65 - Griselda "The Godmother" Blanco: Cocaine Queenpin

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2017

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Griselda Blanco. The Godmother. La Madrina. The Black Widow. The Columbian drug lord who came BEFORE the Medellin Cartel. Before Pablo Escobar. The woman who helped turn 1980s Miami into one of the world's most dangerous cities. Let’s get into some cocaine. Let’s get into some Columbia, New York, and Miami. Let’s go full Griselda in this coked up, machine gun, gangster edition of Timesuck! Timesuck is also brought to you by by the socially conscious on-line fantastic mattress store LEESA! Go to www.leesa.com/timesuck to get $100 off of one of their incredible mattresses and help both the environment and the homeless while doing so! Trouble with the APP or new website? Email BitElixir! (you'll have to copy and paste - sorry) [email protected] Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast

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0:00.0	Griselde Blanco, the godmother, La Madridna, the black widow, the Colombian drug lord who came
0:07.0	before the Medellín cartel, before Pablo, the woman who helped turn Miami into both the
0:12.4	most murderous city in America in the early 1980s with brazen hits, machine gunning down
0:17.1	a rival at a mall liquor store in broad daylight for example, ordering a hit on an entire
0:21.8	family, and one of the drug lords who helped build Miami's skyline.
0:26.8	Ladies drug money built a lot of those beach condos, built a lot of those downtown skyscrapers.
0:32.4	Unlike most Colombian drug lords, Griselde did anything but keep the business away from
0:36.8	her family.
0:37.8	She forced her family into the business and it cost most of those around her their lives.
0:42.2	And yet she lived the ripe old age of 69, ancient by drug lord standards.
0:47.1	So let's get into some cocaine, let's get into some Colombia, New York, Miami.
0:52.0	Let's go full Griselde in this co-oped up machine gun gangster addition of Time Suck.
0:59.0	Hello Time Suckers, what's going on in the cult to curious this week?
1:10.3	I'm Dan Cummins and this is Time Suck.
1:12.3	Hail Nimrant!
1:13.3	Thanks to all the St. Louis suckers who came out this past week, I had six shows in
1:16.5	St. Louis and there were Time Suckers that everyone make an each show that much better.
1:20.8	Thanks for letting me work out some new material to show off with you.
1:24.8	And I'm recording in St. Louis, I'm recording a little bit of an echoey room that I can't
1:28.0	help, it's kind of ironic to me them.
1:30.2	In the midst of having a nice studio built that I can't always use because I'm on the road
1:34.2	all the time.
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