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Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Behind the Dopey Red Hot Chili Peppers pt. 2 - Ben Feldman - Director of 'Rise of the Chili Peppers' Heroin, OD, Flea, Hillel

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Dave & Chris

Alternative Health, Mental Health, Comedy, Health & Fitness

4.82.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

TIMESTAMP NOTES 00:00 – Dopey Wednesday theme 00:40 – Dave intro + Chili Peppers episode setup 01:30 – Listener email: coke, Under the Bridge, Chili Peppers connection 05:20 – Spotify comments + Flea, B. Getz, Behind the Dopey talk 07:30 – Voicemail: Jamaica Queens heroin bust, neck shots, dodging cops 12:10 – More Spotify comments + music talk (Alice in Chains, Lanigan, etc.) 19:15 – Intro to Ben Feldman interview 21:00 – Ben Feldman enters: making the Chili Peppers documentary 23:30 – Wham doc inspiration + Hillel journals origin story 26:00 – How Ben got access to Flea & Anthony 30:00 – Ben’s recovery + losing his best friend Jeremy 33:00 – Addiction, relapse, and not knowing how to help someone 37:30 – LA punk scene + Chili Peppers origin energy 40:00 – Flea, Hillel, and how the band actually formed 42:00 – Flea emotional interview + impact of Hillel’s death 47:00 – Brotherhood, art, and Bohemian LA culture 49:30 – Addiction vs connection + isolation themes 51:30 – Dave on losing Chris + how it changed Dopey 54:00 – Sobriety being “kind of fun” + early recovery feeling 58:00 – Music scene: Fairfax High, Slash, Pearl Jam crossover 1:03:00 – Hillel’s family, Holocaust history, and legacy 1:08:00 – Guilt, relapse, and not being able to save people 1:12:00 – Chris, Todd, and death in Dopey history 1:15:00 – Why the film works: love, loss, and carrying on 1:17:00 – Future projects + Dopey collab tease 1:19:00 – Outro + listener banjo song “Good So Bad”

Transcript

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0:00.0

Bum, bamb, bamb, bamp, bamp, bop bomb, bamb, bong, bong, bong, bong, bong.

0:09.0

Hello to the members of the nation. We greet you with elation, because we have a brand new show for you.

0:19.0

With all that stuff we do

0:21.3

Drug addiction and some dumb shit

0:23.8

So grab a chair and come sit

0:26.0

And listen to the show

0:27.9

It's to be Wednesday

0:29.3

It's to be Wednesday

0:31.4

It's to be Wednesday Toopi dopi doopi dopi doopi dopid dope dope dope dope dope dope dope

0:47.7

Hey it's dopey Wednesday it's topey Wednesday it's topey Wednesday it's to be Wednesday. It's to be Wednesday. It's to be Wednesday.

0:57.0

It's dopey Wednesday. All right. Welcome to another episode of the Wednesday Dose of Dopee.

1:09.6

The podcast on drugs, addiction, and other dumb shit.

1:13.8

And my name is Dave.

1:14.9

And today is a very, very, very exciting Wednesday.

1:20.3

Last week on the Wednesday show, we had B. Gets.

1:23.8

And me and B went down the rabbit hole of all we've learned about the red hot chili

1:30.0

pepper's drug use, basically, without actually reading from scar tissue or acid for the

1:37.0

children or any red hot chili pepper book.

1:41.0

This week on the Wednesday dose of dopeopee, we have the actual director of the rise of the

1:50.1

Red Hot Chili Peppers, our brother Hillel. His name is Ben Feldman. And he really, he gave me a

1:57.9

new lease on life that Dope is meaningful enough to get to the director

2:02.3

of a documentary like that. So, thank you, Ben. Thank you for existing. And Ben came to my dad's,

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