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