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The Uncertain Hour

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Government, News

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

It’s not easy being an undercover cop in a county of just 40,000 people. But drugs were making it hard for Bucky Culbertson to run his business, so he made it his business to get rid of drugs.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Roman Mars, host of 99% Invisible.
0:03.8	It's a podcast about all the thought that goes into things most people don't even think about.
0:08.1	You're gonna see stories everywhere.
0:10.3	Follow and listen to 99% Invisible wherever you get your podcasts.
0:14.5	Hey, if this is your first time listening to the show, you might want to go back and listen
0:19.3	to the episode before this one.
0:21.0	It'll make more sense that way.
0:23.0	Here's producer, Kate Linneche.
0:25.2	One misty morning when I was visiting Wise County, Virginia, I went to see a source
0:29.8	I'd been talking to for months.
0:31.9	We met at a sawmill in the mountains.
0:34.4	We've got a shop in here.
0:35.9	Can you walk and talk?
0:37.7	His name is Bucky Colbertson.
0:40.1	He's showing me around the old family lumber company.
0:43.2	Bucky says back in the early 2000s, it's so much business, it was hard to keep up.
0:48.1	Well, it was thriving.
0:49.2	We were delivering stuff in like sitting in the Lakeland, floored up in Indiana, Tennessee,
0:56.1	Georgia.
0:57.1	It was fun.
0:59.0	The times have changed for Bucky's family business.
1:02.3	There's just one employee now.
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