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Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Rob Reiner, Nick Reiner, Guns, Heroin Rats, Chris, Ryan & eerie Foreshadowing on the Total Dopey Replay show episode 28

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Dave & Chris

Comedy, Mental Health, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.82.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Title Dopey Replay 28: Rob Reiner, Nick Reiner, Guns, Heroin Rats, Chris, Ryan & Weird Fucking Foreshadowing Timestamp Notes 00:17 — Dave introduces Monday Total Replay and explains the plan to replay Dopey episodes 1–143. 00:38 — Today’s replay is Dopey Episode 28, titled by Chris: “Robbery Gun Drug Dealer, First Dylan Episode.” 01:05 — Dave explains that Ryan, who designed the Dopey logo, is back for this episode. 01:28 — Dave calls the episode creepy, eerie, and full of foreshadowing. 01:52 — Dave talks about the first email from Tina Mathis, Cormac calling him “Dan,” and early insecurity around Chris getting more attention. 02:16 — Ryan’s gun-to-the-head drug story is previewed. 02:28 — Dave says the episode has a long, bizarre conversation about Nick Reiner and Rob Reiner before Nick ever came on Dopey. 03:00 — Dave reflects on Chris being gone and says the simple message: if Chris had stayed in recovery, he wouldn’t have died. 03:40 — Dave recaps Susan’s eighth birthday party at Urban Air. 04:20 — Dave gives dad-movie reviews of The Mandalorian, Hoppers, and Super Mario Galaxy. 06:00 — Dave talks about a listener complaint that the Spotify and Patreon comments are too long. 07:30 — Maddie from Australia sends in a DUI voicemail about drinking gin during delivery shifts and getting pulled over. 10:18 — Dave promotes the Dopey Short Film Festival on June 26 in NYC. 11:40 — Patreon comments from the last replay: listeners react to hearing Todd and Chris again. 13:20 — Dave talks about people coming into Zooms with cameras off and how it drives him crazy. 14:30 — Spotify comments: listeners reflect on lost friends, addiction, grief, and hearing Chris and Todd. 18:16 — Dave answers why he and Linda never got married. 20:58 — Original Dopey Episode 28 begins with Dave, Chris, and Ryan trying to do the intro. 22:00 — The guys talk about the Lower East Side, old junky New York, and the changing neighborhood. 25:30 — Chinese food arrives and the show temporarily turns into a chaotic food-ordering podcast. 29:00 — Chris talks about speaker tapes and recovery ideas. 32:30 — Dave tells the story of Cormac emailing “Dear Chris and Dan,” which crushes him. 36:30 — Dave reads the first big Dopey fan email from Tina in Philadelphia. 39:00 — Tina praises the show, Chris’s stories, Dave yelling at Chris, and the Howard Stern / Artie years comparison. 46:30 — Ryan tells the story of pretending to go buy flour but really going to buy pills. 48:50 — Ryan gets held up at gunpoint while waiting for his drug dealer. 50:50 — Ryan refuses to give up his drug money because, in his mind, it already belongs to the dealer. 51:35 — Ryan throws his phone over the robber’s head, then stays anyway because his dealer is still coming. 55:30 — Dave starts talking about Rob Reiner, All in the Family, and Rob’s son Nick. 58:00 — Dave talks about Nick Reiner’s movie, addiction, recovery, and being jealous/nervous for him. 01:00:00 — Chris explains addiction genetics and substance use disorder. 01:04:20 — Chris tells the “rat heaven / rat hell” heroin-water experiment story. 01:08:30 — Dave talks about why he can’t smoke weed: he would immediately obsess over smoking again tomorrow. 01:10:20 — Dave and Chris debate prayer, addiction, recovery, and AA. 01:15:50 — Chris’s sponsor Dylan calls in right as Dave is talking about Dylan from 90210. 01:18:00 — Dylan says he likes the show and Dave’s sponsor hated it. 01:19:00 — The guys talk about the weirdest things they sold or pawned for drugs. 01:20:30 — Chris tells the story of trying to sell his leg braces for drugs in the Caribbean. 01:23:00 — Ryan tells the story of stripping copper wire out of old power tools to sell for scrap. 01:24:20 — Dave tells the story of stealing CDs from MTV after getting fired. 01:28:00 — The episode wraps with “Stay strong, Dopey Nation” and “Toodles.”

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Dopey, the podcast on drugs addiction addiction and dumb shit. My name is Dave. And today is

0:23.9

Monday, which means we are replaying every episode of Dopee from 1 to 143. And then after we get to

0:32.9

143, we're going to determine do we keep going or don't we keep going on the Monday replay.

0:39.3

But that's a couple years from now. Today we are replaying Dopey episode 27, no, 28. Chris,

0:49.3

my friend, who I started Dopey with, who died in 2018, titled it.

0:56.3

Dopey 28, I think it's one of the worst titles we've ever had, actually,

1:00.1

but he's not around to defend himself.

1:02.5

Robbery Gun Drug Dealer First Dylan episode.

1:06.1

And it's a really, really creepy episode.

1:09.8

It's me and Chris, and then Chris's friend and now my friend,

1:14.5

Ryan, who actually designed the dopy logo. He came in last episode and he stayed on for this

1:20.7

episode. And we talk about a bunch of stuff. And I'm going to play it after I talk. So I'm not

1:27.2

going to come back after we play it. So it's going to play and then the show is going to play it after I talk so I'm not going to come back after we play it

1:29.2

so it's going to play and then the show is going to end but there's a lot of stuff in this

1:33.9

episode that's really really I don't know creepy seems like such a fucking you know simple word

1:42.7

to describe it but it's eerie it's foreshadowing. We, we, me and Ryan make fun of

1:48.9

Chris that he's probably going to relapse eventually. Chris is super smart. We get the first email we

1:54.5

ever got from Tina Mathis, which is awesome. Cormac calls me Dan, which is something I totally blocked out on. Chris,

2:04.5

Chris is incredibly sweet. And I complain about how Chris got all the attention for the show

2:12.6

and I didn't get enough attention. And then Ryan Sears tells a story. And the story is what that title is,

2:21.1

which was refusing to leave despite having a gun to head, which was a great dopey story.

2:27.3

And then we talk about Nick Reiner and Rob Reiner for like a half an hour, which is so bizarre with everything

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