How A California SURFER Gang Smuggled MILLIONS In Blow To Australia | The Connect

The Connect- with Johnny Mitchell

Johnny Mitchell

True Crime

4.3 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2023

⏱️ 113 minutes

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A California surfer bro tells Johnny about his days running a cocaine smuggling operation from Southern California to Australia. Starting off as a small-time pot dealer, he graduated to selling cocaine on college campuses and the finally, to smuggling whole kilos to Australia, where he made millions of dollars and eventually, got caught in a federal sting and spent 4 years in an Australian prison. Support our sponsors! Mood CBD: hellomood.co Promo Code: CONNECT20, CONNECTFREE Support the Patreon: patreon.com/theconnectshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Sherlock Holmes.
0:01.5	It's an unusual name.
0:03.0	Introducing Young Sherlock, a new Guy Ritchie series.
0:07.0	What game are we playing today?
0:09.0	Discover the origins.
0:10.0	It's cleaving. Those days are truly behind me.
0:12.0	Of crime's most iconic mind.
0:14.0	There has been a break-in.
0:17.0	Astoned. You should be a detective.
0:19.0	Starring Hero finds Tiffin, Donald Finn, and Colin Firth.
0:22.5	If you start wearing a hat like that, I will no longer be friends with you.
0:25.9	Young Sherlock, new original series. Watch now only on Prime Video.
0:30.2	What's up, everyone? Today's guest is a man named Ryan Winger.
0:33.6	Ryan is a Southern California surfer bro who came up in the 80s and 90s as part of that California outlaw surfing community.
0:41.9	Surfers are very tribal by nature.
0:44.3	We definitely weren't welcoming to guys from Orange County, Huntington Beach coming up and surfing our area, you know.
0:50.8	He surfed all over the world, including Australia, where in the late 90s and early 2000s,
0:56.7	he started a Los Angeles to Sydney cocaine smuggling operation that made millions of dollars.
1:03.9	I left the money for a full brick. A few weeks later, he flew down there and it went smooth as silk.
1:11.9	This guy was the real deal.
1:13.2	He had couriers, other surfing bros, who would tape kilos to their body and walk through
1:18.7	the X-ray machines at LAX.
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