The Supply Side
Deep Cover
Pushkin Industries
4.2 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Jake delves into one piece of the puzzle that he didn’t quite get into in season one but has continued to intrigue him: the source. In this episode, you’ll meet Tommy Powell, a former smuggler who guides us through the import side of the marijuana industry. Starting out as a small time dealer in Michigan, Tommy winds up in Colombia inspecting marijuana crops and working as a liaison between farmers and other smugglers. Eventually, Tommy claims, he became one of the first smugglers to bring in really big loads of Colombian weed to the United States.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:11.0 | Hey guys, this is Jake Halpern, host of Deep Cover. |
| 0:15.0 | We're currently working on Season 2, |
| 0:17.0 | and we'll be sure to let you know when it will be coming out. |
| 0:19.0 | But in the meantime, we have our first bonus episode for you. |
| 0:23.0 | The supply side. |
| 0:30.0 | Today's bonus episode, it's actually a story that I really wanted to include in Season 1. |
| 0:35.0 | In fact, to tell you the truth, I had this big debate with my producer, Karen Chikurji. |
| 0:39.0 | I kept saying, look, we got to include this story. |
| 0:42.0 | She was like, it's awesome, but it's kind of a tangent, like a crazy side trip, |
| 0:47.0 | and it just doesn't fit. |
| 0:49.0 | Karen, she was right, kind of annoyingly, she's almost always right. |
| 0:54.0 | But fortunately, this story, it's perfect for bonus episode. |
| 0:59.0 | Because one thing that we really didn't get into during Season 1 was the suppliers, the Columbians, |
| 1:05.0 | the guys who actually harvested all those crops of marijuana. |
| 1:09.0 | If you recall, that's where Ned ultimately wanted to go, down to Columbia. |
| 1:14.0 | He had a source named Simone, who had all kinds of connections down there. |
| 1:18.0 | These are the people that would have supplied the drugs to likely rich. |
| 1:23.0 | They're the people that controlled everything on the North Coast to Columbia. |
| 1:26.0 | But in the end, and spoiler alert, your guys, so if you haven't heard episode 9 yet, hit pause. |
| 1:32.0 | Because Ned ends up leaving the FBI. |
| 1:36.0 | And the suppliers, well, they just kind of slipped away. |
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