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🗓️ 16 March 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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John McAfee forms a new operation to capitalize on a financial opportunity in cryptocurrencies. Drugs and paranoia take over. Reporter Jamie Tarabay chronicles the beginning of the end for McAfee.
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0:30.5 | Francois Garcia is a Canadian filmmaker. He purchased the rights to make a |
0:35.6 | documentary based on John McAfee's life in late 2012. About two months after |
0:42.8 | McAfee's neighbor, in Belize, turned up dead. And over the next couple of years, |
0:48.6 | he would try to line up meetings with people in the film industry. |
0:52.9 | We have a student involved. We're talking to several high-profile directors as |
0:59.2 | well. So I told John I want to set up a meeting. You guys can chat. |
1:05.2 | Francois says that during this period, John McAfee was taking bath salts, a very |
1:13.2 | addictive synthetic drug known to cause euphoric highs and hallucinations, |
1:19.6 | which was making it hard to set up meetings. Because McAfee said he didn't feel safe |
1:26.1 | anywhere. He had fears of the cartel everywhere he went. |
1:31.5 | Can we do this in LA? No, no, it's too dangerous for me to make Mexican cartels. |
1:38.2 | Okay, John. Or can we do this in New York? No, I can't do New York because I can carry |
1:44.9 | weapons in New York. Therefore, I can protect myself from the cartels. I'm like, my God, |
1:50.1 | man, just to help me out here. I'm not going to ask you every city in the United States. |
1:55.0 | Just give me a city. |
1:56.2 | McAfee chooses Boston. He tells Francois that he's Irish and he feels like he'd be safe |
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