My Dad the Smuggler - 3

Locked Up Abroad

Wondery

Drugsmuggling, Oliver Stone, Society & Culture, Prison, Overseas, Jim Clemente, Locked, National Geographic, Billy Hayes, Abroad, Exhibit C, Smuggling, Drugs, Vacation, Midnight Express, Crime, Riveting

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Scott Campbell joins his estranged father, Lockie, on a trip through China on the Silk Road, hoping to reconnect. He soon discovers that Lockie intended for Scott to be his partner in taking 20 kilos of illicit drugs into the country. An unexpected turn brings their relationship to a new level in the end.

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0:00.0	My dad left when I was three years of age. Hi son, how are you doing?
0:15.0	Fancy doing a bit of travel in.
0:17.0	This was going to be a really special trip.
0:20.0	A once in a lifetime opportunity. Now we can kick start a relationship.
0:27.0	I hadn't put to my son the real reason behind the trip.
0:34.0	We were sitting on 20 kilos of cannabis.
0:37.0	You trust you da, don't you?
0:39.0	Come in your own job, you're going to get?
0:42.0	I thought Dad what have you got me in to ever?
0:47.0	From one degree, from Wundree exclusively on Loominary, this is locked up abroad.
0:55.0	I'm your host Jim Clemente.
0:57.0	In my dad the smuggler, Scott Campbell is hoping to reconnect with his estranged father,
1:02.0	Lockheed Campbell,
1:03.2	when he invites him on a trip through China
1:05.0	on the Silk Road.
1:06.4	He soon discovers that Lockheed is a longtime cannabis
1:09.0	smuggler, and he intended for Scott to be his partner
1:11.8	in taking 20 kilos of illicit drugs into the country.
1:15.3	It was not the father-son bonding trip Scott had imagined and ends up taking them both on a terrifying
1:20.7	journey.
1:21.7	Surprisingly though, the experience brings their relationship to an
1:24.9	unexpected turn.
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