This Week on Dopey! Dave kicks off the Friday episode by celebrating Dopey OG Leah Lumberg’s 17 years of sobriety, sharing heartfelt Spotify listener comments (with spirited debates over Breaking Bad characters and more love for the recent Cosmo Lumbino interview), and playing a raw voicemail from Lane opening up about self-medicating with crushed stimulants, kratom, and weed amid depression and a breakup—reminding everyone Dopey welcomes voices from all sides of the struggle. The heart of the show is a deep, hilarious, and profoundly honest conversation with returning guest Hank Azaria, who gets real about his teenage battles with...

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This week on the REPLAY! We replay of  episodes 3 and 4 (originally recorded in one marathon session), we reflece on the raw, chaotic magic of the show's beginnings with his late co-host Chris. The intro features classic Dopey elements—voicemails from Heart Attack Doug complaining about his absence from the Tuesday Patreon teasers, listener Spotify comments praising past gues...

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We get super spiritual about fear, gratitude and love! We read spotify comments which were super sweet. And then we dive deep with legendary actor and recovering addict Ned Van Zandt. Ned takes us from snorting heroin with Andy Warhol superstars in 1978, to living at the Chelsea Hotel the exact week Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen moved in, to fronting Sid heroin and eating at Burger King with him the day after N...

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This week on the Tuesday Teaser!  Dave and a special guest open the show only to realize they just lost an entire hour-long recording — a full tribute episode to Mark F. is gone forever. Instead of forcing it, they pivot and talk about fear, frustration, and what it feels like when things fall apart at the beginning of a new year.

Dave shares a very real New Year’s Eve story: driving his daughter Susan to Riverhead in a 200,000-mile Subaru while the tempe...

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The episode opens with your intro, then the bulk of the show is Hairy Tongue Will’s massive, chaotic, detailed telling of his addiction, near-death runs, arrests, relapse cycles, dead friends, and eventual recovery.

Will describes the early Long Island chaos with Richie, Mike, and Lenny—everyone strung out on heroin, crack, coke, and whatever they could get. He recalls the first serious turn: showing up to a house where Lenny was passed out after a three-day crack run, realizing “the demons are taking over.” Mike and Richie spiral de...

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This week on Dopey! Dave rings in the first Friday of 2026 with multimedia superstar and Queen of Melrose, Cosmo Lombino—fresh off Soft White Underbelly fame—spilling a wild Harlem-to-Hollywood saga of mob-adjacent glamour (Godfather shoots at grandma's apartment, fur coats from car trunks), early gay defiance against Jehovah's Witnesses, freebase-fueled club chaos, near-misses with Michael Jackson pasta invites, MacArthur Park crack binges, cardboard-box homelessness, and finally sustained sobriety (8+ years strong) through rigorous daily step-writing, meditation, and Tarzana redemption. Dave raves about Avatar: The Last Airbender bonding with his kid...

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This week on Dopey! We kick off 2026 with a Thursday replay of one of his all-time favorites—the legendary Steve Poltz's epic first appearance from 2023, packed with altar boy wine thefts, Rugburns stage-wrecking chaos (56 stitches included), mushroom-fueled job quits, co-writing "You Were Meant for Me" with Jewel in Baja Mexico, Ramones opener mayhem, cocaine/crack spirals, a best friend's tragic murder, and ultimate rehab surrender. Dave reflects on Poltz as a true "blessing" to the show and his life, debates sticking with Five Days of Dopey, reads wild li...

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This week on Dopey! Dave rings in New Year’s Eve with a raw, reflective Wednesday dose amid a “rough fucking week” on the home front, admitting family struggles (including Linda’s dad’s health) have him questioning whether to keep the grueling Five Days of Dopey schedule into 2026 while teasing resolutions like restarting the infamous Dopey Fitness Challenge, daily writing, and maybe even Tai Chi to save his creaky joints. He reads a heartfelt email from old-ti...

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A special guest joins us for the teaser!  (echoes of COVID-era recordings). The duo catches up casually — We recall recording in the attic back in the day, Dave mentions Linda guesting once and shares a wild memory of a bum flicking a cigarette that hit him in the mouth outside CVS.

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This week on Dopey! We start wrapping up 2025 with a candid check-in: feeling under the weather amid a family stomach virus, craving a Sopranos binge, and doubting plans for "Five Days of Dopey" in January (Wednesday/Thursday shows likely intermittent—send opinions to dopeypodcast@gmail.com). We share the ultimate post-Christmas blues remedy: a trip to Elizabeth A. Morton National Wildlife Refuge in Sag Harbor, NY, where chickadees, titmice, and woodpeckers eat seeds straight from your hand in the snowy quiet—described as magical, healing, and the true "opposite of ad...

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This week on Dopey! For our post-Christmas Dopey episode we kick it off with a Christmas gift review and we read Spotify comments on the Alec Baldwin episode we shout out NANA/Lili Coffin hitting 6 years sober, and weaves in sponsor love. The return of White Tighties Jeremy Turner accidentally shooting Viagra and an email all about meth-fueled multi-day porn marathons that destroy skin and phones another about brutal long-term benzo withdrawal horrors, and a wild prison-submitted bath salts tale full of paranoia and fake-reality glitches.

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This week on Dopey! It is Christmas (STILL) as the 5 days of Dopey continues! We start with me alone reading spotify comments and considering not doing 5 shows a week! Then we play he replay where comedian Jessa Reed calls in and tells us all about her tweaker days. Stories include carrying a dead owl around for weeks and trying to breathe life into it via meth smoke, and drinking her own piss (repeatedly) because it had traces of methamphetamine. Jessa, a dopey hall-of-famer, also tells us how she finally...

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This week on Dopey! It's Christmas Eve! Wishing all the listeners a Merry Fucking Christmas! This week we open the show reminding everyone about patreon and reading a note from incarcerated Dope - Montana about prison life, Toastmasters, college aspirations, and his badass DIY cubicle decor.

We reflects on Christmas's universal meaning – love, hope, togetherness – while sending love to the Reiner family. The main interview features longtime friend and DopeyCon organizer Rachel Hechtman (@soberincentralpark), recorded the day the Nick Reiner news broke. Rachel shares her wild jour...

This week on the teaser! We begin in a chaotic pre-Christmas Eve update filled with last-minute shopping woes, mediocre Chinese food reviews, and reflections on recent controversial episodes. Dave teases the full Patreon show featuring the return of the legendary Downtown Ray Brown (Stephen Ray Brown) and a reluctant appearance by Dave's dad, Alan Manheim. The trio discusses everything from name pronunciations and stage names to the Nick Reiner aftermath, Hamilton Morris drama, and Ray's Bushwick Book Club adventures.

The episode wraps with holiday cheer: Dave and Ray perform classic Christmas carols like "God Rest Ye Merry...

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In this Dopey replay, We revisits rare and unfiltered moments with Nick Reiner and Chris O’Connor from early episodes of the show — recorded years before the tragic events surrounding the Reiner family.

The episode reflects on a time when addiction and mental illness had not yet fully hardened into catastrophic consequences. Dave explains why he chose to release this material now, reading listener reactions and grappling with the complexity of showing who Nick was before everything went wrong.

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This week on Dopey! Christmastime is here again and we read emails from Dopes who motly comment on Nick Reiner, read Spotify reviews about it and try and celebrate the holidays and spread some good cheer!

The centerpiece is a long, candid interview with Alec Baldwin, recorded just before Thanksgiving. Alec discusses growing up on Long Island, early drinking and cocaine use, working in New York television, moving to Los Angeles, fame, excess, driving intoxicated, overdosing in a hotel room in Oregon, and ultimately getting sober in...

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This week on Dopey we go down memory lane and listen to me and Chris plant the dopey flag and start the show. First - Chris tells the story of his first time using and I tell a story of seizing off of benzos. If you wanna make a comment - comment on spotify or on patreon or write us at dopeypodcast@gmail.com

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In this crucial emergency episode, Dave is joined by longtime friend and recovery legend Bob Forrest to process the shock, grief, and fallout surrounding the Nick Reiner tragedy and the public backlash aimed at Dopey.

Bob speaks from decades of experience in addiction treatment, psychiatry-adjacent crisis work, and firsthand encounters with drug-induced psychosis, violence, and untreated mental illness. He explains why modern drugs—especially meth and stimulants—are producing homicidal and suicidal behavior, and why families often have no remaining safety net when things spiral.

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This week on Dopey Tuesday with returning friend, writer, and “elite ex-equestrian” Erin Carr. They joke about their disorganization, their family-like bond, and the chaos of planning episodes. Erin updates Dave on her recent election win to the NYC Education Council and what serving on it has been like—contentious but meaningful work centered on education policy and generational differences.

The conversation shifts into generational talk (Gen X, Gen Z, Gen Alpha), early internet days, and feeling grateful they grew up before social media. Erin then describes learni...

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This two-hour emergency Dopey  episode compiles all of Nick Reiner’s appearances — spanning relapse, heart attack, family pressure, recovery attempts, weed/Adderall use, and wild stories. Dave and Chris walk through Nick’s upbringing as the son of Rob Reiner and grandson of Carl Reiner, the contrast between privilege and addiction, and the comedy-tragedy tension that defines Dopey.

Nick describes relapsing with an old dealer, falling back into heroin and cocaine, and ultimately having a cocaine-induced heart attack mid-flight. He wakes up in a Bosto...

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Thanks to hard core dope Keaton Hudema - we catch up with Andy Dick to find out all about his recent overdose incident involving fentanyl, We talk a bunch of shit - and i try and 12 step him. All that and more on this Andy Dick Emergency Broadcast of Dopey!

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This Week on a super classic episode of Dopey! Dave is visited by local Long Islander - Will P. AKA Hairy Tongue Will. Dave opens the show drinking Ryze mushroom coffee while talking about how cold his recording room is. He announces that Dopey will be releasing five episodes per week throughout December, including replays, Patreon teasers, deep cuts, and new interviews.

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This Week on Dopey! Dave kicks off the new Thursday Retro Replay / Greatest Hits concept and explains the new Dopey weekly schedule before throwing back to one of the most beloved early episodes: Chris’s Prison Stories Part One (Dopey 67). After a classic call from Dave’s dad Alan complaining about the website reviews and telling his own fake “Fort Apache” jail story, Chris dives into his very real first sentence in Orange County Jail. He breaks down race politics, Woods and Sureños, getting classified as a high...

This week on Dopey! Dave talks to Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods about growing up in grim small-town England, discovering punk and mod culture, and using booze, speed, ecstasy and finally cocaine to numb himself through factory jobs, failed bands and a brutal home life. Jason breaks down how club and rave culture in the ’90s felt like utopia, how Sleaford Mods was born from a eureka moment shouting over a looped metal sample, and how his addiction eventually narrowed into solitary marathons of cocaine and online porn in hotel rooms and crack houses. He opens up about childhood tr...

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This Week on Dopey REPLAY! We are joined by our amazing guest, comedian, actress, model and person in early recovery, Charlotte McKinney.

Charlotte joins at around 45 days sober. She talks about her early sobriety, feeling scared to fully commit, and using comedy as her “secret life.” She opens up about her old weed habit, quitting cold turkey, partying with boyfriends, and chasing drugs through different phases of her life. She shares some of her craziest stories — including taking LSD and going to family dinners and spending holidays totall...

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This week on Dopey! Comedy Legend and serious recovery survivor Darrel Hammond comes on the show! We dispose of a dead opossum. We reads listener messages about Patreon, Pearl Jam, the Charlotte McKinney episode, Spotify reviews, Theo Von speculation, “Many Rivers to Cross,” NA vs AA, and future guests like Tim Dillon. There’s a voicemail about colonoscopy propofol and an email from Canadian listener Dylan about secretly smoking purple fent in rehab and still graduating before getting three years clean on methadone. Dave tells his own storie...

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Replay from June 2022 - Carolyn 'Mountain Girl' Garcia tells her story! From ibogaine in Palo Alto, to LSD with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Going on the road and starting a family with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead. Ultimately enduring a marriage with a total heroin and cocaine addict as husband and father of her children. This is a very, very special Dopey indeed! Plus emails, and a bit more on an extra long, extra heady episode of the good ol' Dopey show!

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Dave kicks off the first-ever Wednesday Dose of Dopey talking about post-Thanksgiving food insanity, a brownie-topped cheesecake Linda brought home, and his evolving stance on cheesecake as a “real” dessert. He updates the Dopey Nation on the Dopey Fitness Challenge, his failed attempt at jogging with his dog Winnie that ends with him eating pavement, ripping his pants, smacking the dog in frustration, and then feeling guilty about it all week. Dave reads an email from Haley in Mississippi, who loved the Glenis and Billy Stri...

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Billy Strings sits down for one of the rawest, heaviest, and most honest conversations ever recorded on Dopey. In this replay, Billy talks openly about growing up in chaos, losing his dad to heroin at age two, his mom’s crack and meth addiction, violence in the home, poverty, hunger, couch-surfing, and the wild, psychedelic, musical household that shaped him. He walks through the exact moments his childhood shifted from love and music into danger, raids, labs, dealers, and watching addiction take over everyone around him.

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This Week on Dopey! Our annual Thanksgiving episode opens with a Dopey holiday song and gratitude messages from the Dopey Nation. We remember the brilliant Jimmy Cliff and play a few tunes. We read Billy Strings reviews and talk shit about AI! PLUS DOPEY NATION GRATITUDE before introducing guest Charlotte McKinney.

Charlotte joins at around 45 days sober. She talks about early sobriety, feeling scared to fully commit, and using comedy as her “secret life.” She opens up about her old weed habit, quitting cold turkey, partying with boyfriends, and chasing drugs through different phases of her life. She...

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The teaser opens with you explaining the whole point of a Tuesday teaser: push listeners “like little dogs or lemmings” to Patreon, where the full episode lives. You pitch the Wednesday Patreon Zoom, the Saturday Zoom, the Recovery Zoom, the bonus videos and episodes, and joke about your inconsistent track record of scheduling Patreon Zooms.

You welcome the massive influx of Billy Strings fans after the huge episode—Rolling Stone, People Magazine, Yahoo News, and a pile of country sites covered it. You read a handful of Spotify comments reacting to the in...

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This Week on Dopey! Billy Mother Fucking Strings comes on to share his truth! But first Dave meditates, reads spotify reviews, reads an email about premature ejaculation, and a voicemail from Dopey OG Alex on meth, fent and needing makeup! Then Billy joins Dave on Dopey to talk openly about addiction shaping his entire life—from his dad dying of a heroin overdose when he was two, to growing up in houses full of meth use, crack dealers, and chaos, to smoking meth and tripping on acid with his mom as a teenager. He d...

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Dave opens the Tuesday teaser alone in his house, loving the rare quiet and recording next to Susan the snake’s terrarium. He complains about his fancy Rogan-style mic breaking, says he hates stands, and talks about launching “fake meditation shit” because he likes the sound of his own voice.

He previews this week’s Patreon episode: him and Doug in the Honda Pilot “by the bay,” where Dave had a full sneezing meltdown and wound up blowing his nose into his sock for the entire show because he had no tissues.

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This week on Dopey!In this unbelievably heavy episode, Dave sits with Glynis as she unpacks a lifetime of addiction, trauma, and survival that spans Massachusetts, Texas, L.A., jail, pimping culture, meth psychosis, fentanyl, gang life, and ultimately federal prison. Glynis describes early emotional wounds, resentment toward her mother, the “magnet” pull of addiction, and how heroin became the only place she ever felt OK. She talks about couch-surfing and freezing nights in Boston, smoking meth for the first time in Texas, disappearing on multi-day runs, underground game rooms, GHB...

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This Week on Dopey! I'm in Philly at the Rise for Recovery Conference! I was on Soft White Underbelly! I read Spotify comments, and one of the single greatest dopey emails ever! And Old School Dopey Kirby sends in a voicemail about what it means to be an addict. Then we welcome the incredible Roddy Bottum, keyboardist for Faith No More and lead singer/guitar of Imperial Teen, and author of his new book, The Royal We. Roddy talks about growing up gay in a hard-rock world, his early San Francisco punk days...

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🧠 Dopey Episode 555: Rich Roll Returns!

This week on Dopey I met Jeff Ross at Katz’s (he thought I’d be short and fat), go through Spotify comments!

There’s a voicemail from Tom in Oregon about trying to cop dope in Vietnam that goes very gay and sideways. Then there’s a super sweet email from Bailey in Chicago, a recovery coach who just hit five years. I also ramble about Mountainside, Oro Recovery, and Recovery Unplugged, and Recovery.com who all actually help Dopey Nation people when they’re in trouble.

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This week on the tease! Susan is sick! Eating Bad! Dental Surgery Percocet! Nitrous! Montana Prison in Texas! Joey Ramone!

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This week on Dopey! Dave opens the episode feeling sick, dreading his upcoming dental implants, and joking about painkillers, nitrous, and Tylenol PM. He congratulates longtime dopes Margaret Hernandez (36 years sober) and Mattie Veach (recovering from cancer surgery), prays for the Knicks, and introduces guest RJ Elizarraz, co-host of Against All Odds with Rachel Slocum and founder of Oak Forest Recovery.

Before diving in, Dave reads Spotify comments from the Brace Belden episode — about therapy, high memories, Suboxone, and more — gives shoutouts to listeners, and pushes the legendary Dopey socks...

Dave opens this Tuesday Dopey Patreon teaser by reflecting on feeling burnt out, upcoming dental implant surgery, and the need to slow down. He jokes about “cultivating illness” to get rest and shares his current obsession with the Martin Scorsese documentary series Mr. Scorsese, hoping listeners will “pray and manifest” Scorsese appearing on Dopey. He talks about Scorsese’s film legacy, calling Goodfellas untouchable.

Dave reads a Spotify comment from Emma about a pork ad and debates if it’s anti-Semitic, then begins a new segment reading from Miles Davis’s autobiography — a vivid story about Charlie Parker pawning M...

This Week on Dopey! Dave opens with a cocaine-barroom parody and rolls into updates: DopeyCon afterglow, Spotify/iTunes comments, LA travel nerves, and sponsor shout-outs. Listener Archie checks in with a salvia-in-underwear saga; another listener writes about rock-salt shrooms and missing the Dead’s final Jerry show; “Chip” reports nearly a year sober and reflects on denial. Then Brace Belden (Truenon) sits down in Dave’s new DIY studio for a sprawling hang: meetings vs. therapy, analysis and trazodone dreams, the weird science of memory, and a brutally honest tour through sex + drugs (boofing Suboxone film, poppers, Whippets/“galaxy gas,” meth...

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Twas a good Dopeycon this year - maybe the last - I wish I had said more - but it was a truly beautiful experience and show. The place was packed - and I am super grateful for all the people who came, participated and sponsored!

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This week on the teaser! We recap Dopeycon, I complain about META shutting down the Dopey FB page, we read an email and Doug goes nuts fat shaming me. It's pretty funny - hear the whole thing on patreon!

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A new kind of Dopey! A kinder, Gentler Dopey? Me and New Yorker Rock Critic, Amanda Petrusich sit down to discuss recovering from grief. Amanda lost her husband suddenly during covid from a random seizure. Hear how Amanda got through it raising their one daughter, Nico alone. Plus some of Amanda's experiences covering Phish, Aerosmith, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan and more!

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This Week on Dopey! We are joined by Oro Recovery Medical Director - Dr. Jason Giles! We also read old comments and hear from a few dopes in the dopey nation. Then Dave interviews Dr.  Giles—twice board-certified in addiction medicine (via ABAM then ABPM), previously board-certified in anesthesiology and pain medicine, and a recovering opioid addict. He grew up in Santa Monica with a severely alcoholic father, fell into the second-wave ska/mod scene (Vespa, sharkskin suits, amphetamines), dropped out of high school, then clawed his way through community college to Berkeley, volunteering at the Berkeley Free Clinic and...

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This week on Dopey! We are joined by old school recovery/addiction legend Johnny Mac! From Queens! But first we learn about Sky Fly in PA, we hear from a benzo addict in the UK and then hear a nice story about Salvia from Loosey in California! Then we get this fuckin Johnny Mac! A 74-year-old New York junkie-turned-AA old-timer, who lays out his wild ride from Woodside Irish Catholic rules to acid-dealing in Ecuador, nodding out on heroin in...

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This week on tuesday teaser! We rejoice at the release and all around greatness that is the Charlie Sheen Netflix show - AKA Charlie Sheen.

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This week on Dopey! We are joined by Tik ToK superstar Gabby Eagen! But first we hear some of the notes and comments from last weeks Dopey - we read an email from a Russian film maker heroin addict who used to get high off poppy seeds. The we hear a crazy drug story from a crazy dopey who gopt stung in his eye by a bee! Then we hear from Gabby! Dave chops it up with TikTok c...

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This Week on Dopey! Getting ready for DopeyCon - who is coming? This week on the show we have a voicemail from Matt WC on shooting coke - a riveting kratom email - and then we pay a house call to Tzvi Heber in Los Angeles - of Ascendent Recovery and he shares a not usual Dopey Recovery story starting out deep within the orthodox Jewish community. We cover - Jewish identity, loss, resentment, addiction, recovery, community, basketball, opiates, personal growth, spirituality, addiction, recovery, detox, OxyContin, fentanyl, family...

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This week on the teaser - i read some emails - reflect on the end of summer and get excited for dopeycon - before handsome evan shows up with his family problems!

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Montana, OG DOPE, writing in from prison, about smuggling fentanyl and Percs past cops by hiding a bundle between his butt cheeks. Another listener voicemail “Gay for Crack” tells a darkly comedic tale of hustling a guy in Baltimore who offered crack in exchange for sex.

Then Anders Osborne and Bill Taylor (Trombone Shorty Foundation, The Phoenix) recount using and surviving during Hurricane Katrina — a lawless, apocalyptic New Orleans with flooded streets, National Guard, no electricity, and dealers flooding in. An...

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This week on Dopey we celebrate Dopes Heather and Jen! Both with ONE YEAR! We read some emails and I got to sit down with the legend! IDGAF Foods (aka the guy behind eating hot dogs off the floor on Instagram) for a brutally honest trip through his addiction, art, and recovery. From smoking crack at 15 in Manchester, CT, to guzzling buckets of Molly and shards of ketamine out of Kahlua bottles, to swallowing and later digging through his own shit for balloons of drugs, his story is a nonstop circus...

This week on the Teaser! I get back from Park City Song Summit! Preparing for DopeyCon, going upstate! Jay is back - if you want to hear whats up - go to www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast

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📋 Show Notes

Teaser/Intro:

Dave’s septic tank explodes into the shower; plumber drama and Beach Club day.

Announces Park City Song Summit panel on “Writing Under the Influence” with Anders Osborne, Anders Beck & Matt Warren.

DopeyCon VI lineup: Ian Fidance, Sam Miller, Jake from WV, Aaron Carr, Ray Brown, Dave’s dad, Linda, Brandon Novak, Hank Azaria, maybe Jason Biggs; tickets via Patreon.

Notes that August 16th (“Dopey Day”) marks Chris’s birthday; urges listeners to put the Dopey logo over their eyes and send pho...

Septic saga: Dave’s septic tank blows up into the shower; plumber drama ensues.

Park City Song Summit: Dave previews his session with Anders Osborne, Anders Beck and Matt Warren on writing under the influence vs. in recovery.

DopeyCon 6 lineup: Ian Fidance, Sam Miller, Jake from WV, Aaron Carr, Ray Brown, Dave’s dad, Linda, Brandon Novak, Hank Azaria, Jason Biggs, and other “influencers/junkies galore” — tickets on Patreon.

Spotify comments: Fans want comedian Modi at DopeyCon (he probably won’t be there); others complain about teaser pay...

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Annie’s anniversary: Dave marks one year since Annie Ellie died, plays her voicemails and messages, and reflects on how fragile life in recovery is.

Travis’s email: A listener’s relapse saga: he meets a girl at a meeting, falls in love, helps her get sober, then watches the relationship implode into infidelity and emotional breakdown.

Rachel Slocum returns:
• Talks about relapsing, volunteering during Texas floods, and how service triggered a heavy depression; admits isolating in bed and feeling like a “lazy, dirty sewer rat...

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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 Nelson

🥴 He got mistaken for Ted Cruz

🏋️‍♂️ He’s on a crash keto diet before heading to Park City Song Summit Duration: 00:15:55

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-death overdoses, and hitting rock bottom multiple times. Describes being surrounded by tragedy (neighbors dying, violence) while strung out.

First Sobriety Attempts...

📓 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...

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 turned it into a dorm room cookie hustle.

Then, a massive deep-dive with Spun writer and speed enthusiast Will De Los...

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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 massive farewell show. It’s wild how fast life moves.

In the...

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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” persona, and the time he hugged a drunk driver who had just killed someone. Then, we go deep into Chris’s relapse, the shame that may have surr...

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📓 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 confusion:

Dave talks about the new airport policy requiring a "Real...

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 Oceanside, California smoking heroin off foil.

Jeannine talks about doing meth that was pink, accidentally getting strung out at 30, and finding herself in a cind...

🧷 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

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💔 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, and Dave—one of the best ever

💊 Don’s insane story: stealing 1,000 Vicodin from a pharmacy at 17

💉 Morphine, fentanyl patches, forged scripts...

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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 gay bars across New York. Ian talks about his failed teaching career, multiple stints in rehab and Oxford Houses, drinking mouthwash, and w...

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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 90 minutes max.

Dinner with Linda, the kids, and Dave’s da...

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 Kasher, who goes in on ayahuasca, porn ghosts, parenting trauma, and crowd work chaos.

Jason Cabelo celebrates 9 years sober and...

📝 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 (photographer + filmmaker)

Sweating at Katz’s and pl...

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 unforgettable speedball masturbation session in a medical book aisle

Childhood trauma under a strict Korean roof, bullying, and how dr...

🧾 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/triple dipping.

Dave freaks out abo...

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.”

“I was doing kratom and still eating acid i...

📝 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 Scott Wick the rap god 🎶

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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 emotional side of recovery, relapse, and internet backlash

He...

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 confrontation: Dave rolls his eyes and almost gets whacked

Reddit backlas...

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, flipping Suboxone, scamming friends, "like a credit card"—balances, fronts, juggling

Jam Band Scene: Hea...

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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 hallway

💌 Emails from South Africa, 10-year sober milestones, kratom struggles

🏀 Knicks fan rant with Devin, post-loss meltdown

🕍 Jewish gui...

🚗 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 as an MC, then redeems himself with “fuck the Celtics”
🌈 Love is the answer, let your freak flag fly, and fuckin’ toodles for...

🏥 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 celebrates Susan’s 7th birthday with a musical performance

📨 Emails from Montreal bus drivers, Bayshore pill seekers, and Dopey lifers

🧦 Send in a voicemail = socks? Maybe. Stic...

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, the rest still IN

Come to DopeyWOOD!—...

🏀 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 scholarship recipient Josh Clark is arrested for meth, LSD, and DMT but secures a scholarship to Divided Sky rehab in Vermont.

🤖 AI Frustrations: Dave vents about Ch...

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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 through music

A live performance of his song Savior

The Elsewhere program and recover...

📓 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 influencer

Launching OnlyFans, backlash, trolls, and public scrutiny

📝 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 begins (with shame and holes in jeans)

🍄 Public apology for sketchy Amanita muscaria mushroom ad

📢 Ray, Dave, and Allen yell over each other about...

🗒️ 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 bowling ball bouncer, Old Girl, T-Rex, Bones, and more

How David...

📝 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 SpongeBob

💔 Sees his roommate m...

📝 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, Flea, Hep C treatment, and the dirty white boys

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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 singer, as a frontman

The performative madness of early fame

Taking 12–14 Xanax...

📝 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 about brotherhood, resilience, and turning chaos into a calling.

💬 Then Dave dives in deep with Dopey spiritual consigliere Tuan from Mountainside 🧘‍♂️ on:

...

🔥 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 special your way. If you're still waiting on merch, please hit me up: dopeypodcast@gmail...