"Freeway" Rick Ross
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Oct 2, 2026
DiamondHOST
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DoloHOST
Are we gonna see Franklin, like, randomly being a bum in the street? Or is he, like, the, they say in the original story of Franklin, some people say it's about Freeway Ricky Ross.
DoloHOST
There's some say it's about some guy who's a counselor, like, he's, like, a senator out there in that area now.
TebHOST
Maybe we'll see him again then.
David GruschGUEST
The government never confirmed that, but you look at Barry Seal and, and his, um, uh, statements in the '80s and '90s and, and it's likely that that, um, probably occurred, you know? And so-
Joe RoganHOST
Yeah, it was all through Freeway Ricky Ross.
David GruschGUEST
Yeah, that's right.
Joe RoganHOST
Yeah, Ricky's been on the podcast multiple times.
Calvin WilliamsHOST
It's based in Cali is, is based off.
Calvin WilliamsHOST
Uh, I think it's Ricky will, uh, freeway, Ricky Williams and everything.
Calvin WilliamsHOST
Hold on.
Calvin WilliamsHOST
Let me fact check that real quick.
David KnightHOST
We had an opioid epidemic at the time here.
David KnightHOST
Anybody remember that? And so when you look at what the CIA and the government did with crack cocaine, using that to fund their secret wars in Central America, they ran that through a freeway Ricky Ross.
David KnightHOST
Folks, it is not about harming other countries.
David KnightHOST
The CIA is there to harm you and I. They're the ones who pushed out LSD and Ken Kesey and their Merry Pranksters and all the rest of this stuff.
David KnightHOST
We had an opioid epidemic at the time here.
David KnightHOST
Anybody remember that? And so when you look at what the CIA and the government did with crack cocaine, using that to fund their secret wars in Central America, they ran that through a freeway Ricky Ross.
David KnightHOST
Folks, it is not about harming other countries.
David KnightHOST
The CIA is there to harm you and I. They're the ones who pushed out LSD and Ken Kesey and their Merry Pranksters and all the rest of this stuff.
VladHOST
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VladHOST
Freeway Ricky.
VladHOST
It was a bunch of different people, and I remember N.O.R.E. tried to say, "Yeah, you know, you only have employees that you pay showing up to your birthday party.
VladHOST
You don't have any real friends." So I just wanna address that for a second.
MaxHOST
And for people listening at home, that is a little bit more than freeway.
MaxHOST
Ricky Ross was moving from Blandone during peak.
MaxHOST
He was doing around 5,200 kilograms annually.
MaxHOST
So, Not quite up at Merck numbers, but still good numbers on the board.
MaxHOST
By this point, they were already in business for like 300
KaiHOST
years.
KaiHOST
Okay, so Ricky Ross really
MaxHOST
stood up.
speaker_1AUDIENCE
here.
speaker_4AUDIENCE
When Gary Webb made the report about three-way Ricky Ross, which led to Ali North and so forth, Gary Webb, if you remember, supposedly committed suicide with two bullets to the head.
speaker_4AUDIENCE
I believe that sent a chilling message to other investigative reporters.
speaker_4AUDIENCE
We still have Greg Pallas on bank legal.
TyrexHOST
But why are we acting like gangsters don't snitch all the time? They actually snitch more than civilians because they put themselves in situations to snitch.
TyrexHOST
And all then part of what Freeway Ricky Ross said, he said part of living that lifestyle is knowing that you are going to get snitched on.
TyrexHOST
Or snitch, you know what I'm saying? So it's like
RexHOST
acting like, yeah, everybody who's a gangster, none of
Glasses MaloneGUEST
... right? And Gael just, like, comes through, and is, like, top tier.
Bootleg KevHOST
So the first series I think a lot of people would all kind of agree that a lot of inspiration was drawn from Frew- Freeway Ricky Ross's story.
Glasses MaloneGUEST
Yeah.
Bootleg KevHOST
Um, do you feel like this spinoff is kinda like a concoction of, like-
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