S18 Ep106: Crazy Charlie: Carlos Lehder, Escobar, Castro, Cocaine, and the Medellin Cartel w/Ron Chepesiuk
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🗓️ 5 September 2023
⏱️ 153 minutes
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Summary
Now a summer 2023 ViX Original series based on this book by Ron Chepesiuk(Paraiso Blanco). Carlos Lehder is one of the most important and fascinating individuals in the history of drug trafficking and the U.S. War on Drugs. Lehder was the drug kingpin who developed the transportation system that helped flood the U.S. with drugs from Latin America for the Medellin Cartel.
On Today's program, Ron Chepesiuk joins us to tell us about Carlo's upbringing, rise to power, and eventual downfall. How Paraiso Blanco differs from Crazy Charlie. Ron's experiences on-set, and where and what Charlie is up to today!
PLUS AN ALL NEW DUMB CRIMES AND STUPID CRIMINALS W/ MALLIE FOX!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome into the best in true crime podcasting this is true crime Tuesday. I'm your host Tim Dennis. |
| 0:27.0 | Got to welcome back an old friend to the show and we're going to talk about one of his projects that's |
| 0:31.1 | out there right now on an app that you can check out VIX the VIX app which I checked out based on |
| 0:37.8 | his recommendation. I was enthralled with it folks we're going to talk about it today. It's called |
| 0:42.1 | Paraiso Blanco. It is a Spanish language show based on Carlos later is a Colombian drug lord |
| 0:51.0 | and there's a book out there by our guest Ron Shepsook who was with us with the bad henry book |
| 0:56.4 | if you remember that just a few weeks ago. Henry Lewis Wallace the serial killer in North Carolina |
| 1:04.0 | and this program Paraiso Blanco was extremely just enthralling folks. I had a wonderful time |
| 1:16.8 | watching the episode that I got to watch and that I wanted to compare it to crazy Charlie |
| 1:21.8 | and we're going to talk with Ron today about the way that it got and by the way Ron's name is |
| 1:28.4 | in shining lights right at the beginning of the program which is really cool. We're going to |
| 1:31.7 | talk to him about how this came about how the program was developed off of crazy Charlie. We're |
| 1:37.6 | going to talk to him a little bit about the book a little bit about the program itself how all of |
| 1:41.7 | that developed and talk to him about the program itself. It's enthralling again if you want to find |
| 1:49.9 | VIX the way I found it was by I have Apple TV here at home so I just downloaded the app the VIX app |
| 1:56.9 | and it's easy to find it's right there it's featured right there on the on the VIX app you can |
| 2:01.1 | also find it on other ways and other streaming devices that you have or simply on your computer |
| 2:06.8 | by looking at VIX. Let's bring them in right now again you're familiar with our guest from being |
| 2:12.9 | with us just a few weeks ago with the bad henry book Ron Shepsook is an author screenwriter producer |
| 2:17.6 | director ghostwriter and crime show radio host he's the author 42 books thousands of articles |
| 2:23.2 | and several screenplays as well as a director of three documentaries he is a full bright scholar |
| 2:28.1 | to Indonesia and Bangladesh ladies and gentlemen let's welcome back to true crime Tuesday |
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