Atrocious weed, cocaine psychosis, shooting puddle water, smuggling heroin into Jamaica, Jerry Garcia, recovery, and remembering Chris - Total Replay 37Atrocious weed, cocaine psychosis, shooting puddle water, smuggling heroin into Jamaica, Jerry Garcia, recovery, and remembering Chris - Total Replay 37
Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction
TIMESTAMPS 00:17 — Dopey returns from summer hiatus 01:05 — Dave’s Pacific Northwest family vacation 02:02 — Patreon Recovery Zoom and emergency DopeyCon meeting 02:34 — SVA Theatre versus the Church of the Holy Apostles 04:55 — Remembering Chris during the anniversary of his death 06:14 — Dopey, recovery, gratitude and asking for help 07:20 — Spotify and Patreon comments 09:41 — Introducing Dopey Episode 37 11:07 — Classic Dave and Chris: sobriety and sponsorship 12:07 — Working the Sixth Step and Drop the Rock 15:40 — Sponsoring addicts and recovery wisdom 16:48 — Honesty, open-mindedness and willingness 18:04 — Planning episodes around Dave’s vacation 20:33 — Jerry Garcia’s addiction and “Persian” heroin 22:56 — Jerry Garcia allegedly uses radio to find drugs 25:24 — John Lennon, Yoko Ono and the Beatles 27:52 — John Lennon’s reported psychedelic drug use 30:15 — Paul McCartney, Owsley acid and Monterey Pop 31:01 — Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue and acupuncture 33:19 — The Mad Acid Fest and the bassist who became Zeus 35:01 — Stealing vodka, pills and fried chicken at a company party 37:21 — Trading Places, angel dust and Dan Aykroyd 39:44 — CDs, skip protection and burning music 41:58 — Slank Funk discovers Dopey 44:22 — Early Dopey download numbers and the desperate hunt for reviews 46:35 — Growing Dopey Nation and helping Cormac make a song 49:42 — Chris begins his Anguilla cocaine story 51:00 — Relapsing after a year and buying drugs in the Caribbean 53:27 — Mixing a glass full of cocaine water 54:21 — Cocaine psychosis and benevolent imaginary Rastas 55:51 — Chasing a hallucinated car around an abandoned house 57:05 — Stranded in Saint Martin and owing drug dealers money 58:08 — Chris’s brother flies down to rescue him 59:23 — Shooting cocaine with muddy puddle water 1:00:33 — Using unflushed toilet water and the possession of addiction 1:02:57 — Dave smuggles six bundles of heroin into Jamaica 1:05:20 — Heroin, terrible Jamaican weed and drug dealers 1:07:46 — Running out of heroin and passing out on Valium 1:10:06 — Withdrawing on the flight home and invading first class 1:11:06 — The dealer waiting at Dave’s apartment 1:11:27 — Drugs as “a secret in my pocket” that could solve everything 1:12:28 — Sobriety, freedom and Dave’s arrangement with God 1:14:27 — Reviews, growing the show and final toodles 1:16:49 — “Good So Bad”
1:17:46•20 Jul 2026
Dark Laughs, Heavy Loss: Dave & Chris Revisit Cocaine Psychosis and Recovery
Episode Overview
- Recovery, while described as simple, still demands consistent work and effort.
- Honesty, open-mindedness and willingness are presented as indispensable for staying sober.
- Sponsoring others can deepen a person’s own understanding of recovery principles.
- Extreme drug use stories highlight how quickly safety and health can be abandoned during addiction.
- Gratitude and asking for help are raised as important parts of maintaining a sober life.
“Getting sober and having a nice life is not impossible. It's actually fairly simple. It just requires some work.”
What makes a recovery story truly inspiring? This replay of a classic Dopey episode brings together outrageous drug tales, hard-won sobriety wisdom and a heartfelt tribute to the late co-host Chris. You’ll first hear Dave talking from the present day, fresh back from a family trip to the Pacific Northwest and openly admitting he hasn’t been to a meeting in two weeks.
He mentions “cultivating gratitude”, reflecting on how Dopey has somehow become a lifeline “for people in recovery and who are not in recovery.
It just serves addicts.” He also marks the anniversary of Chris’s death from a fentanyl overdose, describing the strange comfort of listening back: “You listen to the episode and he’s alive and it’s profound every time I think about it.” Then the time travel kicks in with Episode 37: a raw, funny session between Dave and Chris when they were actively working their programmes.
Chris talks about sponsoring his first sponsee who’s actually making progress through the steps, while Dave wrestles with his Sixth Step and the book *Drop the Rock*.
They joke their way through the language of recovery, even while admitting there are “three things that are indispensable: honesty, open-mindedness and willingness.” Mixed into the recovery chat are the kind of extreme stories that gave Dopey its “stupid funny addiction stories” reputation: atrocious weed in Jamaica, cocaine psychosis, shooting puddle water, smuggling heroin on holiday, and a wild Jerry Garcia drug anecdote. The tone stays irreverent, but the danger and desperation are never completely hidden.
If you like your recovery content honest, messy, darkly funny and grounded in real experience, this replay offers both laughs and a stark reminder of what’s at stake. How do you feel hearing people joke about addiction while quietly showing you the cost?

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