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Speaker 1: he's moving five hundred to a thousand pounds of pot

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Speaker 1: wine storage unit and a pot storage unit. There are

426
00:27:43,525 --> 00:27:47,245
Speaker 1: always ten to twenty bottles at home, but the thousands

427
00:27:47,365 --> 00:27:50,765
Speaker 1: of other bottles and cases lived in a special climate

428
00:27:50,805 --> 00:27:55,805
Speaker 1: controlled locker specifically for wine, which I never visited. Probably

429
00:27:55,805 --> 00:28:01,805
Speaker 1: a good thing, since I'm super clumsy. My dad had

430
00:28:02,005 --> 00:28:05,285
Speaker 1: thousands of bottles of wine, and he became a bit

431
00:28:05,325 --> 00:28:08,405
Speaker 1: addicted to collecting it. That started to get me more

432
00:28:08,445 --> 00:28:11,445
Speaker 1: and more addicted. I mean, I liked drinking wine, and

433
00:28:11,485 --> 00:28:15,605
Speaker 1: it was really nice, but I just realized one. I'm

434
00:28:15,645 --> 00:28:17,885
Speaker 1: not a big drinker and never have been anyway, but

435
00:28:17,965 --> 00:28:20,405
Speaker 1: we would drink, you know, we'd drink our we'd have

436
00:28:20,485 --> 00:28:25,405
Speaker 1: our caviare so we'd we'd we'd go have parties with

437
00:28:25,965 --> 00:28:28,245
Speaker 1: not a lot of people, just a few people because

438
00:28:28,285 --> 00:28:31,685
Speaker 1: we were drinking really expensive champagne and Triple O beluga,

439
00:28:32,045 --> 00:28:35,765
Speaker 1: which Mom really did love. I'd never got a taste

440
00:28:35,805 --> 00:28:44,165
Speaker 1: for the beluga either. Yeah, champagne great, sup. Now wine

441
00:28:44,365 --> 00:28:47,965
Speaker 1: was an awesome investment, but both my parents regret not

442
00:28:48,165 --> 00:28:52,525
Speaker 1: buying more California land and real estate with her cash.

443
00:28:52,765 --> 00:28:55,325
Speaker 1: My dad did buy our family a wonderful vacation home

444
00:28:55,325 --> 00:28:57,565
Speaker 1: in Lake Tahoe where I'd bring all my friends for

445
00:28:57,645 --> 00:29:01,245
Speaker 1: weeks long slumber parties. Me and Petunia from episode one

446
00:29:01,365 --> 00:29:04,445
Speaker 1: built a mini golf course over several summers at our

447
00:29:04,485 --> 00:29:08,125
Speaker 1: Tahoe house. No here, they're there. I think I think

448
00:29:08,125 --> 00:29:11,645
Speaker 1: we should have bought land for cash. It's what I

449
00:29:11,685 --> 00:29:15,285
Speaker 1: think now looking back on it, you know, right, Yeah,

450
00:29:15,765 --> 00:29:20,525
Speaker 1: hindsight tells us that we I was not clear back

451
00:29:20,525 --> 00:29:25,245
Speaker 1: then that oh much property actually can be bought directly

452
00:29:25,325 --> 00:29:31,285
Speaker 1: for cash because lots of people own stuff oral properties, right,

453
00:29:31,445 --> 00:29:36,045
Speaker 1: royal properties, or whatever, and so that's okay. Yeah, we

454
00:29:36,125 --> 00:29:39,965
Speaker 1: still made a ton of money on the Yeah, but

455
00:29:40,005 --> 00:29:44,645
Speaker 1: it's I always thought it was pretty decoradent to drink champagne.

456
00:29:44,645 --> 00:29:52,445
Speaker 1: Any prevent from doing it, But we didn't do it

457
00:29:52,485 --> 00:29:55,085
Speaker 1: that often. We were just we were not that, you know.

458
00:29:55,125 --> 00:29:58,805
Speaker 1: Every once in we do some and we were never

459
00:29:58,925 --> 00:30:02,325
Speaker 1: quite you know. And for me it was strictly an investment.

460
00:30:02,605 --> 00:30:05,165
Speaker 1: My parents don't think there's any sense to regret what

461
00:30:05,245 --> 00:30:09,405
Speaker 1: they didn't invest in, or regret the ways they cleaned

462
00:30:09,445 --> 00:30:15,165
Speaker 1: their cash or dried it as the case. Maybe I'm

463
00:30:15,245 --> 00:30:18,485
Speaker 1: Rainbow Valentine and this is disorganized crime. And we'll be

464
00:30:18,605 --> 00:30:24,205
Speaker 1: right back we headed towards the end of this episode,

465
00:30:24,525 --> 00:30:26,965
Speaker 1: but before we get there, I want to talk about

466
00:30:26,965 --> 00:30:32,645
Speaker 1: the tiniest currency that was the most important to my parents,

467
00:30:33,485 --> 00:30:37,725
Speaker 1: and it turned out to me so a visceral kid

468
00:30:37,765 --> 00:30:41,205
Speaker 1: memory this podcast has jostled is one of tons of

469
00:30:41,325 --> 00:30:44,885
Speaker 1: quarters around our house all the time. They were in drawers,

470
00:30:44,925 --> 00:30:47,805
Speaker 1: on countertops, and in like every nook and cranny of

471
00:30:47,845 --> 00:30:50,805
Speaker 1: all our cars. And they were not only in the carpet,

472
00:30:50,805 --> 00:30:56,885
Speaker 1: they were in all the vehicles. Yet we had two Chevies, right,

473
00:30:56,885 --> 00:31:00,565
Speaker 1: two Chevy and palace, and we had a big yellow truck,

474
00:31:01,045 --> 00:31:04,285
Speaker 1: and so they were always in those because those were

475
00:31:04,325 --> 00:31:07,285
Speaker 1: the working vehicles. One summer, we rented a house in

476
00:31:07,365 --> 00:31:10,485
Speaker 1: Stintson Beach and my parents hired a neighbor girl to

477
00:31:10,525 --> 00:31:14,205
Speaker 1: be my babysitter. I was probably eight. The beach house

478
00:31:14,365 --> 00:31:16,565
Speaker 1: was down the street from a snack shack that sold

479
00:31:16,605 --> 00:31:20,245
Speaker 1: forbidden junk food. So, sensing light at the end of

480
00:31:20,245 --> 00:31:23,685
Speaker 1: my junk food deprivation tunnel, I showed the babysitter the

481
00:31:23,765 --> 00:31:27,405
Speaker 1: rolls of quarters located in my dad's car door side pockets,

482
00:31:27,685 --> 00:31:31,285
Speaker 1: and we took a roll to buy frozen snickers. A

483
00:31:31,325 --> 00:31:34,885
Speaker 1: few weeks later, after the beach vacation, the neighbor babysitter

484
00:31:35,005 --> 00:31:38,845
Speaker 1: was caught sneaking up our long, hilly dirt driveway and

485
00:31:39,005 --> 00:31:42,645
Speaker 1: stealing rolls of quarters from my dad's car. I was

486
00:31:42,685 --> 00:31:44,925
Speaker 1: so embarrassed that I had shown her where my dad's

487
00:31:45,005 --> 00:31:47,885
Speaker 1: money was, and I was surprised she had stolen from

488
00:31:47,885 --> 00:31:52,685
Speaker 1: our family. Later, as in Like now, while producing this podcast,

489
00:31:53,165 --> 00:31:55,925
Speaker 1: all these quarters in my life fall into place by

490
00:31:56,045 --> 00:31:58,925
Speaker 1: learning the rules of quarters were an important tool of

491
00:31:58,965 --> 00:32:02,205
Speaker 1: the trade for my dad's business because he made most

492
00:32:02,245 --> 00:32:06,805
Speaker 1: of his important smuggling deals on pay phones before pagers.

493
00:32:06,845 --> 00:32:10,365
Speaker 1: They'd call you at home and say, hey, man, why

494
00:32:10,365 --> 00:32:12,765
Speaker 1: don't you you know, let's go to the office, Meeta.

495
00:32:12,805 --> 00:32:14,445
Speaker 1: At the office, you will talk. Oh you call the

496
00:32:14,445 --> 00:32:16,925
Speaker 1: pay phones offices? Yeah, I mean it was. It was

497
00:32:17,005 --> 00:32:22,805
Speaker 1: an office, so, you know, at the Western Office. Whatever.

498
00:32:23,485 --> 00:32:26,045
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's hilarious. I was a kid. I

499
00:32:26,085 --> 00:32:29,805
Speaker 1: was deeply absorbed in my fantasy world and considered grown

500
00:32:29,885 --> 00:32:34,885
Speaker 1: up errands profoundly boring and barely tolerable. I was a

501
00:32:35,005 --> 00:32:38,245
Speaker 1: drama queen child, and I couldn't fathom why my parents

502
00:32:38,245 --> 00:32:41,925
Speaker 1: didn't have aaron running British servants like Mary Poppins, Jeeves

503
00:32:42,005 --> 00:32:45,285
Speaker 1: or mister Belvedere. Of course, the seventies and eighties were

504
00:32:45,325 --> 00:32:48,525
Speaker 1: before the Internet, so all errands had to be run

505
00:32:48,565 --> 00:32:51,765
Speaker 1: in person with the kids in tow. I have vivid

506
00:32:51,845 --> 00:32:54,925
Speaker 1: memories of frequent trips to the bank, waiting in line

507
00:32:55,205 --> 00:32:58,765
Speaker 1: and chewing on the fumy vinyl ropes dividing the banking cues.

508
00:32:59,365 --> 00:33:02,485
Speaker 1: I loved the spongy texture of the chunky bank cords,

509
00:33:02,885 --> 00:33:05,445
Speaker 1: the only saving grace of what I considered the most

510
00:33:05,685 --> 00:33:10,525
Speaker 1: boring errand on earth. You always made your your boredness

511
00:33:10,565 --> 00:33:15,605
Speaker 1: known one way or another. I recall swinging on the

512
00:33:15,645 --> 00:33:19,445
Speaker 1: cushiony ropes and remember my mom's mortification at my public

513
00:33:19,485 --> 00:33:23,885
Speaker 1: animal behavior. Well, now I realized my parents needed to

514
00:33:23,925 --> 00:33:26,285
Speaker 1: go to the bank a lot to get roles of

515
00:33:26,365 --> 00:33:30,885
Speaker 1: quarters for my dad's many pay phone calls. Getting quarters

516
00:33:31,005 --> 00:33:34,125
Speaker 1: was a trip in a bank that well, you know,

517
00:33:34,165 --> 00:33:36,245
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think about it, because when you think

518
00:33:36,245 --> 00:33:39,445
Speaker 1: about it, um, what do you need a million quarters for?

519
00:33:39,685 --> 00:33:42,205
Speaker 1: You know, you'd go in and buy one hundred dollars

520
00:33:42,205 --> 00:33:45,525
Speaker 1: worth of causeed roll was twenty dollars worth of quarters,

521
00:33:45,965 --> 00:33:48,965
Speaker 1: so you'd buy five rolls a hundred dollars? You know?

522
00:33:49,525 --> 00:33:52,565
Speaker 1: Did you have different banks so they wouldn't suspect that

523
00:33:52,605 --> 00:33:54,445
Speaker 1: you were? Why was this person getting so many rolls

524
00:33:54,445 --> 00:33:57,845
Speaker 1: of quarters all the time? When I when I would

525
00:33:57,885 --> 00:34:00,525
Speaker 1: get quarters, I'd just go into a bank that didn't

526
00:34:00,565 --> 00:34:02,885
Speaker 1: know me, that was somewhere else. I didn't walk into

527
00:34:02,925 --> 00:34:09,365
Speaker 1: my Mill Valley bank. Every local yeah, you know, and

528
00:34:09,485 --> 00:34:14,085
Speaker 1: there were enough banks in the county to just pop

529
00:34:14,125 --> 00:34:18,885
Speaker 1: in now and again. Another common errand I loathed was

530
00:34:18,925 --> 00:34:22,205
Speaker 1: my dad stopping for phone calls. We lived in a

531
00:34:22,245 --> 00:34:24,925
Speaker 1: semi rural area and drove a lot as school and

532
00:34:25,005 --> 00:34:28,525
Speaker 1: my many after school activities were fifteen to fifteen minutes

533
00:34:28,565 --> 00:34:32,765
Speaker 1: away from home. My chauffeur dad always had to stop

534
00:34:32,765 --> 00:34:35,525
Speaker 1: for a call after gymnastics tap to answer play practice.

535
00:34:35,765 --> 00:34:40,405
Speaker 1: When I was tired and cranky and totally had to pee, disgruntled,

536
00:34:40,525 --> 00:34:44,605
Speaker 1: but surrounded by rolls of car quarters poised for the spotlight,

537
00:34:45,045 --> 00:34:47,365
Speaker 1: I'd wait in the car and play pretend, turning the

538
00:34:47,405 --> 00:34:52,485
Speaker 1: coins into anthropomorphic characters and my elaborate melodramas. Once, while

539
00:34:52,485 --> 00:34:54,605
Speaker 1: waiting for my dad to make a call, I broke

540
00:34:54,645 --> 00:34:57,245
Speaker 1: the car windshield by mistake. Do you remember that time

541
00:34:57,285 --> 00:35:00,605
Speaker 1: I mistakenly broke the windshield of the car with your

542
00:35:00,605 --> 00:35:06,125
Speaker 1: feet up? You just put your feet up and went blood. Yeah,

543
00:35:06,165 --> 00:35:09,285
Speaker 1: I do remember so. Basically, while I sat waiting in

544
00:35:09,325 --> 00:35:11,645
Speaker 1: the car near my bulove and McDonald's, I was in

545
00:35:11,685 --> 00:35:13,445
Speaker 1: the front seat of our jeep Cherokee, and I put

546
00:35:13,485 --> 00:35:16,325
Speaker 1: my bare feet on the inner windshield, leaned back and

547
00:35:16,565 --> 00:35:20,005
Speaker 1: pressed slash stretched out well. I stretched my legs a

548
00:35:20,005 --> 00:35:23,885
Speaker 1: bit too firmly, and horrified, watched the entire windshield crack.

549
00:35:25,365 --> 00:35:27,445
Speaker 1: It was a long ten minutes waiting for my dad

550
00:35:27,485 --> 00:35:30,285
Speaker 1: to return from the payphone to the windshield I just destroyed.

551
00:35:31,605 --> 00:35:34,005
Speaker 1: It probably wasn't the best thing to do, bringing attention

552
00:35:34,045 --> 00:35:37,885
Speaker 1: to my dad as he was making deals at the payphone. Now,

553
00:35:37,885 --> 00:35:41,085
Speaker 1: my dad went to plenty of different offices payphones, and

554
00:35:41,165 --> 00:35:43,725
Speaker 1: his favorite was in tam Junction, near my childhood home.

555
00:35:44,445 --> 00:35:47,405
Speaker 1: Tam Valley, adjacent to Mill Valley, is where I learned

556
00:35:47,445 --> 00:35:50,005
Speaker 1: to ride a bike, drive a car, and its crossroads.

557
00:35:50,045 --> 00:35:53,565
Speaker 1: Tam Junction is the gateway to the windy road over

558
00:35:53,645 --> 00:35:57,245
Speaker 1: Mount tamil Pious to Mure Woods, the famed National monument.

559
00:35:58,645 --> 00:36:00,845
Speaker 1: Tam Valley used to be considered kind of like the

560
00:36:01,005 --> 00:36:04,725
Speaker 1: slums of Mill Valley, with its hub, the scrudgy Shoreline

561
00:36:04,805 --> 00:36:08,925
Speaker 1: shopping plot and the gaudy rug store Flantic, a giant curved,

562
00:36:08,965 --> 00:36:13,325
Speaker 1: aquatile storefront that resembled a vertical swimming pool. So the

563
00:36:13,325 --> 00:36:16,725
Speaker 1: Shoreline shopping center where my dad's favorite payphone was located,

564
00:36:17,045 --> 00:36:19,765
Speaker 1: consisted of the Calum Market where we picked up last

565
00:36:19,765 --> 00:36:23,285
Speaker 1: minute groceries, the Shoreline Coffee Shop, and the Video Droid,

566
00:36:23,565 --> 00:36:27,965
Speaker 1: my little brother's favorite place. I just had a visceral

567
00:36:28,045 --> 00:36:31,165
Speaker 1: memory of being left at the Video Droid a lot.

568
00:36:32,125 --> 00:36:33,925
Speaker 1: You were probably on the phone and we'd be at

569
00:36:33,965 --> 00:36:39,245
Speaker 1: the video droid because right around the tam junction there

570
00:36:39,325 --> 00:36:41,565
Speaker 1: were several you leave us a video droid so we

571
00:36:41,565 --> 00:36:43,565
Speaker 1: could look at videos and you'd go make a phone call. Yeah,

572
00:36:43,645 --> 00:36:46,925
Speaker 1: that happened all the time. Now. Other smuggling errands, which

573
00:36:46,925 --> 00:36:50,285
Speaker 1: I enjoyed more because they involved snacks, included shopping at

574
00:36:50,325 --> 00:36:52,885
Speaker 1: the cheese store, Jerry's meat Market and Valley Market, and

575
00:36:52,885 --> 00:36:55,765
Speaker 1: the hippie health food store Living Foods, where we'd get

576
00:36:55,805 --> 00:36:58,765
Speaker 1: treats like frozen yogurt or tiger milk bars. You know,

577
00:36:58,845 --> 00:37:01,725
Speaker 1: smugglers got to eat, and my parents are gourmet cooks,

578
00:37:02,325 --> 00:37:05,405
Speaker 1: so I thought I remembered plastic wrapped chunks of hash

579
00:37:05,525 --> 00:37:08,525
Speaker 1: in the freezer alongside the frozen bagels. But my parents

580
00:37:08,525 --> 00:37:10,845
Speaker 1: are adamant they wouldn't have left drugs in the freezer

581
00:37:11,085 --> 00:37:14,605
Speaker 1: for me to eat. By mistake. Do you have hash

582
00:37:14,685 --> 00:37:18,645
Speaker 1: wrapped in plastic in the freezer like all the time, right?

583
00:37:19,285 --> 00:37:23,125
Speaker 1: Hash wrapped in thee Yeah. No, they're always weird things

584
00:37:23,125 --> 00:37:24,645
Speaker 1: in the freezer that were like little bricks of like

585
00:37:24,725 --> 00:37:32,125
Speaker 1: brown things, even money, money in the freezer. I mean,

586
00:37:32,165 --> 00:37:35,645
Speaker 1: we didn't put stutt We didn't keep drugs in the freezer.

587
00:37:36,525 --> 00:37:39,965
Speaker 1: That is really I have seen drugs in your freezer. Yeah,

588
00:37:40,045 --> 00:37:42,205
Speaker 1: but not I mean recently. You know, pot brownies and stuff.

589
00:37:42,245 --> 00:37:44,565
Speaker 1: I wouldn't leave those around. You would have eaten them all.

590
00:37:45,605 --> 00:37:47,805
Speaker 1: I don't know what I saw, but my parents always

591
00:37:47,805 --> 00:37:50,045
Speaker 1: have kind of weird things in the freezer, like maybe

592
00:37:50,045 --> 00:37:53,005
Speaker 1: old psychedelic mushrooms or an old withered pot brownies some

593
00:37:53,085 --> 00:37:56,005
Speaker 1: old hippie left. You gotta be careful what you eat

594
00:37:56,005 --> 00:38:00,325
Speaker 1: in my parents freezer. Smuggling as a word sounds so

595
00:38:00,485 --> 00:38:04,405
Speaker 1: intriguing and mysterious, and it's hilarious to realize that, in fact,

596
00:38:04,525 --> 00:38:08,645
Speaker 1: the most worrying activity of my childhood, running errands with

597
00:38:08,685 --> 00:38:12,325
Speaker 1: my parents with plenty of quarters in tow, was actually

598
00:38:12,405 --> 00:38:17,365
Speaker 1: part of a cinematically spine tingling act. Smuggling. My parents

599
00:38:17,405 --> 00:38:19,925
Speaker 1: should have been like, come on, let's go smuggling, rather

600
00:38:19,965 --> 00:38:21,925
Speaker 1: than let's go run errands. We gotta run errands like

601
00:38:21,965 --> 00:38:24,325
Speaker 1: we gotta do smuggling. I probably would have been much

602
00:38:24,365 --> 00:38:35,565
Speaker 1: more excited. A question we've gotten from some listeners is

603
00:38:35,605 --> 00:38:38,005
Speaker 1: that if my dad was pulling in so much money

604
00:38:38,045 --> 00:38:42,005
Speaker 1: doing these pot deals, why did he keep smuggling. Well,

605
00:38:42,485 --> 00:38:45,725
Speaker 1: my dad was a freelancer, meaning he would win big,

606
00:38:46,045 --> 00:38:48,405
Speaker 1: but then there would be months without work or income

607
00:38:48,445 --> 00:38:53,765
Speaker 1: coming in, and life with three kids is expensive. I've

608
00:38:53,805 --> 00:38:57,365
Speaker 1: paid my rent being a lifelong freelancer thanks to principles

609
00:38:57,405 --> 00:39:01,125
Speaker 1: my freelancer dad drilled into me. And number one is

610
00:39:01,885 --> 00:39:08,205
Speaker 1: failure is unfortunately a frequent visitor. But on the bright side,

611
00:39:08,445 --> 00:39:11,925
Speaker 1: you've got to know failure to no success. In the

612
00:39:11,965 --> 00:39:14,885
Speaker 1: smuggling business, you need to spend money to make money.

613
00:39:15,285 --> 00:39:18,925
Speaker 1: So cash was used to invest in another trip to

614
00:39:18,965 --> 00:39:21,165
Speaker 1: bring in more money, and so on and so forth.

615
00:39:21,845 --> 00:39:26,005
Speaker 1: My dad's colleague, the driver Sandwich, calls it chasing the rainbow.

616
00:39:26,685 --> 00:39:29,565
Speaker 1: He told me the smuggling business was difficult to get

617
00:39:29,605 --> 00:39:33,885
Speaker 1: out of because smugglers were continuously chasing the rainbow with

618
00:39:34,045 --> 00:39:37,365
Speaker 1: each new trip promising to bring in more money than

619
00:39:37,405 --> 00:39:43,965
Speaker 1: ever before. But also very much I have boundaries about

620
00:39:44,045 --> 00:39:47,965
Speaker 1: what I will or won't do in my life, even

621
00:39:48,005 --> 00:39:51,205
Speaker 1: in making money, which is the most delicious ice cream.

622
00:39:51,245 --> 00:39:54,805
Speaker 1: I know, I mean money, you know, and the money

623
00:39:54,845 --> 00:39:58,285
Speaker 1: makes our world be free. Making money drove my dad.

624
00:39:59,165 --> 00:40:03,005
Speaker 1: Plus I believe my parents are adrenaline junkies. They love

625
00:40:03,085 --> 00:40:06,765
Speaker 1: river rafting, scuba diving, dancing, the rush from the extreme

626
00:40:06,845 --> 00:40:09,045
Speaker 1: high of making a quarter of a million dollars in

627
00:40:09,085 --> 00:40:12,245
Speaker 1: a month, and that's an adrenaline. But the money went

628
00:40:12,325 --> 00:40:16,005
Speaker 1: fast to support a family of five plus pets. My

629
00:40:16,085 --> 00:40:18,645
Speaker 1: parents were set on sending us all to private schools

630
00:40:18,885 --> 00:40:23,565
Speaker 1: and providing us with bounteous opportunities like sailing, skiing, singing lessons.

631
00:40:24,165 --> 00:40:27,165
Speaker 1: Plus my dad supported his family of origin on the

632
00:40:27,205 --> 00:40:31,245
Speaker 1: East Coast, and my parents always needed enough money for

633
00:40:31,365 --> 00:40:35,765
Speaker 1: smugglers insurance, a attaining fee for the best criminal attorney

634
00:40:35,805 --> 00:40:40,645
Speaker 1: on the West Coast. I mean, I gave Bernie Sego

635
00:40:41,045 --> 00:40:44,525
Speaker 1: a five thousand dollars retainer and said if I call

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Speaker 1: some money and it was fifty thousand dollars. You were

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Speaker 1: sitting on fifty grand? Well, yeah, I was, Yeah, of

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Speaker 1: was it? It was in a piece of furniture that

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Speaker 1: bad remember the bad bout? No? Well, I remember the

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Speaker 1: bad we built, but I don't remember and you could

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Speaker 1: open Yeah, but you know everybody knew that day anyway, Yeah, anyway,

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Speaker 1: I remember. The money also disappeared because my dad was

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Speaker 1: a tidbit overly generous. He's a staunch supporter of the

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Speaker 1: arts and often gave away product and money to fellow artists.

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Speaker 1: I mean he was rolling in it. I gave way

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Speaker 1: lots of the product to our artist friends. I mean

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Speaker 1: how I viewed a whole bunch of that was the

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Speaker 1: importance of the patronage for the artists and even and musicians.

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Speaker 1: You know. For me, In my dad's business, money, pot

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Speaker 1: and trust were commodities. They were handshake deals, friendship, and

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Speaker 1: an assurance that cash would flow when it needed to

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Speaker 1: flow until it didn't. So the eighties roll around and

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Speaker 1: the Reagan administration starts changing the pot laws. Sticks are

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Speaker 1: getting higher, but my parents continue business as usual regardless

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Speaker 1: of the danger, because money is freedom. However, money can

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Speaker 1: also bring out the very worst in people. On the

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Speaker 1: next episode of Disorganized Crime, my dad conducts his biggest

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Speaker 1: trip yet, takes us on a triumphant vacation, and then

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Speaker 1: puts his trust in the wrong hands, leading to disastrous consequences.

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Speaker 1: I'm Rainbow Valentine and this is Disorganized Crime. Disorganized Crime

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Speaker 1: Smuggler's Daughter is written and recorded by me, Rainbow Valentine.

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Speaker 1: Our producers are Gabby Watts, and Taylor Church. Executive producers

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Speaker 1: are Brandon Barr, Brian Lavin, Elsie Crowley and Me at

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Speaker 1: School of Humans, and Connel Burn and Charles Bryant at iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 1: Our music is by Gabby Lala and Claire Campbell, with

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Speaker 1: original theme by Mark Karen and Me. You can follow

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Speaker 1: us online at Disorganized Crime podcast dot com. Right lovel

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Speaker 1: the story, do it as with Me tamble by steeping

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Speaker 1: Princess of the red Wood dreams. She counts us, keep

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Speaker 1: it real. Handshake seals the deal, Wrap the stack, sealed meal,

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Speaker 1: and road up these old breads, rolling the Doobie, Young,

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Speaker 1: rich and groovy, making it up. We roll along, Rolling Country, Roll,

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Speaker 1: Rolling along, far Country, Roll, Rolling along far a country

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