Dopey 543: Projectile Vomiting, Codependency, Heroin, Fitness, Billy Joel with Rachel Elizabeth Slocum, Doug Bopst,

dopeycon tix available at www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast Annie’s anniversary: Dave marks one year since Annie Ellie died, plays her voicemails and messages, and reflects on how fragile life in recovery is. Travis’s email: A listener’s relapse saga: he meets a girl at a meeting, falls in love, helps her get sober, then watches the relationship implode into infidelity and emotional breakdown. Rachel Slocum returns: • Talks about relapsing, volunteering during Texas floods, and how service triggered a heavy depression; admits isolating in bed and feeling like a “lazy, dirty sewer rat.” • Finds old PhotoBucket photos showing how skeletal she looked on OxyContin, and discusses body image and denial. • Chats about being an “influencer” vs. “content creator,” getting her Instagram banned, then restored, and how fragile her self‑worth felt. • Debates weed: she loves the smell but hates vaping; she and Dave share stories of stoner snacks, weed vaporizers at concerts, and the eternal “crack or heroin?” question in a silly “This or That” game. • Dave and Rachel riff on Roblox addiction: Dave admits he and his daughters play “Grow a Garden” obsessively, buying seeds and selling veggies like junkies. • Dave invites Rachel to do stand‑up at DopeyCon and they both nervously laugh about bombing on stage. Doug Bopst interview: • From felony to fitness: Doug explains how a cellmate taught him push‑ups and faith, turning jail time into the start of a new life. • They reboot the Dopey Fitness Challenge: more steps, more protein, less sugar, maybe join a gym — and debate smoothies vs. whole milk, Ozempic vs. ayahuasca. • They talk Billy Joel: Doug and Dave quiz each other on Billy Joel, Elton John, Zeppelin and Stones song titles; discuss the sadness in Billy Joel’s documentary and question whether he ever really got sober. • Weed wars: Doug insists today’s high‑THC weed and vaping are dangerous; Dave pushes back with nostalgic stoner stories; they both riff on weed at concerts, edibles, and how weed compares to Ozempic and mushrooms. • Fatherhood & love: Dave urges Doug to have kids, insisting parenthood gives back more than any high; Doug admits he’s not sure. You said: did rachel tell a good drug story? ChatGPT said: Stopped after 20 seconds You said: vomitting ChatGPT said: Worked for 14 seconds In this episode Rachel doesn’t spin a classic “Dopey‑style” caper involving cops or car crashes, but she does share a vivid slice of what using was like for her: she describes taking Oxycontin, chain‑smoking Newports and puking so much she’d have to ask her boyfriend to pull the car over so she could throw up – once even throwing up in a Red Lobster parking lot right after trying to force down a meal. Those vomiting stories are about as close as she gets to a full‑blown drug tale in this conversation. window.__oai_logHTML?window.__oai_logHTML():window.__oai_SSR_HTML=window.__oai_SSR_HTML||Date.now();requestAnimationFrame((function(){window.__oai_logTTI?window.__oai_logTTI():window.__oai_SSR_TTI=window.__oai_SSR_TTI||Date.now()})) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.