BONUS 5 - Pablo Escobar: Coke, Power, Mayhem & So Much Money

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

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4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2017

⏱️ 95 minutes

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How do you rise from being so poor your parents can't afford to buy you shoes for school to being the 7th richest man in the entire world? If you're Pablo Escobar you do it through violence, intimidation, and selling a crazy amount of cocaine. Eighty percent of America's 80's coke came from Pablo and at the height of his power it made him 420 million dollars... A WEEK. He had a fleet of yachts, hundreds of homes, even a personal zoo, but he still ended up dying essentially poor and alone with a bullet in his ear. Find out how on this week's Timesuck!

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0:00.0	How does the lower middle-class son of a Colombian farmer and a schoolteacher become the first drug dealer to show up on Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people?
0:08.2	With a net worth rumored to have been his highest 30 billion dollars. A dude making so much legal cash,
0:13.6	he was spending over $2,500 a month on rubber bands just to wad it all together. A dude losing millions to literal rats.
0:22.5	Actual rats eating his piles of cash in off the grid tropical forest warehouses full of American money
0:29.4	He didn't care about losing because he had what seemed like a never ending supply coming back in.
0:34.7	So much cash he was burying giant bags of it in farmers fields. He was hiding it in the walls of cartel members homes
0:41.1	How'd you like to have a lot of $100 bills instead of fiberglass for insulation? I wouldn't mind it
0:45.8	He once burned two million dollars just to keep his daughter warm when they were on the run from the police.
0:51.2	How does one man get that much fucking money?
0:54.2	For Pablo he got it by supplying 80% of the world's cocaine supply at the height of his power in the 80s when everyone wanted to bump her line.
1:03.4	At one point he was shipping 15 tons of coke into the United States a day. He was making 420 million dollars a week.
1:11.9	The 80s are known for an abundance of cocus and anyone who snorted it in the 80s had an 80% chance of snorting some of Pablo's powder
1:20.0	And everyone knew who he was and what he was doing. So why did it take over a decade to bring him down?
1:25.4	Having more money than entire nations and his own paid army of assassins who killed hundreds of police officers didn't hurt.
1:32.6	The men wage war against his government and for a very long time he won.
1:37.7	He assassinated politicians who lobbied to have him brought to justice, killed journalists who tried to battle him in the court of public opinion and today
1:45.1	this cocaine king is getting sucked. So strap in and let's get into the violence, wealth and power of a man who was a demon to some and an angel to others.
1:55.4	This is time suck.
2:08.4	Happy Friday everybody. I'm Dan Cummins. This is a special 500 review bonus edition of this suck.
2:14.1	Thanks to Brandon Reyes, George Knuckles and others for sending Pablo my way. Glad you did. I was super happy to suck him.
2:20.4	Been sucking on Pablo, aka El Patrone, aka Don Pablo, aka Princess Peach all week.
2:28.7	Okay, that last one was not one of his nicknames as a shitty character in Mario Kart.
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