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Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction and Recovery

Dopey60: Dave’s Dad, Addiction and the Family, Methadone, Detox, ”Brick Wall of Pigs”

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

🗓️ 24 December 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

On our very Jewish Christmas special, Dave’s dad comes on the show and gives us some insight about Dave’s past. Also we read an email from a seasoned addict who has been through the ringer - specifically, he tells us a story about eating bags of dope in the back of a police van while on the way to jail.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Dopey, the podcast about drugs addiction and dumb shit and I'm Dave, I'm Chris and today we are recording in a very special new

0:29.8

location on the west side of Manhattan in the home where I grew up and

0:36.6

funnily enough we have a special guest who's also my father Alan welcome to Dopey

0:43.3

that's really nice to be here I'm very excited for this I'm sure the Dopey

0:48.7

nation wants to hear what's gonna happen yes my father is a very very sweet and

0:56.0

kindly I'll be at going senile older man that's not true and I say he's going

1:04.9

senile because he's made the mistake of listening to Dopey what prompted you to

1:11.0

listen to Dopey well I'm very interested in how you're doing and I keep hoping

1:18.8

for the best all the time and then listening to Dopey I'm not so sure this is

1:23.2

so great but you know he wouldn't be recording Dopey if he was getting high so at

1:27.7

least there's that relief I really think that the drug thing I think is over there's

1:35.8

no over for the drug thing it does it's don't don't think that I shouldn't

1:39.9

you shouldn't bother but so you could be disappointed if ever the the stupid

1:44.4

thing comes back oh you mean it really could happen again it's like how could

1:49.5

how could you say it couldn't happen give your father a break just tell him it's

1:52.5

never gonna happen why do you tell your father that do you tell your father yes you say it's

1:57.6

never gonna happen again yeah I don't go into explaining to you I tell all the

2:01.6

cause can't happen again it can always happen again Chris he always said that

2:07.5

over and over again that he wasn't doing it it's never gonna happen again and

2:11.0

believe me I've been through it a few times more than I want to be through it so

2:15.5

it doesn't matter what he says it's better than that I say it could happen again

2:23.2

because it's a very very honest that's what I tell my

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