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Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Dopey Greatest Hits: The True Story of BLOW! George Jung, Poodle Valium & CRAZY TEXAS TWEAKING STORY! PLUS Stealing Drugs in Sweden VM!

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Dave & Chris

Alternative Health, Mental Health, Comedy, Health & Fitness

4.82.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

1. George Jung Greatest Hits, Poodle Valium & Dad Fixes the Dock 2. Dopey Greatest Hits: George Jung, Poodle Valium & My Dad Saves the Dock 3. George Jung, Weird Church in Texas & Poodle Valium | Dopey Greatest Hits 4. Dopey Thursday: George Jung, Cat Sanctuary Fire & Dad’s Dock Miracle 5. George Jung Returns, Kirby Steals Poodle Valium & Dad Reads Reviews Best title: Dopey Greatest Hits: George Jung, Poodle Valium & My Dad Saves the Dock Short summary in your voice Timestamp notes 00:00 Dopey intro song and Dave in Madison, Wisconsin at Recovery.com 00:40 Dave explains this week’s Greatest Hits choice: George Jung 01:10 Email from Dylan about discovering Dopey from the beginning 02:20 Dylan’s story of hitchhiking, meth, and trying to become a rock star in Austin 05:00 Tweaker camp in the woods outside Austin 06:10 Running through the woods, losing a shoe, and getting hit in the road 07:20 The weird little church in Texas and acid trip aftermath 08:00 Dylan meets a guy who says he hit someone with a truck 08:40 Dylan realizes he was the guy who got hit 09:30 Dave plugs Dopeywood at The Comedy Store and Patreon 10:00 Spotify comments from the Jessica Kent Greatest Hits episode 12:40 Dave reacts to criticism of Jessica Kent 13:20 Dave thanks Recovery.com and sets up the George Jung episode 15:20 Voicemail from Kirby about stealing Valium from a nervous poodle 17:10 Dave talks about cat Xanax and the burned down cat sanctuary 18:20 Start of the George Jung interview 19:10 George Jung talks about being recognized from Blow 20:00 George on the 1960s generation and leaving Massachusetts 21:20 California in the 60s, bikinis, weed, and freedom 22:20 George’s first time getting high 24:00 Discovering the profit in marijuana smuggling 25:20 Dave asks about Blow and how accurate it was 27:00 George says he’s not really a drug addict, more of an alcoholic 28:20 George on LSD and why he loved it 30:20 The thrill of smuggling and learning to fly 34:00 George compares his life to destiny and trains you either catch or miss 36:40 Meeting Carlos Lehder in prison and the whole thing exploding 39:00 George on cocaine and trying it after he was already moving it 41:00 George on money, greed, violence, and Pablo Escobar 43:00 George on fear, his father, and losing his way 45:00 George on regret, prison, and writing his book 47:00 George on becoming famous after spending his life trying not to be known 49:00 George on Richard Pryor, Pablo Escobar, and freedom 52:00 George on addiction, pharma, and corruption 55:00 George on Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Owsley, and LSD culture 01:03:30 George on Johnny Depp, Blow, and talking to Bob Dylan 01:08:00 George talks about his daughter and regret 01:10:30 George signs off with Bloody Marys and cigarettes 01:11:00 Dave and Ray react to the George Jung interview 01:14:00 Voicemail from Sweden about getting locked in a Tinder date’s apartment and stealing all his drugs 01:19:40 Johnny Socket email about trying to sleep in his mom’s boyfriend’s room on Xanax 01:23:30 Ray talks about hooking up with Central American restaurant workers 01:24:20 Dave calls his dad for the Dopey review of the week 01:25:10 Dave’s dad explains how he fixed the broken dock in the lake 01:28:00 Dad reacts to all the new Dopey tattoos 01:29:00 Dave talks about Dopey Day and remembering Chris 01:31:00 Dad reads a long glowing review of Dopey 01:34:00 Dave and dad argue about privilege and bad reviews 01:36:00 Dad closes it out with love to the Dopey Nation 01:37:00 Outro song “I Wanna Be Good So Bad”

Transcript

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0:00.0

I love that dopey every day.

0:04.4

I just can't wait for the next thing that Chris and Dave are going to say, but yes, it's dopey.

0:10.2

I used to be a junkie, but now I've got some hobby because of those doves down at dopey.

0:17.6

Are we still rolling?

0:18.7

I'm still rolling.

0:19.5

All right.

0:20.2

Hello and welcome to Dopee, the podcast on drugs addiction and dumb shit.

0:25.6

I'm actually in Madison, Wisconsin in the recovery.com studios where Max was generous enough to let me record the intro for our Thursday Greatest Hits episode.

0:38.3

If you guys know, every Thursday we play a greatest hits episode, usually on Patreon.

0:45.1

We poll to figure out what the greatest hit episode should be.

0:49.1

But yesterday we had on Tim Ryan and Jennifer Jimenez, who are close friends with George Young, who is a

0:55.3

dopey legend, and I always wanted to play him for Dope's Greatest Hits. So we are going to play

1:00.5

the George Young Dope's Greatest Hits episode. But first, I want to read you some shit,

1:07.1

a little email about, hold on, Let's see what this thing is about.

1:11.9

Hey, Dave.

1:12.8

Since I started listening to the show, I have wanted to craft an email to you and instead

1:19.3

opted to casually bugging you on Instagram.

1:22.5

But here it is.

1:23.6

I'm a sober, single dad.

1:26.3

My name is Dylan, and I'm not asking to remain anonymous.

1:30.3

I'm originally from Minnesota, but I now live in New Orleans after a wild ride through my

1:35.7

20s, chasing geographical locations in and out of homelessness, jails, institutions,

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