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#199 – Roger Reaves: Smuggling Drugs for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Story of a Drug Smuggler in a Prison

"They beat me like Jack and rubber hose until I was black and blue and yellow from the bottom of my feet to my head. They wanted to sign me to sign a confession that I was a drug smoker," he says. "I knew if you signed, you got six years. I wasn't going to sign." The last thing they did was bring in a dead man who had been frozen before being hung with a meat hook. 'If I'd have known he's going to kill me, I wouldn't have done it'

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