Speaker 1: Yours shut. My name is Roger Gola, and if there's
Speaker 1: one thing you need to know about me, it's that
Speaker 1: I love NASCAR and there's a story I want to
Speaker 1: tell you about. Don't even think about hitting that thirty
Speaker 1: second skip button, because even if you're one of the
Speaker 1: few strange folks that doesn't like racing, you're gonna want
Speaker 1: to hear this. People will say, Oh, he's crazy, he's
Speaker 1: conspiracy there, No, it's just reality. My hands are on
Speaker 1: their faith here in New Hampshire barters back in forty
Speaker 1: three drivers gathered at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway or
Speaker 1: a chance at the checkered flag, and all the way
Speaker 1: in the back, starting in forty second place is a
Speaker 1: man named Derek White. On the front, Gnaage Okay back
Speaker 1: and the Indian Reserve just outside of Montreal. He doesn't
Speaker 1: stand a snowball's chance in hell at winning this race,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't matter because he's making history here. He's
Speaker 1: the first ever or indigenous person to race in the
Speaker 1: NASCAR Cup Series, and to Derek this was the first
Speaker 1: step in a long career in racing. What he didn't
Speaker 1: know was that he was about to be arrested in
Speaker 1: Canada's largest ever police operation, called the largest grade of
Speaker 1: its kind in America. Quebec Provincial police cops have been
Speaker 1: on his tail for more than a year, watching his
Speaker 1: every move, tapping his phone and following his vehicles. We
Speaker 1: have holicopters over my host our phones are but they're
Speaker 1: I was watching them because they believed he was a
Speaker 1: major figure in an international criminal organization made up of
Speaker 1: South American drug cartels, Canadian gangsters, and outlaw bikers. He
Speaker 1: was the frontman, if you will, for the organized crime
Speaker 1: slash holes Angels organization. Well see, that's one thing that
Speaker 1: didn't really do their homework very well. I mean I
Speaker 1: was way on the bottom of the total pole. But
Speaker 1: of course they have to put the native person, uh
Speaker 1: close to the top, you know. Well, now Darry is
Speaker 1: fighting his charges in court. His defense relies on his
Speaker 1: rights as a Native person. And the craziest thing, he
Speaker 1: might actually have a case and it may change the
Speaker 1: future of Native rights. They know that if this case
Speaker 1: goes in any way our way, they got a whole
Speaker 1: new story to be right, it's not only my fight,
Speaker 1: it's the whole nation's fight. From Camp Side Media and
Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Productions, This is running Smoke, the story of
Speaker 1: how a race car driver accused of smuggling is redefining
Speaker 1: the future of Native rights. All these outsiders want to
Speaker 1: tell us what to do. It ain't. It ain't gonna happen.
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