Dopey 260: Lesley Arfin and the Dopey Ecstacy, Heroin, Vice, Cocaine, 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

🗓️ 10 October 2020

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

This week on Dopey! Prolific artist, writer and producer, Lesley Arfin calls in to tell her sordid Dopey tale. Lesley takes us back to her first using days on Long Island as a young teen in the hardcore scene, mixing ecstacy, crystal meth and ketamine. She put a match to gasoline fell into the junky scene and made her spot at Vice magazine. She then got clean, enjoyed some Ween and now she writes for the small screen. *She also got married and has a kid. Plus a crazy Dopey email! On a coke selling, dust off huffing, scooter riding, Girls writing, good timing, wind chiming and description rhyming new episode of Dopey!

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0:00.0	Okay
0:04.8	I need a fix cuz I'm going down
0:09.0	Back to the bits that I left up town. I need a fix cuz I'm going down
0:18.8	For the superior jump the gun
0:23.0	For the superior jump the gun
0:25.3	You're going oh no no
0:35.3	You're going oh no yes
0:44.3	I need a fix cuz I'm going down
0:49.3	Back to the bits that I left up town
0:52.3	I need a fix cuz I'm going down
0:57.3	This episode of Dopey is brought to you by our friends at Allo Recovery
1:02.3	located in sunny Southern California in Malibu and Silver Lake
1:06.3	Allo was created by our friend Bob Forest and his friends Evan, Jared and Bob
1:12.3	It was created as a place where addicts can be treated with compassion and connection rather than control
1:19.3	They have many many many decades of experience and treating addiction including co-occurring mental health disorders
1:27.3	Even SMI they have amenities you wouldn't believe sound bath meditation the uber spiritual sweat lodge
1:35.3	Equine therapy surfing they make sure that whatever you are kicking that you're detoxing as comfortably as possible
1:43.3	Whether it's benzos alcohol heroin or coke if I was
1:48.5	Fucked and I was willing to go to sunny Southern California to get some help
1:52.3	I would totally go to Allo
1:54.7	This episode of Dopey is also brought to you by our friends at C-A-S-L
1:59.3	Which of course stands for clean and sober love the dating app for people who choose a sober way of life
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