Dopey 524: I Ate Meth in Jail and Found God in a Coffee Bean - Ultimate Texas Tweaker - Burglar - Prison Redemption Episode - Damon West

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

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Summary

This week on Dopey! Dave sits down with best selling author, keynote speaker and criminal justice professor, Damon West, a former Division I quarterback who went from college star to meth addict to high-level burglar—and somehow came out the other side with a crazy uplifting message of hope. Damon tells the jaw-dropping story of how he fell in love with meth, ran a burglary operation across Texas, and got sentenced to 65 years in a maximum-security prison. Inside, he faced violence, gangs, and despair—until a fellow inmate shared a strange but powerful metaphor that sparked his transformation: “Be a coffee bean.” From smoking meth and robbing houses to finding faith, purpose, and redemption behind bars, Damon’s story is wild, raw, and full of real Dopey energy. www.patron.com/dopeypodcast www.damonwest.org

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0:00.0	Trying to score from the plug today, I sure could use a shot.
0:12.0	Zanis are helping, but I need more.
0:16.0	Guess I'll smoke some pot.
0:20.0	I'm about to go insane.
0:25.6	Sometimes I need to go where everybody does cocaine.
0:33.6	And we always find a vein.
0:41.3	I want to fix and do some blow the troubles will go away
0:43.3	I wanna be where everybody does cocaine
0:48.3	You should you dope I'll smoke some crack
0:52.3	Junkies are all the same.
0:55.0	I wanna be where everybody does cocaine.
1:00.0	Hey Hey
1:14.6	It's time for dope
1:18.6	And I want to sing a song for you
1:21.6	Damn Chris going to show you
1:24.6	And finger too
1:26.6	You'll have some fun now with me and all Damn Chris gonna show you a big or two.
1:32.3	You'll have so fun now with me and all the gang.
1:37.3	Learning from each other, while we do our thing. Nah, la, nah, go to hell good time.
1:41.3	Yeah, hey.
1:42.3	Na, nah, nah, no, go to hell good time.
1:45.0	Baby Chris coming out to the music and fun.
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