Roger Reaves: Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel | Lex Fridman Podcast #199

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Released

July 11, 2021

Duration

2h 9m

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Lex Fridman Podcast

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

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🎤 SPEAKERS

• Lex Fridman

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• Roger Reaves

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• Narrator

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• Mari (Roger Reaves' wife)

  guest

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and Roger Reaves, Roger Reaves: Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel | Lex Fridman Podcast #199 explores smuggler’s Tale: Roger Reaves on Escobar, Survival, Love, Regret Lex Fridman interviews Roger Reaves, one of history’s most prolific drug smugglers, who worked closely with Pablo Escobar, Jorge Ochoa, and employed Barry Seal. Reaves recounts the mechanics and psychology of large-scale smuggling, his dealings with the Medellín cartel, and the absence of betrayal within that world despite immense money and risk.

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