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8-19: 'Pablo Pledgescobar' - Penn State Frat Boy A Coke Kingpin Or Genius? · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: You know, sometimes I'm trying to stop from laughing here,
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  Speaker 1: but sometimes you have to look at a story and
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  Speaker 1: look past the horrible nature of it.
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  Speaker 2: And if it's a crime, you got to acknowledge that.
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  Speaker 2: But we should be able to do two things.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you have to acknowledge a crime and still respect
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  Speaker 1: the genius that went in behind organizing the crime. You
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  Speaker 1: probably heard about this national news there was a penn
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  Speaker 1: State fraternity cocaine bust.
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  Speaker 2: That's not funny.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's not funny because it involves distributors and
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  Speaker 1: criminals and all that other stuff. But it's okay to
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  Speaker 1: laugh because sorry, you know the name of the kingpin
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  Speaker 1: behind this, one of the frat bros, Pablo Pledge Scobar.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm laughing about this.
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  Speaker 1: It's last night, and that's okay because what you're going
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  Speaker 1: to see here is the attorney general in the case
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  Speaker 1: for Pennsylvania had a chuckle about it too, while acknowledging
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  Speaker 1: the serious nature of these crimes. Because yes, you can't
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  Speaker 1: have this, but can we just be big boys and
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  Speaker 1: girls for a second and acknowledge something else. We all
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  Speaker 1: love to say that these college kids are useless and lazy.
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  Speaker 1: Then they're so woke and they're going into the world
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  Speaker 1: of work, and all their supervisors, administrators and managers are saying,
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  Speaker 1: who taught these kids?
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  Speaker 2: Did they waste a college education?
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  Speaker 1: I think despite this being criminal activity, I think this
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  Speaker 1: shows that not all these kids are are lazy. Because
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you, even though though yes, this Penn
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  Speaker 1: State cocaine bust is a major criminal case, I get it.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that I'm not green lighting that. I'm not,
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  Speaker 1: you know, advocating for that. We have to look into
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  Speaker 1: and at least acknowledge the genius that went behind this organization.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, come on, in.
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  Speaker 1: Full disclosure here, did I want to talk about the
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  Speaker 1: story just so I could say, Pablo Pledge Scobari.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes I did. We'll get into it. You can
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  Speaker 2: have both.
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  Speaker 1: You can acknowledge the crime and still respect the genius.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's possible.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, We'll get into it.
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  Speaker 1: the live stream, which will be just in a few minutes.
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  Speaker 1: But let's get into the details here, all right, National News,
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  Speaker 1: this is ABC last night and how they covered the story,
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  Speaker 1: and well, it's important though, because we need to get
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  Speaker 1: into the details of this entire thing. So we'll start
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  Speaker 1: it and we'll take it down into pieces, because how
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  Speaker 1: they organize this is really incredible, is it now? But
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  Speaker 1: thirteen fourteen people have been busted. But and that involves
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  Speaker 1: other people than frat kids, and that's important because they
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  Speaker 1: couldn't have pulled this off without some people who had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of power and influence in that state. But still,
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  Speaker 1: here's the details.
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  Speaker 3: Bit grad and a former Penn State student where the
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  Speaker 3: leaders of a cocaine ring for students Authority say they
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  Speaker 3: traveled to Philadelphia and New York City to get their
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  Speaker 3: cocaine haul. Here's Matt Rivers tonight.
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  Speaker 4: But I official say, you're looking at the faces of
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  Speaker 4: the two alleged ring leaders as he used running a
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  Speaker 4: major cocaine operation through multiple Penn State fratthouses, allegedly making
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  Speaker 4: trips to New York City and Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, now that's the serious part obviously, because they can't
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  Speaker 1: just you know, the coke is kind of come to them.
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  Speaker 1: So these two kids, the kid in the left, the
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  Speaker 1: real dorky looking kid with the glasses our. That's our
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  Speaker 1: main character. He's the main mastermind behind this crime. He's
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  Speaker 1: Pablo Pledge Scobar. We'll get into the Pledge part here
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  Speaker 1: in a second, because that's the most unbelievable part of
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  Speaker 1: this story. So he had to travel to New York
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  Speaker 1: and Philadelphia, as you'll hear here in the story, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: bringing back keilos of cocaine. This isn't little baggies, These
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  Speaker 1: aren't little one hitters. These are keylows of So this
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  Speaker 1: is a major distribution ring that's bringing back into the
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  Speaker 1: campus rights. It's the serious part of this crime. Just
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  Speaker 1: to have the cojones to do that is really quite remarkable.
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  Speaker 1: And I go back to this main theme again. We
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  Speaker 1: love to say it. We all have to look back
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  Speaker 1: and you just see the bad stuff. And you hear
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  Speaker 1: from corporate executives say, these kids suck today, these business students,
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  Speaker 1: they don't know what the hell they're doing. They have
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  Speaker 1: no real life experience. Well, I think you can say
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  Speaker 1: with Pablo Pledged, Cabar and his other little accomplices here
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  Speaker 1: and they've got some real life experiences. Their actual names
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  Speaker 1: are Agostino Abateillo. That's Pablo Pledge, Cabar and Thomas Robinson,
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  Speaker 1: a former frat kid, and the frats are involved. Here
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  Speaker 1: more details on the story, and this is a really
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  Speaker 1: incredible part about how they actually got this done.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing junior or childlike about this type of conduct. The
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  Speaker 5: attorneys was an upper level trafficking organization for this region
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  Speaker 5: in Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 4: Official say Delta Upsilon and Sigma Kai frattthauses, both off campus,
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  Speaker 4: were used to package the drugs part of what authorities
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  Speaker 4: called a hazing ritual.
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  Speaker 5: In fact, we found a pattern of events that showed
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  Speaker 5: cutting and bagging cocaine was for some pledges and in
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  Speaker 5: doctrination into the Delta Upsalon and Sigma Kai.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, this is the most unbelievable part that got
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  Speaker 1: people going. You know, you hear kids dealing some coke,
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  Speaker 1: even that level of coke, the amount of it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: people look at that story and said.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that's wow, that's something. Then you learn then.
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  Speaker 1: You realize that these poor kids who were pledging a fraternity,
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  Speaker 1: these two fraternities, to just try to get in, to
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  Speaker 1: try to have a social life, to try to have
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  Speaker 1: the business context for future life, they were told to package.
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  Speaker 1: So these two Pablo Pledgekebar and his accomplice would bring
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  Speaker 1: back from New York City and Philly the kilos of cocaine,
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  Speaker 1: and then they would turn to the pledges, these poor
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  Speaker 1: little kids, what's seventeen eighteen years old, and tell them
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  Speaker 1: you're going to package these and distribute them if you
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  Speaker 1: want to be in this pledge. That is that sinister.
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  Speaker 1: The Attorney General is right about that. That's sinister. And
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  Speaker 1: it's also we got to acknowledge it somehow genius. You
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  Speaker 1: know why, because you've got a free labor system. If
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  Speaker 1: you have business students who understand that in college at
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  Speaker 1: that level, you're dealing with something that's at a totally
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  Speaker 1: different level. They go on some other details about this
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  Speaker 1: packaging system.
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  Speaker 6: Versity says it's horrified by the allegations and has placed
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  Speaker 6: Delta of Salon on interim suspension, but says sigm mackay
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  Speaker 6: is not a recognized organization and operates outside its oversight.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, as if Penn State needed any more problems here.
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  Speaker 1: They are this organization, you know, the whole Joe Paterno thing,
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  Speaker 1: and they've had some other scandals, and they had the football.
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  Speaker 2: Program scandal and all these other things.
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  Speaker 1: They did a tremendous amount of work at that university
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  Speaker 1: to clean up their image, tremendous over the past ten years.
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  Speaker 1: They were fantastic. They looked everywhere. They looked at the
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  Speaker 1: sports program, they looked at everything else, They looked at academics.
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  Speaker 1: These poor people at that school never expected to have
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  Speaker 1: to look at the fraternity system and their business students
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  Speaker 1: and expect them to be cocaine kingpins like Pablo Pledge Skobar.
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  Speaker 1: They never So you can't blame them in this. You
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  Speaker 1: really can't. And I don't blame the school and also
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  Speaker 1: with the authorities. You got to look at this too.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of criticism out there this morning, saying,
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  Speaker 1: God is the attorney general and how did the cops
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  Speaker 1: and how do the Pennsylvania State troopers not even know
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  Speaker 1: that this stuff was going You can see where it's
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  Speaker 1: coming from. Well, how were they supposed to expect that
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  Speaker 1: Pablo Pledged Cabar and his little minions were distributing this thing.
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  Speaker 1: You would never expect this, which goes to you've got
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  Speaker 1: to acknowledge it. We're not advocating for the crime. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just saying you've got to respect the underhanded genius they
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  Speaker 1: went in behind this more and that in a second.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, there's more. How about this?
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  Speaker 1: We got to get to this point here because you've
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  Speaker 1: heard me chuckling about it. Because yes, and as I
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  Speaker 1: said in the introduction here, part of the reason eighty
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  Speaker 1: percent of the reason why I wanted to put this
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  Speaker 1: as the subject of the podcast today was I cannot
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  Speaker 1: stop laughing at Pablo pledged Cabars the name, and allegedly
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  Speaker 1: that was his own name.
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  Speaker 2: He came up for himself, which goes to the genius too. Again,
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  Speaker 2: you got the crime. Don't feel bad about laughing about it.
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  Speaker 1: This caught my attention last night, so Fox News did
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  Speaker 1: an in car I guess, an iPhone interview with that
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  Speaker 1: same Attorney general I think his name is Dave Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. This is the same guy who got
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  Speaker 1: up behind the podium rightfully so and said this is
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  Speaker 1: no laughing matter. This is a serious distribution system that
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  Speaker 1: had tentacles all over the place in New York City
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  Speaker 1: and Philadelphia's exactly right. Do not feel bad, my friends,
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  Speaker 1: about still laughing about this story because of the nature
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  Speaker 1: of it. It's okay to chuckle at this stuff, or
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  Speaker 1: you'll go crazy because he did too. Watch this in
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  Speaker 1: the car when he's talking about using the pledge system
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  Speaker 1: as his workforce. Watch how he's even trying to try
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  Speaker 1: to Nott laugh at the entire thing as he describes it.
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  Speaker 7: Welfia, they were going to New York State and they
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  Speaker 7: were they had sources, and just like any other drug trafficker,
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  Speaker 7: they were bringing it to Penn State. You know that
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  Speaker 7: one of the fraterniteys in particular, used pledges to help
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  Speaker 7: package the cocaine. That's disturbing and repulsive in so many
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  Speaker 7: different ways.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's the attorney general. He chuckled too. Don't you
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  Speaker 1: dare feel bad? And I'm not going to if the
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  Speaker 1: attorney general who's in charge of prosecuting these crimes is
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  Speaker 1: laughing at it and laughing at the nickname Pablo Pledged Cabar, no.
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  Speaker 2: Way, there's no way we have to it either. There's
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  Speaker 2: absolutely no way. I get it.
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  Speaker 1: It's a serious crime. It's a big thing. You can't
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  Speaker 1: have it. I know that, and I get that. And
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  Speaker 1: there are more details coming out about this. They're saying
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  Speaker 1: this fifteen sixteen arrest so far, get it. I understand
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  Speaker 1: that it can't just be Pablo pledged Cabar and his
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  Speaker 1: minions and is accomplished there to be able to pull
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  Speaker 1: this off, to go to New York and Philly and
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  Speaker 1: bring back kilos of coke to distribute and distribute it
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  Speaker 1: out of penn state, you need people who are well connected. So, apparently,
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  Speaker 1: allegedly using finger quotes, here is a high connected, high
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  Speaker 1: powered Pittsburgh lawyer that they busted.
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  Speaker 2: There's other people.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know whether they're finding people in law enforcement
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  Speaker 1: to get this done. I have no idea that's the
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  Speaker 1: serious nature of this. Yes, you're right, you can't have it.
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  Speaker 1: But as we just heard there from the Attorney General
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  Speaker 1: of the entire state of Pennsylvania, it's okay to still laugh,
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  Speaker 1: and it's okay to still respect the genius that went
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  Speaker 1: behind this, because I'm telling it would be a waste
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  Speaker 1: to take this kid and just lock he's gonna do
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  Speaker 1: prison time.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we know that. I mean this is a
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  Speaker 2: major cocaine distribution ring. We know that.
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  Speaker 1: And they have to save face and they have to
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  Speaker 1: bust him. They caught him dead to rights finally, But
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't it be a shame to waste this kid's genius
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  Speaker 1: in a jail?
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  Speaker 2: Sale his whole life.
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  Speaker 1: He's got to pay a price, you know that much.
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  Speaker 1: Take this kid and what he knows about this kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff and actually use it.
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  Speaker 2: It's a reference for you. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 2: ever saw this movie. It was true.
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  Speaker 1: It was a movie about a guy named Frank Abognail.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you know that name. The movie
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  Speaker 1: was Leonardo DiCaprio. Catch me if you can. It's about
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  Speaker 1: Frank Abognail, who was one of the top, if not
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  Speaker 1: the most ingenious forgery artists.
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: Uh, you know counterfeitters in the country.
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  Speaker 1: Yes he went to jail, Yes he did, but the
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  Speaker 1: FBI used him to figure out how other counterfeitters were
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  Speaker 1: running their scheme. Well, Agostino Abatello here with the glasses,
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  Speaker 1: affectionately known by us US as Pablo Pledge gbar, can't
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  Speaker 1: you use his genius? This goes back to the same thing,
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  Speaker 1: respect the genius can't while acknowledging the crime. You have
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  Speaker 1: to on both ends. But it goes deeper. Here's another
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  Speaker 1: little piece that just came out this morning of this
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  Speaker 1: story to show you the genius of this kid.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: It's not nice, it's not right, and I really feel
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  Speaker 1: bad for these pledged kids who just wanted to get
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  Speaker 1: into a fraternity. I totally understand that. Oh and their
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  Speaker 1: parents too. It's like, we finally got you into Penn State.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great school, and you're doing this there. Of
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  Speaker 1: course kind of say, we were forced to and they were.
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  Speaker 1: Get this part of the story that came out from
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  Speaker 1: one of the I think this is a Philadelphia news station.
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  Speaker 1: One of Pablo pledged Gbar's codefendants and frat brothers. His
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  Speaker 1: name is Lars, apparently borrowed fifteen hundred bucks from Pablo
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  Speaker 1: for spring break.
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  Speaker 2: Needs some cash, go down at Florida party with some chicks. Whatever. Wait,
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  Speaker 2: he couldn't repay the money.
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  Speaker 1: This is what Pablo did. He had him work it
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  Speaker 1: off by running coke around Happy Valley, which is where
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  Speaker 1: the school is. So and there's another case here. Another
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  Speaker 1: guy owed Pablo some money for selling coke and he
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  Speaker 1: needed money to pay it off.
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  Speaker 2: Pablo made him do the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: So not only with this guy, Pablo pledge Cabar, the
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  Speaker 1: chief coke supplier in that entire area.
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  Speaker 2: He had a.
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  Speaker 1: Credit system to pay off debts. This is a kid
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  Speaker 1: who's now twenty four years old. I think Okay, don't
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  Speaker 1: tell me that kids are coming out of college lazy
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  Speaker 1: and don't understand business.
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  Speaker 2: That kid does, and so do his accomplices.
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  Speaker 1: Does he have to pay for the crime, Absolutely he does,
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  Speaker 1: But don't waste this opportunity, Pennsylvania cops.
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  Speaker 2: Don't let him rude away in a jail.
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  Speaker 1: Use his genius to understand how distribution networks work, because,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you something, for quite a few years,
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  Speaker 1: he fooled you. They couldn't understand for the longest time,
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  Speaker 1: where all this coke was coming up from that entire area.
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  Speaker 2: They're like, is it as it? Is it the Russians?
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  Speaker 2: Do we have? Is the mob back in this area?
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  Speaker 1: No, you never expected a college kid like Pablo Pledged
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  Speaker 1: Cabar to run this right under your nose.
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  Speaker 2: Admit it. So use his genius.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, he's got to pay the price, but use his genius,
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  Speaker 1: because man, that is something. One other thing before we
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  Speaker 1: wrap this up on the amazing story of Pablo Pledged Cabar,
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  Speaker 1: I think this thing is going to grow even deeper.
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  Speaker 1: They're kind of hinting around at that. If you look
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  Speaker 1: at enough of these crime stories, you kind of understand
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  Speaker 1: it's like we've got fifteen accomplices. We've got fifteen arrests
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  Speaker 1: so far. That means they're working on other things. So
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  Speaker 1: maybe there's bigger names involved with this. And no, that's
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  Speaker 1: not funny. No, I totally get that. That's the serious
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  Speaker 1: part of this crime. But man, I tell you this was.
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  Speaker 1: If somebody doesn't right now, and I'm sure somebody is,
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  Speaker 1: somebody in Hollywood, some struggling screenwriter is nailing down the
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  Speaker 1: movie rights to this story right now and call it
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  Speaker 1: Pablo Pledge Cabar.
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  Speaker 2: It's right there in front of you.
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  Speaker 1: If somebody doesn't nail down the movie rights to this
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: story out of Penn State in the cocaine ring and
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  Speaker 1: come up with a great title.
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  Speaker 2: I want a missed opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: So keep an eye in this one. Absolutely amazing, And
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  Speaker 1: again I've said it like ten times.
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  Speaker 2: I get it.
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  Speaker 1: Acknowledge the crime and that's not right. That can't that
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  Speaker 1: cannot stand. I get that, but it's okay to laugh
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  Speaker 1: and understand the genius, what went beyond and behind this
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  Speaker 1: whole thing, and the balls.
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  Speaker 2: Do actually pull it off. Wow. I'm not gonna say
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  Speaker 2: it's restored my faith in college kids, but man, this
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  Speaker 2: that is something else.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay to laugh if the Attorney General is laughing
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  Speaker 1: about the case, so can you. These poor pledge kids, though,
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  Speaker 1: I hope something. I hope they can get some. I
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  Speaker 1: hope they don't go to jail too, because they really were.
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  Speaker 1: If you know how pledges work, they were forced.
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  Speaker 2: To distribute the cocaine. Anyway, boy, keep an eye on.
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  Speaker 1: It all right, I'm out of material. You gotta get
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  Speaker 1: in with your mid day. Make it a wicked awesome Wednesday.
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