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Stupid Funny Addiction & Recovery Stories. Recorded around New York.
Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction
Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction
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20 MAY 2025 · 🚗 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 Chris
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16 MAY 2025 · 🏥 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. Stickers? Definitely.
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13 MAY 2025 · Knicks vs. Celtics playoff madnessDave 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 dropsMusic segment: “Good So Bad” live from the studioDopey Wood lineup updates: Darrell Hammond OUT, the rest still INCome to DopeyWOOD!— tickets are free!
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9 MAY 2025 · 🏀 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 ChatGPT fabricating a story about Chris smoking crack out of a shrimp shell – a made-up detail that cost him money in clip production.📞 Prison Voicemail from Polly: Shocking account of sharing needles with hundreds of inmates, smuggling ass tobacco, and the grim reality of hepatitis spread in prison.🎤 Sam Miller’s Story:Childhood trauma and gas huffing at age six.Selling liquid LSD drops at 15, including putting acid directly into his eyes.Meth addiction while working at a puppy mill, witnessing a MRSA outbreak that killed puppies.Suicidal thoughts and a near-death experience involving a stolen car and being tied to a chair by a best friend.Clarity moment: Waking up under a tarp, realizing his life was in shambles, and walking miles to his mom’s house to beg for help.Early recovery: Living in a trailer, reading books by the light of a Game Boy, and attending multiple 12-step meetings daily.Sam’s rise in comedy, the first open mic feeling like the first high, and the healing power of storytelling.Friends lost to overdose, including the haunting phone call from Justin pretending to shoot himself.🎭 Sam on Comedy: Finding the sweet spot between dark humor and trauma, and how comedy became his new addiction.🚀 Dopey Wood Announcement: Dopey Wood event in four weeks – tickets are free for Dopey Nation.🧦 Dopey Merch & Sponsors: Shoutout to customstickers.com, where Dopey Nation can get 20% off using code Dopey20.🔥 Closing Segment: Dave reminds listeners to leave a review, join Patreon, and stay strong, Dopey Nation. Toodles for Chris.
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6 MAY 2025 · Whats on Patreon:Adam’s chaotic childhood, bullying, and getting high at 12Smoking weed with an abusive friend’s stepdadGetting beat with wrenches, sent to institutions, and almost stabbedDropping acid at school, zeroing hits, playing in bandsCoke binges in L.A. writing sessions — snorting lines off Beyoncé plaquesSpiritual bottom after playing South by Southwest and weeping during ElfRecovery Unplugged, NA, and finding purpose through musicA live performance of his song SaviorThe Elsewhere program and recovery on the roadHis thoughts on music, God, and staying clean through service
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3 MAY 2025 · 📓 Episode Notes:Jessica Kent returns for a deep and hilarious check-inHer early life selling heroin at 13 in upstate New YorkGetting addicted to Oxy, then heroin, and eventually methLife on the run with a sketchy traveling magazine crewGetting locked up in Arkansas, detoxing while pregnantGiving birth to her daughter while shackledLosing custody and the fight to get her child backGetting out and blowing up as a sober influencerLaunching OnlyFans, backlash, trolls, and public scrutinyHer recent painful breakup and struggles with internet fameWhy she left harm reduction and returned to abstinence-based recoveryParenting, ADHD, self-worth, and starting over againDave reads wild listener emailsBonus voicemails and raw Dopey banter as alwaysA full tilt rollercoaster of pain, redemption, and dumb shit
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29 APR 2025 · 📝 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 cleanliness, furniture, and fantasy basketball💡 Reddit calls Dave “a needy pussy,” and he leans into it
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25 APR 2025 · 🗒️ Episode Notes (for the "Notes" section):Blowing $500K on coke, strip clubs, and a doomed after-hours clubHow Ciroc Papi moved into his spare bedroom (and took over his life)Meth Head David steals his car and wears all his clothesRunning a nightclub like Scarface meets Trailer Park BoysHomelessness, dollar menus, and losing it allBipolar mania, addiction, and the road back to sanityA wild cast of characters: Shelby the bowling ball bouncer, Old Girl, T-Rex, Bones, and moreHow David got sentenced...and didn't go to prison after 9 years hanging over his headHow he built Bipolar Guy Loving Life — and what’s next
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22 APR 2025 · 📝 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 making out with his girl while tripping, main character style 📦 Kicks at home, checks into rehab, finds his people, builds a new life 🌱 Kratom, weed candy, fake nitrous, and scary-ass psychosis trends in the field 🤝 Now works in treatment and still wonders how the fuck he made it
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18 APR 2025 · 📝 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
Stupid Funny Addiction & Recovery Stories. Recorded around New York.
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