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
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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 Nel...
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...
📓 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
DopeyC...
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 tur...
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 mas...
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” ...
📓 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 c...
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 Ocea...
🧷 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
💔 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, ...
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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 g...
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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...
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...
📝 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 (photograph...
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 unfor...
🧾 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...
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.”
...
📝 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!
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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...
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