Greetings, Earthlings. Jen here popping in on a Monday. I know super off brand for me, because I want to tell you

guys about a new podcast series called Witness. Season one, Borderlands, is an investigative documentary

about a charismatic outlaw, an iconic small-town sheriff, and the record-setting drug bust that ensnared them both.

Host Rob D'Amico takes listeners to the Texas borderlands at the start of the war on drugs,

where there was so much dirty money floating down the Rio Grande,

even the most incorruptible citizens were being tempted by the rampant corruption.

Check out this clip from Witnessed Borderlands,

the true tale of the real cocaine cowboys of the Wild Wild West.

When Nancy was dating Robert back in the 70s, she knew about Pablo Costa's reputation.

Pretty much everyone who lived in the Big Bend region did.

But one day, around 1980, Nancy got a little more insight than she wanted.

It was a little after lunchtime, and she and her husband Les got a visit from their friend,

Robert Chambers.

Robert came by the condo and asked Les, or told Les, hey, come on, go with me.

Let's go to O.J.

So Les said, come on, Nancy.

They drove west a little over an hour, then headed through customs and over the bridge into OJ.

Robert drove them to the edge of town to what appeared to be a guarded compound.

It was a really, really tall, tall cinder block fence.

And it had like rebar sticking out of the top of it.

And I saw machine guns and men on the ball and...

We pulled up and Robert got out of the blazer, opened the door and stepped down and took a couple of steps to the

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