Introducing: Disorganized Crime: Smuggler's Daughter

Disorganized Crime: Smuggler's Daughter

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True Crime

4.2 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Host Rainbow Valentine discovers her artist mom and 'businessman' dad were deeply involved in the illegal drug trade and unknowingly spent her childhood among a massive pot distribution operation. As she talks with her father in intimate interviews, Rainbow Valentine uncovers a history of her childhood that causes her to reassess everything — and gives us a unique personal window into the infamous counter-culture of Marin County in the 70s and 80s -- from Ken Kesey's acid tests and the birth of the Grateful Dead to a drug culture that hardened and became more dangerous in response to the War On Drugs.

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0:00.0	Yeah, so it's the 1980s in Marin County, California.
0:04.0	Saturdays, my dad would take me to this baseball field.
0:08.0	All these guys my dad played with were our family friends.
0:10.0	I just found out that 80% of these folks were pot dealers or pot smugglers or drug
0:16.7	smugglers or growers. They all worked in the pot industry in the 70s and 80s which
0:22.4	was a big deal you know it was illegal and so was my dad.
0:26.0	What?
0:27.0	That is what?
0:29.0	I'm just a hot producer tip when you blow your nose put some space between the
0:35.0	storytelling and the nose blowing so I can cut it out. I didn't even think
0:39.5	about it. That's why I'm here.
0:41.6	Hello I'm Rainbow Valentine.
0:44.0	And for the past year, my dad has been coming clean to me about his decades-long career as a big-time pot smuggler.
0:51.0	And by big time, I mean pretty big time. I think it was 60,000 pounds.
0:55.6	Oh my God. My dad and mom had to live a double life. One is active school board members
1:02.0	doting parents to three kids and the other is outlaws.
1:05.0	Like, my parents had a secret room.
1:08.0	Like in the movies.
1:09.0	It was, yeah.
1:10.0	I mean, there was a real secret room where he had...
1:12.0	You took out a book and You took out a screwdriver.
1:14.8	Now, my dad wasn't the most organized criminal.
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