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
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.”
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📝 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 Sc...
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 emotio...
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 co...
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, flip...
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🎸 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 hall...
🚗 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 ...
🏥 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 celebra...
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, t...
🏀 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 schola...
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 thr...
📓 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 infl...
📝 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...
🔥 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...
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