Nikki Sixx on Heroin, Sobriety, Mötley Crüe, The Heroin Diaries & Recovery | Dopey Greatest Hits

Nikki Sixx on Heroin, Sobriety, Mötley Crüe, The Heroin Diaries & Recovery | Dopey Greatest Hits

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Timestamp Notes 00:00 – Ray Brown’s “Home Sweet Heroine” opens the replay with classic Dopey parody lyrics. 01:29 – Dave introduces Dopey Greatest Hits and explains that Patreon voted for Nikki Sixx over Danny Trejo, DMC, and Hank Azaria. 02:15 – Story about getting nervous that Nikki Sixx’s team would object to Ray Brown’s Motley Crüe parody. 03:52 – Dave celebrates “Home Sweet Heroine” and calls Ray Brown the Hemingway of the Dopey world. 05:00 – Dave talks about working Step Eight with a sponsee and making amends. 06:18 – Dave jokes that his father complained he talked too much about gratitude without thanking him. 07:00 – Jules the Cocaine Bear calls in with a drunken coke-fueled party-crashing story. 08:45 – Jules offers cocaine to another guest and is accused of trying to sell drugs. 09:45 – Partygoers throw him out while smashing him into door frames. 10:45 – Fearing an attack, Jules grabs a switchblade and walks straight into a policeman. 11:40 – Police arrest him but unknowingly return his hidden cocaine inside an asthma inhaler. 12:15 – Jules flushes the coke down the jail toilet and eventually beats the knife charge. 12:55 – Kimber King joins Dave to discuss comments from her replay episode. 14:00 – Debate over whether Suboxone tastes terrible or like orange candy. 15:30 – Discussion of Dave’s infamous “peed my pants walking to Harlem” story. 17:00 – Crypto talk and warnings about gambling tendencies in recovery. 18:20 – Kimber talks about the Wednesday Dopey Zoom and singing disasters. 19:30 – Debate about ads and whether listeners complain too much. 20:00 – Kimber recalls her meth vape and saline mixture containing fentanyl, cocaine, ketamine, and Xanax. 21:30 – Dave and Kimber discuss Harvey visiting Alan at the film festival. 22:40 – AJ apologizes for criticizing Dave and says Kimber is one of his favorite guests. 23:20 – Dave celebrates the Knicks winning the championship and plans to attend the parade. 24:30 – More praise for Kimber and memories of old stories. 25:30 – Sarah comments that bingeing and purging with friends almost sounded fun. 26:45 – Dave and Kimber joke about trauma bonding and eating disorders. 27:20 – Nicotine patches and dementia prevention article. 28:00 – Kimber admits she still vapes and her daughter brings her the vape. 29:10 – Confusion over stories involving Tony Bologna and foot fetishes. 30:00 – Kimber promotes Safe Spot, the overdose monitoring service. 31:00 – Dave and Kimber say goodbye and prepare for the Nikki Sixx interview. Nikki Sixx Interview 33:10 – Nikki Sixx joins Dopey and Dave explains how The Heroin Diaries affected him. 35:00 – Nikki talks about being happiest at sixty-three with over twenty years sober. 36:30 – Raising a young daughter in long-term recovery. 38:00 – Nikki explains why he returned to rehab despite years of sobriety. 39:30 – Fame never interested him as much as being in a band. 41:30 – Moving to Wyoming inspired The First 21 and memories of Idaho. 43:00 – Nikki describes creativity and constantly recording ideas. 45:00 – Childhood memories, books, and discovering rock and roll. 46:00 – Smoking weed at six or seven after living in Mexico. 48:00 – Standing up to bullies with rocks in his lunchbox. 50:00 – Dating Richard Pryor through his mother and reflecting on childhood. 53:00 – Obsession and compulsion as the foundation of his personality. 55:00 – Selling “chocolate mescaline” capsules. 56:45 – Thoughts on hippies and why seventies music shaped him more. 58:00 – First experiences with cocaine backstage at the Starwood. 59:20 – Alcohol as his first love. 59:45 – Trying heroin for the first time and immediately getting sick. 1:01:00 – Why he continues talking publicly about addiction. 1:03:00 – Dave and Nikki discuss heroin quieting the mind. 1:04:30 – Nikki explains that moderation never worked for him. 1:06:00 – Using addictive tendencies for family, books, photography, and music. 1:07:30 – Launching children’s animation and songwriting projects. 1:09:00 – Nikki praises Dopey and recovery communities. 1:10:30 – Shame over showing the band the same song twice while strung out. 1:12:00 – Recording the audiobook for The Heroin Diaries. 1:14:00 – Raising over a million dollars for Covenant House youth music programs. 1:17:00 – Fear that rock and roll has lost its place in modern culture. 1:19:00 – His songwriting process and Vince Neil’s phrasing. 1:21:00 – Motley Crüe’s wild reputation and honesty about excess. 1:23:00 – Vince Neil’s accident and the band’s different paths to sobriety. 1:25:00 – Realizing Motley Crüe has survived forty years together. 1:27:00 – Preparing physically for another stadium tour. 1:29:00 – Addiction as a monster chained in the basement that never dies. 1:31:00 – Beatles versus Stones and why he prefers Wings. 1:32:00 – Watching the Beatles documentary changed his view of Paul McCartney. 1:33:00 – Aerosmith over Led Zeppelin and admiration for Steven Tyler. 1:35:00 – Alice Cooper over Kiss. 1:36:00 – New York Dolls versus Ramones. 1:38:00 – Sid Vicious versus Johnny Thunders. 1:40:00 – Memories of opening for the Rolling Stones. 1:42:00 – Thoughts on social media, controversy, and clickbait. 1:43:00 – Keith Richards as an early hero and meeting him backstage. 1:45:00 – The importance of receptiveness and humility. 1:47:00 – Nikki reflects on aging and protecting sobriety. 1:49:00 – Dave thanks Nikki and says they’ll save the craziest stories for another interview. 1:50:20 – Dave’s dog nearly attacks an Amazon driver and destroys the screen door. 1:50:50 – Outro and “Toodles for Chris.”