Disorganized Crime: Smuggler's Daughter

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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.

  • 23 minutes 45 seconds
    BONUS The Lemurs of New York

    Rainbow Valentine talks to her New York Lemur cousins about what their uncle Walter Lemur was up to in New York City during his East Coast smuggling trips. 

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    8 July 2020, 2:00 pm
  • 24 minutes 41 seconds
    BONUS Proscribed from Puerto Vallarta

    Friend of the Lemur’s, Joanna Banana, divulges a stressful story of marijuana & mistaken identity in Mexico.

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    3 June 2020, 10:00 am
  • 23 minutes 43 seconds
    BONUS Kansas, Cannabis, and Chickens

    Two of Nixon’s affirmed enemies, a hippie & an African American, tell stories of historic cannabis use, oddly originating in Kansas. And the Lemurs reveal their plan for a therapeutic side hustle.

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    13 May 2020, 9:00 am
  • 22 minutes 31 seconds
    BONUS Far Out's Far Out Trip

    Rainbow Valentine's parent's friend, Far Out, an iconic psychedelic pioneer and former manager of a world-famous SF rock'n'roll band, reveals his illicit saga of smuggling the best Mexico pot he'd ever smoked over the Rio Grande.

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    22 April 2020, 7:01 am
  • 13 minutes 7 seconds
    BONUS Tale of Two Walter Lemurs

    Walter Lemur wasn't the only Walter Lemur in Mill Valley. Rainbow Valentine tells the tale of years of mistaken identity in the smuggling world. 

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    8 April 2020, 11:54 am
  • 43 minutes 50 seconds
    Making It Up As We Roll Along

    Rainbow Valentine reflects on her parent's life since smuggling and talks with an old friend who had a completely different childhood with her psychedelic smuggling parents. And The Lemurs make a phone call 30-years overdue. 

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    5 February 2020, 12:33 pm
  • 46 minutes 1 second
    Outlaws, In-Laws and the Final Straw

    After 22 years, RV’s dad’s pot smuggling career comes to a dramatic end in a standoff that involves the Mafia, Mexican Cartel, lost millions, lost friends - and a buried secret revealed for the first time.

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    29 January 2020, 12:59 pm
  • 42 minutes 29 seconds
    Rivers, Rifles & Rollers

    Rainbow Valentine visits with Grandma Bella whose family was torn apart after a disorganized smuggling trip. Rainbow Valentine also talks with a lifelong friend who went to federal prison in the 90’s for pot. 

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    22 January 2020, 12:45 pm
  • 42 minutes 14 seconds
    Greed and The Grifter

    In the wake of President Reagan’s Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 which institutes mandatory minimum prison sentences for pot, my dad completes his most successful smuggling trip ever, then doubts himself, leading to the biggest rip-off of his career.

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    15 January 2020, 8:01 am
  • 44 minutes 21 seconds
    Savings & Loam

    Pot smuggling comes with its own financial issues as it's exclusively a cash industry. Where do you store a million dollars in cash? The yard (known as Savings & Loam)? In a futon? In a safe under the sink? And how do you clean your money (literally and illegally)? In this episode, Rainbow Valentine learns all the tips and tricks of a cash-based illegal industry.

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    8 January 2020, 8:01 am
  • 45 minutes 28 seconds
    Mary Jane Mamas

    As Rainbow Valentine's dad continues to open up about his 20 year smuggling career, he begins to discover that longtime friends that he thought were "straight" were actually as deep in the world as he was. Rainbow Valentine talks with two women involved in the smuggling world whose stories parallel her dad's. 

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    1 January 2020, 8:01 am
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