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Game of Crimes

2: The Life and Times of Boston George Jung

Game of Crimes

Game of Crimes

True Crime

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Summary

Boston George Jung made millions and lost millions of dollars in the heyday of the cocaine trade during the 1980's. He worked with Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel to import 80% of the cocaine flowing into the United States. George's exploits caught the attention of Johnny Depp (Blow - The Movie) and became the stuff of legend in the drug trafficking trade. Boston George passed away May 5, 2021, taking his last trip. Hear stories never told before like how close George came to shooting Carlos Lehder, working with the CIA and more.

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0:00.0

This week, George Young takes us on a journey through the heyday of cocaine trafficking and working with Pablo Escobar.

0:07.0

Rest in peace, George.

0:09.0

Let's get ready to play the biggest game of all, the Game of Crimes.

0:25.0

Welcome back!

0:26.0

You guys made it. You survived the week. You survived that great episode with Murph and JP.

0:30.0

I mean, I can't tell you as a guy, so quick story. I actually was down in 2000.

0:36.0

I was in the same embassy, working out at the same embassy, JP was. I just didn't know I was there.

0:40.0

But I can tell you, when I hear that story and I go to some of the places where Steve and Javier went, you know, and I looked at the stuff,

0:46.0

it gives you an entirely different context. So I mean, that was an awesome episode, Steve.

0:50.0

I mean, it's like, what do you hear of the bonus content? I'm telling you.

0:53.0

If you think this two and a half hours was good, wait till you hear us go really deep and find out from Javier, just exactly how many ex-girlfriends he left behind in Colombia.

1:03.0

I'll tell you what, as many interviews as we've done and we're in the hundreds of interviews over the years, we have never gone into that much depth with anybody.

1:12.0

You know, I'm not even sure how we came up with 12 hours worth of content, but we did.

1:16.0

Oh, we did. And let me tell you, like I tell you, what are the best things or Steve goes, how do you find out about that? Well, because my list of intelligence contacts is long and distinguished, you know.

1:26.0

Hey, you know, and let me just throw this out there now to the listeners.

1:30.0

We need to hear back from you because we're trying to talk my wife into doing an interview to tell you what it's like to be married to a gem like me, just a real prince.

1:40.0

And what it's like to be married to a cop, to be living in a foreign country, where it's extremely dangerous.

1:46.0

I mean, you know, I couldn't even, I have two sons from a prior marriage. I couldn't even bring them down there because of the danger level.

1:52.0

But my wife is, she's in the opinion that absolutely no one wants to hear her side of the story.

1:58.0

I've even drawn up a complete outline for her interview and told her, honey, you pick out what you don't want to talk about.

2:05.0

So I told her that, you know, we'll tell Morgan to shut the hell up when he gets obnoxious like you guys will learn that he does.

2:11.0

But you know, that's just we all have our crosses to bear here.

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