Show Notes Episode 489: We Built This City on Flake and Blow

This week Host Dave Bledsoe puts on a Hawwian shirt, drops a Jimmy Buffett record on the turntable and mixes up a Bahama Mama before anyone figured out that he was not part of the wedding and threw him out of the venue. (This happens a lot.) On the show this week we head south to a city of sun, sand and billions of dollars worth of cocaine, we talk about the Miami Drug Wars!

Along the way we discover that a television news man was the most trusted man in Dave’s family. Then we dive right into the history of what would become Miami Florida, and the first snow birds who moved there after they retired. From there we get into how the CIA helped kick start the cocaine trade in America. (This isn’t just something “funny” Dave said, this happened.) We learn how the Cubans were all murdered by the Colombians (Scarface was a documentary really) and took over the Miami trade for themselves. We meet the scariest woman in Miami (and Bogota, and, well everywhere) before we get down to the business of finding a way to take all the drug money and put it to work.  (Real Estate baby!)

Our Sponsor this week is Fast Eddie’s Investment Services, investing involves risk and it doesn’t get much riskier than Fast Eddie.  We open with Miami news coverage of the drug wars and close with the T Sisters explaining big city commercial real estate. (If you hate the Starship version, you are REALLY going to hate the T Sisters!) 

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Citations Needed:

KILLINGS IN FLORIDA OVER DRUGS ON RISEhttps://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/22/archives/killings-in-florida-over-drugs-on-rise-40-deaths-this-year.html

MIAMI CRIME RISES AS DRUGS POUR INhttps://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/12/us/miami-crime-rises-as-drugs-pour-in.html

America’s Drug Warhttps://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/drug_wars/story3.html

Miami flooded by cocaine cashhttps://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/02/11/Miami-flooded-by-cocaine-cash/8767634712400/

PBS Frontline: Drug Warshttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/interviews/mcdonald.html

SUSPECT HELD ON $10 MILLION BOND IN A CRACKDOWN ON DRUGS IN MIAMIhttps://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/28/us/suspect-held-on-10-million-bond-in-a-crackdown-on-drugs-in-miami.html

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