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While the world watched Colombia's electrifying 1994 World Cup run with admiration, a parallel war was being fought entirely out of sight, one where Pablo Escobar and rival cartel networks had already spent years embedding themselves inside the national team's financial infrastructure, club ownership, and player ecosystems as an extension of their broader military and political operations. The World Cup was not just a sporting event for these organizations, it was a high-stakes operational theater where gambling syndicates, money laundering pipelines, and coercion networks all converged on the same eleven men standing on a field in front of the world. This episode breaks down the tactical logic of cartel infiltration of Colombian football, how the World Cup amplified every existing threat, and what the execution of Andrés Escobar ten days after the tournament revealed about the lethal command structure operating behind it.

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Colombia's 1994 World Cup squad carried into every match not only the weight of national expectation but the invisible psychological burden of operating inside a cartel-controlled threat environment where performance had life-or-death consequences they could not openly acknowledge or escape. This episode examines the forensic psychology of chronic coercive threat, how Pablo Escobar and rival narco organizations used the World Cup's global stage to amplify their soft power while players navigated terror, compliance, and the psychological splitting required to compete at the highest level under those conditions. The assassination of Andrés Escobar following Colombia's World Cup elimination is analyzed as a clinical case study in how criminal systems manufacture silence through ambient fear and what it costs individuals who become symbolic casualties inside an institution they never fully controlled.

At the peak of their power in the early 1990s, Pablo Escobar and the Cali Cartel were not content controlling cocaine routes, politicians, and police, they moved into professional soccer and used Colombia's World Cup ambitions as a vehicle for laundering cartel billions, buying influence, and projecting the kind of cultural legitimacy that no amount of bribery could otherwise purchase. The 1994 World Cup became the most visible and most dangerous expression of that infiltration, with narco gambling syndicates placing enormous bets on match outcomes and cartel enforcers treating a deflected ball in a group stage game as a financial grievance that demanded a fatal response. This episode breaks down how the Medellin and Cali Cartels built their parallel empire inside Colombian football, what the business model of narco club ownership actually looked like, and how the execution of Andrés Escobar ten days after Colombia's World Cup elimination exposed just how deeply cartel infrastructure had penetrated the sport and the nation behind it.

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Colombia arrived at the 1994 World Cup as one of the most hyped teams on the planet, but behind the national dream was a criminal ecosystem in which Pablo Escobar and narco gambling networks had staked millions on outcomes, turning every match into a transaction where losing carried consequences no coach could prepare a player for. When Andrés Escobar deflected a cross into his own net during a group stage loss to the United States, he unknowingly triggered a debt inside a system that settled accounts with bullets, and ten days after Colombia was eliminated he was shot twelve times outside a Medellin nightclub. This episode traces the full criminal architecture behind Colombia's World Cup campaign, from cartel club ownership to the gambling syndicates that made the tournament's results a matter of life and death for the men playing in it.

Confira no Morning Show desta terça-feira (09): Três pessoas foram presas nesta terça-feira (09) durante a Operação Infiltrados, deflagrada pelo Grupo de Atuação Especial de Combate ao Crime Organizado (Gaeco), do Ministério Público de São Paulo. Entre os alvos estão um advogado, um ex-policial civil, e um chefe dos investigadores suspeitos de participação em um plano para assassinar um promotor de Justiça. Segundo as investigações do MPSP, os suspeitos eram infiltrados do Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC). O Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE) analisa nesta terça-feira (09) a decisão do ministro Kassio Nunes Marques de suspender a pesquisa AtlasIntel registrada sob o número BR-06939/2026, que perguntava se os entrevistados ouviram os áudios trocados entre Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) e o banqueiro Daniel Vorcaro. O ex-governador de Minas Gerais e pré-candidato à presidência da república, Romeu Zema (Novo), comparou o caso de fraudes do Banco Master e sua rede de influência política com o Cartel de Medellín, organização tocada por Pablo Escobar na década de 1980. O governo federal anunciou nesta segunda-feira (08) a suspensão temporária da vacina contra a dengue desenvolvida pelo Instituto Butantan. A medida foi adotada após a ocorrência de casos graves que estão sob investigação e de duas mortes que também estão em análise pelas autoridades de saúde. O ministro da Saúde, Alexandre Padilha, afirmou que, até o momento, não existem evidências que indiquem uma relação entre o imunizante e os óbitos investigados. Seis estudantes foram presos após invadir prédio da Universidade de São Paulo (USP). O caso ocorreu após o encerramento de uma greve que durou 54 dias e o Diretório Central dos Estudantes da universidade afirmou que os envolvidos não têm relação com o DCE. O vídeo que mostra a retirada dos alunos do prédio gerou críticas pela forma como a polícia atuou na desocupação. A Polícia Federal deflagrou uma operação para investigar vendas de sentenças no Tribunal de Justiça de Mato Grosso (TJMT). Os principais alvos são o deputado estadual Faissal Calil (PL) e o desembargador Dirceu dos Santos. O presidente dos EUA Donald Trump foi alvo de vaias em um jogo da NBA no Madison Square Garden, em Nova Iorque. Ao final, o presidente disse que “só ouviu aplausos entusiasmados”. O Governo Federal fixou regras para que empresas produtoras e importadoras de óleo diesel tenham desconto de R$ 1,12 no combustível. Para receber o desconto, as empresas devem estar inscritas no programa de Gás Natural e Biocombustíveis da Agência Nacional do Petróleo. A intenção do governo é controlar o preço em meio a alta dos combustíveis por conta da guerra no Irã. O vereador Leniel Borel (PP), pai de Henry Borel, entrou com um pedido para anular o perdão judicial concedido à Monique Medeiros, mãe da criança torturada e morta pelo ex-vereador Dr. Jairinho. O vereador alegou que houveram irregularidades no curso do processo e que as perguntas feitas pela juíza não eram pertinentes. Um casal sofreu ataques no Ceará por estarem vestidos com blusas de uma quadrilha junina. Os agressores confundiram a estrela vermelha na camisa com um símbolo do Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) e gritaram ofensas de cunho político e racial. Um turista que entrou na parte rasa das Cataratas de Foz do Iguaçu para pegar seu celular que havia caído na água foi proíbido de retornar ao parque. No vídeo é possível ver o homem bem perto da beira de uma cachoeira de mais de 27 metros. Essas e outras notícias você confere no Morning Show.

In the early 1990s, Colombia's national soccer team became entangled in a hidden ecosystem of cartel money, political violence, intelligence operations, and psychological warfare. This episode examines how Pablo Escobar and rival narco networks used soccer clubs as instruments of laundering, influence, and soft power while Colombian players operated under the invisible pressure of threats, gambling syndicates, and national expectation. Through the lens of espionage, forensic psychology, and covert power structures, we explore how the murder of Andrés Escobar became more than a sports tragedy—it became a case study in how criminal empires infiltrate culture, manipulate identity, and weaponize fear.

Barry Seal went from airline pilot to one of the most successful drug smugglers in American history. Flying cocaine for the Medellín Cartel while secretly working with federal investigators, Seal found himself caught between powerful criminals and the U.S. government. In this episode of Outlaws & Gunslingers, we explore the incredible life and mysterious death of Barry Seal.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/outlaws-gunslingers--4737234/support.Subscribe to our YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@outlawsandgunslingers

Long before Colombia qualified for the 1994 World Cup, Pablo Escobar and the Cali Cartel had already turned professional football into a functioning covert infrastructure, using club ownership, player financing, and gambling network penetration to launder money, manage public perception, and extend territorial influence behind the most watched sporting event on the planet. The World Cup amplified every dimension of that operation, giving cartel networks a globally visible asset to manipulate while intelligence operatives embedded within the sport tracked loyalties, enforced compliance, and eliminated threats with the same precision applied to their military campaigns. This episode dissects how the tournament functioned as an unwitting stage for narco statecraft, what the intelligence architecture behind Colombian football actually looked like, and how the murder of Andrés Escobar became the moment the curtain slipped and the covert structure behind the World Cup dream was briefly visible to the world.

Het is misschien wel de meest legendarische actie aller tijden van een keeper, de scorpion kick van René Higuita op Wembley. Maar de doelman uit Medellín is meer, in positieve én in negatieve zin. Mart ten Have en Jean-Paul Rison bespreken het kleurrijke leven van René Higuita, legende van Colombia, en eigenlijk van de hele wereld.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In part 2 we examine the greater conspiracy surrounding the Vanishing of Melanie Flynn.  Lexington Police Officer Bill Canan, who claimed to be using Melanie as a confidential informant for his undercover work in the drug scene is fired from his job for a multitude of reasons related to insubordination.  Canan denies any involvement in Melanie's disappearance or in any illegal activities.  However, his partner, Drew Thornton, dies while flying a plane carrying two hundred pounds of cocaine into the United States from Columbia.In the early 1990's, former reporter Sally Denton releases a book entitled “The Bluegrass Conspiracy.” The book goes on to expose a massive drug and arm trafficking operation being carried out between South America and the US with local police as well as several federal agents working hand-in-hand with Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel.  In addition to trafficking, there are cases of witness intimidation, theft, assault and even murder.  Canan is eventually arrested, charged and convicted of cocaine trafficking.  During his trial, several witnesses claim he was directly responsible for Melanie's disappearance and murder.FollowTEPod.comFollow Trace Evidence on Social MediaTwitter --- Instagram --- TikTok --- YouTube --- Like Facebook Page --- Join Facebook Group --- Threads --- Like MeWe Page --- Join MeWe Group --- BlueskySuppport Trace EvidencePatreon --- Paypal --- Cash App --- Buy Me A CoffeeTrace Evidence Merch ShopsTeePublic --- ShopTEPod --- SpreadshopAll Other LinksOfficial Trace Evidence Website --- LinkTreeMusic Courtesy of:"Lost Time"  Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Chasing Time" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Galactic Rap" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/#truecrimepodcast #unsolvedmysteries #coldcase #coldcaseinvestigation #murder #murdermystery #missingperson #missingpersons #truecrimecommunity #mysterypodcast #truecrime #coldcasefiles #truecrimestories #crimelovers #truecrimeaddict #truecrimejunkie #crimescene #justiceforall #missing #crimesquad #podcastcommunity #sleuthsunite #darkhistories #criminalmindset #detective #detectivediaries #forensics #forensicfiles #crimestories #crimepodcast #traceevidence #traceevidencepodcast #criminalinvestigation #justiceforvictims #detectivework #truecrimediscussion #podcastfamily #listenandsolve #crimefans #listentotraceevidence #uncoverthetruth #podcastrecommendations #podcastlove #podcastlife #truecrimeobsessed #followtheclues #cluefinders #podcastaddict #unsolvedmurders #unsolveddisappearances #detectiveatheart #jointheinvestigation #disappearance #vanishing #abduction #gonemissing #upandvanished #pacheco #stevenpacheco #podcasting #crimetalk #crimeanalysis #theories #melanieflynn #bobbyflynn #dougflynn #billcanan #henryvance #drewthornton #cocainebear #cocaine #trafficking #escobar #medellin #lexington #kentucky #kentuckyunsolvedBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/trace-evidence--3207798/support.

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In this episode of the Dibbly Dobbly Podcast I talk to Roberto Sendoya Escobar for a Cricket Discussion. Roberto has an extraordinary story that resembles that of a James Bond movie. He was adopted by a MI6 agent and lived in the UK under a new identity. Years later his adopted father told him the truth and revealed to him. That his real father was the most notorious drug lord the world has ever known Pablo Escobar. In this Cricket Discussion, we talked about Roberto's Life Journey and Roberto's Cricketing Journey.Time Stamps0:00 Intro4:06 Roberto's Life Journey48:58 Roberto's Cricketing Journey1:39:38 OutroRoberto's websitehttps://www.robertosendoyaescobar.com/Roberto's Social MediaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/roberto_sendoya_escobar/?hl=enFaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Studio.Roberto.S.Escobar/Twitter: https://x.com/R_S_EscobarDibbly Dobbly Podcast Patreon Linkhttps://www.patreon.com/DibblyDobblyPodcastSocial MediaFacebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/DibblyDobblyPodcastTwitter Page: https://twitter.com/dibblydobblypodInstagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/dibblydobblypodcast/Podcast ServicesAnchor: https://anchor.fm/dibblydobblypodcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1Bq4N1bCSesF5L9jsY6wP4 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dibbly-dobbly-podcast/id1596733214Blogger Pagehttp://dibblydobblypodcast.blogspot.comSubstack Pagehttps://dibbly.substack.com

Colombia is confronting a unique problem: what to do with a population of hippopotamuses originally linked to Pablo Escobar. The notorious late drug lord became infamous for importing the creatures and establishing a zoo at one of his properties. - La Colombia si trova ad affrontare un problema singolare: cosa fare di una popolazione di ippopotami originariamente di proprietà di Pablo Escobar. Il famigerato signore della droga, ormai deceduto, era diventato tristemente famoso per aver importato questi animali e aver allestito uno zoo in una delle sue proprietà.

Colombia is confronting a unique problem: what to do with a population of hippopotamuses originally linked to Pablo Escobar. The notorious late drug lord became infamous for importing the creatures and establishing a zoo at one of his properties. - La Colombia si trova ad affrontare un problema singolare: cosa fare di una popolazione di ippopotami originariamente di proprietà di Pablo Escobar. Il famigerato signore della droga, ormai deceduto, era diventato tristemente famoso per aver importato questi animali e aver allestito uno zoo in una delle sue proprietà.

Gilmer Mesa es escritor. Su más reciente novela es Los espantos de mamá. La cuadra - Gilmer MesaLas travesías - Gilmer MesaAranjuez - Gilmer MesaLos espantos de mamá - Gilmer MesaEl modelo de la colonización antioqueña - James ParsonsLa colonización antioqueña - Roberto Luis JaramilloBatallas y batallitas en la historia de Colombia - Alfredo IriarteNo nacimos pa semilla - Alonso SalazarEra más grande el muerto - Luis Miguel Rivas Cuando pase el anima sola - Mario Escobar Velasquez Toda esa gente - Mario Escobar Velasquez Tierra de cementerio - Mario Escobar Velasquez Cartas cruzadas - Dario Jaramillo Agudelo Capítulos:00:00 intro01:13 Nacer en Aranjuez y escribir Las Travesías13:14 Ser capaz de escribir ciencia ficción y el proceso de una novela15:55 Entender La Violencia17:33 La tierra ha sido el gran problema de Colombia21:13 El ethos antioqueño y los efectos de la constitución del 8628:48 ¿Por qué Laureano Gómez tuvo tanto poder? El territorio sin Estado33:36 El árbol de la violencia36:29 El año más violento en la historia de Medellín43:29 Pablo Escobar como agente del mal y la figura de la madre48:48 La idea del dinero rápido y la realidad del sicariato54:20 Perderle el respeto a la muerte y ser una sociedad gélida01:02:35 Cómo se transformó la violencia en los 80s y 90s01:10:17 El arquetipo del barrio popular01:18:45 Escribir sobre violencia: el goce y la condena01:24:44 Tener bloqueos creativos

Un piloto colombiano, millones del narcotráfico detrás… y una oportunidad REAL de llegar a la Formula 1. En este episodio de Historias del Paddock, Skyline Racing cuenta la increíble historia de Ricardo Londoño, el piloto que estuvo a nada de debutar en la máxima categoría mientras era respaldado por Pablo Escobar. Desde su ascenso en el automovilismo hasta la polémica que terminó alejándolo de la F1, este capítulo revive uno de los episodios más surrealistas y oscuros en la historia del deporte motor.¿Cómo terminó un piloto ligado al cártel de Medellín en una práctica oficial de Formula 1? Descúbrelo en este nuevo capítulo de Historias del Paddock.

Ryan Petersen is the Founder and CEO of Flexport.Timestamps:0:03 Pablo Escobar was a logistics guy2:29 The explosion in tariff fraud 8:58 The Dutch East India Company11:20 History of global trade14:39 1,000x spice markup17:53 The British East India Company24:02 How the British got 20% of China addicted to opium27:44 The Forbes family & opium trade30:40 Jewish trading networks37:33 It's illegal to criticize the King of Thailand38:58 Strait of Hormuz45:58 Maritime chokepoints

Dave Tomkins lived a life that sounds like it was written for a crime film.Known as The Great Safe Blower, Dave was a flamboyant British criminal from Basingstoke whose reputation in the underworld took him far beyond safes, vaults and robberies.Thanks to our Sponsors: Bradburys Group: https://bradburysgroup.com/our-divisions/private-client-security-investigations-and-risk-management-support/Wayne Diggins: https://waynediggins.exp.uk.comIn this episode of The Terry Stone Connection, Dave sits down with Terry to talk about his extraordinary life, from his early days as a safe blower, to becoming connected with serious underworld figures, to ending up on the battlefields of Angola as a mercenary fighting communist-backed guerrillas.And then there's the story that sounds almost impossible to believe…Dave Tomkins claims he was hired to kill Pablo Escobar.This is a wild journey through crime, danger, war, survival and the kind of old-school underworld stories you simply don't hear anymore.Raw, outrageous and unbelievable, this is the Dave Tomkins story.Watch now and let us know in the comments: is this one of the craziest lives we've ever had on the podcast? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rien n'était impossible pour le célèbre narco-trafiquant colombien, comme offrir un zoo personnel à son fils. Parmi les bêtes venues du monde entier, les hippopotames avaient un rôle bien plus important que distraire le fiston. Ces animaux avaient des vertus méconnues mais bien pratiques pour son business... Dans "Ah Ouais ?", Florian Gazan répond en une minute chrono à toutes les questions essentielles, existentielles, parfois complètement absurdes, qui vous traversent la tête. Un podcast RTL Originals.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Today's guest is Roger Reaves. He spent more than 30 years prison, having escaped five different times. He was heavily involved in smuggling operations for the Medellín Cartel and Pablo Escobar. Is the author of the book Smuggler: https://www.amazon.com/Smuggler-Mr-Roger-Reaves/dp/0692630538 Borderland: Narcosis is an IRONCLAD Original Sponsors: 1st Phorm: Go to⁠ ⁠https://www.1stphorm.com/borderland⁠⁠ and get free shipping on any orders over $75, free 30 days in the app for new customers, and 110% money back guarantee on all of our products. Norwood Sawmills: Learn more about Norwood Sawmills and how you can start milling your own lumber at https://norwoodsawmills.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=ironclad&utm_campaign=ironclad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today on DANGER CLOSE: THE FOURTH OPTION, I'm joined by Steve Murphy and Javier Peña — the real DEA agents behind Netflix's Narcos.Straight from the agents who were there: working undercover in jeans and a polo with a target on their backs, Escobar's self-built prison, treason charges, and the order that changed everything — “We're not here to seize dope. We're here to kill Pablo Escobar.”This is a companion podcast to my new thriller, THE FOURTH OPTION, talking to those on the front lines, analyzing modern warfare, and taking listeners deeper into the themes that inspired the novel.This podcast series is presented by HUXWRX Safety Co., Staccato 2011, and Bravo Company.

In part two, Gary finally has to face the music. Having caught the attention of not only Pablo Escobar but the CIA too, things are about to get a *whole* lot scarier. Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling is available twice a week on BBC Sounds. Subscribe now so you never miss an episode. Email us at lauraandiain@bbc.co.uk

Raised by killers. The real-life story of the son of drug lord Pablo Escobar. How he says he saved Michael Jackson from being kidnapped. Plus, the new police search connected to the disappearance of Kristin Smart 30 years ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A former Canadian Olympic snowboarder should have been a footnote—a guy who raced once, finished 24th, and faded away. But in early 2026, Ryan Wedding resurfaces as a fugitive on the FBI's Most Wanted list, accused of running a sprawling cocaine network and ordering hits across borders. How did a middle-class kid from a ski family end up here? Ready Alyssa and Tisha's reporting on Wedding for ESPN Chameleon is a production of Campside Media and Audiochuck. Follow Chameleon on Instagram @chameleonpod Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

INTRO (00:00): Kathleen opens the show drinking a 40 Gator Strong Lager from Abita Brewing Company. She reviews her weekend at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi, eating chargrilled oysters and playing golf in the Swamp with her friend Ron White.    TOUR NEWS: See Kathleen live on her “Day Drinking Tour.”   TASTING MENU (0:57): Kathleen samples J. Lee's Spicy Pork Rinds, Zapp's Bayou Blackened Ranch chips, and Giants “Big Easy” seasoned sunflower seeds.    QUEEN NEWS (38:58): Kathleen shares that Dolly Parton has provided an update on her health, Post Malone cancelled the first month of his Big Ass Stadium Tour, and Stevie Nicks played a surprise set at the Met Gala.   HOLLYWOOD HAPPENINGS (16:12): HollyBobby provides the latest news in Hollywood.   SPANISH PHRASE OF THE WEEK (1:32:46): The Spanish phrase to learn this week is “a qué hora empieza la música? or “what time does the music start” in English.    UPDATES (46:50): Kathleen shares updates on Pablo Escobar's cocaine hippos, Red Lobster's Endless Shrimp promotion is back, Starbucks CEO defends $9 coffee “experience,” and Bill Belichick resurfaces at the Kentucky Derby.    SPORTS NEWS (57:20): Golden Tempo's trainer Cherie DeVaux makes history as the first female trainer to win the Kentucky Derby.    HOLY SHIT THEY FOUND IT (1:00:46): Kathleen reads about the discovery of the Ark of the Covenant's final resting place outside of Jerusalem.    FRONT PAGE PUB NEWS (1:04:35): Kathleen shares articles on Southwest's “Sip and Ship” program, a cruise ship suffers a hantavirus outbreak, Bigfoot sightings are on the rise in Ohio, a rare split-colored lobster is caught near Cape Cod, cougars are no longer locally extinct in Minnesota, the DOJ is bringing back firing squads in federal executions, Banksy puts up a statue in London, and teens start “storm running” in the Times Square Scientology Center.   SAINT OF THE WEEK (1:40:12 ): Kathleen reads about Saint Cecilia of Rome, patron saint of musicians.    FEEL GOOD STORY (1:30:04): Kathleen shares a story about 1,500 beagles being released from a Wisconsin dog breeding and research facility, and an 82-year-old woman finishes the 2026 Boston Marathon.   

ਕੋਲੰਬੀਆ ਵਿੱਚ ਪੈਬਲੋ ਐਸਕੋਬਾਰ (Pablo Escobar) ਨਾਲ ਜੁੜੇ ਹਿੱਪੋਜ਼ ਦੀ ਵੱਧਦੀ ਗਿਣਤੀ ਵਾਤਾਵਰਣ ਅਤੇ ਲੋਕਾਂ ਲਈ ਚਿੰਤਾ ਬਣੀ ਹੋਈ ਹੈ। ਸਰਕਾਰ euthanasia ਵਰਗੇ ਕਦਮਾਂ ‘ਤੇ ਵਿਚਾਰ ਕਰ ਰਹੀ ਹੈ, ਜਦਕਿ ਭਾਰਤੀ ਉਦਯੋਗਪਤੀ ਅਨੰਤ ਅੰਬਾਨੀ ਵੱਲੋਂ ਹਿੱਪੋਜ਼ ਨੂੰ ਭਾਰਤ ਲਿਜਾਣ ਦੀ ਪੇਸ਼ਕਸ਼ ਨੇ ਇਸ ਮਸਲੇ ਨੂੰ ਨਵਾਂ ਮੋੜ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਹੈ।

Colombia đang đối mặt với một vấn đề độc đáo: phải làm gì với quần thể hà mã có nguồn gốc từ Pablo Escobar. Ông trùm ma túy khét tiếng này nổi tiếng vì đã nhập khẩu những con vật này và thành lập một vườn thú tại một trong những bất động sản của mình.

This week we discuss Forrest's new TV show, Colombia's plan to cull Pablo Escobar's cocaine hippos, and a kit kat heist in Europe. Enjoy! (TWT 201)Factor: Head to https://factormeals.com/wild50off and use code wild50off to get 50 percent off and free daily greens per box.Raycon: Go to https://buyraycon.com/wildtimesopen to get 15% off.Pestie: Keep the bugs away with Pestie. Go to https://pestie.com/WILD for 10% off your order.Get More Wild Times Podcast Episodes:https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wildtimespod/subscribehttps://www.patreon.com/wildtimespodMore Wild Times:Instagram: http://instagram.com/wildtimespodTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wildtimespodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/wildtimespod/X: https://x.com/wildtimespodDiscord: https://discord.gg/ytzKBbC9DbWebsite: https://wildtimes.club/Merch: https://thewildtimespodcast.com/merchBattle Royale Card Game: https://wildtimes.club/brOur Favorite Products:https://www.amazon.com/shop/thewildtimespodcastMusic/Jingles by: www.soundcloud.com/mimmkeyThis video may contain paid promotion.#ad #sponsored #forrestgalante #extinctoralive #podcast

Sandra León ha disputado varios maratones internacionales, ella nos cuenta cómo lo ha logrado. Además, te presentamos la programación del 2026 de la Melbourne Filmoteca. Y hablamos de qué está pasando con los hipopótamos heredados de la época de Pablo Escobar, en Colombia.

El Papa habla sobre la importancia de la sexualidad en la iglesia, un Ministro de la India da consejos sobre la ola de calor y Milei se sacó fotos en un portaaviones. Además los hipopótamos de Pablo Escobar tienen nuevo hogar, un águila nazi genera quilombo en Uruguay y perros robots son sensación en Berlín. Encontra este y mucho más contenido todos los sábados a las 13hs por www.fm913.com.ar o en Spotify

Octavo programa y quizás somos impostores. Seguimos el caso de los hipopotamos de Pablo Escobar, repasamos consejos para resistir el calor y hablamos de perros robot que defecan fake news. Nuestro segundo disco nuevo del año se lo dedicamos a Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso con su reinvención en Free Spirits. Mati repasa la historia de Carlos Enrique "El Kaiser" un jugador profesional brasilero que hizo años de carrera sin jugar un solo partido. Encontra este y mucho más contenido todos los sábados a las 13hs por www.fm913.com.ar o en Spotify

Colombia is confronting a unique problem: what to do with a population of hippopotamuses originally linked to Pablo Escobar. The notorious late drug lord became infamous for importing the creatures and establishing a zoo at one of his properties. - ኮሎምቢያ ሓደ ፍሉይ ጸገም ገጢምዋ'ሎ፣ ምስ ፓብሎ ኤስኮባር ቀዲሞም ምትእስሳር ዝነበሮም ጉማሬታት እንታይ ንግበሮም ዝብል። እቲ ዕሉል ወይ ፍሉጥ ጎይታ ምስግጋር ዕጽታት ወይ ሓሽሽ ዝነበረ መዋቲ፣ ነዞም ሓራምዝ ናብ ሃገሩ ብምእታዎምን ኣብ ሓደ ካብ'ቶም ዝውንኖም ኣባይቲታቱ መካነ እንስሳታት ብምውንናንን ይፍለጥ።

Colombia is confronting a unique problem: what to do with a population of hippopotamuses originally linked to Pablo Escobar. The notorious late drug lord became infamous for importing the creatures and establishing a zoo at one of his properties.

4pm - Katie Wilson has a short message to those leaving Seattle or Washington // Bob Ferguson begged Starbucks to stay… multiple times // Microsoft President Brad Smith on WA’s business climate // Moody’s shifts Washington outlook to negative, warns of risk // John breaks down the business taxes in the state of Washington // It’s a bad time to be a massage parlor in Pierce County // Advocates decry Bothell police raids of 5 Asian-owned massage parlors // Columbia plans to euthanize Pablo Escobar’s hippos // Indian billionaire heir offers to save 80 of Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’ from Colombian cull 

Griff Jenkins walks through the bizarre origin and explosive growth of Colombia's “cocaine hippos,” originally brought in by Pablo Escobar and now numbering in the hundreds with no natural predators and growing ecological and human danger as they overrun rivers and farmland. He explains Colombia's failed attempts to control the population, including a controversial culling plan that sparked backlash, and highlights a wild new proposal from the son of an Indian billionaire to relocate dozens of hippos to a wildlife refuge in India at a staggering multi-billion-dollar cost due to logistics and transport challenges. The conversation mixes humor and disbelief over the scale of the problem, the political fallout of earlier handling decisions, and the sheer absurdity of trying to “move” one of the world's most dangerous invasive species. Hashtags: #GriffJenkins #CocaineHippos #Colombia #InvasiveSpecies #WildlifeCrisis #FoxNews #EnvironmentalDisaster #PabloEscobar #BreakingNews #GlobalPolitics

A new home for Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine hippos', humanoid robots to become baggage handlers, and a tin-can phone instead of screens for children?

A blockbuster trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is underway. David Ingram of NBC News breaks down the first day in court. The Federal Reserve will convene today and share its third rate decision for the year. It will also likely mark Jerome Powell’s final meeting in charge. Chris Rugaber of the Associated Press joins to discuss from the central bank. The United Arab Emirates says it is leaving the oil cartel OPEC just as gas prices in the U.S. spike as a result of the blockades at the Strait of Hormuz. The Wall Street Journal’s Benoit Faucon explains how the U.S. blockade has forced a massive production backup in Iran. Plus, King Charles III addressed a joint meeting of Congress, James Comey is under indictment again, and how Pablo Escobar’s notorious hippos might soon be rescued. Today’s episode was hosted by Cecilia Lei.

Britain's King Charles III has delivered a historic address to the US Congress, saying the partnership between the UK and the United States is more important than ever. He also condemned political violence in a rare address to a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress in honor of the 250th anniversary of American independence.Also in the programme: the United Arab Emirates says it is leaving the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries; and the plan to ship Pablo Escobar's hippos from Colombia to India.(Picture: King Charles III addresses US Congress. Credit: BBC)

Wanna hear the FULL Episode? Sign up for the Grad Program today! During today's show we have Louis Caras as our special guest. Louis just participated in a training class entitled "Fight Like a Girl" and he will share with us what that entailed. Paul and Louis will trade stories about what it is like to be pepper sprayed which leads the Professor, a OC instructor, to discuss the pros and cons of that defensive tool.  For our Tech Talk from EOTech Inc. we will consider the magic circle or the donut of death and how the circle and/or dot reticle can make a difference in both optics that are designed for rifles and pistols.  Also, during this week's Coffee Corner, we have more hippo news. Yes, after decades of half-measures and liberal hand-wringing, the government of Columbia is finally having to make a hard choice regarding the spawn of Pablo Escobar's famous hippos. TOPICS COVERED THIS EPISODE Huge thanks to our Partners: EOTech | Blackout Coffee EOTech Talk - EOTechInc.com TOPIC: The Magic Circle, Rifles and Pistols Coffee Corner - studentofthegun.com/blackout [Use Code: STUDT20] TOPIC: Colombia to euthanize dozens of "cocaine hippos" linked to drug lord Pablo Escobar in bid to control population www.cbsnews.com SOTG Homeroom - SOTG University TOPIC: Carry Everywhere: Woman Shot After Kidnapping, Slashing Toddler in Omaha Walmart www.shootingnewsweekly.com

On today's episode Arian, PFT and Big T talk to the director of ‘Everyone Is Lying to You for Money' and author of ‘Easy Money', Ben Mckenzie. Ben breaks down the wild rise, messy fall, and behind-the-scenes truths from his new documentary ‘Everyone Is Lying to You for Money', a deep dive into how hype, misinformation, and big money fueled the crypto boom and burned everyday investors. Plus, the guys get into Clavicular, the LIV tour, Allbirds new business strategy, Pablo Escobar's hippos, Tottenham FC, a missing nuclear official and much more. Enjoy! Follow @everyoneislyingfilm on Instagram or go to EveryoneIsLying.com for updates on where and when the film is playing near you. (00:05:35) Commanders New Uniforms (00:13:16) Clavicular (00:31:32) LIV Tour (00:35:49) AllBirds is Now an AI Company (00:54:01) Pablo Escobar's Hippos (00:57:42) LIV Tour (cont.) (00:59:48) Tottenham FC (01:08:10) Missing Nuclear Official (01:12:58) Nullarbor Links (01:22:30) Ben Mckenzie & DaveYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/macrodosing

Cocaine hippos on Pablo Escobar's estate in Columbia will be culled. Swiss cheesemakers will be allowed to put artificial holes in their cheese. 10 people in Zanzibar arrested for genital disappearance scam.Weird AF News is the only daily weird news podcast in the world. Weird news 5 days/week and on Friday it's only Floridaman. SUPPORT by joining the Weird AF News Patreon http://patreon.com/weirdafnews - OR buy Jonesy a coffee at http://buymeacoffee.com/funnyjones Buy MERCH: https://weirdafnews.merchmake.com/ - Check out the official website https://WeirdAFnews.com and FOLLOW host Jonesy at http://instagram.com/funnyjones - wants Jonesy to come perform standup comedy in your city? Fill out the form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfvYbm8Wgz3Oc2KSDg0-C6EtSlx369bvi7xdUpx_7UNGA_fIw/viewform

(April 14, 2026) The economic game of chicken between Iran and the US is about to enter a dangerous new phase. How Waymo and WAZE are pitching in to help solve L.A’s pothole problem. New disclosures reveal how ODGE actually worked. The 30yr crime spree of Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos.’See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John Leguizamo is back on our screens—though he never really left. For decades he has played characters that have become comedy cult classics: Chi Chi Rodriguez in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, to Benny Blanco in Carlitos Way, and Tybalt in Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet. He’s the voice of Bruno in Encanto and Sid the Sloth in Ice Age. Roles that he argues would have skyrocketed any white actor to stardom. In this episode we break down his roles, why he thinks entertainers have a responsibility to speak up and get a peek into his new Hulu show where he plays Pablo Escobar. Latino USA is the longest-running news and culture radio program in the U.S., centering Latino stories and hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa. Follow the show to get every episode. Want to support our independent journalism? Join Futuro+ for exclusive episodes, sneak peeks and behind-the-scenes chisme on Latino USA and all our podcasts. Follow us on TikTok and YouTube. Subscribe to our newsletter. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In this episode of Gangland Wire, retired Kansas City Police Intelligence detective Gary Jenkins sits down with former drug trafficker Carlos Perez for a direct, unfiltered discussion about the evolution of the drug trade in America. Carlos has a new book out titled Pedro Pan: The Product of a Revolution Gone Bad The conversation opens with recent controversy surrounding the reported death of  the Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader El Mencho, and what that development signals for the balance of power among modern Mexican cartels. From there, Gary and Carlos trace the arc of the drug trade from the Caribbean smuggling routes of the 1970s and 1980s to the dominance of today's cartel-controlled corridors. Carlos reflects on the era of Ronald Reagan and the early “War on Drugs,” describing a time when enforcement was uneven and smugglers routinely exploited weak regulatory environments in places like the Bahamas. He explains how traffickers adapted faster than policymakers, using maritime routes, small aircraft, and coordinated pickup operations to move multi-ton quantities of narcotics. Gary and Carlos contrast those earlier days with modern interdiction efforts—advanced Coast Guard surveillance, satellite tracking, military-grade radar, and cross-border intelligence sharing. What was once opportunistic smuggling has evolved into highly structured cartel logistics supported by corrupt officials and narco-state dynamics. Carlos provides a candid account of his own rise in the trade. Starting as a construction laborer, he moved into pickup crews retrieving floating bales of drugs in open water. Over time, he became involved in larger-scale operations involving aircraft and organized distribution networks. He details the operational mechanics, the risks, and the constant calculation between profit and prison—or worse. The discussion also explores the blurred lines between political authority and cartel influence. Carlos explains how governments in certain regions became intertwined with trafficking operations, illustrating how power, money, and violence intersect across borders. In the second half of the episode, Carlos shifts to a personal reckoning. He discusses the moral compromises required in the drug trade and the toll it takes on family and identity. Ultimately, he chose to step away, prioritizing stability and long-term survival over fast money. Now living a legitimate life, Carlos has documented his journey in his book Pedro Pan: The Product of a Revolution Gone Bad, offering readers a firsthand account of smuggling culture, Cuban heritage, revolution-era influences, and the psychological weight of that world. His story reflects both personal accountability and a broader commentary on the human side of organized crime. This episode blends law enforcement perspective with insider testimony, giving listeners a rare dual lens: the cop who chased traffickers and the man who once outran them. Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” Subscribe to the website for weekly notifications about updates and other Mob information. To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup, click here To rent ‘Brothers against Brothers’ or ‘Gangland Wire,’ the documentaries click here.  To purchase one of my books, click here. Transcript [0:00] Hey, all you wiretappers, Gary Jenkins, retired Kansas City Police Intelligence [0:03] Unit detective. It’s great to be back here in the studio. It’s a cold day in Kansas City, Missouri, but we’re going to talk to a warm state and with a man that lives in that warm state, Carlos Perez. Welcome, Carlos. How are you doing, Gary? Doing good? Yeah, I’m doing good. A little cold, and I know it’s much warmer down there. We talked about that. Carlos was involved in the drug business, which is quite topical right now, especially today. Now, this won’t come out today, but as of over the weekend, the Mexican government arrested the El Mencho, the head of that, I can’t remember the name of that cartel. It was a Western Mexico, the state of Jalisco cartel. And somehow he got killed on the way to Mexico City as they’re transporting him. And his guys, the cartel members, are going crazy. Carlos, let’s talk about that a little bit, about this new war on drugs. When I was in Ronnie Reagan’s war on drugs, it was different than it is now. Now we have this new war on drugs with blowing drug boats out of the water. And this guy dies on the way to the bigger jail. Well, let’s talk about that a little bit. Carlos, how would you, as a former drug trafficker, how do you react to that? [1:18] The laws change. And the more that the smugglers change, the more that the system to catch them changes also. In fact, when you’re talking about Ronald Reagan’s war on drugs, there was quite a few things that allowed the smugglers to succeed. One was, most of it, and I’m talking Caribbean now, most of it was going through the Bahamas. The Bahamas had laws at that time where anything governmental was not allowed to land nor dock a boat anywhere in the Bahamas without the permission of the Bahamian government. Which, by the time they got to wherever, if they reacted, if they were advised of some drugs coming in, it would take them a long time to react. I think they had two boats for all the islands that had to travel back and forth. You never, you couldn’t, they couldn’t, the DEA, the Coast Guard, they couldn’t catch you. [2:12] And when you fly a plane in, you just land anywhere and say hello to the DEA as they’re flying by because they can’t land. And therefore, you score the load that you have. Nowadays, Jesus God Almighty, now you’ve got the Coast Guard out there. You’ve got the Coast Guard citation constantly flying, plus Navy. But you couldn’t get it done. And back in those days, that’s the way it was done. It was the Bahamas played a huge part. The prime minister of the Bahamas was so heavily, even though he never. [2:42] Did any time or anything he was heavily involved he took payoffs to left left and right the whole the situation is completely different now you got AWACS flying overhead that can hear you when you’re in the bathroom anybody here’s my opinion on that I want to know who in the hell was in charge of sending those boats out of Venezuela that after the first one got blown up who was telling them to keep sending boats over now if maduro this is my theory if maduro was smart he would have stopped that if he was really the one in charge he would have gone god you got to make me look better you can’t keep doing it that tells me he was not in charge of the shit okay so there’s someone behind that kept going send them we got to see if we can score keep the score, i don’t know how he kept doing that that was to me that was such a stupid move especially when you You see that you’ve got half of America’s Navy sitting on your doorstep, and you keep trying to send drugs. What are you, nuts? The Pacific, they should have gone over to the Pacific, where there’s less surveillance, and maybe run it up the Pacific coast by land. [3:53] Okay. Try to get it into Mexico by land. Because back in the day, Mexico was not really involved at all in that. It was the Caribbean. And then when the Colombian cartel, which was Medellin cartel, when they stopped losing so many loads, they started to go to Mexico. And through Mexico, they just flew small planes, landed in the woods somewhere in Mexico, and then they moved it up. That was not – you weren’t doing that in the Caribbean by that time. And talking about Reagan’s war on drugs, I had two – this is the sideline. I had two little boats coming in from the Bahamas that had marijuana on them. [4:35] I still got to laugh at this freaking idiot. One of them, they were coming in from – Bimney’s only 47 miles away. You can almost do it on the fumes of a gas tank. This guy forgot to gas up. Coming over, he gets stopped by the Marine Patrol, right? As they’re searching him, the other boat had gone through but was wondering where his partner was, and he goes back to see where the guy is. [5:01] How’s that for – anyway, they get them both. It was a total of about 1,200 pounds. That had come from Jamaica, that’s about –, And the vice president, who was Bush, was at the Coast Guard dock when they were unloading the boats. And I was sitting there watching, going, damn, they look like my boats. And when I investigated, it was a—but that was one little incident that had happened. But the difference between yesterday, yesteryear, and now is chronologically things change. They trump the other everybody that was a president or that that had something to do with stopping the trade with drugs never really stuck their foot in deep to stop it it makes me feel like yeah you’re not really you’re talking a lot but you’re not really doing much because if i was a cop my god i usually i’d have had all kinds of medals from stopping these people because it’s an easy thing but no one really had the interest who was involved economically up the top god and only In the Bahamas, I knew who it was. It was the prime minister. Knew his people real well. In the States, everything changes every couple of years. And you don’t know what they’re thinking, what their process of thought is to try to stop this. You know what it was? None. They didn’t try. Okay, they did not try. [6:22] There used to be, oh God, probably about two or three DC-3s a night landing in Bimini, 47 miles away. Okay? Each one of them had 10,000 pounds on it. The boats were running up the river, the Miami River. Once you get inside on a river, inside land, you pretty much already scored. That changed. Then it went to freighters, fast boats going out, picking up, coming in. Then when the United States stopped that, when they declared, we’re going to be able to stop any boat anywhere in international waters. You couldn’t do it back then. [7:02] When that ended then you began with the airplanes the airplanes would take it this is still back when you when the US or any governmental agency could not, set foot in the Bahamian territory, Bahamian waters, without the prime minister’s knowledge. The prime minister’s involved. You’re not going to get it. It’s not going to happen. So that change, and it went to small airplanes. Fly it in anywhere you want in the Bahamas, and then get your boats, and from there on in, try to see what you’re thinking, your process of thought is going to be to get it from the Bahamas, some of the shorter points to the States and to Miami at that point. One of them for me was easy. And that was because I had information on the Miami tower and where in the hell everything was at any point in time. So I would sit and wait for my messenger to get back to me, to tell me where the smoker was, which was the big Coast Guard boat and where the citation was. Once I knew that, I knew I could come across. And the only thing I was going to run into was fishermen. [8:10] So things changed. And then they allowed things change after that. And obviously they were allowed to go into the Bahamas and do whatever they wanted. But that was when Pinland was finally out. I don’t know who the prime minister became after that, but it changed. And now it became, this is why I think that the cartels were stupid. They, instead of doing as much as you could without getting noticed, they started bringing in loads of 10,000 and 20,000 kilos. I was like, God, what the hell do they get all that? I know where they get it, but since I know how the situation goes, I want to know how they amass it and get it onto one boat or one container or whatever and not have it noticed. That’s just way too much to not notice at one point or another. People get edgy around shit like that. In other words, I could take two people and put them in front of a container and separate them and tell one of them, that’s full of drugs, and then tell the other one, no, that’s full of furniture. And then stand both of them there and see who gets nervous. [9:16] It’s human nature. It’s human nature. If you know something bad is going on, to feel it and to react. Why they did that, I don’t know. I was one of the ones, if not the only one, that was sent to Mexico to teach them how to put airstrips in the middle of the jungle, how to protect them, what to do with them, where to put potholes with certain rocks, get them out when they play in the stomach, put them back in when he’s done so if anyone else tries to land, they’re gone. But how it got so deep, I’ll never understand that. And I was pretty much in the beginning of smuggling as to notice chronologically how everything’s seen because I stayed for quite a while. Yeah. Now, Carlos, you’ve written a book about this. What’s the name of that book? The book is called Heisting the Beard. I just need the beard. The beard with a D, meaning Fidel Castro. Ah, interesting. Yeah, he’s just in Cubans when they go like this to their chin or they mention him and they mention him as the beard. He was heavily involved in the decision-making of Cuba running drones. [10:27] That book is about, oh, I ran into a guy. This is how this happens, which is really fun. I ran into a guy who I used to call him by the name of Banco. And he came and told me that he knew where there was a big load of drugs, jewels that they had pilfered from the ocean where they knew that shipwrecks have gone down. Because no one can dive around Cuba. And Cuba is a country that held all the gold before it went to Spain. Everything stopped there and went on. So he told me he knew where there was a warehouse that was holding that plus a lot of coke. And I had ways to get in. I have a friend who’s Bahamian, who was actually one of my partners, who’s from Ragged Island in the Bahamas. Ragged Island is maybe… [11:17] 20 miles off the Cuban coast, down on the eastern end of Cuba. So it was easy for me to sneak in. Everyone thinks of Cuba as this military power, Russia’s buddy. They didn’t have shit. They couldn’t put a plane in the air. They didn’t have patrol boats. They had patrol boats, but I swear I could out-swim them. It was ridiculous to see at what point they were developed as far as a country. And it was like, everything is going downhill as today, and it keeps going downhill. So I would sneak in on a Zodiac. [11:53] And I’d hit the coast, middle of the night. No one would see me. I speak perfect Spanish. I speak a Cuban dialect. So I wasn’t going to get caught by it because I looked like a black bean in a pot of white rice. It wasn’t going to be like that. So we figured out where everything was, and we went in and took a little look. And got awake after a lot of headaches, but we were able to do that. There’s other instances where there’s an airport right next to Havana called the Varadero Airport, and it’s a military airport. And I know that they were holding a lot of cocaine that was going in there. The reason I know that is because hearsay in the streets in Miami, you go drink a little Cuban coffee somewhere, you hear assholes talking garbage, and they would say that they were getting boats ready to go to Cuba to bring in whatever they had. So it’s not really why they make it a mystery as to why they were involved. If you think logically, let’s say you leave Colombia and you’re doing business with Cuba. Wouldn’t it be safe to just, oh, you’re chasing me, let me land in Cuba and I got no problem, not because they don’t want you here, but they want me here. That’s logically speaking. So why that… [13:11] That mystery among people that they weren’t involved. What are you, crazy? Not only that, recently, you might have seen it, they’ve had a Carlos Leder Riva. Okay. [13:27] Carlos, can you say that over again? It just zeroed out to say that over again. After you said Carlos Leder. Leder Rivas. Yeah. Now, whatever you said after that, say that over again. [13:45] Carlos Lerder Rivas recently has done some interviews on the drug trade. He did a lot of time in the States over the Norman’s Key transporting point where all the coke would go there. And then, like I told you before, they fly it into the Bahamas and then over into the States. He recently has been on saying how he was personally involved with Raul Castro. I have no doubt about that. I knew him personally. i flew a couple times into that island where it was transported out so i know what he was told the reason i also know that is everybody has this pablo escobar myth in their head he was neither the boss and he was neither the money man the money people were the ochoas the military his might and his force did not come from him and his mouth that he could do this and that it comes from rodriguez gacha who had a 2 000 man private army and he was one of the members of the cartel and they never tell you who started it all and it was carlos letter rivas he was the one that started the cartel he’s the one that wanted to be on in the colombian parliament and was looking for votes escobar is he was a he was a late comer into all that stuff the only reason they put him out there that I can understand is because they just wanted to figure out that they could knock the hell out of later on. [15:09] Okay? Because when he started fighting against Los Pepes, which was that organization that got together to try to kill Pablo, Pablo reversed it on those guys. He got rid of almost all of them, but it wasn’t him. It was Rodriguez. [15:24] Rodriguez gotcha. He’s the one. And he was involved in the Emerald business before he got into the coke business. He was the guy, let me tell you what, when Pablo was around, and I only saw that once, when Pablo was around Gacha, okay, this was down in La Guajira, in the high desert in Colombia. When he was around Gacha, you could tell that he was subordinate. He was scared. He was like, damn, if I mess up with this guy, he’ll take my head off. [15:53] So people really have the whole story, Pablo, Pablo, my, you know what, Pablo, my ass. There’s a lot of people who you had to have money to do those things yeah and in those days they were strong enough because of the ochoas well they could gather big loads a thousand two thousand keys and put it all together but as time went on chronologically that shit changed okay i can remember once getting a load where it had it damn you they labeled it they labeled everyone One had one name, one had the other So what they were doing at that time Was it got so tough on them Because of Pablo’s big mouth And because of his, I’m going to take over Blowing up a plane Doing a few other attacking parliament All those things You couldn’t put those loads together To me there’s no cartels anymore To me they’re government Narco systems You. [16:55] The Mexican government is definitely involved with the cartels. And as you saw, we went after a cartel in Venezuela, but the head of the cartel was the Venezuelan government. So what they are is narco states now. And you know how hard it is to attack or to deal with a narco state? Now you’re dealing with a government entity that has a lot of power. It’s a completely different ballgame. And Venezuela themselves, including Cuba, had a diplomatic immunity flying into different countries with the drugs. And they could put a load of cocaine on and fly into Spain, and they had no problem with it. And they were doing those kind of things, I would say, recently, like within the last 10 or 15 years. Maybe even since Maduro has been there, which is about 20 years, that they’ve been doing that. Really, the United States can get information on anything they want. They had this information but couldn’t do anything about it. [17:57] So chronologically, everything changes. Back in the beginning, let me tell you, the first time I made a little money was hauling some marijuana with old Touch Brown from the Everglades. And I worked like a Hebrew slave for four days in the swamp hauling bails from marijuana and into the into the everglades and then over into miami and it was completely different game and you know what they didn’t cheat me for one penny they didn’t cheat me for one penny and how much came in 40 tons on one of the boats yeah it was 80 000 pounds on a freighter and we worked like little like slaves and they paid me like two weeks later, they paid me $2. I’ll tell you that story in a minute. You asked me a while ago how I got started. Should I answer that, or you got another question you want for me? No, go ahead. How’d you get started in that? You started out as a grunt, as we say in the military. You started out as a low-end worker, a guy that transports bales. What did you do? You started saving your money up, and you knew where the connections were, and finally you You bought your own load and just kept getting bigger and bigger. [19:11] In a sense, yeah, it wasn’t drastic. When I came in, here’s the story. I’m in Texas. My mom calls me up and tells me I have an uncle who’s in Texas. He wants to see me. I get together with him, and he’s driving a brand-new Cadillac. This is a guy who, two and two to him is 22. I know he’s my uncle, but he’s a dumb son of a bitch. [19:35] He’s telling me that he’s got a, you know what a roach coach is? Yeah. with those construction things with food. He tells me he has a red smoke in Miami and that he bought a house, got a house, he’s doing really good. And I looked at him and I said, bro, you’re the one that’s crushed. You’re the wetback. I came on a plane a long time ago. He’s telling me stories. What’s going on here? So anyway, he tells me and I say to him, get me a job. I was working as a carpenter in Houston. Straight out of college, I’m banging nails. I said, God damn, I’m banging nails. but I got an education here. What’s going on? So anyway, I loaded up in Houston. I head and I end up in Coconut Grove working for one of the bosses. My job was $500 a week and I had to go and sleep on his yacht about 7 p.m. And by 6 in the morning when the workers started coming in, just go. That went on for about four or five months and I finally said, let me make some real money because I saw he was still moving and doing things economically economically moving forward, and I was sleeping on a boat. So he finally gets me an interview with two of the bosses. And this is a building in Miami that was called the DuPont Plaza building. [20:52] And so we go to the meeting, and I’m talking to the two guys. One of them, they called him El Coronel, and the other one, El Colorado. The Colonel and Red. They were the ones that were handling it. And this was, by the way, this was marijuana, coming from Colombia at that time. So we go in there, and he tells me, no problem. I’ll pay you $2 a pound. Now, understand that at that time, at that point in time, my mind is in Jersey and New York. And if you’re moving 20 pounds from one place to the other, it’s a lot. You’re not dealing with loads at that time. We’re talking, what, 1977 in New York? And I looked at him, I said, you’re fucking crazy. You think I’m going to risk my ass for $2 a pound? Even if it’s 300 pounds, that’s $600. Are you fucking nuts? [21:45] My uncle grabbed me by the shirt, stood me up and said, excuse me. Walked me outside and said, listen, there’s 40 tons coming in. You want the job or not? I went back in. I apologized to you guys. I said, no problem. I will go to work. From that point on, there wasn’t, that’s just, was right about at the end of the big freighters. And so now my uncle invites me to go to Bimini because he had a friend there and they were going to do some job. I don’t know. When we go, I end up running into a younger guy, Bahamian, and I became partners with him. We call him Dreamer. And I said, look, if you can set things up over here and gather up whatever materials you can gather up, I’ll come and get it and we’ll be partners. At that time, a lot of freighters and a lot of boats were being chased by the Coast Guard and what they would do is they would drop, they would dump it overboard. Oh yeah. Ergo the, what they call it, the square grouper. [22:44] Yeah, I’ve heard that before. Bales were floating everywhere. You could go out. So what he would do is he would go on a boat, find bales that were floating. He would call me up, and he would tell me, hey, I salvaged a 300-horsepower engine. Come and get it. I knew what the weight was, so I knew what kind of boat I had to take. So I bought an 18-foot formula. I dug out the hole in the bottom. I made a secret hole. What the what cubans call a clavo a clavo which is you’re hiding it underboard he called me up one day tells me there’s three he can get 300 pounds i left at eight in the morning was back in miami by 11 30 left at about 12 30 went back and picked up another load so in that first job we ended up making a couple hundred thousand dollars from there we bought a bigger boat, Now he started patrolling, All the area where the boats were coming in Because everything flows from the Gulf Down in this area, flows north The Gulf Stream goes north So everything’s going to float this way somehow. [23:54] We did that for probably a year Until one time, I was over there. We were going fishing, and we ran into a duffel bag. The duffel bag had 65 kilos in it that was just floating. At that time, it cost probably around $40,000 a kilo in Miami, let alone New York. We didn’t bother to take it up north. Sold it all in Miami. I used to say to myself, where in the hell does all this cash come from? Because they would pay. We made a lot of money that time. And then we had seen… Carlos, let me interject here. No, no. [24:38] You were making hundreds of thousands of dollars just by picking up cocaine and marijuana that had been thrown off other boats. So you didn’t even have to go buy it, really. You guys were just picking it up, the square groupers, and then putting it together and then bringing it to money. That’s crazy. You are an entrepreneur. You’re a guy that sees an opportunity and seizes it. Tell you what. And that’s exactly how it went, Gary. When we made that big chunk of money, we had seen how things were going because we knew that planes were coming in and landing. And they had whatever it is that they were hauling, either coke or marijuana. So with that amount of money, we bought a plane and I decided to become a pilot. I said, hell, we’re going to cut this down. I’ll fly. We’ll save money that way. And now we can talk to the people down in Jamaica or Columbia and say, hey, we’re coming together. We’re taking a responsibility. We’re not going to middle it. We’re not going to find it. We’re going to do the job. And it took off from there. [25:43] Took off real good from there. Eventually, I see that you are going to build in to have a legitimate life, become a horse breeder and a ranch owner and rub elbows with all the kind of the muckety mucks, if you will, down there in Florida. So tell us about that transition and how did your life change during that time? [26:04] I had a family. I had four kids by then. And I knew that I was in a business where the chances were threefold. I either score or I die or I go to jail. And I didn’t like any of those odds at that time. I was like, you know what? I’ve made enough money. I got a small little ranch out here. I don’t need to do anything. And I decided that was it. I don’t need to be doing this anymore. I’m set. And I’m the kind of person, I’m set with what I mathematically calculate. I’m not like I need almost $20 million. I calculated it to where I knew I could be comfortable. And talking about the mucks and the big famous guys, I had lunch with Sam Walton one time. How did you do that? [26:59] I was at his, his daughter, Nancy Walton, Laurie was heavily into the horse. And by that time I was into horses also. So we used to, I used to show them all over the country and we were in, in Illinois at a horse show. And the setup that his daughter used to put out there was unbelievable. It was like, whew, she really put out a spread. And he happened to be there one time. And it wasn’t like I went and had lunch with him, but a few people sat around, ate a couple of grilled burgers. And that’s my story of Sam Wolfe, the richest man in the world at that time. And look who he’s having lunch with. how really i’ve noticed going to horse races that a lot of the support staff are all hispanic i think because hispanic people know how to deal with horses have an affinity affinity for horses, you’re absolutely right the barn work even me and who as far as the horses went i was a nobody i just had my own little stretch even my workers were mexican they just are good at it they’re very good at that. Interesting. They understand country life, too. Yeah. [28:10] So, what happened? You’re like, you’re going straight. You haven’t really done any time. Surely DEA, I know enough about them that they keep files, and they may not do anything about you now, but they know a lot about you, and they don’t forget. So, what happened here? You can’t feed the government. It’s an entity, not an individual. You know, one guy prosecutes you and he retires. That doesn’t mean your case is over. He hands it over to somebody else and it goes on and on. They didn’t get, I didn’t get caught doing anything. I had too many ways to outmaneuver them and not because I was smarter than anybody else. It’s because I had contact. I had a contact, like I told you, at the Miami Tower where I would call him and say, hey, I need to know where this was. He would call me back and let me know exactly when I could cross. [29:06] So it was a matter of, in my case, I didn’t play Russian roulette. I tried to put things on more of the positive end of it on my side but i’m so they arrested me for money because they thought i had too much first the irs came in and they started checking out the next thing i know is i’m being visited by by the fbi but it was alphabet soup when they showed up at their hotel yeah not the farm i was like what the hell are these guys doing here anyway they grabbed me took me in and i’ll give you a funny story and you used to be a policeman yes all They pick me up, and I say to the guy, the old James Cagney state, I’ll be home before you tonight. Yeah, I’ll be home. You’ll be still writing your report when I’m back home. You’ll still be filling out the paperwork, but I’ll be sitting at home. [29:58] So I played that act. And actually, I did get home pretty quick. I was able to call my lawyer. He actually called up the mayor of Fort Myers. His name was Wilbur Smith. And he was a lawyer also. And Wilbur is the one that got me. It happened to have been on a Friday, which meant if they didn’t work something out, I was going to sit my ass in the jail until Monday. When the judge comes up. But Wilbur got me out of it. Wait a minute. Wait till the dogs get, okay. Can you start that with Wilbur? Wilbur got me out of that when the dogs quit. Let’s see. [30:38] Anyway, Wilbur gets me out of it. I’m walking down the hall with Wilbur to go see the judge real quick. And he says to me, he goes, do you do drugs? Do you have any drugs on you? And I’m like, oh, Jesus. I don’t know. I smoke weed, but I don’t touch anything else. I never have. And he goes, so, okay, we’re okay with that. And in my pocket. I had a joint in my pocket. I pull it out and I go, here. Oh, Jesus Christ, put that back. Oh, Wilbur. Oh, Wilbur’s shit when he saw that. But anyway, I was home. I was home that night. Now, here’s another funny story. I had a, along with this story, I had a maid at the house at the farm. And she was Brazilian. And she was not a resident or anything. That girl took, when they came, went to pick me up. And they took me into, it was a U.S. Marshall. She took off running into the woods. and I’m talking deep Florida woods and when I got back home about an hour later she ends up showing up and I said what are you doing why did you take off like that I was scared they were going to deport me, if you were scared what do you think I was. [31:46] And when they showed up that one time when they showed up you could have sworn that they were picking up Pablo Escobar it was alphabet soup long guns long freaking guns not just People holding their little long guns. Yeah. And I’m like, all this for me? Really? And you know what it is? It’s not long before that happened. They had called me in to do a polygraph. [32:14] The FBI did. I had no problem because they were trying to associate me with the head of the Indian cartel in America, the guy that handled everything, including the money. You might have, did you see Cocaine Cowboys Kings of Miami? Yeah, I did. Okay. The one guy, George Valdez, that was pretty much testifying against the other guys that he said he helped. Like how can you you’re snitching right in front of everybody bro anyway he i had a farm next to his, and the next thing i know because i guess they tried to associate me with him i had nothing to do with him next thing i know the fbi is calling me out they do a polygraph even my lawyer said don’t do the polygraph it’s not mandatory said i got nothing to hide now they told me they were going to ask me about horses they ended up asking me everything except horses until i finally yeah took those things off my fingers i pulled them off and i said this is done and i left not long after that is when they swatted in i was like jesus god who do they think they’re picking up here i’m just a in in uh in sense i’m still even if they know everything i’m still a grunt, I’m working for you. It’s not like I’m Mr. Put-it-together shit. You call me up, hey, we got a job. You want it? Yes or no? But it was unbelievable. [33:41] I went to jail. I did some time in jail. When I got out, I never once again really, even though I got 100 phone calls about you want to go to work, you want to listen to that, I never really thought about it again. My kids were growing up. The youngest one was six or seven by then. And they had suffered because I was gone. Yeah. And I didn’t like that. That made me feel like shit. [34:10] It just, it got to the point where when I was working, I looked at everything economically. Hey, this is what I’ll be able to have. Once you have what you want, economics is bullshit if that’s what you’re working for, because you already have it. Yeah. And when I got out, my thoughts were completely different. My thoughts were that the money is not going to solve any issues I may have. Physically, maybe. Mentally, no. mentally, I’ve got to learn how to deal with a little bit of reality here and figure out who is affected by my actions. And the people that were affected by my actions were people that were close to me. And I didn’t enjoy that. I didn’t enjoy that at all. It made me double take. It made me go inside and do a lot of things. [35:04] So from that point on, I really didn’t know what to do. And so I have a friend who is a big-time producer in Hollywood. We grew up together in Jersey, who told me, wow, you’ve got a lot of stories. You should start writing. I never thought about writing. So I started putting down ideas. I wrote a book. I wrote a bunch of political essays on what was going on in Cuba. See, I grew up in a revolutionary family. My father was in intelligence, and my uncle trained the troops that were going to go to the Bay of Pigs, among other incursions into Cuba. So I came over, I’m six years old. I’m a Peter Pan kid. I don’t know if you know what that is. Now, what is that? You’ve mentioned that before. What is that? Tell the guys. Peter Pan is, it’s not a good translation because it has nothing to do with Peter Pan. In Spanish, it’s Pedro Pan and had to do with a little kid eating some bread or whatever. But in 1960, the Catholic Church got together and decided to send the children out of Cuba so they wouldn’t suffer the wraths of the revolution. In essence, 14,000 kids were put on planes and sent into the States. I was one of them. Wow. I ended up in Miami. [36:27] I was one of them, and I was actually one of the lucky ones because I had family in Miami at that time, so I was able to stay with them. My parents were still back in Cuba applying to leave. Back then, they called the freedom flights. So a lot of those kids though they were sent some of them were sent to alaska montana wyoming really they were dispersed all over through families that were willing to help and and keep them until their parents came so i was one of them that grew up because of my father and my uncle the conversation most of the time if not all the time was around cuba and his freedom so the revolution at that time is going really strong in New Jersey. There’s a family in New Jersey by the name, the last name is Cook. [37:17] And they owned a big factory called Cook, Color, and Chemical. They were very wealthy people, but evidently they lost a lot of land or investments in Cuba. So they were willing to help the revolution and the revolutionaries. They had a big farm in this small little town called Hope. And that little town, you had all the Cuban revolutionaries up there getting ready. I’m talking about going into the woods with every kind of equipment you could think of. And they were training to go to Cuba. Now, here I am, six, seven years old. And I’m running around the woods with these maniacs. They would dress me in camouflage and tell me I was the next generation of Cuban revolutionaries. And I’m like, what the fuck is this guy talking? I didn’t. I was having a good time with all these guys. [38:06] And it ended up being that the new york times caught wind that there were these crazy cubans. [38:12] In the woods in jersey and they had to move their operations down to florida but about what happened in jersey in jersey the mafia at that time they were all involved with the kennedy and the prior to the assassination and everything that was going on they thought that the cubans did it they thought to the mafia. They didn’t know who did it. But there was a get-together one time. I was probably about seven or eight years old, and it was a dove shoot where they had a thousand doves, and they would all line them up and let some of them go, and then they would do a big dove fricassee. But that meeting, I just remember the names because I was being introduced, the son of, and this is Mr. Spud. The names never left me. One of them was Santos Traficante, who was the head of the mafia in in in tampa the other one was fat tony salerno who was the head of the mafia in new york there was my mom’s cousin who was an fbi uh agent and a bunch of other guys that looked exactly like him they dressed exactly like him well i could pick you out of a barrel boy and a lot of these other i grew up in the jersey new york area so i know what tough guys act especially of the Italian guys. So there was a bunch of them walking around like they could take on the world. And this is part of my life. I’m a young person doing it. I really don’t know what’s going on, but I’m picking up on all this stuff. [39:40] They moved to Florida. I’m away from all that stuff for a while. But my parents regularly go to Florida for a visit, for vacation. So every year, I’m running into my uncle and the things that he’s doing, what’s going on. [39:57] And so the life never mentally never leaves me. I’m always, I’m always hearing next year in Havana, we’re going to get them, all this nonsense. So the years go on and on and the situation, you wonder how the smuggling game got started. The smuggling games basically, and I saw a report on this not long ago, some lady reporting on it. You had a lot of educated men that were involved in the revolution that wanted to get their country done. The U.S. government, Secret Service at the ICIA, whoever they may be, cut off the funds when all the bullshit with Cuba was done. You’re not allowed to leave from U.S. soil if we cut you with any arms headed down. And they caught a lot of these Cubans trying to go to Cuba on little boats with all kinds of armament. They didn’t do shit to them. Okay, they just slapped them on the head and don’t do that. But it got to the point where the government was not funding that part of the Cuban Revolution anymore. What do a bunch of college-educated, university-educated men do? [41:06] They’re going to go work at the Fountain Blue? My father worked at the Fountain Blue when he first got to Miami. And there was water fountains that said whites, blacks, and Cubans. He was still trying to drink. It’s like my mother used to tell me. I didn’t know I was white until I got to this country. And now all of a sudden we have white Spanish, white this, white this. It’s ridiculous. So these men were not going to go to work with a little bacon with a little Cuban coffee. They have all these contacts all through Central and South America because of the revolution. So who becomes the primary smugglers? [41:44] Yes, the Cuban revolutionaries. And that’s how smuggling was started in the Caribbean. I’m involved with all these people because of my father and my uncle. My legacy is I can get right in. I don’t have to prove anything to anybody. And that’s how I got to my uncle and him giving me the job with the guy. No, that nonsense. So it’s like the grateful dad said, what a long, strange trip it’s been. It’s been. [42:13] So where are you at now with your life? [42:17] Right now, we’re putting together hopefully a TV show on basically my life, but my life in a novel way, not in a very direct memoir way. And I continue to write. I am married to a wonderful woman who actually led me down this path. I was sitting on my farm doing quite well. My wife at that time had passed away from pancreatic cancer. That’s a death sentence. Yeah, I’ve heard that. [42:52] I didn’t have a will, and everything was in her name because I wanted to protect the family. Yeah. So when she dies, everything’s gone. I’m not knowing which way to turn here. I was 50, 70 years old. I thought I was going to be relaxing and fishing every day, and it didn’t work out that way. I was going downhill like a sled in a snowstorm, boy. I was going to hit eventually. I don’t know what bottom would have been, but I knew there wouldn’t be good. And I ran into a wonderful woman who led me down the road of, we’ve got to write, we’ve got to do this. And she is my manager, and we eventually got married. And sometimes things are tough, but they’re a whole lot better than getting that bottom. Yeah, really. Better than you’re out of jail. You’re not in jail. Not there anymore. What a long, strange trip it’s been for Carlos J.C. Perez. [43:57] I want to know how strange it gets to the point where the DEA comes to me to get information. And I’m like, you guys got to be kidding me. I always knew that when you’re in law enforcement, you depend on information. You go wherever you think the source is, that’s for sure. You think you can get something out of them. Exactly. They ended up being great, by the way. Great guys. Super nice guys. Okay? And if I said any different, I’d be lying. [44:28] But it doesn’t sound like you ever particularly worked for them. You didn’t go back in undercover for them either. No, no, I didn’t do that. Luckily, when I was doing the stuff that I was doing, it wasn’t out. It wasn’t a guns and roses type deal. I don’t ever remember collecting any money or doing anything where I had to have a gun on it. I’ll give you a little tidbit of something that just happened recently. I had to go into a government and reinstate my license or something like that. The lady’s going through it. She comes up with a ticket that I got in 19—now, I’m talking in the year 2000 and probably 14. She comes up with a ticket that I got in 82. It was a ticket. Yeah. The ticket was for $52. Two different tickets, 26 each. Okay. Yeah. You know what that ticket was for? I had come in from the Bahamas in the hull of the boat. I had 800 pounds. The Marine Patrol pulls me over and says, let me see what you got. They go through the whole thing. He finds two lobsters that I had in the live $26 per lobster. I got the ticket. The guy never checked the boat, never did anything. And I got in with 800 pounds, which at that time was like a quarter million bucks. [45:50] Oh my God. Life is funny, man. Life is funny. Life is funny. That’s for sure. All right. Carlos Perez. Now the name of the book and guys, I will, I will have a link in the show notes to it. Remind me of the name of the book, Carlos. Pedro Pan. Pedro Pan, as in Peter Pan. And Ron is bred in Spanish. So there’s something to think about the little magical character, Peter Pan. Not a thing. Not a thing. And it’s a product of a revolution gone bad, which basically is me. I’m an unfortunate product of that. Revolution. You’re back around now. You’re contributing to society. That’s the only thing that’s important in the end. Hey, I have a quick question. Did you ever hear of a book called The Corporation written by a guy named T.J. English? Oh, hell yeah. Read it from cover to cover. As a matter of fact, I know the guy. [46:46] What’s his name? Batista? Was it Jorge Batista? No, Battle. Battle, yeah. As a matter of fact, I know the guys that own the manuscript. Okay tj what’s his name what’s his last name tj english english the only thing he did was write the book off of the notes that they had gotten from a guy that i know his name is tony gonzalez tony gonzalez has another partner by the last name of freitas and what they did was they investigated battle over the years and years and and then somehow ran into english because he had written a couple of books on Cuba. And then T.J. English ended up writing that. And by the way, Battle took the New York mafia and put it on its knees. Yeah, I did a story on the book. And that’s true. He had to get permission. Actually, he had to get permission from back in the 60s from Fat Tony Salerno, and they couldn’t get an approval until Traficante stepped in and said, work with him. And what the hell were they doing then? They were killing each other. They were blowing up their little bolita houses and all that. Oh, that was crazy. But you know what? He was never any kind of a Cuban mafia boss. [48:05] He liked to fight chickens and play the numbers. The Cubans don’t really have a mafia per se. They’re too splintered. And in the mafia, you’ve got to go ask permission to do this and that. These crazy guys, they don’t ask anybody permission for anything. [48:19] Interesting that’s a that’s an interesting world that’s a whole different world that cuban, You’ve got the revolution on one side, the Castro revolution, and then you’ve got the anti-revolution against Castro that’s been going on all these years. And in the middle of it, you’ve got some of these people that were kicked out of Cuba that can’t get jobs and they only want you to work as a waiter or something. And so you go into business and the best business going with your connections is the drug business. And so it’s just a really interesting millage, if you will, or mix of people and situations down in the southwest part or southeast part of the United States. Oh, yeah, you’re right. It is a millage of like, how does this work? [49:04] There’s no sense to it sometimes. No, that’s for sure. I guess I’m glad they weren’t blowing boats out of the water. They might have got you back then. I can’t tell you what. They wouldn’t have dared because I would have said, I said, why don’t you do that? Oh, you get somebody else to do it. Yeah, probably what would have saved my ass anyway is that I have never, ever been money hungry. My family in Cuba, my great-grandfather was a sugar baron. And I’ve heard all the stories about all the money, but I’ve yet to see a penny. [49:36] I don’t work that way. I grew up with a bunch of humble people. And it wasn’t, damn sure, it wasn’t about money. And when I’m young, I’m not thinking like that. But now at my age, I go, wow, man, if I knew then, what do I know now? Yeah, really. All right, Carlos. Thanks a lot for coming on the show. I really appreciate it. No, no problem, Gary. Thanks for having me on. Okay.

Taylor Lewan and Will Compton are back with another STACKED episode of Bussin’ With The Boys! This week’s guest is none other than Nebraska Cornhusker great and Philadelphia Pro Bowl center Cam Jurgens. The Boys have a ton on the docket this week with March Madness in full swing and the NFL Draft on the horizon. Taylor Lewan kicks off the episode with a little Call Back section of fan submitted comments from last week’s episode with George Kittle. Will Compton addresses the haters that talked trash on his Nebrasketball Cornhuskers. Iowa fans have come out with a map of rivers to pee in that flow downstream into Nebraska in preparation for their March Madness matchup, and Taylor is still exploring different ways that the boys can go out as a crew with Delanie Walker, George Kittle, and others to go shut down an Applebee’s. The Boys close out the intro with Tier Talk fan submitted questions and give their Kevin’s Natural Foods Clean Takes. Eagles Pro Bowl center Cam Jurgens then hops on to dive deep into anything but internal happenings with his teammates in Philly. Cam lists his favorite flavors of Jurgy, his beef jerky brand and tells the boys how he thought his $30k NIL contract was HUGE back in 2021. Cam Jurgens is authentically loose and casual answering Will and Taylor’s questions on aliens, ghosts, and how to become unpossessed. Will and Taylor pick Cam’s brain on what it’s like to be on a Nick Sirianni coached team, how clutch Big Dom is in a pinch, and what it’s like to play with freaks like Saquon Barkley, Jalen Hurts, A.J. Brown, and DeVonta Smith. The pod then closes with some fan submitted questions. We hope you enjoy this episode of Bussin’ With The Boys. Please like, subscribe, and as always… Big Hugs, and Tiny Kisses! TIMESTAMP CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 5:19 Callbacks 10:24 March Madness Sweet 16 Talk 16:15 Is Nebraska A Basketball School Now? 27:15 Coffin Callback 33:37 Flag Football Classic Recap + Team USA 43:42 Public Schools Top 25 50:08 Hater vs Passionate Fan 57:51 CAM JURGENS INTERVIEW STARTS 1:00:49 Cam's Family Cattle Farm 1:04:07 NIL Money Discussion 1:08:02 Forced Position Change 1:14:29 Growing Up A Husker 1:18:47 The Scott Frost Era 1:22:49 Nebraska's $250 Million Facility Upgrades 1:25:01 Meeting Jason Kelce & Winning A Super Bowl Year One 1:26:29 Philly Fan Base Is Built Different 1:30:50 Lane Johnson Is A Freak 1:38:51 Nebraska Basketball Is Finally Here 1:43:51 Big Ten Is Running College Sports 1:47:29 Best Live Sports 1:50:36 Cam's Injuries 1:53:25 Playing The NFC Championship With A Broken Back 1:58:06 Best Cheesesteak In Philly 1:59:34 Will & Taylor’s Hilarious Breakfast 2:02:40 Midwest Fast Food Hits Different 2:11:08 Talking Crap To Chris Jones 2:12:17 Stem Cell Treatment In Colombia 2:13:03 NAD Drip Racing 2:17:07 Pablo Escobar's Airstrip 2:18:20 Conspiracy Theories 2:21:04 Top Holidays 2:25:06 How Would You Fight A Ghost? 2:28:34 The NFL Is A Cold Business 2:34:19 Balancing Family & Football 2:39:38 Life After Football - Finding That Next Thing 2:45:09 Game Day Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome 2:51:16 How Long Does Cam Want To Play? 2:55:19 Small Town Kid In A Big City 2:57:33 Biggest Purchase After Signing 2:59:06 Masters Draft Weekend With The Boys See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.