Show notes
NOVAK COMES IN AROUND 37 min on
This week on Dopey! Dave battles Long Island summer heat, conquers a dead rat under his porch, rescues Susan’s escaped corn snake Noodle, and prepares for the upcoming Dopey Short Film Festival. Along the way he shares a wild voicemail involving fake liquid LSD, sweaty molly, and a hard-earned lesson in not ripping people off.
Did we read this cat shit one before?????
Dave reads listener comments from the beloved Kelly P episode before welcoming recovery legend Brandon Novak back to Dopey. Novak celebrates 11 years sober and dives deep into his journey from heroin addiction and Viva La Bam chaos to running treatment centers and helping others recover.
The conversation gets even better when Novak calls his Dreamseller co-author Joe Frantz, who tells unbelievable stories about Novak stealing his own books from a bookstore signing to buy drugs, disappearing with advances, losing his phone, and the reality of filming during the darkest years of addiction. Together they reflect on Bam Margera, recovery, friendship, forgiveness, and the long road from self-destruction to redemption.
Plus: Grateful Dead stories, funeral plots, methadone and Xanax, treatment philosophy, Joe Biden sightings, and why this might be the greatest Brandon Novak appearance in Dopey history.
AND MORE!!!!!! on a super fun new installment of that good old dopey show!
Original title: Dopey 587: Heroin! Porn! ACID! The Grateful Dead! Bam Margera! The Greatest Brandon Novak Episode Ever? with Joe Frantz!
