Introducing: Disorganized Crime: Smuggler's Daughter

Host Rainbow Valentine discovers her artist mom and 'businessman' dad were deeply involved in the illegal drug trade and unknowingly spent her childhood among a massive pot distribution operation. As she talks with her father in intimate interviews, Rainbow Valentine uncovers a history of her childhood that causes her to reassess everything — and gives us a unique personal window into the infamous counter-culture of Marin County in the 70s and 80s -- from Ken Kesey's acid tests and the birth of the Grateful Dead to a drug culture that hardened and became more dangerous in response to the War On Drugs.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah. So it's it's the nineties and Marin County, California. Saturdays,
my dad would take me to this baseball field. All
these guys my dad played with were our family friends.
I just found out that of these folks were pot
dealers or pot smugglers, or drug smugglers or growers. They
all worked in the pot industry in the seventies and eighties,

(00:22):
which was a big deal. You know, it was illegal,
and so was my dad. Just a hot producer. Tip
when you blow your nose, put some space between the
storytelling and the nose blowing so I can Hello. I'm

(00:43):
Rainbow Valentine. And for the past year, my dad has
been coming clean to me about his decades long career
as a big time pot smuggler. And by big time,
I mean pretty big time. I think it was my
dad and mom had to live a double life. What
is active school board members, doting parents to three kids,

(01:04):
and the other is outlaws? Like my parents had a
secret room like the movies. Yeah, there's a real sacred room.
Kick out a book when you took out a screw driver. Now,
my dad wasn't the most organized criminal. He once lost
half a million dollars buried in the backyard. It was
pretty stressful. I couldn't find at least a half a

(01:26):
million in cash. He also literally had to launder money.
He once put more than a hundred thousand dollars in
our dryer. Can't just dump it in the dryer, so
I put them in sick. My dad was tremendously successful,
and he smuggled during the War on drugs, a war
that made people like my dad and his smuggling colleagues
public enemy number one. Public Enemy number one is drug abuse, marijuana,

(01:53):
the burning weed when its roots in Hell. My parents
and they're smuggling associates are finally breaking their silence about
growing up during the psychedelic Revolution in the sixties and
entering into the life of outlaws in a world that
had nothing but contempt for them. Together, we're going to

(02:16):
find out how my dad was a pot smuggler for
twenty two years and at what cost. I'm Rainbow Valentine
for my Heart Media and School of Humans. This is
Disorganized Crime Smuggler's Daughter. Listen to Disorganized Crime Smuggler's Daughter
on the I Heart Radio app or wherever you get
your podcasts. Coming December four,