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Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

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Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction
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  • Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

    Dopey 580: Andy Dick has 120 Days Sober! Fentanyl Death and Rebirth, Joe Rogan, Chris Farley, Car Crash on Nitrous

    24/04/2026 | 2h 4 mins.
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    This week on Dopey!  The Return of Andy Dick! Using story from Montana! Gratitude! Spotify Comments! Nitrous Car Crash!

    Andy discusses his recent fentanyl overdose (where he clinically died), his history of resisting recovery, and his current fragile sobriety. The conversation swings between hilarious (fat shaming, keto coffee, random tangents) and deeply uncomfortable (career regrets, addiction identity, Chris Farley, missed opportunities like Mr. Show and Old School).

    Andy admits he still isn’t sure if he wants to stay sober, but acknowledges things are “getting better.” Dave pushes him on willingness, recovery, and consequences, while Andy oscillates between honesty and deflection.

    The episode closes with Dave reflecting on Andy’s sobriety, promoting harm reduction resources, and sharing a raw listener-submitted banjo cover of a Dopey song.

    AL LTHAT AND MORE ON A DICK FILLED NEW DOPEY!

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  • Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

    Shooting your finger off on Acid, Plus NYC Water Tower Meth Story and Michael Imperioli - Dopey's Greatest Hits

    23/04/2026 | 2h 28 mins.
    Listen without ads for 25 cents at www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast

    This Dopey Greatest Hits episode kicks off with Dave introducing a fan-voted theme around iconic TV characters, with Michael Imperioli winning the poll. Dave goes on a classic rant about ads vs Patreon, breaking down the cost to “25 cents a day,” before spiraling into plans for DopeyCon — including a long-shot idea to book Steve Jones during the CBGB Festival.

    A voicemail delivers pure Dopey chaos: a listener recounts taking acid, drinking, and shooting whiskey bottles in his basement, ultimately blowing apart his finger with a ricochet and attempting to cover it up using an angle grinder.

    The episode then pivots to a legendary Dopey story from Bill Blaber. After falling deep into crystal meth addiction, Bill describes wandering New York City in full paranoia, convinced AOL was responsible for ruining his life. This leads him to break into a building, climb to the roof, scale a water tower, and pass out inside. He’s rescued by the FDNY, greeted by news cameras, and somehow avoids jail by fabricating a story — landing instead in a psych hold.

    Dave calls it one of the greatest Dopey stories ever before transitioning into an interview with Michael Imperioli, who discusses his early acting career, Goodfellas, working with Scorsese, and the infamous glass-breaking stunt that landed him in the hospital. Plus the Sopranos - and Michael's crazy Lou Reed Fan Fiction - The Perfume Burned His Eyes!

    All that and more on the Brand new old Greatest Hits Show! PLUS MORE!

     

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  • Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

    Meth Game Rooms, Sex Work and The Return of Glynis Franz on Wednesday Dose

    22/04/2026 | 1h 22 mins.
    Listen without ads: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast

    This week on the Wednesday Show!  New listener emails and voicemails, including a heavy duster relapse story involving a car crash into a house, psychosis, and near-total destruction of a sober life.

    We read Spotify comments and welcome backGlenis—covering her past in heroin addiction, sex work, meth, prison, and her unlikely transformation into a sober business owner and treatment center leader.

    We read more listener stuff and call it a show! All that and more, more, more  on the brand new Wednesday Dose of Dopey!

     

     

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  • Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

    Tuesday Teaser: Gay Sex Apps, Fat Shaming, Gary Dell'Abate's Party, Heroin

    21/04/2026 | 34 mins.
    LISTEN TO THE WHOLE EPISODE: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast

    This week on the teaser: A special guestis back and we spiral immediately—bassoon repair shops, weird road trips, and why I told him to stop shoving bassoons in my face. I break down LA, interviewing Andy Dick (who calls me fat repeatedly), Dopeywood fallout, and the insanity of doing 11 interviews in 4 days.

    Then things get extra Dopey: we discover a gay app called Blowey that’s basically Yelp for blowjobs, Ray refuses to admit anything about his sex life, and we somehow end up talking about fear of escalators, driving anxiety, and being old.

    We wrap with Dopey Nation updates, Spotify comments, Jeremy love/hate, and Drugs, sex, fear, bassoons, and Andy Dick being Andy Dick Plus Ba Ba Boohi!

     

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  • Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

    Research Chemicals, DMT, 2CB, Methylone, Syringe, Cancer Scare, Katz's, Kratom TOTAL REPLAY #23

    20/04/2026 | 1h 7 mins.
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    NOTE: I forgot to mention it was first Chris's 'hooping the shooter' mention - and i ate expired cereal during the whole show - and it was pretty gross.

    This week on the total replay! Dave opens the Monday replay talking about bringing his daughters into Manhattan for a museum day, taking them to the Met, walking through the city, and feeling grateful to be sober enough to do it. He also talks about how exhausting it is carrying recording gear back and forth to the city every week.

     

    He plays a voicemail from a listener who mixed kratom with alcohol after losing weight and wound up diving through a window, running through a retirement community covered in blood, and waking up in the hospital. Dave reads an email from another listener who got sober after prison, reunited with his son, and says Dopey helped him along the way.

     

    The replay itself is an early Dopey episode with Dave and Chris talking in the old apartment setup. They joke about expired cereal, cigarettes in the room, Disney World feeling like rehab, and old-school research chemicals. Dave tells a long Katz’s story about upsetting customers, finding a lump in his neck, and then freaking out after hearing a woman at a meeting say her cancer started the same way.

     

    The episode also includes an email from a guy deep into dissociatives and psychedelic research chemicals, plus more classic early Dopey energy between Dave and Chris. At the end, Dave reflects on how raw and alive the old episodes felt, and points out that this was also an early appearance of the kind of material that would later become part of Cormac’s role in the Dopey world.

    All that and MORE - on a brand new, super old classic episode of dopey!

    Leave comments on spotify! send emails/voicemails and questions to [email protected]

     

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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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