How Roger Reaves Became The Medellin Cartel's #1 Drug Pilot | The Connect
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- This is a full release of a previously Patreon exclusive episode! Roger Reaves grew up as a small town farm boy in the south. After discovering a passion for flying and a need for money he quickly fell into the world of international drug smuggling, leading him to work directly with Pablo Escobar. His life story is a wild one, including being shot out of the air twice and several prison escapes!
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0:00 Intro
1:34 The Jordan Of Trafficking
03:22 Childhood, Tobacco Farming and Moonshine
09:34 Prohibition Whiskey Making in Georgia
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15:22 The Business of Smuggling
27:51 The Decentralization of Smuggling
32:14 Landing A Plane On The Freeway
40:15 How He Remained Peaceful In A Violent Industry
52:24 Meeting His Wife
59:34 Surviving In Prison
01:04:02 Kidnapped In Mexico
01:08:39 Escaping From Prison
01:11:01 Making Millions And Escaping Death
01:13:38 Landing Pot Loads
01:20:25 Getting Involved With Colombia
01:22:22 Kidnapped and Interrogated
01:26:45 How He Evaded Capture
01:34:47 Experiences with Cartels and Working with Colombians
01:43:15 Meeting Fernando Correo
01:51:51 Leveling Up With The Colombians - Zábava
Enjoy this unreleased episode with the legend Roger Reaves!
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Did u manscape your head
You should’ve posted part 2 man wth this one was already posted on here
You’re lucky half the viewers are on drugs n don’t remember shit💀
Roger saved my life one time when he flew me out of Mexico to Bastrop Texas. He's such a good man and im happy to see him doing well.
What’s your story?
Yeah what’s your story provide some details 😊
@@Thisismetman it's a long story and a bit complicated. Maybe I'll tell it one day.
Johnny Mitchell see this guys story
@@Thisismetmanwhat’s your story ?
He need to make a movie with his story.. wow
They did American Made with Tom Cruise, I wonder if one of the pilots in that movie is Roger.
How badass it would be to have Roger as a Grandpa.. Telling everyone in 3rd grade how he used to ship tons of cocaine for the Colombians..
Everyone's free to live how they want, any adult doing that stuff is their own choice, but cocaine has destroyed many lives.
@@D33Luxnot as many lives as alcohol and tobacco and that's legal and not frowned upon
" right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right"
Lmfao!!😂😂😂 it’s so funny because I was reading this comment as he was saying right right right right right🤣🤣
😂@@codylee2717
i’ve heard roger’s story probably 4 times, but still listen anytime i see him pop up. incredibly interesting story.
Same…
Ditto
Johnny! Shut up and let him talk😂
This episode has low views but it’s absolutely amazing. Rogers is a legend and incredible human
I came across Roger with Lex Fridman. He has had an impressive life. This will be a great show.
That was a hoot!
@@pauliedibbs9028lex interview was good too. This one is top notch as well ✅
Thank you for releasing this vid!
I think roger is the purest man on earth great to see him on the episode I’m new to the channel btw glad i found it tho can’t stop watching
I can listen to this guy talk about anything. He's got that Morgan freeman type voice. Lol
This guy is one yr older than my parents.... people that age in usa had it rough & laugh at kids today when it comes to working 😂...things were cheap but not many made good money ..
Wow !!! How didn't I ever know about this guy
Right right right....yeah yeah yeah.. Just ask the questions.. You killed it
Rogers voice is mesmerising 🥰 listen to every story he tells with intent
Loved this book . Listened to it on audible . Had me glued start to end ..
Really, I'll have to get it. I have heard him 10 times but id be down. For his book.
@@keithymg the pods are good but the books next level . 💪🏼🫡
100000 % top crime interview I’ve ever watch… 🙌
Great interview
Yo Johnny your a super talented dude. I’m glad I watched this interview , your interview style then until now is getting so much better.
saying "right" 7000 times
@@MHollywood5 Exactly, Roger is great, interview is terrible.
Rogers escape stories alone are just friggin amazing. The guy has balls of steel.
Great great video!
Roger is a likable charismatic man
Wow, by chance I just finished watching Johnny Mitchell's podcast on Konkrete where they mention Roger Reaves. Looking forward to this one!
A great interview
Absolute legend. Respect.
Dude I swear to God this is the best one I've seen so far this is the real OG strait the F up dude 😎 shout out I was hooked on the edge of my seat with his story I might have to read that book 📚📖
Johnny kept trying to direct this man's life like he's making a movie & just about every time the old veteran would talk about something else!😂
Great stories.
As solid as they come real 1 💯
Great interview, but how can it end like that? There must be more
I could swear this video was already published publicly on the channel before I feel like I’ve seen it before and not on patreon
Yo, when is part 2 being released?
The backdoor jail thing happened to friend in Georgia. It was a huge case, but the jailer "accidentally " let someone out at 11:30pm fri night on personal recognizance. He went on the lam for 4 years til a plea was worked out.
That kind of happened to me except it wasnt the Jails fault. When I was young and dumb I did something really stupid and was looking at 3 misdemeanors if I was lucky, or a felony if unlucky. Regardless I was looking at 6-12 months. The next morning after arrest they called me for release. What had happened is the Cop was pushing the DA for the felony but the DA said No its 3 misdemeanors. In the end the paperwork wasn't filed within 12 hours of arrest, or maybe it was 24, but regardless their debate made the paperwork late the the jail had to let me out. I literally ran around the corner after being let out, thinking it was a mistake. That was 15 years ago, and I never have been back to the State. They won't extradite for misdemeanors and it's not on my record since I never went to Court. I do need to eventually take care of it but I figure after 20 years of no other Crimes and good lawyer they'll just fine me at this point when I do finally take of it.
I live in socal and i heard that a Kilo goes for 22k-26k currently
58:47 can’t just let that go by; what an answer
I think I've listened to every interview with Roger and I just love him, I could listen to his voice All Day long You should do an audio book of his book. ✌🏻❤️🇬🇧Adam aka Azzy n Bow 🐕 👊🏻
Smuggler is available on audible narrated by Roger. Just finished listening to it.
@@spooksy1982 thanks
Some states held onto Prohibition into the 60s. There are still dry counties today.
I dont see this man as a criminal what so ever hes a dang legend and lucky to be alive awesome guy
FLORIDA is still the high quality totaine spot ..
We wanna hear his stories with Pablo
If you want to see the whole interview for FREE, Shawn Ryan show is the place to watch Roger Reeves tell all.
legends
Its funny how the connect has 1M subs and the comment section on every interview has hundreds of complaints that the interviewer talks too much...and if he didnt have 1M subs, maybe he'd care what anyone thinks; but despite the complaints, ppl still support, so why do they even bother to complain?
Dude dude!!!! Where is prt 2???
My old boss was a close friend of BARRY SEAL...
The interviewer guy must have watched hours and hours of Joe rogan, he is almost impersonating Joe rogan, all his mannerisms, facial expressions, way of speech etc ...all rogan.
He's a poser.
1985 $300 a 8 ball and it came off of a bar that looked like a bar of soap and was rocket fuel
This must be part two with Rodger
In the mid 80’s the bricks in LA went down to $14,000. That’s the cheapest it was and the most expensive was $19-20,000. It was still twice that in Midwest cities and NYC. Basically the further from the Mexican border the more expensive.
In the early 2000’s they started cutting the bricks in South America with Borax or Inositol. It’s hard to get 97% blow anymore…even at the kilo level. And unfortunately the coca plant has changed to a plant that grows bigger and produces more alkaloids but it’s NOT the same. The intense euphoria is gone but so is the intense paranoia. A couple families in Peru are still growing the old plant but that’s the last vestige of the old blow that started it all out. And the ether solvent that produced the VERY best blow is gone and inferior solvents are used which leave more residual crap and often make the blow inferior.
Those are the facts as I know them.
I can't watch this video no more all I hear is "right" "right" "right" "right right" even as I'm writing this 😡
Nice
Where’s the rest of the episode?
Omg, epic, I grew up in the late 70s and 80s and believe it or not. It seems like everybody was a sick bastard just like this guy there was no shortage of sick puppies armored cars being robbed every week I mean it was much more crazier back then then it is now. you did not give your middle finger to somebody that cut you off back then cause everybody had a piece under the seat and they use it.
Nah people are still crazy, me and my friends were almost killed for the bird. It’s a long story 🤦♂️
You should do raymond boulanger next he used ti smuggle for pablo with plane he got caught in canada with 4000 kg in one plane trip pretty awesome story😊
Hair cut looks great. Love the content---Rogers story is great.
Haircut looks like Simple Jack
George Jung, Barry Seal, Jon Roberts, Mickey Munday, Sal Magluta and Willie Falcon, Ben Cramer etc... everybody smuggled 90 percent of cocaine in the United States 😆😅😅😅
I flew the other 10 percent in
@@joshua-nf3rx 😅🤣👍👍
@@craigpetties1476 I got the work bro.
Lol what’s funny is your right everybody uses the 90% number. Nobody says
I brought in 70 percent . We can do it
The BJC the “Black Jew crew”. We fly in a couple of tons, start a CZcams channel, make millions by interviewing the same 10 smugglers
@@joshua-nf3rx When the movie Blow was released George Jung said that 80 percent of the cocaine consumed was brought by him. Barry Seal's story said the same thing. After there was Cocaine Cowboys with Jon Roberts, Mickey Munday then Willie Falcon and Sal Magluta etc... we understand nothing about all these stories and all in the same period 🤔😂 !!! They were all CIA pawns after all😆😄
shout out from moreno valley lol
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Your channel is ridiculous this is bullshit… CZcams is flagging your algorithm for not being ad friendly. You deserve 5 mil followers like yesterday. The stories the content the editing the guest you get. Comming from people obsessed with blow, American gangster, American made. Any og smuggle movies. This is the shit i want to hear. i love this. You’re channel is the fking shit
I feel like Johnny tries to talk ab stuff he’s heard about like he’s done it
Why did it end when he met pablo? Is their another video ????
Lots of other interviews which tell the whole story on CZcams,
Wow this guys has weeks straight worth of talking he could do on this stuff. 2 hours is nothing with him. One of the only legit guys left
10 minutes in and I can’t listen to all the interruptions
Used to love this guys videos bit theyve become unwatchable theres so many ads
holy smokes
$60/lb is ungodly. The profit on single Js alone would be stupid.
Using manscaped more dangerous than running for the Medellin cartel
Damn you are a hustler leaving all the Pablo shit for the patrion 😂😂🔥🔥 even tho I’m kinda sad tho…respect
Is this American made movie s story?
worlds coolest grandad lol
Most keys going for 36 right now
Oh yeah? In what city? Considerably cheaper in Texas and San Diego and the keys are almost always cut at the source these days. Greedy fuckers.
Do you anybody know what like 3 or 4 acres look like your family was born eating
Junior Soprano??
Interviewer talks waaaaay too much. He should let the guest TALK….Ashame
That’s a fact
Moreno Valley is down the street
Rerun
Think about 2000000000 chickens that’s a cap
I sure enough saw a shitload of coke that travelled on Rogers planes. Glad I got out of that business.
(GMC) Sierra for a girl's name lol.
wait you don’t get high off of your edibles from Hello mood ?🤣
The only reason I watched this was for Roger. His story is great but this interview sucks. You interupt him way to much
Bruh have you been wearing a hairpiece this whole time ?
Does buddy wear a wig?
Christ all mighty! Can you please just let Roger speak? You absolutely don’t have to add your commentary after every point the man makes. Just let him talk, you stop talking and just listen. For the love of Christ already!
Go back to the old haircut if u have enough hair for it bro
Your a guy they would send to space. Lmao
Worst pod caster ever had to turn him off. All i here if right right right over the man with the story
Look at the astronauts you really believe those space 🤡 astroNots
Right,Right,Right,Right,Right,Right,Wow. How about letting your guest talk. Jeesh way to ruin the interview. I had to stop listing to you
yep border bros shit is 80-100 for un touched, shit best come with a stamp too, yay never changed like lean or pills have
Yep 100% recycled content I remember Johnny saying “it felt like you were back in Nazareth” this was already public man you should’ve posted part 2 instead smh
cuh wtf happend to yo hair
Thankfully your poisonous glorifying of crime life gained only 10k views world wide.
Young dudes who sit around and drop casual f bombs in conversation with their elders are so cringe. Profanity doesn't make you sound cool...it makes you come off like a nitwit.
Man I love the show I've been binging everything I can get. I've really got to say though it's a little bit cringy how racial you try to get things. I understand that your point is that you're trying to reveal just how racist the country can be and especially when you're talking about subculture such as the places you were dealing with. But it seems that in most of your shows you're actually the one trying to make the story of the interview into a racial thing.
This is just my opinion and I'm not trying to be a snowflake powder puff here, but really when you're interviewing someone you might want to keep it specifically about their opinion and not how you're reading it.
Jonny rhe jew
I thought I liked the host Johnny in the beginning. Then I started noticing how he constantly interjects bits of his own life story into every single one of his interviews. Then I started noticing how hes constantly trying to one up his guest. Then how loves to talk about what a big bad drug dealer he was. Dude you sold some pot shut up! I will no longer be watching this guy. I will also be unsubscribing. I’m not sure if he’s a complete narcissist. Or is just a bit a fame getting to his head?
1 kilo of weed $15. He have to bring 2,500 pounds at a time to make $37,000. So how was he profiting $40k, Those plane’s couldn’t even carry that much. I call bs
He said it Cost 15 a kilo in mexico, resold for 60 a pound in the USA. 1 kilo is 2.2 pounds.
@@B0SSMAN90 2,200 pounds is a 1,00 kilos
I call you do not know math