# Dopey 592: Jerry Stahl Returns! Twin Peaks, Oprah Loved Crack, Airplane Crack Smoking & Die Hard at Katz's | Dopey

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Podcast: [Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dopey-on-the-dark-comedy-of-drug-addiction-422100)
Published: 2026-07-17T09:00:00+00:00
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Timestamp Chapters 00:00 Velvet Underground's Waiting for the Man opens the show 03:18 Summer hiatus, Dopey updates & new music request 06:00 MDMA-assisted therapy email from filmmaker Sylvie 09:20 Dopey Film Festival returns & DopeyCon update 10:08 Mountainside & Zen AI 11:45 Axe to the safe, Antabuse disaster & Dopey Socks 14:50 Smoking crack on an airplane with a soda can 19:30 Flesh-eating infection after shooting a goofball 26:30 Patreon, Recovery Unplugged & BetterHelp 27:45 Jerry Stahl returns to Dopey 31:00 Recovery, identity & life after heroin 35:00 Gambling, rehab ads & podcast business 42:45 Twin Peaks, David Lynch & the bloody script story 45:30 Hubert Selby Jr., William Burroughs & outlaw literature 58:00 Why kindness matters more than revenge 1:06:30 Oprah, Ben Stiller & Permanent Midnight 1:16:00 McDonald's junkie breakfast club & LA heroin scene 1:29:00 Can writing about drugs glamorize addiction? 1:41:00 The Last Jewish Waiter & Katz's stories 1:55:30 Dave pitches Jerry "Die Hard at Katz's Delicatessen" 2:03:40 Closing thoughts, SafeSpot & Dopey Nation banjo song

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