Timestamps

00:00:25 – Dave and Jeremy reunite in California
00:02:42 – The Katz’s pastrami “Karubin”
00:04:43 – California dispensaries and modern weed culture
00:07:02 – Todd steals weed from his dispensary job
00:09:18 – Dave guards a dispensary on methadone and benzos
00:11:35 – Jeremy’s Achilles sacrifice and the Knicks championship
00:13:55 – Gummies, flower and dangerously potent THC
00:17:53 – Jason joins; introducing Dopey Episode 43
00:24:45 – Spotify comments and painful Chris foreshadowing
00:30:50 – Classic Dopey begins
00:32:12 – Noah Levine joins the show
00:35:03 – Childhood trauma, addiction and Buddhism
00:37:24 – A suicide attempt, juvenile hall and discovering meditation
00:42:13 – Chris meets Noah at Kripalu
00:43:49 – “Do you rip butts while you meditate?”
00:44:52 – Can shooting dope be mindful?
00:45:11 – LSD, ayahuasca and psychedelics in sobriety
00:48:58 – Raising children around meditation without forcing it
00:52:16 – Noah brings the Dopey
00:53:22 – Mushrooms at ten and acid at eleven
00:54:55 – Childhood suicidal thinking and reincarnation
00:57:02 – Chris prepares for ten silent days of Vipassana
01:00:57 – Stolen Rolexes and a burning getaway car
01:02:14 – Why Noah created Refuge Recovery
01:07:43 – Dave and Chris recap the interview
01:10:03 – Chris’s early drug use and the “spiritual heroin” of meditation
01:12:28 – Fallen teachers and whether misconduct erases good work
01:17:06 – Gurus, Bikram yoga, sex and spiritual hypocrisy
01:19:25 – Listener G begins using heroin at seventeen
01:24:07 – The Chinese exchange student and Outback Steakhouse
01:26:34 – Kratom, recovery and William Moyers agrees to appear
01:28:50 – Gratitude, Dopey Nation and closing song