🚨 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: [email protected]

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

Stay strong, Dopey Nation.
🖤 fucking toodles for Chris

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

Gaytreon

STREP THROAT!

Ricky Powell

Beastie Boys

Seinfeld

LSD

SSDN FTFC!

🏈 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

www.damonwest.org

www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast

🖤 Fucking toodles for Chris.

THESE ARE NOTES ON THE EPISODE - NOT THE TEASER!

🧠 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: [email protected]
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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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• 🧘 Need help while using? Call Safe Spot at 1-800-972-0590. They’ll sit with you on the phone and make sure you stay alive.
• 🌿 Kratom, Ozempic, Suboxone, weed… we get into it all with Dr. Harrison.
• 🧑‍⚖️ Want to support clemency efforts or help fund the doc? Visit bornfridayfilm.com or email Dave.
• 🛏️ Pajama pants in public? Dr. Harrison says maybe. Nora says no.
• 📺 White Lotus? Not so much. Jim Morrison alive in upstate NY? Definitely not.

“Maybe they killed me that day, and this is some demented afterlife.” – Kofi “Debo” Harrison
“Recovery is not the point. Life is the point.” – Dr. Nzinga Harrison
“Once a stoner, always a stoner.” – Dave
“The Dopey Nation just feels like my people.” – Dr. Harrison

🚨 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 mascot: Mopey Dick
🎥 Updates on the Dopey Documentary & Dopeywood

Also, a voicemail from New Zealand where a listener confesses she was never Team Chris… but always Team Dave 🤯

All this and more for literally 20 cents a day—plus ad-free episodes, extra content, and weird-ass Zooms.

🔗 Listen now: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast

Stay strong & fucking toodles for Chris.

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!

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🎙 Guest: Pat Pespas & Sam Lipman-Stern (The Telemarketers, HBO)
📅 Recorded: March 14, 2025

🔥 In This Episode:

• Pat Pespas, the ultimate junkie telemarketer, takes us through his insane journey—from selling fake police stickers while nodding out to blowing the lid off a billion-dollar scam.
• How a scumbag telemarketing company (CDG) scammed millions from well-meaning Americans under the guise of helping cops, firefighters, and sick kids.
• Pat’s life in full chaos mode: Heroin, drive-up dope spots, wild scams, and barely staying employed.
• How Sam (a high school dropout & graffiti writer) started filming at 14 and turned this madness into an Emmy-nominated HBO series.
• Going undercover to expose police corruption—and how they almost got arrested at an FOP convention.
• Pat’s mysterious disappearance & the hunt to find him before HBO lost their minds.
• How politicians & the system FAILED to stop the scams (but Twitter had their back).
• The Emmy snub (damn you, Beckham!) & why Pat walked away from $250K in media deals.

📺 Watch Telemarketers on HBO & Max
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📩 Send in voicemails & emails: [email protected]

🎶 Outro: A killer banjo cover of Good So Bad by listener Jake 🎵

🖤 Stay strong, Dopey Nation—Toodles for Chris!

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.

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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/dopeypodcast

DOPEY LOVE LIVE with MARGARET CHO AND FRIENDS: https://publictheater.org/productions/joes-pub/2025/d/dopey-podcast-live/

Episode Description:
Buckle up, Dopey Nation—this one’s a wild ride. Dylan returns to the show, and we get deep into the messiness of recovery: Is 12-step the only way? Can something else work? Does Dylan even want to build something new? It’s a classic Dopey-style conversation—raw, honest, and full of uncertainty.

Then, we get a next-level Dopey moment: a cleaning lady unknowingly eats a whole bar of mushroom chocolate, trips her face off, and leaves some of the most horrifying (and hilarious) voicemails we’ve ever heard.

But that’s not all. TV host and podcaster Kat Greenleaf stops by to talk about her version of recovery, her very personal views on "mouthfeel," and a psychedelic experience that supposedly did 30 years of therapy in one night. Plus, she shares the shocking truth about what she really loves to put in her mouth—and it’s not what you think.

Somehow, we squeeze in shoutouts, ads, and a surprise Pee-wee Herman connection. It’s a jam-packed, totally unhinged episode of Dopey.

Biggest Takeaways:

• Dylan wrestles with the idea of alternative recovery models—does he want to build one, or is he just doing Dopey?
• 12-step’s structure may be flawed, but it’s survived nearly a century without scandals or profit motives, which is rare in the recovery world.
• A cleaning lady’s accidental mushroom trip is both horrifying and peak Dopey chaos.
• Kat Greenleaf gets very candid about her oral fixation (in more ways than one).
• Psychedelic therapy might be the future—or just an excuse to get high in a controlled setting.
• Pee-wee Herman was secretly a huge Katz’s fan and a sober ally.
• Don’t leave drug-infused treats where unsuspecting people might eat them.

Sponsors & Shoutouts:

• CustomStickers.com – Get Dopey stickers! Use code DOPIE20 for 20% off.
• Safe Spot – A service that stays on the phone with you while you use. Call 1-800-972-0590.
• Dylan’s Berkshire Transition Network – Helping people in recovery.

Final Notes:
Stay strong, Dopey Nation—especially if you accidentally eat a whole chocolate bar of shrooms. And as always, fucking toodles for Chris.