Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction episodes:

• 04.16.2024

  Dopey 469: Dopey Tuesday: John Bukaty Returns! The Wooks vs. The Hippies! Smuggling Drugs for Van Halen! WEED, Sugar, Cocaine, Sleep, Recovery, Stoicism and drinking cum

  This week on a brand new episode of Dopey Tuesday we are joined by our friend, and brilliant painter, and budding author John 'Sugar Bear' Bukaty! We hear all about his weed smuggling days with Van Halen. His love for...

  
• 04.12.2024

  Dopey 468: Hank Azaria's Epic Return! On Recovery! Matthew Perry! Celebrity Deaths! Trauma!, Codependency! Overdose! WEED! Psychedlics!

  This week on Dopey! American actor, comedian, and producer Hank Azaria is back! And brings some recovery for a nice change of pace on this week's Dopey! We hear all about his friendship with Matthew Perry an what his loss...

  
• 04.09.2024

  Dopey 467: Dopey Tuesday: Getting Clean in Prison with Doug Bopst,, Oxycontin, Percocet, Weed, Trauma, Fitness, My Dad!

  This week on Dopey Tuesday! We are joined by fitness guru, my friend and friend of the show and host of The Adversity Advantage - Doug Bopst!  Doug tells his crazy story and how going to prison might just have...

  
• 04.05.2024

  Dopey 466: Jesse & Cassidy; The Most Unlikely Dopey Love Story or Selling Your Ass for Oxys! Trans Love, Gang Life, Heroin, Crips, Trauma, Sex Work, Porn, Cocaine, Recovery

  This week on Dopey! We are joined by inspirational content creator, fitness instructor, adult film star and ex plumber, Jesse Shwenker. Jesse drops a super hard core Dopey tale on us starting with his traumatic and violent Suffolk County upbringing...

  
• 04.02.2024

  Dopey 465: Dopey Tuesday: DOPEY SECRETS REVEALED! Is Nitrous a Relapse? or What is Your Problem with Feeling Uncomfortable? Erin Khar Returns! Ice Cream, Sopranos, Heroin, Recovery!

  This week on Dopey Tuesday! Strung Out Author, Unlicensed Advise Columnist and Elite Equestrian Erin Khar is back! This week we kick it around old school and read emails, and talk TV, Ice Cream and much more on this Tuesday...

  
• 03.29.2024

  Dopey 464: Finding Recovery after Heroin, Acid, Meth, Weed, Hippies, Nazis and Punks! with Truanon's Brace Belden, and Dina LaFonte!

  This week on Dopey! We are reunited with Brace Belden and Dina LaFonte - but separately! First Brace comes back on and is hilarious! He tells of an old school Acid romp and why he hates hippies and so much...

  
• 03.26.2024

  Dopey 463: Dopey Tuesday! How Margaret Cho Avoided Getting Beaten Up by Mariah Carey and nearly became a Weed Billionaire, Snoop Dogg, Benzos, Lean, Kratom, Recovery

  This Tuesday on Dopey! We are reunited with comedy and dopey legend, author, actor, singer/songwriter, playwrite and all around amazing dope-of-all-trade and super friend of the show! Margaret Cho! Margaret had me over at her house and we kicked the...

  
• 03.22.2024

  Dopey 462: Kimber Shot Fentanyl in her Neck called a Hotline and Died. Stephen Brought her Back to Life. Anatomy of an Overdose. Mass overdose helpline, Recovery, Harm Reduction, Crack, Dope, Fentanyl

  This week on a very special, very long new episode of Dopey! We take a super deep dive exploring the This American Life episode 'The Call' all about the Mass Overdose Prevention Hotline and Never Use Alone. All about the...

  
• 03.19.2024

  Dopey 461: Dopey Tuesday: How to Not Brawl in the Street and How to Write a Book! Loz of Brutal Recovery, All about Dissociation, Mindfulness, Jealousy, Phone Addiction, Recovery, Social Media

  This week on Dopey! We have a super fun catch up with LOZ of Brutal Recovery! We talk all about Loz's 6 year sober anniversary, and learn how she copes with social media addiction and stays mindful! Plus how to...

  
• 03.15.2024

  Dopey 460: Smoking Fentanyl and Crack & Joining the Crips OR Relapsing on Kratom with 'TikTok Daddy' and 'Thirst Trap', Benji Gleason aka 8enjamin3orderline, jail, wooks, psychedelics, recovery

  This week on Dopey! Dopey Legend Alert! When I heard about Benji Gleason, I had no idea what was coming down the pike. Benjamin Gleason aka 8enjamin3orderline has lived as Dopey a life as I have ever heard. From a...

  
• 03.12.2024

  Dopey 459: DOPEY TUESDAY: Jakob Nowell! Trauma! Meth! Booze! Sublime! Jakobs Castle! Recovery!

  This Week on Dopey Tuesday! We are joined by Jakob Nowell, the creative force of Jakobs Castle also a drug addict in recovery! Jakob was born into SoCal Rock and Roll Royalty. His father Bradley Nowell was the lead singer,...

  
• 03.08.2024

  Dopey 458: Welcome to Anniewood! Annie Lederman! TRAUMA! BOOFING KETAMINE! Psychedelic Therapy! cocaine! Ayahuasca! MDMA! Drinking! Comedy! Recovery!

  This week on Dopey! We are joined by comedy and podcast legend, Annie Lederman!!!! Straight from the heart of Anniewood in Venice Beach California! Listen to Annie’s harrowing story overcoming alcoholism and deep trauma. Plus hilarious takes on her painful...

  
• 03.05.2024

  Dopey 457: DOPEY TUESDAY: What Happened to Fentanyl Jay? Heroin, Alcohol, Booze, Prison, Xanax, Recovery?,

  First Tuesday Show! Lot's of people have been dying to know - what happened to Fentanyl Jay? For those who don't know - Jay was busted in Ohio 3 years ago. What happened with that?  Well some of the answer...

  
• 03.01.2024

  Dopey 456: NEW TRAUMATIC, TWEAKER, GARBAGE HEAD CRAZY TOWN EPISODE IS UP with Dina La Fonte! PLUS MY DAD IS BACK! Trauma, Adderall Psychosis, Poverty, Homeless, Molly, Ketamine, Recovery

  This week on Dopey! Dina gets super vulnerable on her intensely traumatic childhood and how she was drinking at 10, couch surfing, basically homeless at age 13. And how a life of neglect turned into a life of addiction and...

  
• 02.23.2024

  Dopey 455: Why is METH so popular in California? Truanon's Brace Belden, Shooting heroin, meth, Syria, TRAUMA, DETOX, Recovery

  This week on Dopey! We are joined by legendary podcaster, rabble rouser and substance abuser, from the Truanon Podcast, Brace Belden! Brace brings some serious old school Dopey recounting his intense decline into absolute debauchery. From surviving unsurmountable childhood tragedy and...

  
• 02.17.2024

  Dopey 454: Deaf Mother Masturbates with Really Loud Vibrator! Part 1: Moshe Kasher Uncovers the History of AA! PLUS Junkies Doing Good Stuff with Sam Quinones! FENTANYL, WEED, TRAUMA, RECOVERY

  This week on Dopey! We are joined by the incredible comedian, writer, podcaster and all around super smart and funny guest Moshe Kasher! Moshe recently wrote an incredible memoir called Subculture Vulture all about his life within 6 scenes! He...

  
• 02.10.2024

  Dopey 453: How I Learned to Shoot Heroin at Rehab or Why My Dad Pressed Charges with Abbey Fickley, Young Pregnancy, Benzos, Snorting Tar, Co Parenting, Recovery

  This Week on Dopey! We are joined by content creator, YouTube phenom, Co Parnt Expert and recovering Dope Fiend, Abbey Fickley! On a super old school episode of Dopey we learn all about Abbey's humble upbringing in Pittsburgh PA and...

  
• 02.03.2024

  Dopey 452: Rest in Peace Brother Wayne Kramer Replay! MC5, Heroin, Kicking in Jail, Meth, Trauma, Depression, Psychedelic Medicine, Recovery!

  This week on Dopey! Rock and Roll legend, Wayne Kramer comes on the show to kick out the serious Dopey, mother fucker! We hear all about the beginnings of the seminal rock and roll band the MC5 and Wayne's earliest...

  
• 02.02.2024

  Dopey 451: Stripping and Sex Work! Coke and Booze! Meth and Trauma! Steroids! Full Nudity! Pimping Ain't Easy with Aaron Berg! Recovery and Debauchery!

  This week on Dopey! We are joined by Dopeycon IV alumni, comedian Aaron Berg to hear his dark alcoholic story of stripping in Canada and the dark world of sex, booze, coke and pimping he fell into. PLUS steroids! Comedy...

  
• 01.27.2024

  Dopey 450: Lenny from the Beach faces Jail Time for Dealing Coke, Meth Addict and Meditation Master Thuan Nguyentells his story, fear, faith, trauma detox, recovery

  This Week on Dopey! In our 450th episode we are possibly somehow visited by Chris during my sponsees father-in-law's wake. Then! Lenny from the Beach returns to update us on a potentially sticky situation he is in - facing serious...

  
• 01.19.2024

  Dopey 449: The Demonic Paranoid Super Meth Sex Extravaganza with Boston 2% and the Return of DJ Don! Meth, Kratom, Trauma, Psych Ward, Recovery

  This week on Dopey! In an insane new comprehensive crystal meth soaked episode of Dopey we meet Boston 2% - A recovering meth/SEX addict who went to the darkest of places on an obsessive meth mission to the brink of destruction...

  
• 01.13.2024

  Dopey 448: Buying Fake Crack at Gunpoint, Endless Ketamine & Jessica Kent Tells All! Surviving Domestic Narcissistic Abuse, Relapse, Divorce, Trauma Bonding, Cocaine, Alcohol, Parenting, Recovery

  This week on Dopey! Jessica Kent returns! And gives us the heart wrenching but ultimately inspiring story of her current domestic situation. How she dealt with her long time partners relapse and how she parents their two daughters. PLUS my...

  
• 01.06.2024

  Dopey 447: Stealing Oxy 80’s from the Pharmacy with Andre from Ronkonkoma, Heroin, OC 80’s, KRATOM, Suboxone, ACA, Recovery, TRAUMA, Sex Addiction

  This week on Dopey! We are joined by local Dope, Andre! Andre tells a very comprehensive story of his very complicated journey from trauma with his dad to crazy heroin and crack addiction all the way back to recovery. All...

  
• 12.30.2023

  Dopey 446: Maia Szalavitz is the World’s Greatest Addict Champion!(and she sold Jerry Garcia Cocaine!) PLUS Chem Sex! Dank Bud! Harm Reduction! Kratom! Xylazine! Portugal!Recovery!

  This Week on Dopey! In a super deluxe, extra large and comprehensive Dopey New Years Episode we cover a lot of ground! Starting with NY TIMES contributor, author and world renowned Harm Reductionist Maia Szalavitz makes a state of the...

  
• 12.23.2023

  Dopey 445: Shooting Molly in an Iowa Trap House on Ibogaine with Kratom and Liquid LSD on A Very Special Dopey Christmas 2023

  This week on Dopey! It's beginning to look a lot like Dopey! In our old school brand new Christmas special we catch up with Dopey OG Matthew Weidemeir-Carroll and hear all about his relapse and return this holiday season! PLUS...

  
• 12.15.2023

  Dopey 444: Robbing Crack Dealers and Surviving Hell on Long Island with Gary, Demonology, Weed, Recovery, DETOX, Trauma,

  This Week on Dopey! We have a local superstar from the Beach! Gary the Suffolk County Crack Connoisseur! Gary tells a seriously comprehensive and touching story of his deep journey to the edge and back! PLUS two voicemails! Emails! And...

  
• 12.09.2023

  Dopey 443: The Return of Bob Forrest, Remembering Mike Martt! Christmas, LSD, Fentanyl, Heroin, DETOX, Trauma, Recovery

  This week on Dopey! Dopey legend and old time champion of the show Bob Forrest is back to remember his departed songwriting partner, podcast producer and life long friend Mike Martt! We hear how they linked up and some of...

  
• 12.02.2023

  Dopey 442: Michael Dowd: The Most Corrupt Cop in New York City, Pink Cocaine Ring on Long Island, Crack, Crime, Booze, Heroin, Prison

  This week on Dopey! We are joined by infamous corrupt New York City police officer, Michael Dowd. We hear about his rise in East New York's legendary 75th precinct. We learn about how Michael Dowd broke bad and get the...

  
• 11.24.2023

  Dopey 441: Xylazine! Fent Laced Weed! Psychedelic Therapy! The return of Dr. Nzinga Harrison and a very special guest!

  **NOTE: Technical Error with Dr. Harrison!!! If you get to the interview with Dr. Harrison and there is no sound - reset the show and it should be fixed** Sorry for the mishap! - dave This week on Dopey we are...

  
• 11.18.2023

  Dopey 440: Home Grown Opium with Margaret Cho, Remembering Bill Blaber, Speed, Fen-Phen, Weed, Opiates, Shooting Meth, The Thanksgiving Show!

  This Week on Dopey! In a seriously Special Thanksgiving Special we are joined by comedy icon, and Super-Dopey OG Margaret Cho! We learn more about her early days of becoming an addict. Her obsession with weed! A birthday party with...

  
• 11.11.2023

  Dopey 439: Crazy Fraternity Xanax Ring! Dopey True Crime! Murder! Benzos! Cocaine! Recovery! Max Marshall’s Among the Bros! The Return of Aurora and My Dad!

  This Week On Dopey! In an all new episode we tackle the super hot genre of true crime - Dopey style with author/journalist Max Marshall and his thrilling new book 'Among the Bro's! We learn all about a crazy drug...

  
• 11.04.2023

  Dopey 438: Smuggling Liters of Liquid Ketamine from India or Do Heroic Doses of Mushrooms Conquer Addiction? or MDMA, Spirituality, Trauma, WEED, Cocaine, Depression, Ego, Recovery with Jeff Leach

  This week on Dopey! English stand up, actor, video game voice over artist and EDM DJ and overall content creator/ARTIST -Jeff Leach! Jeff brings a heroic dose of psychedelic Dopey this week on the show! We hear all about his...

  
• 10.28.2023

  Dopey 437: A Tale of Two Dopes! The Funeral on Benzos! Diarrhea on Crack! Mowing the Lawn on Meth! Death! Al-Anon! Trauma! Recovery! DETOX! with Chris Paulson and C. Cimmone

  This week on Dopey! In a multi-Dope episode we are first joined by Chris P. and hear his heart wrenching story from homeless crackhead to successful therapist in recovery with a world of pain, trauma and substance abuse in between....

  
• 10.21.2023

  Dopey 436: Demonic Biker Bar Angel Dust Murder City with John Joseph! Recovery, PCP, Heroin, Weed, Hare Krishna, Glory Holes, Method Man, Paul Simon

  This week on Dopey! Rejoice! Rejoice!  For Dopey Legend John Joseph of Bloodclot, the Cro-Mags and author of countless books has returned! Listen as John takes us back on his oral tour of an old New York City full of...

  
• 10.13.2023

  Dopey 434: DopeyCon IV! With Hank Azaria, Aaron Berg, Dr. Drew, Bobby Dukes, Brandon Novak, Lili Taylor, Paulina Pinsky, Mackenzie Phillips, Jessa Reed, Rich Vos, Shawn Weiss! Fire Dopey Stories!!!

  This week on Dopey! DopeyCon IV!!!! A cavalcade of Dopes! A treasure Trove of Dopey Stories! It's all here! Bobby Dukes burning a dude's dick with a crack pipe in a glory hole, Mackenzie Phillips shooting blood onto her ceiling...

  
• 10.06.2023

  Dopey 433: Overdosing on Barbiturates, Shooting Meth with Your Best Friend’s Mom, Kicking Methadone in Alaska, Relapsing after 15 Years Clean and Getting Sober Again with Tommy 2 Wolves aka Dutch!

  This Week on Dopey! In a crazy old school super banana firey installment of Dopey we are joined by Tommy 2 Wolves AKA Dutch - who delivers the old school Dopey! We hear a wall to wall, non stop ridiculously...

  
• 09.29.2023

  Dopey 432: Hank Azaria makes Amends for Apu, Al-Anon, Codependency, all things addiction and social justice

  This Week on Dopey! Dopey dream guest, and Emmy Award Winner, Hank Azaria comes on the show for an epic talk all about his recovery, alcoholism and his life and career! Get ready for a serious deep dopey dive with...

  
• 09.23.2023

  Dopey 431:Harold Owens Helps the World’s Most Famous Musicians and shot LSD, ’Chef’ Jeff Mauro and the Rough Return of Fentanyl Jay, Heroin, Detox, Opium, Weed, Oxycontin, MusicCares

  This week on Dopey! In another Park City Song Summit based episode - we are joined by recovery legend and the former Director of Music Cares Harold Owens! Harold takes us on a trip back in the day of growing...

  
• 09.16.2023

  Dopey 430: The Booze, Brilliance Horrible Crack Addiction and Sensational Storytelling of Steve Poltz, Jewel, Neil Young, Sean Penn, psilocybin, recovery, Grape Drank

  This Week on Dopey! In one of my very favorite interviews, we are joined by world renowned singer/songwriter Steve Poltz. It all happened on location at the Park City Song Summit where we got to meet and I I had...

  
• 09.09.2023

  Dopey 429: A Tale of Two Junkies; Eddie Furlong pt.1 and Lenny(from the beach)! Heroin, Fentanyl, Crack, Recovery

  This week on Dopey! We are joined by Hollywood legend, the star of Terminator 2, American History X, Pecker, Detroit Rock City, The Forrest Hills and so much more! Eddie drops the young holiday Dopey on us in an epic...

  
• 09.02.2023

  Dopey 428: Paulina Pinsky: The Summer of Pegging, Dabs, Covid and Research Chemicals with Dr. Drew’s Daughter, Trauma, Detox, Brutal Recovery

  This week on Dopey! In a very special grrrl power addiction - we are joined by Paulina Pinsky the brilliant author and daughter of Dr. Drew! Paulina went deep into her Dopey origin story and how she bottomed out on...

  
• 08.27.2023

  Dopey 427: Jessa Reed: Shootin’ Meth into the Jugular or Happiness is an Inside Job, Antabuse for Lyme! Aliens! Trauma! Making your own Teeth! Detox! Recovery! PARK CITY SONG SUMMIT!

  This week on Dopey! After years apart - Dopey Original, Jessa Reed is back! And she definitely brought the dopey with her update on managing her lyme disease and then launching into her rich history of addiction and recovery!  Some topics...

  
• 08.19.2023

  Dopey 426: Mike Majlak’s SMI, OCD, SEX ADDICTION! OCD, Anxiety, Mental Health, Oxycontin, Cocaine, Logan Paul, Depression, Trauma

  This week on Dopey! The return of bestselling author of The Fifth Vital, Night Shift host and creator, Impaulsive host and creator,10/10 Owner and well endowed content creator Mike Majlak returns to the show!   The Highlights:- the Character vs. the Actor...

  
• 08.12.2023

  Dopey 425: Dopey Day 2023 aka ChrisMiss in August, Robbing Drug Dealers, Fentanyl, Death, Recovery, Detox, Trauma, Withdrawal

  This week on Dopey! August 16th would've been Chris's 39th birthday and we celebrate like we always do - in Dopey style! We play a bunch of super Dopey Classics, get an update from Annie, hear from some very emotional...

  
• 08.04.2023

  Dopey 424: Doggy Cream Pies, Foot Jobs, Oxycontin, MDMA, Cocaine and more with Adult Content Creator & Only Fan’s MILF Cougar Superstar Mrs. Robinson, Suicide, Relapse, Recovery

  This Week on Dopey! We are joined by Adult Content Creator and MILF/Cougar Porn Superstar Mrs. Robinson! She lays down the Dopey like an old pro with stories about her falling in love with cocaine and how her endometriosis introduced...

  
• 07.30.2023

  Dopey29: Angel Dust, PCP, Dope

  The Time an Addict Accidentally Shot Two Bags of Angel Dust Instead of Dope... with a Very Special Guest

  
• 07.29.2023

  Dopey 422: Sex, Cravings & Jacob and the Masturbation Machine, Dr. Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation, Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence and The Tragic Death of Hottwheels,, Trauma, Spirituality

  This week on Dopey. Dopey Nation Legend and old time friend and contributor to the show, Brian 'HottWheels' Connolly tragically dies. It all happened the same day we hit 10 million downloads and the day before we acknowledge the five...

  
• 07.22.2023

  Dopey 421: 5 Years Missing Chris & Fentanyl Jay Squirts Meth up his Ass, shooting cocaine, prison, boofing, recovery, DMT, trauma, death

  This week on Dopey marks 5 years since Chris died of a fentanyl overdose. We replay the classic episode where Chris doesn't know the difference between Prince, Michael Jackson or Freddie Mercury and hear him tell a hauntingly insane story...

  
• 07.15.2023

  Dopey 420: Flatlining in Bloomingdales is not as fun as the La Jolla Lotion Party on Ecstasy, Busted Smuggling Pounds of Weed, Oxys, Percocet, Harm Reduction, Recovery w Anonymous Guest and B. Getz

  This week on Dopey! In our 420th episode we are joined by a mysterious old friend of the show. She takes us down a crazy romp through her past dating cocaine dealers, drinking to near death and gobbling MDMA. Then...

  
• 07.08.2023

  Dopey 419: The Trauma of Jason Biggs and and the truth behind that time his wife got them a Sex Worker, Incredibly Pure Molly, Cocaine, Weed, OCD, TRAUMA, Heroin and Recovery

  This week on Dopey! Movie star, actor, comedian, game show host Jason Biggs RETURNS and gets very close and personal! We hear all about his old super pure MDMA connect, his OCD, his incredible old addict travels, living in sobriety...