Do I Really Look that Much Like Ted Cruz? Erin Khar! Addiction Recovery!

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction and Recovery

Dave & Chris

Comedy, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

This wee on the Tuesday teaser,! Dave shares on the upcoming DopeyCon 6, crash keto diets, and getting mistaken for Ted Cruz at the Outlaw Music Festival show at Jones Beach. We get updates on recovery, Dopey Day (August 16th — Chris’s birthday), and a Patreon-only conversation with returning guest Erin Khar, aka the “strung out author.” Erin talks about winning an election, public stigma, her recovery, and what it’s like to be gotcha’d in NYC politics. Plus, Dave reviews the Outlaw Music Fest (Wilco ruled, Dylan sucked, and Willie was old but lovable), vents about smelly sandwiches and weed vapes, and throws out a call for another great woman guest at DopeyCon.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another Tuesday teaser for Dopey, the podcast on drugs, addiction, and dumb shit.
0:24.4	My name is Dave.
0:25.6	If you guys have never listened to the show before, I suggest going back to episode one and starting it all over.
0:34.5	You'll get to know our mission and purpose.
0:38.3	If you have listened, welcome back.
0:41.7	If you are not a Patreon member, you should go join Patreon.
0:46.5	It's www. patreon.com slash dopey podcast because this is only a teaser of a conversation I had with the one and only
0:54.8	strung out author, elite equestrian and unlicensed advice columnist Aaron Carr, who
1:01.1	wrote a book called Strung Out. She's not really strung out. And if you want to hear the
1:04.5	whole thing, it's only available on Patreon. Also, only available on Patreon are tickets to our dopy con this year.
1:14.5	It is our sixth dopeicon, but we are celebrating 10 years of dopey because 10 years ago in October was when me and Chris really started the work to create this podcast.
1:29.2	And I need to say that, you know, whenever the dopy day is coming up,
1:37.4	dopy day is August 16th, which also would have been Chris's 51, I'm sorry, 41st birthday.
1:47.5	It was my 51st birthday.
1:49.0	I'm 10 years older than him.
1:50.5	So it would have been his 41st birthday.
1:53.7	And we celebrate Dopey Day by all of us putting the Dopey logo over our eyes to celebrate
2:00.8	Chris, to remember Chris, but also to
2:03.6	remember all the other drug addicts we've lost along the way. And I have to say, in general,
2:11.1	right now, I feel pretty good. I feel like I've been doing some recovery stuff. I've been like, I mean, I'm dieting.
2:20.0	I'm exercising.
2:21.8	I got really fat and I'm going to Park City, Utah next week for the Park City
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