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Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Dopey 583: Kidnapped at 11, Running Naked from the Cops on Meth, Heroin, Crack, Human Trafficked, Redemption with Keta Loren

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Dave & Chris

Comedy, Mental Health, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 β€’ 2.9K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 181 minutes

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Summary

Comprehensive Timestamp Notes 1:07 β€” Oro Recovery ad read 2:23 β€” Dave opens the show, Susan’s 8th birthday, Vermont trip plans 3:00 β€” Music on the Mountain lineup talk: Karina Rykman, Eggy, Anders Osborne, Daniel Donato, Trey band members 4:15 β€” Narcan/fentanyl strip giveaway reminder 4:45 β€” Patreon, YouTube support, Dopey community talk 5:15 β€” Listener email about 60 days sober off freebase, Xanax, and Suboxone 6:30 β€” Emotional story about listener’s dog Hesh dying 8:15 β€” Dave spirals about loving Winnie too much and fearing her death 9:20 β€” Linda’s birthday and the Winnie-shaped brass lamp 10:15 β€” Mountainside ad and Dopey Short Film Festival announcement 11:25 β€” Ben Croxton voicemail begins 12:00 β€” Googling β€œwhere to buy heroin in Atlanta” 12:45 β€” Meth psychosis coworker hides in closet all day 13:40 β€” Coke shooting story and hallucinated kangaroo 15:30 β€” Dave reacts to Ben’s kangaroo story 16:45 β€” Braeburn ad read 17:35 β€” Patreon and Spotify comments section 18:00 β€” Margaret Cho episode comments 19:50 β€” Shooter Jennings and Hank Williams III discussion 20:30 β€” Qigong and meditation comments 21:20 β€” Jason Ricci bisexual misunderstanding callback 22:30 β€” Gas station drugs / John Oliver mention 24:00 β€” More Margaret Cho praise and Spotify comments 26:20 β€” Workit Health ad read 27:10 β€” Listener email about meth-addicted stepdaughter 29:00 β€” Dave discusses AA vs NA and treatment options 31:30 β€” Recovery Unplugged ad read 33:00 β€” Kata Lauren interview begins 33:45 β€” Growing up in foster care and changing her name 35:30 β€” Fighting, anger, and California Youth Authority 37:00 β€” Parents’ addiction and abuse 40:00 β€” House fire kills four siblings 41:30 β€” Caring for schizophrenic father as an adult 42:00 β€” Best friend dies in Mexico 44:00 β€” First meth use at age 11 46:00 β€” Blackberry wine and extreme poverty in Northern California 49:00 β€” Childhood creativity and music influence 51:00 β€” Church singing and resentment toward grandparents 53:00 β€” Hitchhiking kidnapping story at age 11 58:00 β€” Pedophile culture and Red Bluff horror stories 1:00:00 β€” Quad racing and ATV accident setup 1:03:00 β€” Outlaw culture, prison culture, meth culture in Northern California 1:05:00 β€” Paradise, California and first cocaine/ecstasy experiences 1:08:00 β€” Creepy older guy showing glass dildos while rolling 1:11:00 β€” Falling in love with ecstasy and rave culture 1:14:00 β€” YA prison, riots, and violence 1:18:00 β€” β€œSuperman” fight story against huge girl in YA 1:20:00 β€” Foster placement violations and parole struggles 1:24:00 β€” Running away from rehab with phone numbers written on arm 1:26:00 β€” ATV crash details: broken bones, helicopter ride, surgeries 1:31:00 β€” Running from rehab, riding to casino, parole escape 1:34:00 β€” Selling meth badly and constantly getting robbed 1:38:00 β€” Human trafficking setup through fake music opportunity 1:43:00 β€” Trauma bonding and survival psychology 1:48:00 β€” Escaping trafficking and trying to regain control 1:52:00 β€” Music career breakthrough from Yahoo commercial 1:57:00 β€” Interscope connections and demo singing 2:01:00 β€” Pregnancy, abortion, emotional collapse 2:04:00 β€” Heroin addiction takes over in LA 2:08:00 β€” Strip club life, dancing, and survival 2:12:00 β€” Escaping trafficker through relationship with club customer 2:15:00 β€” Marriage, relapse cycles, heroin and meth addiction 2:19:00 β€” Car crash with broken back and hips 2:24:00 β€” Trap house life and arrest 2:27:00 β€” Reconnecting with former trafficker after jail 2:31:00 β€” Deep heroin addiction and emotional bottom 2:35:00 β€” TV preacher moment and surrender 2:37:00 β€” Rehab and early recovery 2:39:00 β€” Relapse, AA resentment, and nuance around recovery 2:43:00 β€” Final arrest at strip club sting operation 2:45:00 β€” Recovery philosophy and rebuilding life 2:49:00 β€” Peru, psychedelics, psilocybin, ayahuasca healing 2:54:00 β€” Mental health, spirituality, and alternative recovery 2:56:00 β€” Kata plugs book Gutter Kid and podcast 2:57:00 β€” Dave closes the show 2:57:45 β€” Acoustic cover of β€œGood So Bad”

Transcript

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0:00.0

Moby, I'm face down on the floor

0:07.0

Lobby, please can I have some more

0:11.0

Noobie said, novi, said novi

0:15.0

It was good for a laugh

0:21.6

We've done the drugs for a off

0:25.6

Noobie

0:27.6

I said nooby

0:30.6

I'm on a highway to my next stop

0:36.6

I'm gonna get my truck to see my house.

0:41.3

Say give me ticket, I'm gonna ask goodbye.

0:45.3

Nobody. I'm going all the way.

0:49.3

Nobody. I'm going all the way.

0:52.3

No way. Because it's my birthday

0:56.0

dopy

0:58.0

said

1:01.0

dopey This brand new episode of Dopee is brought to you by our incredibly good friends at Oro Recovery.

1:14.0

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

1:21.2

mission, to help drug addicts and alcoholics get better by means of compassion and connection rather than control.

1:30.5

We've been working with Oro for, I want to say, eight years.

1:34.7

We've had a ton of people go there and nobody has ever said anything besides how

1:40.2

life-changing their experience at Oro was.

1:43.6

Oro has a team with decades of experience dealing with co-occurring mental health disorders,

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