How Arthur Rapkin Survived Mexican Prison & Life As A Drug Trafficker Turned Healer
The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast
Dear Media
4.5 • 14.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 97 minutes
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#726: Today we're sitting down with Arthur Rapkin, a former drug smuggler, author, musician, Bob Dylan impersonator, Chinese medicine practitioner, and survivor of torture in a Mexican prison. In the late 60’s, he ventured into the dangerous world of drug trafficking cocaine and was subsequently apprehended in Mexico where he then spent time in a Mexican prison. He tells us his wild story as a self-made outlaw whose misdeeds ultimately influenced U.S. drug trafficking policy, and led to his life-changing personal transformation.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:04.7 | She's a lifestyle blogger extraordinary. |
| 0:07.5 | Fantastic. |
| 0:08.5 | And he's a serial entrepreneur. |
| 0:10.8 | A very smart cookie. |
| 0:12.1 | And now Lauren Evertz and Michael Bostick are bringing you along for the ride. |
| 0:16.0 | Get ready for some major realness. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome to the skinny confidential, him and her. I had the good fortune of having an extraordinary life and I wouldn't change anything because I didn't know better at the time you know I didn't know |
| 0:33.3 | that cocaine was going to turn into what it turned into I didn't know anything and I |
| 0:38.3 | thought that what I did was you know for the most part it had a lot of good times, but what I did realize was that going after more money and going after fancy cars and all this stuff, I didn't value human relationships very much. I didn't |
| 0:58.0 | understand how some people could be happy with little to nothing, but I realized now that if I had to do anything |
| 1:07.0 | different, it would have been in valuing human relationships and, you know, more kindness and compassion. |
| 1:14.6 | Today we have an incredible episode with someone who has one of the wilder stories we have heard on this |
| 1:20.8 | podcast and that is Arthur Rapkin. |
| 1:23.2 | Arthur Rapkin recently wrote a book called Poison for Rats, |
| 1:26.7 | six kilos that changed everything. |
| 1:29.4 | And it begins with Arthur being pulled off the tarmac on a first-class flight in Mexico City. |
| 1:34.3 | He was then immediately brought to a Mexican jail and interrogated, actually even being tortured, |
| 1:39.1 | having the tip of his finger cut off, and then spending a year in Mexican prison. He was one of the |
| 1:44.4 | original US drug traffickers in the 70s before all the things that we've all seen |
| 1:49.1 | now on narcos and subsequently. And this is just a wild story and it's a true story. This is a no holds |
| 1:56.3 | barred conversation. We asked all the questions we were curious about Arthur did |
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