Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

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  Brad Pitt(is not on this episode)! Kratom Addiction! Why Rehab Is Broken & Remembering Chris on The Wednesday Dose with Joe Schrank 19.08.2026 1h 34min

  Timestamps 00:00:00 – Dopey songs and opening 00:02:06 – Dopey Day, Chris’s birthday and today’s episode 00:03:20 – DopeyCon lineup and game-show theme 00:04:49 – Kevin’s Xanax-and-kratom mail-carrier story 00:06:18 – Driving a FedEx truck completely blacked out 00:08:42 – Running over—and stealing—a customer’s mailbox 00:11:02 – Fired from FedEx and taking Xanax at the hospital 00:12:22 – Comments from the Jed episode 00:15:44 – Counselors in recovery, boofing and listener reactions 00:20:13 – Ketamine, psychedelics and Dave’s alleged dementia 00:22:34 – Joe Schrank returns to Dopey 00:24:15 – Recording together for the first time since Chris 00:27:14 – Joe’s relationship with Chris and his family 00:29:14 – Why Joe became a social worker 00:31:39 – The problems with for-profit addiction treatment 00:33:58 – Could The Fix return? 00:36:20 – Why Rehab Confidential ended 00:38:27 – Rehab sponsors and the recovery economy 00:40:53 – Addiction stigma and dishonest obituaries 00:43:15 – Brad Pitt’s return to drinking 00:45:30 – Has lived experience become overvalued? 00:47:47 – Twenty-four million different versions of recovery 00:50:11 – Compliance versus genuine healing 00:52:28 – Did Joe’s comments drive people away from AA? 00:54:40 – Can Brad Pitt drink successfully? 00:57:06 – Research, AA and self-defined recovery 00:59:28 – Can alcoholics become moderate drinkers? 01:01:50 – Dave, Chris, marijuana and the danger of relapse 01:04:07 – Everyone needs mental-health support 01:06:22 – Joe predicts what will happen with Brad Pitt 01:08:40 – Harm reduction, personal choice and “Pray for Pitt” 01:11:28 – Kratom, 7-OH and medication-assisted treatment 01:13:14 – Is kratom addiction the newest moral panic? 01:15:31 – Joe remembers employing Chris 01:17:55 – Relapse, shame and “addicts acting like addicts” 01:19:57 – Joe’s screenplay, The Weight of Grace 01:22:14 – Joe’s upcoming book and DopeyCon 01:24:32 – Amy Dresner and a possible Rehab Confidential reunion 01:26:51 – Dave’s awkward Seth Rogen encounter 01:29:19 – Celebrities, recovery and finding Brad Pitt 01:31:29 – Toodles for Chris 01:32:03 – “Good So Bad” performed by Michael from Good Kid
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  Jumping Through a Bathroom Window on Speed! Plus Handsome Evan Tuesday Teaser! 18.08.2026 22min

  Timestamps 00:01 — Welcome to the Tuesday teaser and Patreon benefits 01:40 — Dave is home alone with Winnie 02:05 — Air-fried chicken thighs, broccoli and cauliflower 03:40 — Dave declares himself the world’s greatest chicken-thigh cook 04:00 — The complete 420-degree air-fryer recipe 05:05 — Snake from the UK and the Bang Face festival 05:35 — Ketamine, MDMA, cocaine, weed, 2C-B and acid 06:03 — The entire drug stash falls out in front of the bouncer 06:35 — Security confiscates Snake and Damon’s drugs 07:00 — Replacing everything with speed and gummy-bear acid 07:25 — Security grabs Snake for a second time 07:50 — Escaping through a tiny bathroom window 08:27 — Becoming known as the guys who always lose their drugs 09:05 — Reactions to the Jason Mewes interview 09:35 — Are celebrities avoiding Dopey because they aren’t sober? 10:48 — Did Jason call Dave “Mark” as an insult? 11:25 — Jay at DopeyCon and childhood crushes on Jason Mewes 13:14 — Listeners debate Dopey’s “inside baseball” 14:10 — Handsome Evan returns 15:36 — Recording problems and the missing microphone 16:35 — Evan’s six years in recovery and two sons 17:20 — Twelve weeks of paid paternity leave 18:01 — Working inside a state psychiatric facility 18:40 — Patreon cliffhanger 19:30 — Listener cover of “I Wanna Be Good So Bad”
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  IV Drugs are Chris's Bread and Butter, Bi Polar Episode, Total Dopey Replay! Leonardo DiCaprio! 17.08.2026 1h 21min

  Timestamps 00:00 — “You Can Talk to Me” 00:23 — Winnie hurts her paw and wears a veterinary “party hat” 01:25 — Dave’s secret Dopey mission to Los Angeles 01:50 — DopeyCon lineup, costumes, games and tickets 03:20 — Jason enters a Seattle trap house to meet an escort 04:00 — Smoking crack for the first time 04:55 — His phone, wallet and keys disappear 05:20 — The escort demands $400—including a $50 tip 05:45 — A man with a nine iron threatens Jason and his family 06:25 — Secretly texting his roommate for help 07:04 — Police kick down the door 07:35 — “Nobody gets held hostage with a golf club by their friend” 09:11 — Introducing Dopey Total Replay episode 41 10:10 — Bipolar disorder, intravenous drugs and the psych ward 10:35 — Listener drug dreams and haunting foreshadowing from Chris 11:36 — Backlash against the drugged-pet stories 13:58 — Limited-edition monthly Dopey merchandise 15:45 — Original episode 41 begins 16:05 — Dave and Chris finally use a real microphone 17:54 — Trying to get Yeti or High Times as a sponsor 20:00 — Early podcast ambitions and classic Dopey bickering 25:00 — Addiction, drug dreams and losing people 35:30 — Friends who overdosed and discovering deaths on Facebook 37:59 — Could Facebook let us message the dead? 39:02 — Why drinking stories are accepted but shooting-drug stories aren’t 41:21 — Intravenous drug use as Chris’s conversational “bread and butter” 42:25 — Dave meets Leonardo DiCaprio at work 43:47 — Leonardo DiCaprio’s impenetrable Teflon celebrity shield 44:35 — Todd steals a production laptop while Leo receives a Ducati 47:00 — Chris introduces his friend’s bipolar and substance-induced mania 48:31 — Police approach the friend while he dances in the street 49:15 — Tearing off his shirt and screaming, “I’m Leonardo DiCaprio!” 50:48 — Bonbons, Mark Ronson and manic grandiosity 53:13 — Chris calls the psychiatrist because his friend is deteriorating 54:15 — Why a manic person can appear normal during an appointment 55:21 — John’s terrifying roommate and his phone-camera defense system 56:52 — Mushrooms, basketball and Jake’s Jesus delusion 58:10 — Dave eats an ounce of mushrooms and believes he is Jesus 1:01:00 — Living with a threatening 350-pound roommate 1:02:30 — Recording every confrontation for protection 1:04:20 — Threats, fights and supportive housing 1:06:00 — The mysterious “used” toilet seat controversy 1:08:02 — The original toilet-seat recording 1:09:30 — “I think you bought it online used” 1:10:03 — Apologizing for a story without drugs 1:11:00 — Chris’s six-day mindfulness calendar 1:14:31 — Weed as Dave’s sober Secret Santa gift 1:16:53 — Discovering a giant bag of marijuana at Katz’s 1:18:15 — Trying unsuccessfully to return the weed 1:19:16 — Sharing the mysterious free weed 1:20:10 — “I Wanna Be Good So Bad”
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  Dopey 595: Dopey Day 2026! Stealing Copper for Meth! Coke! Heroin! Oxys! Weed Farms! Chris Miss! 15.08.2026 2h 29min

  Time Stamps: 00:00 — Oro Recovery 01:13 — “Free Fallin’” 03:21 — Welcome to the Dopey Day episode 03:50 — What Dopey Day and the logo over the eyes mean 04:30 — DopeyCon game-show edition lineup and tickets 05:44 — Scott’s weed-loving boxer, Bailey 07:15 — Morgan’s history with 2C-B 08:08 — A friend mistakes 2C-B for cocaine 09:20 — An enormous dose triggers a four-hour combat-related trip 10:50 — Mountainside and BetterHelp 13:50 — Dopey Day messages from Dr. Harrison, Selby and Janine 16:30 — OG dope Matthew Wiedermeier Carroll returns 18:15 — Discovering Dopey while strung out on meth 19:20 — Writing to Chris from prison 20:00 — Stealing kegs and copper to support his addiction 21:13 — The serial number that got Matt caught 22:10 — Prison leatherwork and the Dopey ID holder 23:20 — Creating “Waiting for Tonight” 26:00 — Being part of Dopey while secretly continuing to drink 28:25 — “I’ll worry about it later”: the thinking that kept Matt sick 30:45 — His wife’s pregnancy forces him to face his drinking 32:28 — Obsessing over alcohol while his son is born 33:45 — Cocaine and meth return 34:35 — A three-day run and getting thrown out of the house 35:25 — Returning to meetings and finally working the Steps 36:49 — Matt’s personal Third Step prayer 38:47 — Prayer, gratitude and rebuilding a relationship with God 39:25 — DJing as a recovery hobby 41:09 — How Dopey gave Matt purpose and connection 42:15 — Remembering Chris, Annie, Colleen and other lost dopes 46:06 — Dopey Day messages from Nicole, Margaret Cho and Ben 48:33 — Listener reactions to the Katey Sagal episode 52:00 — Workit Health 53:21 — B. Getz returns—with a new baby 55:44 — Discovering Dopey on a Northern California weed farm 58:09 — Dopey as a lifeline while white-knuckling opioid withdrawal 59:45 — Were cannabis farms a refuge for drug addicts? 1:00:55 — B. gets kicked off a weed farm after mailing himself pills 1:02:55 — “Trimigrants,” communal living and cannabis-farm culture 1:05:19 — Legalization and the loss of the cannabis frontier 1:07:45 — Why traditional recovery once frightened B. 1:10:08 — Dopey’s widening recovery tent 1:11:15 — Service and helping other people in crisis 1:13:00 — How fatherhood changed B.’s relationship with drugs 1:16:00 — Leaving opioids and kratom behind 1:19:00 — Parenthood, responsibility and staying useful 1:23:00 — Dopey Day reflections and life after Chris 1:27:16 — Recovery Unplugged 1:28:10 — Colin joins the Dopey Day episode 1:29:43 — Grief as one permanent room inside an expanding house 1:31:57 — What eight years of loss have taught Colin 1:34:08 — “They didn’t want recovery badly enough” 1:36:16 — Did people who overdosed simply fail to “do the things”? 1:38:30 — Separating grief from judgment 1:40:57 — Is addiction real—or is it a label we created? 1:43:03 — Culture, diagnosis and different definitions of addiction 1:45:27 — Suffering, freedom and the pathways out 1:47:27 — What does it mean when Twelve-Step recovery doesn’t work? 1:49:53 — The lack of flexibility in addiction treatment 1:50:32 — What helps most: listening, time and trust 1:52:14 — Bad experiences can make people distrust future help 1:53:15 — Community, grief and remembering Chris 1:55:40 — Why Colin remained sober when others couldn’t 1:57:05 — Structure, young-people’s meetings and being accepted 1:59:30 — How Chris helped Dave finally embrace recovery 2:01:50 — The “chemical mixture” that makes recovery possible 2:04:16 — Chris’s legacy inside the Dopey Nation Zoom 2:07:20 — Dopey Day messages from Katie, “Simon Le Bon,” Melanie and Scott 2:11:10 — Remembering all the dopes who have died 2:12:05 — Treatment, medication, meetings and SafeSpot 2:13:35 — Classic Dopey: Chris launches Lonely Space to impress a woman 2:14:20 — Bringing a homeless couple to his parents’ apartment 2:15:37 — Frank asks what happened to his podcast 2:16:15 — “Flash drives are very expensive” 2:17:10 — Dave and Chris attempt Bob Marley 2:18:30 — The ultimate “Toodles” supercut 2:26:42 — Jake finds Dopey while still using 2:27:15 — Banjo version of “I Wanna Be Good So Bad”
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  He Fashions a Dildo Made of Heroin to Smuggle Up his Ass., Cocaine in His Cowboy Boots & Busted by the DEA: Louie M | Dopey's Greatest Hits 13.08.2026 1h 47min

  Timestamps 00:00 — Dopey music and introduction 02:23 — Dave introduces Louie and one of Dopey’s wildest Greatest Hits 04:48 — DopeyCon lineup, games, costume pageant and Patreon tickets 07:10 — Hannah steals her dog’s Xanax 09:36 — Using her dog’s medical history to create a second prescription 11:58 — The veterinarian offers to double the Xanax dosage 13:24 — Hannah finally admits the scheme to her psychiatrist 14:20 — Patreon comments on Shane Enholm’s episode 19:25 — Concern about Heart Attack Doug 20:05 — Spotify comments and calls for more of Shane’s recovery story 23:05 — Louie Mandrapilias begins his story 25:40 — Growing up gay, artistic and restless in the South 28:15 — Arriving in 1970s New York City 30:20 — MDA, sex and Studio 54 33:30 — Seeing Andy Warhol and living inside the disco fantasy 35:39 — Louie shoots his first speedball 38:03 — His boyfriend recruits him to smuggle hash from India 40:10 — An Indian opium den immediately after leaving the airport 42:26 — Louie discovers the peace of opium 43:40 — The smuggling deal collapses and Louie joins Bhagwan’s ashram 44:52 — Meeting Bhagwan and experiencing a spiritual awakening 47:14 — Sex, meditation, hash and life inside the ashram 49:37 — Louie’s boyfriend unexpectedly arrives in India 51:42 — The boyfriend is caught smuggling hash into JFK 54:05 — Louie tracks down an opium-addicted dealer named Tascar 56:27 — Tascar fronts Louie several ounces of pure heroin 57:22 — Louie packages the heroin inside a condom and electrical tape 58:53 — Borrowing $2,000 from Shakti to escape India 1:01:17 — Taking opium before the flight home 1:02:35 — Reconcealing the heroin before landing at JFK 1:03:41 — DEA agents strip-search Louie 1:05:15 — The agents miss the heroin and Louie walks free 1:05:42 — Selling half the shipment for $50,000 1:06:35 — Becoming addicted to the heroin he was supposed to sell 1:08:45 — Tascar sends an armed henchman to collect his money 1:10:29 — Shakti returns with a Bolivian cocaine connection 1:12:48 — Buying a kilo of pure cocaine in La Paz 1:15:10 — Cocaine hidden in cowboy boots and skin-tight jeans 1:16:30 — The DEA notices Louie’s enormous “bulge” 1:17:36 — Busted with the kilo and taken to federal prison 1:18:40 — Louie considers kicking the arresting agent in the head 1:20:00 — His father puts up the family home for bail 1:20:55 — A shocking sentence: five years of probation 1:22:16 — Woodworking, drinking and mandatory drug tests 1:24:42 — Off probation—and immediately back on drugs 1:25:20 — The “foolproof” Bangkok heroin-smuggling plan 1:26:48 — Hiding heroin inside an airplane lavatory 1:29:15 — Money, cars and the emptiness of the junkie fantasy 1:31:42 — “You don’t have to live like this” 1:33:56 — Treatment, AA and meeting his first sponsor 1:35:00 — Testing HIV-positive in 1984 1:36:04 — Turning the diagnosis over to a higher power 1:38:15 — Choosing life instead of relapse 1:40:36 — Told he may have only six months to live 1:41:30 — Moving to Los Angeles and entering experimental HIV studies 1:42:10 — Louie’s first HIV-positive AA meeting 1:42:55 — Forty years sober and finally free of his secrets 1:44:00 — SafeSpot, Dopey Day and closing thoughts
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  He Shot Blue Ecstasy, Boofed It & Went to Work: Jed Payne on Relapse, Lies, Shame & One Year Back 12.08.2026 1h 21min

  Timestamps 00:00 — “You Are a Triumph” 01:34 — Dave responds to concern that he seems “off” 02:20 — Five days of Dopey, Jason Mewes and surrendering the pursuit 03:53 — DopeyCon updates: Hank Azaria, Jason Biggs, Jerry Stahl and more 05:18 — JD’s three-day cocaine binge in a Mississippi trailer 08:37 — A massive shot leaves JD conscious but unable to move 10:20 — JD recovers—and immediately smokes more crack 11:52 — Dopey Nation remembers Annie Ellie and Hot Wheels 15:36 — Summer grief and the people Dopey has lost 18:43 — Jed Payne returns 25:16 — Jed approaches one year sober after his secret relapse 27:44 — Rehab, sober living, bedbugs and becoming a “broista” 30:14 — Why getting sober again can be harder when you’re older 32:42 — Rebuilding his family, finances and daily responsibilities 34:15 — An addiction counselor goes back to treatment with former clients 35:01 — Shame, humility and the fear of losing credibility 37:32 — The many layers of deception during Jed’s relapse 41:34 — How working in treatment can endanger clinicians in recovery 43:47 — The support system Jed wishes he had before relapsing 45:00 — How CBD and microdosing opened the door 47:10 — Jed admits his “microdose” was really getting high 48:21 — Porn, shame spirals and relapse 49:28 — Do recovery professionals need their own recovery program? 50:55 — Why clinicians need a safe place to struggle 53:12 — Resentment and exploitation inside the treatment industry 54:42 — Introducing “Drugs in Your Butt” 55:30 — Jed boofs two blue ecstasy pills 57:55 — Shooting cocaine beside a police officer 59:18 — Injecting bright-blue ecstasy in a gas-station bathroom 1:01:15 — The boofed pills activate while Jed works in a restaurant 1:02:05 — Rolling with both hands inside a tub of marinara sauce 1:03:20 — 7-OH, smoke-shop opioids and unintended consequences 1:08:12 — Jed’s experience with Suboxone and Sublocade 1:10:55 — Why one year sober doesn’t immediately restore the brain 1:13:34 — Staying present and finding purpose at the coffee shop 1:16:02 — Rebuilding trust by becoming a man of his word 1:18:20 — Dopey Day and toodles for Chris
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  Tuesday Teaser: The Lost Jason Mewes Interview! Xanax Car Mystery, DARE Winner to DUI & Erich Gets 4 Years Sober! 11.08.2026 24min

  Timestamp notes 01:16 – Welcome to the Dopey Tuesday Patreon teaser 01:30 – Hardcore Dope Eric celebrates four years sober 02:23 – Who is Jason Mewes? 02:50 – Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma and Jay and Silent Bob 03:15 – Ten years of trying to get Jason onto Dopey 03:35 – Dave’s internet destroys the long-awaited interview 04:00 – Persistence versus being incredibly annoying 04:45 – Dave becomes Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction 05:00 – Giving up on finishing the Jason Mewes interview 05:35 – The lost interview goes behind the Patreon paywall 05:55 – Jesse’s Xanax blackout story 06:15 – Nodding out behind the wheel at a gas pump 06:35 – Waking up at home with no idea where the car went 06:50 – Calling the police to report the missing car 07:12 – Abby: from DARE essay winner to out-of-state DUI 07:55 – Two addicted parents meet at an AA barn dance 08:30 – A suicide attempt involving more than 200 Tylenol 09:00 – College alcoholism and an out-of-state DUI 09:37 – Praying for 90 days for the desire to drink to disappear 10:13 – Nine years sober, motherhood and owning a business 10:40 – Socks for stories 11:00 – Spotify and Patreon comments 11:30 – Mr. Jason clears up Dave’s attempted amends 12:35 – Listeners react to Dave’s guided meditation 13:10 – Launching emotional trash cans into the sun 13:35 – A forklift driver gets dangerously relaxed 14:00 – A reluctant new patron joins the Dopey Nation 14:25 – DopeyCon games and “Stashword” 14:55 – “Live First-Time Heroin” as a terrible DopeyCon game 15:30 – Dave’s most repeated stories and observations 16:00 – Minnesota Matt’s Patreon mea culpa 16:40 – “Call the game The Dope Show” 17:17 – “Heart Attack Doug is boring as fuck” 17:40 – Should Dave try to reconcile with Cat Marnell? 18:10 – Five days of Dopey and an MTV-style music episode 18:55 – DopeyCon ticket discount and Patreon perks 19:34 – The lost Jason Mewes interview begins 20:00 – Riverside, Zoom, Teams and remote-recording apps 20:50 – Dave tells Jason he has pursued him for ten years 21:05 – The Patreon cutoff 21:20 – One surviving hour of Jason Mewes
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  Meth-Addicted Dog, Cocaine Dreams, Nitrous Dentists, Bloody Teeth & Drug Tests | Dopey Total Replay 40 Drug Dreams 10.08.2026 1h 16min

  Timestamps 1:17 Dave introduces Dopey Total Replay Episode 40 2:17 The dog days of summer and an episode Dave says you can skip 3:45 Summerfest, extreme heat and attempting gratitude 4:48 A letter from Josh Clark about Django 5:59 Django develops a meth habit 7:11 The dog starts hiding used meth cottons 8:23 Django is forced to kick when Josh enters treatment 10:44 Send in your animals-on-drugs stories 11:03 DopeyCon tickets, guests and Patreon 12:25 Patreon comments from the Baby Back Ribs episode 15:28 Spotify comments and keeping Chris’s spirit alive 17:52 Introducing the original “Drug Dreams” episode 18:20 Classic Dave and Chris begin 19:12 Drugs, addiction and increasingly more dumb shit 20:35 Danny Boy, future guests and preempting episodes 21:29 James Franco, Brad Renfro and recovery rumors 23:00 Dopey topics and the passive Dopey Nation 30:00 When did Dopey actually begin? 31:58 Chris talks in his sleep: “Trust me. I’m sorry.” 33:09 Drug dreams in early recovery 34:21 Shooting cocaine and waking up before the rush 34:58 Dave’s terrifying dope-sick dreams 36:44 Getting high before detox and breaking his nose 39:10 The apartment, two cars and the villainous manager 40:13 Searching for drugs with Todd but never getting to use 41:33 Relapse dreams and hiding it from everybody 42:31 Déjà vu, memory and a Benadryl drug dream 43:58 The fear that people think you’re high 45:00 Can altered states become contagious? 46:23 The Othello cookie placebo high 47:09 Linda asks Dave to take a drug test 48:22 Getting opioids at the end of life 49:33 Vicodin after root canals and the return of the feeling 51:15 Chris eats an Italian sub after wisdom-tooth surgery 52:48 Blood, stitches and chewing the inside of his mouth 53:31 Dave rips off his own cast 54:04 Discovering nitrous oxide at the dentist 55:11 Dark Side of the Moon and demanding more gas 56:24 Waking up with someone else’s front teeth in your pocket 57:32 Negative consequences versus addiction 58:05 An alcoholic skips his own wedding 59:56 Protecting the disease and living in denial 1:00:28 Dave and Chris discuss therapy 1:02:23 The security guard and refusing to sign in 1:04:26 “This episode sucks” 1:05:16 Calling Ray Brown to save the episode 1:06:32 How appearing on Dopey changed Ray’s life 1:08:32 The early Dopey Facebook group 1:10:11 House of Pain, Kriss Kross and Tag Team confusion 1:12:19 Ray’s sobriety and AA meeting 1:13:23 The beginnings of a self-supporting Dopey Nation 1:14:39 The origin of “Toodles” 1:15:16 “Good So Bad”
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  Dopey 594: From Slinging Coke to Baklava on Phish Tour with Roy Donk, Dogs on Acid, Busted snorting Ketamine at Mohegan Sun, 07.08.2026 2h 57min

  Time Stamp: 00:00 – “Everybody Does Cocaine” opening song 02:06 – Oro Recovery 03:29 – Welcome to Dopey and DopeyCon ticket information 05:56 – Maddie B celebrates one year without alcohol 09:35 – Remembering Annie Ellie 11:30 – Dopey Day and the DopeyCon memorial video 13:00 – Mountainside 14:15 – Taylor’s darkly funny recovery voicemail 16:10 – Comments from the Christmas grief episode 20:10 – Workit Health 22:02 – Minnesota Matt’s crack overdose and seizure story 26:58 – California Miles on divorce, acceptance and recovery 29:17 – Recovery Unplugged 30:45 – Roy Donk joins the show 31:21 – Baklava, Knicks madness and going viral outside MSG 36:03 – Drugs, Phish, sobriety and baklava: the order of events 38:26 – Growing up in an Orthodox Jewish household 39:00 – Smoking K2 before trying marijuana 45:39 – Psychedelics and becoming a classic New Jersey stoner 46:40 – Arrested at school for a tiny amount of weed 48:00 – Dropping out of high school 53:00 – The GED, kosher bagel shops and Hasidic jobs 56:00 – Working at a Hasidic petting zoo 59:32 – A stoned friend gets hit by a car 1:01:50 – Early exposure to Phish and the Grateful Dead 1:06:25 – Robbing charity boxes and selling drugs 1:11:15 – Culinary school and cooking in New York restaurants 1:13:37 – Moving to San Diego and entering the weed business 1:15:58 – The Phish show that changed everything 1:20:47 – Acid, Halloween shows and falling in love with Phish 1:23:04 – Cocaine goes from pointless to irresistible 1:25:23 – Living in a van and selling cocaine 1:31:00 – Roy’s dog accidentally eats a stash of acid 1:36:38 – The San Diego crash pad begins turning dark 1:39:00 – Drug dealing, nitrous tanks and suicidal jokes 1:41:15 – Leaving California for New York 1:43:34 – Financing Phish tour by selling drugs 1:48:25 – Ketamine at the Mohegan Sun slot machines 1:50:42 – Arrested in a Phish robe with coke, K, Molly and pressed pills 1:55:23 – Rehab as the price for getting the charges dropped 2:00:03 – Claiming sobriety while using nitrous 2:02:30 – Relapse, remote work and the pandemic 2:04:53 – Mexico, Tulum and a massive drug binge 2:16:42 – Accidentally uploading the uncensored bender photos to work 2:19:06 – Getting fired and walking into AA in Mexico 2:21:24 – The darkness Roy initially left out of his story 2:23:50 – Selling ketamine to a friend who later overdosed 2:26:01 – Finally recognizing the cumulative destruction 2:30:37 – Admitting he is an addict and working the steps 2:33:03 – February 10: Roy’s sobriety date 2:37:26 – Returning to Phish tour sober 2:39:38 – The spiritual experience that made recovery feel real 2:41:57 – The accidental birth of the baklava business 2:44:09 – Finding the Turkish baklava connection in New Jersey 2:46:25 – Dave tastes the baklava 2:48:42 – SafeSpot overdose-prevention hotline 2:49:15 – Spotify comments about grief and the Christmas episode 2:53:12 – Closing thoughts and DopeyCon 2:54:36 – Jake performs “I Wanna Be Good So Bad” on banjo
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  Is Diet Coke Poisonous? Plus The Wild Life and Tragic Death of Ryan Leone Part 2 | Injected 60 Hits of LSD, Crack, Fentanyl, Tommy Lee | Dopey's Greatest Hits 06.08.2026 1h 37min

  Timestamps 1:08 Remembering Ryan Leone on his birthday 3:35 SafeSpot, recovery and Dave’s Diet Coke crisis 7:12 Comments on “Ghosts of ChrisMiss Past” 10:33 Remembering DJ and the people lost to addiction 11:34 DopeyCon tickets and Patreon 12:53 Introducing Ryan Leone’s second Dopey appearance 14:05 Ryan’s book and a DMT-filled party bus 15:15 What happened after Ryan’s first Dopey appearance? 16:38 A free gram of cocaine before visiting Tommy Lee 18:48 The relapse begins immediately 20:06 Finding acceptance inside an LA party scene 21:17 Cocaine turns into a crack relapse 23:38 Ketamine, depression and injecting drugs 26:02 Steroids, crack and preparing for a Vanity Fair photograph 28:26 Ryan begins treating himself with ketamine 29:40 The liquid LSD supply 33:09 Johnny Depp and Hunter S. Thompson’s cigarette holder 34:11 Confusing the ketamine and LSD vials 35:21 Accidentally injecting approximately 60 hits of LSD 37:45 Driving through California while hallucinating 40:11 Imaginary passengers, a dead body and the teepee motel 42:10 Meth, hospitalization and the end of Ryan’s relationship 44:18 Returning to heroin after becoming suicidal 46:44 A four-month heroin relapse 48:44 Abscesses and the progression to fentanyl 51:07 Is fentanyl being mixed into black-tar heroin? 53:22 How fentanyl felt different from heroin 55:13 Overdosing and being revived with Narcan 57:40 Ryan’s father finally draws a boundary 59:55 Fighting naked while withdrawing inside a detox 1:04:47 Passing out from fentanyl in front of his family 1:05:58 The threat of losing his children 1:07:08 Becoming trapped inside the outlaw-writer persona 1:10:46 Real experiences versus manufactured crime stories 1:13:10 When Ryan’s public character took over his real life 1:15:35 Writing Antiheroes while addicted to heroin 1:17:58 Does heroin make Ryan more creative? 1:20:17 Ryan’s documentary and years of recorded chaos 1:22:43 Addiction’s destruction of the entire family 1:25:40 Josh Brolin’s sobriety message 1:27:44 Fame, insecurity and Ryan’s larger-than-life personality 1:30:05 Finally understanding powerlessness 1:32:33 Ryan considers giving AA a real chance 1:34:54 Dave and Ryan say goodbye 1:35:21 “Good So Bad”
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  Opium in Laos, Oasis, DMT, Breaking his neck on a Frozen Pond & becoming Quadriplegic - needing to shoot heroin with his mouth, Remembering Hot Wheelz and Annie Ellie 05.08.2026 2h 18min

  Timestamps: 2:12 Remembering the people Dopey has lost 4:39 Patreon comments about Kevin McEnroe 9:22 Forgiveness, family and listener reactions 11:41 Spotify comments and DopeyCon tickets 13:04 Remembering Annie Ellie 14:09 Annie joins the show 16:59 Recreational heroin and discovering recovery 19:12 Raves, ecstasy and the “after drugs” 23:13 Backpacking and smoking opium in Southeast Asia 25:27 Buying pharmaceuticals in Cambodia 26:52 Inside an opium den in Laos 29:07 Asked to smuggle opium into Thailand 30:38 Returning home and working in television 32:43 Passing out beside Noel Gallagher 34:45 Heroin, ecstasy and losing her dream job 36:48 Realizing she was physically addicted 39:41 Rehab, relapse and drugs smuggled into treatment 43:44 Twenty years of methadone, Subutex and relapse 46:04 Chris’s death and discovering the Dopey Nation 47:07 How Dopey helped Annie return to recovery 49:17 Learning how to live again 51:43 Benzos, memory loss and the lasting damage 53:57 What is the purpose of Dopey Zoom? 56:17 Harm reduction, abstinence and belonging 58:31 Annie’s favorite classic Dopey moments 1:00:53 Recovery without prayer or meditation 1:02:57 Exercise as Annie’s spiritual practice 1:05:11 Annie takes the show out 1:06:04 Dave reflects on losing Annie 1:07:38 Brian “Hot Wheels” Connolly’s first voicemail 1:10:18 Remembering Brian 1:12:06 Brian’s first full Dopey appearance 1:14:08 How a quadriplegic shoots heroin 1:16:08 The frozen-pond accident that changed everything 1:20:00 Rescue, paralysis and the hospital 1:22:33 Rehab, MMA and nearly joining the Marines 1:27:20 Addiction after losing athletics and independence 1:29:47 Finding purpose after a spinal-cord injury 1:33:32 Suboxone, isolation and asking for help 1:37:08 Brian’s complicated feelings about Steve-O 1:40:35 The jump through the ice 1:45:11 Brian calls Dopey while craving heroin 1:47:20 Chris helps talk Brian through the obsession 1:51:09 The unbearable urge to change how you feel 1:53:11 Holding on until morning 1:55:30 Searching for connection and purpose 2:04:08 Has the craving passed? 2:07:16 The painful connection between Brian and Chris 2:08:10 Honoring Dopey Nation members who have died 2:09:38 SafeSpot and a message for anyone struggling 2:10:06 Annie’s “Mr. Novak” song 2:13:29 “Good So Bad”
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  An Ounce of Ass Heroin, the Dopey Garbage Can Meditation & Heart Attack Doug Comments | Tuesday Patreon Teaser 04.08.2026 30min

  Timestamps 0:00 – “Oxy’s the Blow” and Good Morning Dopey 1:16 – Welcome to Dopey Tuesday and the Reddit Roundup preview 2:00 – The August basketball wasteland and no Knicks news 2:32 – The Allman Brothers, NBA rumors and LeBron to Philadelphia 3:05 – Lena Dunham and books by people Dave can’t get on Dopey 3:50 – Feeling spiritually off and needing to do more 4:40 – DopeyCon is October 3rd 5:34 – The Dopey garbage can meditation begins 6:50 – Regret, inadequacy, self-hatred and overthinking 7:30 – Belly fat, money fears, family anxiety and $2,500 worth of weeds 8:20 – Launching the dumpster of negativity into the sun 9:20 – Lauren B.’s “socks for stories” voicemail 10:00 – Broke, fighting and smoking cigarettes off the road 11:10 – Lauren finds what she thinks is a receipt beside a puddle 11:55 – An ounce of heroin in a ripped plastic bag 12:30 – Was the heroin hidden inside somebody’s ass? 13:15 – The heroin runs out and Lauren suffers her first overdose 13:40 – Dave reacts to the fantasy of finding an ounce of heroin 14:40 – Heart Attack Doug’s birthday comments begin 16:05 – Does Doug need to tell more of his recovery story? 17:05 – Is Doug the perfect Dopey cohost? 18:15 – Doug’s wife calls him “douchebag” 18:55 – Grief, relapse and losing a beloved dog 20:30 – Would Heart Attack Doug make a good sponsor? 21:10 – Forgotten voicemails and recovery meetings on the beach 22:25 – Decriminalization, Portugal and recovery resources 23:30 – James Brown, Billy Joe Shaver and supporting a listener in relapse 24:30 – The Nation demands more lowlife Dopey stories 25:10 – Patreon Reddit Roundup preview 26:20 – “Good So Bad” introduction 27:04 – Dave performs “Good So Bad” 29:59 – One final mistake and toodles
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  Reflections on A Garbage Bag Full of Cocaine, Chillis, The Lion Sleeps Tonight Baby Back Ribs| Dopey Greatest Hits 39 03.08.2026 1h 21min

  Timestamps 00:00 – Surrealismo’s “Hey Bulldog” remix 00:23 – Welcome to Total Dopey Replay Episode 39 01:24 – Dave’s latest fitness push and the possible Dopey Fitness Challenge 02:50 – DopeyCon October 3 update and Patreon ticket access 05:15 – Catching up on Patreon and Spotify comments 07:34 – Dave’s new limited-edition Dopey merch idea 08:00 – Listener reactions to Modi, kosher weed and the blue-cheese speedball 12:19 – Trouble editing the Dopey Film Festival recording 13:33 – What replaying Episode 39 taught Dave about himself and Chris 17:03 – How “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” rescued the episode 18:18 – Chris was a ray of sunshine: the Bert and Ernie of Dopey 19:00 – Original Dopey Episode 39 begins 21:23 – Chris’s caffeinated seltzer discovery 22:27 – The great Häagen-Dazs ice-cream consultation 23:47 – Recovering from the disastrous Modi interview 26:13 – Vietnamese food, fish sauce and Chris playing dumb 28:26 – Is Chris more fun on Dopey than in real life? 30:41 – The spicy-chili chocolate bar leads to Chili’s 31:25 – Dave and Chris attempt the baby-back-ribs jingle 32:48 – Chris’s epileptic Portuguese water dog 35:12 – Chris tries to train the terrified dog to swim 36:03 – The baby-back-ribs performance continues 39:40 – Modi’s podcast equipment and combined luxury apartments 41:54 – Dopey’s tiny audience and desperate search for a sponsor 43:04 – Jailhouse sign language and sex with a deaf woman 46:44 – Cormac’s song impresses Dave and Chris 48:08 – Why Dopey is such a “meta” podcast 49:16 – Chris’s accidentally stolen Chinese-restaurant prank 51:27 – The original Howard Stern version 55:00 – A chaotic trip to Miami for a young people’s AA conference 57:19 – “This might be the worst episode of Dopey ever” 58:33 – Email from Sepulong in South Africa 01:00:26 – Jailhouse goodnight rituals and questionable Swahili 01:02:37 – Dave and Chris taste the disgusting chili chocolate 01:04:20 – The garbage bag full of cocaine story begins 01:06:44 – An abandoned Caribbean house filled with candles and cocaine 01:07:45 – Chris lights his hair on fire doing someone else’s line 01:09:43 – Drug slang: blow, junk, diesel, rigs and binkies 01:11:08 – Recovery, fellowship and calling another sober person 01:13:36 – Laughing about the past without repeating it 01:14:30 – Music as medicine for depression 01:15:58 – Dave and Chris attempt “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” 01:18:06 – Was the singing brilliant or completely terrible? 01:19:17 – Closing out “the worst Dopey episode ever” 01:20:28 – Cormac’s complete song
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  Dopey 593: Katey Sagal: Cocaine, Acid, Heroin Husbands, Bob Dylan & Getting Sober Before Married… with Children 31.07.2026 2h 7min

  Timestamps 0:00 – Opening music 1:21 – Oro Recovery 2:48 – Welcome to Dopey and introducing Katey Sagal 3:43 – Luke from Philadelphia writes about rotating drugs and losing motivation 5:16 – What is pyrazolam? 7:41 – Luke asks how to rediscover joy in early sobriety 8:15 – Dave’s advice: assess dependence, seek medical help and get involved in recovery 10:07 – DopeyCon: October 3 at the SVA Theatre 10:44 – Mountainside Treatment Center 12:28 – Celebrating Ben Croxton’s Dopey episode 13:02 – Patreon reactions: crack, Ruby Tuesday, piercings and the Snickers story 17:08 – Why Dopey’s greatest guests may already be inside the community 19:33 – More Patreon reactions and Workit Health 21:59 – Spotify comments and a serious conversation about marijuana addiction 25:31 – Listeners celebrate Ben’s classic Dopey stories 27:15 – Sepsis, cellulitis, PICC lines and early-recovery encouragement 29:40 – More reactions to Ben and discussion of proposed kratom-product restrictions 30:38 – Recovery Unplugged 32:03 – Katey Sagal joins Dopey 33:14 – Beginning Married… with Children with only months of sobriety 34:30 – Finding another sober person on set 35:07 – Music as Katey’s first treatment for social anxiety 36:52 – Prescribed amphetamine diet pills at 14 38:03 – Her father’s role and growing up in a “generation of pills” 39:13 – Body image, body dysmorphia and recovery tools 40:08 – Norman Lear introduced Katey’s parents and became her godfather 41:36 – Losing both parents young and resisting the family acting business 43:40 – Teenage bands, older musicians and finding a surrogate family through music 45:01 – Cocaine, alcohol, Seconal and Percocet in the late-’70s and early-’80s music world 46:09 – Her mother’s prescriptions and stealing pills from the medicine cabinet 48:31 – Weight-loss clinics, Yellow Jackets and street speed 49:42 – Marrying a heroin user at 22 50:57 – Singing with Bob Dylan and being terrified in rehearsals 53:17 – Dinner with a shoeless Bob Dylan—and getting fired before the tour 55:35 – Touring with Bette Midler and functioning while constantly medicated 56:47 – How Katey missed the signs of her husband’s heroin addiction 58:03 – Trying heroin and using partners with worse addictions to minimize her own 59:10 – Knowing she had a drug problem by age 18 or 19 1:00:30 – Freebasing versus crack and the drugs Katey avoided 1:01:25 – Ketamine, psychedelics and control 1:02:49 – Aretha Franklin repeatedly appearing during acid trips 1:04:55 – Seeing God on acid and working at the Great American Food and Beverage Company 1:06:00 – Meeting Gene Simmons and landing her first record deal 1:07:18 – Bob Dylan, artistry and dinner at Something’s Fishy 1:09:42 – When cocaine entered the picture 1:12:14 – Chasing the original high and balancing uppers with downers 1:14:41 – Weekend cocaine runs begin stretching into three and four days 1:15:27 – Appearing on Columbo and getting her SAG card 1:17:04 – Failed record deals, addiction and reluctantly trying acting 1:19:29 – Working with Mary Tyler Moore while secretly using 1:20:38 – Finding AA while searching for her boyfriend Spider 1:23:05 – Relapsing in New York after five months in recovery 1:24:16 – Addiction overpowering discipline, talent and work ethic 1:26:41 – Katey’s sobriety date: August 6, 1986 1:27:31 – Married… with Children becomes an unexpected phenomenon 1:29:09 – Trying to sustain a music career while becoming internationally known as Peg Bundy 1:31:35 – Mall appearances, Peg Bundy and the show’s original working title 1:33:15 – Early recovery, sponsorship and quickly working all Twelve Steps 1:36:23 – Gratitude, service and rebuilding self-esteem through action 1:38:50 – Is service selfish if it also makes you feel better? 1:40:39 – Katey’s final encounter with Bob Dylan 1:42:00 – Psychedelics, spirituality and resistance to religious language in AA 1:45:23 – Dave’s turning point and what recovery gave back to him 1:46:39 – Futurama as comfort television for addicts, outsiders and insomniacs 1:48:58 – Why Dave could only watch Futurama while using heroin 1:51:23 – Meeting Kurt Sutter in a Twelve Step meeting 1:52:28 – Shopping, food and addiction’s continuing game of whack-a-mole 1:53:48 – Dangerous drug situations and channeling that darkness into Sons of Anarchy 1:55:09 – Meetings, sponsorship and passing on the program 1:56:16 – Why Katey also works an Al‑Anon program 1:59:22 – Boundaries, people-pleasing and putting your own oxygen mask on first 2:01:50 – Accepting that other people may not change 2:03:05 – Katey’s final thoughts on the Dopey experience 2:03:50 – SafeSpot, closing thoughts and fucking toodles for Chris 2:04:20 – Jake from West Virginia introduces his banjo cover 2:05:13 – “I Wanna Be Good So Bad” on banjo with a new third verse
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  Robbing Banks, Shooting Heroin, Prison, Darby Crash Tattoos, The Greatest Dopey Ever? with Shane Enholm 30.07.2026 2h 36min

  Timestamps 00:04 – Dave’s original song “Trouble World” 01:08 – Introducing Dopey legend Shane Enholm 02:16 – DopeyCon confirmed for October 3 02:42 – Dave predicts Dopey’s greatest year yet 03:01 – Dave’s kratom piece is published in Rolling Stone 03:36 – The story behind “Trouble World” 04:14 – Listener David’s story from Bristol, England 05:55 – Britain’s heroin epidemic and “Heroin Screws You Up” 07:06 – Returning to heroin after 12 years 07:27 – Bristol’s open-air heroin market 08:23 – Smoking heroin and crack while holding down a job 09:02 – A gang war shuts down the drug market 10:45 – Recovery and the gentrification of Argyle Road 11:24 – How long can someone maintain a heroin habit while working? 12:23 – Patreon comments and an emotional recovery Zoom 15:17 – Minnesota Matt describes crack’s proximity to death 17:40 – Spotify comments, stories, stickers and Dopey socks 19:40 – Introducing the Shane Enholm replay 20:29 – Shane Enholm enters the Dopey studio 21:03 – Tattooing his former Lewisburg prison guard 23:09 – Arriving at Lewisburg federal penitentiary 24:41 – Prison weapons and Shane’s many lives 25:34 – Arrested alongside his mother at 12 27:07 – Codeine cough syrup and Shane’s addicted mother 28:15 – Reconnecting with his father and discovering his OxyContin addiction 31:24 – Growing up with violence, addiction and family secrets 33:49 – Thrown out at 13 and hitchhiking across America 35:55 – Accused of stealing his grandfather’s gold 37:20 – Homeless teenagers targeted by predatory spiritual groups 38:16 – Seeing the Ramones and discovering punk rock 40:38 – Meeting Darby Crash and entering the original LA punk scene 41:22 – Darby Crash’s fatal heroin overdose 42:56 – Why people blamed Casey for Darby’s death 43:39 – Shane’s first heroin experience 45:15 – Becoming involved with Casey 46:17 – Synanon-style attack therapy and the clown mask 47:36 – Robbing pharmacies at 17 48:28 – Liquid Dilaudid, cocaine, morphine and pharmaceutical speedballs 50:56 – Entering adult prison at 18 52:01 – Surviving predatory violence inside prison 54:24 – Hitchhiking with two girls and being shot by a rapist 56:49 – Testifying against the attacker 59:12 – Escaping from a locked treatment program 01:01:39 – Shooting methamphetamine in prison 01:03:55 – Escaping treatment and returning to Casey 01:06:09 – Buying incredibly cheap cocaine from a junior-high student 01:07:13 – Repeated cocaine seizures and possible cardiac arrest 01:08:28 – Stealing $10,000 from a drug dealer and fleeing to San Francisco 01:10:44 – Shane’s daughter is born dependent on heroin 01:12:59 – The Keith Richards influence and heroin mythology 01:14:08 – Child Protective Services takes Shane’s daughters 01:15:03 – Learning how to rob banks 01:16:17 – Robbing his first bank with a toy gun 01:18:46 – Scoring heroin immediately after the robbery 01:19:44 – Convincing the judge to return their children 01:20:35 – Becoming a professional bank robber 01:22:59 – Shane’s biggest score: $36,000 01:25:23 – The getaway cab stalls outside the bank 01:26:32 – The FBI names him the Ponytail Bandit 01:27:43 – Using an elderly Hollywood screenwriter as an unwitting getaway driver 01:29:11 – A dye pack explodes in a taxi with Shane’s children inside 01:31:01 – Arrested while hiding in San Francisco 01:32:28 – Captured with his daughters in the hotel room 01:33:51 – Shane confesses so Casey and the children can leave 01:34:49 – Eight years and 23 days in federal prison 01:35:18 – Smuggling heroin through prison visits 01:36:58 – Concealing needles and heroin inside his body 01:38:03 – Dealing heroin and enforcing debts in prison 01:39:11 – Running out of heroin behind bars 01:41:33 – Sharing a needle with an HIV-positive prisoner 01:43:24 – A federal investigation into Shane’s prison heroin operation 01:45:45 – Fourteen grams of heroin hidden in the desert 01:48:08 – Shane confronts the FBI agent investigating him 01:50:30 – Transferred east and confronting different prison politics 01:53:24 – Exercise, pull-ups and rebuilding himself in prison 01:55:45 – Stealing and selling prison laundry 01:57:15 – Released from prison and reunited with his daughters 01:58:41 – Finding recovery after considering murder and suicide 02:00:55 – Nearly returning to crime with a notorious bank robber 02:03:15 – The phone call that may have saved Shane’s life 02:04:50 – His replacement dies in a car crash 02:06:17 – Shane takes his daughters out of foster care 02:08:43 – Relapsing after federal supervision ends 02:10:36 – Downtown Los Angeles heroin in the early 2000s 02:13:05 – Methadone maintenance and the myths surrounding it 02:15:28 – Hepatitis C, cirrhosis and liver failure 02:18:17 – Interferon treatment saves Shane’s life 02:20:17 – Recovery while taking methadone 02:21:34 – Slowly tapering off methadone 02:22:33 – Tattooing and antique tattoo-machine history 02:24:36 – Recovery, surrender and spirituality 02:26:58 – Carpet farming and bacterial endocarditis 02:27:31 – The story behind “Making Mud Pies” 02:29:30 – Shane performs “Making Mud Pies” 02:31:16 – “She was once someone’s little girl” 02:32:10 – Shane’s message to addicts who are still suffering 02:33:28 – Dave performs “Good So Bad” SEO Search Terms
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  Stealing Oxys! Uncomfortable on Vacation! Tatum's Tic Tac Obsession! The Salvation of Tennis! Kevin McEnroe Returns! 29.07.2026 1h 48min

  00:00 – Dopey Wednesday theme 01:04 – Dave’s fourth Rolling Stone piece and DopeyCon news 01:45 – DopeyCon officially set for October 3 at SVA 02:27 – Legendary storyteller Mick Popham returns 03:11 – Working in an elderly cancer survivor’s home 04:20 – Mick searches her bedroom for pills while she sleeps 05:28 – Finding oxycodone, Valium and dihydrocodeine 06:40 – Replacing the stolen painkillers with laxatives 07:54 – “Funny—or am I an arsehole?” 08:40 – Gratitude for old and new Dopey listeners 09:45 – The search for hardcore, old-school Dopey stories 10:20 – Patreon comments and Behind the Dopey 12:45 – Ray Wylie Hubbard, Townes Van Zandt and North Dakota 15:08 – The Allman Brothers, Van Morrison and silencing the phone 16:00 – Spotify comments and rock memoir recommendations 17:34 – How Dave accidentally ghosted Legs McNeil 19:56 – Guns N’ Roses, Danzig and the Grateful Dead 20:50 – Kevin McEnroe returns 21:30 – The Knicks championship and Larry David 22:22 – Kevin admits he was jealous of his father’s courtside experience 24:32 – The Knicks’ miraculous comeback 26:50 – Knicks superstition, pessimism and recovery 28:50 – How the championship changed Kevin’s outlook 31:11 – The Knicks temporarily unify New York City 33:16 – The atmosphere inside Madison Square Garden 35:34 – Kevin reviews the Dopey Short Recovery Film Festival 36:16 – The DopeyCon concept is revealed 37:53 – The Price Is Right, Dopey Feud and drug-themed name tags 38:38 – Artie Lange’s crush on Tatum O’Neal 40:02 – Dave’s deeply unfortunate first masturbatory experience 42:19 – Farrah Fawcett, Playboy and Kevin’s summer-camp nightmare 44:43 – Ryan O’Neal, family estrangement and addiction 46:52 – Suffering, humility and gratitude 48:03 – Growing up inside a parent’s addiction 49:11 – Forgiving an addicted parent through shared experience 51:31 – Caring for his mother after her stroke 53:44 – The Tatum O’Neal Tic Tac obsession 55:53 – God, hope and recovery 57:59 – Humility following a near-death experience 59:15 – Dave’s Pacific Northwest family vacation 1:00:17 – Kevin travels sober to a wedding in England 1:02:32 – Being the only sober person at a multiday wedding 1:04:42 – Authenticity versus showing up for your wife 1:07:02 – Traveling after years of addiction and isolation 1:09:18 – Dave loses his shoe and curses out Linda 1:11:35 – Kevin desperately searches Spain for a recovery meeting 1:13:45 – Gratitude lists and staying connected 1:15:57 – “Chop wood, carry water” 1:17:59 – Teaching tennis as recovery and service 1:20:13 – Can hustling also be spiritual work? 1:22:19 – Dave pitches Kevin a new book 1:24:14 – Escaping the shadow of a famous parent 1:26:22 – Picking up tennis balls, humility and recovery 1:28:32 – Dave’s failed black-and-white cookie empire 1:29:22 – Dave’s Rolling Stone kratom article 1:31:42 – Why people use kratom and 7-OH 1:33:06 – Fentanyl, heroin, Quaaludes and surviving long enough to recover 1:35:23 – Finding an honest perspective as a writer 1:37:39 – Writing through discomfort while traveling 1:40:01 – How Dave developed as an interviewer 1:42:12 – Honesty, willingness, service and sometimes faking it 1:44:15 – Kevin’s upcoming People magazine profile 1:45:20 – Final thoughts and toodles for Chris 1:46:11 – Closing music
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  Happy Birthday Heart Attack Doug Tuesday Teaser! 28.07.2026 30min

  TIMESTAMPS 00:00 – Dopey Tuesday theme song 01:32 – Heart Attack Doug’s birthday show begins 02:05 – Doug lies about his age 03:27 – White hair, beards and looking Jewish 04:22 – Ironworker John and the mysterious barber 05:52 – Generic inspirational texts become “personalized” 07:57 – Remembering Ray the Clamour and Crosstalk Larry 09:02 – Doug’s birthday plans 10:19 – Italian food and gluten-free chicken parmesan 12:39 – Does Doug actually have a gluten problem? 13:23 – Doug returns to the beach recovery meeting 14:59 – Rating Doug’s recovery—and Dave’s meeting share 16:04 – Are people tired of the Chris Christmas episode? 17:20 – Spotify reacts to Doug’s extremely white teeth 19:42 – Patreon comments, San Francisco and Surrealismo 21:53 – DopeyCon plans and Beatles versus Stones 22:52 – Should drugs be decriminalized and regulated? 24:19 – Marijuana, psychosis and Doug’s brother-in-law 24:55 – Great South Bay Music Festival 25:17 – Little Feat’s “Willin’” and memories of Dave’s mother 26:38 – Legal weed being sold at the festival 27:18 – Happy birthday messages for Heart Attack Doug 27:53 – Patreon preview: weed, voicemails, Ray versus Larry and DopeyCon 28:55 – “I Wanna Be Good So Bad” SEO KEYWORDS Dopey Podcast, Dopey Tuesday, Heart Attack Doug, Happy Birthday Heart Attack Doug, Dave Manheim, addiction podcast, recovery podcast, sobriety podcast, funny recovery podcast, Alcoholics Anonymous, AA meetings, drug decriminalization, marijuana psychosis, cannabis-induced psychosis, legal weed, kratom legalization, DopeyCon, Great South Bay Music Festival, Little Feat, My Morning Jacket, Sublime, Post Malone, Jelly Roll, gluten intolerance, gluten-free chicken parmesan, Beatles versus Rolling Stones, addiction recovery community, Chris O’Connor, Dopey Nation, drugs addiction and dumb shit ALTERNATE TITLES Heart Attack Doug Lies About His Age! Weed Psychosis, Gluten-Free Chicken Parm & DopeyCon Happy Birthday, Heart Attack Doug! He’s 63, Full of Shit & Back on Dopey Heart Attack Doug’s Birthday Disaster: Old Age, Legal Weed, AA & Gluten 63 Years of Lies! Heart Attack Doug Returns to Dopey Tuesday Heart Attack Doug Turns 63—and Immediately Lies About It
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  Kosher Weed, a Bank Robber & the Infamous Blue Cheese Speedball | Dopey 38 with Modi 27.07.2026 1h 17min

  Kosher Weed, a Bank Robber & the Infamous Blue Cheese Speedball | Dopey 38 with Modi TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 – Dopey Total Replay 38 introduction 01:40 – Remembering the original Dopey and Chris O’Connor 03:41 – Why Dave has mixed feelings about the Modi episode 04:48 – Original listener comments from ten years ago 06:48 – Mark’s story: crystal meth, touring and The Real McKenzies 08:24 – Cocaine dealing, opiate addiction and a suicide attempt 09:36 – Shannon replaces stolen cocaine with baking powder 11:16 – Dave considers buying weed at a music festival 12:22 – Patreon reactions to Dopey Replay 37 13:45 – DopeyCon at SVA on October 3 14:37 – Spotify comments and remembering Chris 16:13 – The missing blue cheese story 17:51 – Original Dopey Episode 38 begins 18:18 – Comedian Modi enters and roasts Dave’s apartment 20:19 – Dopey’s extremely primitive recording equipment 21:19 – Modi’s first marijuana experience with Stuttering John 22:44 – Dave lies his way onto The Howard Stern Show 24:05 – Testing the “normie” on drug terminology 25:42 – Modi takes ecstasy on a cruise ship 27:17 – Heroin is “boy,” cocaine is “girl” 28:06 – Kosher marijuana edibles for the Sabbath 30:31 – Accidentally eating an enormous dose of edibles 32:33 – Dave pitches his black-and-white cookie business 34:06 – Modi’s abandoned podcast equipment 35:19 – Dave’s camp-counselor energy 36:25 – Jewish addicts and comedians in recovery 38:03 – Modi performs at a Caron recovery fundraiser 40:02 – Chris turns against Dave 42:07 – Modi’s appearance on The Sopranos 43:26 – A comedian desperately searches for an eight ball 44:27 – Greg Giraldo, Courtney Love and a disastrous recovery event 47:10 – Chris’s father discovers his crack pipe 49:08 – Finding humor inside addiction and recovery 50:27 – Twelve-step anonymity and traditions 51:20 – Going to AA without ever drinking 53:21 – Artie Lange, addiction and performing 56:21 – Email from Shamrock, a convicted bank robber 58:04 – Dave finally tells the blue cheese story 01:02:07 – “Blue cheese” is actually a John Belushi speedball 01:04:24 – How can Dopey become a bigger show? 01:06:40 – Cigarettes, vaping and quitting smoking 01:09:22 – Dave’s elderly Upper West Side weed dealer 01:13:36 – Ripping off the dealer with an empty brown package 01:15:00 – An extremely unfortunate subway reunion 01:15:59 – Toodles and closing song
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  Dopey 593: ChrisMiss 2026 - Remembering Chris - Overcoming Grief with Annie 24.07.2026 2h 1min

  TIMESTAMPS 00:00 – Chris reflects on remembering friends who died and the milestones they never got to experience 03:03 – Oro Recovery 04:26 – Eight years since Chris O’Connor’s death 05:48 – Free Narcan, fentanyl test strips and support from Dopey 06:48 – Brian celebrates six years; his brother Matt shares how Brian helped save his life 08:18 – Laren celebrates three years and Steve Schneider celebrates 14 09:14 – Jessica’s 11 years in recovery and growing alongside Dopey 11:15 – The sixth step and why character defects keep growing back 12:15 – Wiley wants more Dopey socks 13:38 – DopeyCon announcement and Mountainside 15:30 – Patreon and Spotify reactions to Dr. Reef Kareem 18:24 – Meth, sex drive, ayahuasca and listener reactions 20:44 – Workit Health 21:55 – Justin explains how Dopey helped him enter treatment 24:00 – Justin’s West Chester arrest and hunt for cocaine and crack 25:25 – Waking up in jail with a stranger’s bare feet rubbing his head 27:45 – Honoring Chris, Dopey Day and Recovery Unplugged 30:06 – Annie joins Dave eight years after Chris’s death 31:54 – Why losing Chris feels both recent and like another lifetime 34:21 – Annie’s life today as a surgeon and mother of two 36:40 – The life with Chris that was never lived 37:30 – Did Chris want to become a father? 38:57 – Chris’s nephews and Dave’s relationship with the O’Connor family 41:25 – When should you stop pursuing a one-sided relationship? 43:30 – Why Chris’s family may experience Dopey differently 45:52 – Why Annie could not build a career treating substance use disorder 47:00 – Did Dopey’s success make Chris’s absence more painful for his family? 48:15 – Recording the episode immediately after Chris died 49:20 – Why Annie agreed to describe what happened 50:37 – Dopey, secrecy and the O’Connor family’s way of grieving 53:05 – The different versions of himself Chris presented to different people 54:05 – The final phone call and the drug test before Chris died 55:29 – Where Chris may have hidden and used his drugs 56:15 – Why Annie believes Chris bought drugs locally on his final night 57:55 – Did Chris tell anyone about his relapse? 59:48 – The trauma of finding Chris’s body 01:01:14 – When the memory stopped being frightening and became sadness 01:02:30 – Annie realizes she could not survive grief alone 01:04:31 – Grief, harm reduction and accepting help from other people 01:06:56 – Becoming intensely sensitive to small acts of kindness 01:09:04 – “You don’t get over grief” 01:09:55 – The house-and-rooms analogy for living with loss 01:11:23 – Life before and after a devastating death 01:13:46 – Using personal trauma to help other families 01:14:55 – Growing a life around grief 01:16:10 – Recovery as a form of grief 01:18:31 – Dave’s resentment toward a child from a family struggling with addiction 01:20:52 – Fear, manipulation and recognizing your former self in somebody else 01:23:14 – Why honesty makes compassion easier 01:25:36 – Chris’s extraordinary compassion for suffering people 01:28:00 – Hearing Chris alive in the old recordings 01:29:10 – Carrying dead loved ones inside us 01:30:22 – Spirituality, uncertainty and becoming a parent 01:32:29 – Seeing life again through the eyes of a child 01:34:42 – Church versus movie theater for DopeyCon 01:37:06 – Discovering new meaning in grief eight years later 01:38:05 – A brutal listener message accusing Dave of being jealous of Chris 01:39:33 – Why Chris was an easy person to envy 01:41:53 – The difference between the podcast and the complete friendship 01:43:53 – Chris’s legacy of kindness and atonement 01:45:05 – The life Chris might have experienced in his forties 01:46:22 – Dave’s closing thoughts on grief and growing your world 01:50:36 – Vintage Chris attempts “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” 01:52:53 – The complete history of “Toodles” 01:58:59 – “Good So Bad” SEO TITLE Eight Years After Chris O’Connor’s Overdose: Grief, Addiction, Relapse and Recovery SEO DESCRIPTION Eight years after Dopey co-host Chris O’Connor died from a fentanyl overdose, his former fiancée Annie joins Dave to discuss finding Chris, the trauma of sudden loss, his secret relapse, addiction, recovery, parenting and how we build a larger life around grief. All that and some classic Chris on this years ChrisMiss show.
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  Ghosts of ChrisMiss Past; He Left the Hospital Barefoot to Smoke Crack and Fentanyl: Relapse, Survival and Remembering Chris | Dopey Greatest Hits 23.07.2026 2h 16min

  Timestamps: 00:00 Dopey cocaine theme song 01:07 Christmas week, Allman Brothers Month and recovery tools 03:34 James D. DeHart nearly buys meth after three years 07:03 Listener comments on the Michael Todd replay 11:23 DopeyCon announcement 13:09 Greatest Hits replay begins 14:05 Remembering Chris and the creation of Dopey 17:54 Why listener stories and reviews mattered to Chris 19:07 Episode 100: Dave and Chris imagine their future 21:35 Dave and Chris discuss what relapse might look like 25:13 The painful, prophetic meaning of that conversation 27:19 Regretting the times Dave interrupted Chris 29:43 Dopey legend DJ joins the show 31:20 Remembering Chris and confronting another relapse 34:07 Kratom, Suboxone and secrecy 38:57 Why dishonesty destabilized DJ’s recovery 41:13 A new career and relationship replace recovery 44:32 Moving from Los Angeles back to Detroit 47:25 Attempting to drink like a “normal” person 50:39 Feeling dishonest and disconnected in meetings 53:04 Returning to his old Detroit dope house 55:26 Smoking crack and fentanyl after nearly two years sober 57:52 Falling out while supposedly protected by Suboxone 01:00:17 His girlfriend discovers the relapse 01:03:41 Trying to detox at home 01:05:05 Precipitated withdrawal: tequila, gummies and Ativan 01:07:27 Leaving the hospital without shoes or proper clothes 01:09:52 Barefoot, blacked out and using drugs in Detroit 01:12:20 Family finds DJ after the all-day disappearance 01:14:45 Treatment, heartbreak and rebuilding 01:19:25 Recovery requires action, connection and service 01:24:07 The parallels between DJ’s relapse and Chris’s death 01:27:40 Recovery is slow—but relapse and death can happen fast 01:31:13 Closing DJ’s relapse story 01:33:37 Classic Dopey: Dave and Chris attempt to secure advertisers 01:38:08 “Mountainside is the best treatment center in the world” 01:39:18 Dylan remembers sponsoring Chris 01:41:15 Shame, debauchery and helping other addicts 01:44:00 What Dylan’s recovery looks like after fourteen years 01:47:25 Anger over losing decades of friendship with Chris 01:49:38 What made Chris magnetic and authentic 01:52:21 What happens when a sponsee returns to drinking? 01:57:27 Can someone remain connected without abstinence? 01:59:50 Psychedelics, ayahuasca and recovery 02:04:32 Can a psychedelic breakthrough create lasting change? 02:09:09 Remembering how Chris wanted to live 02:12:21 A tale of four dopes: Chris, DJ, Dylan and Dave 02:13:54 “Good So Bad” and the closing tribute to Chris