#155 - Real "War Dogs" Gunrunner Explains How to Get Rich Off War | David Packouz

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🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 210 minutes

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David Packouz was an arms dealer during the War in Afghanistan and partner of AEY Inc., a major weapons contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense. In early 2007, when he was just 24 years old, David & his friend Efraim Diveroli secured a $300 million U.S. government contract to supply the Afghan Army with ammunition and weapons. David’s arm dealing story was produced into the 2016 film War Dogs by Todd Phillips. Today David is an entrepreneur, inventor, and musician. David's Links: https://www.singularsound.com https://instafloss.com https://instagram.com/davidpackouz JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon Danny https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny https://twitter.com/jonesdanny Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is it like being one of the most infamous warlords in the world?
0:14.4	I have to start it with that question.
0:15.9	I'm sorry.
0:16.4	Well, I will be the first to say that I am not a warlord.
0:21.8	The movie that was made was called War Dogs.
0:25.5	But I think most people, when they say the warlord is like, you know, someone who runs a militia and generally...
0:32.8	Warlord just sounds so good, though.
0:35.6	Yeah, I'm not to me. I don't want to be a warlord. But yeah, no, I've,
0:42.3	I've never led men in battle. I've never suppressed population's rights or anything like that.
0:49.1	Right. I did supply weapons and ammunition for a brief period of my life a long time ago.
0:55.7	But you guys, you guys did have posters of Nick Cage all over your office, right?
1:00.0	We were fans of Lord of War at the time. Yes, that's true.
1:04.1	Yeah. Yeah.
1:05.1	How did this whole thing start? Like, can you walk me through your childhood meeting Ephraim for the first time?
1:12.6	What were you guys childhood like?
1:13.9	Were you guys really, like, smoking weed all day, every day?
1:17.9	At a certain point in our lives, yeah, yeah.
1:19.9	But not when we first met.
1:21.5	We were young teenagers.
1:23.0	I'm actually four years older than him.
1:24.7	And, you know, in the movie, they say we're the same age but we're not so
1:28.7	I was four years older than him I think I was like 15 or 16 when I met him so he was like 11 or 12
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