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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of I Heart Radio. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a little Bitton kind a question for you, girl, Yes,

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Speaker 1: do you know what's ridiculous? Do yet another brand? Maash up?

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Speaker 1: That's all I do now for things that are ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Already cringing, Well, you're going to cringe even harder when

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Speaker 1: you hear this. Crocs, that's like the main first part

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Speaker 1: you need to hear. Yeah, they have teamed up with

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Speaker 1: another brand to launch a limited edition. Is it is

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Speaker 1: Crocs and Gaiters getting together? Oh? Wow, gators that yeah,

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Speaker 1: that would actually be good. Um No, seven eleven, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there are Crocs, seven eleven Crocs. I just feel like

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna start repeating myself Crocs, eleven, Crocs and Crocs

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Speaker 1: with seven eleven stuff on them like eleven like emblem. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: You know those things are called gibbets charms, the stuff

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Speaker 1: that people shove into a Yeah, they just shoving the whole.

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Speaker 1: They shove it right in the hole. Just shove it

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Speaker 1: never heard of that. And they you can shove them

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Speaker 1: in there. Um. The brand logo for seven eleven h slurpy,

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Speaker 1: a big bite hot dog, baby coffee pizza, and then

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Speaker 1: it says and more more, you know, So it's probably

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Speaker 1: like those pale things, yeah, the palapena things, or like

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Speaker 1: bat salts. You remember that when those were being sold,

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Speaker 1: or like you know what I heard. I heard that

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Speaker 1: when you go into a liquor store and they have

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Speaker 1: those little roses that are like fabric roses in the plastic,

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Speaker 1: those are actually crack pipes. And that's how people buy

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't hang out with Well, let's

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Speaker 1: try it sometimes. So there are three styles. There's the

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Speaker 1: seven eleven Crocs Classic Clog for your standard classic timeless look,

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Speaker 1: and it comes with gibbets charms, don't worry about that.

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Speaker 1: Then there's the seven eleven Crocs Classic Sandal. It's a

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Speaker 1: little bit cheaper. It's twenty dollars cheaper at fifty, have

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Speaker 1: like a behind the ankle like will slang thing. The

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Speaker 1: quote is this sandal takes the clean and timeless colors

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Speaker 1: of seven eleven and splashes them across Crocs two strap sandal.

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Speaker 1: The shoe is also adorned with the customized seven eleven

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Speaker 1: Gibbets charms. Can you imagine these marketing meetings and the

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Speaker 1: people like, yes, I love it, and I think it

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Speaker 1: comes with tonnail fungus. And then the last one is

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Speaker 1: seven eleven Crocs Mega Crush Clog in orange. It's a

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Speaker 1: hundred and ten bucks for these hot numbers come with

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Speaker 1: a free Katie Perry album. Elevated heels, but they're not

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Speaker 1: high heeled. They're like platform Crocs, and they have unique

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Speaker 1: of its charms. And this one, the slurpee stands up.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe you're still telling me there's a direct

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Speaker 1: part of cro October. How did you find this? They

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Speaker 1: come to me now they do. It's uh, we're let's

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Speaker 1: make it a cra October to remember. So that's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Oh god, is it? Yes? It is? Well, m oh,

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Speaker 1: by the way, you have to doubt. You have to

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Speaker 1: get the croc app just just I know you were, like,

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Speaker 1: I saw you searching on your phone how to buy it.

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Speaker 1: I was in the app store already exactly exactly. Well,

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Speaker 1: that is I actually have one for you. I don't

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Speaker 1: these brothers who wanted to make a film to hide

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Speaker 1: their international hash smuggling operation. That's a that's a good motivation, right,

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Speaker 1: But it's even better than that because they also decided,

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Speaker 1: the drugs? But just don't tell them that's cute. This

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Speaker 1: is ridiculous crime. It's a podcast about absurd and outrageous

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Speaker 1: capers and cons always not murder free and ridiculous. Okay, Elizabeth,

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Speaker 1: I promised you a crazy story, right, yes you did.

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Speaker 1: Now this one to features some of your favorite subjects,

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Speaker 1: Hawaii serve culture. I'm being told these are also some

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Speaker 1: So this kid becomes a full on psychedelic cowboy aged fifteen,

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Speaker 1: and I quote, we ate at the best restaurants, bought

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Speaker 1: John Griggs. Now Griggs had his club, the Street Sweepers,

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Speaker 1: a bunch of peyote munching natives that they brought up

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00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,399
Speaker 1: for color. There is a name that you likely know,

420
00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:04,439
Speaker 1: Dr Brauner of Dr Braun no way, oh my boy,

421
00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:07,159
Speaker 1: I didn't know this, but he claims to be Einstein's cousin.

422
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 1: So he's going around telling everybody at this time that

423
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:11,680
Speaker 1: he's Einstein's cousin and a natural soap maker. And he's

424
00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 1: arguing about ecology with everybody, and that's when he starts

425
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 1: writing the label and it took him forever. Yeah, So

426
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 1: he was in the kitchen working on the label. People

427
00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:22,800
Speaker 1: are like, what are you doing? What's that? And he

428
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,960
Speaker 1: started arguing about ecology with people. So Scott tries to

429
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,000
Speaker 1: stay clear of all these like is he sees them

430
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:30,360
Speaker 1: cooks right, and then eventually some of the cats from

431
00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:32,399
Speaker 1: the Brotherhood of Eternal Love they show up at this

432
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:34,399
Speaker 1: at this mansion because he's gotten word back to his

433
00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,639
Speaker 1: brother that all were coming out there, right, So his

434
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,600
Speaker 1: brother and nine other brothers from the hippie mafia, they

435
00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,040
Speaker 1: show up with an armload of acid called White Lightning,

436
00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,200
Speaker 1: and they're like, let's get this party started. Can add

437
00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,320
Speaker 1: into this scene some super strong acid? Oh my god,

438
00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:52,320
Speaker 1: So everyone in the house drops acid. Well, Jimmy Hendricks

439
00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:55,800
Speaker 1: plays a private concert jam session. Well, everyone's smoking the

440
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:59,800
Speaker 1: primo Afghani hash. So he got this stupid big hookah.

441
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:01,679
Speaker 1: It's so big you have to have a stool to

442
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,399
Speaker 1: be able to get up and light it, filling the

443
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:06,919
Speaker 1: house with smoke, so Jimmy can barely see through it.

444
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:10,119
Speaker 1: And I quote Hendricks was involved in a jam session

445
00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:11,800
Speaker 1: at the time and didn't really know what to make

446
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,920
Speaker 1: of it. All these hippies were hacking away and coughing

447
00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:18,159
Speaker 1: their heads off. Despite this distraction, Jimmy just continued to

448
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,240
Speaker 1: jam in the living room with the other two members

449
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:24,040
Speaker 1: of his trio, Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox. So Jimmy

450
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 1: Hendrix was in Hawaii's enjoy It hippies. So at this point,

451
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:31,680
Speaker 1: Hendricks is mostly over it, right, so it's supposed to

452
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:35,400
Speaker 1: be totally and he's like, he starts having Scott run

453
00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 1: down to Wailuku to go down to the McDonald's and

454
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:39,800
Speaker 1: get him cheeseburgers and just bring him back to the house.

455
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 1: He's like, I don't know what these vegetarians. He's like,

456
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:47,679
Speaker 1: I want a happy meals. His trip ends up being

457
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:50,480
Speaker 1: super inspiring for Jimmy. He decides he wants to move

458
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 1: to Hawaii, moved to Maui build an art center that's

459
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,399
Speaker 1: gonna be made of pyramids and Buckminster Fuller style Jesus

460
00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 1: geodesic domes. But then he passes away forty five days

461
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,160
Speaker 1: after the filming complete, so we never get to see

462
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:06,040
Speaker 1: that arts or Jimmy get to do much else. So

463
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 1: after this film, Scott goes back to California. Everything kind

464
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,880
Speaker 1: of dissolves, the hippies, the smoke, it disappears and disappears.

465
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 1: But he's now been bitten by the Hollywood bug. So

466
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 1: when he gets back to l A, his brother Ron

467
00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:18,679
Speaker 1: and the rest of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love have

468
00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,639
Speaker 1: also migrated back, and they've got a fast growing drug

469
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 1: empire now I mean like a serious drug empire. So

470
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,440
Speaker 1: Scott's like, hey, guys, I got a plan. You know

471
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 1: we need to do. We need to make a movie.

472
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:33,640
Speaker 1: So they decide this is the plan, and that makes

473
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:36,840
Speaker 1: perfect a little bit of time. But in nineteen seventy

474
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 1: two they go over to Morocco and the shoot a

475
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 1: film called Medina. Of course, it's an artsy meditation on

476
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,960
Speaker 1: life in Morocco, not Medina and Saudi Arabia, but in Morocco,

477
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,399
Speaker 1: but called Medina. The film is shot entirely as a

478
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:52,439
Speaker 1: distraction to the brothers can move their hash. So Scott Stevenson,

479
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:56,920
Speaker 1: he's primarily a boom mic operator on the mostly silent film.

480
00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:00,640
Speaker 1: And then I've watched the film. There's now so they

481
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,240
Speaker 1: had they had sound, but he just he wasn't union

482
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 1: doing so it was unusable. It's ms sound. But when

483
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,119
Speaker 1: he wasn't working on the film, his other job was

484
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 1: to basically mine the farm fields of pot that they

485
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,199
Speaker 1: were growing on the on the low. That's where they

486
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,359
Speaker 1: were getting the product to make the hashish they're pushing.

487
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:25,159
Speaker 1: So their preferred method was to smuggle the hash in

488
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 1: Volkswagen buses. So because that's not suspicious exactly, my boy,

489
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 1: no custom agents gonna look at a bunch of hippie

490
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 1: kids and his wand that looks clean. Hey, kids, you

491
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 1: jump right. You dropped your flute this year, Buddha. So

492
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,600
Speaker 1: this plan works brilliantly apparently, because they were able to

493
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 1: move the VW buses and they usually load about two

494
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,399
Speaker 1: and fifty pounds of hash in the buses, and they

495
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 1: were getting them into Europe. So they would drive them

496
00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:58,160
Speaker 1: like they take them on a ferry over to Spain,

497
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 1: and from Spain they drive him into Europ up and

498
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 1: then the load would be sold in Europe or would

499
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 1: be smuggled from that point into the United States. So

500
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 1: they're all over. Oh, they're doing amazing. This is one

501
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 1: guy I kept written about. His name is Ali Hendrickson,

502
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: and he is like the guy who helped them hide

503
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: their drugs. So he would create these fibery glass containers

504
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 1: that were secreted underneath the van's floorboards, and it's like

505
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,480
Speaker 1: the most obvious place to look. But according to Ali,

506
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 1: I never lost a load. Well, I mean that they're

507
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: well disguised. I suppose it's I guess, I guess I

508
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 1: was surprised this one that you'll hear later on. They

509
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,199
Speaker 1: do a little bit better, but at the beginning they

510
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,200
Speaker 1: start out with the most obvious put them under the seats,

511
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 1: you know. Anyway, while they're in Morocco, the brothers I

512
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 1: told you, they set up shop and they're able to

513
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 1: run load after load of this premo Afghani hash. But

514
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:44,600
Speaker 1: they also have to count on dumb luck mostly to

515
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:48,360
Speaker 1: get by. Well, that and a pack alliance. That's like me,

516
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 1: dumb luck and a pack of line. That's how you

517
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 1: get through everything. You and Sigfried and Roy same strategy.

518
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,880
Speaker 1: So there's this one time the big brother Ron, he's

519
00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 1: using the drug profits to purchase two lines from the

520
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 1: Casa Blanca. Zoo goes. He buys these lions and he

521
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: has the lines delivered to their rental house in the

522
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:08,879
Speaker 1: mountains where they are growing all their pot But first,

523
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,679
Speaker 1: before he has the lions delivered, he has special crates

524
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 1: made and he has false bottoms put in the lions cages,

525
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 1: and he loads the cages with hash. Then he seals

526
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:19,879
Speaker 1: them up. He loads in the lions. He has the

527
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 1: cages tarped and covered. The load is delivered up to

528
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 1: the mountains, but of course on the way to the

529
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 1: rental loss, it gets stopped at a checkpoint and the

530
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 1: checkpoint officers are like, let's in the truck. So he's like, yeah,

531
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 1: you guys can look, and I go back there. They

532
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,120
Speaker 1: see all this load tarped off. They got these hippie kids,

533
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: are like, we got these kids dead to rights. So

534
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 1: they're like all right, let's see it, and they go

535
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 1: to lift up the tarp and it simply lift up

536
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: a tarp. They find these lion who's a pretty much

537
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: hungry at this point, like Nash and gets teeth and

538
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 1: Clawn at the bars were like oh jeez, and they

539
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: like back off. They're like, okay, okay, you guys can

540
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 1: pass through. I don't know if you don't want these

541
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 1: damn lions right, So they let them go and they

542
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 1: get through the checkpoint. The brothers then send the lions

543
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 1: to the Copenhagen Zoo where the director is on their

544
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 1: payroll whoa part of the smuggling operation. He clears the

545
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 1: lions through customs, personally goes down to where's my lions,

546
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 1: gets the lions through. Then he retrieves the smuggled hash

547
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 1: from the lions cage and then has it like you know,

548
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 1: spread around Denmark. Oh wow, yeah, see, I told you

549
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 1: to get better. The brothers decide they're doing so well

550
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: that they decide, you know, that was probably the time

551
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 1: to bring some of our family into the business. They

552
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: just don't tell them about it. They're like, we'll bring

553
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 1: them in as amateurs. They should be hash smugglers. Everybody's

554
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 1: aunt needs to be an unwitting drug fuele. Exactly. Good attitude, Elizabeth,

555
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: thank you. Now they bring their dad in first. They

556
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 1: bring him in officially as a money launderer, so he's

557
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 1: like happy to wash their cash through all these various

558
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 1: American corporations he has access to. And they have a

559
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 1: little brother who was serving in Vietnam. Once he survives Vietnam,

560
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, you got home alive. You want to

561
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 1: get in the drug games. So they bring him over

562
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 1: and then they send him back to America and he

563
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 1: becomes the wholesaler. So now they got their dad washing cash,

564
00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 1: they got their brother doing wholesale, and they're living large

565
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: and they're like, oh, we should celebrate. So big brother

566
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 1: ron he invites their mom and their little brother, their

567
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: eighty six year old grandmother over for an overseas trip.

568
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: The family goes to India, Thailand, Samoa, Fiji. It's amazing,

569
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: and then they hit Morocco where ron It Scott load

570
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 1: them up with the VW camper and send them into

571
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 1: Europe with two under kilos a HASH. Dad's in on it.

572
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,959
Speaker 1: Dad knows that he doesn't care that his eighties six

573
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 1: year old mother is, but he's like whatever, Maybe it's

574
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 1: his mom's getting ready for the Rainbow Bridge. The luck

575
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 1: is on this family side because, as it happens, they

576
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 1: take a cruise ship back. They put they load the

577
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 1: VW bus with the HASH onto a cruise ship and

578
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 1: they take this cruise ship back to America. On the

579
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 1: cruise ship is the U. S. Attorney General at the time,

580
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 1: who's also going back to the States. So the dad,

581
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 1: he's like this chummy, charming criminal guy. He meets Attorney

582
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 1: General John Mitchell and the two hit it off, so

583
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 1: they started meeting for drinks. They're walking around on top

584
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 1: of the deck together there At one point the dad decides,

585
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 1: how I gotta gotta push my luck. What the hell?

586
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 1: He asked John Mitchell to take a picture with him

587
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 1: and the family in front of the family van. So

588
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: the pop up v W van, so he's got a

589
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 1: picture of the Attorney General standing in front of it.

590
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 1: So it turns out this was extra lucky for them

591
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 1: to meet John Mitchell because when they get back to America,

592
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 1: the customs people start basically inspecting all the vehicles being

593
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 1: loaded off, and there's a v W van right in

594
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: front of them in line to get off that they

595
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 1: find heroin in. They were like, oh, we're gonna need

596
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 1: to search your van too, So they're like, oh. Dad's

597
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 1: like sweating. Who does he see Attorney General John Mitchell

598
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 1: coming off the ship And he's like, hey, Attorney General,

599
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 1: come on over here. And I was like, oh, how

600
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 1: are you doing. They've they're the old buddy to this

601
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 1: point and comes over. He uses John Mitchell as a

602
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 1: cover and that's his beard to because the Attorney General

603
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 1: to smooth past the customs officials. He's like, look, this

604
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 1: is your boss. Meet your boss. Guys here, shake hands

605
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 1: with your boss. And they're like, oh, you know the

606
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 1: attorney general. They wave them through. So they used the

607
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:01,400
Speaker 1: Attorney General to grease and smuggling up ration. Now when

608
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 1: the dad gets back to California, of course he loves

609
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: that picture of the Attorney General and their hash bands,

610
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: and he has it framed and put up on the

611
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: families as his buddies come out check this out. Okay, well,

612
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 1: now we've reached another good place for a break, because

613
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: I would like to tell you how this story reached.

614
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 1: It's mad culmination of an ending in get this Afghanistan.

615
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 1: Where are we, Elizabeth? Oh, right on our way to Afghanistan.

616
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,959
Speaker 1: So after their first film, Medina, works so well as

617
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:56,959
Speaker 1: a distraction from their drugs, a film, not as an

618
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: actual piece of art. Now I've watched it, it's terrible.

619
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 1: But they decided to shoot a second film and they go,

620
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:04,479
Speaker 1: you know, this time we should go across this rate

621
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: of Gibraltar to Spain and film in the only existing

622
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 1: fascist government on earth at the time, under generally Simo

623
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 1: Francisco Franco. And like this is the place, we have

624
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 1: an iron fist against drugs. It's a cover for our

625
00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 1: drug operation. So they get this. They asked the Spanish

626
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 1: government if they could make a film documenting the government's

627
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 1: official drug searches by custom agents, and they recorded drug

628
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: bus and arrest they go down to the border. The

629
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: Spanish government is like, s cool, come on through. I'm sorry,

630
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 1: but that's genius. Yeah right, so, and I quote again

631
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: from Scott Stevenson, we would shoot scenes panning into various

632
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:45,719
Speaker 1: custom agents uncovering contraband, with actual live shots of smugglers

633
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 1: faces as they realized they just bought themselves long sentences

634
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 1: in some horrific prison. We also filmed inside those jails

635
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: where young European and American tourists spent years, sometimes entire lives,

636
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: being caught with little more than a personal stash. Now

637
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 1: these guys are moving hash by the hundreds of pounds,

638
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:08,240
Speaker 1: and they're just like marveling at these poor dumb kids.

639
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 1: They all got cut now their ruse work. Because the

640
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,879
Speaker 1: fascist government that I mentioned earlier, under General Decimal Francisco Franco,

641
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 1: who was still in charge of Spain in the nineteen seventies,

642
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:18,799
Speaker 1: I'm not sure a lot of people. Remember that there

643
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: was a fascist government into the nineteen seventies, but there was,

644
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 1: and it was helping them because they were so convinced

645
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 1: that it was anti drug propaganda, Like who would have

646
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:30,919
Speaker 1: the why wolves to come over? It's a perfect cover.

647
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 1: And so they're like, oh, this is great. We should

648
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 1: go bigger next time. So after they make their film Holding,

649
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: they decided to make a third film. This time they're like,

650
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:43,880
Speaker 1: we should go to the source. They go to Afghanistan

651
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 1: and the project in question was our third movie, the

652
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 1: Around the World Porsche Race, and it led to our

653
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:55,320
Speaker 1: biggest load ever, bringing in one thousand pounds of Afghan hash,

654
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 1: which was combined with a load of a thousand pounds

655
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 1: of Moroccan hash in Europe. So they plan to make

656
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 1: a movie to push a ton of hash through customs. Yeah,

657
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: but what's this around the world. It's a fake race

658
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 1: that they arrange and they they go and they contact

659
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: Porsche and they get Porsche to back them. So they yes,

660
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 1: they my face slipping off your skull. First, they range

661
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 1: their ton of hash and they get that all loaded,

662
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,919
Speaker 1: all set up to buy right. So now they go, okay, now,

663
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 1: how are we going to do this? Well, we have

664
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,439
Speaker 1: to ship the drugs back to America. So they're gonna

665
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: hide them inside of a cigarette racing boat that their

666
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:38,879
Speaker 1: father bought in England. Right, So the brothers they okay,

667
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 1: now our end will be to fake the race. So

668
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 1: the brothers go to Porsche to sponsor the film and

669
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: portions like oh we love this. They don't. Apparently there's

670
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 1: no way internet so they can't check there, Like it

671
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 1: must be a real thing. This is like you know

672
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 1: those refrigerator magnet poetry sets. It's like it's like a

673
00:35:56,480 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 1: like a twentieth century drug culture refrigerator magnets said, It's like,

674
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:07,360
Speaker 1: oh cigarette boat. Okay, yeah, okay, yeah. Where else in Morocco,

675
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,880
Speaker 1: I don't know. A couple of hippies Afghanistan, I don't know.

676
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: Porsche's exactly nuts. Big brother Ron, he's got the big

677
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:17,799
Speaker 1: pair out of the two of them. He walks into

678
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: a Porsche dealership in San Francisco says that contact portion

679
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 1: they probably told you about it. We're here to pick

680
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: up our brand new nine fourteens and get all the

681
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 1: race stuff. So they do. They get race decals and

682
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 1: the dealership is happy to provide them with all sorts

683
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: of no, no. They buy the two portions the Moneys,

684
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 1: and then they also get official Porsche racing suits with

685
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,359
Speaker 1: matching helmets. They get all the decals for the cars

686
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: so that way they would look proper for their race

687
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 1: scam whatever. And the point is they look good alright,

688
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 1: so they're clean. Porsche has got them all set up.

689
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:52,760
Speaker 1: Now they get to work turning the Porsche race cars

690
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:58,840
Speaker 1: into drug smuggling cars. And do they just invented this race? Just? Okay,

691
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: go ahead. When we got the pushes home to Mill Valley,

692
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:05,320
Speaker 1: we had a guy cut the gas tanks in half

693
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:07,319
Speaker 1: and then we soldered them so that we had a

694
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 1: compartment to put the primo hash in. We also purchased

695
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 1: an El Camino, which was supposed to be for filming

696
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 1: and to serve as the fixed up car. Although the

697
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 1: pickup bed was needed to haul fuel and tools for

698
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 1: the Porsches. We had them altered so they could only

699
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,240
Speaker 1: hold a few gallons of gas in order to carry

700
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 1: as much hash as possible. So they have a car

701
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 1: to carry the gas because they have no gas tanks

702
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:32,360
Speaker 1: for the gas in their cars. And then the brothers

703
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: are off to the Kaiber Pass. The okay, we're all

704
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: good Afghanistan. So they send the Porsches over to Asia

705
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 1: and then they start their fake race in Kanadahar, Afghanistan.

706
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 1: And little brother Michael, the Vietnam veteran, he's driving the

707
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 1: El Camino, Scott's drive in one of the Porsches. Ron's

708
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,399
Speaker 1: driving the other Porsches off to Karachi. So they head

709
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 1: off over the Caber driving them, but they only have

710
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 1: like what two gallons of gas exact when they got

711
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 1: all the gas in the El Camino, the El Camino

712
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,319
Speaker 1: has to just pull over and they load up more down.

713
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: So Mike's Michael's and the Michael yeah, and he's the

714
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,880
Speaker 1: well you're you're about it here. OK. So the brothers

715
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 1: are on their way to through the Kiber paths in Afghanistan. Right,

716
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,400
Speaker 1: they got their fake race going, they're telling everybody, and

717
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 1: it looks like it because they got Porsche, the race cars.

718
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 1: You know, everyone's like, this must be a race. They

719
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 1: got race cars, right, they got suits on and helmets.

720
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 1: So they also got this Elchimedo for whatever the poetry set.

721
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,840
Speaker 1: So they're blowing through multiple checkpoints right and at one stopped,

722
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 1: they run into a stupid large traffic jam, and it

723
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:38,880
Speaker 1: slows them up. And now, Elizabeth, I'd like you to

724
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: close your eyes and picture it. You happen to be

725
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 1: waiting at that same traffic jam on your way as

726
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 1: you travel across the ancient Silk Road you've been following

727
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 1: Asian Highway one. You're at the summit of the past.

728
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 1: It's a spot called Landi Kotal. You're high in the

729
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:59,359
Speaker 1: mountains above the Pakistani town of john Rud. Now you're

730
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,400
Speaker 1: on your way down to Karachi to meet a professor

731
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 1: from the Sinned Wildlife Museum, which is located in the

732
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: Freemason's Lodge in downtown Karachi. Inside the Sinned Wildlife Museum

733
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 1: awaits taxidermied animal, a favorite for you. There's also a

734
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 1: remarkable collection of photos of all the migratory animals that

735
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 1: pass over Pakistan. Then there are the watercolors that you've

736
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 1: been waiting to see in the afternoon sunlight. There's only

737
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 1: one problem. The professor that you were having to meet

738
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,399
Speaker 1: it has only today to meet you, and you've made

739
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 1: an appointment for an hour from now, and you're stuck

740
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: in this traffic jam. You have no way to contact her.

741
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 1: You don't want to stand her up. That would be rude,

742
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:34,400
Speaker 1: and also you don't want to leave or just waiting

743
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:38,399
Speaker 1: outside the Sand Wildlife Museum. Meanwhile, in the cars next

744
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 1: to you, there are the Stevenson brothers, Ron, Scott and Michael.

745
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 1: They're currently in two Porsche race cars and an El

746
00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:47,800
Speaker 1: Camino follow car. They're right there with you in traffic.

747
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:51,440
Speaker 1: Everybody pepe huh, and it's just horrible. The El Camino,

748
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 1: intended to be the follow car, is actually in front

749
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:55,359
Speaker 1: of the two Portlo race cars right now. It's kind

750
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:58,760
Speaker 1: of running blocker and Michael is not at his best.

751
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: He's bore in the lead car. He's also bought some

752
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 1: m A D firecrackers and I'm not sure if you

753
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: know that the m A D firecrackers are basically quartersticks.

754
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 1: In he's got quartersticks of dynamite that he has shoved

755
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:10,759
Speaker 1: inside of oranges. And you watch as he lights the

756
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 1: fuse of a quarter stick of dynamite loaded inside of

757
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:15,360
Speaker 1: this orange, and then he tosses the orange out of

758
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 1: the El Camino near a truck idling in front of you. Explosion,

759
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,720
Speaker 1: terror and mayhem. The orange explodes, orange U splatters against

760
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:26,720
Speaker 1: your windshield. Then you watch is the same young hippy

761
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: kid in the hel Camino lights another quarterstick of dynamite

762
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,239
Speaker 1: shoved inside of an orange. You're like, I can't what

763
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 1: the hell. It explodes again, this time at the truck

764
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 1: right in front of you. The truck pulls over and

765
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,359
Speaker 1: you realize that was his plan all along. The old

766
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:40,959
Speaker 1: Comedo inches forward in traffic. He's just trying to clear

767
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 1: a path with dynamite and oranges. Oh my god. Okay,

768
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 1: way to not car. But also good, good job. All

769
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 1: warsare there, so you spy ahead of the line of

770
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: a bunch of machine gun toting border guards who have

771
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 1: also spotted the bomb tossing hippie kid and the El Camino.

772
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 1: It's a car, it's a truck. It's a car. It's

773
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 1: a truck. It's an l Communo, it's a CROC. So

774
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 1: they motioned to the old Communo to pull over, and

775
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 1: the Porsche of race cars follow right behind it. You're relieved.

776
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,839
Speaker 1: You get those knuckle heads out of traun and you're

777
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 1: still close enough though to the old Communo and the

778
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: two portions that you're able to be stopped at the

779
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: border about the same time, and as guards check your papers,

780
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: you can hear a guard talking to Michael, the driver

781
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 1: the El Camino, we know you have opium. You're like, oh,

782
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 1: get them, get them, and it turns out you're like

783
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,720
Speaker 1: it's about to get spice. The guards of the guns

784
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 1: demand that three brothers exit their vehicles. You're like, oh, yes,

785
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:40,320
Speaker 1: but you're flabber gasted when the machine gun toting guards

786
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 1: line the brothers up against the wall, like, why do

787
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,279
Speaker 1: you mean? No, no, no, no, no, I don't want

788
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 1: to see this, Like is it about to get bloody

789
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 1: in here? Should I like avert my eyes kind of?

790
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,800
Speaker 1: But no. Instead, the brothers are just held at gunpoint

791
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:54,879
Speaker 1: while the guards go to check their vehicles, and they're

792
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 1: frustrated because they can't find the opium that they know

793
00:41:57,640 --> 00:41:59,919
Speaker 1: is there. They got these three hippie brothers, just guy.

794
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:03,320
Speaker 1: They've been told that these are drug smugglers coming this way.

795
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 1: One of the border guards lies down in the dirt,

796
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,400
Speaker 1: inches under the El Camino. He inspects the bottom of

797
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 1: the car, looking for well de marks something. He sees

798
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 1: the metal plates, but they none that shouldn't be there.

799
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:16,839
Speaker 1: Doesn't make sense to him. He inches further under and

800
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: he's at this point right under five hundred pounds of

801
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: primu Afghani hash. But there's this holy icon taped to

802
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 1: the underside of the car, and the soldier recognizes the guru.

803
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 1: It's an Indian guru named Baba g and he is

804
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: the leader of the Self Realization Church, which the former

805
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:36,400
Speaker 1: members of the Brother of Eternal Love is switched churches

806
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 1: and they are now in the Self Realization Church. So

807
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:42,360
Speaker 1: they have tasted their Guru underneath their car for protection,

808
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 1: and the Pakistani guard is so shocked he rips it off,

809
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:47,399
Speaker 1: peels it off and comes over to the goes who

810
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 1: is this and the idiot baby brother Michael, and he's

811
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:56,360
Speaker 1: like it's God. Soldiers like what is God doing on

812
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:58,880
Speaker 1: the bottom of your car? And you lean close to

813
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:00,800
Speaker 1: your open car windows he can hear the answer. You

814
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:03,319
Speaker 1: want to know what God's Yeah, what is it doing?

815
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: And Michael says, a dumb Smile's keeping us safe. So

816
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 1: now truer words were never spoken, because the Pakistani border

817
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 1: guard decides to wave their borders. Brothers through the borders,

818
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 1: like must be it's a holy thing. I don't get

819
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 1: it so holy to me. You watches they go off

820
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: and you are still waiting at that border checkpointing, but

821
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:28,800
Speaker 1: my papers are something under my card. Now the brothers

822
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 1: are able to make their appointment and Crochy they meet

823
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 1: their Moroccan contact. They hook up their pounds of hash

824
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 1: that they wanted to buy, and then, just as their

825
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,360
Speaker 1: father arranged, they had combined that with the two thousand

826
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 1: pounds of hash and they load all that into a

827
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 1: cigar racing boat that they have shipped to America. Things

828
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 1: go well until the boat arrives Stateside. What can you

829
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: imagine happened? Stateside? Elizabeth Customs drug dogs thout the hash.

830
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:55,800
Speaker 1: The entire two thousand pound load is seized by the Feds.

831
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 1: But the brothers aren't quitters. They're like, we gotta get

832
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:01,880
Speaker 1: our hashbag. So they contact an insider in the federal

833
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 1: government and they find out that their load of hash

834
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 1: wasn't fully seized. It was allowed to go to the

835
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 1: warehouse where it's sitting awaiting someone to claim it, and

836
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:13,240
Speaker 1: under surveillance the going to bust them. So they're like, okay,

837
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 1: so the Feds are on steak out. Cool, we can

838
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: work with that. So what do you think the brothers do?

839
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 1: They rent the warehouse next door that's smart, yes, and

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Speaker 1: then one night, with their dad's help, they go into

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Speaker 1: they snatch back their two point five million dollars worth

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Speaker 1: of hash whoa, And the FBI is none the wiser.

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Speaker 1: The FBI tspen, it's just a hole and everything's gone.

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't they figure out, well, who had the place next door? Then? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: But it's all rented under fake names and everything, even

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Speaker 1: the loads under a fake names, under a fake name.

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Speaker 1: They're they're full on criminals. Nobody in the FBI can

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Speaker 1: figure out what has happened until years later when baby

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Speaker 1: brother Michael gets busted and the FBI he brags to

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Speaker 1: them about them because the statue of them stations was up,

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Speaker 1: and so they're like, oh, I guess we closed the

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Speaker 1: book on that one, the damage that's been done to Michael. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: so cause in case you were wondering, wondering, you're going

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Speaker 1: to tell me because the official international criminal, Scott Stevenson,

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Speaker 1: you know, he didn't get busted in any of the

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Speaker 1: story I've told you, but yeah, he did settle down

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Speaker 1: and once the statue of limitations was up, what did

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Speaker 1: he do? He man? So the book is called Scoundrels

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Speaker 1: in Paradise Now from I'm just gonna read you just

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Speaker 1: two little pieces from the books. Jacket Scoundrels in Paradise

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Speaker 1: is the true story of a family drug business operated

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Speaker 1: across international borders, as told by an insider and narrator,

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Speaker 1: Scott Adela Stevenson. Scott would name for his older cousin,

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Speaker 1: Adela Stevenson, who was a former two time presidential candidate

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Speaker 1: and American Ambassador to the United Nations, and I continue.

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Speaker 1: Scott survives on smuggler's ingenuity, idiots, luck, and the love

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Speaker 1: of exotic women. He manages to are two Indonesian princesses,

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Speaker 1: including the great granddaughter of the Most Exalted Rajah of Bali,

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Speaker 1: as well as Bougie's taure Jan princess from the island

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Speaker 1: of Sulawesi. His first wife was a granddaughter of a

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Speaker 1: nomadic berber chieftain. This candidly written true story is infused

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Speaker 1: with fascinating travels through the cultural landscapes of California, Hawaii, Europe, Morocco, Indonesia,

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Speaker 1: Bangkok and beyond. Get your Amazon. Well, you know, I

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Speaker 1: gotta tell you we have enough books lined up. We

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Speaker 1: could have a book club. I like this, Yeah good,

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Speaker 1: I think we need to now if you're also wondering,

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Speaker 1: and I know you were. He ever regret becoming an

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Speaker 1: international drug smuggler? Are you kidding? I don't regret him

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Speaker 1: becoming an international he told The l A Times. Regrets,

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Speaker 1: I have not had a few. I have that part,

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Speaker 1: he said, regrets. I regret not ever finishing high school

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Speaker 1: or univer versity, but I never regret doing what I did.

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Speaker 1: As far as the pot goes, I never ever feel guilty. Wow,

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Speaker 1: what is ridiculous? Takeaway? Elizabeth? Oh my god. I think

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Speaker 1: something that I think is kind of interesting is like

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Speaker 1: the parallel to today's culture in the beginning of like

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Speaker 1: he's working at the at the juice stand, like selling

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Speaker 1: avocado toast, and like then everyone's all into astrology. And

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Speaker 1: so I guess, like churning forward in our cultural mimicry,

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Speaker 1: we're going to come to the period of time where

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Speaker 1: everyone's going to get hash and yeah, well we're on

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Speaker 1: double twenty years cycle at this point, because you think,

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Speaker 1: like the nineteen sixty nine two thousand nine were like,

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Speaker 1: you know, so we're right in the middle of one.

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Speaker 1: So you're right, we should be seeing something come up

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Speaker 1: one way or another. And I think that in order

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Speaker 1: for me to get a jump on fashion trends, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to need seven Buddha necklaces. Yes, you're going to

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Speaker 1: need to get on that. And a pocket fully rings Yes,

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Speaker 1: another Pocketphla had pocketful of dynamite, a little cargo pants

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Speaker 1: because we're talking about a lot of pocket pocketpla sunshine

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Speaker 1: so by ridiculous takeaway. Once again, thank you for asking.

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Speaker 1: Hawaii sounds magical. I gotta get there is amazing place. Well,

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Speaker 1: we have the games and discussions whatnot. Yeah, sometimes where

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Speaker 1: we put the photos for each episode that give visual

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Speaker 1: evidence of what we're talking about and the stories that

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Speaker 1: are there just for the last Also, you get sneak

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