WEBVTT - Pablo Escobar’s Problematic Cocaine Hippos 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:04.480 Ridiculous Crime is a production of My Heart Radio. Hey Elizabeth, Yeah, 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:07.640 I know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous. I will 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:11.400 tell you it's ridiculous. That whole food fat of like 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:14.760 putting gold leaf on food. Oh yeah, that's more than ridiculous. 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.400 It's absurd. Yeah, it's That's all I have to say 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:20.239 on it. It's ridiculous. Stop it. You know what I 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:23.200 learned the other day is if you if you get 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:25.760 gotten your car and you pointed your car straight up 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:29.319 at the sky and drove right like I do. Everyone. Okay, 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:30.960 let's just imagine that you have a special car that 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:33.479 can drive like a rocket right, so you you'd be 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:36.760 surprised at what the FOURD escape. Let's say your FOURD 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:39.600 escape wants to really escape. You drive straight up, it 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:43.520 would take you one hour to get to space, which 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:45.879 means it takes less time to get to space than 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:53.080 would to drive across l A. Wow. Wow, so he 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:56.520 did exactly. You know, it just puts his stuff into perspective. 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.320 It's an hour long car drive. Come to go, a 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:02.960 long car drive, have an afford escape? Yeah, I guess, 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:08.040 good job. Oh and you took Captain Kirk with you. Okay, 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:11.280 so you know it's also ridiculous. Besides all that tell 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:17.240 me Pablo Escobar's cocaine hippo. Now, if you're wondering, cocaine, 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:20.560 hippos are not actually made of cocaine, but they were 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.720 paid with it or paid for with it're paid in cocaine, 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:27.840 You're paid in cocaine. They're cocaine warriors if you If 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:30.160 you go online right, just type in the words Pablo 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.480 Escobar and hippos, you'll see a bunch of headlines and 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:35.920 like there be things like Pablo Escobar why scientists want 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:39.240 to kill Colombia's hippos And they're like, what what did 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:43.399 Pablo Escobar too? That makes like the worst mad live exactly. 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:45.480 Dudude Bro has been dead for almost thirty years that 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:47.520 people are still blaming the state of Columbia on him. 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:50.720 I mean this case, it airs a direct connection. Yeah, 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.920 I know he's pretty much less well, he could be 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:56.440 on the island, but Tupac. Yeah yeah, maybe that's a 0:01:56.440 --> 0:02:01.640 private island. Did it is a fun island. He's a 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:07.279 lot of fast folks, a problematic island, super fun. Okay, 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:09.720 so you're ready for a very very bizarre story about 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:11.840 a group of hippos who have recently been legally determined 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:16.040 to be people under US laws. Right, this is all 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:20.880 the same story. Okay. Our story starts in sub Saharan Africa. Yeah, 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.160 just a bunch of hippos have been minding their own 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:25.840 chilling in a lake in Africa. When they are abducted 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:29.239 and they're brought to New Orleans, You're like, wait, what, Well, 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.040 soon after they're in New Orleans and they don't stay 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.200 there long. They've become part of an exotic animal zoo, 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.360 constructed to amuse one of the world's richest men, the 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:39.639 infamous cocaine cartel leader. You know him. I love him, 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:44.600 the one and only Pablo Escobar. I love not really, 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:46.679 but it's more fun to say it that way. Now, 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:50.800 the animals that Pablo Escobar, you know, the ones that 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.680 we are now collectively going to be calling cocaine hippos. 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:57.640 They have become this unofficial symbol of Colombia's sense of itself. 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.919 It's modern post Escobar sense of its off, and it's 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:03.359 also kind of reminiscent of their strange and violent history. 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:05.239 It's a way of recognizing who they are and who 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.200 they are becoming. Right, the cocaine hippos recommend they kind 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:12.280 of represent that transition. I swear it sounds wild, right, 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:14.400 but you have to understand that Colombia is also the 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:17.720 place that gave us magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marchez. 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.600 So having cocaine hippos be a symbol of the country 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.920 it's really not that far fetched for Columbia now. It is. 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:27.120 It's an element of magical realism. Now. However, though, at 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.160 the moment, the government of Columbia they want to kill 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:33.000 these hippos. That's not cool. Well, they also may want 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.600 to castrate them. They haven't made up their mind, so 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:43.120 they have options. Yeah, exactly, f Mary kill Mary, castrate Yeah, 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:48.080 I like that game. So there is a bunch of 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.520 stuff that is going to be swirling around this. So 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.400 there's basically Pablo Escobar, there's a Colombian government, and there's 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.440 gonna be the U. S government. But there's going to 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:59.040 be essentially a fight over are these hippos people? So 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:02.680 why people care if these cocaine hippos are people, Well, 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:07.840 that's because the US and the Colombian government basically orphaned 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:11.160 these hippos in their joint anti narcotics operation to take 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:15.000 down Pablo Escobar. You see, the cops killed Pablo Escobar, 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:18.120 and that left these hippos stranded in Colombia where they 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:22.280 have remained and really proliferated. Just I'm talking like happy, 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:26.760 happy hippos. They are hungry, hungry, they're horny, horny hippos. 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.000 So you're ready to hear the full story of Pablo 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:51.719 Escobar's cocaine hippos. You bet. This is Ridiculous Crime a 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:56.200 podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists and cons. It's 0:04:56.320 --> 0:05:02.600 always murder free and a guaranteed one hundred percent ridiculous. Okay, 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:06.960 it's Forbes comes out with this list of the richest 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.240 people in the world. On that list is this ultra 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:13.960 wealthy Colombian named Pablo Escobar. His fortune is estimated at 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:16.680 thirty billion dollars at the time, which in today's money 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.640 about sixty six billion, which makes him richer than the 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:23.240 queen at the time, Queen of England. That is wow. Yeah, right, 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:26.800 there's a lot of money. But you know, well, cocaine 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:28.640 is a hell of a business, not just a hell 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.440 of a drug, So there's a lot of money in it, 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:33.200 I hear. Yeah, No, it's a good one, Nick, if 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:36.000 you're looking to make money cocaine. Yeah, that's what I 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:39.320 would tell people, Like, look, young people, just major in cocaine. 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:45.320 It's a growth and it's total growth. So Paulo Escobar 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:47.680 he takes all his cocaine profits and he buys just 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:51.560 a ton of stuff. I'm talking. He had multiple ranches 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:53.599 because you know, South American men have like a thing 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.400 for ranches and like the bulls and like the that 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:59.000 inherited Spanish legacy of what are you gonna do when 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:03.240 you're wealthy is to get and stancia rancho up hastienda, right, 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:06.080 So he wants to get his He gets multiple ones. 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:09.240 He also buys a private island called Le Grande, and 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:11.680 on La le Grande he puts in la cassa grande, 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:13.640 which you know, it just means the big guest, which 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:19.040 is ironic. In this big house, he has three hundred 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.480 guest rooms. So it's basically a hotel. No, you gotta 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:24.760 see this thing. Yeah, it's basically a hotel. I guess 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:27.760 you could describe it that way, but it's like, um, 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:30.000 I don't know, like a medieval monastery in terms when 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:32.359 you look at it, where it's like really long, like 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.080 from the when you look at the building, it's like 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:37.400 white stone. It's these like you know, oval windows. It's 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:41.440 just like a really strikes like a boutique hotel. Yeah, sure, 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.720 let's go with that. It's a boutique hotel, something you 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.040 find on like monsierrat or comes right. I don't know, 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.520 I've never been there. But in each of these three 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:51.800 hundred guest rooms, he's got like all gold shower heads. 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.000 Oh for three hundred all gold shower has. Most of 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:58.120 the time they're not being used. Yeah, you have to 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:02.040 it right there. So now let's see. He also owned 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.240 about let's see, you think, fifteen private jets because you know, 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.240 you've got to move that cocaine and that money around. 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.240 Gets six helicopters, a fleet of cars because he and 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:12.040 his brother loved to race cars. So they just had 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:15.120 like every fast car you could name, multiple times over, 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.920 and three whole pairs of pants exactly, and two pairs 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:22.040 of socks because he's an efficient business. I got we 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:26.040 wear one, you wash one. So Pablo Escobar, he's made 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.600 this fortune smuggling cocaine into America because America loves cocaine. 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:33.720 And now meanwhile, he's making so much money that he 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.960 is like, he's writing off two billion dollars each year. 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:41.560 Just two rats, two rats, the rats, because he's putting 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.280 money in bags and burying it. He's putting money in 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:47.120 like rooftops and hiding it up in the rafters. He's 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:48.720 putting money every where he can that he thinks that 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:50.800 the cops won't find because he can't just go to 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:52.600 the bank exactly, he can't go to the A c. 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.200 M And just feed cash in. Yeah, it's got to 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.480 launder that money before it can be used, right, So 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:00.400 the rats they go, oh, thanks, bro, you made us 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.400 some money. Snack, and they would just go and eat 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.680 through these bags of money, and they eat so much 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:09.000 each year that he has to write off two billion dollars. Yes, 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.640 and he's just like cool, not a problem, just writting 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:16.680 it off to the rats. Keep them rats happy. There's 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.720 still apparently there's like all these rumors that there's Pablo 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:23.960 Escobars millions or rather billions buried all throughout Columbia. People 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:25.600 constantly go and try to find it. And the government 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.920 of Columbia has found a bunch of money, and these 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.400 like barrels because the money will rot if it's allowed. 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:32.240 If it's if, you bury it and most likely rot 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:36.040 unless you do something to basically minimize the moisture. So 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:38.480 if you can, you know, her medically seal the money, 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:40.520 you can have a pretty good chance that money would 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:42.160 still be there and not off all rotted. So they 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.640 should have invested in digging it up. They should have 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:49.240 invested in a food saver vacuum sealer. That's you know what. 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:51.600 Public Escobar needed you on his team. I would have 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:53.960 been so helpful. God, he probably would still be alive. 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:59.160 I'm kind of a logistic scale. Yeah, So let's just 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.080 say you were Pablo Escobar and you had a huge 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.440 sum of billions of dollars that you've made off of 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.880 the cocaine trade. What would you want to buy with 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:12.360 billions of dollars? Like? Whatever you want? Pretty much obviously right, 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.320 you can do whatever you want. Now, you don't have 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:16.360 to do something. I know you think of something noble 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:20.920 and charity. Could you imagine how could you imagine like 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:24.840 you could wipe out people's medical debt? Oh my god, 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:29.360 like or like student loans. So let's go something. I'll 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:33.880 reframe the question. What would you buy or build exclusively 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:37.880 for your enjoyment, something that would be a selfish guilty pleasure. 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:41.680 Mm hm, you know me, that's really hard. I know. 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:43.400 That's why I had to reframe the question just to 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:50.319 even get you there, um some custom made Adidas. Oh 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.360 you know what I would, Well, it's not I can't 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.360 even think. I guess I think of like you know, oh, 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.640 you'd build like this, me using a huge mansion and 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:04.800 like so but I don't know if i'd populate it 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.160 with like my family so that I haven't like enough 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.000 use for the space. Otherwise it feels wasteful. I don't 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:13.360 like wastefulness. So like if I if I built like 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:17.080 this gigantic mansion, there'd be all these rooms, and I 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.280 guess you could just tell people to come hang out whenever, 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:23.079 but like other you build an informal hotel. Yeah, I 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:24.840 kind of would, but then I don't like to be 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.920 around people a lot. So what if it's just like 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.280 a mansion, but with all I don't know, not so 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:35.400 many bedrooms, but like a really nice chef's kitchen. But 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:36.920 then I'd be like, I have all this money, I 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:41.360 could be like serving food to people who are hungry, 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:45.480 And so you build market I sound like such a 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.079 goody two shoes jerk saying that. But I mean, you 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.520 have a hard time spending money on myself. I'm such 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:58.440 a jerk, you know. And so I'm not being fake 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:01.560 about it. I just can't make a like I don't 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.480 like waste and I don't like selfishness and so and 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:08.440 you know what, I'm selfish and that doing really nice 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.800 stuff like that, that kind of self sacrifice makes me 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.240 feel really good. That's why I do it, Like not 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.200 why I do it, but it feels really good to 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:18.280 help someone out, and like, even if you have to 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.800 give it yourself, like, it's a really good feeling. So 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.439 it's kind of how I get high on life. I 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:29.000 take it back, you would not dare I paid attention, 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:31.520 and no, I would be the worse. I think you 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.720 guys should not do this. You're throwing your lives away 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:38.600 and wasting this money. Please. Yeah, I'm talking about of 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:44.600 buying the cocaine exactly to get them back into schooling. Yeah. Well, 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:48.440 Carlo Escobar was not hung up with the moral quandaries 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.920 that you had, and he decided to get himself something nice, 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:55.040 which was an exotic zoo. So he's like that nice 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.839 think of those animal I have a big problem with, 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:01.480 like people not letting wild be wild. Problem. Well, he 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:03.800 had enough land that, as you will hear, he let 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:07.400 them go as you would say wild ish, maybe fairal 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:11.319 where they're from. That's the difference, Like not at all. 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:14.440 I can't relate. Until the animals are just in charge 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:16.439 and they get to do what they want, We're all gone. 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:17.959 Oh is there a timeline on that? Do we know that? 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.439 I'm working on it? Okay, I got my car running 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.000 out in the driveway. I'm working on it because I 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:23.880 haven't been getting the newsletter and I would really like 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:26.640 to hear about when that's going to happen. The Pablo 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:30.600 Escobar zoo is I know, the unfortunate for you going 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.800 to be sound gross and and hangous for the animals, 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.959 and it was, but it was also a beautiful place 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.679 to look at if you didn't have any issues about 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:44.120 exploitation of the animals. So you have this like, um, 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.760 you know, well, it's kind of a thing for people 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.360 who have a bunch of money. Like El Chopo. He 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:51.200 had a zoo too, right, and he was he was 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:52.840 in Guadalahar. He had a little come with the little 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:54.719 trains like you know, like your nephew likes to ride 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:56.760 around on right, so here looking on with the little trains, 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:01.040 and he'd ride around his zoo just the head all right, okay, 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.320 so picture the head of the Cinelo cartel riding around 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.960 his little train like he's got like his little conductor's 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:09.000 hat on and he's pointing out, those are my my 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:13.320 rocks over there. Because they want this like connect, they 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:17.400 want to control something and they want to show excess. 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.200 But then also it's very sort of infantilizing, right, Like 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:22.800 it's they're going back to their childhoods, and you think, like, 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:26.400 if you're gonna abandon all sorts of morality, there's probably 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.960 some trauma at an early age. And I have taken 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:33.800 this away from being funny and ridiculous, professor. But over 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:37.920 here anyway, we're talking about murder his cartel leaders. I 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:39.800 don't care if you just psychologize him to the point 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.440 that they are not funny people. They weren't funny people 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:48.320 to hurt people. Hurt people exactly, who are you? Paul 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:52.760 little Pablito who had his like you know, tender heartbroken 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:54.880 at a young age, and we don't know about he 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:56.559 went and bought a zoo to cheer himself up and 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:59.880 try to restore his We bought a zoo, he met 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:05.080 am and got together. So just okay, what's what's just relief? 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.880 Relieve some of the tension. Here. I want you to 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.640 picture the zoo. I'm gonna walk you up to the 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:15.520 zoo and into it. Okay, picture Pablo Escobar's secret estate. 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:19.120 You I've led you there on this jungle path. We've 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:21.760 arrived on a small plane and now we're walking up 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:23.960 to it and you see we are Okay, just to 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.760 put you into place, we are ninety miles east of Metalline, 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:30.200 in the land where flowers grow in abundance. And you 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:33.080 have this land, it's it's right basically at the equator, 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:35.640 so there's almost no season. It's it's just always kind 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:38.280 of spring like. It's just a really the flowers are 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.480 always in blossom. That's why so many flowers grow there 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:42.520 and they get shipped around the world is because of 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.120 this climate. Right, sounds incredible. It's beautiful. The trees are 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.960 filled with tropical birds. The air is warm, sweet with 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:51.720 like the fruity smell of the blossoms of the flowers. Right, 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:55.440 it's just idyllic. You know they're on a seaplane and 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.480 where you wearing short shorts like magnum p I, baby, 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:00.000 you know what are you kidding me? Come on now, 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.720 I got on the Hawaiian shirt, the shorts shorts, bust. 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:07.920 I just need this from my mental picture, all right, 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.200 So yeah, keep picture that. So we come up to 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.800 the Estancia that you ranch, right, it's in front of 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:14.720 you as you approach. As we approach, you see a 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:18.160 small airplane. It's on top of a gate, you know. 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.320 And this gate is like one of those South American 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:23.640 styles where it's just a you right into the ground. 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:27.200 So at that gate there's a Piper super cub and 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.720 a Piper Supercub is a small plane like a cessnum 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.600 and it is balanced there. And this plane is a 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.240 replica of Pablo Escarbar's first plane that he used to 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:40.560 smuggle cocaine into the US. Right, yes, exactly. This started 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.200 it all once you're about to see the wonders before 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:47.040 you all started with this plane. Okay. So Pablo he 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.840 has this overarching like basically catch phrase he's known for 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.880 plato o plomo, right, and that means silver or lead, 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:59.320 Yeah exactly, And that is the attitude that has afforded 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:01.440 all of this deca, so we're going to keep that 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:05.440 in mind. But this place of Pablo is named Hacienda Napoles, 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.520 the Naples the state is designed to look like a 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:12.680 sixteenth century uh like ranch house that is built by 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.000 the Conkys, or would have been built by the conquistadors, 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.760 and his zoo is part of this ranch. So he's 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:22.520 got this beautiful conquistador style home, all of these animals. 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:26.160 And in the sense that this is something that is 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.800 designed to be impressive, it's supposed to impress obviously his underlings, 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.040 but anybody who comes there and he his cocaine associates, 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.080 they're supposed to tell them I have the power of 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.480 the state, because typically who has zoos the state, the 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:42.040 state has zoos. Well with with my man Escobar, He's like, look, 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:44.760 I want people to know through my exotic animals that 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.600 I too can keep a life alive, exotic life where 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.040 it shouldn't be, which is essentially what a zoo is. 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:53.920 Right now, his collection of animals starts with that one 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.320 singular desire and will take a quick break and I 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.920 will tell you about what his collection looks like and 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:25.960 how and why it included the cocaine hippos. I cannot wait. Okay, 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.760 now you're ready to hear about Pablo Escobar zoo. We've 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.440 gotten you to the gates, We've told you about the animals, 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:33.560 but now we're going to see them and meet them. 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:39.040 You're ready, yes, okay. Picture ostriches running loose on the 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:48.880 Colombian plane. Picture giraffes gathered by the tropical trees. Picture 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:52.920 elephants just often too the distance. Antelopes running in herds, 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:58.520 All kinds of exotic birds, peacocks, various other exotic birds, 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:01.400 all armed with semi amatic weapons. Yes, because they gotta 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:04.680 keep Pablo safe. Yeah. And then there are also dinosaur statues, 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:07.879 but the dinosaur statues were built from real dinosaur bones, 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:12.159 so they just dinosaur, yeah basically. And then he had 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:15.040 like also a statuary garden with like these giant octopuses 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:17.639 doing like weird octopus dance stuff. He was in the art. 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.359 I want to go to a natural history museum and 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:25.200 be like, I love your dinosaur statues. That's an actual dinosaur. 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:27.800 This is a beautiful statu I mean statutes like he'd 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.800 skinned that he covered them in like a physical out 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:35.239 in the dinosaur the bones. You couldn't see them all, 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.720 like they're like in there. So it's like it's got 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:41.840 like a boam, it's exactly to look like a dinosaur, 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:43.920 but it has real dinosaur bones. Now did he put 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:46.280 the feathers on it like they're supposed to have had. 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:48.200 I don't know if he was that accurate. I don't 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:49.840 think he wants because I don't even know that if 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:52.480 we knew, actually know, because the Jurassic Park would have 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.720 been coming out, right, So the research probably cooked up 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:59.320 making dinosaurs. Yeah, just too busy, Yeah, with arts and 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:03.400 crafts and cocaine, a single like trickle of blood coming 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:13.480 out of one nostril on the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs all 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:19.159 have one long cokemail just one man, and like necklaces 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:22.080 with tiny spoons. Yeah, little things. I'm showing how old 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:25.480 I am with like the oh you're late seven cocaine 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:30.440 totally as a child. That's what started talking about Frank 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:35.480 Serpico and the dirty New York Police. So now amongst 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:39.320 these exotic animals of Pablo Escarbar there were the aforementioned 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:44.919 cocaine hippos. Now they started out, there were four of 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:46.560 them at the start. That's when we got when he 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:49.040 got those hippos from New Orleans, there were four of them, right, 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:51.600 there are three females, one male. The adams to a 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:55.360 zoo and then Boo comes around. Pablito gets gunned down 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:59.640 by the Colombian government and now we've got these stranded hippos. 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:05.040 But the hippos have been humping and eating and producing 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:07.480 poop at an extraordinary amount. And so now they have 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:09.960 just basically started to take over their environment. They're little, 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:13.320 you know, a micro environment, and they have started to 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:15.679 change it. They have spread from the lake where they 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.520 started into the local rivers and they are now four 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:23.200 different lakes. And then they started to range the hippos 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:25.440 like they get so bad that they actually spread out 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:27.800 to Now you'll find them like a hundred and fifty 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:31.639 miles away. What Yeah, and they're nocturnal, so the hippos 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:33.760 are charging through Columbia at night, so I mean it's 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:43.159 on their hind legs, under cover of darkness. So the 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:45.879 reason why they were there is the Colombian government when 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:48.760 they killed Pablo, they went and they seized up all 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:51.000 the other animals. Right, they take the elephants. The drafts 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:55.600 were like, hey, Bogata zoo. You want to bring them on, Yeah, 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:57.879 but like they could get any takers for the hippos. 0:20:57.920 --> 0:20:59.440 You were like, no, I'm I'm good on hippos, and 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:01.800 we're good. Plus it's a pain to move them. They're 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:03.879 heavy and you can't tranquilize em easy. So they're like 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:07.000 you know, and they're also hungry, hungry exactly. So they're 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:09.600 like Colombian governments like, you know what, let's just leave 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:14.200 them here. They'll build, they'll die, you know, because Nage'll 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:16.520 take care of it. We don't have to do anything. Well, 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:20.120 they were wrong. The hippos were like, man, y'all didn't 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:22.840 even know how much we love Colombia. Oh, son, y'all 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:28.800 messed up. Now we are cocaine exactly. You can't stop us. 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:32.440 Pablo picked us for really good reasons. So here's the 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:37.200 actual scientific reasons why Pablo did them. A solid is one, 0:21:37.440 --> 0:21:41.480 Colombia's wetlands have no natural predators for a hippo, nothing's 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:43.840 gonna kill them except for old age to the weather 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:46.080 is ideal, and but it's not because like they like, 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:49.199 you know, the the springtime weather that you responded to. 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:51.560 It's that they don't have droughts. In Columbia that they 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:53.200 do in sub Saharan Africa, so you don't have to 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:55.080 deal with that wet season, dry season and stuff. They 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:58.520 just have constant water, which means constant food and constant humping. 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:02.480 So they're just sitting there eaten, pumping, sleeping all the time. 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:05.199 And a female can like within like you know, I 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:07.800 think it's forward four and a half years or seven years, 0:22:08.000 --> 0:22:09.760 they can start I think it seven years actually they 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:13.399 can start making babies. So what that means is basically 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:17.800 once these hippo streity going, once they reach puberty, yeah, 0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:22.080 hippo puberty, they start basically knocking. Even though they're all 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:24.680 one genetic population, you know, but because there were the 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:26.400 three females in the one male that I guess there's 0:22:26.480 --> 0:22:29.399