Opium in Laos, Oasis, DMT, Breaking his neck on a Frozen Pond & becoming Quadriplegic - needing to shoot heroin with his mouth, Remembering Hot Wheelz and Annie Ellie
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Timestamps:
2:12 Remembering the people Dopey has lost
4:39 Patreon comments about Kevin McEnroe
9:22 Forgiveness, family and listener reactions
11:41 Spotify comments and DopeyCon tickets
13:04 Remembering Annie Ellie
14:09 Annie joins the show
16:59 Recreational heroin and discovering recovery
19:12 Raves, ecstasy and the “after drugs”
23:13 Backpacking and smoking opium in Southeast Asia
25:27 Buying pharmaceuticals in Cambodia
26:52 Inside an opium den in Laos
29:07 Asked to smuggle opium into Thailand
30:38 Returning home and working in television
32:43 Passing out beside Noel Gallagher
34:45 Heroin, ecstasy and losing her dream job
36:48 Realizing she was physically addicted
39:41 Rehab, relapse and drugs smuggled into treatment
43:44 Twenty years of methadone, Subutex and relapse
46:04 Chris’s death and discovering the Dopey Nation
47:07 How Dopey helped Annie return to recovery
49:17 Learning how to live again
51:43 Benzos, memory loss and the lasting damage
53:57 What is the purpose of Dopey Zoom?
56:17 Harm reduction, abstinence and belonging
58:31 Annie’s favorite classic Dopey moments
1:00:53 Recovery without prayer or meditation
1:02:57 Exercise as Annie’s spiritual practice
1:05:11 Annie takes the show out
1:06:04 Dave reflects on losing Annie
1:07:38 Brian “Hot Wheels” Connolly’s first voicemail
1:10:18 Remembering Brian
1:12:06 Brian’s first full Dopey appearance
1:14:08 How a quadriplegic shoots heroin
1:16:08 The frozen-pond accident that changed everything
1:20:00 Rescue, paralysis and the hospital
1:22:33 Rehab, MMA and nearly joining the Marines
1:27:20 Addiction after losing athletics and independence
1:29:47 Finding purpose after a spinal-cord injury
1:33:32 Suboxone, isolation and asking for help
1:37:08 Brian’s complicated feelings about Steve-O
1:40:35 The jump through the ice
1:45:11 Brian calls Dopey while craving heroin
1:47:20 Chris helps talk Brian through the obsession
1:51:09 The unbearable urge to change how you feel
1:53:11 Holding on until morning
1:55:30 Searching for connection and purpose
2:04:08 Has the craving passed?
2:07:16 The painful connection between Brian and Chris
2:08:10 Honoring Dopey Nation members who have died
2:09:38 SafeSpot and a message for anyone struggling
2:10:06 Annie’s “Mr. Novak” song
2:13:29 “Good So Bad”
2:12 Remembering the people Dopey has lost
4:39 Patreon comments about Kevin McEnroe
9:22 Forgiveness, family and listener reactions
11:41 Spotify comments and DopeyCon tickets
13:04 Remembering Annie Ellie
14:09 Annie joins the show
16:59 Recreational heroin and discovering recovery
19:12 Raves, ecstasy and the “after drugs”
23:13 Backpacking and smoking opium in Southeast Asia
25:27 Buying pharmaceuticals in Cambodia
26:52 Inside an opium den in Laos
29:07 Asked to smuggle opium into Thailand
30:38 Returning home and working in television
32:43 Passing out beside Noel Gallagher
34:45 Heroin, ecstasy and losing her dream job
36:48 Realizing she was physically addicted
39:41 Rehab, relapse and drugs smuggled into treatment
43:44 Twenty years of methadone, Subutex and relapse
46:04 Chris’s death and discovering the Dopey Nation
47:07 How Dopey helped Annie return to recovery
49:17 Learning how to live again
51:43 Benzos, memory loss and the lasting damage
53:57 What is the purpose of Dopey Zoom?
56:17 Harm reduction, abstinence and belonging
58:31 Annie’s favorite classic Dopey moments
1:00:53 Recovery without prayer or meditation
1:02:57 Exercise as Annie’s spiritual practice
1:05:11 Annie takes the show out
1:06:04 Dave reflects on losing Annie
1:07:38 Brian “Hot Wheels” Connolly’s first voicemail
1:10:18 Remembering Brian
1:12:06 Brian’s first full Dopey appearance
1:14:08 How a quadriplegic shoots heroin
1:16:08 The frozen-pond accident that changed everything
1:20:00 Rescue, paralysis and the hospital
1:22:33 Rehab, MMA and nearly joining the Marines
1:27:20 Addiction after losing athletics and independence
1:29:47 Finding purpose after a spinal-cord injury
1:33:32 Suboxone, isolation and asking for help
1:37:08 Brian’s complicated feelings about Steve-O
1:40:35 The jump through the ice
1:45:11 Brian calls Dopey while craving heroin
1:47:20 Chris helps talk Brian through the obsession
1:51:09 The unbearable urge to change how you feel
1:53:11 Holding on until morning
1:55:30 Searching for connection and purpose
2:04:08 Has the craving passed?
2:07:16 The painful connection between Brian and Chris
2:08:10 Honoring Dopey Nation members who have died
2:09:38 SafeSpot and a message for anyone struggling
2:10:06 Annie’s “Mr. Novak” song
2:13:29 “Good So Bad”