Introducing: Running Smoke

A true crime podcast about fast cars, organized crime, and the future of native rights. Buckle up: Running Smoke comes out October 12th. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yours shut. My name is Roger Gola, and if there's
one thing you need to know about me, it's that
I love NASCAR and there's a story I want to
tell you about. Don't even think about hitting that thirty
second skip button, because even if you're one of the

(00:21):
few strange folks that doesn't like racing, you're gonna want
to hear this. People will say, Oh, he's crazy, he's
conspiracy there, No, it's just reality. My hands are on
their faith here in New Hampshire barters back in forty
three drivers gathered at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway or
a chance at the checkered flag, and all the way
in the back, starting in forty second place is a

(00:43):
man named Derek White. On the front, Gnaage Okay back
and the Indian Reserve just outside of Montreal. He doesn't
stand a snowball's chance in hell at winning this race,
but that doesn't matter because he's making history here. He's
the first ever or indigenous person to race in the
NASCAR Cup Series, and to Derek this was the first

(01:05):
step in a long career in racing. What he didn't
know was that he was about to be arrested in
Canada's largest ever police operation, called the largest grade of
its kind in America. Quebec Provincial police cops have been
on his tail for more than a year, watching his
every move, tapping his phone and following his vehicles. We

(01:27):
have holicopters over my host our phones are but they're
I was watching them because they believed he was a
major figure in an international criminal organization made up of
South American drug cartels, Canadian gangsters, and outlaw bikers. He
was the frontman, if you will, for the organized crime
slash holes Angels organization. Well see, that's one thing that

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didn't really do their homework very well. I mean I
was way on the bottom of the total pole. But
of course they have to put the native person, uh
close to the top, you know. Well, now Darry is
fighting his charges in court. His defense relies on his
rights as a Native person. And the craziest thing, he
might actually have a case and it may change the

(02:11):
future of Native rights. They know that if this case
goes in any way our way, they got a whole
new story to be right, it's not only my fight,
it's the whole nation's fight. From Camp Side Media and
Dan Patrick Productions, This is running Smoke, the story of

(02:31):
how a race car driver accused of smuggling is redefining
the future of Native rights. All these outsiders want to
tell us what to do. It ain't. It ain't gonna happen.
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