Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Dave Man

Booking Overview

This is a dark-comedy addiction and recovery interview show featuring people with lived experience of substance use, along with authors, clinicians, performers, and recovery advocates. Agencies could credibly pitch addiction-treatment and harm-reduction experts, medication-assisted-treatment specialists, authors, comedians, actors, and public figures with compelling recovery stories; booking difficulty is medium because the show welcomes varied guests but requires strong personal relevance and an engaging, candid story.

Metrics

Episodes: 828

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 16.9k subscribers

Instagram: 65.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

dopeypodcast@gmail.com

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Host

Dave Man - Host and creator of Dopey, a person in long-term recovery who explores addiction, substance use, recovery, harm reduction, and alcoholism through candid personal storytelling and dark comedy.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Lived experience of addiction and recovery, expertise in addiction treatment or harm reduction, or a public-facing career in writing, comedy, acting, music, or advocacy tied to a compelling substance-use story.

Required Achievements:

Published books or poetry, Founded or led recovery organizations, Appeared in national media, Performed comedy, acting, or live storytelling, Sustained long-term recovery

Recent Guest Discussions

Ned Van Zandt - Addiction And Recovery, Heroin Use, The Chelsea Hotel, Sid Vicious And Nancy Spungen, Incarceration, Relapse, Treatment, And Long-term Sobriety.

Zach Frank - Anxious Attachment, Resentment, Emotional Regulation, Drug Use In The Jam-band Scene, Treatment, Abstinence, And Emotional Recovery.

Noah Levine - Trauma, Adolescent Addiction, Juvenile Detention, Suicide Attempts, Meditation, Buddhism, Psychedelics, Recovery, And Spiritual Leadership.

Jimmy Cash - Family Addiction, Substance Use, Arrests, AA, Comedy, Long-term Sobriety, Relapse, Cannabis Edibles, And Returning To Recovery.

Recent Topics

Addiction, Recovery, Drug Abuse, Harm Reduction, Alcoholism

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Selling Fake Ecstasy on Grateful Dead Tour, Persian Heroin & $1 Grilled Cheese

September 08, 2026

DopeyCon Tickets: https://buytickets.at/thedopeyfoundation/2345507Save Money with PAtreon: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcastSummaryDave recounts a family expedition through the Balloon Museum, Little Italy, and the black-market handbag scene on Canal Street before reading an incredible listener story from the early-’90s Grateful Dead tour.Despite barely caring about the band, Tom follows the tour for its parking-lot wonderland of drugs, hippies, and chaos. Completely broke, he finances the trip by...

The Worst Dopey Episode Ever? Drug Song, Robo-Tripping, Nitrous & the Structured Episode | Total Replay #44

September 07, 2026

DopeyCon Tickets: https://buytickets.at/thedopeyfoundation/2345507Patreon Membership Saves $15 on Dopeycon www.patreon.com/dopeypodcastEpisode summaryDave celebrates Labor Day with a replay of one of the most polarizing early Dopey episodes: “The Structured Episode.” Before the classic show, Dave runs through the growing DopeyCon lineup—including Hank Azaria, Brandon Novak, Hamilton Morris and possible appearances from Joey Diaz, Jeff Ross and Artie Lange—and shares a spectacular listener voi...

Dopey 598: Leah Lost the Love of her Life to a Fentanyl Overdose, Stealing Crack from Cops, Phish Business and Hippy Shenanigans

September 04, 2026

DopeyCon Tickets: https://buytickets.at/thedopeyfoundation/2345507PAtreon save $15 at www.patreon.com/dopeypodcastEpisode summaryLeah Martin—farmer, Deadhead, Phish fan and recovering addict—joins Dopey for a story that begins with the Beatles, weed and an acid trip at a Tool concert before descending into Perc 30s, heroin, crack, fentanyl and absolute chaos.Leah recalls failing out of college, selling drugs, taking half-gram lines of cocaine while driving and joining a crew of “magnificent h...

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