Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Full Patreon Show Only Available on Patreon:www.patreon.com/dopeypodcastThis 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.

Listen without Ads at www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast12/20 Me and Hunter Biden 92nd Street Y:Hunter Biden with David Manheim — December 20 at 92NY: TicketsThis 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.

LISTEN WITHOUT ADS ONLY ON PATREON:www.patreon.com/dopeyThis 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.

LISTEN WITHOUT ADS ONLY ON PATREON!www.patreon.com/dopeypodcastThis 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.

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.