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.”