Pablo Escobar's Drug Pilot - Roger Reaves | PBD Podcast | EP 152

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🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Patrick Bet-David is joined by Adam Sosnick and Roger Reaves.

TOPICS

0:00 - Start
1:50 - How Roger Reeves got into drug smuggling
12:00 - The time Roger almost got caught
18:00 - First time Roger got arrested
20:00 - How Roger is such a likeable guy
22:00 - Did the jail time turn him off/Why does he keep coming back
25:00 - Roger's connection to Barry Seal
31:00 - Middle man/The Big Phone Call
36:00 - Why did his wife not stop/the money/what keeps him coming back
38:00 - Roger's connections to Pablo/Ochoa
45:00 - Barry Seal
48:00 - How Roger got caught in the USA
49:00 - Barry connections to USA/CIA- Who killed Barry
53:00 - Run-ins with the mob
55:00 - Time with Pablo & Ochoa
59:00 - PBD's interview's with 'criminals'
1:04:35 - Relationship with Pablo
1:11:00 - Death penalty/Half of men don’t deserve to be locked up
1:18:00 - The power of a father
1:29:00 - Does he have any regrets
1:35:00 - Toughest questions his kids asked him

William Roger Reaves is an American pilot who was one of the most prolific drug smugglers in history. He worked for Pablo Escobar and the Medellín Cartel. Reaves employed Barry Seal as a pilot in many of his drug-smuggling operations. In his memoir, Smuggler (2016), Reaves claims that Seal paid millions in bribes to the Clintons when Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas in order to land planes carrying cocaine at Mena, Arkansas.

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0:00.0	Are you're out of your mind?
0:01.4	Here's the debate.
0:02.4	You're upset.
0:03.4	They're saying we believe you.
0:05.0	This is it?
0:06.0	This is not the...
0:07.0	Go on. gentlemen we're live all right so folks I've interviewed a lot of interesting people
0:20.7	today this man's fully qualified in that category
0:24.0	William Roger Reeves but we'll call him Roger highest paid drug pilot in a history
0:30.9	work with Pablo Escobar, Ochoa, got arrested, that over 30 years in jail
0:38.6	in 26 different prisons, 7 different countries, four different continents, and he
0:46.2	escaped five times. There is some kind of a connection with a man named William,
0:52.0	some call on Bill, some call on Bill, some column William, but I think his
0:55.4	him is William Bill Clinton.
0:58.3	Jan Arkansas.
0:59.3	Yeah, we'll talk about him.
1:00.5	We'll talk about the city that they almost named a movie after the city right mena they
1:06.1	almost named it it was written as mena it was written as mena and then they
1:10.5	changed it and stories left and right reportedly was responsible for $5 billion worth of cocaine entering the United
1:18.7	States.
1:21.2	Some interesting opinions about Pablo,
1:23.0	some interesting opinions about Ochoa at the time
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