Introducing Season Two of Crooked City: The Emerald Triangle

Crooked City: Dixon, IL

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Journalist Sam Anderson learns that one of his high school classmates has been accused of murder in California, and travels west to find out what happened. Sam becomes immersed in the Emerald Triangle, the legendary home of pot growers, hippies, and outlaws. He discovers that his classmate became drawn into the orbit of a cultish and charismatic pot grower obsessed with psychedelic drugs. Desperation, greed, and a seemingly never-ending acid trip create a perfect storm of paranoia that ends in a moment of unspeakable violence. Subscribe now to unlock all shows on The Binge — All Episodes. All at Once. A truth.media & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find out more about The Binge and other podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Mark Smirling, and I'm sad to tell you that we've come to the end of our story
0:04.4	about Youngstown, Ohio.
0:06.3	But don't fret, we have another story to tell.
0:09.3	Several months back, I met a journalist named Sam Anderson.
0:12.7	Sam's story didn't have mobsters and crooked politicians, in fact, it wasn't even about
0:16.9	a city.
0:17.9	It was about his high school classmate who tried to escape his troubles in the emerald
0:21.4	triangle of Northern California to work on a weed farm.
0:25.3	Say the least, it didn't work out as he expected.
0:28.3	After Sam Anderson, with a second season of crooked city, the emerald triangle.
0:35.4	When I was 25 years old, I got laid off from my job as a journalist, and wound up back
0:39.8	at my parents' place in the suburbs.
0:42.7	It's a sleepy town called Ringwood, New Jersey.
0:45.4	And if you go through my childhood bedroom, you'll find a few things.
0:48.8	A Bob Marley poster, an acoustic guitar, and some participation medals for my days
0:53.6	on the wrestling team.
0:56.2	I was never that good at wrestling, but you know who was?
1:00.6	This kid named Zach Worcester.
1:04.3	Zach had a buzz cut and a tough guy persona to match.
1:07.6	He was two years younger than me, but he could toss me around the mat like a hacky sack.
1:16.8	That was a long time ago.
1:18.6	I hadn't thought about Zach much since high school.
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