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Speaker 1: School of Humans. Greetings listeners, we hope you're staying safe,

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Speaker 1: healthy and social distancing. Welcome back. Thanks for listening. To

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Speaker 1: help pass the time, we're going to be releasing some

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Speaker 1: bonus mini episodes chats with my parents and their friends

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Speaker 1: that we couldn't fit into the season. The first is

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Speaker 1: the tale of two Walter Lemurs. Now. Over the years

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Speaker 1: living in the Bay Area, my dad knew of several

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Speaker 1: other people named Walter Lemur. He has a fairly common name,

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Speaker 1: but one Walter Lemur in the Bay Area also lived

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Speaker 1: in Mill Valley and also was a drug smuggler, and

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Speaker 1: the confusion between the two of them has led to

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Speaker 1: several cases of mistaken identity. Unfortunately for my dad, as

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Speaker 1: the other Walter Lemur wasn't the most upstanding of citizens.

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Speaker 1: I'm Rainbow Valentine in this is disorganized crime Smuggler's daughter.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us again in the due Young, free

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Speaker 1: and groovy making it up. We rolled along, rolling along

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Speaker 1: far country, role he the gray in the Golden gag

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Speaker 1: do you old State? Making it up? As we roll along?

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Speaker 1: There was another guy who was also named Walter Lemur.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine Mill Valley crawling with Lemurs? That's a

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Speaker 1: scary thought, isn't it. In the early seventies, when my

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Speaker 1: dad first heard about the other Walter, my dad was

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Speaker 1: sort of excited to meet him. Unfortunately, the other Walter

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Speaker 1: Lemur turned out to be an unscrupulous schmuck. Side note

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Speaker 1: originating from Yiddish, schmuck means one who is stupid, foolish, obnoxious, contemptible,

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Speaker 1: or detestable. In Yiddish, the literal meaning of schmuck is

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Speaker 1: a vulgar term for penis. He is just a major dick,

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Speaker 1: he really is. He and his wife are big time

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Speaker 1: coke freaks and coke dealers. But he'll sell anything to anybody.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he was just into money. The other Walter

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Speaker 1: Lemur also worked in the illicit drug industry, but primarily

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Speaker 1: dealing cocaine. My dad stayed away from the other Walter Lemur,

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Speaker 1: and the two Lemurs went about their business totally separately,

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Speaker 1: operating in very different worlds, but in the same small town.

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Speaker 1: With a name like that, how to trust him? Then,

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Speaker 1: in the mid nineteen eighties, a medium sized tie trip

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Speaker 1: comes in and lo and behold, the other Walter Lemur

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Speaker 1: is one of the guys bringing it in, and a

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Speaker 1: So my dad tracks down the other Walter Lemur. I

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Speaker 1: tracked it down, I talked to him, and a friend

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Speaker 1: of mine said, great, you know I like it, but

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Speaker 1: I want to guarantee that it's completely it's only my trip.

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Speaker 1: I have the exclusive. Here's I'll give you a half

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Speaker 1: a million down. So Lemur agrees, fine, no problem. I'll

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Speaker 1: bring the first four hundred pounds over to my place,

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Speaker 1: which I never would do. Never had big, big amounts

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Speaker 1: was going to just pick it up fifteen minutes later.

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Speaker 1: So be in and out blah blah. And so I'm

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Speaker 1: waiting there, and I'm waiting there, I don't get a call,

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Speaker 1: nobody shows up. Finally I'm wondering what the hell happened.

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Speaker 1: And I finally find my friend wherever, and he says,

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Speaker 1: My dad's buddy pulls the plug on the deal, leaving

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Speaker 1: my dad with four hundred pounds of pot sitting in

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Speaker 1: his office at my childhood home. My dad's buddy had

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Speaker 1: wanted the entire load in order to control the supply

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Speaker 1: and demand. But now with the other Walter Lemur, selling

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Speaker 1: the same pot to other dealers, the market for this

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Speaker 1: specific weed is waning and prices are dropping. Word is everything.

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Speaker 1: I mean that as as you discuss with many other people.

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Speaker 1: It was the time with you know, seven sum six

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Speaker 1: a word. That's it. Yeah, and that's how it flowed,

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Speaker 1: if it was good, you know, except this guy was

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Speaker 1: in the back room. That was not supposed to happen.

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Speaker 1: The four hundred pounds was only supposed to be at

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Speaker 1: our family home for fifteen minutes. It sat there for

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Speaker 1: several days, a huge liability for my dad and our

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Speaker 1: entire family. Once again, my dad's happy go lucky nature

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Speaker 1: and belief that all humans are good exposed his achilles heel. Eventually,

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Speaker 1: Lemur whoever came with a truck and took it away,

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Speaker 1: or I don't know what happened. Maybe I sold it

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Speaker 1: to some else I can't even remember now, but I

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Speaker 1: the last time I ever did business with him. I'm

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Speaker 1: rain Will Valentine, and this is disorganized crime. We'll be

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Speaker 1: right back now. The main complication with the other Walter

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Speaker 1: unscrupulous Lemur with my dad. It's happened several times, and

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Speaker 1: it's sort of this funny thing. And while I'm not

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Speaker 1: the most perfect guy in the world, I am very

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Speaker 1: much the opposite of this sleeves ball. I just wonder

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Speaker 1: what else I'm literally mixed up in. In the early

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventies, my dad regularly played poker with Big Daddy

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Speaker 1: Tom Donohue, San Francisco's famous record producer, rock and roll DJ,

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Speaker 1: for the first time. Tom Donohue, a party and cocaine enthusiast,

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Speaker 1: died from a heart attack at forty six in the

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Speaker 1: mid seventies, But recently, as in last year, my dad

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Speaker 1: learned that a handful of people believed my dad had

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Speaker 1: sold Tom some gruesome cocaine in the seventies cocaine cut

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Speaker 1: with glass. Yikes, No, sure, my dad sold that shoddy

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Speaker 1: rose cocaine we mentioned in episode two, but that was

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Speaker 1: the only time he sold coke let alone coke cut

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Speaker 1: with glass. A couple of years ago, I reconnect with

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Speaker 1: an old friend. He's the friends with another friend of ours,

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Speaker 1: and the other friend of ours tells him another story

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Speaker 1: to New York and pick up one hundred grand and

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Speaker 1: bring it back. Lemur then stiffed him for a thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars to pay him. So that guy tells this other

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Speaker 1: Walter Lemur. He tells him this story that he's stiffed,

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Speaker 1: He's stiffed him for a grand, and he said, I

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Speaker 1: don't know how to do this, but I have to

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Speaker 1: bring it up with you. I can't believe that you

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Speaker 1: Really in the end, the other Walter Lemur strikes again.

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Speaker 1: Then in the late eighties, I'm in sixth or seventh grade,

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Speaker 1: mature enough to enjoy movies like The Last Emperor, Moon

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Speaker 1: Struck and Good Morning Vietnam. And my dad goes out

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Speaker 1: the Marine IJ, which is the local blurb for news

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Speaker 1: in Marin County. There's this big Thai potbust and it's

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Speaker 1: whole thing, twenty thousand pounds, and the fads are looking

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Speaker 1: for Walter Lehmur and Taffy never never reads the paper.

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Speaker 1: I mean, she's just off in her own world. And

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Speaker 1: started ringing and people said, oh, I'm so sorry about Walter.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, what are you going to do? And

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Speaker 1: I said, I don't know what you're talking about. And

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Speaker 1: like the same kind of calls, going, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: what's going on with you? Then Walter called me and

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Speaker 1: I said, what's up with you? Where are you? What's

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Speaker 1: going on? He said, everything's fine. I'm in Denver, you know,

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Speaker 1: go skiing, and and so I knew he was okay,

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Speaker 1: and I realized that it was the other Walter Lemur.

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Speaker 1: So the immoral squidball Walter Lemur, not my dad, finally

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Speaker 1: got busted. According to my mom, he and his wife

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Speaker 1: fled the country. They ended up being fugitives and moving

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Speaker 1: toot um Europe. Really yeah, from that, Yeah, they were

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Speaker 1: in the world. They were fine. Yeah, they were in

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Speaker 1: the coke world in New World that had a lot

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Speaker 1: of money. And the moral of the Tale of Two

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Speaker 1: Walter Lemurs is aware who shares your name, so you

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Speaker 1: can nip all misrepresentation of your character in the bud

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Speaker 1: or capitalize on their good deeds and once again, as always,

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Speaker 1: be careful who you trust. I'm Rainbow Valentine. This is

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Speaker 1: Disorganized Crime Smuggler's Daughter. Disorganized Crime Smuggler's Daughter is written

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Speaker 1: and recorded by me Rainbow Valentine. Our producers are Gabby

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Speaker 1: Watts and Taylor Church. Executive producers are Brandon Barr, Brian Lavin,

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Speaker 1: Elsie Crowley and Me at School of Humans, and Connell

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Speaker 1: Burn and Charles Bryant at iHeartRadio. Our music is by

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Speaker 1: Gabby Lala and Claire Campbell, with original theme by Mark,

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Speaker 1: Karen and Me. You can follow us online at Disorganized

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Speaker 1: Crime podcast dot com. Write the novel the story, doing

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Speaker 1: as with me tamble by Sleeping Princess, all the red

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Speaker 1: Wood dreams. She helps us keep it real. Handshake seals

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Speaker 1: the deal, Wrap the stack the sealed meal, and load

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Speaker 1: up these all greens, rolling the dooby, young, rich and groovy,

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Speaker 1: making it up as we rolled along, Rolling along far

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Speaker 1: country Roll, Rolling along, far out country Roll, Rolling along,

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