Blowing $500K on coke, strip clubs, and a doomed after-hours club

How Ciroc Papi moved into his spare bedroom (and took over his life)

Meth Head David steals his car and wears all his clothes

Running a nightclub like Scarface meets Trailer Park Boys

Homelessness, dollar menus, and losing it all

Bipolar mania, addiction, and the road back to sanity

A wild cast of characters: Shelby the bowling ball bouncer, Old Girl, T-Rex, Bones, and more

How David got sentenced...and didn't go to prison after 9 years hanging over his head

How he built Bipolar Guy Loving Life — and what’s next

📝 NOTES:

🎶 Big love to Trinity for the amazing Dopey theme song up top

🚨 Dave’s got gout and might become the poster child for rich man’s foot disease

🧬 Mike starts using at 12, snorting Oxy by 19, full-blown heroin addict by 21

😱 Sells drugs, ruins every family event, finally breaks down in the Bronx

💉 First-time dope sick without knowing he was dope sick

🍄 Eats way too many shrooms and spirals into a poop loop with SpongeBob

💔 Sees his roommate making out with his girl while tripping, main character style

📦 Kicks at home, checks into rehab, finds his people, builds a new life

🌱 Kratom, weed candy, fake nitrous, and scary-ass psychosis trends in the field

🤝 Now works in treatment and still wonders how the fuck he made it

💣 Robbing banks with dye packs exploding mid-getaway

😷 Hooping dope in prison and dealing with the "safe"

🏋️ Becoming the pull-up champ in federal prison

🎨 Obsession with antique tattoo machines and publishing books

🧒 Rescuing his daughters from a cat piss hellhouse

💉 Methadone maintenance, recovery, and giving back

🎶 Ending with his haunting original song Mud Pies

🕊️ Plus: Gary Gilmore, Sonny Barger, Flea, Hep C treatment, and the dirty white boys

In this Patreon teaser, Dave shares a clip from his deeply honest and hilarious conversation with Martin Johnson, frontman of Boys Like Girls. Martin opens up about fear, fame, and the moment in a sauna that changed his life — when a stranger challenged him to define anxiety.

Martin talks about:

Why he hates the word "anxiety"

Staging a self-intervention while still on meds

His crushing fear of not being good enough — as a person, as a singer, as a frontman

The performative madness of early fame

Taking 12–14 Xanax bars a day while chasing success

Losing huge chunks of time in a benzo fog

The overwhelming desire to be seen — even if it meant eating ants or wearing crazy outfits

Dave opens the teaser with some classic Dopey flavor — spring break parenting chaos, Katz’s Deli updates (including a pastrami smoothie?), and a weirdly triggering doctor visit that brought back memories of detox.

Also in this episode:

Dopeywood news! Tickets available now — free for patrons!

Upcoming music & wellness events

The Dopey Fitness Challenge returns

Shoutouts to the $100-tier dopes and all our loyal patrons

And, of course, “Fucking Toodles for Chris.”

🔥 Dopey 526: Andy Roy, Angelo, Bobby & Tuan

🎉 Andy Roy celebrates 5 years clean and brings along Angelo and Bobby from New Origins—the sober living home that’s keeping them grounded and inspired.

🛹 Hear wild tales from the past (jerk-off contests??), what makes recovery actually work, and why the crew plans to stick around and give back.

💥 “The love is real, bro.” This one’s about brotherhood, resilience, and turning chaos into a calling.

💬 Then Dave dives in deep with Dopey spiritual consigliere Tuan from Mountainside 🧘‍♂️ on:

The trap of workaholism in recovery

Why it's so hard to just sit still

What happens when you lose your sponsor (RIP)

🧠 Can you be too spiritual to need a sponsor?

And why love, presence, and stillness are the medicine

🎧 Plus: Dopey poet Ian drops a killer verse, and Dave gives a shoutout to Safe Spot and CustomStickers.com (use code Dopey20 to get 20% off your own stickers!).

💌 Got a thought on Andy or New Origins? Write in: dopeypodcast@gmail.com

🧦 Want a sticker? Hit us up. Or join us on Patreon for tons of bonus content + goodies: 👉 patreon.com/dopeypodcast

❤️ Stay strong, Dopey Nation 🖕 Fucking toodles for Chris

🚨 NEW PATREON EPISODE OUT NOW! 🚨
It's a stroll down Dopey memory lane with my old friend Sloppy Jones (Garrett)—we're talking:

First time doing heroin in our Purchase suite 😳

Selling LSD by the sheet

Wild nights with Joey D’s basement weed club

And… how the new White Lotus season totally sucks (IMO) 🍍

Also… 💔 huge apology to Dopey OG James DeHart—I messed up the merch thing and I’m sending something special your way. If you're still waiting on merch, please hit me up: dopeypodcast@gmail.com

👉 Join the Dopey Patreon for the madness: patreon.com/dopeypodcast

Stay strong, Dopey Nation.
🖤 fucking toodles for Chris

Live from Joe’s Pub!

Ray Brown performs Dopey Love

Chloe LaBranche’s killer stand-up set

Stash Word madness with Brace, Abby, Carl + audience

Panel with Margaret Cho, Brace, Nzinga Harrison, and Erin Carr

Voicemail from Toko in Finland 🇫🇮

RIP Onyx and the cats of Happy Cat Sanctuary 🐾

Louis Mandrapilias tells insane heroin smuggling story

Talk of sexsomnia, self-pleasure, and how to work through codependency

Good So Bad performed live by Dave and Doug

Gaytreon

STREP THROAT!

Ricky Powell

Beastie Boys

Seinfeld

LSD

SSDN FTFC!