Roger Reaves was a dirt-poor Georgia farm boy with an alcoholic father who started running moonshine to save the family farm — and ended up flying planeloads of marijuana and cocaine for some of the most powerful traffickers on earth, including Pablo Escobar himself. In this episode, Roger sits down with Tegan and tells it all: getting shot out of the sky over Mexico with 80 bullet holes in his plane, being tortured in a foreign prison, smuggling by air, land, and a hollowed-out shrimp boat around the world — and the day pilot Barry Seal, his friend, flipped for the DEA and helped bring his whole world crashing down.

Escobar trusted him. Barry Seal ruined him. What follows is 33 years locked up across three countries, including 19 years where Roger and his wife Mari could only press their hands to opposite sides of the glass… yet she never left. This is a raw, unbelievable, and surprisingly redemptive conversation about crime, faith, consequences, and a love that outlasted three decades apart. You won’t hear a story like this one anywhere else.

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THE PURPOSE of this CHANNEL: Undercover operative, CEO, Author, musician. I’ve lived in worlds most only judge from the outside. I don’t try to change minds, just deepen them. -Tegan Broadwater, Author | “Life in the Fishbowl.”

Tegan’s BOOK (Profits donated to charities mentoring fatherless kids): “LIFE IN THE FISHBOWL. The Harrowing True Story of an Undercover Cop Who Took Down 51 of the Nation’s Most Notorious Crips, and His Cultural Awakening Amidst a Poor, Gang-Infested Neighborhood”
https://www.amazon.com/Life-Fishbowl-undercover-gang-infested-neighborhood/dp/0578661624

GUEST: Roger Reaves
WEB: https://roger-reaves.com/

HOST: Tegan Broadwater
WEB: https://teganbroadwater.com

SPONSOR: Tactical Systems Network, LLC (Security Consulting, Armed Personnel, & Investigations) WEB: https://www.TSNLLC.com

MUSIC: Tee Cad
WEB: https://teecad.com

To BOOK TEGAN or for GUEST INQUIRIES: Hannah Clark with Parkdale Publicity E: [email protected]