growing up in houses full of meth use, crack dealers, and chaos, to smoking meth and tripping on acid with his mom as a teenager. He d...

Duration: 02:35:29
Soft White Underbelly, Rich Roll, The Fire Cracker, Heart Attack Doug, MAGA, Gratitude 'The Return of Snot Sock Manheim'
Nov 18, 2025

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Dave opens the Tuesday teaser alone in his house, loving the rare quiet and recording next to Susan the snake’s terrarium. He complains about his fancy Rogan-style mic breaking, says he hates stands, and talks about launching “fake meditation shit” because he likes the sound of his own voice.

He previews this week’s Patreon episode: him and Doug in the Honda Pilot “by the bay,” where Dave had a full sneezing meltdown and wound up blowing his nose into his sock for the entire show because he had no tissues.

...

Duration: 00:19:48
Dopey 557: CLASSIC DOPEY! Pimps and Ho's, Meth and Heroin, Crack! Smuggling people in the Trunk with Glynis!
Nov 14, 2025

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This week on Dopey!In this unbelievably heavy episode, Dave sits with Glynis as she unpacks a lifetime of addiction, trauma, and survival that spans Massachusetts, Texas, L.A., jail, pimping culture, meth psychosis, fentanyl, gang life, and ultimately federal prison. Glynis describes early emotional wounds, resentment toward her mother, the “magnet” pull of addiction, and how heroin became the only place she ever felt OK. She talks about couch-surfing and freezing nights in Boston, smoking meth for the first time in Texas, disappearing on multi-day runs, underground game rooms, GHB...

Duration: 03:40:12
MAGA (HEART ATTACK) DOUG - HIPPIES - ART - GRATITUDE - HEROIN - COPS - LONG ISLAND
Nov 11, 2025

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Duration: 00:14:51
Dopey 556: Roddy Bottum Sticks Opium Up His Butt with Courtney Love, Faith No More, Imperial Teen, 90's, Recovery, Gay Stuff
Nov 07, 2025

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This Week on Dopey! I'm in Philly at the Rise for Recovery Conference! I was on Soft White Underbelly! I read Spotify comments, and one of the single greatest dopey emails ever! And Old School Dopey Kirby sends in a voicemail about what it means to be an addict. Then we welcome the incredible Roddy Bottum, keyboardist for Faith No More and lead singer/guitar of Imperial Teen, and author of his new book, The Royal We. Roddy talks about growing up gay in a hard-rock world, his early San Francisco punk days...

Duration: 02:35:32
Shadow People, Hot Takes, and My Dad Calls Me a Liar or Sticky Finger's Manheim Rides Again
Nov 04, 2025

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Duration: 00:20:24
Dopey 555: Hot Takes! Rich Roll Does Mushrooms and MDMA and gets deep on Dopey! Gay Stuff in Vietnam, Harm Reduction!!
Oct 31, 2025

🧠 Dopey Episode 555: Rich Roll Returns!

This week on Dopey I met Jeff Ross at Katz’s (he thought I’d be short and fat), go through Spotify comments!

There’s a voicemail from Tom in Oregon about trying to cop dope in Vietnam that goes very gay and sideways. Then there’s a super sweet email from Bailey in Chicago, a recovery coach who just hit five years. I also ramble about Mountainside, Oro Recovery, and Recovery Unplugged, and Recovery.com who all actually help Dopey Nation people when they’re in trouble.

Then Rich Rol...

Duration: 02:00:14
Lonely Jail Time - Joey Ramone - Doing Percs in Recovery - Ray Tease
Oct 29, 2025

This week on the tease! Susan is sick! Eating Bad! Dental Surgery Percocet! Nitrous! Montana Prison in Texas! Joey Ramone!

MORE! MORE! MORE!


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Duration: 00:20:56
Dopey 554: Homeless, Shooting Speedballs in Neck, 69ing in Cab with Fried Chicken, RJ Elizarraz
Oct 24, 2025

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This week on Dopey! Dave opens the episode feeling sick, dreading his upcoming dental implants, and joking about painkillers, nitrous, and Tylenol PM. He congratulates longtime dopes Margaret Hernandez (36 years sober) and Mattie Veach (recovering from cancer surgery), prays for the Knicks, and introduces guest RJ Elizarraz, co-host of Against All Odds with Rachel Slocum and founder of Oak Forest Recovery.

Before diving in, Dave reads Spotify comments from the Brace Belden episode — about therapy, high memories, Suboxone, and more — gives shoutouts to listeners, and pushes the legendary Dopey socks...

Duration: 02:54:51
Charlie Parker Swindles Miles Davis for Heroin Money. Selby flies with no ID. PLUS ALAN and Mystery Guest.
Oct 21, 2025

Dave opens this Tuesday Dopey Patreon teaser by reflecting on feeling burnt out, upcoming dental implant surgery, and the need to slow down. He jokes about “cultivating illness” to get rest and shares his current obsession with the Martin Scorsese documentary series Mr. Scorsese, hoping listeners will “pray and manifest” Scorsese appearing on Dopey. He talks about Scorsese’s film legacy, calling Goodfellas untouchable.

Dave reads a Spotify comment from Emma about a pork ad and debates if it’s anti-Semitic, then begins a new segment reading from Miles Davis’s autobiography — a vivid story about Charlie Parker pawning M...

Duration: 00:21:47
Dopey 552: Brace Belden Returns! Molestation, Poppers, Nitrous, Heroin, Charlie Kirk and Recovery!
Oct 17, 2025

This Week on Dopey! Dave opens with a cocaine-barroom parody and rolls into updates: DopeyCon afterglow, Spotify/iTunes comments, LA travel nerves, and sponsor shout-outs. Listener Archie checks in with a salvia-in-underwear saga; another listener writes about rock-salt shrooms and missing the Dead’s final Jerry show; “Chip” reports nearly a year sober and reflects on denial. Then Brace Belden (Truenon) sits down in Dave’s new DIY studio for a sprawling hang: meetings vs. therapy, analysis and trazodone dreams, the weird science of memory, and a brutally honest tour through sex + drugs (boofing Suboxone film, poppers, Whippets/“galaxy gas,” meth...

Duration: 02:08:29
LSD in EYES - DOPEY IN HEART - ROLLING STONES - DOPEYCON
Oct 14, 2025

Tease with Stephen

Public apology

Recognizing patterns

being a jerk

LSD

More!

Hipsters!


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Duration: 00:20:48
Dopeycon 2025 Live Brandon Novak, James Frey, Hank Azaria, Fentanyl Jay, Sam Miller and my dad's speech!
Oct 10, 2025

Twas a good Dopeycon this year - maybe the last - I wish I had said more - but it was a truly beautiful experience and show. The place was packed - and I am super grateful for all the people who came, participated and sponsored!

Special thanks to Mountainside Recovery for being our title sponsor, LICR for taking in Jay, Recovery.com, RELEASE RECOVERY, The Phoenix House, Wellbridge Recovery, Curious Elixers, Cirque Lodge, Redemption Addiction Treatment Centers, Mike's Amazing Mustard, SoBrewed Coffee, Claire Comai, Rachel Hechtman, Katz's Delicatessen, The Great Cormac, Shortbread Society for the Othello...

Duration: 02:24:32
MAGA Heart Attack Doug Fat Shames Me HardCore! Plus Dopeycon and other dumb shit.
Oct 07, 2025

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This week on the teaser! We recap Dopeycon, I complain about META shutting down the Dopey FB page, we read an email and Doug goes nuts fat shaming me. It's pretty funny - hear the whole thing on patreon!


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Duration: 00:23:13
Dopey 551: Recovering from Grief with Amanda Petrusich, Phish, Metallica, Bob Dylan, Suboxone, Rolling Stone, New Yorker
Oct 03, 2025

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A new kind of Dopey! A kinder, Gentler Dopey? Me and New Yorker Rock Critic, Amanda Petrusich sit down to discuss recovering from grief. Amanda lost her husband suddenly during covid from a random seizure. Hear how Amanda got through it raising their one daughter, Nico alone. Plus some of Amanda's experiences covering Phish, Aerosmith, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan and more!

Plus Ben Croxton's shooting story(but not how you think), a horrible kratom death, and me basking...

Duration: 02:01:33
Keith Richards and Jerry Garcia's Personal Habits - Banana Ball and the Dopey Theme Song Challenge!
Sep 30, 2025

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Duration: 00:16:26
Dopey 550: The Anesthesiologist Who Shot Adrenaline and Fentanyl, Dr. Jason Giles, Hitler, Freud, Halsted, Addiction Recovery
Sep 26, 2025

This Week on Dopey! We are joined by Oro Recovery Medical Director - Dr. Jason Giles! We also read old comments and hear from a few dopes in the dopey nation. Then Dave interviews Dr.  Giles—twice board-certified in addiction medicine (via ABAM then ABPM), previously board-certified in anesthesiology and pain medicine, and a recovering opioid addict. He grew up in Santa Monica with a severely alcoholic father, fell into the second-wave ska/mod scene (Vespa, sharkskin suits, amphetamines), dropped out of high school, then clawed his way through community college to Berkeley, volunteering at the Berkeley Free Clinic and...

Duration: 02:38:45
DRUNKEN SEX in THE 1980's! PLUS Dopey theme song challenge!
Sep 23, 2025

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Duration: 00:18:43
Dopey 549: Heroin at 16, Bundles in Puerto Rico, Mongo in Queens, Addiction Recovery OG – The Johnny Mac Story
Sep 19, 2025

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This week on Dopey! We are joined by old school recovery/addiction legend Johnny Mac! From Queens! But first we learn about Sky Fly in PA, we hear from a benzo addict in the UK and then hear a nice story about Salvia from Loosey in California! Then we get this fuckin Johnny Mac! A 74-year-old New York junkie-turned-AA old-timer, who lays out his wild ride from Woodside Irish Catholic rules to acid-dealing in Ecuador, nodding out on heroin in...

Duration: 02:01:27
Charlie Sheen's First Crack with Blow Job! Luc Zarrato! Fitness! Recovery!
Sep 16, 2025

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This week on tuesday teaser! We rejoice at the release and all around greatness that is the Charlie Sheen Netflix show - AKA Charlie Sheen.

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Duration: 00:17:52
Dopey 548: 13 & Pregnant, Army ‘Shitbag,’ Gabby Eagan! Head butting Cops, TMZ Mugshots, and a Year Sober (Almost)”
Sep 12, 2025

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This week on Dopey! We are joined by Tik ToK superstar Gabby Eagen! But first we hear some of the notes and comments from last weeks Dopey - we read an email from a Russian film maker heroin addict who used to get high off poppy seeds. The we hear a crazy drug story from a crazy dopey who gopt stung in his eye by a bee! Then we hear from Gabby! Dave chops it up with TikTok c...

Duration: 01:57:49
SPECIAL GUEST! KATZ'S! GUY ON GUY 69! The LAST DOPEYCON????? Canadians! Katz's!
Sep 09, 2025

This week on the teaser!

An Old Anonymous friend comes through and we talk propofol, guy on guy 69 and other dumb shit. 

PLUS a Canadian EMAIL - is it the end of Dopeycon?

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Duration: 00:20:24
Dopey 547: Fruit Roll-Ups Full of Oxys, Butt Cheeks Full of Percs, Heroin as Hash, and Finding G-d with Tzvi Heber, plus GAMBLING
Sep 05, 2025

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This Week on Dopey! Getting ready for DopeyCon - who is coming? This week on the show we have a voicemail from Matt WC on shooting coke - a riveting kratom email - and then we pay a house call to Tzvi Heber in Los Angeles - of Ascendent Recovery and he shares a not usual Dopey Recovery story starting out deep within the orthodox Jewish community. We cover - Jewish identity, loss, resentment, addiction, recovery, community, basketball, opiates, personal growth, spirituality, addiction, recovery, detox, OxyContin, fentanyl, family...

Duration: 02:31:54
Are Girls Ungrateful and other Insane Questions with Handsome Evan Teaser Addiction Recovery
Sep 02, 2025

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This week on the teaser - i read some emails - reflect on the end of summer and get excited for dopeycon - before handsome evan shows up with his family problems!

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Duration: 00:19:38
Dopey 546: Anders Osborne on a Morphine, Dilaudid, Cocaine Cocktail, Butt Cheeks Full of Perks & Bill Taylor remembers Hurricane Katrina
Aug 29, 2025

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Montana, OG DOPE, writing in from prison, about smuggling fentanyl and Percs past cops by hiding a bundle between his butt cheeks. Another listener voicemail “Gay for Crack” tells a darkly comedic tale of hustling a guy in Baltimore who offered crack in exchange for sex.

Then Anders Osborne and Bill Taylor (Trombone Shorty Foundation, The Phoenix) recount using and surviving during Hurricane Katrina — a lawless, apocalyptic New Orleans with flooded streets, National Guard, no electricity, and dealers flooding in. An...

Duration: 01:59:05
Alan Returns and Talks Shit About Fentanyl Jay on The Billy Jensen Teaser! Addiction Recovery!
Aug 26, 2025

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My Dad is back to talk shit!


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Duration: 00:29:37
Dopey 545:Crack at 15, Shitting Out Balloons of Dope & Eating Raw Bacon with IDGAF Foods, Don't Be a Fucking Pussy! Addiction Recovery!
Aug 22, 2025

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This week on Dopey we celebrate Dopes Heather and Jen! Both with ONE YEAR! We read some emails and I got to sit down with the legend! IDGAF Foods (aka the guy behind eating hot dogs off the floor on Instagram) for a brutally honest trip through his addiction, art, and recovery. From smoking crack at 15 in Manchester, CT, to guzzling buckets of Molly and shards of ketamine out of Kahlua bottles, to swallowing and later digging through his own shit for balloons of drugs, his story is a nonstop circus...

Duration: 02:07:06
What the F$%K is happening with Fentanyl Jay, Addiction Recovery Teaser
Aug 19, 2025

This week on the Teaser! I get back from Park City Song Summit! Preparing for DopeyCon, going upstate! Jay is back - if you want to hear whats up - go to www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast


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Duration: 00:15:15
Dopey 544: ChrisMiss - Dopey Day - Annie Remembers! Chris ties a rubber duck around his penis to beat. a drug test! Addiction Recovery
Aug 15, 2025

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📋 Show Notes

Teaser/Intro:

Dave’s septic tank explodes into the shower; plumber drama and Beach Club day.

Announces Park City Song Summit panel on “Writing Under the Influence” with Anders Osborne, Anders Beck & Matt Warren.

DopeyCon VI lineup: Ian Fidance, Sam Miller, Jake from WV, Aaron Carr, Ray Brown, Dave’s dad, Linda, Brandon Novak, Hank Azaria, maybe Jason Biggs; tickets via Patreon.

Notes that August 16th (“Dopey Day”) marks Chris’s birthday; urges listeners to put the Dopey logo over their eyes and send pho...

Duration: 02:30:39
Finger Banging, Septic Explosion, Recovery Addiction and Dumb Shit with Heart Attack Doug
Aug 12, 2025

 

Septic saga: Dave’s septic tank blows up into the shower; plumber drama ensues.

 

Park City Song Summit: Dave previews his session with Anders Osborne, Anders Beck and Matt Warren on writing under the influence vs. in recovery.

 

DopeyCon 6 lineup: Ian Fidance, Sam Miller, Jake from WV, Aaron Carr, Ray Brown, Dave’s dad, Linda, Brandon Novak, Hank Azaria, Jason Biggs, and other “influencers/junkies galore” — tickets on Patreon.

 

Spotify comments: Fans want comedian Modi at DopeyCon (he probably won’t be there); others complain about teaser pay...

Duration: 00:15:00
Dopey 543: Projectile Vomiting, Codependency, Heroin, Fitness, Billy Joel with Rachel Elizabeth Slocum, Doug Bopst,
Aug 08, 2025

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Annie’s anniversary: Dave marks one year since Annie Ellie died, plays her voicemails and messages, and reflects on how fragile life in recovery is.

Travis’s email: A listener’s relapse saga: he meets a girl at a meeting, falls in love, helps her get sober, then watches the relationship implode into infidelity and emotional breakdown.

Rachel Slocum returns:
• Talks about relapsing, volunteering during Texas floods, and how service triggered a heavy depression; admits isolating in bed and feeling like a “lazy, dirty sewer rat...

Duration: 02:21:19
Do I Really Look that Much Like Ted Cruz? Erin Khar! Addiction Recovery!
Aug 05, 2025

 

👉 Full Erin Khar episode + DopeyCon 6 tickets only on:

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📓 Episode Notes:

🐎 Guest: Erin Khar – author, advocate, and recent NYC election winner

🧠 Topics: stigma, recovery, school boards, getting called out, Ask Erin segment

🎂 Dopey Day is August 16 – Chris’s birthday and a day to remember all who’ve died from addiction. Put the Dopey logo over your eyes 🖤

🎤 Dave saw Wilco, Bob Dylan, and Willie Nelson

🥴 He got mistaken for Ted Cruz

🏋️‍♂️ He’s on a crash keto diet before heading to Park City Song Summit Duration: 00:15:55

Dopey 542: Jonathon Shaw on Speedballing, Tattooing Johnny Depp, Iggy Pop, Ayahuasca and deep addiction recovery
Aug 01, 2025

Show Notes

Early Life & Tattoo Beginnings:
JS grew up going back and forth to NYC, starting Fun City tattoo shop in the late ‘70s/early ‘80s, working with punk legends, including Iggy Pop and hanging around the Lower East Side near Katz’s Deli. Took over Spider Webb’s tattoo shop and innovated tattoo styles internationally.

Wild Addiction Years:
Struggled with violent, restless addiction in LA, carrying guns, dealing with near-death overdoses, and hitting rock bottom multiple times. Describes being surrounded by tragedy (neighbors dying, violence) while strung out.

First Sobriety Attempts...

Duration: 02:57:55
Downgraded to Tuesday: Aurora’s Love Island Life, Fiji, and Cake Shame Teaser
Jul 29, 2025

 

📓 NOTES:

 

Aurora returns to Dopey Tuesday after time away

 

Dave jokes she’s been "downgraded to Tuesdays"

 

Aurora just came back from working on Love Island in Fiji

 

Norah (Dave's daughter) sent Aurora reviews of the show while on vacation

 

Aurora shares what Fiji was like (sunrises, culture, working overnight)

 

She didn’t swim under any waterfalls (but wants to)

 

Dave proposes a spinoff show about the Love Island crew hooking up...

Duration: 00:14:05
Dopey 541: Dopey 537: SUPER TWEAKER SPECIAL! Smoking Meth in Jason Schwartzman’s Trailer — The Super Spun Redemption of Will De Los Santos
Jul 25, 2025

This week on Dopey! Dave returns from vacation and rants about Instagram deleting and reinstating the Dopey page. He shouts out the Dopey Nation warriors who helped get it back, including Justin Cambria and the mysterious Sour Linus from Meta. Dave reads listener emails about Quaker Oat Squares and sketchy pink drugs in the UK, then plays a voicemail from Jake in Oregon who paid $400 for what turned out to be a jar of honey and turned it into a dorm room cookie hustle.

Then, a massive deep-dive with Spun writer and speed enthusiast Will De Los...

Duration: 01:52:52
RIP Don, Ozzy, and the Dopey Instagram Page - Addiction, Recovery and SELBY!
Jul 22, 2025

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This week in the Teaser! We just got back from a beautiful family vacation, but it started on a heartbreaking note—our friend Don “DJ” Rentz died. I’ve known Don for nearly a decade. He was a real part of the Dopey family, and losing him shook me. Then today, we found out Ozzy Osbourne died too. Somehow that hit hard as well—he was such a part of the world Dopey lives in. And just days before, he got to play this massive farewell show. It’s wild how fast life moves.

In the...

Duration: 00:14:51
Dopey 540: ChrisMiss in July - Remembering Chris with Colin and Ted
Jul 18, 2025

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This week on Dopey! It's ChrisMiss Time Again - and we remember Chris and think about what we've lost in our latest ChrisMiss episode. We are joined by Ted and Colin—two of Chris’s closest friends—for a long, emotional, laugh filled but ultimately tragic journey through grief, memory, relapse, recovery and death. They recount wild and deeply human stories of Chris: his powerful magnetism,  his “whatevs” persona, and the time he hugged a drunk driver who had just killed someone. Then, we go deep into Chris’s relapse, the shame that may have surr...

Duration: 02:28:11
Kimber, Coke for Christmas, Real IDs, & Red Bull Meltdowns TUESDAY TEASE!
Jul 15, 2025

hear the whole thig there:

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📓 Detailed Notes:

Dave opens the teaser from somewhere in the Rocky Mountains — unless he was “eaten by a grizzly, mountain lion, or fell off a cliff.”

It’s Chris Miss week, so he’s been grinding hard, producing five Dopey episodes in a row, and is totally wiped out.

Packing panic:
Dave’s mother-in-law shows up last minute to micromanage their family’s trip prep.

Real ID confusion:

Dave talks about the new airport policy requiring a "Real...

Duration: 00:11:48
Dopey 539: Jeannine Coulter Kicked Heroin in a Doghouse, Squatted a Cell Phone Store, and Kidnapped an old man
Jul 11, 2025

This week on Dopey! It’s the long-awaited episode with Chasing Heroine host Jeannine Coulter, recorded live at Jeremy’s house during Dopeywood!Jeannine tells the full, raw, and very dopey story of her descent into addiction: from being a straight-A Supreme Court hopeful, to getting obsessed with exercise and binge eating, to discovering coke in a redneck bar in Georgia, all the way to living in an abandoned cell phone store in Oceanside, California smoking heroin off foil.

Jeannine talks about doing meth that was pink, accidentally getting strung out at 30, and finding herself in a cind...

Duration: 02:13:01
Stilettos, Thongs, Group Conscience and Homoerotic Recovery Walks with Heart Attack Doug aka MAGA Doug
Jul 08, 2025

🧷 Show Notes (Teaser):

Dave’s on vacation in the Rockies, losing sleep and dreaming hard

Doug thinks group conscience is sacred — unless he doesn’t like the chairperson

The “prison walk” AA escape plan explained

Bobby Lee controversy & Reddit backlash gets a nod

Ray the Clammer's sandwich wisdom returns

Doug wants stilettos and a thong; Dave wants out of the meeting

Outro includes the classic Dopey song + shoutouts

 


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Duration: 00:09:48
In Loving Memory of Don Renz (DJ): Another Tragic Dopey Loss
Jul 07, 2025

 

💔 Emergency Dopey Episode from vacation in Montana

🕊️ Remembering Don Renz aka DJ – friend, guest, Dopey Nation member

📞 Don’s sister calls Dave from his hospital bedside

🚨 LAPD investigating Don’s death after an alleged assault in Koreatown

📣 Please share Don’s brother Maxwell’s Facebook post

👮‍♂️ Don's final days: fear, paranoia, and meth-induced delusions that turned out to be tragically real

📼 Classic 2016 Dopey: Don, Chris, and Dave—one of the best ever

💊 Don’s insane story: stealing 1,000 Vicodin from a pharmacy at 17

💉 Morphine, fentanyl patches, forged scripts...

Duration: 01:45:09
Dopey 538: Ian Fidance! The Ultimate BiSexual/Straight Edge, Huffing Duster in His Mom’s House - 10 years Sober episode!
Jul 03, 2025

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This week on Dopey! Up and coming Comedy and podcasting Legend Ian Fidance enters the Dopeysphere! Ian brings the old school serious alcoholic dopey. He takes us from his straight-edge ska band days in Delaware to waking up blue-faced in a pile of vomit after huffing computer duster. We hear how a fifth-grade beer led to a full-blown romance with vodka, coke, and gay bars across New York. Ian talks about his failed teaching career, multiple stints in rehab and Oxford Houses, drinking mouthwash, and w...

Duration: 02:12:36
Kicking Heroin was easier than sitting through this Dance Recital. PLUS BUKATY IS BACK!
Jul 01, 2025

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📓 Episode Notes

Dave’s prepping for a huge family vacation to Utah → Lava Hot Springs, Yellowstone, and the Grand Tetons (mispronounced as Tetones).

 

A brutal East Islip dance recital leads Dave to declare: “Kicking heroin is better than this.”

 

Susan’s performance was great — but spaced out by 3 hours of toddler dance hell.

 

Revelation: No more long-ass Dopey events. DopeyCon will be 90 minutes max.

 

Dinner with Linda, the kids, and Dave’s da...

Duration: 00:14:22
Dopey 537: Dopeywood Live! Amy Dresner, Annie Lederman, Moshe Kasher, Jack Osbourne, Rich Roll, Bob Forrest, Shane Enholm, Jake from West Virginia, Adam David + More!
Jun 27, 2025

Dave opens the show with a shoutout to Stephanie Roberts (7 years sober), Patreon plugs, and a cereal relapse story (Quaker Oatmeal Squares with chocolate chips).

Listener email highlights reactions to the Bobby Lee episode and Reddit backlash.

New Zealand listener Lily calls in with an epic pill-shelving story that ends in her robbing herself.

Musical guest Adam David performs Needle and the Damage Done.

Dave brings out comedian Moshe Kasher, who goes in on ayahuasca, porn ghosts, parenting trauma, and crowd work chaos.

Jason Cabelo celebrates 9 years sober and...

Duration: 02:18:30
Is Dave a Racist? Tuesday Teaser! Processed Sugar, Bobby Lee and Deleted Reddit Posts: A Teaser in 100-Degree Heat
Jun 24, 2025

📝 Episode Notes:

Dave's up at 5:30 AM with no sleep aids but hopelessly hooked on s’mores

 

Father's Day gift: a $40 crackhead s’mores hot plate from his daughter

 

Microwave s’mores vs. monstrosity s’mores — full breakdown

 

Massive processed sugar binge: Rice Krispie s’mores, Yaso bar, and Linden’s cookies

 

Full Dopey morning: prayer, meditation, AA, garbage duty, and Susan’s lunch rescue

 

A teaser for the Damon Baker episode (photographer + filmmaker)

 

Sweating at Katz’s and pl...

Duration: 00:19:21
Dopey 536: BOBBY LEE! Meth at 16, Sh!tting his pants, Porn Addiction, Relapse, Recovery PLUS My Dad!
Jun 20, 2025

NOTES:

Listener emails: brutal black tar vein damage stories (toes, dick, and yes, arteries) plus a chilling NJ dope shack bust and snowstorm cigarette hike

Dad’s odd updates on protests, bad golf, AI school drama, and swampy lakes

Behind-the-scenes Dopey studio chaos, show length fights, and hyped DopeyCon 10-year party plans with Sam Miller confirmed

Bobby Lee jumps in: stealing beers from his dad, shooting meth at 12, and that unforgettable speedball masturbation session in a medical book aisle

Childhood trauma under a strict Korean roof, bullying, and how dr...

Duration: 02:10:30
Dopey Tuesday Teaser AA Beefs, Dehumidifier Rage, and Reuniting the Cro Mags
Jun 17, 2025

🧾 Show Notes:

Doug’s back! In the Subaru, in the parking lot.

 

Dave’s depressed because his dehumidifier sucks.

 

Reddit trolls say the teaser and YouTube are trash.

 

Dave reads feedback, gets defensive, then promotes Patreon.

 

Harley Flanagan story: punk rock prodigy, molested, violent, stabbing at CBGBs, Rikers, Cro-Mags beef.

 

Dave fantasizes about reuniting Harley and John Joseph on Dopey.

 

Doug critiques AA meetings, newcomers double/triple dipping.

 

Dave freaks out abo...

Duration: 00:12:11
Dopey 535: Kratom is for Pussies, “I Think I’d Make a Fine Crackhead”: Jessie G’s Relapse and Todd Shot 2025
Jun 13, 2025

 

Dopeywood!

Note about Todd

A  voicemail from a listener in Mexico: “¿Qué pasó David?”

Email about a guy sober off weed and a listener who relapsed on shrooms and weed.

Dave reflects on the cyclical pain of relapse in the Dopey Nation.

Jessie G Segment

“I formed like a make-believe relationship with him [Chris].”

Jessie first listened to Dopey while working hotel jobs in 2018.

“Early recovery sucks no matter which way you cut it.”

“I was doing kratom and still eating acid i...

Duration: 02:57:32
Dopey Teaser: Kraboxone, Mid-Century Meth, Magic Mind, Mushrooms, the Stash Word Disaster & the Dopeywood Debrief
Jun 10, 2025

📝 SHOW NOTES (for post description):

Mid-century modern hotel confusion

Jason Cabello returns! Recovery Unplugged + Toxicology podcast

Magic Mind and mushroom mishaps 🌿🍄

Kraboxone™: Kratom + Suboxone fusion 🧪

Dopeywood recap: triumphs, drags, tech fails

Dave’s LA meth story and forgotten tribute to Todd 💔

The Stash Word disaster (and why it’s still fun)

DM from a coke addict trying to detox 💬

A musical finale + shoutout to Scott Wick the rap god 🎶


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Duration: 00:11:17
Dopey 534: Abbey Fickley Returns + Rest in Peace Ray the Clammer; Motherhood, Relapse, Internet Backlash… and 40 Years of Clamming, Cocaine, and Redemption
Jun 06, 2025

Episode Notes!

DOPEYWOOD COMING!

AWESOME EMAILS AND VOICEMAILS!

ABBEY:

Postpartum anxiety and getting prescribed benzos

Her first time using heroin — in sober living

Moving back to Pittsburgh with her dad to get her life together

Building a YouTube following with her daughter Myla

Dealing with fame, trolls, and the dark side of "sober influencer" culture

Why she stopped posting her daughter online

Setting boundaries in co-parenting

The emotional side of recovery, relapse, and internet backlash

He...

Duration: 02:21:52
NEW Dopey Tuesday Teaser - Start Your Day Over: Clam Talk, Stroke Scares, and Internet Trolls
Jun 03, 2025

Doug’s back in the kitchen after nearly dying from a TCI (mini-stroke)

Dave compares Doug’s Memorial Day scare to Ray the Clammer’s UTI-induced brain fog

Ray heads to rehab; Dave wants to publish a book of Ray quotes

Doug calls the meeting a “beginner’s asylum”; Dave defends the newcomers

Rule 62, “start your day over,” and other Rayisms get debated

Dave reflects on dirt, struggle, red cardinals, and the poetry of recovery

Bagel store confrontation: Dave rolls his eyes and almost gets whacked

Reddit backlas...

Duration: 00:13:34
Dopey 533: Tripping Balls at Camp Bisco, Calvin Klein Cocktails, LSD Meltdowns, and Methadone Clinic Madness: Zach’s Wild Ride
May 30, 2025

Fentanyl vs. Heroin: "Trash high"—no legs, not the same rush, felt grateful when heroin disappeared

First Shot: A friend made him do it for free—"Misery loves company"—then couldn't stop

OD Stories: OD'd twice in one day—once behind the wheel on FDR, once after snorting Bronx bags, woke up in hospital, ripped tubes out, lied about asthma

Mom's Heart Attack: 4 days after OD, mom has a heart attack from stress

Hustles: Selling weed, flipping Suboxone, scamming friends, "like a credit card"—balances, fronts, juggling

Jam Band Scene: Hea...

Duration: 02:17:34
Tuesday Patreon Teaser: Toilet Blowjob Grinder AIDS Story (Patreon Teaser!)
May 27, 2025

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Get bonus episodes, access to Dopey Zooms, exclusive merch, and support the Dopey mission. It’s cheap, it’s fun, it’s how we keep this sick show going. $5 a month = stickers + bonus shows. $8 = ad-free shows. $10 = video extras. $15 = stickers, socks, Ray Brown’s pubes (kidding… maybe).
Be a Dopey patron, stay strong, and fucking toodles for Chris.


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Duration: 00:12:53
Dopey 532: Snorting Meth Off a Shane MacGowan's Dirty Thumbnail & the Joy of Being Steve Poltz
May 23, 2025

🎸 Steve Poltz returns! From meth psychosis to music on the mountain

🧠 Touring with Shane MacGowan and snorting meth off his thumbnail

🏨 Destroying hotel rooms across Australia (banned from Quest Apartments!)

💡 20 years in recovery: why Steve stopped going to meetings

🎤 Using music and stage time to carry the message

😡 Dave and Steve debate Bob Weir and John Mayer (spoiler: Dave hates Bobby)

💩 Dorm blackout story: naked in the hallway

💌 Emails from South Africa, 10-year sober milestones, kratom struggles

🏀 Knicks fan rant with Devin, post-loss meltdown

🕍 Jewish gui...

Duration: 02:02:23
Dopey Tuesday Teaser: Heart Attack Doug, Othello Cookies, and the Fucking Celtics: Live from the Subaru
May 20, 2025

🚗 Taped live from Doug’s Subaru in front of Dave’s house
📬 Sarah’s amazing weed and recovery email
🏀 Dave curses out Celtics fans at a recovery music festival
🍩 Entenmann's, gout, and Doug’s ongoing battle with saturated fat
📢 Heart Attack Doug refuses to share in meetings but Zooms all over the West Coast
🎸 Shout outs to Steve Poltz, Anders Osborne, and the ghost of Billy Strings
🧈 Too much butter, not enough cardio
🤡 Dave bombs as an MC, then redeems himself with “fuck the Celtics”
🌈 Love is the answer, let your freak flag fly, and fuckin’ toodles for...

Duration: 00:12:13
Dopey 531: Snorting Heroin on the Staten Island Ferry to Eating his Way to Recovery, Fame and Fortune, Ian Martin
May 16, 2025

🏥 Doctor shopping on the UWS, Florida pill mills, and the $300/week FedEx Oxy plan

🧬 Coke, klonopin, benzos, nodding out mid-Xbox match, screaming at his roommate

📦 Upper West Side methadone clinic and snorting dope on the Staten Island ferry

📸 Starting “@immaeatthis” on a subway ride—going viral, getting paid, and staying sober

🧸 Emotional amends, dumb lies (Blackwater contractor? really?), and hope through service

🎉 Dave celebrates Susan’s 7th birthday with a musical performance

📨 Emails from Montreal bus drivers, Bayshore pill seekers, and Dopey lifers

🧦 Send in a voicemail = socks? Maybe. Stic...

Duration: 02:03:59
Dopey Tuesday RAYtreon Teaser: F*CK THE CELTICS - Deli Dave vs. New York City Dave PLUS DOES THE LAST OF US SUCK NOW?
May 13, 2025

Knicks vs. Celtics playoff madness

Dave vs. “New York City Dave”

Shout out to Boston Dave G (but still, fuck Boston)

Is The Last of Us now just lesbian Eat Pray Love?

Getting recognized on the street (and overstaying the moment)

Ray's Grindr adventures: “I clean toilets and give BJs”

Anti-aging meds, eye lifts, and midlife crisis merch drops

Music segment: “Good So Bad” live from the studio

Dopey Wood lineup updates: Darrell Hammond OUT, the rest still IN

Come to DopeyWOOD!—...

Duration: 00:17:45
Dopey 530: Liquid LSD in the Eyes! Smoking Meth at a Puppy Mill and Doing Sexy Tarp Stuff on the Road to Recovery with Sam Miller
May 09, 2025

🏀 Knicks Playoff Fever: Dave opens the show celebrating the Knicks’ win over the Celtics and his deep attachment to the team.

🌸 Family Time: Dave spends the day with his daughter Susan, planting flowers and reflecting on fatherhood.

🧂 Mustard Seed Parable: Conversation with Mike’s Amazing Mustard leads to a deeper discussion about hope in recovery.

🚨 Josh C. Update: Following a drug task force raid, former Toodles for Chris scholarship recipient Josh Clark is arrested for meth, LSD, and DMT but secures a scholarship to Divided Sky rehab in Vermont.

🤖 AI Frustrations: Dave vents about Ch...

Duration: 02:30:26
Dopey Tuesday Patreon Teaser - Adam David from The Voice 'an 8 Ball a day keeps the doctor away'
May 06, 2025

Whats on Patreon:

Adam’s chaotic childhood, bullying, and getting high at 12

Smoking weed with an abusive friend’s stepdad

Getting beat with wrenches, sent to institutions, and almost stabbed

Dropping acid at school, zeroing hits, playing in bands

Coke binges in L.A. writing sessions — snorting lines off Beyoncé plaques

Spiritual bottom after playing South by Southwest and weeping during Elf

Recovery Unplugged, NA, and finding purpose through music

A live performance of his song Savior

The Elsewhere program and recover...

Duration: 00:13:39
Dopey 529: Jessica Kent Returns! Dealing Heroin! Only Fans! Abstinence Based Recovery! Motherhood and Having a Baby in Prison!
May 03, 2025

📓 Episode Notes:

Jessica Kent returns for a deep and hilarious check-in

Her early life selling heroin at 13 in upstate New York

Getting addicted to Oxy, then heroin, and eventually meth

Life on the run with a sketchy traveling magazine crew

Getting locked up in Arkansas, detoxing while pregnant

Giving birth to her daughter while shackled

Losing custody and the fight to get her child back

Getting out and blowing up as a sober influencer

Launching OnlyFans, backlash, trolls, and public scrutiny

<...

Duration: 01:58:50
Dopey Tuesday RAYtreon Teaser with my Dad! Illness, Wellness, Sex
Apr 29, 2025

📝 Episode Notes / Highlights

🗣️ Dave forgot to record a teaser and is now scrambling

🎤 Raytreon returns — Ray and Allen join the chaos

🧠 Childhood trauma hits: walkie-talkies, soapbox derby sabotage, “thank God I had heroin to escape”

🧳 Allen’s back from Florida and hates everything about the new Dopey Studio

🎭 Knicks playoff hype, Last of Us grief, and a deep love of revenge

🧘‍♂️ Summer of Wellness / Summer of Fashion begins (with shame and holes in jeans)

🍄 Public apology for sketchy Amanita muscaria mushroom ad

📢 Ray, Dave, and Allen yell over each other about...

Duration: 00:16:55
Dopey 528: Bipolar Guy Loving Life or How I Blew $500K on Coke, Clubs, and Ciroc Papi with David Funes
Apr 25, 2025

🗒️ Episode Notes (for the "Notes" section):

Blowing $500K on coke, strip clubs, and a doomed after-hours club

How Ciroc Papi moved into his spare bedroom (and took over his life)

Meth Head David steals his car and wears all his clothes

Running a nightclub like Scarface meets Trailer Park Boys

Homelessness, dollar menus, and losing it all

Bipolar mania, addiction, and the road back to sanity

A wild cast of characters: Shelby the bowling ball bouncer, Old Girl, T-Rex, Bones, and more

How David...

Duration: 02:40:12
Dopey Tuesday Teaser: The Last of Us or He Took 5 Gummies and Landed in the Psych Ward:, Heroin in the Bronx
Apr 22, 2025

📝 NOTES:

 

🎶 Big love to Trinity for the amazing Dopey theme song up top

 

🚨 Dave’s got gout and might become the poster child for rich man’s foot disease

 

🧬 Mike starts using at 12, snorting Oxy by 19, full-blown heroin addict by 21

 

😱 Sells drugs, ruins every family event, finally breaks down in the Bronx

 

💉 First-time dope sick without knowing he was dope sick

 

🍄 Eats way too many shrooms and spirals into a poop loop with SpongeBob

 

💔 Sees his roommate m...

Duration: 00:17:18
Dopey 527: Classic Dopey! Confessions of a Punk Rock Junky Bank Robber! Shane Enholm! Heroin, Cocaine, Meth, Prison, Recovery
Apr 18, 2025

📝 Episode Notes:

💣 Robbing banks with dye packs exploding mid-getaway

😷 Hooping dope in prison and dealing with the "safe"

🏋️ Becoming the pull-up champ in federal prison

🎨 Obsession with antique tattoo machines and publishing books

🧒 Rescuing his daughters from a cat piss hellhouse

💉 Methadone maintenance, recovery, and giving back

🎶 Ending with his haunting original song Mud Pies

🕊️ Plus: Gary Gilmore, Sonny Barger, Flea, Hep C treatment, and the dirty white boys


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Duration: 02:41:59
Martin Johnson Got Sober in a Sauna | Dopey Tuesday Teaser
Apr 15, 2025

In this Patreon teaser, Dave shares a clip from his deeply honest and hilarious conversation with Martin Johnson, frontman of Boys Like Girls. Martin opens up about fear, fame, and the moment in a sauna that changed his life — when a stranger challenged him to define anxiety.

Martin talks about:

Why he hates the word "anxiety"

Staging a self-intervention while still on meds

His crushing fear of not being good enough — as a person, as a singer, as a frontman

The performative madness of early fame

Taking 12–14 Xanax...

Duration: 00:13:55
Dopey 526: Andy Roy's 5 Year Celebration and Reflection on Jerking Off Contests in Prison! Plus the Return of Thuan!
Apr 11, 2025

📝 Episode Notes (with emojis, links & vibes):

🔥 Dopey 526: Andy Roy, Angelo, Bobby & Tuan

🎉 Andy Roy celebrates 5 years clean and brings along Angelo and Bobby from New Origins—the sober living home that’s keeping them grounded and inspired.

🛹 Hear wild tales from the past (jerk-off contests??), what makes recovery actually work, and why the crew plans to stick around and give back.

💥 “The love is real, bro.” This one’s about brotherhood, resilience, and turning chaos into a calling.

💬 Then Dave dives in deep with Dopey spiritual consigliere Tuan from Mountainside 🧘‍♂️ on:

...

Duration: 02:22:36
WHITE LOTUS SUCKS says Dave Sloppy Jones Say's No! PLUS TUESDAY TEASER!
Apr 08, 2025

🔥 Post Copy for Patreon

🚨 NEW PATREON EPISODE OUT NOW! 🚨
It's a stroll down Dopey memory lane with my old friend Sloppy Jones (Garrett)—we're talking:

First time doing heroin in our Purchase suite 😳

Selling LSD by the sheet

Wild nights with Joey D’s basement weed club

And… how the new White Lotus season totally sucks (IMO) 🍍

Also… 💔 huge apology to Dopey OG James DeHart—I messed up the merch thing and I’m sending something special your way. If you're still waiting on merch, please hit me up: dopeypodcast@gmail...

Duration: 00:11:58
Dopey 525: Sucking his own D!ck on Dopey Love Live with Margaret Cho, Brace Belden, Nzinga Harrison and More! Heroin Smuggling, Sexsomnia, Recovery!
Apr 04, 2025

📋 Notes:

Live from Joe’s Pub!

Ray Brown performs Dopey Love

Chloe LaBranche’s killer stand-up set

Stash Word madness with Brace, Abby, Carl + audience

Panel with Margaret Cho, Brace, Nzinga Harrison, and Erin Carr

Voicemail from Toko in Finland 🇫🇮

RIP Onyx and the cats of Happy Cat Sanctuary 🐾

Louis Mandrapilias tells insane heroin smuggling story

Talk of sexsomnia, self-pleasure, and how to work through codependency

Good So Bad performed live by Dave and Doug


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Duration: 01:53:32
Dopey Raytreon Teaser! Strep Throat, The Doos, Ricky Poweell, LSD
Apr 01, 2025

Gaytreon

STREP THROAT!

Ricky Powell

Beastie Boys

Seinfeld

LSD

SSDN FTFC!


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Duration: 00:13:33
Dopey 524: I Ate Meth in Jail and Found God in a Coffee Bean - Ultimate Texas Tweaker - Burglar - Prison Redemption Episode - Damon West
Mar 28, 2025

SHOW NOTES:

🏈 Damon’s early life as a quarterback at North Texas

💨 First time trying meth — and losing control instantly

🏚️ Running burglaries out of trap houses across Dallas

🤯 Meth-induced delusions, paranoia, and total madness

🚔 Getting busted in front of his parents

⚖️ Sentenced to 65 years in a Texas prison

⛓️ Life behind bars — navigating gangs and survival

☕ The coffee bean story that changed everything

🧠 Finding faith, structure, and recovery

📚 Rebuilding his life and helping others

🎤 From inmate to speaker and author

🧃 Bonus: Damon’s take on...

Duration: 02:30:22
Does This Season of White Lotus Suck? PLUS John Bukaty Interviews Dave PATREON TEASER!
Mar 25, 2025

THESE ARE NOTES ON THE EPISODE - NOT THE TEASER!

📝 Show Notes:

🧠 Childhood Chaos

Born in NYC, nearly died of a staph infection

Fell off a table and cracked his skull at 8 months old

Walked home alone at 3 years old 💥

Deep TV addiction starts young (shoutout to MTV, Different Strokes & Give Me a Break)

🎭 Early Identity Stuff

Shirt chewing, sugar binging, and fake depression for attention

Didn’t want a bar mitzvah: “It’s not your party, it’s my party.”

Too insecure to g...

Duration: 00:13:47
Dopey 523: Dr. Nzinga Harrison’s Brother Got Life for a Murder He Didn’t Commit
Mar 21, 2025

This week on Dopey! In one of the possibly most powerful and emotional episodes of Dopey ever, Dr. Nzinga Harrison returns to the show to tell a story she’s never shared before—despite being around the show for over five years. Her older brother, Kofi (aka Debo), has spent the last 30 years in prison for a triple homicide he didn’t commit. This episode is about injustice, resilience, heartbreak, and family—and how one letter from the foreman of the jury might change everything.

💥

🎥 Support Nzinga’s documentary “Born Friday” – the story of her brother’s wrongful conviction an...

Duration: 01:54:18
Tuesday Patreon Teaser - Did Dave Relapse with Chris Before Chris Died?
Mar 18, 2025

🚨 NEW PATREON EPISODE – REDDIT CONSPIRACIES & CONTROVERSY 🚨

If you’re not subscribed to the Dopey Patreon, are you even a real fan? 🤔

This week, it’s a Reddit Roundup, and things got heated:
🔥 A wild conspiracy theory about me and Chris 
🦋 Someone out there injected butterflies (seriously, what the fuck?)
📢 Dopey randomly mentioned in The Wall Street Journal
🐳 A debate over the Dopey mascot: Mopey Dick
🎥 Updates on the Dopey Documentary & Dopeywood

Also, a voicemail from New Zealand where a listener confesses she was never Team Chris… but always Team Dave 🤯

All this and mo...

Duration: 00:14:02
Dopey 522: From Junky Telemarketers to Emmy-Nominated Whistleblowers, the true story of HBO's The Telemarketers
Mar 14, 2025

This Week on Dopey! I'm super excited to have had the chance to interview PAtrick J. Pespas and Sam Lipman-Stern from The Telemarketers!  A junky/true crime/scam busting documentary series on HBO! AI wrote all the juicy nuggets below - PLUS Dove updates us! Weighing heroin bags, and Siggy's 7 years!!!! All that and more on a brand spanking new episode of the good old Dopey Show!

more dopey at: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast

📞 Dopey Podcast Episode Notes: The Wild Life of Pat Pespas & The Telemarketers Scam

🎙 Guest: Pat Pespas & Sam Lipman-Stern (The Telemar...

Duration: 02:33:14
Tuesday Teaser for RAYTREON!
Mar 11, 2025

NEW DOPEY 'Teaser' Ray is back, and we’re diving deep into the mysteries of junkie slang, Mamoun’s falafel, and the eternal question—does coke make you gay?  Plus, the Jeff Tweedy rejection saga continues. Tune in for unhinged rants, unnecessary debates, and that sweet, sweet Dopey chaos.

TO HEAR MORE RAY: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast


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Duration: 00:23:40
Dopey 521: I accidentally dosed my cleaning lady! Xanax Binge to Psych Ward! Sucking Dick for 40 Years! Dylan’s Return and Cat Greenleaf! Crack, Heroin, Recovery, Ayahuasca
Mar 07, 2025

This week on Dopey! Chris's sponsor Dylan is back! We hear all about how he is doing and reminisce about Chris and his final run before recovery! PLUS Cat Greenleaf stops in to read emails and talk shit!

PATREON - www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast

DOPEY LOVE LIVE with MARGARET CHO AND FRIENDS: https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2025/d/dopey-podcast-live/

Episode Description:
Buckle up, Dopey Nation—this one’s a wild ride. Dylan returns to the show, and we get deep into the messiness of recovery: Is 12-step the only way? Can something else...

Duration: 02:14:53
Tuesday Patreon Teaser - Erin Khar Returns! Depression, Crack, Recovery, Heroin, Step mom
Mar 04, 2025

ERIN KHAR is back on Patreon! She talks about her recent spiral into depression and how she has gotten out of it - plus a sort of scintillating sort of gross 'Ask Erin Question' and much much more on this brand new teaser of the dopey show! PLUS she talks Rick James and Elliott Smith and more! MORE! MORE!

Patreon - www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast

DOPEY LOVE TICKETS - https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2025/d/dopey-podcast-live/

This is what AI says:

 

💀 PATREON TEASER: ME & ERIN CARR, DEPRESSION, CRACK, & RANTING 💀

🎧...

Duration: 00:12:11
Dopey 520: Jail Stories: Smuggling Subs, Smoking Deuce, and a Vagina Full of Dope: Lenny's Release and Return! Heroin, Cocaine, meth, recovery
Feb 28, 2025

This week on Dopey! Rejoice Lenny from the Beach is Free! Lenny from the Beach returns from being locked away! Hear all about his time away in Long Island's Jail System and then upstate for more time incarcerated before SHOCK treatment! Hear all the ins and outs of institutional living and the nature of incarcerated recovery! PLUS a crazy meth fishing voicemail and Dopey emails! All that and more on this brand new version of the good old Dopey Show!

Patreon: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast

Margaret Cho/Dopey Love/Live Tickets: https://publictheater.org/productions...

Duration: 01:56:52
Dopey Tuesday Teaser! Meth, Heroin, Recovery in the DOPEY STUDIO with Howie!
Feb 25, 2025

🎧 Tuesday Teaser Alert! 🎧

Dopey Patreon Teaser with a crazy email about neighbors on METH! Plus me and Howie navigating the new tiny Dopey studio.

Patreon: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast

DOPEY LOVE LIVE WITH MARGARET CHO https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2025/d/dopey-podcast-live/

Yo, Dopey Nation! It’s Tuesday, and you know what that means—Patreon Teaser time! 🎉 Listen to this wild preview, and if you need the full chaotic experience, hit up 👉 www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast

🔥 This Week: Howard is back! You loved (or hated) him on Good Morning Dopey, and now he's...

Duration: 00:11:51
Dopey 519: From F*cking the Devil to Finding God: The Jamie Tall Story, Crack, Sex Work, Meth, Opiates, Recovery
Feb 21, 2025

This week on Dopey we are joined by recovery advocate and woman in recovery, Jamie Tall! Jamie shares all about her super crazy journey on this weeks show!

TRIGGER WARNING: It gets very graphic around sex and violence, so please use caution! Jamie tells it all and is now sober helping addicts and alcoholics! 

Patreon is www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast

DOPEY LOVE LIVE WITH MARGARET CHO, Dr. Nzinga Harrison, Brace Belden, Erin Khar, Ray Brown and Linda are available at:

https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2025/d/dopey-podcast-live/

https://podcast.f...

Duration: 01:58:54
Tuesday Patreon Teaser with Cat Greenleaf
Feb 18, 2025

I am in Florida! This is the Patreon Teaser! Hope you guys are great!

This is not Cat Marnell. This is Cat Greenleaf - an alcoholic in recovery. Cat has done a tone of media - hosting the seminal New York City Cab Show - 'Talk Stoop'. Now she has a podcast called Soberness. All about recovery - with celebrities - i was briefly on one episode!

Please write us at dopeypodcast@gmail.com and let me know what you thought! Join patreon at www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast buy DOPEY LOVE TICKETS AT: https://publictheater...

Duration: 00:11:51
Dopey 518: No Strange Dick, No Dirty Needles: Jessie B on Harm Reduction, Raggedy Daughters, Overdose, Parenting and Real Love
Feb 14, 2025

This Week on Dopey! Safe Spot Call Operator and Activist! Jessie B tells her insane Southern Fried Dopey Experience! Jessie tells us about how a botched asshole surgery led to her oxy addiction and then how it ultimately led her to a creer of helping people!

Please write us at dopeypodcast@gmail.com and let me know what you thought! Join patreon at www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast buy DOPEY LOVE TICKETS AT: https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2025/d/dopey-podcast-live/

Check us out at Feedspot here: https://podcast.feedspot.com/rehab_podcasts/

 

🎧 Dope...

Duration: 01:52:06

Dopey Tuesday Teaser for Patreon - Dave talking Shit with Doug Bopst
Feb 11, 2025

Patreon: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast

Tickets for Dopey Love: https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2025/d/dopey-podcast-live/

#1FEEDSPOT RANKINGS:  https://podcast.feedspot.com/rehab_podcasts/

 

🔥 Bonus Tuesday Teaser! 🔥

Dopey Nation, it’s another Bonus Tuesday, and this one is a fucking mess—just like life. 🎧💥

Teeth yanked out 🦷 (chewing is overrated anyway)Scripps Online News interview 🎤 (where I may or may not have called 12-step meetings wild sex parties)Soup dumplings & CPAP machines 🍜 (peak 50-year-old Jewish man conversation)Deep thoughts on recovery & addiction 🤔 (do I know anything about either?)A full Patreon drop featuring...

Duration: 00:18:27
Dopey 517: Ultimate Tweaker Shit! F*cking his Best Friend's Girlfriend's Mom, Stealing, Recovery with JIMMY WHO AM YOU
Feb 07, 2025

🔥 New Dopey! 🔥

This week, we dive deep into one of the craziest Dopey stories yet with Jimmy, a next-level meth-addicted criminal mastermind turned sober success story. If you’ve ever wondered what true tweaker madness looks like, buckle up—this one’s a ride.

👀 Here’s just some of the shit Jimmy did while completely spun out:

Masterminded insane receipt scams to fund his habit 💰Pulled off full-on grand theft—boosting designer sunglasses, Levi’s, and even a bike in under 30 minutes at the mall 🚲Got a meth kingpin to take him under his wing—until the guy went on...

Duration: 02:17:14
Dopey Tuesday Teaser - Doc McGhee, Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, Drug Smuggling, the 80's, rock and Roll
Feb 04, 2025

It's just a teaser!

I talk about my back hurting, we read a note from instagram and play a few minutes from doc mcghee!

What more do you guys want?


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Duration: 00:20:32
Dopey 516: Selling Fake Macadamia Nut Crack, Shooting IV Benadryl, and Straight Junky Scumbaggery with Jason Cabello
Jan 31, 2025

This Week on Dopey! Old School Dopey Abounds! Jason Cabello brings the fucking serious Dopey - too much to describe - but lets just say that his favorite mixture - his signature blend - if you will - was: The Jason Special 🥃💉

1 cap of heroin (China White, usually in a capsule)

2 mg of Dilaudid (when he could get it)

Molly (crushed and injected for a wavy rush)

Crack (dissolved using vinegar or lemon juice)

Liquid Benadryl (extracted from gel caps and added for an extra rush)

PLUS Travis...

Duration: 02:43:34