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

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.

Buy Roger Reaves' book Smuggler: https://amzn.to/3MBTWJQ

Visit Roger Reaves' online at: https://bit.ly/3F5UuoM

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