Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

📝 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 Wellne...

🗒️ 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 o...

📝 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 sp...

📝 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 G...

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 medsHis crushing fear of not...

📝 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.💥 “Th...

🔥 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 sheetWild 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 thin...

📋 Notes:Live from Joe’s Pub! Ray Brown performs Dopey Love Chloe LaBranche’s killer stand-up set Stash Word madness with Brace, Abby, Carl + audiencePanel with Margaret Cho, Brace, Nzinga Harrison, and Erin CarrVoicemail from Toko in Finland 🇫🇮RIP Onyx and the cats of Happy Cat Sanctuary 🐾Louis Mandrapilias tells insane heroin smuggling storyTalk of sexsomnia, self-pleasure, and how to work thro...

GaytreonSTREP THROAT!Ricky PowellBeastie BoysSeinfeldLSDSSDN FTFC!

SHOW NOTES:🏈 Damon’s early life as a quarterback at North Texas💨 First time trying meth — and losing control instantly🏚️ Running burglaries out of trap houses across Dallas🤯 Meth-induced delusions, paranoia, and total madness🚔 Getting busted in front of his parents⚖️ Sentenced to 65 years in a Texas prison⛓️ Life behind bars — navigating gangs and survival☕ The coffee bean story that changed...

THESE ARE NOTES ON THE EPISODE - NOT THE TEASER!📝 Show Notes:🧠 Childhood ChaosBorn in NYC, nearly died of a staph infectionFell off a table and cracked his skull at 8 months oldWalked home alone at 3 years old 💥Deep TV addiction starts young (shoutout to MTV, Different Strokes & Give Me a Break)🎭 Early Identity StuffShirt chewing, sugar binging, and fake depression for attentionDidn’t want...

This week on Dopey! In one of the possibly most powerful and emotional episodes of Dopey ever, Dr. Nzinga Harrison returns to the show to tell a story she’s never shared before—despite being around the show for over five years. Her older brother, Kofi (aka Debo), has spent the last 30 years in prison for a triple homicide he didn’t commit. This episode is about injustice, resilience, heartbreak, a...

🚨 NEW PATREON EPISODE – REDDIT CONSPIRACIES & CONTROVERSY 🚨If you’re not subscribed to the Dopey Patreon, are you even a real fan? 🤔This week, it’s a Reddit Roundup, and things got heated: 🔥 A wild conspiracy theory about me and Chris  🦋 Someone out there injected butterflies (seriously, what the fuck?) 📢 Dopey randomly mentioned in The Wall Street Journal 🐳 A debate over the Dopey masc...

This Week on Dopey! I'm super excited to have had the chance to interview PAtrick J. Pespas and Sam Lipman-Stern from The Telemarketers!  A junky/true crime/scam busting documentary series on HBO! AI wrote all the juicy nuggets below - PLUS Dove updates us! Weighing heroin bags, and Siggy's 7 years!!!! All that and more on a brand spanking new episode of the good old Dopey Show!more dopey at: www....

NEW DOPEY 'Teaser' Ray is back, and we’re diving deep into the mysteries of junkie slang, Mamoun’s falafel, and the eternal question—does coke make you gay?  Plus, the Jeff Tweedy rejection saga continues. Tune in for unhinged rants, unnecessary debates, and that sweet, sweet Dopey chaos. TO HEAR MORE RAY: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast

This week on Dopey! Chris's sponsor Dylan is back! We hear all about how he is doing and reminisce about Chris and his final run before recovery! PLUS Cat Greenleaf stops in to read emails and talk shit! PATREON - www.patreon.com/dopeypodcastDOPEY LOVE LIVE with MARGARET CHO AND FRIENDS: https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2025/d/dopey-podcast-live/Episode Description: Buckle up, Dopey...

ERIN KHAR is back on Patreon! She talks about her recent spiral into depression and how she has gotten out of it - plus a sort of scintillating sort of gross 'Ask Erin Question' and much much more on this brand new teaser of the dopey show! PLUS she talks Rick James and Elliott Smith and more! MORE! MORE!Patreon - www.patreon.com/dopeypodcastDOPEY LOVE TICKETS - https://publictheater.org/productio...

This week on Dopey! Rejoice Lenny from the Beach is Free! Lenny from the Beach returns from being locked away! Hear all about his time away in Long Island's Jail System and then upstate for more time incarcerated before SHOCK treatment! Hear all the ins and outs of institutional living and the nature of incarcerated recovery! PLUS a crazy meth fishing voicemail and Dopey emails! All that and more...

🎧 Tuesday Teaser Alert! 🎧Dopey Patreon Teaser with a crazy email about neighbors on METH! Plus me and Howie navigating the new tiny Dopey studio. Patreon: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcastDOPEY LOVE LIVE WITH MARGARET CHO https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2025/d/dopey-podcast-live/Yo, Dopey Nation! It’s Tuesday, and you know what that means—Patreon Teaser time! 🎉 Listen to this wild pre...

This week on Dopey we are joined by recovery advocate and woman in recovery, Jamie Tall! Jamie shares all about her super crazy journey on this weeks show! TRIGGER WARNING: It gets very graphic around sex and violence, so please use caution! Jamie tells it all and is now sober helping addicts and alcoholics! Patreon is www.patreon.com/dopeypodcastDOPEY LOVE LIVE WITH MARGARET CHO, Dr. Nzinga Harri...

I am in Florida! This is the Patreon Teaser! Hope you guys are great! This is not Cat Marnell. This is Cat Greenleaf - an alcoholic in recovery. Cat has done a tone of media - hosting the seminal New York City Cab Show - 'Talk Stoop'. Now she has a podcast called Soberness. All about recovery - with celebrities - i was briefly on one episode! This Week on Dopey! Safe Spot Call Operator and Activis...

🎧 Dopey Podcast Episode with JessieB – Show Notes "No Strange Dick, No Dirty Needles: JessieB on Harm Reduction, Raggedy Daughters, and Real Love" 🎯 Key Themes & Moments:🧓 Aging and Perspective: Embracing life at 51 with no apologies.💉 Harm Reduction Philosophy: Love in action, not enabling.❤️ The Power of Service: From personal pain to public purpose.👩‍👧 Parenting Through Addiction: Har...

🔥 Bonus Tuesday Teaser! 🔥Dopey Nation, it’s another Bonus Tuesday, and this one is a fucking mess—just like life. 🎧💥 Teeth yanked out 🦷 (chewing is overrated anyway) Scripps Online News interview 🎤 (where I may or may not have called 12-step meetings wild sex parties) Soup dumplings & CPAP machines 🍜 (peak 50-year-old Jewish man conversation) Deep thoughts on recovery & addiction 🤔...

🔥 New Dopey! 🔥This week, we dive deep into one of the craziest Dopey stories yet with Jimmy, a next-level meth-addicted criminal mastermind turned sober success story. If you’ve ever wondered what true tweaker madness looks like, buckle up—this one’s a ride.👀 Here’s just some of the shit Jimmy did while completely spun out: Masterminded insane receipt scams to fund his habit 💰 Pulled off full-...

It's just a teaser! I talk about my back hurting, we read a note from instagram and play a few minutes from doc mcghee! What more do you guys want?