Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Tales From the Psych Ward with Amy Dresner - Epilepsy, Grief, Recovery & Staying Alive When Sobriety Still Sucks

FILM FEST TIX: https://buytickets.at/thedopeyfoundation/2216905 PATREON: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast workithealth.com/dopey This week on Dopey Wednesday,! We begin with a Father’s Day rant about dads texting each other, calls his father Alan live on the show, argues about masculinity, the Knicks championship, post-Knicks withdrawal, the Dopey Film Festival, and whether Seymour is allowed to come. Dave also reads Patreon and Spotify comments about Todd’s sister Allie, Todd’s apartment, Dopey socks, and listener reactions. Then the episode shifts into a live Workit Health/Dopey event with the great Amy “Dopey Dres” Dresner, author of My Fair Junkie. Amy talks brutally and hilariously about long-term recovery when life does not magically become beautiful: losing her father, mother, and cat in a short period of time, checking herself into a psych ward with ten years sober, surviving suicidal ideation, epilepsy, seizures, brain meds, isolation, grief, and the nightmare comedy of American healthcare. Dave and Amy get into harm reduction, MAT, 12-step recovery, writing through trauma, being funny in the middle of misery, shame, forgiveness, isolation, suicidal thoughts, and why connection is still the only real way out. It’s classic Dopey: funny, dark, honest, messy, sad, useful, and somehow hopeful. All that and more on a weird new dopey! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

White Supremacy Rally, Injured at the Gym, Fighting with Everybody & Missing Dopey Zoom with H.A.D

Film Festival Tickets: https://buytickets.at/thedopeyfoundation/2216905 FULL EPISODE ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast Summary   This week on Dopey Tuesday, Dave welcomes back his old friend Doug for another session. Dave admits he's stressed out trying to bank ten episodes before vacation while also preparing for the upcoming Dopey Film Festival. The pressure, combined with everyday disasters, has turned him into a basket case.   Dave tells the story of joining a local gym and getting evaluated by the massively muscular trainer Joe. Everything goes smoothly until a set of lunges leaves Dave convinced he tore his hamstring during the assessment itself. Despite his injuries and insecurities, he signs up for personal training and dreams of eventually turning his basement into his own home gym.   The guys revisit Dave's infamous barber story and discuss how comments made on the podcast always seem to find their way back to the people involved. Dave also vents about his mounting list of problems, including blowing out Linda's bicycle tire, Winnie destroying the screen door, and his general inability to keep up with life.   Doug takes heat for missing meetings and for potentially skipping the Dopey Film Festival, while Dave complains that Doug is supposed to be helping recruit attendees. All that and more on the teaser - liste n to the full show on patreon!   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Amsterdam LSD Disaster, Whips, Jail & Classic Chris plus Vinnie - Dopey Replay 33:

Dopey Recovery Short Film Festival https://buytickets.at/thedopeyfoundation/2216905 Patreon - www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast Summary This week on the Dopey replay! Dave opens the show melting in a ninety-degree attic after removing his ugly window air conditioners and battling his third malfunctioning Rodecaster. He spirals through equipment frustration, a failed attempt to recruit an actress from The Pitt, and his anxiety about banking ten episodes before vacation, before reminding himself that gratitude and acceptance are the answer. Dave promotes the June 26th Dopey Film Festival and reads heartfelt emails from listeners who discovered Dopey after Chris's death and have been listening from the beginning. He reflects on the murder of Dopey legend DJ Don, discussing the tragic circumstances surrounding his death and how loss remains an unavoidable part of making a podcast about addiction. Dave and Chris with special guest "Vinny," an old friend and longtime stoner. The episode wanders hilariously through stand-up comedy, Leonardo DiCaprio encounters, Perrier pronunciation debates, and Chris's legendary stories before landing on the centerpiece: Vinny's unbelievable Amsterdam LSD tale. While studying abroad, Vinny and a group of fellow Americans drop acid in Amsterdam. One of them, "Tok," completely loses his mind, strips naked in a coffee shop, searches for his dog "Java," swings at strangers, gets whipped by two random guys carrying sex whips, and ultimately ends up handcuffed and sleeping it off in a Dutch jail. By morning, Tok remembers absolutely nothing. all that and more! on a super brand new and yet simultaneously old episode of that good old dopey show!   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Dopey 588: Drinking Pee, Classic Alcoholic, Opanas, Shipwrecked, Mark Lanegan, School Shootings & Sobriety — Musician and Author Mishka Shubaly

Film Festival Tickets: https://buytickets.at/thedopeyfoundation/2216905 Patreon: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast This week on Dopey! We continue to celebrate the Knicks championship, we prepare for the ticker tape parade, and share a pair of horrifying junkie stories involving blue toilet water and fabric softener injections. We promotes the upcoming Dopey Recovery Film Festival and we read comments from the Brandon Novak episode before sitting down with acclaimed musician and author Mishka Shubaly. Mishka opens up about growing up with a distant father, surviving a school shooting, discovering alcohol at 14, leaving home at 15, and falling into a life of heavy drinking and self-destruction. He talks about moving to New York, shipwrecking in the Bahamas, surviving by drinking his own urine from a hard hat, and eventually quitting alcohol without rehab or AA. The conversation explores writing, music, Bukowski, Mark Lanegan, Pink Floyd, resentment, running, dogs, hunting, atheism, and recovery. Mishka explains how ultra-distance running became his own recovery program and why community remains the missing piece in his sobriety. All that and somehow a ton more - on the brand new episode of that good old dopey show! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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

Film Festival: https://buytickets.at/thedopeyfoundation/2216905 Patreon: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast This week on Dopey Greatest Hits,! Dave dusts off one of the biggest episodes in the show's history as the Dopey Patreon votes Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe to the top of the poll. Before the interview, Dave celebrates Ray Brown’s legendary “Home Sweet Heroine,” reflects on working Step Eight with a sponsee, and shares another gratitude story involving his father. Then Jules the Cocaine Bear delivers a classic disaster tale involving cocaine, drunken party crashing, a switchblade, British police, and a miraculous escape from drug charges. Kimber King joins the show to react to comments from her replay episode, discuss Wednesday Zoom antics, laugh about bizarre drug combinations, promote Safe Spot, and celebrate the Knicks' championship run. The two revisit old stories and joke about everything from meth vapes to foot fetishes and Suboxone flavors. The centerpiece of the episode is Dave’s epic conversation with Nikki Sixx. Nikki discusses twenty-plus years of sobriety, fatherhood, moving to Wyoming, writing The First 21, and how creativity replaced addiction. He opens up about childhood trauma, being introduced to drugs at an early age, selling “chocolate mescaline,” discovering heroin, and surviving the darkest years chronicled in The Heroin Diaries. Nikki reflects on Mötley Crüe’s forty-year journey, his friendships with Aerosmith and the Rolling Stones, the monster of addiction that never dies, and why he continues to share his story in hopes of helping others. The interview finishes with a rapid-fire rock and roll quiz before Dave signs off after his dog nearly attacks an Amazon delivery guy. PLUS MORE!!!!!                 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.