All American Pot Smugglers Podcast: Recent Episodes
Pot Smugglers
The All American Pot Smugglers pod cast series recalls thrilling close calls with plane mechanical failures, plane crashes and near misses with the law men in the 80's. After the hippie movement of the 60's, and the environmental movements of the 70's, a wild bunch of good ol' boys turned hippies turn to smuggling medicinal marijuana to fund their mission of saving the planet from man- made environmental destruction. Four men (of exceptional collective mind set) came together to advance science, travel on a spiritual journey and promote sustainable environmental practices-with the resources derived from illegal at the time medicinal marijuana importation. This was a principled group of smugglers. They refused to be lured by the potential riches of dealing with the cocaine cowboys (no guns no violence). Pot was their commodity of choice. All episodes are true stories. The main characters are Pety, JJ, Sugar Bear and Gyro, who have changed their names to protect the guilty. These are real experiences of a builder/former pilot, a Vietnam Veteran, a civil rights anti-Vietnam protester and a psychedelic engineer who take you on a journey with a wild sense of humor. It is not meant to inspire others to act outside the law but rather a retrospective look at an era that celebrated a "hippie culture" that will likely never be replicated again.
- Out of the frying pan and into the fryer. The crew had cheated death and escaped the law by the skin of their teeth. But all was not smooth sailing, especially not in this waterlogged story. Their backs were to the wall. The word had gotten out that the group was hot. The lawman was on their tails. And no one in the business wanted anything to do with our Good Ol' Boys. So the usual stream of income had been abruptly cut off. And the flow of funds was beginning to dry up. It had been a very long year and a half since the infamous crash and things only got worse. When the crew found out there was a fresh warrant out for Petety's arrest, the squeeze was on. Luckily for the crew, no one was concerned about any of them, if caught, turning on the others. The brotherhood between them assured the peace of mind nothing would break their bond.
All good things must come to an end. A lastminute job with inadequate time to plan. A landing site that was less than stellar. Crew members who were sleep deprived though this may have been self-inflicted. Unplanned crew switch outs and last but not least a support staff that the crew barely new. That they were forced to use only to find out later that they couldn't fill the simplest jobs or instructions. With all these things and more The All-American Pot Smugglers had their hands full with this spine-chilling experience that they call The Crash. Nothing is more terrifying than the Gut Punch feeling that you may have just witnessed one of your comrades fall to the whispers of death, catastrophes abound one after another once the roller coaster left the track there's no getting it back on.
Sorry we have been slightly delyed but holidays can take a toll but here is Soy Bean our first visit to mississippi. Mississippi Soy Bean.
A strip carved in the 1950's for President Truman and President Eisenhower to qual hunt. They would be rolling over in there graves if they only knew that we were importanting medicinal marijuana.
JJ's trip to secure load of medicinal marijuana ends up in a Mennonite camp in the jungles of Belize.