We did something a little different this week and gave ya'll a full documentary. Shout to Timmy and Craig! This is the one of the wildest stories we have ever told on the channel. Make sure to go support them and leave us a like a comment, let's blow this one up!!
IF THEY NEVER LOST A LOAD THEN HOW DID THEY GET ‘taken down’ by the feds? God you’re not good liars. This whole genre of prison con men are bad actors and liars 🤣🤣🤣🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂
I enjoyed this video alot more than previous. Only thing I didn't like was it was too short. Im a florida boy born raised. There is handful of other family in south florida that have similar stories but with planes and or go fast boats. Look em up for future videos. Eddie trotta motorcycles and ask about his past. others that did plane trips in Central South, Florida . gringo Billy has some stories. Steve lamb.. Need to be at least 1hour videos. But it was a nice change because you weren't constantly cutting off your guest.
Really really liking this format bro. No one else has anything on this level without including a ton of fluff and bullshit into it. This is a fucking awesome doco, I feel like you'd be able to do so many amazing docos like this, esp with the access you get from the trust people have in you for keeping it real, you'd be able to tell stories that no one else could even begin to properly tell. I'm so fucking excited to see what other projects come from your direction, every talk you have with guests instils so much nostalgia, I don't ever get that feeling from the vids/talks coming from Vice, Insider, NatGeo, etc. None of them even come close to yours. Thank you for existing mate.
@@jeffozbourne3163 Johnny is a liar and embellished a lot of his stories and is just lame that got caught, it’s the seal and military green beret imposter syndrome. Do you know way that is? It’s a mental disorder where a guy did soo bad in military or got booted and discharged disgracefully and then years later they GROSSLY overcompensated for it. Don Shipley navy seal guy that puts the fakes and calls them out and verify them has a channel here on RU-vid and he talks about it all the time. The prison genre is no different, it’s the exact same thing. Gus were lames in the role game, they were nobody’s, Johnny was never even a grower it’s like a bartender glorifying themselves calling themselves mixologists! They didn’t even brew the beer or distill the alcohol! But they try to take all the credit! Johnny is such a pretty boy loser he never even grew any weed!! He has no knowledge and no skills and was just a sucker middle man! The growers are the real men! They have the knowledge and skills and education and work ethic! People are toooo stoopid to think it thru and realize these guys are all middle men! Mid lame boys! The growers are the seals and berets! The middle men are the marines front line dummy’s that are sacrificed first! That’s why they are also sacrificed and going to jail first! The growers are the real Gs and smart guys and should be respected but the average masses of citizens in the world are also idiots so it’s not surprising But whatever, I already got thru the game clean and with all my front teeth and a straight nose!
I’ve been fishing out there a lot recently. Heard about the stories since I was young. Born and raised in Miami 35 years. The Everglades is a magical place with a crazy history
Anybody seen the middle class in Dade ? Wife and I lived on Collins 33141 in an art deco with ele vator and doorman purchased by my grandparents in 1945 . Remarkably I Beverly got the need to use coca cola did nt fit my schedule or petsona . Just lucky or disciplined I guess . The building still stands and in the family used as time share for those that come up from south America. Fond memories , 2nd son born there . Wife and I went to Calle Ocho 1st year it started mid 80s I believe. Great Cuban provincial music and food .Good times.my close friends never used coca cola just grass .we were disciplined former military .jumping junkies 82nd out of Bragg .
From growing up in a 3 generation of growing weed up in the mountains from the Mexican side I love these stories , my dad always told me he never had to carry a gun in the weed business and he took pride in that
I was born and raised in Southwest Florida. My family has had a camp in the Everglades for 50+ years. I love these old saltwater cowboy and Cocaine cowboy stories.
There was 34 boats in their ring when they got busted . Most the guys did 10-15 in the feds in Texas . My dad didn’t do time cause he didn’t buy houses and property and the big boats . We were on the east coast . My dad said the first trip he ever did had 3,000 pounds. Everything was good until the coke came , it changed everything.
What’s crazy is 3000 lb of weed was probably half a million or so wholesale. With coke you can put 120lb in there, take up a small area of the boat, and make double. I’d prefer cocaine never came to America myself but it’s just the only thing that made sense for the guys bringing it in
Had the pleasure of working with Tim's son when I was younger good ole boy. We busted ass in underground construction in our early 20s he told me stories about his pops.. throughout his chaos he raised a great son
@@timmcbride542 You guys were the smart ones,I built boats in Marathon for the dumb ones that hauled the big C. Before I moved to Texas in 2001 some of em were starting to get out of prison and coming back to the keys........😉
We just went to Chokoloskee island recently. They have some awesome history there and much of the old infrastructure is still there to see. Really interesting stuff, i recommend going to see it while you still can. The national park is really beautiful as well. Shoutout the cowboys, we're still smoking tough over here!
Johnny,This is the greatest podcast out right now!!!Getting the stories that you see in 30 minute shows on the history channel in long form with the people that lived it is absolutely amazing.
Thanks for this, it was great! I got to share 4 bales of that Santa Marta Valley Gold Bud my roommates got back in the day. I imagine it was from this group. They flew down to Fla, got off the plane & were handed keys to a rental car already loaded. All they had to do was drive back to KC & in two weeks turn over what they didn't sell along with the money for what they did sell to the next in line under them, out of 10 in line total. The shipments rarely ever got to the number 3 guy, & only somewhat ever got to the number 2 guy, as the 1st in line was so proficient at turning it over. My roommates were able to keep what they didn't sell in the 2 weeks by paying for the rest from what was already sold. Then they ounced it out & took around 7 months to turn it at $50 oz. This gold bud was better than Colombian brown or red bud by a little, but it sure wasn't better than Thai or Hawaiian.
These guys were rock stars back in the day. They were super stars. They made tons of money and never hurt anyone. Just the fact that they resisted the urge to sling coke says a lot about them.
My dad used to run with the conchs in the late 60’s 70’s . They used to run bails . Thousands and thousands of pounds . Some of them are dead some are still alive . My dad’s been dead awhile now . I’ve seen bedroom filled with bails , big black squares , I didn’t know what they were at the time .
2:39 hey, that’s my cousin - my dad was Craig Sr’s brother in law. My dad lived in our hometown on Chokoloskee and told me and my brother how he smuggled pot back in the day around the Gulf of Mexico sometimes, and it’s awesome to see my family on RU-vid in a documentary like this.
I grew up in sw Florida and remember my friends telling me about how dad use to pick up bails off sanibel that would be floating around, sometimes they would be in the west part of the county and run across bails just sitting in open fields which is on the outskirts of the Everglades and no one seemed to care.
I started smoking pot in 1968. The pot that stands out the most that I smoked back then was the columbian gold. Best pot I ever smoked, and there is a lot of really good pot out there right now, but not as good as the Columbian Gold.
Uh… so? So you’re late and a middle man and bum and have nothing to do with this then? That’s your premise of this supposed brag of a comment? That you’re nobody? 😉😉😉🤣🤣🤣🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂
Great history, grew up in central Florida. Had to leave at the age of 59 to the Ozark Mountains. Never been so homesick. Never going back. I miss those good old days. Wish I could have found one of those stash houses when I was young. Ha ha.
I used to work with an older guy that grew up in south Florida. He told me about the "square grouper" thing. He didn't use those words but he said they used to find bails of weed that floated up to the shore and would just help themselves.
There's stories similar to this on the American/Canadian border between Maine and New Brunswick...First it was Alcohol during prohibition era, like in this story...Many small Islands between Maine and New Brunswick...My Great Grand father was a rum runner in those days...Then as times changed it eventually transitioned into smuggling Marijuana from the USA into Canada...The Marijuana was being grown during the summers and in basements at the Native Reserve in Maine, built right on the shores bordering New Brunswick and Maine....Very similar storys...Proud to be a part of one of those families. My great grand father had many tails!
I’m from Cape Coral fl. Fort myers basically. Everyone older talks about how you could always find bales floating in the sanibel beach and captiva island pass. My uncle said usually it was ruined from mold because of the humidity in the bags not that the bales where leaking. So he wound up with 20 out of a 25 lbs off the pot
I m in my late 60s and grew up on Ft Lauderdale beach about only 45 homes on the sand north of Sunrise Blvd and south of Oakland Park .The home is still in the family.Year after year we would find bales of weed floating up on the beach in the early morning and my brothers and neighbors were able to retrieve a lot and stored them in a loft in out garage until we could eventually sell them off by the bale .This happened at least a half a dozen times over a period of ten years .,One morning we spoted a huge haul of bales along the beach and were about to start taking them until a dozen of Ft.Lauderdale cops showed up at to beach entrances to retrieve the bales .One of our juvenlie neighbors called the police before we could get our hands on them .Luckily , we were a little late because one of our friends who didnt live on the beach got caught by the cops throwing two bales into his pick up and drove off so nto nbe stopped .The neighborhood kid got reamed out fdorr being a dope goodie goodie baby boy .Yeras later our youngest sister married the idiot .We never let him live it down.
This is great! It would be cool to hear more stories from them of how they lived while running. The lifestyle aside from just running boats. Thats always intriguing.
That town is solid asf for keeping their mouths shut for 40 years. Goes to show its not usually what you're doing its who you're doing it with when it comes down to if youre going to get away w it or not.
!!!..GREAT CONTENT...!! Man!!! Thanks to" THE CONNECT"!!,for sharing this awesome story!the Daniels brothers,and families, families...of Southern Florida.Blessed with the ocean. all of its mystic and wonder, beaches , and the "Balls". to take on their own adventures, and live to tell the sweet ass stories, of making the best of it ! I truely feel this Story, and "The Connect" HIT A HOME RUN HERE this is beautiful! triumph,and evolution to path, that pathway. and enrich the communities",far and wide" Served the Greater Good.. to the Cowboy Crew members... These guys should be commended ! for the ability to stick to the grass,and away from the coca. Good ol boys, have that ability. too "listen to their consciousness".
His story is much like that of my great grandfather. He was a mail runner and moonshine smuggler. Needed to be a gringo to move thru certain territory. His shock red hair was how he was identified as the “trusted” gringo. He supplied both sides, obviously. He retired as a bank owner. My grandmother and great aunt were seamstresses and they supplied the underground outlets with the smuggled alcohol in the 30s. Family Things 😄
I'm 60 years old and that was the most amazing story I have ever heard and I think it's all when they couldn't get money from the part just like it is today and if they would have legalized it across the board we wouldn't be in this shape. I smoke at 9:00 and a legal state but that don't mean I'm going to give it up
😢We stopped at an abandoned gas station off A1A because 1 of our surf buddies had to take an emergency dump. We found 10 bailes of weed behind the building. My friend's were pissed because I wouldn't take any in my car. I thought it was a set up, or the dealers were going to show up at any minute and kill us. I took one of the guys back to pick up his dads station wagon. I didn't go back with them, they came back with 4 bails. They went back again, the rest was gone. They made a poloroid where they fashioned a throne out of it with Jimmy sitting high with a bottle of crown on his head, holding a shotgun as a scepter. It made the rounds at our school and was a great sales gimmick. Everyone knew he was the " "go to" guy.
My dad used to watch the planes drop barrels of coke and weed in the everglades. They would rush over on airboats to pick them up. Sometimes he would see the packages that broke and they left behind just floating. Chokolosee is a great fishing spot I still go to today.
Would love to see an interview with Steve Lamb from St. Petersburg. He was one of the Steinhatchee seven I ran into him in Sebastian Florida a couple years ago.
This one is BAD ASS! Thank you guys for the great work. Bet those plant’s were definitely high THC. you can tell by your fingers getting all resin, & moth. Real DOPE..
I find it hilarious how far they got with no one snitching . I grew weed in the Oregon Coast range in the nineties and pretty much everyone I ever dealt with was a massive talker. Even the biker affiliates.
As someone who used to be in the business and dealt with the Feds, it sounds like you had some loose lips. That sucks man, I hope you didn't have to do much time if you did.
@@StonerCreek74 Never got busted. I did get followed by a helicopter. And when I got fed up and started throwing my plants into the river behind my house (in the middle of the night) the cops immediately started scanning the bushes with flood lights. It was a small town. I think they really just got off on watching people. Must have spent thousands watching me. But never did anything.
I lived in Minnesota in the 70s and 80s but was from South Florida and on my friends dairy farm the older brothers had 100ds of pounds of weed stashed in the barn
You should get Retired Agent Chris Feistl on your show. He started off his DEA career busting these guys. His cover for action was as a fish boat Captain in Keywest. Chris is a great guy and has some wild stories. I call BS that the Cubans paid 175 a pound in the 80’s. Maybe 175 a bail.
Sorry, you are so wrong. They paid us $175 a pound to import it. Those 80lb bale were worth right at $28.000 each here in the states! Everyone was making plenty of money. I was there in the middle of it all. I'm curious, where were you?
I cant imagine how those guys were able to navigate that water at night with no lights i couldnt even begin to phathom how dark it was out there and boats going both ways passing each other and not crashing is insane
Now this can’t come back to him but my stepdad was apart of those crews with his uncle back in the 70’s & 80’s! He told me story’s of crab but at full of bails of weed, I always thought he was bs me till this came out!
I was born in Miami in the 80s and I grew up in Miramar and Hollywood in the 90s and early 2000s. One of my friends at schools fathers was one of the white Rastafarian selling that bud. We were getting Oz for 50 bucks an ounce at the age of 10 15 years old those were the good old days 😁
Same thing happened in NW Florida net fisherman smuggling Pot from Belize to Louisiana and transporting it as far as New York City however everything comes to an end
My Uncles Tim & James Williams & Charles Barwick done federal prison time in the 80's as part of THE company, they owned boats, tractor trailers & 4 Williams Seafood Restaurants up the east coast along I95 for drop & shipping facilities. Was living LARGE then & today still. They served time for conspiracy,
Brother, as a 26 year old kid in Colombia, I've seen valleys and mountain sides with plants growing as far as the eye could see. Millions of pounds all over northern Colombia lowlands, it was Red Bud!
Thank you for your service weed smugglers😊 Maryjane helped me get off 16 pills a day. I'm in my 60s. It has a bad rap! It's not habit forming. I could go on. Legalize so we don't have a black market ran my " gang" members. Alcohol is wwway worse! Never touch the stuff.
Mary Jane is definitely habit forming, even addictive, but it’s definitely the lesser of two evils. It’s not good for the cause to act as if it has zero consequences or downsides. Much respect to you for stopping the pills❤
@@mattlel3194 MS is no joke or any other illness. If feeling better is the objective, why not accept it for its healing properties, that's what is habit forming. I can go months without using.🤷 Those doctors prescribed one pill, then give you another for the side effects. Antidepressants might work for some they were terrible for me. They give children a drug that equals amphetamines. Then wonder why they turn to street drugs... Nature's best meds is a plant!
Yeah I live in Kentucky and know a lot of people down there in Florida remember when I was young going out gator hunting on the front of airboat,,,,,, 25 years ago 35 years,,, we met some big old cajon boys,,,, and that's what they did,,,,, never forget the night they took me out catching frogs and we probably caught 600😅😅😅
