Dopey 30: Fake LSD Flashbacks, Tinder Karen & the Giant Pig

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Dave & Chris

Alternative Health, Comedy, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Timestamp Notes 00:00:18 Dave introduces Total Replay and explains why Episode 29 with Ray Brown is unavailable. 00:02:44 Tribute to Ray Brown and promotion for the Dopey Recovery Film Festival. 00:04:00 Dave reflects on how much he interrupted people in the early episodes. 00:05:00 Discussion of Chris, DJ, Todd, and other Dopey friends who have passed away. 00:06:15 Listener emails about recovery, fatherhood, Patreon, and Dopey community. 00:08:00 Patreon and Spotify comment roundup. 00:15:49 Beginning of original Dopey Episode 30. 00:16:00 Karen joins the show and explains meeting Chris on Tinder. 00:19:00 Chris and Karen's first dates and early relationship. 00:22:30 Hiking, Tinder stories, and Chris's reluctance to commit. 00:28:00 Karen explains Chris nearly ghosting her. 00:30:00 Story of Karen drunkenly inviting Chris over and passing out on the toilet. 00:34:00 Dave debates whether Karen is officially Chris's girlfriend. 00:40:00 Discussion about missing guest DJ and methadone recovery. 00:46:00 Karen talks about hearing Chris's addiction stories for the first time. 00:48:00 Chris's infamous group-jerking-off story gets revisited. 00:52:00 Oz, prison rape discussions, and jail stories. 00:59:00 Discussion about Dopey listeners, reviews, and community. 01:01:00 Chris begins telling the Silk Road / Dark Web story. 01:03:00 Ordering LSD, heroin, and cocaine through the mail. 01:05:00 Chris relapses while managing a sober living house. 01:11:00 Debate about Suboxone and maintenance medication. 01:13:00 The Wolf of Wall Street acid trip begins. 01:18:00 Chris pretends meditation triggered an HPPD flashback. 01:20:00 Tina initially believes the fake flashback story. 01:21:00 Chris confesses, retracts the confession, then confesses again. 01:24:00 The giant piggy bank story. 01:27:00 Discussion about recovery, relapse, and accountability. 01:31:00 Why addicts laugh about terrible things they once did. 01:34:00 Episode wraps with Good So Bad. Raw/Funny Title Ideas Dopey 30: I Took Acid During Wolf of Wall Street and Blamed Meditation Dopey 30: HPPD My Ass — Chris Gets Busted Tripping Dopey 30: Silk Road Acid, Tinder Love & Passing Out on the Toilet Dopey 30: The Fake Flashback Heard Round the Lower East Side Dopey 30: Chris Tries to Gaslight His Girlfriend While Tripping Balls Dopey 30: Wolf of Wall Street, Dark Web LSD & Recovery Lies Dopey 30: Karen, Tinder, Acid & the Cast-Iron Pig of Shame Dopey 30: Tripping on Acid, Faking HPPD, Getting Kicked Out Dopey 30: Silk Road LSD and Other Terrible Recovery Decisions

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the total replay of Dopee, the podcast.
0:22.5	You hear my creaky chair.
0:23.6	It's like fucking how, man.
0:26.6	Hello and welcome to the total replay of Dopee, the podcast on drugs addiction and dumb shit.
0:33.1	My name is Dave.
0:34.5	And if this is your first time listening to dopy welcome dopy is a show about
0:40.4	drugs addiction dumb shit and recovery we started it in i want to say late in the year in
0:47.7	2015 it was me and my friend chris and i met chris in rehab and we just had this idea to make this show and we started grinding
0:56.1	it out and making the show.
0:58.3	And in July of 2018, Chris had relapsed and he died from a fentanyl overdose.
1:05.2	So we are replaying all of the first 143 episodes and then after the 143rd maybe we'll play the 144th maybe not we'll
1:16.1	figure it out then that's down the road today we are playing dopey episode 30 last week we played
1:24.2	episode 28 so why this week are we not playing episode 29?
1:30.7	That's a really good question.
1:32.9	And the answer is episode 29.
1:35.3	It's a really disappointing answer.
1:38.3	Episode 29 was with none other than one of the greatest dopey people, greatest dopes ever, downtown Stephen
1:48.9	Douglas Raymond Brown, aka Ray Brown. It was the first time Ray was on the show. He came to my
1:54.8	apartment on the Lower East Side and he recorded with me and Chris. And Ray, over the course of many years, has made me take down all of his shows,
2:04.3	including episode 29.
2:06.5	And I was listening to Episode 30.
2:08.7	I didn't remember that it was Ray's episode that got taken down, but I was listening
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