BONUS 5 - Pablo Escobar: Coke, Power, Mayhem & So Much Money

BONUS 5 - Pablo Escobar: Coke, Power, Mayhem & So Much Money

How do you rise from being so poor your parents can't afford to buy you shoes for school to being the 7th richest man in the entire world? If you're Pablo Escobar you do it through violence, intimidation, and selling a crazy amount of cocaine. Eighty percent of America's 80's coke came from Pablo and at the height of his power it made him 420 million dollars... A WEEK. He had a fleet of yachts, hundreds of homes, even a personal zoo, but he still ended up dying essentially poor and alone with a bullet in his ear. Find out how on this week's Timesuck!


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480 - Old Blood and Guts: The Life and War of General Patton

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Happy Veteran's Day! George S. Patton was a war-winning, poetry-writing, reincarnation-believing chaos machine. The Allies needed him. The Nazis feared him. His bosses… tolerated him. From heroic batt...

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479 - Rumble, Meatsack, Rumble! The Story of Muhammad Ali

479 - Rumble, Meatsack, Rumble! The Story of Muhammad Ali

He was brash, beautiful, bold, flawed, and unapologetically himself. From Olympic gold to global fame, Muhammad Ali’s story is one of rebellion, redemption, and relentless courage. This week, we dive ...

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Happy Halloween, Meatsacks! The conclusion of our Halloween week fictional horror! In this conclusion to yesterday's release, Duncan Briggs just wants his life to return to what it was before he'd eve...

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Nightmare Fuel 36: Dissonance (1 of 2)

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