Robbing Banks, Shooting Heroin, Prison, Darby Crash Tattoos, The Greatest Dopey Ever? with Shane Enholm

Robbing Banks, Shooting Heroin, Prison, Darby Crash Tattoos, The Greatest Dopey Ever? with Shane Enholm

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Timestamps 00:04 – Dave’s original song “Trouble World” 01:08 – Introducing Dopey legend Shane Enholm 02:16 – DopeyCon confirmed for October 3 02:42 – Dave predicts Dopey’s greatest year yet 03:01 – Dave’s kratom piece is published in Rolling Stone 03:36 – The story behind “Trouble World” 04:14 – Listener David’s story from Bristol, England 05:55 – Britain’s heroin epidemic and “Heroin Screws You Up” 07:06 – Returning to heroin after 12 years 07:27 – Bristol’s open-air heroin market 08:23 – Smoking heroin and crack while holding down a job 09:02 – A gang war shuts down the drug market 10:45 – Recovery and the gentrification of Argyle Road 11:24 – How long can someone maintain a heroin habit while working? 12:23 – Patreon comments and an emotional recovery Zoom 15:17 – Minnesota Matt describes crack’s proximity to death 17:40 – Spotify comments, stories, stickers and Dopey socks 19:40 – Introducing the Shane Enholm replay 20:29 – Shane Enholm enters the Dopey studio 21:03 – Tattooing his former Lewisburg prison guard 23:09 – Arriving at Lewisburg federal penitentiary 24:41 – Prison weapons and Shane’s many lives 25:34 – Arrested alongside his mother at 12 27:07 – Codeine cough syrup and Shane’s addicted mother 28:15 – Reconnecting with his father and discovering his OxyContin addiction 31:24 – Growing up with violence, addiction and family secrets 33:49 – Thrown out at 13 and hitchhiking across America 35:55 – Accused of stealing his grandfather’s gold 37:20 – Homeless teenagers targeted by predatory spiritual groups 38:16 – Seeing the Ramones and discovering punk rock 40:38 – Meeting Darby Crash and entering the original LA punk scene 41:22 – Darby Crash’s fatal heroin overdose 42:56 – Why people blamed Casey for Darby’s death 43:39 – Shane’s first heroin experience 45:15 – Becoming involved with Casey 46:17 – Synanon-style attack therapy and the clown mask 47:36 – Robbing pharmacies at 17 48:28 – Liquid Dilaudid, cocaine, morphine and pharmaceutical speedballs 50:56 – Entering adult prison at 18 52:01 – Surviving predatory violence inside prison 54:24 – Hitchhiking with two girls and being shot by a rapist 56:49 – Testifying against the attacker 59:12 – Escaping from a locked treatment program 01:01:39 – Shooting methamphetamine in prison 01:03:55 – Escaping treatment and returning to Casey 01:06:09 – Buying incredibly cheap cocaine from a junior-high student 01:07:13 – Repeated cocaine seizures and possible cardiac arrest 01:08:28 – Stealing $10,000 from a drug dealer and fleeing to San Francisco 01:10:44 – Shane’s daughter is born dependent on heroin 01:12:59 – The Keith Richards influence and heroin mythology 01:14:08 – Child Protective Services takes Shane’s daughters 01:15:03 – Learning how to rob banks 01:16:17 – Robbing his first bank with a toy gun 01:18:46 – Scoring heroin immediately after the robbery 01:19:44 – Convincing the judge to return their children 01:20:35 – Becoming a professional bank robber 01:22:59 – Shane’s biggest score: $36,000 01:25:23 – The getaway cab stalls outside the bank 01:26:32 – The FBI names him the Ponytail Bandit 01:27:43 – Using an elderly Hollywood screenwriter as an unwitting getaway driver 01:29:11 – A dye pack explodes in a taxi with Shane’s children inside 01:31:01 – Arrested while hiding in San Francisco 01:32:28 – Captured with his daughters in the hotel room 01:33:51 – Shane confesses so Casey and the children can leave 01:34:49 – Eight years and 23 days in federal prison 01:35:18 – Smuggling heroin through prison visits 01:36:58 – Concealing needles and heroin inside his body 01:38:03 – Dealing heroin and enforcing debts in prison 01:39:11 – Running out of heroin behind bars 01:41:33 – Sharing a needle with an HIV-positive prisoner 01:43:24 – A federal investigation into Shane’s prison heroin operation 01:45:45 – Fourteen grams of heroin hidden in the desert 01:48:08 – Shane confronts the FBI agent investigating him 01:50:30 – Transferred east and confronting different prison politics 01:53:24 – Exercise, pull-ups and rebuilding himself in prison 01:55:45 – Stealing and selling prison laundry 01:57:15 – Released from prison and reunited with his daughters 01:58:41 – Finding recovery after considering murder and suicide 02:00:55 – Nearly returning to crime with a notorious bank robber 02:03:15 – The phone call that may have saved Shane’s life 02:04:50 – His replacement dies in a car crash 02:06:17 – Shane takes his daughters out of foster care 02:08:43 – Relapsing after federal supervision ends 02:10:36 – Downtown Los Angeles heroin in the early 2000s 02:13:05 – Methadone maintenance and the myths surrounding it 02:15:28 – Hepatitis C, cirrhosis and liver failure 02:18:17 – Interferon treatment saves Shane’s life 02:20:17 – Recovery while taking methadone 02:21:34 – Slowly tapering off methadone 02:22:33 – Tattooing and antique tattoo-machine history 02:24:36 – Recovery, surrender and spirituality 02:26:58 – Carpet farming and bacterial endocarditis 02:27:31 – The story behind “Making Mud Pies” 02:29:30 – Shane performs “Making Mud Pies” 02:31:16 – “She was once someone’s little girl” 02:32:10 – Shane’s message to addicts who are still suffering 02:33:28 – Dave performs “Good So Bad” SEO Search Terms