How Roger Reaves Became The Medellin Cartel's #1 Drug Pilot

The Connect- with Johnny Mitchell

Johnny Mitchell

True Crime

4.3 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2023

⏱️ 117 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This is a full release of a previously Patreon exclusive episode! Roger Reaves grew up as a small town farm boy in the south. After discovering a passion for flying and a need for money he quickly fell into the world of international drug smuggling, leading him to work directly with Pablo Escobar. His life story is a wild one, including being shot out of the air twice and several prison escapes! Support our sponsors! Manscaped: https://www.manscaped.com/ Promo Code: CONNECT20 Mood: hellomood.co Promo Code: CONNECT20, CONNECTFREE Support the Patreon: patreon.com/theconnectshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	My name is Sherlock Holmes.
0:02.0	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 surely 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.
0:22.1	If you start wearing a hat like that, I will no longer be friends with you.
0:25.6	Young Sherlock, new original series, watch now only on Prime Video.
0:29.6	What's up everyone? We're out here in Vegas this week, filming new content. So we decided to drop the first half of the Roger Reeves interview that was on Patreon from last year.
0:41.1	We decided to put that out for you guys for free, okay?
0:44.5	If you remember, Roger Reeves was Pablo Escobar's number one cocaine pilot back in the 70s and 80s.
0:50.9	His story speaks for itself.
0:52.8	It's unbelievable.
0:54.0	We filmed this last December.
0:55.8	It was the very first interview that I ever did for The Connect. I interrupted him a bunch. I know.
1:00.9	I hated it too. I was really nervous. So just bear with me. It's worth it. His story is
1:06.8	unbelievable. And remember, if you want to see the second half of that episode, go to patreon.com
1:12.7	slash The Connect Show. That's another two hours that we did with him. But this is one of my
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Johnny Mitchell, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Johnny Mitchell and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.