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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.
A cousin remembers expensive shampoo; you'll wonder what else Rainbow Valentine's family noticed before she did.
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A Zambian space dream turns Cold War rivalry into a question of who gets to claim the future.
Zambia's space dream becomes a question of sovereignty, with Nkoloso's ambition unfolding alongside the country's independence. The episode follows his move from radical outsider to a figure with the ear of the country's first president, then sets that dream inside a space race…
A funny family-history episode where pot smuggling, coconut shampoo, and hippie identity blur together.
Rainbow Valentine's family memory of New York as the far end of a cross-country pot-smuggling business gives the episode its sly true-crime pull.
A consulate call turns Jeffrey's uncertain jail time in Mexico into a stark question of survival.
A consulate call gives this Disorganized Crime episode its pressure point. Joanna explains what happened, then hears the warning that Jeffrey could face 20 years in a penal institution in Mexico.
A Kansas detour turns old hippie memories into a warm, eccentric path toward chicken therapy.
Kansas comes through as a remembered landscape: first through Dorothy's ruby slippers, then through old hippie stories about cannabis, hemp, and roads leading back to Detroit.
A loose psychedelic road story turns roadside improvisation into a revealing glimpse of Far Out's politics.
Far Out's journey plays like a shaggy counterculture road story, led by odd stops and stranger details: a roadside restaurant without walls, a truck dragged from a creek with a freshly cut tree, tacos, and another 250 miles of smoking doobies.
The mob movie, checked by the man who lived it.
Hard lives, told without distance.
Crime stories built from motive and consequence.
Host Rainbow Valentine investigates her parents' involvement in the illegal drug trade, revealing a hidden history of her childhood.
Host Rainbow Valentine investigates her parents' past in the illegal drug trade, revealing a hidden history of her childhood.
Host Rainbow Valentine investigates her parents' past in the illegal drug trade, revealing a hidden history of her childhood in Marin County's counter-culture.
Host Rainbow Valentine investigates her parents' past in the illegal drug trade, blending personal memoir with crime history.
Host Rainbow Valentine investigates her parents' past in the illegal drug trade, revealing a hidden history of her childhood in 70s and 80s Marin County.
A second Walter Leamer's broken promise left Rainbow Valentine's father with 400 pounds of pot at his family home.
Host Rainbow Valentine investigates her parents' past in the illegal drug trade and how it shaped her childhood.
Host Rainbow Valentine investigates her parents' past in the illegal marijuana trade, uncovering a hidden history of drug smuggling during her childhood.
Host Rainbow Valentine investigates her parents' past as drug smugglers and her unknowing childhood in a pot distribution ring.
Host Rainbow Valentine uncovers her parents' involvement in the illegal drug trade and reexamines her childhood in 70s-80s Marin County.
Host Rainbow Valentine investigates her parents' past in the illegal drug trade, uncovering a hidden history of her childhood in 70s and 80s Marin County.