🏀 Knicks Playoff Fever: Dave opens the show celebrating the Knicks’ win over the Celtics and his deep attachment to the team.

🌸 Family Time: Dave spends the day with his daughter Susan, planting flowers and reflecting on fatherhood.

🧂 Mustard Seed Parable: Conversation with Mike’s Amazing Mustard leads to a deeper discussion about hope in recovery.

🚨 Josh C. Update: Following a drug task force raid, former Toodles for Chris scholarship recipient Josh Clark is arrested for meth, LSD, and DMT but secures a scholarship to Divided Sky rehab in Vermont.

🤖 AI Frustrations: Dave vents about ChatGPT fabricating a story about Chris smoking crack out of a shrimp shell – a made-up detail that cost him money in clip production.

📞 Prison Voicemail from Polly: Shocking account of sharing needles with hundreds of inmates, smuggling ass tobacco, and the grim reality of hepatitis spread in prison.

🎤 Sam Miller’s Story:

Childhood trauma and gas huffing at age six.

Selling liquid LSD drops at 15, including putting acid directly into his eyes.

Meth addiction while working at a puppy mill, witnessing a MRSA outbreak that killed puppies.

Suicidal thoughts and a near-death experience involving a stolen car and being tied to a chair by a best friend.

Clarity moment: Waking up under a tarp, realizing his life was in shambles, and walking miles to his mom’s house to beg for help.

Early recovery: Living in a trailer, reading books by the light of a Game Boy, and attending multiple 12-step meetings daily.

Sam’s rise in comedy, the first open mic feeling like the first high, and the healing power of storytelling.

Friends lost to overdose, including the haunting phone call from Justin pretending to shoot himself.

🎭 Sam on Comedy: Finding the sweet spot between dark humor and trauma, and how comedy became his new addiction.

🚀 Dopey Wood Announcement: Dopey Wood event in four weeks – tickets are free for Dopey Nation.

🧦 Dopey Merch & Sponsors: Shoutout to customstickers.com, where Dopey Nation can get 20% off using code Dopey20.

🔥 Closing Segment: Dave reminds listeners to leave a review, join Patreon, and stay strong, Dopey Nation. Toodles for Chris.

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