DopeSick, Arrests, Jail, Prison & Touring — with Mystery Guest: JayTotal Replay:

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Dave & Chris

Alternative Health, Mental Health, Comedy, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2026

⏱️ 113 minutes

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TIMESTAMP NOTES TIMESTAMPS 0:17 — Dave intro: the Total Replay series, why replaying Chris episodes matters 2:46 — Film Festival promo, Patreon, Wednesday Zoom 5:12 — Knicks NBA Finals, Trump at MSG 7:17 — Patreon comments: listener 1.5 years sober who used to listen while walking to cop 9:31 — Ray's taken-down episode explained 12:48 — Episode 30 begins. Meet Jay — gave Dave his first weed in 1994. Heroin bag branding discussion. 15:11 — Jay's origin: quit karate the second he smoked weed. Crack senior year of high school. Ate 16 hits of acid, woke up in a police station. 22:03 — Shooting crack with white vinegar. "Every now and then I'd resort to balsamic." 30:00 — Jay on getting clean in 2000: "You're just fucking lucky if you get it. Not everybody gets it." 31:34 — Kicking dope on tour in Jerusalem. Shitting blood in the Garden of Gethsemane. 37:00 — Dave's South by Southwest story: fake methadone, spider dream on the plane, copping in Austin while sick 43:15 — FedEx packages of dope arrive at the hotel. City of Angels. The relief. 47:00 — Arrested twice in one day on the Lower East Side. Brother pistol-whipped by cops. 49:00 — Dave's dealer "Guy" — sitting with him was the bottom. Arrested buying drugs. 52:45 — Arrested sober for putting up a sticker. Jaden the 16-year-old in jail. Dave gives her his favorite hoodie and immediately regrets it. 58:00 — Barnes & Noble arrest. Reaching through cell bars to grab Xanax from the garbage. Cuddling with "Kangol kid" in the Tombs. 1:04:32 — Traumatic brain injury institution, took 15 Atavans, attacked two old guys in Huntington Beach blacked out. 1:08:00 — Black tar heroin. The Afrin bottle airport trick. 1:09:00 — Under Earners Anonymous. Sex and Love Addicts. Hasidic Jew counting days without porn. 1:22:00 — How Dopey started. 1:27:00 — Anonymity as a spiritual principle. 1:28:00 — Listener email: Scott, truck driver, 7 weeks clean, "bathroom covered in spurts of blood." 1:34:00 — Syd Barrett deep dive. Getting dosed by his own band. The van moment. Showing up fat and bald at Abbey Road. 1:39:00 — Getting clean made Jay a better performer. "Painfully shy singer" → "charismatic front man." 1:43:00 — Artie Lange at the Comedy Cellar. Chris gave him a Dopey card and said nothing useful.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to dopy.
0:19.2	This is the total replay of dopy, the podcast on drugs, addiction, and dumb shit.
0:23.9	My name is Dave. We started this show 10 years ago. I started with my friend Chris O'Connor.
0:30.8	We had gone to treatment together and Chris relapsed and died of a fentanyl overdose in July of 2018.
0:40.9	And I've been making the show ever since.
0:43.6	And at the beginning of this year, I decided it would be cool to replay all the episodes from the beginning with Chris.
0:51.3	And it has been cool.
0:53.5	It's been really, really really weird but good
0:57.5	and i think a lot of people have been getting to know Chris that didn't get to go back and
1:03.8	listen from the beginning and i think that's important i think it's very important to hear
1:09.2	first of all what a great person, Chris was,
1:12.1	how funny he was, how smart he was, and to trace his recovery that turned into his relapse,
1:20.2	that turned into his death. I think it's very relevant. I think it's a horribly cautionary tale.
1:26.5	I think it's a horrible tragedy.
1:28.8	And in the 130 episodes, you're going to hear from a lot of people who are no longer with us.
1:34.4	We heard from Todd the other day.
1:36.5	And we will be hearing from more people that are gone.
1:39.8	And of course, one day I'll be gone too.
1:42.1	And everybody who's ever on the show will be gone and so will you guys.
1:46.3	So that's true too.
1:48.5	This week on the Total Replay, it was our first really long episode and it was me and Chris and this guy named Jason who was really good about being anonymous. He was in a pretty prominent band in
2:04.4	the 90s. He was the guy who gave me my first heroin. And through the years, everybody wanted to
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