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😳 #105: I Was One Of The Biggest Drug Smugglers Of All Time | Tim McBride

Julian Dorey Podcast

Julian Dorey

Comedy

4.6 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 173 minutes

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(***TIMESTAMPS in Description Below) ~ Tim McBride is one of the biggest weed smugglers in American history. In the 1980s he rose to the top of the ranks of the legendary Chokoloskee, Florida illegal import conspiracy. His story has been featured on VICE and he wrote a book about his experiences called “Saltwater Cowboy.” Tim’s Book, “Saltwater Cowboy”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NKFX3Y2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1  ***TIMESTAMPS*** 0:00 - Intro; Tim discusses the documentary VICE produced with him; A wild story to kick things off; Tim talks about for Sammy Davis Jr. when he was 20 31:15 - How Tim ended up in Chokoloskee, FL; Billy: The Captain; Swimming with sharks; The cover story of crabbing; Tim talks about how his first time smuggling went down; Where was the coast guard? 54:50 - The Yucatan and how pickups would go down once the product was smuggled towards shore; The Island Community of Smugglers; Stash Houses; Cleaning Weed; How much money the crew charged 1:13:10 - The Daniels Brothers; Griselda Blanco; Carlos Lehder; Chase boat procedure; The Dead Drops to the Cubans in Miami; How the cops were dealt with 1:32:05 - The story of the most lucrative RV drive in American History; Tim becomes the Godfather 1:48:08 - Tim talks about his first trip to Colombia as head of the operation; Park rangers on the payroll; Was Tim ever worried about getting caught?; Why Burying Money doesn’t work; The crime money problems that movies don’t show 2:14:39 - Tim tells stories about how he and the crew spent their money; Matt Cox was Tim’s real estate agent (not really, but really) 2:24:25 - Tim tells the story about smuggling for infamous Panamanian President Manuel Noriega; The 5 Brothers & The Judge; Tim explains what “square grouper” means ~ YouTube EPISODES & CLIPS: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0A-v_DL-h76F75xik8h03Q ~ Get $150 Off The Eight Sleep Pod Pro Mattress / Mattress Cover (USING CODE: “TRENDIFIER”): https://eight-sleep.ioym.net/trendifier   PRIVADO VPN FOR $4.99/Month: https://privadovpn.com/trendifier/#a_aid=Julian Julian's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey ~ Beat provided by: https://freebeats.io Music Produced by White Hot Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

That's when George winds up finding me. He knocks on my door. I open the door and goes, Timmy! Dude, he says, I said, George, what the fuck man? He says, man, we got work to do. He said, the shit's packing up. Can you do this? And I just went, yeah, fuck yeah. You know, because I didn't give it a second thought, you know, because we were actually the infrastructure, all of us younger guys.

0:22.7

So you just went from like prime decand to Godfather.

0:26.0

I went right on to Pook and making the deals with some Cubans in Miami.

0:29.3

And now I'm the guy that's flying to Columbia and to Jamaica as Central America.

0:37.3

What? What's cooking, everybody? I am joined in the bunker today by my friend Mr. Tim McBride,

0:47.7

and whoa, is this a life story if I've ever heard one. Tim is the author of the book Saltwater Cowboy,

0:54.0

which I would highly recommend. It's

0:55.4

phenomenal. It's in the Amazon bookstore and wherever you get your books. And that is because

1:00.0

Tim, when he was younger, this is now 35 years ago, Tim was one of the biggest pot smugglers in the

1:07.1

history of the United States of America. He was down in a very remote place called Chuck

1:11.3

Olusky Island that you're going to hear about in Florida. You're going to hear about how it all

1:14.5

went down and how he got involved with it, which is crazy in and of itself. And they lived in a

1:19.7

different world. I'll just put, there's no real way for me to put this. I mean, the guy explained a lot of it today, and I got a little surprised because he was here for, I guess, like almost five hours.

1:30.6

So this is going to be two podcasts.

1:32.2

You're going to get the first part today, and you're going to get the next part, I believe next week is when I'm going to put it out.

1:37.8

Because essentially, not that we could have planned this, but it just worked out beautifully where the second half was kind

1:44.7

of like his whole how he went down in the aftermath so you can watch that without hearing the first

1:50.8

half really at all and the first half goes through how this all went down and what he was doing and

1:55.8

the whole story with chuckolusky it's absolutely wild i was thoroughly entertained the entire time and I'm sure you guys will be too, so I hope you enjoy. Now, if you are on YouTube, please hit that subscribe button. Please hit that like button on the video. And as always, we'll love to hear from you down in the comments section as well to all of you who have been sharing these episodes with friends, sharing the link, sharing it on social media, even just in text

2:17.9

with your friends and things like that, like people who would enjoy the podcast. Thank you so much.

2:22.3

We got to keep that rolling. That's really what grows this show. I often get people to reach out,

2:26.8

like, yo, why does your long form not get seen in my feed, or why do I not hear about it as much,

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