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Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction and Recovery

Dopey 539: Jeannine Coulter Kicked Heroin in a Doghouse, Squatted a Cell Phone Store, and Kidnapped an old man

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

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Summary

This week on Dopey! It’s the long-awaited episode with Chasing Heroine host Jeannine Coulter, recorded live at Jeremy’s house during Dopeywood!Jeannine tells the full, raw, and very dopey story of her descent into addiction: from being a straight-A Supreme Court hopeful, to getting obsessed with exercise and binge eating, to discovering coke in a redneck bar in Georgia, all the way to living in an abandoned cell phone store in Oceanside, California smoking heroin off foil. Jeannine talks about doing meth that was pink, accidentally getting strung out at 30, and finding herself in a cinderblock junkie jungle gym run by tweakers. She reflects on her arrest record, her failed attempts at controlled drinking, and how it all somehow led to a decade of recovery, a podcast, and a TED Talk on post-traumatic growth. www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast Dave reads a Guitar World story about Kurt Cobain calling Sepultura for heroin tips in Brazil Listener email: outrunning the cops in Michigan with a pocket full of coke and pills Dave confesses he's losing interest in meetings and needs to triple down on spirituality Voicemail from Rebecca in Humboldt County: 90s NYC, Skaw at Wetlands, and a summer of PCP Dave’s memory of turning down PCP at SUNY Purchase Shoutout to Mountainside and Recovery Unplugged Jeannine interview begins (at Jeremy’s house in LA) Early life: straight-A student, youth group leader, nerdy, argyle-wearing overachiever Parents' divorce at 17 sent her into a total tailspin First time doing coke at a redneck bar in Athens, Georgia (Bird Dog Tavern) Moved to LA to become an actress, got certified to teach bar fitness Pink meth from Armenian gangs in 2002 — Dave wants to know: WTF was it? How she accidentally became a heroin addict at 30 after dating a Marine with a habit Smuggling Suboxone into rehab, getting kicked out, getting arrested 4 times Living in an abandoned cell phone store, eating stolen food, sleeping on cinder blocks Her mom literally prays her way to the crackhouse to find her Eventually gets clean, starts the Chasing Heroin podcast, and does a TED Talk Explains “Post-Traumatic Growth” — and why addicts might actually get better than beforePLUS: a touching email from a listener who outran the cops with a trunk full of weed and somehow lived to tell the tale. A beautiful PCP voicemail and much much more on a brand new epiksode of that good ol Dopey Show! Don’t forget: DopeyCon 6 tickets are out on Patreon. Leave a review. Send a voicemail. And follow us on youtube!

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0:00.0

You know I'm a junkie, I love shooting dope.

0:05.0

I stay high all the time will I ever stop no I love needles black tar and abscess is filled with us

0:30.6

wearing makeup and shooting dope is so god damn glamorous I love podcasts

0:39.3

one day I'll go on one

0:43.3

some dopey podcast

0:46.3

because I love heroin

0:49.3

I'm on my way

0:56.0

Coming in

0:58.0

Paramail away on my way. I'm coming in. I'm coming in. My name.

1:11.6

Hey, hey, hey, hey, it's time for dope.

1:33.3

And I want to sing a song for you.

1:37.3

Damn Chris gonna show you a big or two.

1:41.3

You'll have some fun now with me and all the gang

1:48.0

Learning from each other

1:50.0

Why we do our thing

1:52.0

La la nah

1:55.0

Go to help a time

1:56.0

Yeah

1:57.0

Nah

1:58.0

Nah

1:59.0

Nah

2:00.0

Come in time Cady Chris coming up to the music and fun.

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