Dopey 544: ChrisMiss - Dopey Day - Annie Remembers! Chris ties a rubber duck around his penis to beat. a drug test! Addiction 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

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 151 minutes

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Summary

This week on Dopey! It's beginning to look a lot like ChrisMiss - AGAIN! It is a Dopey Day episode to remember Chris and get some Dopes into the act!!! I am currently at the Park City Song Summit with tons of cool folk and am doing a lab tomorrow with Anders Osborne, Anders Beck, and Matt Warren. DopeyCon 2025 is coming! The lineup includes: Brace Belden Ian Fidance, Sam Miller, Jake from WV, Aaron Carr, Ray Brown, Dave’s dad, Linda, Brandon Novak, Hank Azaria and maybeJason Biggs. Join Patreon, buy DopeyCon tickets, and observe Dopey Day by putting the Dopey logo over their eyes to honor those who’ve died. It's seven years since Chris’s death and we plays voicemails and emails from fans remembering Chris and sharing updates. I got 10 years in recovery, celebrates Madeline’s discovery of an old Chris story, and we read a note from Rick in Baltimore about learning of Chris’s passing while in rehab. Next, Chris’s ex‑partner Annie calls in. Now a surgeon, married, living in California with a son (and pregnant with another), she reflects on her life since losing Chris, his legendary kindness and humor, the difficulty of relapse in a fentanyl‑laced world, and the importance of caring for yourself and others. They trade memories—including the infamous story of expressing their dog Sammy’s anal glands—and discuss grief, guilt, and healing. Dave then shares updates on Fentanyl Jay (alive and in treatment thanks to Justin Cambria and Sunrise Detox), plays greetings from listeners like Jake (63 days sober), Erin Khar, Ishmael, Ray, and several celeb shout‑outs (Margaret Cho, Aurora, Hank Azaria, Mick, Katie B), and plugs MountainSide, Oro Recovery, Recovery Unplugged, SafeSpot (1‑800‑972‑0590), and custom stickers. Listener Kelly calls in with a wild early‑recovery story: she bought a ball of Molly, meth, and heroin, used toilet water to shoot up in a motel bathroom, passed out, was revived, and got busted on multiple charges—including “defrauding a motel.” Dave thanks her and sends socks. In a nostalgic twist, Dave plays a clip from Dopey 104 with Chris: they read a tragic email from Troy—who later overdosed—and discuss how dangerous relapse can be, especially with fentanyl and carfentanil. They swap drug‑test tricks (bleach, Tide with Bleach Alternative, rubber ducks tied to your privates) and laugh over memories of shooting meth in a Bakersfield brain‑injury clinic while trying to hide clean urine. The show wraps with Dave’s reflections on grief, his favorite Dumbledore quote (“Help will always be given to those who ask for it”), and a reminder that recovery works if you do it.

Transcript

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0:00.0	The reality of the situation is that this is going to continually happen.
0:07.0	People are going to keep dying.
0:08.0	Because I feel like so many people die these deaths, you know, and to know that they're
0:15.0	remembered in some capacity. I'm just assuming, you know what I mean? I don't have a child
0:20.0	and like, you know, someone who's passed away that's dear to me, but to know that they're remembered a year later, two years later, five years later, that's comforting on a different level.
0:28.6	I just, it's weird for me two years later when something cool has happened in my life, randomly I'll remember them and be like, nothing's cool is happening in their life anymore.
0:37.4	Do you know what I mean? I remember
0:38.4	usually in tandem with like a positive event, a milestone of some sort of like a development
0:46.0	in my life. Do you know what I'm saying? A girlfriend, an apartment, a job, a career prospect,
0:51.7	something like that happens. And that's a good thing. Then I think of people I knew who passed away because of this disease.
0:57.5	That's when I get sad.
0:59.0	No.
1:00.3	No, I can't.
1:05.3	You go, I tired to see me face.
1:10.5	Can't get me out of the race
1:12.6	Oh man you say I'm in your face
1:17.6	Then you draw back hard
1:21.6	Draw back hard
1:23.6	I make you draw back hard
1:26.6	I make you draw bad card.
1:30.9	I make you draw bad card.
1:35.0	Propaganda spreading over my name.
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