EPISODE · Oct 17, 2025 · 2H 8M
Dopey 552: Brace Belden Returns! Molestation, Poppers, Nitrous, Heroin, Charlie Kirk and Recovery!
from Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction · host Dave & Chris
This Week on Dopey! Dave opens with a cocaine-barroom parody and rolls into updates: DopeyCon afterglow, Spotify/iTunes comments, LA travel nerves, and sponsor shout-outs. Listener Archie checks in with a salvia-in-underwear saga; another listener writes about rock-salt shrooms and missing the Dead’s final Jerry show; “Chip” reports nearly a year sober and reflects on denial. Then Brace Belden (Truenon) sits down in Dave’s new DIY studio for a sprawling hang: meetings vs. therapy, analysis and trazodone dreams, the weird science of memory, and a brutally honest tour through sex + drugs (boofing Suboxone film, poppers, Whippets/“galaxy gas,” meth, DMT, Quaaludes, coke dick, Hunter Biden-level decadence). They spar on politics without picking teams (meetings in “Trumpy” rooms, why rhetoric isn’t the whole story), react to the Charlie Kirk assassination video, and play a relapse thought experiment (weed→benzos→opiate math vs. “new Research Chemicalss”). They close with Chrome-mags diplomacy drama, a rapid-fire “this or that,” Truenon live show plugs, and Dave’s mural/Patreon notes before the end of another edition of that good old Dopey Show! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Dopey Notes: DopeyCon feedback, Spotify vs. iTunes reviews, dad monitoring iTunes. Sponsors & allies mentioned: Oro Recovery, Mountainside (title sponsor), Recovery.com, Recovery Unplugged; contact shout to John Jones at Mountainside. Listener corner: Archie (Lexington, KY): salvia → beach-ball hallucination → sprinting outside in underwear. David Dixon: shrooms, rock salt, and the day Jerry died. “Chip” from ep. 136: then-denial vs. now-sober (methadone). Dave’s social-media compulsion & unity riff; Heart Attack Doug voicemail (“discipline” and belly abuse). Guest: Brace Belden (Truenon) 11 years sober; meetings vs. chips; sponsoring a couple guys. Phone/text boundaries; “walk and talk.” Therapy vs. analysis; dream talk (Tom Cruise baby; Sabrina Carpenter at a sewer table); trazodone nights; hypnosis tapes for insomnia/anxiety. Drugs & sex honesty hour: DMT in the West Village; meth IV (“butt pulsation” observation); “galaxy gas” nitrous vs. old-school Whippets and the cracker; poppers lore; vague Quaalude memories. Boofing Suboxone film (“didn’t get it far enough”); coke on genitals (“numbing—kind of defeats the point”); coke dick; the “Wamo Jamo” speedball myth. Memory & molestation chat: what counts as memory, implanted/false memories, Dave’s family-friend story and camp counselor thread, Brace’s 14-year-old runaway incident with a knife and $40. Meetings + politics: Trumpy rooms, why “politics has no place in recovery,” being non-partisan on-air, and the difference between having beliefs vs. beating people with them. Charlie Kirk assassination video: why it hits hard; “good shot” discourse; lone-actor vs. “they”; rhetoric hypocrisy across sides. Hypotheticals & relapse pathways: weed→benzos→opiate slide vs. “new RC” curiosity; the last heroin highs (too high/sick vs. not enough); fentanyl vs. heroin now. Cro-Mags détente attempt (Harley Flanagan / John Joseph) and whether to air interviews when friends object. Rapid “this or that”: Trump vs. Kirk (prefers Trump), Pete Townshend vs. Roger Daltrey (Roger), RFK vs. Elon (RFK), MLK vs. Malcolm (Malcolm), Che vs. Fidel (Che), LSD vs. Ecstasy (LSD), X vs. Fang (X), methadone vs. Suboxone (Suboxone), EMDR vs. talk therapy (talk). Truenon live shows; schedule, workflow; invite to attend. Wrap-up: graffiti wall on Houston/First Street (Optimo & PVC Gray); request for someone to film the wall; Patreon; “Stay strong, Dopey Nation — toodles for Chris.”
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