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Barry Seal

Barry Seal

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Sep 15, 2026

Sean WilliamsHOST
12:39
Yeah, yeah, yeah, way under 10.
Sean WilliamsHOST
12:40
I mean, like Barry Seal, the pilot, and then I just l- found out about Greg Pahoulas, but that, that is a story for another day.
Sean WilliamsHOST
12:48
Do you know about this guy?
Danny GoldHOST
12:50
I, I do not know about this guy.
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6:58
Yet
Simon WhistlerHOST
6:58
it worked just as well as anything Barry Seal ever cooked up.
Simon WhistlerHOST
7:02
So many girls got these bras through customs that NYC was soon flooded with white powder.
Simon WhistlerHOST
7:07
In just a couple of years, Blanco and Brava had so cornered the market that even the Mafia couldn't compete.
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17:14
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17:17
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Juan NaulaNARRATOR
17:26
Another prominent associate during this time was Barry Seale.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
17:30
Seale was an airline pilot from Baton Rouge in the southern American state of Louisiana.
Juan NaulaNARRATOR
17:35
Like Jung, he had first become involved in drug trafficking in the mid-1970s by bringing in consignments of marijuana from Mexico, but like Jung and later, he had quickly realized that there were far greater profits to be made in bringing in the more valuable and more compact Kirkane.
Richard SyrettHOST
17:01
His biography said he'd worked as a Learjet captain in connection with a DEA operation targeting Pablo Escobar and and the Medellin Cartel, and that he later became involved in aviation connected to the covert arming of the Nicaraguan Contras.
Richard SyrettHOST
17:16
And then there is Barry Seal.
Richard SyrettHOST
17:18
If you know anything about the murky history of the 1980s, that name should ring a bell.
Richard SyrettHOST
17:23
Seal was a pilot, smuggler, and DEA informant who became entangled in the extraordinary overlap among narcotics trafficking, intelligence operations, and the Contra War in Central America.
Jamali MaddixHOST
5:25
to fund the Nicaragua because the communists were taking over Nicaragua.
Jamali MaddixHOST
5:32
The people they were funding, what they would do to run guns into the countries, they would go to people like Barry Seal,
Elliot SteelHOST
5:37
who
Jamali MaddixHOST
5:37
were pilots and stuff.
Logan HanksHOST
73:48
How much money do you think he made in eight hours? I don't know.
Logan HanksHOST
73:51
oh million dollars 1.5 million hired barry seal this is the guy tom cruise played in the movie american made in 10 years he made 60 million dollars he was shot down twice in central america lost in amazon 11 days he was in prison 26 times across seven countries four continents and 33 years he escaped five times It says Escobar Detail.
Logan HanksHOST
74:19
At peak, Escobar was reportedly making $420 million a week and spending $2,500 a month on rubber bands just to bundle the cash.
Bobby Lee HanksHOST
74:27
Yep.
Kris CalvertHOST
12:13
So weapons were flown out in the same planes that brought back cocaine, and there was secret training of the Contra Gorillas happening nearby.
Kris CalvertHOST
12:22
Now, whenever a local sheriff or someone would try to get involved and stop Barry Seal, someone from higher up would call and put the kibosh on it.
Rob PottorfHOST
12:32
Hmm.
Kris CalvertHOST
12:33
The DEA would call and say that what Barry was doing was very valuable to them.
Kris CalvertHOST
13:10
Okay?
Rob PottorfHOST
13:10
I'll try not to email you.
Kris CalvertHOST
13:13
The official story is that Barry Seal was caught and indicted in Florida through an investigation called Operation Screamer.
Kris CalvertHOST
13:22
And when he's caught trying to import a large shipment of cocaine, and I believe it was Quaaludes, he cut a deal with the DEA.
Morgan HarrisHOST
5:10
They're like, "Okay, if you had to tell, like, what case were you most passionate about?" I will give you the run-of-the-mill.
Morgan HarrisHOST
5:15
I'll say Barry Seal, I'll say BTK, 'cause if they're asking for a true crime.
Morgan HarrisHOST
5:20
A Vatican girl.
Morgan HarrisHOST
5:21
What's another one?
Morgan HarrisHOST
5:26
Well, you d- most of these you d- did with me.
Taylar JaneHOST
5:29
Okay.
Morgan HarrisHOST
5:29
Barry Seal we did together.
Morgan HarrisHOST
5:31
BTK we did together.

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