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Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

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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Latest Episodes:

Dopey Tuesday RAYtreon Teaser with my Dad! Illness, Wellness, Sex Apr 29, 2025

Show notes

📝 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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Dopey 528: Bipolar Guy Loving Life or How I Blew $500K on Coke, Clubs, and Ciroc Papi with David Funes Apr 25, 2025

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🗒️ 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 got sentenced...and didn't go to prison after 9 years hanging over his head

How he built Bipolar Guy Loving Life — and what’s next

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Dopey Tuesday Teaser: The Last of Us or He Took 5 Gummies and Landed in the Psych Ward:, Heroin in the Bronx Apr 22, 2025

Show notes

📝 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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Dopey 527: Classic Dopey! Confessions of a Punk Rock Junky Bank Robber! Shane Enholm! Heroin, Cocaine, Meth, Prison, Recovery Apr 18, 2025

Show notes

📝 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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Martin Johnson Got Sober in a Sauna | Dopey Tuesday Teaser Apr 15, 2025

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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 bars a day while chasing success

Losing huge chunks of time in a benzo fog

The overwhelming desire to be seen — even if it meant eating ants or wearing crazy outfits

Dave opens the teaser with some classic Dopey flavor — spring break parenting chaos, Katz’s Deli updates (including a pastrami smoothie?), and a weirdly triggering doctor visit that brought back memories of detox.

Also in this episode:

Dopeywood news! Tickets available now — free for patrons!

Upcoming music & wellness events

The Dopey Fitness Challenge returns

Shoutouts to the $100-tier dopes and all our loyal patrons

And, of course, “Fucking Toodles for Chris.”

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WHITE LOTUS SUCKS says Dave Sloppy Jones Say's No! PLUS TUESDAY TEASER! Apr 08, 2025

Show notes

🔥 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.com

👉 Join the Dopey Patreon for the madness: patreon.com/dopeypodcast

Stay strong, Dopey Nation.
🖤 fucking toodles for Chris

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Dopey 525: Sucking his own D!ck on Dopey Love Live with Margaret Cho, Brace Belden, Nzinga Harrison and More! Heroin Smuggling, Sexsomnia, Recovery! Apr 04, 2025

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📋 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 + audience

Panel with Margaret Cho, Brace, Nzinga Harrison, and Erin Carr

Voicemail from Toko in Finland 🇫🇮

RIP Onyx and the cats of Happy Cat Sanctuary 🐾

Louis Mandrapilias tells insane heroin smuggling story

Talk of sexsomnia, self-pleasure, and how to work through codependency

Good So Bad performed live by Dave and Doug

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Dopey Raytreon Teaser! Strep Throat, The Doos, Ricky Poweell, LSD Apr 01, 2025

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Gaytreon

STREP THROAT!

Ricky Powell

Beastie Boys

Seinfeld

LSD

SSDN FTFC!

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Dopey 524: I Ate Meth in Jail and Found God in a Coffee Bean - Ultimate Texas Tweaker - Burglar - Prison Redemption Episode - Damon West Mar 28, 2025

Show notes

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 everything

🧠 Finding faith, structure, and recovery

📚 Rebuilding his life and helping others

🎤 From inmate to speaker and author

🧃 Bonus: Damon’s take on prison hooch and microwaved food

❤️ Classic Dopey themes: addiction, consequences, redemption, and dark comedy

🔗 Links:

www.damonwest.org

www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast

🖤 Fucking toodles for Chris.

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Does This Season of White Lotus Suck? PLUS John Bukaty Interviews Dave PATREON TEASER! Mar 25, 2025

Show notes

THESE ARE NOTES ON THE EPISODE - NOT THE TEASER!

📝 Show Notes:

🧠 Childhood Chaos

Born in NYC, nearly died of a staph infection

Fell off a table and cracked his skull at 8 months old

Walked home alone at 3 years old 💥

Deep TV addiction starts young (shoutout to MTV, Different Strokes & Give Me a Break)

🎭 Early Identity Stuff

Shirt chewing, sugar binging, and fake depression for attention

Didn’t want a bar mitzvah: “It’s not your party, it’s my party.”

Too insecure to get lifted in the chair at his own bar mitzvah 😬

Played harmonica in a ska band called The Percolators

🍹 First Drug Stories

First drunk = 16 screwdrivers at summer camp → blackout, vomit, shame

Never got into booze, but took acid at a Dead show before ever trying weed

Eventually... heroin, methadone, weed, and the long road home

🎨 Art, Fear & Flow

MTV intern in high school, obsessed with music and creativity

Paralyzed by fear, self-doubt, and a deep need to be authentic

Big art nerd: Kandinsky, Mondrian, Jackson Pollock, Bob Dylan, Richard Pousette-Dart 🎨

🌞 Spirituality, Recovery & the Dopey DNA

Wanted spirituality before he had it

“The Sunlight of the Spirit” and the resentment trap

Early recovery = doing it because he had to

Found real connection through service, comedy, and storytelling

🎙️ The Real Dopey

It’s not just about drugs — it’s love, dumb shit, and keeping people company

Letting your freak flag fly, creating community, and making people laugh

Dave’s dream: Dopey TV show, doc series, global recovery adventures, Keith Richards in a chair at DopeyCon 🤘

“I just want to make something worth putting in your ears.”

💔 Final Thoughts

On grief, fatherhood, fear, flow, and evolution

Bukaty calls Dave out on blind spots

Dave: “I like the idea of displacing my father and taking over the apartment.” 😂

Tribute to Annie Ellie and the Dopey Nation: “It feeds the show. It is the show.”

💌 Got thoughts? Send 'em: dopeypodcast@gmail.com
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📞 Leave a voicemail, join a Zoom, get involved
🧸 Stay Strong Dopey Nation
💀 And fucking toodles for Chris

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