Dopey 595: Dopey Day 2026! Stealing Copper for Meth! Coke! Heroin! Oxys! Weed Farms! Chris Miss!

Dopey 595: Dopey Day 2026! Stealing Copper for Meth! Coke! Heroin! Oxys! Weed Farms! Chris Miss!

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Time Stamps: 00:00 — Oro Recovery 01:13 — “Free Fallin’” 03:21 — Welcome to the Dopey Day episode 03:50 — What Dopey Day and the logo over the eyes mean 04:30 — DopeyCon game-show edition lineup and tickets 05:44 — Scott’s weed-loving boxer, Bailey 07:15 — Morgan’s history with 2C-B 08:08 — A friend mistakes 2C-B for cocaine 09:20 — An enormous dose triggers a four-hour combat-related trip 10:50 — Mountainside and BetterHelp 13:50 — Dopey Day messages from Dr. Harrison, Selby and Janine 16:30 — OG dope Matthew Wiedermeier Carroll returns 18:15 — Discovering Dopey while strung out on meth 19:20 — Writing to Chris from prison 20:00 — Stealing kegs and copper to support his addiction 21:13 — The serial number that got Matt caught 22:10 — Prison leatherwork and the Dopey ID holder 23:20 — Creating “Waiting for Tonight” 26:00 — Being part of Dopey while secretly continuing to drink 28:25 — “I’ll worry about it later”: the thinking that kept Matt sick 30:45 — His wife’s pregnancy forces him to face his drinking 32:28 — Obsessing over alcohol while his son is born 33:45 — Cocaine and meth return 34:35 — A three-day run and getting thrown out of the house 35:25 — Returning to meetings and finally working the Steps 36:49 — Matt’s personal Third Step prayer 38:47 — Prayer, gratitude and rebuilding a relationship with God 39:25 — DJing as a recovery hobby 41:09 — How Dopey gave Matt purpose and connection 42:15 — Remembering Chris, Annie, Colleen and other lost dopes 46:06 — Dopey Day messages from Nicole, Margaret Cho and Ben 48:33 — Listener reactions to the Katey Sagal episode 52:00 — Workit Health 53:21 — B. Getz returns—with a new baby 55:44 — Discovering Dopey on a Northern California weed farm 58:09 — Dopey as a lifeline while white-knuckling opioid withdrawal 59:45 — Were cannabis farms a refuge for drug addicts? 1:00:55 — B. gets kicked off a weed farm after mailing himself pills 1:02:55 — “Trimigrants,” communal living and cannabis-farm culture 1:05:19 — Legalization and the loss of the cannabis frontier 1:07:45 — Why traditional recovery once frightened B. 1:10:08 — Dopey’s widening recovery tent 1:11:15 — Service and helping other people in crisis 1:13:00 — How fatherhood changed B.’s relationship with drugs 1:16:00 — Leaving opioids and kratom behind 1:19:00 — Parenthood, responsibility and staying useful 1:23:00 — Dopey Day reflections and life after Chris 1:27:16 — Recovery Unplugged 1:28:10 — Colin joins the Dopey Day episode 1:29:43 — Grief as one permanent room inside an expanding house 1:31:57 — What eight years of loss have taught Colin 1:34:08 — “They didn’t want recovery badly enough” 1:36:16 — Did people who overdosed simply fail to “do the things”? 1:38:30 — Separating grief from judgment 1:40:57 — Is addiction real—or is it a label we created? 1:43:03 — Culture, diagnosis and different definitions of addiction 1:45:27 — Suffering, freedom and the pathways out 1:47:27 — What does it mean when Twelve-Step recovery doesn’t work? 1:49:53 — The lack of flexibility in addiction treatment 1:50:32 — What helps most: listening, time and trust 1:52:14 — Bad experiences can make people distrust future help 1:53:15 — Community, grief and remembering Chris 1:55:40 — Why Colin remained sober when others couldn’t 1:57:05 — Structure, young-people’s meetings and being accepted 1:59:30 — How Chris helped Dave finally embrace recovery 2:01:50 — The “chemical mixture” that makes recovery possible 2:04:16 — Chris’s legacy inside the Dopey Nation Zoom 2:07:20 — Dopey Day messages from Katie, “Simon Le Bon,” Melanie and Scott 2:11:10 — Remembering all the dopes who have died 2:12:05 — Treatment, medication, meetings and SafeSpot 2:13:35 — Classic Dopey: Chris launches Lonely Space to impress a woman 2:14:20 — Bringing a homeless couple to his parents’ apartment 2:15:37 — Frank asks what happened to his podcast 2:16:15 — “Flash drives are very expensive” 2:17:10 — Dave and Chris attempt Bob Marley 2:18:30 — The ultimate “Toodles” supercut 2:26:42 — Jake finds Dopey while still using 2:27:15 — Banjo version of “I Wanna Be Good So Bad”