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Running Drugs for the Cartel

It's already in. It's already sitting in there. Sorry. That's what it is. It's already sitting there and he needs me to move it. He doesn't have the clientele and he needs me to move the money around. So I'm like, I'm going to figure it out. $1 million a day, right? Interesting. So I literally reached out to every contact I had, and eventually it was a USC contact that his brother was in the international weed business. And I met him and I said, dude, I need someone that's international that has some kind of tie with the cocaine business. He's like, I'll introduce you to this guy, but he's an old Italian gangster. I don't know if he's going to— he might be retired. And I literally meet this, this international kingpin that used to work for the Lucchese family, which is a mob in New York. And this Italian guy I meet in San Diego, and he's like, hey, I'm not talking anything in America. He goes, I've been arrested, indicted, and I'm not talking in the US. I'm not going to talk on US soil. So I fly to Naples, Italy. I'm like, holy shit, what have I gotten myself into? But I'm still thinking about that million dollars a day.

November 11, 20257:00David
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Jason6:54
Yeah.
David6:54
So I'm thinking, okay, how am I going to figure this one out?
David6:57
Wait, wait. You've got to get cocaine into Australia, which is tough.
David7:00
It's already in. It's already sitting in there. Sorry. That's what it is. It's already sitting there and he needs me to move it. He doesn't have the clientele and he needs me to move the money around. So I'm like, I'm going to figure it out. $1 million a day, right? Interesting. So I literally reached out to every contact I had, and eventually it was a USC contact that his brother was in the inte…
Jason7:58
Yeah.
David7:59
Is there any part of you that was scared to go into this line of work?
David8:03
Listen, I— my idea was I was just going to not touch it. Like, I'm not—