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Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction and Recovery

Dopey 255: That Gnarly Dopey with Todd ’Z-Man’ Zalkins, Sublime, Opiates, Fentanyl, Cocaine, Recovery, Detox

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction and Recovery

Dave & Chris

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

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2020

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

This week on Dopey! Long time Long Beach Punker and Sublime confidant, Todd Zalkins joins us to drop some seriously gnarly Dopey. Todd shares some intimate stories from coming up and touring with Sublime and other Long Beach Punk bands. We hear all about his cataclysmic drop off into opiate and cocaine oblivion. Including his propensity for fentanyl lollypops. We also get to hear of his heroic long way back to recovery and sanity. PLUS Dave finds his once lost spirituality! The glorious return of Alan! Dave covers Sublime's Garden Grove, a wicked Fiah email and Dave defends himself from an annoying voicemail from New Zealand. All that and more on a beak packing, norco eating, mashed potatoe fucking, skanking, moshing, whiskey drinking, fentanyl licking and eventually biting epic episode of Dopey! More About Dopey: Dopey Podcast is the world’s greatest podcast on drugs, addiction and dumb shit. Chris and I were two IV heroin addicts who loved to talk about all the coke we smoked, snorted and shot, all the pills we ate, smoked, all the weed we smoked and ate, all the booze we consumed and all the consequences we suffered. After making the show for 2 and a half years, Chris tragically relapsed and died from a fentanyl overdose. Dopey continued on, at first to mourn the horrible loss of Chris, but then to continue our mission - which was at its core, to keep addicts and alcoholics company. Whether to laugh at our time in rehab, or cry at the worst missteps we made, Dopey tells the truth about drugs, addiction and recovery. We continually mine the universe for stories rife with debauchery and highlight serious drug taking and alcoholism. We also examine different paths toward addiction recovery. We shine a light on harm reduction and medication assisted treatment. We talk with celebrities and nobodies and stockpile stories to be the greatest one stop shop podcast on all things drugs, addiction, recovery and comedy!

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0:00.0

I tried. I could hear it. Norco for good amp.

0:11.7

Perkis had oxy, heroin, fennel, holy sands.

0:14.3

Next, I'll receive more fena value.

0:16.3

Back my 11 beat, like a dyson. Back human sanity.

0:19.3

I'll try to explain. I reach him, spakin' on a sad,

0:21.9

a big tray.

0:26.7

I'm crippin' on my suit. I really need some more.

0:29.2

Racer my sled to the CVS store. Line is deep in my skin.

0:32.7

His crowd is humming, honey, baby.

0:35.0

His violent, even though the grams appear.

0:37.5

Fick your co-pages, give him here.

0:44.0

Long way, can I come again?

0:48.5

Long way, can I come again?

0:51.5

Long way, can I come again?

0:56.9

Long way, long way back.

1:05.8

This episode of Dopey is brought to you by our friends at Alla Recovery,

1:10.2

located in sunny Southern California, in Silver Lake in Malibu.

1:14.5

Alla was created by our friend Bob Forest,

1:17.2

and his friends Evan Jared and Bob,

1:20.0

to create a place where addicts get treated with compassion

1:23.8

and connection rather than control.

1:26.8

Their staff has decades of experience treating

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