Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Dave & Chris
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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.

  1. 1d ago

    Run Over by the Cops Buying Crack on Christmas Eve, Robbing Dealers, Chased with a Sword & Shooting Up $30,000 | Dopey 609: Tony O’Neill

    Listen without Ads on Patreon: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast Tickets: Hunter Biden with David Manheim at 92NY — December 20 This week on Dopey! Writer, musician, and world-class dope Tony O’Neill joins us for an extra-long trip from the Britpop stage to the shooting galleries of Los Angeles. Tony tells us about touring with Marc Almond and Kenickie, getting slapped by Courtney Love, and a night with the Russian mafia that ends with blood, broken teeth, and hiding in a broom closet. Then things get seriously dopey: black tar heroin, compulsive speedballs, $30,000 in embezzled money shot into oblivion, and a stint in the Brian Jonestown Massacre that ends with Anton Newcombe chasing him out of the house with a sword over some orange juice. Plus, getting run over by a police car buying crack on Christmas Eve, robbing a generous armed dealer, and the girlfriend who burned his writing—some of which survived to become Digging the Vein. Tony also gets into methadone, finding love, becoming a father, and the accident that sent him back into addiction after ten years off heroin. We talk writing, Jerry Stahl, Dan Fante, returning to AA, and learning to sit still with his own mind. PLUS! Two Laurens leave voicemails from very different places—one struggling after a second DUI, the other celebrating six years sober and finding her people in Dopey Nation. A listener dumps a guy who doesn’t get Dopey, Dave remembers Todd, and much more on a marathon episode of a brand new episode of that good old dopey show! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Run Over by the Cops Buying Crack on Christmas Eve, Robbing Dealers, Chased with a Sword & Shooting Up $30,000 | Dopey 609: Tony O’Neill

  2. 2d ago

    Dopey Greatest Hits: Mackenzie Phillips — Shooting Coke with Papa John, Black Tar at the Airport & Mick Jagger’s Mayonnaise

    This week on Dopey’s Greatest Hits! The incredible Mackenzie Phillips takes us from One Day at a Time to shooting cocaine with her father, the Mamas & the Papas’ John Phillips. We hear about stealing his prized Owsley acid, running around London with Keith Richards, pharmaceutical cocaine sprinkled on dinner, and getting arrested with black tar heroin on the way to a Rachael Ray reunion. Plus, the trip upstairs with Mick Jagger to get mayonnaise that turned into an overnight stay. Mackenzie also gets brutally honest about surviving sexual abuse by her father, the family backlash after High on Arrival, and a six-year relapse after a decade sober. And how she came back to build a life helping other addicts find recovery. PLUS! Owen remembers Brad, the friend who helped save his life but didn’t survive his own addiction. Listener comments, Dave’s upcoming Hunter Biden event at the 92nd Street Y, and a classic Jake from West Virginia banjo outro. All that and more on a f*****g monumental Greatest Hits episode of Dopey! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Dopey Greatest Hits: Mackenzie Phillips — Shooting Coke with Papa John, Black Tar at the Airport & Mick Jagger’s Mayonnaise

  3. 3d ago

    Was John Lennon a Heroin Addict? Did Paul Love Coke? The Beatles on Drugs: Speed, Acid, & the Love Between John and Paul with Ian Leslie | Dopey Wednesday

    Link for Biden Tickets: Tickets: Hunter Biden with David Manheim — December 20 at 92NY www.patron.com/dopeypodcast This week on a very very special Wednesday Wild Card DOSE of Dopey! Author Ian Leslie joins me to talk about one of my favorite books, John and Paul, A Love Story through Songs - and the drugs, grief, jealousy, and love behind the Beatles’ extraordinary partnership. We follow the Beatles from speed-fueled nights in Hamburg to getting stoned with Bob Dylan, John accidentally taking acid at Abbey Road, and Paul joining him for a trip that brought them even closer. We get into McCartney’s cocaine use, Lennon’s relationship with heroin, and whether songs like “Two of Us,” “Oh! Darling,” and “Jealous Guy” were ways of saying things they couldn’t say directly to each other. Plus, losing their mothers, Phil Collins versus Paul McCartney, and why the Beatles made getting high so interesting to me in the first place. PLUS: a listener’s first experience smoking meth in San Francisco, memories of Todd, spiritual dollars, your comments, and the new Wall Street Journal piece about Dopey. All that and much, much more on a very Beatle-esque Wednesday DOSE of Dopey!     Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Was John Lennon a Heroin Addict? Did Paul Love Coke? The Beatles on Drugs: Speed, Acid, & the Love Between John and Paul with Ian Leslie | Dopey Wednesday

  4. 4d ago

    THC Gummies, Zannies, Sex with Feces, Scat, Coprophilia, Tuesday Raytreon Teaser

    Full Patreon Show Only Available on Patreon: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast This week on a Tuesday Raytreon teaser! Ray returns and we immediately get sidetracked by a porn-star coworker, a dead man’s ashes, and a deeply unnecessary investigation into scat. Then Ray considers becoming Dopey’s new engineer, we check out his healing skin-cancer surgery scar, and he tells me about Mary Woronov’s incredible stories of amphetamines, Warhol, and the mole people. PLUS: new studio gear, Heart Attack Doug’s health struggles, cartoons for comfort, and the strange joy of finding out someone you know listens to Dopey. We’re saving the big news for Patreon—join us at patreon.com/dopeypodcast for the rest! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    THC Gummies, Zannies, Sex with Feces, Scat, Coprophilia, Tuesday Raytreon Teaser

  5. 5d ago

    Dopey Total Replay 52: Nick Reiner's 2nd Appearance; Shooting Wellbutrin & Rob Reiner Talking Nick Down from a Bad Acid Trip

    Listen without Ads at www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast 12/20 Me and Hunter Biden 92nd Street Y:Hunter Biden with David Manheim — December 20 at 92NY: Tickets This week on Dopey Total Replay! Nick Reiner returns to Grand Street to do Dopeywith Dave and Chris. Nick talks about shooting Wellbutrin with a homeless man in Maine, playing a disastrous basketball game at West Fourth Street, and turning down pain pills because he wanted to show up clearheaded for Dopey. Dave and Chris fight about the fish tank, people pleasing, and whose show it is, before Chris tells a benzo-withdrawal seizure story involving heroin, Beverly Hills 90210, an unconscious roommate, and a very confused food delivery guy. Then Nick remembers a frightening acid trip and his dad, Rob Reiner, lying beside him and talking him through it for eight hours. Plus, Dave reflects on hearing these old recordings again, struggling while abstinent, getting back into recovery work, and a listener’s crack-smoking camping trip gone completely sideways. All that, early Dopey chaos, and a listener-submitted song from Cormac. PLUS MORE ON A SIMULTANEOUSLY BRAND NEW AND YET STILL OLD EPISODE OF THAT GOOD OLD DOPEY SHOW! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Dopey Total Replay 52: Nick Reiner's 2nd Appearance; Shooting Wellbutrin & Rob Reiner Talking Nick Down from a Bad Acid Trip

  6. Nov 6

    Dopey 608: Sam Miller: Meth, Mushrooms, Pissing on a Party & Making Love to an Eagle Woman

    LISTEN WITHOUT ADS ONLY ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/dopey This week on Dopey! The hilarious Sam Miller returns with Fourth of July mushrooms in jail, meth-fueled AK-47 tattoos, a summer spent in football cleats and overalls, and the night he pissed on a party and ended up at gunpoint. Plus, accidentally peeing on a stranger, making up Kurt Cobain stories for tourists, pretending to work with “at-risk dolphins,” and a benzo-withdrawal dream involving passionate sex with an eagle woman. We also get into getting in your own head at the Comedy Store, 18 years clean, finding a higher power through connection, and the devastating loss of Sam’s friend and sponsee Justin. My dad interrupts with baked ziti and takes a speedball-versus-goofball quiz. PLUS: a terrifying listener voicemail, a meth relapse with a memory blackout, and Howie joins me to talk DopeyCon, podcast envy, and the future of Dopey Feud. All that and much more on a brand-new, new episode of that good old Dopey show! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Dopey 608: Sam Miller: Meth, Mushrooms, Pissing on a Party & Making Love to an Eagle Woman

  7. Nov 5

    My Dad Drugged Me! Quaaludes at Eight,! After School Heroin,! Abuse,! Trauma! Dopey’s Greatest Hits: Suki Jones

    LISTEN WITHOUT ADS ONLY ON PATREON! www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast This week on Dopey’s Greatest Hits! Author and Dopey legend Suki Jones returns with her incredible story of drugs, addiction, motherhood, and recovery. From being given Quaaludes by her father at eight years old to discovering Vicodin, cocaine, and the Bay Area music scene, Suki takes us through the life behind her memoir, Sea Swallow Me. We hear about Tower Records, modeling, doctor shopping, and the double life of partying on the weekends and getting her kids to Catholic school during the week—while heroin gradually took over everything. Plus, surviving childhood abuse, losing someone she loved, hiding pills from a partner, methadone, and finding a way to become the mother she wanted to be. PLUS! Snake calls from the UK with a 2C-B story, Dave struggles to get dinner on the table, Doug drinks fancy water, the radiator interrupts, and we hear how Dopey helped Suki feel connected during a brutal stretch of pandemic isolation. All that and more, more, more on this brand new and yet still very old episode of this good ol' Dopey show! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    My Dad Drugged Me! Quaaludes at Eight,! After School Heroin,! Abuse,! Trauma! Dopey’s Greatest Hits: Suki Jones

  8. Nov 4

    Dealing with Depression and Diagnosis, Selling Jerry Garcia Coke, Shooting Coke 40 Times a Day, Addicted to ACID, Harm Reduction with Maia Svalavitz on the Wednesday Dose

    This week on the Wednesday Dose of Dopey! The great Maia Szalavitz returns, and we go from doing cocaine with Jerry Garcia at 17 to shooting coke 40 times a day—and somehow becoming one of the most important voices in harm reduction. We get into heroin versus fentanyl, kratom and 7-OH, depression, antidepressants, and why getting off drugs doesn’t automatically give you a life you want to live. Plus, can you fall in love with an AI? Can psychedelics help if you don’t actually want to change? And do you still call yourself an addict almost 40 years later? Maia talks about the trip that showed her she had a cocaine problem—and why her response was to stop taking acid. PLUS! Mick Popham delivers an all-time Dopey voicemail about stealing morphine, benzos, and an antique stove from a dying convicted murderer, blacking out, and getting called into the boss’s office for something completely different. All that, Jerry Garcia, High Times, deadlifting, and much much more on this Wednesday Dose of Dopey! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Dealing with Depression and Diagnosis, Selling Jerry Garcia Coke, Shooting Coke 40 Times a Day, Addicted to ACID, Harm Reduction with Maia Svalavitz on the Wednesday Dose
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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.

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