Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Dave & Chris
  • 4.8 (2.8K)
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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. 1h ago

    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

  2. 1d ago

    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

  3. 2d ago

    Dopey Tuesday Teaser — Heart Attack Doug: “Even in Death, There Has to Be a Little Humor”

    FULL EPISODE ONLY ON: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast This week on Dopey! Heart Attack Doug returns feeling like death, so naturally I make him come over and record. We discuss a sandwich with too much Swiss, the most miserable deli on Long Island, the wreckage of my garage, and my dependence on Tums and papaya enzymes. Then things get real about friendship, fear, and the gift of desperation—finding a spiritual solution when everything feels f****d. Plus! Is Doug too sick to go to meetings but healthy enough to do the podcast? Join us on Patreon for his full health update and the Doug Death Pool. Stay strong, Dopey Nation, and f*****g toodles for Chris! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Dopey Tuesday Teaser — Heart Attack Doug: “Even in Death, There Has to Be a Little Humor”

  4. 3d ago

    Falling Overboard on a Cruise Ship Drunk and High, Dopey Total Replay; Gay Cruise, The Saga of Todd R.

    Listen without Ads on Patreon: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast This week on the Dopey Total Replay! A bona fide Dopey classic: THE GAY CRUISE with Todd R.  My friend Todd joins me and Chris for a story about drinking, opiates, falling five decks off a cruise ship, and getting kicked off while his friends continue their vacation.  But First we go over Hey Bulldog! And go over the emotional comments from Dopey Episode 50. Plus! Being high on the Martha Stewart Show, reconnecting with an old boyfriend who turns out to have been sober the entire time, making up a sponsor, and getting through early recovery with Cool Ranch Doritos, Diet Coke, and I Love Lucy. We also get a completely insane listener airplane story, Chris takes the controls of a plane, and we argue about sharing for laughs at AA. All that, the origins of the Dopey theme song, your comments, and much, much, much more on a brand new version of a classic 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.

    Falling Overboard on a Cruise Ship Drunk and High, Dopey Total Replay; Gay Cruise, The Saga of Todd R.

  5. 6d ago

    Dopey 607: Benjamin Tod: The Life and Times of an Outlaw, Crust Punk, Anarchist, Honky Tonk, IV Tweaker -n- Junky Super Star

    Listen without Ads on PATREON: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast Summary: This week on Dopey! Benjamin Tod of Lost Dog Street Band brings a deeply honest story of childhood trauma, crust punk, freight trains, heroin, methamphetamine, and the slow work of building a different life. Growing up outside Nashville, Benjamin started drinking as a kid and using hard drugs in his early teens. Drawn to the freedom of traveling musicians, he found a world of street performances, railroad journeys, makeshift camps, and friendships forged under bridges. He takes us inside that life: getting strung out in one city and kicking in the next, withdrawing while waiting for sugar-beet harvest work, and trying to perform through an IV-meth-fueled panic attack while opening for the Devil Makes Three. Benjamin also gets into what’s happening now—feeling spiritually unsettled, confronting old pain, and wanting to become a better husband and father. He talks about the collapse of his marriage to Ashley, recording I Will Rise in the middle of his darkest period, and the sick puppy named Rita who became a symbol of starting over. On thirteen acres in Kentucky, he began clearing land, rebuilding trust, and making a home. Getting off the needle came first; letting go of alcohol took years longer. PLUS! Punk rock as folk music, the Clash, outlaw country, faith without rigid dogma, shame without self-destruction, and a round of This or That. Before the interview: a listener writes about dabs and research chemicals, Eric remembers a friend’s disastrous gasoline-bong idea, and Matt Wiedemeyer Carroll celebrates three years sober. Closing with Benjamin’s “Using Again” and an early banjo recording from Jake in West Virginia.  All that and MUCH MORE on Brand new super anarchist crusty, punk rock, honky tonk 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 607: Benjamin Tod: The Life and Times of an Outlaw, Crust Punk, Anarchist, Honky Tonk, IV Tweaker -n- Junky Super Star

  6. 6d ago

    Jamie Lee Curtis! 'I am a DOPE FIEND! Opioid Addiction, Recovery & Remembering Chris PLUS Listener SEX ADDICTION on. DOPEY'S GREATEST HITS

    Listen without ADS on PAtreon: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast Summary This week on Dopey Greatest Hits! We revisit Jamie Lee Curtis’s first appearance on Dopey, recorded in 2019 with Dave in his attic, a microphone in one hand, and a Bluetooth speaker in the other. It began outside Katz’s Deli, where Dave tried to casually intercept Jamie and pitch the show. Her response: “I’m a dope fiend.” His response: “Me too.” What followed was an email misunderstanding, years of persistence, and a conversation about why Jamie initially wanted nothing to do with a comedy podcast about addiction—and how Chris’s death changed her understanding of the show. Jamie and Dave talk about opioid addiction, secrecy, the vulnerability of being publicly sober, and finding connection through other people’s honesty. Dave remembers Chris, explains why showing the fun in recovery matters, and gets to tell Jamie what her movies and children’s books have meant to his family. PLUS! A medical student writes about how Chris is still helping people he never met, JD responds to criticism of his workplace drug discovery, and Dave ranks his morning-text correspondents. Listener letters explore sex addiction, the difference between sponsorship and life advice, and an EMDR experience that helped one woman rethink sexual pressure in her marriage. Dave also explains why he stopped EMDR—for now.  All that and MUCH MORE on a super star studded - Dopey's Greatest Hits!   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Jamie Lee Curtis! 'I am a DOPE FIEND! Opioid Addiction, Recovery & Remembering Chris PLUS Listener SEX ADDICTION on. DOPEY'S GREATEST HITS

  7. Oct 28

    Meth, Porn Sets, Weezer, Blacking Out at Slayer & Finding Recovery | Sean Murphy with Sean Murphy

    Listen without Ads on Patreon: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast Summary: This week on Dopey Wednesday! Photographer Sean Murphy, author of My Friend Weezer, brings an epic story of rock ’n’ roll, alcoholism, meth addiction, and finally finding a recovery that stuck. Sean takes us from Florida’s early rave scene to art school in Boston, San Francisco’s rock ’n’ roll underground, and a photography career shooting some of the biggest bands in the world. He photographs the Beastie Boys while falling off the wagon, nearly loses the camera containing their pictures, drives Shane MacGowan over the hills of San Francisco in a barely functioning Volkswagen, and finds himself living above a gay porn studio with a seemingly endless supply of meth downstairs. In Los Angeles, the jobs get bigger while the consequences get worse: a relapse in Slayer’s limo ends in a blackout DUI near his AA meeting, police surround his truck outside MADtv, and drugs and alcohol tear through his marriage, parenting, and professional life. Through it all, his friendship with Weezer becomes one of the lasting bright spots. But the heart of Sean’s story is what finally changed. After years of meetings, treatment, and going back out, a persistent biker sponsor and an Irish addict named Mike help him find a way through the steps. At a chaotic sober house called Plan C—complete with a horse, chickens, costumes, and a collection of unbelievable characters—Sean discovers purpose in helping other people. Today, he hosts a recovery meeting at his photography studio and describes a sober life far beyond anything he knew to ask for. PLUS! Nat Kingsley gives a fellow rehab patient his debit card and PIN in exchange for a promised tennis ball full of heroin. Dave remembers his own rehab tennis-ball disaster, celebrates a Dopey Nation anniversary, and reads reactions to Keith’s episode, the Trey controversy, and the sound complaint that finally gets resolved.  All that and MUCH, MUCH  MORE! on a very, very girthy new Wednesday Dose 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.

    Meth, Porn Sets, Weezer, Blacking Out at Slayer & Finding Recovery | Sean Murphy with Sean Murphy

  8. Oct 27

    The Kevin O'Leary Backlash, DopeyCon Dirt , Talking Shit about Ice Cream and TV — Reddit Roundup Tuesday Teaser

    www.patren.com/dopeypodcast LISTEN TO FULL SHOW ON PATREON! Summary This week on Dopey Tuesday! Cormac and Selby return for a Reddit Roundup teaser featuring flaming drum kits, obsessive hobbies, comfort television, and another questionable Patreon sales pitch from Dave. Cormac reports back from opening for a masked surf-rock band that sets its drums on fire, then explains how music and strength training give his obsessive energy somewhere productive to go. Selby prefers to wait for the urge to exercise to pass. Meanwhile, Dave has found comfort in peanut butter ice cream and another trip through The Sopranos, kicking off an argument about Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and which season of The Wire deserves the crown. PLUS! A DopeyCon caption contest threatens to reveal what Dave was actually thinking, Selby promises behind-the-scenes dirt, and Dave revisits calling non-patrons “cheapos.” Can you spare 16 cents a day? Should recovery meeting links be shared? And could your sob story win you a gifted Patreon membership? Listen to the whole thing at www.patren.com/dopeypodcast Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    The Kevin O'Leary Backlash, DopeyCon Dirt , Talking Shit about Ice Cream and TV — Reddit Roundup Tuesday Teaser
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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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