Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction · Dopey Podcast
Dopey 575: Acid in the Eyes! Oxy, Kratom, DMT, and the Gobi Desert: Ken Rideout and the Other Side of Hard
March 20, 2026·2 hr 34 min·15 clips
Ken Rideout describes how seven Percocets from a minor surgery spiraled into a decade-long opioid addiction.
As heard by us
A rough-edged recovery story that turns bad decisions into hard-earned, sideways comedy.
Ken Rideout's story starts in familiar self-destruction: drinking before games, acting like an asshole at Framingham State, getting cut by the coach, then sliding into coke, bad grades, and jail.
Why you'd press play
If you want a jail-and-coke confession that never bothers to clean itself up, press play.
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