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