Danny Gold
speaker
4,199 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Danny Gold’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Four years earlier, mobs burned the American embassy up in Islamabad, and anti-American riots tore through Karachi the same week.
The hippie trail is long gone, a distant memory if any of the guys who took it hadn't already fried their memories.
On the city's edge, an Afghan refugee settlement is on its way to becoming the biggest heroin wholesale market on earth.
And into this, in the spring of 1983, walked two guys who were probably whistling Uptown Girl there to buy 10 tons of hash from a tribal warlord.
It's one of the ballsier business trips in an industry with quite a few ballsy business trips.
The one thing we don't know yet, and which we kind of don't find out, which I would love to know, is how a freeze operation and Newton get connected.
So they're staying at the house of a travel agent, which like what?
And while they wait for their load of hash to come down from the mountains from the tribal regions, they work on their disguises.
According to Kukielski, they slick their hair back with Vaseline and they lay in the sun to darken up.
Don't make it weird.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It is like the they didn't like you know, uh what sunglasses with a giant mustache?
Like what are they not the not the most well thought out, you know, dis uh disguises for for this sort of thing.
Eventually the load arrives.
It's 20,000 pounds.
And then the local cops close in on the house.
It is a raid timed perfectly.
We don't know who talked or what tripped, but the two of them are able to escape.
They leave the country safely and they leave behind the entire load.
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