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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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.
Dopey 552: Brace Belden Returns! Molestation, Poppers, Nitrous, Heroin, Charlie Kirk and Recovery!
Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction
2 hours 8 minutes 29 seconds
1 month ago
Dopey 552: Brace Belden Returns! Molestation, Poppers, Nitrous, Heroin, Charlie Kirk and Recovery!
Dopey Notes:
DopeyCon feedback, Spotify vs. iTunes reviews, dad monitoring iTunes.
Sponsors & allies mentioned: Oro Recovery, Mountainside (title sponsor), Recovery.com, Recovery Unplugged; contact shout to John Jones at Mountainside.
Listener corner:
Archie (Lexington, KY): salvia → beach-ball hallucination → sprinting outside in underwear.
David Dixon: shrooms, rock salt, and the day Jerry died.
“Chip” from ep. 136: then-denial vs. now-sober (methadone).
Dave’s social-media compulsion & unity riff; Heart Attack Doug voicemail (“discipline” and belly abuse).
Guest: Brace Belden (Truenon)
11 years sober; meetings vs. chips; sponsoring a couple guys.
Phone/text boundaries; “walk and talk.”
Therapy vs. analysis; dream talk (Tom Cruise baby; Sabrina Carpenter at a sewer table); trazodone nights; hypnosis tapes for insomnia/anxiety.
Drugs & sex honesty hour:
DMT in the West Village; meth IV (“butt pulsation” observation); “galaxy gas” nitrous vs. old-school Whippets and the cracker; poppers lore; vague Quaalude memories.
Boofing Suboxone film (“didn’t get it far enough”); coke on genitals (“numbing—kind of defeats the point”); coke dick; the “Wamo Jamo” speedball myth.
Memory & molestation chat: what counts as memory, implanted/false memories, Dave’s family-friend story and camp counselor thread, Brace’s 14-year-old runaway incident with a knife and $40.
Meetings + politics: Trumpy rooms, why “politics has no place in recovery,” being non-partisan on-air, and the difference between having beliefs vs. beating people with them.
Charlie Kirk assassination video: why it hits hard; “good shot” discourse; lone-actor vs. “they”; rhetoric hypocrisy across sides.
Hypotheticals & relapse pathways: weed→benzos→opiate slide vs. “new RC” curiosity; the last heroin highs (too high/sick vs. not enough); fentanyl vs. heroin now.
Cro-Mags détente attempt (Harley Flanagan / John Joseph) and whether to air interviews when friends object.
Rapid “this or that”: Trump vs. Kirk (prefers Trump), Pete Townshend vs. Roger Daltrey (Roger), RFK vs. Elon (RFK), MLK vs. Malcolm (Malcolm), Che vs. Fidel (Che), LSD vs. Ecstasy (LSD), X vs. Fang (X), methadone vs. Suboxone (Suboxone), EMDR vs. talk therapy (talk).
Truenon live shows; schedule, workflow; invite to attend.
Wrap-up: graffiti wall on Houston/First Street (Optimo & PVC Gray); request for someone to film the wall; Patreon; “Stay strong, Dopey Nation — toodles for Chris.”
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.
