Hey Dave,
I’m Zach from California I’ve been clean and sober a little over 18 months from fentanyl/meth and just about anything else that was offered to me. I was about two months into my recovery when I found dopey while searching for any and all recovery/addiction podcast. Dopey was the only one that stuck and I was hooked. I did the 90 meetings in 90 days I tried NA/AA and I can’t say it was a complete waste of time but the dopey podcast has by far been one of biggest keys to recovery along with exercise, meditation, and therapy. I think some of the reason I didn’t want to stop is in some sick way I liked the chaos of being an addict. The way I describe it to people is “everyday in active addiction is like your best day ever and worst day ever in the same 24 hours” it was a rollercoaster and anytime I think that I miss it dopey gets me thinking about how miserable i was and gives me a chance to laugh at all the shit that normies wouldnt think is funny. So I just want to say thank you and I’m glad you’ve never stopped pumping out episodes because it everyone means something to me and I know it does for a lot of fellow degenerates. Congratulations on #400! SSDN and FTFC
P.S. I’m trying to think of dopey stories as I write this and one of the funniest/weirdest stories I can think of is when my buddy from high school who’s mom was paralyzed from the neck down always had a ton of pills so naturally he would steal them from her to take. One day we decided we were going to try mixing DXM (the cough syrup shit) with the Valium that he had stolen the day prior because his dad was onto us and had hid the oxy and the rest of the Valium. So we proceeded to each drink a bottle of DXM and take a few Valium(I don’t remember exactly how many) for the next 16 hrs laid in one room feeling the carpet and scribbling on paper with any ink pen I found until it would run out of ink but the weirdest part is I went to check in my friend in the other room and he was completely naked watching porn on a 6foot projector masturbating eating popcorn and when I saw him he said “can’t a guy get some privacy in his own home” so I went back to feeling the carpet and coloring or whatever you would call it in the other room. So who knows how long he was masturbating in there for because he didn’t come out of that room for several hours. Don’t do drugs!
P.S.S. This was probably 12-14 years ago this guy is now in jail for attempting to murder his meth dealer.
