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Running Drugs for the Cartel

And I literally faced this dude straight in the eyes. I looked at him and I just fucking spilled the beans. I like, dude, I fucking had 1.5. He cleaned it. Remember I gave you the million that day? He goes, yeah. And then I had $2.5 million and I said, the fucking guy lost it. He goes, I know. He read all the articles in Australia. He did his homework. This was already in the newspaper in Australia. He knew everything about me. He knew where I lived. He knew where my girlfriend lived. He knew everything. He says, you don't owe me $3.2 million anymore. I'm charging you interest. You owe me $4 million, but I'm not going to kill you because you owe me $4 million and you now work for the cartel. Wow. I said, holy shit, I'm going to fucking live, man. I was so fucking happy. I said, I fucking made it. These fucking two guys behind me are not going to shoot me today. I was so fired up, man. I was like, fuck yes, I'm fucking gonna live. He goes, he goes, listen, what's gonna happen? I said, what? He says, you're gonna go back to your gambling business. He says, for 2 years you're taking off. I said, why? He says, because that fucking rat that called the cops is— I'm worried about him. He says, that guy's gonna be a problem. And he goes, take 2 years off, run your sports betting business. It's not that bad. It's not really illegal. It's a gray area. He says, If the cops want to bust you for that, who cares? You'll do a couple of years, right? I'm like, okay, I respect that. But he says, after 2 years, you're going to work. You're going to pay me off. Wow. And I remember I literally working the sports betting and just thinking like, how the fuck am I going to do this? And this was the kicker. He says, you're no longer going to have my cocaine in Australia. You're going to use my cocaine in America and you're going to figure out your own way to get it into Australia. This is where— This is where we get creative. Oh, God damn. How the fuck am I going to get cocaine in Australia? That's the hardest place in the world, right?

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Jason21:43
Yeah. Honesty is the best policy, even with the cartel.
David21:45
Yeah. So I told him, I sat down, literally— this is so crazy, you remember this, Jason— I literally crossed this Mexican border and I got picked up by his sicarios. A sicario is a basically a hitman for the cartel. And he had this bulletproof vehicle that pic…
David23:08
Oh my God.
David23:09
And I literally faced this dude straight in the eyes. I looked at him and I just fucking spilled the beans. I like, dude, I fucking had 1.5. He cleaned it. Remember I gave you the million that day? He goes, yeah. And then I had $2.5 million and I said, the fucking guy lost it. He goes, I know. He read all the articles in Australia. He did his homework. This was already in the newspaper in Austral…
David24:55
It's an incredible story.
David24:56
Yeah.
David24:57
I mean, like, yeah.