Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction
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 core, to keep addicts and alcoholics company. Whether to laugh at our time in rehab, or cry at the worst missteps we made, Dopey tells the truth about drugs, addiction and recovery. We continually mine the universe for stories rife with debauchery and highlight serious drug taking and alcoholism. We also examine different paths toward addiction recovery. We shine a light on harm reduction and medication assisted treatment. We talk with celebrities and nobodies and stockpile stories to be the greatest one stop shop podcast on all things drugs, addiction, recovery and comedy pathfinding the route to the heart of the opioid epidemic.
Episodes
📝 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 be...
🗒️ 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 ...
📝 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 SpongeB...
📝 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, Fle...
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...
📝 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 a...
🔥 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 ...
📋 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...
Gaytreon
STREP THROAT!
Ricky Powell
Beastie Boys
Seinfeld
LSD
SSDN FTFC!
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...
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...
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 fr...
🚨 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 Docum...
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
📞 Dope...
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
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 ...
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-li...
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 go...
🎧 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 chaot...
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 Br...
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