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Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Dave & Chris
Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction
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  • Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

    Dopey 578: Louis lost 10.2 Million Dollars to Gambling! PLUS Murder! Oxys! Coke! Nothing's off the Table!

    10/04/2026 | 2h 54 mins.
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    This week on Dopey! We shout out some epic dopes! Katie B with 8 fucking years and Scott Wic with 6 years!!!!

    We play a VM from Axel. We read emails - spotify comments - the whole deal. LEAVE SPOTIFY COMMENTS PLEASE!

    Then we are joined by the host of the Nothing's Off the Table Podcast Louis  LJ Ruggiero. Born into 'New York City Royalty' the son of renouned news anchor Rosanna Scotto. We cove a full descent from privileged NYC kid to full-blown addict: Xanax, coke, gambling, oxy addiction (30 pills a day), arrests, and the death of a friend. It escalates into a near brush with murder before landing in recovery and a strong stance on AA, accountability, and rejecting paid “sober influencer” culture.

    ALL THAT AND MORE! MORE MORE MORE!

    On this weeks new new new episode of that good old dopey show!

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  • Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

    A Listener $h!ts himself on a Carnival Ride After Doing Fake Cocaine. PLUS Hasnie the EMT/Belly Dancing Alcoholic, Pills, Recovery

    09/04/2026 | 2h 1 mins.
    DOPEYWOOD TICKETS: http://events.leapevents.com/event/dopeywood-2026

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    Dave tees up a Greatest Hits episode featuring Hasnie, a belly dancer turned first responder alcoholic with a wild, emotional story. Before that, we get a classic Dopey email about a reckless dealer named King who jumps out a window during a raid and later crashes a car doing whippets.

     

    Then shit gets real when Matt calls in mid-show ready to relapse. Dave and Ray talk him off the ledge in real time — and somehow even his dealers tell him not to use.

     

    Hasnie’s story is intense: early chaos, booze, pills, sex, trauma, sending her kids away, and hitting bottom hard. She gets sober after a moment of clarity, goes to rehab, and finds her footing in Gay AA and SLAA.

     

    She rebuilds her life, gets her kids back (including rescuing her daughter from Ukraine during war), becomes a first responder, and stays sober through COVID and real-life trauma.

    ALL THAT AND MORE ON A NEW YET STILL OLD EPISODE OF DOPEY!

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  • Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

    Behind the Dopey Red Hot Chili Peppers pt. 2 - Ben Feldman - Director of 'Rise of the Chili Peppers' Heroin, OD, Flea, Hillel

    08/04/2026 | 1h 23 mins.
    DOPEYWOOD TIX(ALMOST SOLD OUT!) showclix.com/event/dopeywood-2026

    Patreon: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast

    Dave sits down with filmmaker Ben Feldman, director of The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother Hillel, for a deep, funny, and emotional conversation about music, addiction, and friendship.

    They get into the origins of the Chili Peppers, the insane creative scene in 80s LA, and the bond between Flea, Anthony, and Hillel Slovak. Ben talks about making the film, interviewing Flea and Anthony, and how losing his own best friend to addiction shaped the project.

    Dave connects it all to Dopey—losing Chris, losing Todd, and what it means to keep going after people die. There’s talk about sobriety actually being kind of fun, the loneliness of addiction, and the weird magic of finding connection.

    Plus: listener emails about cocaine and the Chili Peppers, a wild Jamaica Queens dope bust story, Spotify comments, Ram Dass, running, and a banjo cover of “Good So Bad.”

    It’s Dopey meets the Chili Peppers—with grief, laughter, and a lot of heart.

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  • Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

    Tuesday Patreon Teaser: Gas Station Heroin: Kratom, Withdrawal & Losing Everything with Heart Attack Doug

    07/04/2026 | 37 mins.
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    ON THE TEASER: Heart Attack Doug  AGAIN! For a chaotic Tuesday episode filled with tangents about music, meetings, and listener feedback.

    The tone shifts when Dave reads a detailed email from a listener addicted to 7-OH, a potent kratom extract sold in gas stations. What starts as a mild experiment quickly escalates into full dependence, with increasing tolerance, daily use in the hundreds of milligrams, financial strain, secrecy, and failed attempts to quit—even with Suboxone.

    Dave and Doug react with concern, noting the growing number of similar stories and questioning how such substances are widely available. They emphasize treatment, honesty, and community support, while pushing back against stigma—highlighting that addiction can take many forms, regardless of the substance.

    LISTEN TO THE WHOLE THING ON PATREON!

     

     

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  • Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

    Dopey Total Replay: Ram Dass, Kicking Xylazine, GIRLS! Old Junky Business in NYC - Chris Pisses his Pants and Dry's them on Tanning Bed, Coke, Recovery

    06/04/2026 | 1h 3 mins.
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    This week on the total Replay! Kicking Xylazine and other weird new compunds! Comments! Krby J explores early 80's NYC Junky stuff! Me and Chris talk Dopey TV Shows! Girls! 

    All that and more! On this weeks new version of a ten year old show!

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About 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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