Wednesday Dose intro – Dave launches the mid-week “Wednesday Dose of Dopey,” rambling about post-Thanksgiving cheesecake obsession, dunking bakery cookies into cheesecake, and wrecking himself (and his pants) trying to run with his dog Winnie for the Dopey Fitness Challenge. Listener email – Haley (Mississippi) – Loves the Glenis and Billy Strings episodes, relates to losing both parents, shouts out Dave’s interrupting-but-perfect questions, and promises future stories from homelessness, prison, and IV meth. Dave begs for more emails and voicemails to [email protected] . Miles Davis heroin passage – Dave reads from the Miles Davis autobiography: sliding from snorting to shooting heroin, realizing he has a “habit,” and describing a four-year horror show of heroin/coke in NYC with Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, Walter Bishop, etc. Guest: Naughty God (Dakota) – origin story – San Diego kid; sweet young mom, meth-addicted dad, split households. First high at 13 snorting mystery pain pills from a friend’s brother’s room, then full weed-identity kid (Snoop + pot-leaf MySpace). Band life with Jacob Nowell / LAW – Forms LAW with Jacob Nowell (Bradley Nowell’s son). Early years of weed, then coke and speed. Tries to draw a line (no speed for him, no opiates for Jacob), both eventually cross it. Dakota starts showing up high, Jacob gets sober and finally tells him he can’t come to the band anymore. Dakota pretends not to care, then goes home and cries. Orange County run: coke, blues, fetty, heroin – Moves to Dana Point, tight crew in San Clemente’s Triangle, dealing/using coke nightly. Adds Oxy 30 “blues”, then fentanyl pills and heroin. Lives in a two-year loop of dealing and using. Fentanyl deaths & getting help – In about two months, Dakota loses Robert (best friend), his cousin, and three other friends to fentanyl overdoses. Has a mental breakdown and heavy survivor’s guilt, calls his grandma, and checks into a San Diego hospital detox, gets put on 100mg methadone, then goes to a state-funded program and moves in with family. Methadone years & taper – Stays on 100mg methadone for 4–5 years, barely using anything else. With a therapist’s help, decides he can’t stay on it forever. Tapers over about a year from 100 to 4mg, then jumps. Says the taper fog and withdrawal were brutal and wouldn’t wish it on anyone. Now about 1.5 years off methadone, occasionally smokes weed, and focuses on therapy, music, and content. Nods, fentanyl & Naughty God channel – Says nodding was “everything”; describes fentanyl nods as zombie-like and short (“no legs”). Builds the NaughtyGod brand by rating nods like a sports announcer, with phrases like “Horseshoe,” “Charm City Rainbow,” “Nodwalk Shuffle,” “Baltimore Street Yoga,” “Sheriff of Nottingham.” Talks about Instagram flags/bans and treating his content like a recurring show so people follow for each “episode.” Content, community & collab – Dave and Dakota realize they both started their stuff for fun/ego and it accidentally turned into something that helps addicts feel less alone. Dakota gives Dave ideas for recurring, themed Dopey clips; they agree to collab on a nod reel and cross-pollinate their audiences. Safe Spot & stickers – Dave plugs Safe Spot for people afraid they might OD while using: 1-800-972-0590. Tells listeners to go to meetings, shout outs Kimber, Steven, Jesse. Plugs customstickers.com with code DOPEY20 and asks listeners who think they’d be great guests to email/voicemail. Signs off: “Stay strong Dopey Nation and fucking toodles for Chris.”