He Fashions a Dildo Made of Heroin to Smuggle Up his Ass., Cocaine in His Cowboy Boots & Busted by the DEA: Louie M | Dopey's Greatest Hits

He Fashions a Dildo Made of Heroin to Smuggle Up his Ass., Cocaine in His Cowboy Boots & Busted by the DEA: Louie M | Dopey's Greatest Hits

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Timestamps 00:00 — Dopey music and introduction 02:23 — Dave introduces Louie and one of Dopey’s wildest Greatest Hits 04:48 — DopeyCon lineup, games, costume pageant and Patreon tickets 07:10 — Hannah steals her dog’s Xanax 09:36 — Using her dog’s medical history to create a second prescription 11:58 — The veterinarian offers to double the Xanax dosage 13:24 — Hannah finally admits the scheme to her psychiatrist 14:20 — Patreon comments on Shane Enholm’s episode 19:25 — Concern about Heart Attack Doug 20:05 — Spotify comments and calls for more of Shane’s recovery story 23:05 — Louie Mandrapilias begins his story 25:40 — Growing up gay, artistic and restless in the South 28:15 — Arriving in 1970s New York City 30:20 — MDA, sex and Studio 54 33:30 — Seeing Andy Warhol and living inside the disco fantasy 35:39 — Louie shoots his first speedball 38:03 — His boyfriend recruits him to smuggle hash from India 40:10 — An Indian opium den immediately after leaving the airport 42:26 — Louie discovers the peace of opium 43:40 — The smuggling deal collapses and Louie joins Bhagwan’s ashram 44:52 — Meeting Bhagwan and experiencing a spiritual awakening 47:14 — Sex, meditation, hash and life inside the ashram 49:37 — Louie’s boyfriend unexpectedly arrives in India 51:42 — The boyfriend is caught smuggling hash into JFK 54:05 — Louie tracks down an opium-addicted dealer named Tascar 56:27 — Tascar fronts Louie several ounces of pure heroin 57:22 — Louie packages the heroin inside a condom and electrical tape 58:53 — Borrowing $2,000 from Shakti to escape India 1:01:17 — Taking opium before the flight home 1:02:35 — Reconcealing the heroin before landing at JFK 1:03:41 — DEA agents strip-search Louie 1:05:15 — The agents miss the heroin and Louie walks free 1:05:42 — Selling half the shipment for $50,000 1:06:35 — Becoming addicted to the heroin he was supposed to sell 1:08:45 — Tascar sends an armed henchman to collect his money 1:10:29 — Shakti returns with a Bolivian cocaine connection 1:12:48 — Buying a kilo of pure cocaine in La Paz 1:15:10 — Cocaine hidden in cowboy boots and skin-tight jeans 1:16:30 — The DEA notices Louie’s enormous “bulge” 1:17:36 — Busted with the kilo and taken to federal prison 1:18:40 — Louie considers kicking the arresting agent in the head 1:20:00 — His father puts up the family home for bail 1:20:55 — A shocking sentence: five years of probation 1:22:16 — Woodworking, drinking and mandatory drug tests 1:24:42 — Off probation—and immediately back on drugs 1:25:20 — The “foolproof” Bangkok heroin-smuggling plan 1:26:48 — Hiding heroin inside an airplane lavatory 1:29:15 — Money, cars and the emptiness of the junkie fantasy 1:31:42 — “You don’t have to live like this” 1:33:56 — Treatment, AA and meeting his first sponsor 1:35:00 — Testing HIV-positive in 1984 1:36:04 — Turning the diagnosis over to a higher power 1:38:15 — Choosing life instead of relapse 1:40:36 — Told he may have only six months to live 1:41:30 — Moving to Los Angeles and entering experimental HIV studies 1:42:10 — Louie’s first HIV-positive AA meeting 1:42:55 — Forty years sober and finally free of his secrets 1:44:00 — SafeSpot, Dopey Day and closing thoughts