April 8, 2020 • 13 mins
Walter Lemur wasn't the only Walter Lemur in Mill Valley. Rainbow Valentine tells the tale of years of mistaken identity in the smuggling world.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
School of Humans. Greetings listeners, we hope you're staying safe,
healthy and social distancing. Welcome back. Thanks for listening. To
help pass the time, we're going to be releasing some
bonus mini episodes chats with my parents and their friends
that we couldn't fit into the season. The first is
the tale of two Walter Lemurs. Now. Over the years
(00:30):
living in the Bay Area, my dad knew of several
other people named Walter Lemur. He has a fairly common name,
but one Walter Lemur in the Bay Area also lived
in Mill Valley and also was a drug smuggler, and
the confusion between the two of them has led to
several cases of mistaken identity. Unfortunately for my dad, as
(00:53):
the other Walter Lemur wasn't the most upstanding of citizens.
I'm Rainbow Valentine in this is disorganized crime Smuggler's daughter.
Thanks for joining us again in the due Young, free
(01:14):
and groovy making it up. We rolled along, rolling along
far country, role he the gray in the Golden gag
do you old State? Making it up? As we roll along?
(01:47):
There was another guy who was also named Walter Lemur.
Can you imagine Mill Valley crawling with Lemurs? That's a
scary thought, isn't it. In the early seventies, when my
dad first heard about the other Walter, my dad was
sort of excited to meet him. Unfortunately, the other Walter
(02:11):
Lemur turned out to be an unscrupulous schmuck. Side note
originating from Yiddish, schmuck means one who is stupid, foolish, obnoxious, contemptible,
or detestable. In Yiddish, the literal meaning of schmuck is
a vulgar term for penis. He is just a major dick,
he really is. He and his wife are big time
(02:33):
coke freaks and coke dealers. But he'll sell anything to anybody.
I mean, he was just into money. The other Walter
Lemur also worked in the illicit drug industry, but primarily
dealing cocaine. My dad stayed away from the other Walter Lemur,
and the two Lemurs went about their business totally separately,
(02:54):
operating in very different worlds, but in the same small town.
With a name like that, how to trust him? Then,
in the mid nineteen eighties, a medium sized tie trip
comes in and lo and behold, the other Walter Lemur
(03:14):
is one of the guys bringing it in, and a
buddy of my dad wants to buy the whole load.
So my dad tracks down the other Walter Lemur. I
tracked it down, I talked to him, and a friend
of mine said, great, you know I like it, but
I want to guarantee that it's completely it's only my trip.
(03:36):
I have the exclusive. Here's I'll give you a half
a million down. So Lemur agrees, fine, no problem. I'll
bring the first four hundred pounds over to my place,
which I never would do. Never had big, big amounts
of stuff at the house much. But this was just
(03:57):
going to be in and out because the other guy
was going to just pick it up fifteen minutes later.
So be in and out blah blah. And so I'm
waiting there, and I'm waiting there, I don't get a call,
nobody shows up. Finally I'm wondering what the hell happened.
And I finally find my friend wherever, and he says,
(04:20):
now he's going to pass on the whole deal because
this squid ball Lemur started selling it to other people.
My dad's buddy pulls the plug on the deal, leaving
my dad with four hundred pounds of pot sitting in
his office at my childhood home. My dad's buddy had
(04:43):
wanted the entire load in order to control the supply
and demand. But now with the other Walter Lemur, selling
the same pot to other dealers, the market for this
specific weed is waning and prices are dropping. Word is everything.
I mean that as as you discuss with many other people.
(05:05):
It was the time with you know, seven sum six
and seven figure sums of cash just on a handshaken
a word. That's it. Yeah, and that's how it flowed,
if it was good, you know, except this guy was
a slee sepool who didn't keep his word. Consequently, or shit,
there I am with four hundred pounds of ties sitting
(05:28):
in the back room. That was not supposed to happen.
The four hundred pounds was only supposed to be at
our family home for fifteen minutes. It sat there for
several days, a huge liability for my dad and our
entire family. Once again, my dad's happy go lucky nature
(05:51):
and belief that all humans are good exposed his achilles heel. Eventually,
Lemur whoever came with a truck and took it away,
or I don't know what happened. Maybe I sold it
to some else I can't even remember now, but I
was completely pissed off with this squid ball, and obviously
(06:12):
the last time I ever did business with him. I'm
rain Will Valentine, and this is disorganized crime. We'll be
right back now. The main complication with the other Walter
Lemur was that people across the county were confusing the
(06:32):
unscrupulous Lemur with my dad. It's happened several times, and
it's sort of this funny thing. And while I'm not
the most perfect guy in the world, I am very
much the opposite of this sleeves ball. I just wonder
what else I'm literally mixed up in. In the early
(06:56):
nineteen seventies, my dad regularly played poker with Big Daddy
Tom Donohue, San Francisco's famous record producer, rock and roll DJ,
and concert promoter who brought the Beatles to the US
for the first time. Tom Donohue, a party and cocaine enthusiast,
died from a heart attack at forty six in the
(07:17):
mid seventies, But recently, as in last year, my dad
learned that a handful of people believed my dad had
sold Tom some gruesome cocaine in the seventies cocaine cut
with glass. Yikes, No, sure, my dad sold that shoddy
rose cocaine we mentioned in episode two, but that was
(07:41):
the only time he sold coke let alone coke cut
with glass. A couple of years ago, I reconnect with
an old friend. He's the friends with another friend of ours,
and the other friend of ours tells him another story
about Walter Lemur and how Lemur hired him to go
(08:03):
to New York and pick up one hundred grand and
bring it back. Lemur then stiffed him for a thousand
dollars to pay him. So that guy tells this other
friend who I see more often, tells him that, oh,
Walter Lemur. He tells him this story that he's stiffed,
He's stiffed him for a grand, and he said, I
(08:25):
don't know how to do this, but I have to
bring it up with you. I can't believe that you
would do something like that, he said to me, And
I said, don't be ridiculous. That's another and we laughed together.
Really in the end, the other Walter Lemur strikes again.
(08:47):
Then in the late eighties, I'm in sixth or seventh grade,
singing along to the Bengals walk like an Egyptian and
mature enough to enjoy movies like The Last Emperor, Moon
Struck and Good Morning Vietnam. And my dad goes out
of town when our home phone starts ringing off the
the Marine IJ, which is the local blurb for news
(09:11):
in Marin County. There's this big Thai potbust and it's
on the front page. All the headlines boom across the
whole thing, twenty thousand pounds, and the fads are looking
for Walter Lehmur and Taffy never never reads the paper.
I mean, she's just off in her own world. And
(09:35):
she starts getting phone calls. Here's my mom. The phone
started ringing and people said, oh, I'm so sorry about Walter.
Oh my gosh, what are you going to do? And
I said, I don't know what you're talking about. And
they said, oh, look on the Marine IJ, it's on
(09:57):
the front page. And then I got two more calls
like the same kind of calls, going, oh my gosh,
what's going on with you? Then Walter called me and
I said, what's up with you? Where are you? What's
going on? He said, everything's fine. I'm in Denver, you know,
it's just I'm just chilling out and um, I'm gonna
(10:20):
go skiing, and and so I knew he was okay,
and I realized that it was the other Walter Lemur.
So the immoral squidball Walter Lemur, not my dad, finally
got busted. According to my mom, he and his wife
(10:41):
fled the country. They ended up being fugitives and moving
toot um Europe. Really yeah, from that, Yeah, they were
in the world. They were fine. Yeah, they were in
the coke world in New World that had a lot
of money. And the moral of the Tale of Two
(11:03):
Walter Lemurs is aware who shares your name, so you
can nip all misrepresentation of your character in the bud
or capitalize on their good deeds and once again, as always,
be careful who you trust. I'm Rainbow Valentine. This is
(11:23):
Disorganized Crime Smuggler's Daughter. Disorganized Crime Smuggler's Daughter is written
and recorded by me Rainbow Valentine. Our producers are Gabby
(11:45):
Watts and Taylor Church. Executive producers are Brandon Barr, Brian Lavin,
Elsie Crowley and Me at School of Humans, and Connell
Burn and Charles Bryant at iHeartRadio. Our music is by
Gabby Lala and Claire Campbell, with original theme by Mark,
Karen and Me. You can follow us online at Disorganized
Crime podcast dot com. Write the novel the story, doing
(12:15):
as with me tamble by Sleeping Princess, all the red
Wood dreams. She helps us keep it real. Handshake seals
the deal, Wrap the stack the sealed meal, and load
up these all greens, rolling the dooby, young, rich and groovy,
(12:41):
making it up as we rolled along, Rolling along far
country Roll, Rolling along, far out country Roll, Rolling along,
far out country Roll
School of Humans. Greetings listeners, we hope you're staying safe,
healthy and social distancing. Welcome back. Thanks for listening. To
help pass the time, we're going to be releasing some
bonus mini episodes chats with my parents and their friends
that we couldn't fit into the season. The first is
the tale of two Walter Lemurs. Now. Over the years
(00:30):
living in the Bay Area, my dad knew of several
other people named Walter Lemur. He has a fairly common name,
but one Walter Lemur in the Bay Area also lived
in Mill Valley and also was a drug smuggler, and
the confusion between the two of them has led to
several cases of mistaken identity. Unfortunately for my dad, as
(00:53):
the other Walter Lemur wasn't the most upstanding of citizens.
I'm Rainbow Valentine in this is disorganized crime Smuggler's daughter.
Thanks for joining us again in the due Young, free
(01:14):
and groovy making it up. We rolled along, rolling along
far country, role he the gray in the Golden gag
do you old State? Making it up? As we roll along?
(01:47):
There was another guy who was also named Walter Lemur.
Can you imagine Mill Valley crawling with Lemurs? That's a
scary thought, isn't it. In the early seventies, when my
dad first heard about the other Walter, my dad was
sort of excited to meet him. Unfortunately, the other Walter
(02:11):
Lemur turned out to be an unscrupulous schmuck. Side note
originating from Yiddish, schmuck means one who is stupid, foolish, obnoxious, contemptible,
or detestable. In Yiddish, the literal meaning of schmuck is
a vulgar term for penis. He is just a major dick,
he really is. He and his wife are big time
(02:33):
coke freaks and coke dealers. But he'll sell anything to anybody.
I mean, he was just into money. The other Walter
Lemur also worked in the illicit drug industry, but primarily
dealing cocaine. My dad stayed away from the other Walter Lemur,
and the two Lemurs went about their business totally separately,
(02:54):
operating in very different worlds, but in the same small town.
With a name like that, how to trust him? Then,
in the mid nineteen eighties, a medium sized tie trip
comes in and lo and behold, the other Walter Lemur
(03:14):
is one of the guys bringing it in, and a
buddy of my dad wants to buy the whole load.
So my dad tracks down the other Walter Lemur. I
tracked it down, I talked to him, and a friend
of mine said, great, you know I like it, but
I want to guarantee that it's completely it's only my trip.
(03:36):
I have the exclusive. Here's I'll give you a half
a million down. So Lemur agrees, fine, no problem. I'll
bring the first four hundred pounds over to my place,
which I never would do. Never had big, big amounts
of stuff at the house much. But this was just
(03:57):
going to be in and out because the other guy
was going to just pick it up fifteen minutes later.
So be in and out blah blah. And so I'm
waiting there, and I'm waiting there, I don't get a call,
nobody shows up. Finally I'm wondering what the hell happened.
And I finally find my friend wherever, and he says,
(04:20):
now he's going to pass on the whole deal because
this squid ball Lemur started selling it to other people.
My dad's buddy pulls the plug on the deal, leaving
my dad with four hundred pounds of pot sitting in
his office at my childhood home. My dad's buddy had
(04:43):
wanted the entire load in order to control the supply
and demand. But now with the other Walter Lemur, selling
the same pot to other dealers, the market for this
specific weed is waning and prices are dropping. Word is everything.
I mean that as as you discuss with many other people.
(05:05):
It was the time with you know, seven sum six
and seven figure sums of cash just on a handshaken
a word. That's it. Yeah, and that's how it flowed,
if it was good, you know, except this guy was
a slee sepool who didn't keep his word. Consequently, or shit,
there I am with four hundred pounds of ties sitting
(05:28):
in the back room. That was not supposed to happen.
The four hundred pounds was only supposed to be at
our family home for fifteen minutes. It sat there for
several days, a huge liability for my dad and our
entire family. Once again, my dad's happy go lucky nature
(05:51):
and belief that all humans are good exposed his achilles heel. Eventually,
Lemur whoever came with a truck and took it away,
or I don't know what happened. Maybe I sold it
to some else I can't even remember now, but I
was completely pissed off with this squid ball, and obviously
(06:12):
the last time I ever did business with him. I'm
rain Will Valentine, and this is disorganized crime. We'll be
right back now. The main complication with the other Walter
Lemur was that people across the county were confusing the
(06:32):
unscrupulous Lemur with my dad. It's happened several times, and
it's sort of this funny thing. And while I'm not
the most perfect guy in the world, I am very
much the opposite of this sleeves ball. I just wonder
what else I'm literally mixed up in. In the early
(06:56):
nineteen seventies, my dad regularly played poker with Big Daddy
Tom Donohue, San Francisco's famous record producer, rock and roll DJ,
and concert promoter who brought the Beatles to the US
for the first time. Tom Donohue, a party and cocaine enthusiast,
died from a heart attack at forty six in the
(07:17):
mid seventies, But recently, as in last year, my dad
learned that a handful of people believed my dad had
sold Tom some gruesome cocaine in the seventies cocaine cut
with glass. Yikes, No, sure, my dad sold that shoddy
rose cocaine we mentioned in episode two, but that was
(07:41):
the only time he sold coke let alone coke cut
with glass. A couple of years ago, I reconnect with
an old friend. He's the friends with another friend of ours,
and the other friend of ours tells him another story
about Walter Lemur and how Lemur hired him to go
(08:03):
to New York and pick up one hundred grand and
bring it back. Lemur then stiffed him for a thousand
dollars to pay him. So that guy tells this other
friend who I see more often, tells him that, oh,
Walter Lemur. He tells him this story that he's stiffed,
He's stiffed him for a grand, and he said, I
(08:25):
don't know how to do this, but I have to
bring it up with you. I can't believe that you
would do something like that, he said to me, And
I said, don't be ridiculous. That's another and we laughed together.
Really in the end, the other Walter Lemur strikes again.
(08:47):
Then in the late eighties, I'm in sixth or seventh grade,
singing along to the Bengals walk like an Egyptian and
mature enough to enjoy movies like The Last Emperor, Moon
Struck and Good Morning Vietnam. And my dad goes out
of town when our home phone starts ringing off the
the Marine IJ, which is the local blurb for news
(09:11):
in Marin County. There's this big Thai potbust and it's
on the front page. All the headlines boom across the
whole thing, twenty thousand pounds, and the fads are looking
for Walter Lehmur and Taffy never never reads the paper.
I mean, she's just off in her own world. And
(09:35):
she starts getting phone calls. Here's my mom. The phone
started ringing and people said, oh, I'm so sorry about Walter.
Oh my gosh, what are you going to do? And
I said, I don't know what you're talking about. And
they said, oh, look on the Marine IJ, it's on
(09:57):
the front page. And then I got two more calls
like the same kind of calls, going, oh my gosh,
what's going on with you? Then Walter called me and
I said, what's up with you? Where are you? What's
going on? He said, everything's fine. I'm in Denver, you know,
it's just I'm just chilling out and um, I'm gonna
(10:20):
go skiing, and and so I knew he was okay,
and I realized that it was the other Walter Lemur.
So the immoral squidball Walter Lemur, not my dad, finally
got busted. According to my mom, he and his wife
(10:41):
fled the country. They ended up being fugitives and moving
toot um Europe. Really yeah, from that, Yeah, they were
in the world. They were fine. Yeah, they were in
the coke world in New World that had a lot
of money. And the moral of the Tale of Two
(11:03):
Walter Lemurs is aware who shares your name, so you
can nip all misrepresentation of your character in the bud
or capitalize on their good deeds and once again, as always,
be careful who you trust. I'm Rainbow Valentine. This is
(11:23):
Disorganized Crime Smuggler's Daughter. Disorganized Crime Smuggler's Daughter is written
and recorded by me Rainbow Valentine. Our producers are Gabby
(11:45):
Watts and Taylor Church. Executive producers are Brandon Barr, Brian Lavin,
Elsie Crowley and Me at School of Humans, and Connell
Burn and Charles Bryant at iHeartRadio. Our music is by
Gabby Lala and Claire Campbell, with original theme by Mark,
Karen and Me. You can follow us online at Disorganized
Crime podcast dot com. Write the novel the story, doing
(12:15):
as with me tamble by Sleeping Princess, all the red
Wood dreams. She helps us keep it real. Handshake seals
the deal, Wrap the stack the sealed meal, and load
up these all greens, rolling the dooby, young, rich and groovy,
(12:41):
making it up as we rolled along, Rolling along far
country Roll, Rolling along, far out country Roll, Rolling along,
far out country Roll
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