The Final Nick Reiner Recordings

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Dave & Chris

Mental Health, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Comedy

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Dave explains why he chose to release this replay amid the Nick Reiner tragedy Listener reactions and Spotify comments to recent Nick Reiner episodes Early Dopey recordings featuring Dave, Chris O’Connor, and Nick Reiner Capturing a time before addiction and mental illness fully escalated Philosophical debates about recovery vs. controlled use Nick injures his ankle playing street basketball in NYC Turning down pain pills to stay sober for Dopey Confessions about past weed, booze, and honesty on the show Classic Dopey banter, arguments, and people-pleasing fights Stories of shooting Wellbutrin, benzo addiction, seizures, and detox Rehab memories, Alina Lodge stories, and treatment center culture Nick’s story of tripping on LSD and being talked down all night by his father Reflections on parenting, compassion, and non-punitive care Nick calls into a later episode from the Chateau Marmont Discussion of Nick’s documentary project about his grandfather Dave reflects on recovery, tragedy, and the importance of staying connected

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Dopey, the podcast on drugs addiction and dumb shit.
0:21.4	And my name is Dave.
0:23.0	And I was very torn about what to do for today's replay.
0:30.6	And I'm so caught up in this Nick Reiner story and this Reiner family tragedy.
0:37.4	And last week when it happened, I rushed to put out
0:40.9	a compilation of everything he had done on our show. And I missed a bunch. So I put out the first two
0:48.3	episodes, which we had recorded together. And I put out a call he had done after Chris died.
0:56.0	And I remembered there were other stories.
0:59.0	And then I found the horrible Oivey Hat clip that we played on the show on Friday.
1:05.9	And then I remembered he had told this story about his dad taking care of him when he was tripping on LSD,
1:14.5	and I found the episode, and it was me, him, and Chris.
1:18.0	And then there was another episode where Chris and I interviewed Lilo Brancato Jr., the guy from The Bronx Tale,
1:26.0	and Nick called in and told the story then, too.
1:30.1	And it just occurred to me, and I listened to them, and it really captured this very innocent time before the consequences of addiction and mental illness became so serious.
1:44.9	And it reminded me of the godfather.
1:47.6	Like, I think it's at the end of the godfather, too.
1:50.5	They show a flashback of when everything was still good and not so horrible.
1:57.6	And that's what this reminds me of.
1:59.7	And I feel like the whole world is looking at this story.
2:06.4	And I think it's important since we had access to Nick before this happened.
2:12.6	I think it's important to show the world what he was actually like or what he was like in these two very
2:20.3	short instances that we were all together.
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