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Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Dopey 581: Zoe Hansen; Heroin, Sex Work, Shooting Speedballs, The Chelsea Hotel & Dying in Nancy Spungen’s Bed

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Dave & Chris

Alternative Health, Mental Health, Comedy, Health & Fitness

4.82.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

Full Episode Timestamps 00:00 Dopey intro song and sponsor read (Oro Recovery) 02:17 Dave opens show / Friday Dopey begins 02:45 Single parenting chaos, school pickups, tutoring, dance class disaster 04:40 Dave announces Dopey Recovery Short Film Festival 05:05 Anonymous listener email begins 05:30 Listener discusses early internet porn, chat rooms, compulsive sexuality 09:30 Shame, addiction, therapy, SLAA, suicidal thoughts 11:50 Dave responds compassionately to the email 13:00 Mountainside sponsor read 14:13 Wild voicemail about Alzheimer's patient triggering dope-fiend memories 14:50 Cocaine psychosis story: naked with fork hunting bugs 16:00 Friend arrives wearing pheasant hat selling condoms 17:00 Dave awards Dopey socks / talks sticker contest 17:45 Braeburn sponsor read 18:50 Spotify comments from Andy Dick episode begin 19:00 Fans call Andy annoying / praise interview / criticize Dave 21:10 Listener celebrates one year sober 22:00 More reactions: brain injury, chaos, comedy, body-shaming comments 24:30 Marilyn Manson talk / Tim Ryan mention 26:00 Jake from West Virginia update 27:00 Workit Health sponsor read 28:30 Patreon comments on Andy Dick episode 31:00 Dave introduces Zoe Hansen 32:35 Zoe Hansen interview begins 33:00 Zoe married to Jerry Stahl / memoir Going Down in Gotham 35:00 Zoe grew up in Chelsea, London in wealthy dysfunctional home 36:30 Kicked out of boarding school / no emotional support at home 38:00 Punk rock London / Sex Pistols era / King’s Road 39:00 Started using weed, speed, heroin young 40:00 First heroin shot at 15 42:00 Why UK heroin was tar / heady vs NYC powder heroin 43:00 London in the early 80s: punk, homemade fashion, rebellion 45:30 Moves to NYC at 17 / hair salon in Soho / MTV styling 47:00 Finds heroin on Lower East Side again 47:45 Enters escorting and sex work to pay for habit 49:00 Why sex work felt empowering and like family 50:00 Brothel culture / women supporting each other 51:30 Brothel rates, tipping, best clients 52:30 Why she preferred brothels over escorting 53:00 Police raid story 54:00 Realizes client was undercover cop 55:00 Jailed in The Tombs / secretly takes methadone pills 56:00 Brothel cast of characters 57:00 Finger condoms / client requests / hygiene tips 58:00 Legendary nymphomaniac coworker Lena 59:00 $200/day heroin habit 1:00:00 Lower East Side heroin blocks and stamps 1:01:00 Romanticizing old NYC decay 1:03:00 Katz’s bathroom junkie stories / Gringo mention 1:04:00 NYC nightlife in late 80s / afterhours scene 1:05:00 Andy Warhol wig haircut story / celebrity access 1:06:00 Speedballing begins around age 20 1:07:00 Isolated Hell’s Kitchen apartment / brothel then shoot all night 1:09:00 Sugar daddy doctor enters picture 1:10:00 Doctor gives cars, houses, money, support 1:10:30 Chelsea Hotel era begins 1:11:00 Learns she’s sleeping on Nancy Spungen bloodstained mattress 1:14:00 Cocaine overdose / dies for 3 minutes 1:15:00 Tunnel of light near-death experience 1:16:00 Wakes blind / doctor revives her 1:16:45 Wicca, spirituality, nature, healing energy 1:18:00 Another overdose vision: Indian market 1:19:00 Chelsea Hotel nostalgia and decline 1:20:00 Doctor sends her upstate to detox 1:21:00 Brutal detox / clonidine / Xanax withdrawal 1:21:20 Upstate relapse, drinking, opening Wiccan/fetish clothing store

Transcript

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0:00.0

Dopey Podcast

0:02.0

Dopee Podcast

0:03.0

Well now is the time for the Dopee podcast

0:10.0

Where you call in and put all your life on blast

0:15.0

And you call in and talk about you past

0:18.0

Because your life was furious, hardcore and fast so now is the time

0:22.8

is the dopy podcast it's the dopey podcast the dopey podcast yo this is the doby podcast

0:31.5

this is the duby podcast now if your life was furious furious, hardcore and fast, you feel like you're off and put your life on blast.

0:42.3

Just call up the show and I talk about your boss, because now is the time for the dopy podcast.

0:48.3

Dope podcast.

0:49.3

It's the dopy podcast, the dopey podcast, yo.

0:53.3

This is the doby podcast, the dopy podcast, yo. This is the dopy podcast.

0:57.0

This is the dopy podcast.

0:59.5

This episode of Dopee is brought to you by our very good friends at Oro Recovery.

1:04.7

Oro is located in sunny Southern California on their own little slice of paradise.

1:11.2

Oro was created by our friend Bob Forrest and his friends, Dr. Evan, Jared, and Bob, their mission

1:18.2

to help drug addicts and alcoholics by using compassion and connection rather than control.

1:24.7

Their team has decades of experience in helping addicts and alcoholics

1:28.8

overcome co-occurring mental health disorders, including SMI.

1:33.4

We've had so many people from Dope get so much better at Oro.

1:37.6

Check them out at OroRecovery.com.

1:40.4

And of course, they have amenities you can't fucking believe sound bath meditation equine therapy surfing it's an amazing amazing place newsweek voted oro to be top five rehabs anywhere check them out at oro recovery dot com I'm recovery.com.

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