EPISODE · Aug 26, 2026 · 1H 34M
Tripping Face at Dominican Holidaze - JRAD, Disco Biscuits, Cocaine Cab Driver, Silly Sticks & the Last Hurrah Before Rehab, Zach Frank Returns!
from Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction · host Dave & Chris
DopeyCon Tickets: https://buytickets.at/thedopeyfoundation/2345507 Patreon: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast Summary / show notes This week on Dopey Wednesday! We open the Wednesday show with DopeyCon updates, listener comments and a voicemail from Oskar in Sweden. After leaving rehab with no intention of staying clean, Oskar returns home to ten grams of heroin, begins injecting with a friend and saves that friend from a potentially fatal overdose using naloxone. Poet/writer/'clinician' addict Zach Frank returns to discuss anxious attachment, fear, resentment and the difficulty of responding thoughtfully when emotions take over. He remembers passing out on heroin while running a bath, flooding his mother’s house and destroying his brother’s Xbox before the damaged ceiling collapsed in front of his grandmother. Zach then takes Dave inside the jam-band drug scene. On his way to a Dominican Republic festival, he convinces a cab driver to find cocaine, stops at a pharmacy for a huge box of Xanax, absorbs liquid LSD through his palm, urinates in the ocean fully clothed and later smokes a “silly stick”—a joint containing marijuana and DMT—during a Disco Biscuits set. He also describes his final festival before recovery: obtaining cocaine and Xanax, taking ketamine and powerful MDMA pills, and eventually reaching complete spiritual exhaustion. He calls his mother crying, returns to New York and enters treatment. Dave and Zach discuss the painful gap between becoming abstinent and genuinely feeling well, the first moments of peace that make recovery worthwhile, and why addicts sometimes need to hold on through weeks or months of discomfort. They celebrate Dave’s 11 years sober and compare the Knicks’ championship comeback to the seemingly impossible transformations found in recovery. The episode closes with listener comments and Dave’s heartfelt—and musically questionable—tribute to Dolly Parton. All that and MORE! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Embed this episode
What this episode covers
Timestamps 00:00:02 – Dopey Wednesday theme 00:01:05 – DopeyCon and five days of Dopey 00:02:25 – Lantern and Monsters of God 00:03:55 – Oskar’s heroin story from Sweden 00:05:48 – Returning from rehab to ten grams of heroin 00:08:01 – His friend overdoses after injecting 00:09:56 – Naloxone saves his life 00:10:55 – Patreon reactions to Joe Schrank 00:14:40 – Kratom, benzos and medical recovery 00:19:23 – What listeners thought of Joe 00:20:40 – Remembering Dolly Parton 00:21:51 – Zach Frank returns 00:23:07 – Anxious attachment, fear and control 00:24:30 – OxyContin, psychedelics and abstinence 00:31:30 – A terrified sponsee hides naked with a baseball bat 00:33:41 – Dave’s fear when a close friend stops responding 00:37:20 – Zach’s younger brother and the damage of addiction 00:39:27 – Passing out and flooding his mother’s house 00:41:40 – Dominican Republic “Holidaze” begins 00:43:56 – The cab driver named him “El Tigre” 00:45:59 – A Dominican pharmacy and a giant box of Xanax 00:48:21 – Drugs inside the jam-band festival scene 00:50:34 – Liquid LSD absorbed through Zach’s palm 00:52:36 – The junkie Bushido code 00:54:50 – Urinating in the ocean fully clothed 00:55:40 – Smoking a DMT “silly stick” 00:57:06 – Naked nighttime swim during the Disco Biscuits 00:58:28 – Appreciating drug experiences without regretting recovery 00:59:56 – Funerals briefly frighten Zach away from heroin 01:01:00 – Arriving at a dealer’s house and facing a Magnum 01:02:23 – Cocaine, Xanax, ketamine and orange Teslas 01:03:30 – Zach’s last festival and desperate call to his mother 01:04:39 – Abstinence is not the same as wellness 01:06:42 – Brutal methadone and Suboxone withdrawal 01:09:05 – Dave celebrates 11 years sober 01:11:29 – Recovery and the Knicks championship 01:17:43 – A former using friend witnesses the Knicks comeback 01:19:52 – OG Anunoby’s unforgettable winning shot 01:23:15 – Zach’s book and junkie Bushido 01:24:16 – Spotify comments 01:27:20 – Dolly Parton tribute 01:31:33 – “Good So Bad” Five ad-break timecodes These are the cleanest segment transitions: 00:10:50 – After Oskar’s overdose story 00:21:45 – Immediately before Zach’s interview 00:41:35 – Before the Dominican festival story 01:04:35 – Before the deeper recovery discussion 01:23:15 – After Zach’s interview, before Spotify comments
Ready to play
Tripping Face at Dominican Holidaze - JRAD, Disco Biscuits, Cocaine Cab Driver, Silly Sticks & the Last Hurrah Before Rehab, Zach Frank Returns!
No transcript for this episode yet
Similar Episodes
No similar episodes found.
Similar Podcasts
No similar podcasts found.