How A Small Town Fisherman Became The BIGGEST POT SMUGGLER In US HISTORY | The Connect

The Connect- with Johnny Mitchell

Johnny Mitchell

True Crime

4.3 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2023

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Tim McBride, a man out of South West Florida, went from working odd jobs and crab fishing, to leading the largest pot smuggling business on American soil from for a decade. He joins the show talk about his humble beginnings, his rise to the top of a criminal empire, and how he turned his life around after his eventual fall. Support our sponsors! SURFSHARK: Get an exclusive Surfshark deal! Enter promo code CONNECT for an extra 3 months free at https://surfshark.deals/CONNECT Join The Patreon For Bonus Content: https://www.patreon.com/theconnectshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Sherlock Holmes.
0:01.5	It's an unusual name.
0:03.0	Introducing Young Sherlock, a new Guy Ritchie series.
0:07.0	What game are we playing today?
0:09.0	Discover the origins.
0:10.0	It's cleaving. Those days are truly behind me.
0:12.0	Of crime's most iconic mind.
0:14.0	There has been a break-in.
0:17.0	Astoned. You should be a detective.
0:19.0	Starring Hero finds Tiffin, Donald Finn and Colin Firth.
0:22.5	If you start wearing a hat like that, I will no longer be friends with you.
0:25.9	Young Sherlock, new original series. Watch now only on Prime Video.
0:30.1	After having 16 life sentences handed down to me and $16 million,
0:34.9	and a very particular sequence of events taking place in order for me to be
0:39.2	sitting here having this conversation with you.
0:41.5	What's up, everybody? Today's episode features Tim McBride, author of the book Saltwater Cowboy
0:47.1	about his days as a smuggler in South Florida. Check it out. Tim makes me look like a nickel
0:53.2	and dimer. In his era of operation from the
0:56.1	late 70s to the late 1980s, Tim smuggled in over 1.5 million pounds from Columbia and Jamaica.
1:04.7	We load our boat from this mothership with bales that are stacked not underneath the deck.
1:10.5	They're on the bow as high as, just so the radar can turn.
1:14.5	And they're stacked as high as 10, 12 feet on the deck of the boat all the way back
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