Fentanyl, Coke, Speed, Blues, Heroin & Methadone: The Noddy God Story
Wednesday Dose intro – Dave launches the mid-week “Wednesday Dose of Dopey,” rambling about post-Thanksgiving cheesecake obsession, dunking bakery cookies into cheesecake, and wrecking himself (and his pants) trying to run with his dog Winnie for the Dopey Fitness Challenge. Listener email – Haley (Mississippi) – Loves the Glenis and Billy Strings episodes, relates to losing both parents, shouts out Dave’s interrupting-but-perfect questions, and promises future stories from homelessness, prison, and IV meth. Dave begs for more emails and voicemails to [email protected] . Miles Davis heroin passage – Dave reads from the Miles Davis autobiography: sliding from snorting to shooting heroin, realizing he has a “habit,” and describing a four-year horror show of heroin/coke in NYC with Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, Walter Bishop, etc. Guest: Naughty God (Dakota) – origin story – San Diego kid; sweet young mom, meth-addicted dad, split households. First high at 13 snorting mystery pain pills from a friend’s brother’s room, then full weed-identity kid (Snoop + pot-leaf MySpace). Band life with Jacob Nowell / LAW – Forms LAW with Jacob Nowell (Bradley Nowell’s son). Early years of weed, then coke and speed. Tries to draw a line (no speed for him, no opiates for Jacob), both eventually cross it. Dakota starts showing up high, Jacob gets sober and finally tells him he can’t come to the band anymore. Dakota pretends not to care, then goes home and cries. Orange County run: coke, blues, fetty, heroin – Moves to Dana Point, tight crew in San Clemente’s Triangle, dealing/using coke nightly. Adds Oxy 30 “blues”, then fentanyl pills and heroin. Lives in a two-year loop of dealing and using. Fentanyl deaths & getting help – In about two months, Dakota loses Robert (best friend), his cousin, and three other friends to fentanyl overdoses. Has a mental breakdown and heavy survivor’s guilt, calls his grandma, and checks into a San Diego hospital detox, gets put on 100mg methadone, then goes to a state-funded program and moves in with family. Methadone years & taper – Stays on 100mg methadone for 4–5 years, barely using anything else. With a therapist’s help, decides he can’t stay on it forever. Tapers over about a year from 100 to 4mg, then jumps. Says the taper fog and withdrawal were brutal and wouldn’t wish it on anyone. Now about 1.5 years off methadone, occasionally smokes weed, and focuses on therapy, music, and content. Nods, fentanyl & Naughty God channel – Says nodding was “everything”; describes fentanyl nods as zombie-like and short (“no legs”). Builds the NaughtyGod brand by rating nods like a sports announcer, with phrases like “Horseshoe,” “Charm City Rainbow,” “Nodwalk Shuffle,” “Baltimore Street Yoga,” “Sheriff of Nottingham.” Talks about Instagram flags/bans and treating his content like a recurring show so people follow for each “episode.” Content, community & collab – Dave and Dakota realize they both started their stuff for fun/ego and it accidentally turned into something that helps addicts feel less alone. Dakota gives Dave ideas for recurring, themed Dopey clips; they agree to collab on a nod reel and cross-pollinate their audiences. Safe Spot & stickers – Dave plugs Safe Spot for people afraid they might OD while using: 1-800-972-0590. Tells listeners to go to meetings, shout outs Kimber, Steven, Jesse. Plugs customstickers.com with code DOPEY20 and asks listeners who think they’d be great guests to email/voicemail. Signs off: “Stay strong Dopey Nation and fucking toodles for Chris.”
Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction
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Show Notes
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Dave kicks off the first-ever Wednesday Dose of Dopey talking about post-Thanksgiving food insanity, a brownie-topped cheesecake Linda brought home, and his evolving stance on cheesecake as a “real” dessert. He updates the Dopey Nation on the Dopey Fitness Challenge, his failed attempt at jogging with his dog Winnie that ends with him eating pavement, ripping his pants, smacking the dog in frustration, and then feeling guilty about it all week. Dave reads an email from Haley in Mississippi, who loved the Glenis and Billy Strings episodes and promises heavy dopey stories from homelessness, prison, and IV meth. He begs for more voicemails and then plays a chunk of Miles Davis’s autobiography, where Miles describes sliding from snorting heroin into shooting it, realizing he has a habit, and sinking into a four-year “horror show” of heroin and cocaine in New York.
Then Dave introduces Naughty God (Dakota), a heavily tattooed Instagram/TikTok/YouTube creator who built a big following rating nod videos “sportscaster-style.” Dakota tells his story: growing up between a sweet, young mom and a meth-addicted dad, starting drugs at 13 by snorting random pain pills he found in a friend’s brother’s room, and becoming the classic weed-identity kid with a pot-leaf MySpace. He forms the band LAW with his friend Jacob Nowell (Bradley Nowell’s son, who now sings for Sublime), and they grow up playing shows in San Diego and Long Beach while having access to grown-up levels of partying. Dakota falls in love with cocaine in his mid-teens, then with speed, and his using gets him kicked out of LAW when Jacob gets sober and can’t handle him showing up high to everything.
After moving to Orange County, Dakota dives into selling and using coke in San Clemente, then adds Oxy 30s (“blues”), fentanyl pills, and heroin to his daily rotation. He and his tight crew—especially his best friend Robert—live in a constant loop of dealing, partying, and using. Over two months, Robert, Dakota’s cousin, and three other friends all die from fentanyl. The losses break him: he has a mental breakdown, calls his grandma, and checks himself into a San Diego hospital detox, where he’s put on 100mg of methadone and spends years on the clinic grind.
Dakota talks about being on methadone for four–five years, barely using anything else, then deciding—with help from a therapist—that he’ll never fully turn a corner if he stays on it forever. He tapers himself from 100mg down to 4mg over about a year, jumps off, and goes through a long, foggy, uncomfortable withdrawal. He’s now about a year and a half off methadone, occasionally smokes weed, sees a therapist, plays bass in his band Somehow Unseen, and works on content. He and Dave riff on nodding (“my whole life”), nod techniques, fentanyl’s short “legs,” and the economics of why heroin likely won’t “come back” in a big way.
Dakota explains how he built NaughtyGod into a fast-growing account by structuring it like a recurring “show” and inventing/collecting phrases like “Charm City Rainbow,” “Nodwalk Shuffle,” “Baltimore Street Yoga,” “Sheriff of Nottingham” to describe different nod poses. They talk about Instagram flagging and banning drug content, other junkie meme/recovery pages, and how both of them accidentally stumbled into helping people through content that started out as pure jokes and self-centered ambition. They agree to collab on a nod reel, and Dakota shouts out his band and pages.
All that and more on a brand new WEDNESDAY Episode of the good old dopey show!
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