1 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:06,880 Speaker 1: Previously unsmoked, to see the beaches, the surfers, the smoking 2 00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:09,560 Speaker 1: of the weed. Yeah, it was a totally different climate 3 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 1: of attitude and he worked hard. And it wasn't until 4 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 1: some years after he realized, you know, maybe there's another 5 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 1: way to make a buck. When I was five, my 6 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:23,600 Speaker 1: appearance through a Safari theme birthday party and it included 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: Jessica the elephant who came from Miami Zoo. I heard 8 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: a few things, but I didn't really want to delve 9 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: into it and missed Atlanta Grand Prix. I was in 10 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 1: northern California bringing load in. How big was the load 11 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:41,520 Speaker 1: was pounds? How much was that worth? Forty four million 12 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 1: blocks from the Indianapolis Voter Speedway on Nante eighties six, 13 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 1: running the indian for Randy Lanier looked like it was 14 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: going to be one long adrenaline fuel rushed to the 15 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 1: finish line. He was going to smuggle in his biggest 16 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 1: load of pot ever and in his racing career. Well, 17 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 1: here we are again, I'm Jim mcgay reporting live back 18 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 1: home again in the Indiana He set his sights on 19 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: what many say is the pinnacle of the sport. This 20 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 1: is the fastest field in the history of indianapos and 21 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: a fascinating one of The Indie for many years was 22 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 1: considered the greatest race in the world back when those 23 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:27,400 Speaker 1: guys were racing in the eighties. It was the race. 24 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: Racing writer Mike Harris has covered the Indie five forty 25 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: seven times. No other race in the world drew half 26 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 1: a million people to the race track, and I think 27 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: part of it was because it was so dangerous. You're 28 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: driving above two miles an hour with concrete walls right 29 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: next to you. You mess up, you're in these walls. 30 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: In a few years, Randy had gone from racing an 31 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 1: old porscha. He had rewired himself to competing for a 32 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 1: spot in racing history. He knew it was dangerous, both 33 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 1: the race and the attention it would draw. There was 34 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: some talk about where their money came from, and there 35 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: was definitely some talk about drug because there wasn't anything 36 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 1: that was written or anything like that, but there were 37 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: people who said they'd seen lots of cash being handed 38 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 1: out in certain places. Now the cars turned back onto 39 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:18,239 Speaker 1: the front street, you see them moving out of turn four, 40 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 1: But on the track, all that faded away. It was 41 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: just driver and car. The state of mind that the 42 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 1: racing would put me in was absolutely extraordinary. You challenge 43 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: yourself and you feel that you're doing the best you 44 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: can do, but yet there's still more, ain't you. There's 45 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: no such thing as a perfect lap. You're always trying 46 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 1: to better it. Adrenaline begins to rush quickly. Now again, 47 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 1: Row five, Randy Lannie or Panto Carter and pulse pounding speed, 48 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: The incredible focus required to race your best, the fight 49 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,359 Speaker 1: to finish first. Randy loved it all to be good 50 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 1: at something, to put your three best at it over 51 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:02,119 Speaker 1: and over again, and concentration and attention. When you get 52 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: into zone, there's there. There's nothing else but being there. 53 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 1: In the moment both sports events began the Indianapolis XL, 54 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 1: Randy was looking toward the biggest accomplishments of his careers. 55 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 1: Both of them collected going into turn, but the finish 56 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 1: line was coming quicker than he thought. From the Miami 57 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 1: Herald and McClatchy studios, this is smoked. I'm Amy Driscol, 58 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 1: I'm Alex Harris, and this is Part three. As Randy 59 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 1: continued his relentless rise as a driver in the mid eighties, 60 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 1: something else was happening. The drug culture that funneled millions 61 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: of dollars into his wallet was changing. Shows like Miami 62 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 1: Vice glamorized the fight against smuggling and the cops on 63 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 1: the front lines. Of course, real life was a bit 64 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: different from that. Nobody dressed like and the cops didn't 65 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: dress like most of the Miami Vice guys. I knew 66 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:13,840 Speaker 1: with this high and about that wide, you know. But uh, 67 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:16,039 Speaker 1: was there a lot of crazy I got going on 68 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 1: where boats would pull up with dopen it absolutely. Tom 69 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 1: Raffaello is a former d e A agent. He came 70 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:23,920 Speaker 1: to South Florida after assignments and some of the most 71 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 1: crime ridden spots in the US, including Las Vegas, New York, 72 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 1: and along the Mexican border. My house was burned down 73 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 1: by Mexican traffickers. Yeah, nowadays Day would have transferred me 74 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:37,839 Speaker 1: to several time zones away. But my boss, who I 75 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:40,279 Speaker 1: talked to to this day, said it's your call. You 76 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 1: want to stay, you want to go? I said, I 77 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 1: like it here, so I stay. The South Florida scene 78 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: was something new, even for him. Law enforcement was struggling 79 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 1: while drug cartels were surging. There was a skeleton crew 80 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 1: down here and they did what they could, but unlimited manpower, 81 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:00,599 Speaker 1: unlimited budget, and no rules will win a drew times 82 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: out of a hundred, and if you remember, people were 83 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 1: getting shot in shopping centers walking at his stores. Miami 84 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:11,520 Speaker 1: was not a safe place in those days. Cocaine traffickers 85 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 1: followed some of the same Colombian pipelines used by Randy 86 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 1: and others for pot, but the new business model included 87 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,600 Speaker 1: a lot of bloodshed. Coke was now the focus for 88 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 1: law enforcement. Pot had to take back seat. We just 89 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,919 Speaker 1: didn't look at pot as a big deal. Let me 90 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,039 Speaker 1: rephrase that, we didn't have the resources to really do 91 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 1: anything with that. Smugglers like Randy mostly tried to stay 92 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,919 Speaker 1: out of the way of the cocaine cartels. Different type 93 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 1: of clientele, different type and you never were interested in 94 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,479 Speaker 1: selling cocaine. Not really different types of people. Even the 95 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 1: hours are different than they more nightlife people, so a 96 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 1: whole different atmosphere. In retrospect, the earlier years of pot 97 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 1: smuggling started to seem almost quaint. More than a hundred 98 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 1: and fifty million dollars worth of marijuana has and sued 99 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 1: so far in South Florida, Big Federal bus and pot 100 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 1: haven's like Key West and Everglade City seemed like cat 101 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 1: and mouse games between the traffickers and the law. The 102 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 1: Monroe County Sheriff's office is on an almost continuous alert 103 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 1: following a number of major marijuana busts in the Florida Keys. 104 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 1: It was such a small town. We would all go 105 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 1: up to the La Conta on Friday nights, which was 106 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,719 Speaker 1: the top of the tallest building in key West. Alison 107 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 1: to four is a former sheriff and former judge in 108 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 1: Monroe County. Home to Key West. Smugglers would be at 109 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:30,279 Speaker 1: one end of the bar and we'd be at the 110 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 1: other end of the bar, and if they'd had a 111 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 1: really good day, maybe sending drinks down to us, and 112 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 1: we had a really good day, we'd be senting drinks 113 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: down to them. And rusts totally in almost sixty tons, 114 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 1: where thirty five million dollars have been recorded so far 115 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 1: by local authorities. We had a house one time. When 116 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:49,160 Speaker 1: we got there, he was sitting in the hot tub 117 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:51,839 Speaker 1: with a blonde on either side of him and a 118 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 1: dead bottle of dom Perignon and a live bottle of Dampignons, 119 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 1: and the German shepherd in the hot tub with them. 120 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: And all of everybody just way. Did I think the 121 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: shepherd too, And he's just there with a smirk on 122 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: his face, and I said, so I'm reckoning. You knew 123 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 1: we were going to drop by, And he said, maybe 124 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 1: it's a small town. In Everygade city, smuggling became so 125 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: common that practically the whole town was involved. Federal agents 126 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 1: once showed up to arrest a couple there and got 127 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 1: a big surprise. Customs, a d E, a FBI, and 128 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: everybody standing up front like a bunch of ninja's knocked 129 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 1: the door down. That's Tim McBride, a former potholer from 130 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 1: Everygide city who got swept up in the mass arrests there. 131 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 1: They didn't get three feet inside the door, in the 132 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 1: face to face with two mountain lions. They turned right 133 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 1: around and ran out of the door, and they had 134 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 1: to get on the phone. They're calling WILDLFE people and 135 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 1: everybody to get these lions under controls. And nobody going 136 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 1: to their Yeah, hell yeah, there was nobody going in 137 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 1: that house like that. Later on, as cocaine demanded the 138 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 1: government's attention, we became a low priority to investigators like Raffaello. 139 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: Even when there was an entire planeload of it. I 140 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 1: had a really good informant who was a pilot, and 141 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 1: he had a d C three and we had a 142 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 1: deal through an undercover and a mid level cartel figure 143 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 1: to bring three tons of coke in. We bring it 144 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 1: into a clandestine strip and I look and the whole 145 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 1: plane is loaded with build You could smell the pot 146 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 1: from a mile away. I got on his ass. I said, 147 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 1: why did you take the What am I going to 148 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 1: do with it? Bring it back? They had so much 149 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: pot they didn't know what to do with it. It 150 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 1: was open and notorious. It was almost funny because we 151 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 1: would talk about it. You know, agents would say the 152 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:43,760 Speaker 1: guy walked into the bank with a trunk full of 153 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: cash and dump and they didn't have enough people or 154 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 1: machinery to count the money. Dick Gregory is a former 155 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:54,120 Speaker 1: U S attorney known for taking down infamous traffickers like 156 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:58,959 Speaker 1: Pablo Escobar and Manuel nor Jega. This was Casablanca. As 157 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:02,679 Speaker 1: I've said many times, this town was full of spies, 158 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 1: arms dealers, and narcotics traffickers, petty thieves, and it was 159 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:10,320 Speaker 1: the fraud capital of the world. For a person doing 160 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 1: federal prosecutions, this was like a stockbroker being on Wall Street. 161 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 1: All the focus on cocaine in South Florida worked to 162 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 1: Randy's advantage, at least for a while. Rafaello said, pot 163 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 1: smugglers just didn't compare to the cartels. You have to 164 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: make a decision as to what you prioritized, So we 165 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 1: prioritized the violent end of the business and kind of 166 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 1: let these guys do their thing, figuring as long as 167 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 1: they weren't creating any problems with violence or killing people 168 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 1: and doing kidnappings. Who at that kind of we would 169 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:46,319 Speaker 1: let them fester. It's that simple. There weren't any criminal 170 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 1: masster minds it just as there wasn't anybody on them. 171 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 1: It's almost and Premio the Miami By that you were 172 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 1: just listening to as we bring you the bilingual broadcast 173 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 1: of the Miami Round Breathe by five. Randy was moving 174 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 1: on from races like the Miami Grand Prix, and it 175 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 1: was getting harder for him to go unnoticed in both 176 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:11,240 Speaker 1: aspects of his life. How many loads were you doing 177 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: a year after that? Just one? In the early eighties, 178 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:17,560 Speaker 1: they got so launched that I didn't need to do 179 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 1: more than one hundred and thirty thousand pounds, a hundred 180 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:26,079 Speaker 1: and forty thousand pounds, a hundred and fifty thousand pounds. 181 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 1: It just got bigger and bigger. Each load got bigger, 182 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:33,320 Speaker 1: and that's a pretty big load. Already find ways to 183 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: pack more in well, it seemed to be. At the 184 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:43,960 Speaker 1: time those long running rumors about drug money and racing 185 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 1: had been growing, fueled by actual arrests. In January, two 186 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 1: of Randy's competitors, John Paul Sr. And his son John 187 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:58,080 Speaker 1: Paul Jr. Had been indicted on smuggling charges. The racing 188 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 1: series itself, the International Motorsports Association, even acquired a nickname 189 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 1: i S I m S a International Marijuana Smugglers Association. 190 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 1: I mean, we all laughed about it, and of course 191 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 1: there was a hint of truth in there. That's Jim Busby, 192 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 1: the former driver who competed against Randy. But you went 193 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 1: to the racist to race, and everybody forgot about the 194 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 1: source of the income. Mine was corporate. There's was perhaps legitimate, 195 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:30,600 Speaker 1: maybe not, but we all arrived on the starting run 196 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 1: at the same point. Nobody cared where it came from. 197 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 1: We came to race in the best road racing that 198 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:39,440 Speaker 1: America had seen in decades, perhaps forever. I don't know. 199 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:42,079 Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, Randy Lanier was a hell of 200 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:44,199 Speaker 1: a good racing car driver and he never want a 201 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: race because he was a smuggler water race because he 202 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 1: was a good, good driver. With all the talk behind 203 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 1: the scenes, Randy needed a lot of nerve to focus 204 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 1: on Indie. He had plenty of that, but he also 205 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: needed experience competing in the open wheeled, bullet shaped indy 206 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 1: cars they raced in the CART Series Championship Auto Racing teams. 207 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:07,600 Speaker 1: So he began driving for Frank Arciero, a California winery owner, 208 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 1: construction magnate, and race team owner in the Cart Series. 209 00:12:12,240 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 1: Our Ciero, who died, played a part in launching the 210 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:18,800 Speaker 1: careers of such Hall of Fame drivers as Al Unser Jr. 211 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 1: And Michael Andretti The Queen Mary. As a backdrop the 212 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 1: ninth Car season begins, the crew chief Keith Layton suspects 213 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 1: our Cio got something else from Randy beyond just a 214 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 1: talented young driver. In the world of indie car racing, 215 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 1: Frank never really had the best equipment. He just turned 216 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,440 Speaker 1: up because he wanted to be Indie. So by having 217 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:41,440 Speaker 1: the influx of Randy's money. They bought new cars, they 218 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 1: bought new engines and went from being down here up here. 219 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:48,200 Speaker 1: So I picked Frank r cr racing up to a 220 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:51,439 Speaker 1: much high level. But finest drivers in the world, in 221 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 1: the world's fastest cards are ready to contest Black Cart 222 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: Brand Prix of Long Beach. Of course, there was a 223 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:02,080 Speaker 1: learning curve. Andy's first try in the Cart Series was 224 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 1: in Long Beach on a street course like the kind 225 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:12,679 Speaker 1: he was familiar with from inse He finished. The next month, 226 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:15,680 Speaker 1: he was in Indianapolis, facing an oval track for the 227 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:19,560 Speaker 1: first time. He failed to qualify there as a rookie. 228 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:25,640 Speaker 1: We all go through Johnny and have setbacks, but I've 229 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:28,120 Speaker 1: never looked at anything as a failue. I look at 230 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 1: us a learning process and opportunities. For the rest of 231 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 1: that season, he raced in the Cart Series on Father's 232 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:42,199 Speaker 1: Day in Portland final Randy ty seven at the New 233 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:46,400 Speaker 1: Jersey Meadowlands. Seven cars got to tell the problem as 234 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:52,200 Speaker 1: a Brandy Lannaire out of Florida, then races in Cleveland, 235 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 1: Wisconsin and beyond. Randy started nine events for Our Sierra 236 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: that season. He was rich and he's becoming fame. But 237 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 1: the questions surrounding him weren't going away. Layton said he'd 238 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 1: started seeing men in dark suits at the track during 239 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 1: Randy's first attempt to qualify it Indie Indie. There was 240 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 1: two guys always there. You walk out the garage, they'll 241 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 1: be one of them, or there'd be another one always 242 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 1: within eyesight of you. Didn't say anything the one, so 243 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 1: they were, hey, how are you stuff like that, but 244 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: they grab the chacke. It's it's hot, I mean Indie. 245 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 1: Some days it's miserable. So they've got the whole jacket. 246 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 1: Obviously you see a gun in here, you know, So 247 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 1: you knew they weren't some nice guys. And that was 248 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 1: the FBI keeping watching what they were doing. That's when 249 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 1: he decided to tell Randy he was moving on. And 250 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:50,440 Speaker 1: I said, they ain't working mate. You would understand, Oh, definitely, No, 251 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 1: he understood, and so he wasn't going to get into 252 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 1: any arguments and stuff like that. So, you know, the 253 00:14:55,800 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 1: money was good, but there's more to life than just money, 254 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 1: Thank you very much, because you know, one of the 255 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: most critical duties that we faced upon taking office was 256 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: controlling the influx of illegal drugs into this country. Former 257 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 1: law enforcement officials can swap stories about the wildest parts 258 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:24,040 Speaker 1: of their battles with smugglers now, but at the time, 259 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:27,080 Speaker 1: the drug war was a serious matter of national importance, 260 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 1: especially to President Ronald Reagan. He created the South Florida 261 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 1: Task Force, overseen by Vice President George H. W. Bush, 262 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 1: specifically to combat smuggling. They'll utilize the resources of the 263 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 1: federal government, including the FBI, the d E A, the 264 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 1: I R S, the A t F, Immigration and Naturalization Service, 265 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:50,920 Speaker 1: United States Marshals Services, the US Custom Service, and the 266 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 1: Coast Guide. Before long, forces like the Coast Guard heard 267 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 1: here in a bust off the Florida Coast were on 268 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 1: highlert our. Fire at your vessel only as long as 269 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 1: it takes to bring your vessel to stop. Got smoke. 270 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 1: Got smoke. The local news was all over it. The 271 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 1: drug trade and Radio Martee were the topics of the 272 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:17,040 Speaker 1: Vice President's first two meetings in South Florida. Here, this 273 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: task Force is not going to go away. To those 274 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 1: in the drug business who think they can wait it out, 275 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:24,800 Speaker 1: I say that you're gonna have to have a long, 276 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 1: long wait. He actually came down and talked with us, 277 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 1: and I mean how many times in your life as 278 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 1: a vice president United States got to come down and 279 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 1: talk to you. You know, before Miami, Gregory had helped 280 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:39,040 Speaker 1: break organized crime rings in the Northeast, but that multi 281 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 1: agency task force in South Florida was like nothing he'd 282 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:44,880 Speaker 1: seen before. I mean, we were getting agents, we were 283 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:48,640 Speaker 1: getting equipment, we were getting support. They weren't slowing down 284 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 1: prosecutions or investigations. They were very happy. This was the 285 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,360 Speaker 1: candy store. I mean, you want to see dope, Mr 286 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 1: Vice President, you want to see guns, We got plenty 287 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 1: of them for you. The question and those what are 288 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:05,160 Speaker 1: we doing about it? This is the issue. That's where 289 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,320 Speaker 1: agents like Rafabello came in. Do you flip people? You 290 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:11,359 Speaker 1: roll up so you know who's the head of the 291 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 1: organization distribution arm. Every arm has somebody does money and 292 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:20,639 Speaker 1: das expertise was to identify organizations and then try and 293 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:23,960 Speaker 1: take them out. You do certain things to be noticed. 294 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 1: We sent a message out there that we've had enough 295 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 1: of this and if you want to do it, there's 296 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 1: a price to be paid, and we can be every 297 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:33,439 Speaker 1: bit as nasty and determined as you can. And to 298 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 1: a certain point we tamped it down. They weren't mass 299 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:40,040 Speaker 1: shootings and parking lots or stores of people. I had 300 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:43,639 Speaker 1: informants that wound up in fifty five gallon drums. I 301 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:46,639 Speaker 1: think for what we had to work with, we brought 302 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 1: the violence level down quite a bit. A little more 303 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:52,240 Speaker 1: than a year after being established, the South Florida Task 304 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 1: Force had sees nearly three million pounds of marijuana in 305 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:59,159 Speaker 1: seventeen thousand pounds of cocaine. Those drugs had a combined 306 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:02,480 Speaker 1: street value in the billions of dollars. Here at Homestead 307 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:05,720 Speaker 1: Air Force Base we see visible evidence of the federal 308 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 1: commitment to the war on criminal drug smuggling in South Florida. 309 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 1: On a trip to Miami, President Reagan toward an airplane 310 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:16,480 Speaker 1: hangar full of seized drugs and weaponry and proudly declared 311 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 1: his war on drugs and ongoing success. Since its inception, 312 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:24,000 Speaker 1: drug related arrests in the area covered by the Task 313 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 1: Force are up, drug seizures are up about and the 314 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:31,640 Speaker 1: street value of all these drugs is estimated it more 315 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:35,679 Speaker 1: than an incredible three billion dollars. And as the Feds 316 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:38,439 Speaker 1: continue to pour resources into the fight, the heat on 317 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:43,040 Speaker 1: smugglers intensified. We mean to end their profits, imprison their 318 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:48,160 Speaker 1: members and cripple their organizations. And if anyone doubts what federal, 319 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:50,480 Speaker 1: state and local authorities working with the support of the 320 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 1: people can achieve, let them come to South Florida and 321 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:56,200 Speaker 1: to see here what we've seen today. Randy knew the 322 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 1: danger to his organization was growing. He was hauling hundreds 323 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:02,639 Speaker 1: of thousands of pounds of pot into American ports on 324 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 1: a slow moving barge. Hundreds of people were involved. Were 325 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 1: you ever on the barge when it was loading it? 326 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: I was and didn't take the trip. Oh no, but 327 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: you run the other end when when it came in autely. 328 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 1: Did you read the news about this kind of stuff? 329 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:20,679 Speaker 1: Did it worry you? Yeah? I kept track of the 330 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: news of people getting arrested here in Florida especially. Didn't 331 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:28,879 Speaker 1: worry me so much because we had a pretty good plan. 332 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:33,760 Speaker 1: When you do operations, you get confident in yourself and 333 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:37,919 Speaker 1: then the people that you surround yourself with and you 334 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:42,119 Speaker 1: kind of instilled in them confidence about learning how to 335 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:46,399 Speaker 1: keep things quiet, which was important. One way the company 336 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:50,159 Speaker 1: kept things quiet was by disguising pot shipments as legitimate 337 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 1: and boring goods. But on the personal front, Randy wasn't 338 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 1: quite as good at keeping things under wraps, particularly when 339 00:19:57,240 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 1: it came to his cars. Yeah. One of my cause 340 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 1: was street goal was a B B bost Weil Ferrari. 341 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:05,480 Speaker 1: What color? That one was a raspberry color? One of 342 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:08,560 Speaker 1: the only five that FERRAI may that you. So you're 343 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 1: a really low profile sometimes I'm not too show up 344 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:16,680 Speaker 1: his tool this ship. I remember Ben Kramer's dad. I'll 345 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 1: never forget this. Statements like etched in my video file. 346 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 1: Here's Charles again talking about Kramer's dad, known in part 347 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 1: in South Florida because he was related by marriage to 348 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 1: mobster Meyer Lansky. So we're at Ben Kramer's house. Branny 349 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:33,680 Speaker 1: and I pull up in this Ferrari bb I twelve, 350 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:38,879 Speaker 1: you know, and so Ben's dad as Utor goes. You know, 351 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:40,800 Speaker 1: guys wanted to just to go get rocks and throw 352 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 1: it at the jail house, you know. You know, we 353 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 1: were laughing at all this stuff because we felt safe. 354 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:51,919 Speaker 1: Why we kept a very tight group. Violence was not 355 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:54,439 Speaker 1: in our m O. So we were hitting children, you know. 356 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:57,000 Speaker 1: I really believed in what we were doing. Didn't think 357 00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 1: it was that harmful. That tight knit group landed the 358 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 1: shipment in New Orleans in April a hundred and fifty 359 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:08,720 Speaker 1: thousand pounds of pot worth about fifty million dollars. It 360 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:11,439 Speaker 1: was another big win, or at least that's how it 361 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:15,160 Speaker 1: felt at the time. What they didn't know that load 362 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 1: had set off a chain reaction that would lead right 363 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:28,960 Speaker 1: to Randy. By the time the Indie five hundred rolled 364 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:31,840 Speaker 1: around in the spring of night six, Randy was posting 365 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:38,520 Speaker 1: far better results in the cart circuit. Yeah that April 366 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:42,199 Speaker 1: and Phoenix, Brandy finished eleventh in the season opener. A 367 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 1: week later, he placed thirteenth in Long Beach, An Indie 368 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: was in his sights. The timing was good. Indie was 369 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:51,919 Speaker 1: May thirty one. The company wouldn't bring in another shipment 370 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 1: of pot until November. He should have been able to 371 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:57,760 Speaker 1: focus on racing, but Randy was getting edgy, wondering if 372 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:00,080 Speaker 1: he was being watched by the fetes. That's all I 373 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 1: saw some people that were FBI agents, but it ended 374 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 1: up being Ford Motive Company. Towards the end of my career, 375 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:12,119 Speaker 1: while racing, I was seeing suits all over the place, 376 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 1: and that told me my perception can be become my experience. 377 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 1: So he had reason to worry. There was no doubt 378 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 1: the government had continued to take a strong interest in 379 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:29,199 Speaker 1: racing or racers anyway. Brothers Bill and Don Whittington admit 380 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 1: their drug smugglers and text dodgers. In April of eighty six, 381 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 1: two of Randy's Blue Thunder Code drivers were arrested for 382 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 1: drug smuggling, in a case entirely separate from Randy smuggling. 383 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 1: The Whittington's are best known for car racing. It turns 384 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,840 Speaker 1: out their professional lives of fast cars and fine living 385 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:49,080 Speaker 1: has been financed by drug deals. When asked at the 386 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 1: time about Bill Whittington's arrest, Randy told the Fort Lauderdale 387 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:57,000 Speaker 1: Sun Sentinel quote, we heard rumors for years. It's unfortunate, 388 00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:58,760 Speaker 1: but I don't think less of him as a person. 389 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:02,120 Speaker 1: I hope people take me on my driving skills, not 390 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 1: whom I associate with. Whatever distraction that might have been, 391 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 1: it didn't slow Randy down the biggest race of his career. 392 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:12,800 Speaker 1: That may. He posted an Indie five qualifying speed of 393 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:17,199 Speaker 1: two hundred and nine point nine six four, breaking the 394 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,720 Speaker 1: previous Rookie qualifying record by almost two full miles per hour. 395 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,640 Speaker 1: To go two hundred miles an hour to track like Indie, 396 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 1: no matter whether you have the equipment or not, it 397 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:29,639 Speaker 1: still takes a certain amount of new testinal fortitude. Racing 398 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,679 Speaker 1: writers like Mike Harriss of the Associated Press took notice, 399 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 1: You're not just going to go out there and go 400 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 1: into those narrow turns if you don't have the ducts 401 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:39,879 Speaker 1: to accomplish it and keep it off the wall, because 402 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:41,959 Speaker 1: you can get hurt pretty bad if you mess up. 403 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:44,680 Speaker 1: He came in and he showed no fear at all. 404 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,680 Speaker 1: He just went out there and in the first Indie 405 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:51,240 Speaker 1: five hundred ever broadcast live by ABC, Randy began in 406 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 1: thirteenth position and saw the sound of the engines dominates 407 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:01,840 Speaker 1: the scene, but the real story inside the car inside 408 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,639 Speaker 1: the thirty three men were about the racing at Indy. Well, 409 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 1: I'd like to say any race I'm an at the 410 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,920 Speaker 1: moment would be my favorite race, but great memories that 411 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 1: in on a just a race it that track just 412 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 1: to be able to make to feel well at this moment. 413 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 1: Really two people emotionally, one wants to react to all 414 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 1: this and to let it really wash over you that 415 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,639 Speaker 1: you're in the Indie five. The other part of you 416 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,600 Speaker 1: is that rather tough, unemotional person that you have to 417 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 1: be through gotten here in the birthplace. So when you're 418 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:35,200 Speaker 1: racing your car and you're hitting your marks and being 419 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 1: the best that you can be at that time, you'll 420 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:42,920 Speaker 1: get into zone and it's an amazing feeling because you're 421 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 1: in that moment, your concentration is so high that there's 422 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:53,640 Speaker 1: nothing else in that moment. Randy drove a quiet race, 423 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,199 Speaker 1: but a steady one. So there's only four cars on 424 00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 1: the lead, last Mere Hogan and Freddie and of course 425 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 1: the number four card belonging to Bobby Rayhall. Also we 426 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 1: saw Randy Lanier a mention there he is the highest 427 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,480 Speaker 1: placed rookie in the moment, driving the kind of race 428 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,680 Speaker 1: that a rookie typically drives, which is cautious, yes, but 429 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:13,960 Speaker 1: it will be quite a feather and Randy Lanier's cap 430 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,000 Speaker 1: he finishes, and particularly if he is named Rookie of 431 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 1: the Year. The race unfolded as a battle between drivers 432 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:24,480 Speaker 1: Rick Mears, Kevin Cogan and Bobby ray Hall, but Randy 433 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:28,280 Speaker 1: showed his racing guts in the final lapse. Mirrors tried 434 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 1: to pass Randy, but Randy blocked him. Now I feel 435 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:37,920 Speaker 1: no question it was Lanier's president kie years momentarily that 436 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 1: gave Rayhall opportunity Rayhall got past them all. For the 437 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 1: nineteen eighties, Bobby Randy came in tent and extraordinary finish 438 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:52,359 Speaker 1: for a relative beginner in cart racing, and he was 439 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:55,080 Speaker 1: named Rookie of the Year. I was on the committee 440 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 1: that voted for Rookie of the Year. I definitely voted 441 00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:59,359 Speaker 1: for him. I mean, he was the highest finishing rookie 442 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,160 Speaker 1: and he did a really good job. Here's Mike Harris, 443 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 1: and nobody even paid much attention to him. Frankly, I mean, 444 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,199 Speaker 1: he was fast, but nobody expected him would do that 445 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,119 Speaker 1: well in the race. He was suddenly on everybody's radar, 446 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,040 Speaker 1: but he didn't say it very long. It was a 447 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 1: huge moment for Randy, but it would be fleeting. Sure 448 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,600 Speaker 1: when things are going right and you're just you're in 449 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 1: the zone, everything is going as planned. It's an awesome 450 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 1: feeling because ultimately all of his money and talent couldn't 451 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 1: keep his life from spinning out of control. I thought 452 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 1: about it until he can buy a heck, could I 453 00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:34,960 Speaker 1: be on the top of the world. Is high? When 454 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:39,600 Speaker 1: it comes, it's gonna probably become hard. You know, when 455 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,320 Speaker 1: the bottom falls out is going to fall out. Probably 456 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 1: grand by law there I guess the wall. Why like 457 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:51,840 Speaker 1: that part is totally destroyed. I'm Amy Driscoll, I'm Alex Harris. 458 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 1: This podcast is produced by Kara Tabor and Davin Coburn 459 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:58,919 Speaker 1: and McClatchy Studios and The Herald's Emily Michow and Matthias Offner. 460 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,440 Speaker 1: And thank to Christine Dimte at w l r N 461 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,879 Speaker 1: Studios for lots more on this story, including a video 462 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 1: of poth Holler Tim mccride in Everglades City. Go to 463 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:13,159 Speaker 1: Miami Herald dot com slash smoked. 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New Scotland Yard wanted to speak with me, said, 472 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,879 Speaker 1: we have developed this interesting case and we'd like to 473 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,240 Speaker 1: come down to Florida to discuss it. The other co 474 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,720 Speaker 1: defendants finally said, look, they already know everything. There's nothing 475 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,359 Speaker 1: they don't know. I have what's called a dry case. 476 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 1: No dope, no weed, not a lot of hear say 477 00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,480 Speaker 1: I should, Mike, you know, how deep do you want 478 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 1: to bury this man? I said, we'll need a plumber 479 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 1: to HIPing sunlight