Detox and Withdrawal, Todd's First Call in; Gets Arrested in the Projects, Graphic Design Ryan on Trading a laptop for heroin - Dopey Total Replay!

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Dave & Chris

Comedy, Mental Health, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Timestamp Notes 00:00 - 02:30 Dave introduces “Detox Withdrawal” replay and reflects on Chris’s old Dopey book idea 02:30 - 06:00 Music on the Mountain recap, Vermont trip, Susan introducing Karina Rykman 06:00 - 08:30 Dave discusses how early Dopey became hour-long episodes 08:30 - 10:30 Dopey Film Festival promotion and Patreon appreciation 10:30 - 15:00 Patreon and Spotify comments about Rush, Basketball Diaries, bread addiction, and Knicks talk 15:00 - 17:30 Dave reflects emotionally on Todd and Chris both dying in 2018 18:00 Replay episode begins 18:00 - 21:00 Todd randomly calls during recording and tells arrest story 21:00 - 24:00 Community service stories and anti-Semitic jokes 24:00 - 27:00 Todd talks about women, coke, weed, and trying to get on Dopey 27:00 - 30:00 Ryan explains why Dopey worked differently than recovery podcasts 30:00 - 34:00 Todd and Dave argue about sobriety and active addicts appearing on the show 34:00 - 38:00 Mountainside stories and recovery discussion 38:00 - 42:00 Debate about whether Todd should be allowed on Dopey while using 42:00 - 47:00 Ryan attempts to sober coach Todd live on-air 47:00 - 50:00 Todd discusses heroin helping him cope with loneliness and relationships 50:00 - 54:00 AA sponsorship horror stories and recovery talk 54:00 - 58:00 Ryan explains creating the original Dopey logo 58:00 - 01:05:00 Mountainside Phase Four stories and recovery experiences 01:05:00 - 01:10:00 Ryan’s detox and heroin laptop trade story 01:10:00 - 01:15:00 Relapse discussion and Dave’s toenail obsession 01:15:00 - End Podcast structure arguments, “Good So Bad,” and Dave’s emotional modern reflections

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Dopey, the podcast on drugs addiction and other dumb shit.
0:23.2	And my name is Dave and this is the Dopey Total Replay.
0:28.1	And for years when anybody ever asked me, which Dopey Total Replay means we're playing the show from the very beginning.
0:36.6	This is episode 27, detox withdrawal.
0:41.7	We called it.
0:42.9	Or Chris called it detox withdrawal.
0:46.5	I don't know why he called it detox withdrawal.
0:50.2	I think it's because we had two guests on the show.
0:53.6	We had graphic design Ryan, which was Chris's friend from Great Barrington, who he worked
1:00.2	with and he was at Mountainside with.
1:03.6	And Todd called in.
1:06.4	And it's their first show with both of those people.
1:08.9	It's a very historic episode of D dopey, to be honest with you.
1:12.3	Ryan invented the dopey logo.
1:14.7	Chris had this idea.
1:17.0	I always think I wonder if the idea would be valuable now.
1:22.6	Because Chris had an idea to make a book.
1:26.2	I think it was going to be called dopey or dopey stories or something.
1:31.1	And it was going to be just stories from us and the audience.
1:37.6	It was going to be like a collection of dopey stories.
1:40.6	And he made, and Ryan was one of the contributors.
1:43.5	And I don't remember if Ryan helped Chris with the book proposal I don't think he did but Chris made a whole book proposal I think I pitched it at ICM or Philip Morris or something one of those places was interested in doing something with the last jewish waiter and i
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