This week on Dopey’s Greatest Hits! The incredible Mackenzie Phillips takes us from One Day at a Time to shooting cocaine with her father, the Mamas & the Papas’ John Phillips. We hear about stealing his prized Owsley acid, running around London with Keith Richards, pharmaceutical cocaine sprinkled on dinner, and getting arrested with black tar heroin on the way to a Rachael Ray reunion. Plus, the trip upstairs with Mick Jagger to get mayonnaise that turned into an overnight stay.

Mackenzie also gets brutally honest about surviving sexual abuse by her father, the family backlash after High on Arrival, and a six-year relapse after a decade sober. And how she came back to build a life helping other addicts find recovery.

PLUS! Owen remembers Brad, the friend who helped save his life but didn’t survive his own addiction. Listener comments, Dave’s upcoming Hunter Biden event at the 92nd Street Y, and a classic Jake from West Virginia banjo outro. All that and more on a fucking monumental Greatest Hits episode of Dopey!

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This week on a very very special Wednesday Wild Card DOSE of Dopey! Author Ian Leslie joins me to talk about one of my favorite books, John and Paul, A Love Story through Songs - and the drugs, grief, jealousy, and love behind the Beatles’ extraordinary partnership.

We follow the Beatles from speed-fueled nights in Hamburg to getting stoned with Bob Dylan, John accidentally taking acid at Abbey Road, and Paul joining him for a trip that brought them even closer. We get into McCartney’s cocaine use, Lennon’s relationship with heroin, and whether songs like “Two of Us,” “Oh! Darling,” and “Jealous Guy” were ways of saying things they couldn’t say directly to each other. Plus, losing their mothers, Phil Collins versus Paul McCartney, and why the Beatles made getting high so interesting to me in the first place.

PLUS: a listener’s first experience smoking meth in San Francisco, memories of Todd, spiritual dollars, your comments, and the new Wall Street Journal piece about Dopey. All that and much, much more on a very Beatle-esque Wednesday DOSE of Dopey!

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This week on a Tuesday Raytreon teaser! Ray returns and we immediately get sidetracked by a porn-star coworker, a dead man’s ashes, and a deeply unnecessary investigation into scat. Then Ray considers becoming Dopey’s new engineer, we check out his healing skin-cancer surgery scar, and he tells me about Mary Woronov’s incredible stories of amphetamines, Warhol, and the mole people.

PLUS: new studio gear, Heart Attack Doug’s health struggles, cartoons for comfort, and the strange joy of finding out someone you know listens to Dopey. We’re saving the big news for Patreon—join us at patreon.com/dopeypodcast for the rest!

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This week on Dopey Total Replay! Nick Reiner returns to Grand Street to do Dopeywith Dave and Chris. Nick talks about shooting Wellbutrin with a homeless man in Maine, playing a disastrous basketball game at West Fourth Street, and turning down pain pills because he wanted to show up clearheaded for Dopey. Dave and Chris fight about the fish tank, people pleasing, and whose show it is, before Chris tells a benzo-withdrawal seizure story involving heroin, Beverly Hills 90210, an unconscious roommate, and a very confused food delivery guy.

Then Nick remembers a frightening acid trip and his dad, Rob Reiner, lying beside him and talking him through it for eight hours. Plus, Dave reflects on hearing these old recordings again, struggling while abstinent, getting back into recovery work, and a listener’s crack-smoking camping trip gone completely sideways. All that, early Dopey chaos, and a listener-submitted song from Cormac. PLUS MORE ON A SIMULTANEOUSLY BRAND NEW AND YET STILL OLD EPISODE OF THAT GOOD OLD DOPEY SHOW!

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This week on Dopey! The hilarious Sam Miller returns with Fourth of July mushrooms in jail, meth-fueled AK-47 tattoos, a summer spent in football cleats and overalls, and the night he pissed on a party and ended up at gunpoint. Plus, accidentally peeing on a stranger, making up Kurt Cobain stories for tourists, pretending to work with “at-risk dolphins,” and a benzo-withdrawal dream involving passionate sex with an eagle woman.

We also get into getting in your own head at the Comedy Store, 18 years clean, finding a higher power through connection, and the devastating loss of Sam’s friend and sponsee Justin. My dad interrupts with baked ziti and takes a speedball-versus-goofball quiz. PLUS: a terrifying listener voicemail, a meth relapse with a memory blackout, and Howie joins me to talk DopeyCon, podcast envy, and the future of Dopey Feud. All that and much more on a brand-new, new episode of that good old Dopey show!

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This week on Dopey’s Greatest Hits! Author and Dopey legend Suki Jones returns with her incredible story of drugs, addiction, motherhood, and recovery. From being given Quaaludes by her father at eight years old to discovering Vicodin, cocaine, and the Bay Area music scene, Suki takes us through the life behind her memoir, Sea Swallow Me.

We hear about Tower Records, modeling, doctor shopping, and the double life of partying on the weekends and getting her kids to Catholic school during the week—while heroin gradually took over everything. Plus, surviving childhood abuse, losing someone she loved, hiding pills from a partner, methadone, and finding a way to become the mother she wanted to be.

PLUS! Snake calls from the UK with a 2C-B story, Dave struggles to get dinner on the table, Doug drinks fancy water, the radiator interrupts, and we hear how Dopey helped Suki feel connected during a brutal stretch of pandemic isolation. All that and more, more, more on this brand new and yet still very old episode of this good ol' Dopey show!

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This week on the Wednesday Dose of Dopey! The great Maia Szalavitz returns, and we go from doing cocaine with Jerry Garcia at 17 to shooting coke 40 times a day—and somehow becoming one of the most important voices in harm reduction. We get into heroin versus fentanyl, kratom and 7-OH, depression, antidepressants, and why getting off drugs doesn’t automatically give you a life you want to live.

Plus, can you fall in love with an AI? Can psychedelics help if you don’t actually want to change? And do you still call yourself an addict almost 40 years later? Maia talks about the trip that showed her she had a cocaine problem—and why her response was to stop taking acid.

PLUS! Mick Popham delivers an all-time Dopey voicemail about stealing morphine, benzos, and an antique stove from a dying convicted murderer, blacking out, and getting called into the boss’s office for something completely different. All that, Jerry Garcia, High Times, deadlifting, and much much more on this Wednesday Dose of Dopey!

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This week on Dopey! Heart Attack Doug returns feeling like death, so naturally I make him come over and record. We discuss a sandwich with too much Swiss, the most miserable deli on Long Island, the wreckage of my garage, and my dependence on Tums and papaya enzymes. Then things get real about friendship, fear, and the gift of desperation—finding a spiritual solution when everything feels fucked. Plus! Is Doug too sick to go to meetings but healthy enough to do the podcast? Join us on Patreon for his full health update and the Doug Death Pool. Stay strong, Dopey Nation, and fucking toodles for Chris!

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This week on the Dopey Total Replay! A bona fide Dopey classic: THE GAY CRUISE with Todd R.  My friend Todd joins me and Chris for a story about drinking, opiates, falling five decks off a cruise ship, and getting kicked off while his friends continue their vacation. 

But First we go over Hey Bulldog! And go over the emotional comments from Dopey Episode 50.

Plus! Being high on the Martha Stewart Show, reconnecting with an old boyfriend who turns out to have been sober the entire time, making up a sponsor, and getting through early recovery with Cool Ranch Doritos, Diet Coke, and I Love Lucy. We also get a completely insane listener airplane story, Chris takes the controls of a plane, and we argue about sharing for laughs at AA. All that, the origins of the Dopey theme song, your comments, and much, much, much more on a brand new version of a classic dose of Dopey!

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This week on Dopey! Benjamin Tod of Lost Dog Street Band brings a deeply honest story of childhood trauma, crust punk, freight trains, heroin, methamphetamine, and the slow work of building a different life.

Growing up outside Nashville, Benjamin started drinking as a kid and using hard drugs in his early teens. Drawn to the freedom of traveling musicians, he found a world of street performances, railroad journeys, makeshift camps, and friendships forged under bridges. He takes us inside that life: getting strung out in one city and kicking in the next, withdrawing while waiting for sugar-beet harvest work, and trying to perform through an IV-meth-fueled panic attack while opening for the Devil Makes Three.

Benjamin also gets into what’s happening now—feeling spiritually unsettled, confronting old pain, and wanting to become a better husband and father. He talks about the collapse of his marriage to Ashley, recording I Will Rise in the middle of his darkest period, and the sick puppy named Rita who became a symbol of starting over. On thirteen acres in Kentucky, he began clearing land, rebuilding trust, and making a home. Getting off the needle came first; letting go of alcohol took years longer.

PLUS! Punk rock as folk music, the Clash, outlaw country, faith without rigid dogma, shame without self-destruction, and a round of This or That. Before the interview: a listener writes about dabs and research chemicals, Eric remembers a friend’s disastrous gasoline-bong idea, and Matt Wiedemeyer Carroll celebrates three years sober. Closing with Benjamin’s “Using Again” and an early banjo recording from Jake in West Virginia. 

All that and MUCH MORE on Brand new super anarchist crusty, punk rock, honky tonk episode of that good old Dopey Show!
 

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This week on Dopey Greatest Hits! We revisit Jamie Lee Curtis’s first appearance on Dopey, recorded in 2019 with Dave in his attic, a microphone in one hand, and a Bluetooth speaker in the other.

It began outside Katz’s Deli, where Dave tried to casually intercept Jamie and pitch the show. Her response: “I’m a dope fiend.” His response: “Me too.” What followed was an email misunderstanding, years of persistence, and a conversation about why Jamie initially wanted nothing to do with a comedy podcast about addiction—and how Chris’s death changed her understanding of the show.

Jamie and Dave talk about opioid addiction, secrecy, the vulnerability of being publicly sober, and finding connection through other people’s honesty. Dave remembers Chris, explains why showing the fun in recovery matters, and gets to tell Jamie what her movies and children’s books have meant to his family.

PLUS! A medical student writes about how Chris is still helping people he never met, JD responds to criticism of his workplace drug discovery, and Dave ranks his morning-text correspondents. Listener letters explore sex addiction, the difference between sponsorship and life advice, and an EMDR experience that helped one woman rethink sexual pressure in her marriage. Dave also explains why he stopped EMDR—for now. 

All that and MUCH MORE on a super star studded - Dopey's Greatest Hits!

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