<p>This Week on Dopey! Our annual Thanksgiving episode opens with a Dopey holiday song and gratitude messages from the Dopey Nation. We remember the brilliant Jimmy Cliff and play a few tunes. We read Billy Strings reviews and talk shit about AI! PLUS DOPEY NATION GRATITUDE before introducing guest Charlotte McKinney.</p><p>Charlotte joins at around 45 days sober. She talks about early sobriety, feeling scared to fully commit, and using comedy as her “secret life.” She opens up about her old weed habit, quitting cold turkey, partying with boyfriends, and chasing drugs through different phases of her life. She shares some of her craziest stories — including taking LSD and going to family dinners and spending holidays totally high. She and Dave talk recovery, meetings, codependency, boundaries, and finding sober community. They end with Dave’s rapid-fire game (mushrooms vs acid, Beatles vs Stones, heroin vs meth, etc.).</p><p>Next, Steve Poltz drops in with a story about the late Todd Snider. He describes getting hotboxed backstage with Todd and Evan Dando at the Ryman, being blasted on secondhand smoke, and going onstage dazed. He recalls Todd’s health decline, his death, and their long friendship.</p><p>All that and more on this brand spanking new - post Billy Strings episode of that good old Dopey Show!</p><h1> </h1><br> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com/">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.dopeypodcast.com/www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast">www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast</a></p><p>The teaser opens with you explaining the whole point of a Tuesday teaser: push listeners “like little dogs or lemmings” to Patreon, where the full episode lives. You pitch the Wednesday Patreon Zoom, the Saturday Zoom, the Recovery Zoom, the bonus videos and episodes, and joke about your inconsistent track record of scheduling Patreon Zooms.</p><p>You welcome the massive influx of Billy Strings fans after the huge episode—Rolling Stone, People Magazine, Yahoo News, and a pile of country sites covered it. You read a handful of Spotify comments reacting to the interview: praise for Billy’s vulnerability, your interviewing, people crying, people relating to losing their mothers, and some teasing about your age and your Soft White Underbelly appearance. You joke about the cinematic episode description likely being written by AI.</p><p>Then you play a clip from last week’s recording with Doug, where you two open packages at Katz’s from German Dopey fans. A listener named Saul sends a long, heartfelt note about discovering the show via her boyfriend Jake, who listened to Dopey while working in German vineyards. They sent you spelt (“Dinkle”) cookies. Doug refuses to eat them because he’s convinced they’ll kill him before his hospital appointment. You accuse him of hating “gays and gluten.”</p><p>The teaser then cuts to your and Doug’s conversation about Tank Sinatra being the other “bald Long Islander” who recorded in your garage. Doug doesn’t know who he is; you explain Tank’s meme empire, his sobriety, Shark Tank appearance, his refusal to promote your episode, and your petty scorched-earth unfollow.</p><p>Next you preview the beginning of the full Tuesday Patreon episode, where you and Doug get into reading Kevin Sherry’s furious anti-AI email. Sherry says AI art is “repulsive,” “lazy,” “morally bankrupt,” “stealing,” and makes you look like you’ve “given up.” You and Doug riff on the bad AI portraits you’ve both received, debate AI vs real art, and joke that Sherry has an “autistic flair,” which Doug mishears and then corrects. Doug argues synthesizers and sampling were also hated when they arrived; you argue AI feels different but still fun to play with.</p><p>The teaser ends with you thanking Saul for the cookies, apologizing again to Tank Sinatra for being petty, updating listeners that you now need glasses, and reminding them to join Patreon. You close with “Stay strong… and fucking toodles for Chris,” followed by a bit of a Dopey song.</p><br> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com/">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.dopeypodcast.com/www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast">www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast</a></p><p>Dave opens the Tuesday teaser alone in his house, loving the rare quiet and recording next to Susan the snake’s terrarium. He complains about his fancy Rogan-style mic breaking, says he hates stands, and talks about launching “fake meditation shit” because he likes the sound of his own voice.</p><p>He previews this week’s Patreon episode: him and Doug in the Honda Pilot “by the bay,” where Dave had a full sneezing meltdown and wound up blowing his nose into his <strong>sock</strong> for the entire show because he had no tissues.</p><p>Dave announces a possible new Dopey schedule:</p><p><strong>Monday:</strong> standalone interview</p><p><strong>Tuesday:</strong> teaser</p><p><strong>Wednesday:</strong> Secret Dopey</p><p><strong>Thursday:</strong> archived interviews or mailbag</p><p><strong>Friday:</strong> Dopey</p><p>He announces a Patreon Zoom at 9pm.</p><p>He then reads an email from a listener named Dave, who realized his <i>sponsor</i> is the guy who made the Firecracker rap for DopeyCon. Dave plays the Firecracker rap and riffs on how good it is, how white recovery rap can be weird, and how much he loves the shout-out to Artie Lange and Chris.</p><p>The emailer says he’s 18 months sober and thanks Dave. Dave tells him to send more rap.</p><p>Then the teaser cuts to Dave and Doug in the Honda Pilot, roasting each other. Doug calls Dave a homeless person for blowing his nose in a sock. They argue about Rich Roll, Doug’s critiques of Dave’s interviews, Doug’s surgery, Dave’s voice, meditation, and a guy on Soft White Underbelly. Doug claims Dave was needy and weak on his second Rich Roll appearance. Dave pushes back.</p><p>All that and not much more on the all new patreon teaser for the good old dopey show.</p><br> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com/">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>

<p>NO INSERTED ADS: <a href="https://www.dopeypodcast.com/www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast">www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast</a></p><p>This week on Dopey!In this unbelievably heavy episode, Dave sits with Glynis as she unpacks a lifetime of addiction, trauma, and survival that spans Massachusetts, Texas, L.A., jail, pimping culture, meth psychosis, fentanyl, gang life, and ultimately federal prison. Glynis describes early emotional wounds, resentment toward her mother, the “magnet” pull of addiction, and how heroin became the only place she ever felt OK. She talks about couch-surfing and freezing nights in Boston, smoking meth for the first time in Texas, disappearing on multi-day runs, underground game rooms, GHB comedowns, and getting sucked into the world of pimps, sex work, and Money Mike — a relationship built on psychological control, fear tactics, and the twisted logic of “pimp and ho culture.”</p><p>Her story escalates into car thefts, robberies, abscesses, neck shots, living in trap motels, being handcuffed to a sink by gang members, and eventually becoming a renegade escort in L.A., buying ounces and then pounds of fentanyl off Skid Row. Glynis explains how she was recruited to smuggle undocumented people across the border — driving a Mercedes with people hidden in the trunk while cartel-connected spotters fed her instructions through Bluetooth. She’s arrested, violently kicks fentanyl in federal custody, falls from a bunk, hits her head, and becomes cross-eyed for months. COVID lockdown hits prison, she begins praying out of desperation, and she’s unexpectedly released early. Dumped into a chaotic men’s sober house, she meets “Jimmy the Poet,” the only sober person there, and for the first time listens when someone suggests recovery. Glynis begins 12-step work, finds community, and slowly becomes a stable, married, sponsoring adult who can finally say she didn’t stay broken forever.</p><p>All that and way more on a rough and tough new episode of the good old dopey show!</p><br> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com/">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>

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<h2>www.patreon.con/dopeypodcast</h2><p>This Week on Dopey! I'm in Philly at the Rise for Recovery Conference! I was on Soft White Underbelly! I read <strong>Spotify comments</strong>, and one of the single greatest dopey emails ever! And Old School Dopey Kirby sends in a <strong>voicemail</strong> about what it means to be an addict. Then we welcome the incredible <strong>Roddy Bottum</strong>, keyboardist for <i>Faith No More</i> and lead singer/guitar of <i>Imperial Teen</i>, and author of his new book, <i>The Royal We.</i> Roddy talks about growing up gay in a hard-rock world, his early San Francisco punk days, and how <strong>Courtney Love</strong> briefly joined <i>Faith No More</i> before their friendship and drug use turned dark. He remembers touring with the Chili Peppers, getting <strong>arrested for weed</strong>, experimenting with <strong>heroin</strong>, and being surrounded by chaos as <i>Faith No More</i> blew up with “Epic.”Roddy opens up about how <strong>addiction and grief collided</strong> — the deaths of his friend Cliff, <strong>Kurt Cobain</strong>, and especially his <strong>father</strong>, who died of cancer soon after Roddy got sober. He and Dave talk about recovery, guilt, and the weirdness of surviving when so many others didn’t.</p><br> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com/">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>

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<h3>🧠 <strong>Dopey Episode 555: Rich Roll Returns!</strong></h3><p>This week on Dopey!</p><p>This week starts off with me at home, losing my mind. Linda’s at Nora’s swim meet, Susan’s sick, I’m cooking dinner and reading Marcus Aurelius texts from Dr. Giles like I’m suddenly in Gladiator. I talk about meeting <strong>Jeff Ross</strong> at Katz’s (he thought I’d be short and fat), read a bunch of <strong>Spotify comments</strong>, eat ice cream, complain about my dental implants, and shout out everyone who still leaves reviews for my dad.</p><p>There’s a <strong>voicemail from Tom in Oregon</strong> about trying to cop dope in <strong>Vietnam</strong> that goes very gay and sideways. Then there’s a super sweet email from <strong>Bailey in Chicago</strong>, a recovery coach who just hit five years. I also ramble about <strong>Mountainside</strong>, <strong>Oro Recovery</strong>, and <strong>Recovery Unplugged</strong>, and Recovery.com who all actually help Dopey Nation people when they’re in trouble.</p><p>Then <strong>Rich Roll</strong> comes over to my dad’s apartment. Rich literally just flew back from Japan and tells me this wild story about doing a guided psychedelic session in Mexico with psilocybin and MDMA. The dude <i>never</i> did drugs before. He talks about family trauma, ego, trying to find grace, love, all that spiritual shit — and somehow makes it sound cool. We talk about AA, time, identity, relapse shame, and podcasting. He’s deep and I’m just interrupting him constantly.</p><p>We also talk about music (he’s a Radiohead, R.E.M., Smiths guy — no Dead, no Floyd, no fun) and how podcasting is now just people chasing viral clips. He says he’s in it for the relationships, and I actually believe him.</p><p>All that plus more on the somewhat AI powered new edition of the good old dopey show.</p><br> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com/">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>

<p>This week on the tease! Susan is sick! Eating Bad! Dental Surgery Percocet! Nitrous! Montana Prison in Texas! Joey Ramone!</p><p>MORE! MORE! MORE!</p><br> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com/">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>

<h2><a href="https://www.dopeypodcast.com/www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast">www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast</a></h2><p> </p><p>This week on Dopey! Dave opens the episode feeling sick, dreading his upcoming dental implants, and joking about painkillers, nitrous, and Tylenol PM. He congratulates longtime dopes Margaret Hernandez (36 years sober) and Mattie Veach (recovering from cancer surgery), prays for the Knicks, and introduces guest <strong>RJ </strong>Elizarraz, co-host of <i>Against All Odds</i> with Rachel Slocum and founder of Oak Forest Recovery.</p><p>Before diving in, Dave reads <strong>Spotify comments</strong> from the Brace Belden episode — about therapy, high memories, Suboxone, and more — gives shoutouts to listeners, and pushes the legendary Dopey socks. He jokes about how each platform reacts differently: Patreon loves him, Reddit hates him, Facebook doesn’t care.</p><p>He plays an old <strong>Miles Davis</strong> clip about Charlie Parker doing drugs and sex in a taxi while eating fried chicken, and finds the recovery moral in it — <i>acceptance is the key</i>. A listener named <strong>Nathan from San Francisco</strong> sends a disgusting classic: at 12 he cooked and ate his own poop hoping it would make DMT. It didn’t. He puked, got bullied, overdosed, and finally got sober. Dave laughs, calls it top-notch Dopey storytelling, and awards him socks. </p><p>Then comes the main <strong>interview with RJ Elizares</strong>. They record in RJ’s Westlake Village home — complete with an infrared sauna, cold plunge, and jade crystal massage bed. RJ also runs a marketing agency for medical clients and has a 13-year-old daughter.</p><p>RJ tells his story:</p><p>Grew up in Westlake, straight-edge nerd playing video games and paintball.</p><p>Swore he’d never do drugs, then caved at 15 after a best-friend betrayal.</p><p>Smoked weed with his stepbrother, laughed hysterically at <i>Maury Povich</i>, devoured frozen peas, and instantly became “the stoner.”</p><p>Started selling weed and stealing paintball gear; pulled off a heist from an optometrist’s back-room store until his stepbrother <strong>turned him in</strong> for the reward.</p><p>Skipped school, bribed attendance clerks with weed, got caught high at a parent meeting, expelled.</p><p>At continuation school, excelled while high, manipulated teachers, and got <strong>expelled again</strong> for lying.</p><p>Ran away on a dirt bike, sold weed full-time, then transferred to another continuation school where a rival stabbed him in the arm with a pencil for “selling on his turf.”</p><p>Graduated early by testing out, kept selling, moved out, and lived off weed money.</p><p>With his girlfriend (later the mother of his daughter) did ecstasy, coke, Xanax, mushrooms, pills — everything but heroin.</p><p>She overdosed on ecstasy and stopped breathing before being revived — a turning point moment.</p><h2> </h2><h2>🔍 SEO KEYWORDS</h2><p> </p><br> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com/">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>