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Inside a Trafficker Ship That Smuggled Tons of Cocaine _ Pirates Inc · History Dark

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  Speaker 1: Pirates Inc. is an extremely risky business. It operates in
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  Speaker 1: some of the most dangerous countries and places in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Some of these scenes may be reenacted due to the
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  Speaker 1: sensitive nature of the content and to protect the individuals
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  Speaker 1: and locations involved.
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  Speaker 2: But I think I got a killer deal on a
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  Speaker 2: jet ranger.
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  Speaker 1: It better be. You made me drop everything I'm building.
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  Speaker 3: I know, I know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, though, it's going to be.
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  Speaker 1: A good deal. Kelly was out of pocket on this job,
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  Speaker 1: so I decided to do it myself.
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  Speaker 4: You've told me this a million times.
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  Speaker 5: I got it. We have a bunch of dogs in
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  Speaker 5: Puerto Rico.
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  Speaker 1: I need you to get me a plane. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: heard that.
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  Speaker 5: Can you do that?
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  Speaker 1: I can do that. This ship was a drug-running ship.
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  Speaker 1: It had a lot of loads.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe what they've done to this thing. You're
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  Speaker 1: the mechanic and the paperwork's not all up to date.
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  Speaker 1: What does that tell me? Really? I'm not comfortable with
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  Speaker 1: this at all.
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  Speaker 4: You're really pissing me off right now.
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  Speaker 2: I need for you to stay out of it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Very nice. I'm impressed, Tony.
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  Speaker 1: Hang on a second here.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta get that back.
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  Speaker 6: Fuck.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Everything's fine.
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  Speaker 6: We're just testing. We're testing.
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  Speaker 5: You're doing it with me, Tony.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I got to go over and meet Kelly because
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  Speaker 1: I brought this plane back from Belize. It was seized
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  Speaker 1: for drug trafficking by the Belizean government, was utilized for
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  Speaker 1: a while by the Belizean government, and then I was
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  Speaker 1: able to go over and get it. Kelly was out
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  Speaker 1: of pocket on this job because she was off traveling,
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  Speaker 1: so I decided to do it myself. I brought the
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  Speaker 1: plane back and kind of didn't do it so right.
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  Speaker 1: Kelly's the glue that holds the pirates together.
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  Speaker 7: My name is Kelly, and I handle all the aircraft
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  Speaker 7: sales and transactions for Tony.
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  Speaker 1: She's the woman that wears many hats and masters them all.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, you.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, girl.
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  Speaker 6: How's it going?
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  Speaker 1: How's the love of my life?
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  Speaker 4: You always say the right things.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, baby.
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  Speaker 5: Especially today. This is a tough one.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I screwed this thing up so bad.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, you did.
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  Speaker 1: So I took it to a shop maybe I shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have brought it to. And guess what? Yeah, I shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have brought it there. All the avionics got stolen out
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  Speaker 1: of it.
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  Speaker 7: This is one of the worst things you've dumped in
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  Speaker 7: my lap.
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  Speaker 2: I don't get it.
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  Speaker 4: Do you realize what we've got ahead of us here?
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  Speaker 1: I know. Look, when I got it out of Belize,
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  Speaker 1: I knew this situation wasn't right, and I ended up
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  Speaker 1: sending it over to that other shop where you got back,
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  Speaker 1: got into the scene, and found out that all the
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  Speaker 1: avionics were stolen out. Well, it's not just that.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, it's everything else. It's that it doesn't have
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  Speaker 7: an airworthiness certificate. It's been sitting now, so now we
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  Speaker 7: have to redo inspections that were done originally.
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  Speaker 1: It's a mess. This plane's got to get sold. It's
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  Speaker 1: becoming a money pit. I'm looking to get this thing
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  Speaker 1: off of our plate. We'll probably make maybe around $ 50, 000, $ 60, 000
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  Speaker 1: out of it because, I mean, I'm selling it for...
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  Speaker 1: That would be a miracle. Look, I don't care what
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  Speaker 1: it takes. We've got to get this done.
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  Speaker 7: Tony, just stop it right there. You've told me this
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  Speaker 7: a million times.
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  Speaker 5: I got it.
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  Speaker 4: So stay out of it. Let me do my thing.
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  Speaker 4: You're really pissing me off right now. I can't perform miracles.
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  Speaker 4: You dumped this crap in my lap, and what am
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  Speaker 4: I supposed to do? You just don't understand what's involved here,
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  Speaker 4: so you have.
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  Speaker 7: To stop this nonsense and let me finish this airplane
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  Speaker 7: so we can.
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  Speaker 5: Get it gone.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'll step completely out. Just tell me what you need.
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  Speaker 1: I've already approved everything. I need for you to stay
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  Speaker 1: out of it. Okay, all right, and done. Look, Kelly
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  Speaker 1: is the best in the business, and that's why she
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  Speaker 1: does what she does, and that's why I trust her.
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  Speaker 1: And when she said, back off and leave me alone
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  Speaker 1: and let me do this, I trust her 100%, and
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  Speaker 1: she's going to get the job done. I know it.
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  Speaker 1: First thoughts is, what a money pit. Last time I
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  Speaker 1: saw this thing, it was not in this shape, that's
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  Speaker 1: for sure. It's looking a little better. King Air is
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  Speaker 1: a twin turboprop pressurized aircraft. Flies at around 420, 450
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  Speaker 1: miles an hour. Goes at a great altitude. It's a
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  Speaker 1: great all-around plane. It's a good commuter. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: business people use them. A lot of companies use them
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  Speaker 1: for their business travel. It's a really good all-around plane.
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  Speaker 1: And we got this plane cheap. So at this point
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  Speaker 1: in time that we're at, if I flip this plane,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to make some good money on it. If
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  Speaker 1: I go anything beyond where we are, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: start losing money. And I don't like to lose money. Yep,
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  Speaker 1: still pretty well stripped out.
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  Speaker 8: They took everything out.
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  Speaker 7: We just put some seats back in, and there it is.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I can see we got the new avionics in.
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  Speaker 1: I know that cost a fortune.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a lot.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, every time I turn around, there's an expense,
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  Speaker 7: and that's why I'm saying we can't keep bleeding like this.
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  Speaker 7: It's got to get finished and get the airworthiness certificate
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  Speaker 7: and go.
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  Speaker 1: So whatever it takes right now, without blowing through the
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  Speaker 1: entire budget, let's get it done.
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  Speaker 7: I can't predict what the FAA does. That's why I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 7: I know what we can do. I just don't know
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  Speaker 7: what they're.
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  Speaker 9: Going to do.
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  Speaker 7: I'm just hoping the FAA will work with us on
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  Speaker 7: this one.
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  Speaker 1: The key is getting an airworthy certificate. If we don't
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  Speaker 1: get that from the FAA and we don't get this
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  Speaker 1: plane certified, nope, no deal. And guess what? I spent
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  Speaker 1: more money on a plane that we can't sell. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm on the go all the time. So every chance
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  Speaker 1: I get to get to the beach, look at the water,
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  Speaker 1: decompress a little bit. Hey, I need that me time.
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  Speaker 1: My phone goes off.
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  Speaker 5: There it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's Walter from Archangel. He said, I got to get
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  Speaker 1: there ASAP. Let me tell you, when Walter calls, I
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  Speaker 1: go running. This has got to be interesting.
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  Speaker 10: Hi, I'm Walter, and I own Archangel Aviation here in Melbourne, Florida.
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  Speaker 10: So we're the technical and tactical specialists when it comes
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  Speaker 10: to aviation.
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  Speaker 2: We are the best at what we do.
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  Speaker 10: And we're only one of maybe one or two companies
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  Speaker 10: in the United States that are even.
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  Speaker 1: Capable of doing it. Whoa, Tony. What's up, man?
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  Speaker 2: But I think I got a killer deal on a
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  Speaker 2: jet ranger.
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  Speaker 1: It better be. You made me drop everything I'm building.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know, I know.
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  Speaker 10: I'm telling you, though, it's going to be a good deal.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, I haven't looked at the helicopter yet, so
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  Speaker 10: I'm not really sure what it's.
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  Speaker 1: Going to be.
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  Speaker 2: But I think it's going to be a good aircraft.
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  Speaker 1: So what are we doing now?
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  Speaker 10: Well, so the paperwork might be a little bit sketchy.
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  Speaker 10: I got to dig into that a little bit more.
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  Speaker 10: But I think we need to go drive over there now,
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  Speaker 10: go take a look at it, and see what it is.
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  Speaker 10: And then from there, we can build whatever we want
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  Speaker 10: to do.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Walter's telling me about this deal. The guy's questionable.
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  Speaker 1: The deal's questionable. The paperwork's sketchy. I'm like, Walter, really?
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  Speaker 1: Why are we even getting into this? Walter gives me
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  Speaker 1: the typical nod, nod, nod. Yeah, Tony, but it's worth
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  Speaker 1: getting into.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a look at this helicopter you're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Man, I hope this is a decent aircraft, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We've looked at so many that have just been.
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  Speaker 1: garbage dumps. But what you're telling me, though, the guy
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have all the paperwork and all the documentation, everything
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  Speaker 1: that's supposed to go with this thing. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: things are starting off a little sketchy. Walter and I
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  Speaker 1: are driving up, and I'm a little sketchy on this
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  Speaker 1: whole deal. So I got the camera crew with me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling them, like, look, guys, you know, you guys
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  Speaker 1: got to stay back. I don't want this guy seeing cameras.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want him to see anything until I can
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  Speaker 1: feel out what's going on here, and we decide what
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  Speaker 1: we're doing. Look at this guy. Really? Guy looks shitty,
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  Speaker 1: but boy, does this aircraft look good. I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the helicopter looks beautiful.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know, man.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see what it is. You know, we pull up
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  Speaker 1: and I'm looking at this guy. You know, first impressions,
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  Speaker 1: you got to look at a guy. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't like to go with that because sometimes the
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  Speaker 1: guy could be in work clothes, but he's a billionaire.
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  Speaker 1: This guy, not so much. He looks like he belongs
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  Speaker 1: pumping gas somewhere. Hey, are you Paul? How you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing?
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  Speaker 1: How's it going, Tony? How you doing, Tony?
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  Speaker 2: So this is the 206, huh? Is it? So what
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  Speaker 2: was going on with the paperwork?
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  Speaker 10: I saw some of the stuff you sent me and
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  Speaker 10: it wasn't like a complete run list or anything on
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  Speaker 10: the aircraft.
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  Speaker 5: I got some.
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  Speaker 1: Most of it's pretty much complete. Everything's there, at least
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  Speaker 1: as far as I know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Everything should be there complete.
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  Speaker 2: How long have you had this helicopter?
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  Speaker 1: About a year and a half.
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  Speaker 5: Two years. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: A year and a half, two years, and all the
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  Speaker 1: paperwork is?
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  Speaker 2: We haven't been up to date.
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  Speaker 5: It hasn't been flying all the time.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we just got it back. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 2: work things here and there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the more this guy talks, I'm starting to
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  Speaker 1: really feel like this guy's not legit. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to Tony Bag of Donuts in the Spanish version.
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  Speaker 1: I got to be careful, so I'm just backing off
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. Let this guy keep talking. The Bell
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  Speaker 1: Ranger is a highly sought-after helicopter. Archangel has about three
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  Speaker 1: of them in our inventory. If we can get the
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  Speaker 1: paperwork and this guy's drained out, this could be a
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  Speaker 1: huge payday for the pirates. I know what this thing
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  Speaker 1: is worth. I know what the value of this helicopter is.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm a pirate, and there's no way I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: pay that. Are you the mechanic on this thing? You are?
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  Speaker 1: You're the mechanic and the paperwork's not all up to date.
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  Speaker 1: What does that tell me?
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  Speaker 6: Well, the guy that's in charge of me, my boss,
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  Speaker 6: that's on him.
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  Speaker 1: I pull Walt aside. I go, come on, Walt, really?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not comfortable with this at all. Look, man, this
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  Speaker 1: guy don't have all the paperwork. He's the mechanic and
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  Speaker 1: he don't have the paperwork. You know, really?
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  Speaker 5: He's got it a year.
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  Speaker 10: I know, but just trust me on this one, Tony.
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  Speaker 10: I'm telling you, we're not going to get hurt on
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  Speaker 10: this aircraft. We're going to do good.
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  Speaker 1: Walt, you're my partner. I got to trust you, okay?
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  Speaker 1: But just don't get us in fucking trouble with this one. Hey, Paul.
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  Speaker 11: Can I talk to you?
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  Speaker 10: If we can get with your partner and we get
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  Speaker 10: a good comfort that this aircraft is something, I think
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  Speaker 10: I got my partner here convinced that maybe we could
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  Speaker 10: go forward with it, all right? So it's not a
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  Speaker 10: dead deal or anything, but we're just going to need
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  Speaker 10: to dig a little deeper here.
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  Speaker 3: No problem.
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  Speaker 5: I'll talk to him.
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  Speaker 1: We can get something going.
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  Speaker 10: All right, can you get a hold of him today,
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  Speaker 10: you think?
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  Speaker 1: Should be. Should be a problem.
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  Speaker 2: All right. We've got a couple things, but I'll call him.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to have to adjust some numbers on
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  Speaker 1: this thing, man, because the paperwork on this thing is
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  Speaker 1: a mess, and we don't know. We're basically going on
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  Speaker 1: a word. And, you know, that ain't going to translate
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  Speaker 1: good when it comes to the dollar signs. I understand.
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  Speaker 1: Just sit down.
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  Speaker 7: We'll talk.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 1: All right. We're good.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trusting you, brother.
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  Speaker 2: Be back in touch.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Paul.
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  Speaker 10: After a whole bunch of wheeling and dealing, kind of
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  Speaker 10: going back and forth, comes to find out that Paul
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  Speaker 10: really didn't own most of the helicopter.
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  Speaker 2: He just knew.
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  Speaker 10: The owner and was actually really was trying to pull
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  Speaker 10: a fast one on us. But we were able to
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  Speaker 10: get a hold of the owner and actually made a
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  Speaker 10: better deal than what Paul was even asking for.
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  Speaker 2: And lo and behold, she's now in our hangar.
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  Speaker 10: So as usual, I proved to Tony that I knew
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  Speaker 10: what I was talking about and that this was the
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  Speaker 10: helicopter to buy.
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  Speaker 1: Look man, this guy don't have all the paperwork. He's
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  Speaker 1: the mechanic and he don't have the paperwork. You know, really?
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  Speaker 2: Tony was wrong on this one, so.
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: I got this buddy, Carol. We do a lot of
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  Speaker 1: dog deals together. Carol. You know, that girl, she has
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  Speaker 1: a heart of gold. She's all over the place. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: she's badass, drives a Harley, handles a beautiful program that
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  Speaker 1: she calls Pet Haven, takes care of a lot of animals.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, she's a cool, cool girl. I love her.
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  Speaker 1: When she needs something, she puts a call in, and
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  Speaker 1: I come running.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Yo, baby.
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  Speaker 1: Carol, how you doing, sweetie?
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  Speaker 8: You never let me down, and you know you never
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  Speaker 8: knock on the door at my house.
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  Speaker 5: Tony's been my friend for many years. We go way back.
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  Speaker 5: He helps me, I help him. Made you coffee, babe.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you're a dream.
• 13:43
  Speaker 5: I knew you were coming, as it's all about the coffee.
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  Speaker 1: You are a dream, let me tell you.
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  Speaker 5: Would you like the bark or the woof?
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  Speaker 2: You know, baby, I always bark.
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  Speaker 5: You sure do.
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  Speaker 8: Today, I've called Tony in, and I need help from him.
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  Speaker 1: So, what's the big secret? What am I here for?
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  Speaker 5: You need a favor, Tony. I need some connections here. Sure.
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  Speaker 8: We have a bunch of dogs in Puerto Rico, and
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  Speaker 8: Jessica's hounding me that we need to get them over here.
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  Speaker 8: Our supply has been cut financially, and we can't use
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  Speaker 8: any more planes. My mission this past year has been
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  Speaker 8: saving animals off the Puerto Rico island.
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  Speaker 1: There's been a lot of hurricanes that hit the Caribbean,
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  Speaker 1: and all these animals that were just abandoned left out
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  Speaker 1: in the street. Her rescue group went over and rounded
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  Speaker 1: up all these animals and brought them over to a
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  Speaker 1: facility in Puerto Rico.
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  Speaker 8: So we've got about 100 dogs in Puerto Rico.
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  Speaker 5: I need your help. I need you to get me
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  Speaker 5: a plane.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard that.
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  Speaker 5: Can you do that?
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  Speaker 1: I can do that. Yeah? I think so. Now, what
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  Speaker 1: they want to do is move those dogs off the
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  Speaker 1: island of Puerto Rico and bring them over here to
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  Speaker 1: mainland United States and get them adopted. So to do that,
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  Speaker 1: they need to transport these dogs.
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  Speaker 5: What do you got?
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  Speaker 1: You're in luck. We have a casa. It's like they
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  Speaker 1: call it a flying boxcar. It looks like a truck
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  Speaker 1: on wheels.
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  Speaker 5: Cleaned out, which means we can put cages? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it has a ramp that drops down the back.
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  Speaker 1: You can just walk up into it. Here's what we're
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  Speaker 1: going to do. Tomorrow... We're going to go up to Archangel,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going to have you look at this plane.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to get inside it. You walk through it
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  Speaker 1: with them, exactly what you need. But I think this
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  Speaker 1: plane will probably work. We can make that happen.
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  Speaker 5: You promise?
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  Speaker 1: I promise. We can make that happen, baby. We're going
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  Speaker 1: up to Archangel to take a look at this casa
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  Speaker 1: that we have up there to see if that plane
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  Speaker 1: matches exactly what she needs to transport all these dogs.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: Walter.
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  Speaker 2: Tony, how you doing, buddy?
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: Walter, I want you to meet Carol. Hi, sir. Carol,
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: nice to meet you.
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: Very nice to meet you.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: She has Pet Haven Rescue and does all this crazy
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: stuff with animals and everything. She's awesome.
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: Fantastic.
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: This is a nice plane.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: CASA is like a flying boxcar. It's not a super
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: fast plane, but it will carry everything you can put
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: into it. It was used by the military. It's used
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: by private sector. The plane is an all-around great plane.
• 16:15
  Speaker 8: My first thought is, holy shit, this plane can carry
• 16:18
  Speaker 8: some dogs.
• 16:19
  Speaker 10: So we were looking at how we could stack crates
• 16:22
  Speaker 10: and try to finish, you know, figure out how the volume,
• 16:25
  Speaker 10: how to kind of maximize what we could actually put
• 16:27
  Speaker 10: in there.
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: We do like medium to small dogs. Okay.
• 16:29
  Speaker 8: And, you know, when we do one transport, it's usually
• 16:32
  Speaker 8: about 100 animals.
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 16:34
  Speaker 8: And I know in my mind we could probably put
• 16:36
  Speaker 8: at least 150 on there, but I'm going to play
• 16:38
  Speaker 8: a little stupid and see what this Walter has to
• 16:40
  Speaker 8: say about that.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we can put 5,000 pounds of animals in it.
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: So.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
• 16:46
  Speaker 10: And we're good for about 1,000 miles.
• 16:50
  Speaker 8: So I would say we could probably do more than 100.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Yep, probably.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, depending on the size of the animals.
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: Push me up, Tony.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Go for it.
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: There you go.
• 17:00
  Speaker 10: So these seats all actually either can come out or
• 17:03
  Speaker 10: they just fold up, depending on how we want to
• 17:05
  Speaker 10: situate it. So if you've got some people that need
• 17:06
  Speaker 10: to stay with the animals or something, we can leave
• 17:08
  Speaker 10: some seats in.
• 17:09
  Speaker 8: I wonder if we could stack a double stack.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely.
• 17:14
  Speaker 10: You're welcome to actually stack up to about here. So
• 17:17
  Speaker 10: it shouldn't be an issue at all as far as
• 17:19
  Speaker 10: all the way up and all the way across.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: So they'll be all the way across? All the way across. Wow,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: that's great. Yeah, so you're thinking an aisle. You don't
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: even need an aisle.
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: This is amazing.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: Very nice.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: I'm impressed, Tony.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: You told me when I met you that you said, like, honey,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: you didn't have any budget. Like, okay, but talk to
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: me about budget-wise.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: Well, we do have a budget.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, you do? You know, I like helping Carol out.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: So what we did is we figured out what we
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: can do for her, and we can do it in
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: such a budget that won't kill her and won't break
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: our bank either.
• 17:52
  Speaker 8: We've been paying, like, $ 15, 000 a flight, and we have
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: several more flights to do.
• 17:58
  Speaker 10: And that was pretty close, actually, when we looked at it.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: I think it's about $ 18, 000.
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 18:01
  Speaker 10: And that's what it costs us to actually run it.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to actually do it at a cost.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: We would do it at a cost for you.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: So that's fuel and pilot time, stuff like that.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 18:11
  Speaker 10: Well, and you said if you were moving 100 dogs before,
• 18:13
  Speaker 10: and if we can move 120 or 150 dogs in
• 18:16
  Speaker 10: this size of.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Aircraft, then it makes sense. It'll actually balance out.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Now, I'm allergic to cats.
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: Cats.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: No cats.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: No cats.
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: Well, we decided to put, if you're going to be
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: in the front in the cockpit, we're going to put
• 18:28
  Speaker 8: like half the cats in the front.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, not that.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: You know, Carol's elated. And the reason why is because
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: we're going to be able to help her out on
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: her program. And at the end of the day, we're
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: getting something out of this, too. You know, we got
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: this plane on a mission. We went out. It was
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: a drug plane. It was seized. We went in. It
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: was really wild that we got it. But now that
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: we have it and we're using it and we can
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: kind of give back, I mean, we're pirates, yeah, but
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: sometimes you've got to give back. And to run a
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: mission like this and rescue all these animals and help
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Carol out in the same time and do something good,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: you know what? It just makes it all worthwhile. So
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: I'm happy. Carol's happy. Walter's happy. We're all ready to go.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: We can make this happen. So tomorrow, we just have
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: to get together and work out the logistics. You know,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: we get this ship. It's a cargo vessel. It was
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: seized from drug traffickers. It was loaded down with a
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: lot of cocaine. Well, we got it, and now we
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: have to take a look at it and see what
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: the deal is. I get a call from the inspector.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: You know, he's working on my behalf to see what
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: this ship needs to put it back in service. Well,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: by the time the guy stopped laughing when I asked
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: him what the it need, he told me what it needs,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: that it needs to be sunk. So guess what? I
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: found this program that they were doing, making artificial reefs
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: out of these type ships. And I says, well, what
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: the heck? Why not? We'll donate the ship to them.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: We get a write-off. You know, we're pirates. You still
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: got to give back. I called Daryl up. I says, hey,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: come on, take a ride with me. We're going to
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: go look at a ship.
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: What's up, brother?
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Hey, Tony, Tony, what's up? Talk to me.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: How are you?
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: All right, brother.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: We're going to head out to look at this ship.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Cargo ship that we got, ship inspectors looked at it
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: to appraise it and see would it need it. He said,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: you could build two ships and what that one's going
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: to cost to rebuild. It's not worth it.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: No.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I hooked up with this organization. Over here in Fort Pierce,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: they are making artificial reefs out of old cargo ships.
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: Nice, okay.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: They'll take these ships, they sanitize them, they take everything
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: out of them, clean them all up, get them all ready,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: so that they take it out and sink it. And
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: then people dive it, and then it becomes a live
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: reef at some point in time. The thing I like
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: about this is... This ship was a drug-running ship. It
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: ran a lot of loads. And the reason why I'm
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: bringing you is because you and I are going to
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: live our old days. Walking around that ship is like
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: back in our day.
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: It is.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Remember how many of those you boarded?
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: You know how much dope you've taken off these cargo ships?
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. There's nothing better than seeing...
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: One of these vessels that was used for nothing but
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: smuggling drugs to become a reef.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: It's going to get blown up and sunk.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Drug boat going down. Drug boat going down. Wow.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: After hearing what these people are doing with this ship
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: to make it a reef, man, they are doing amazing work.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Jim.
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: Tony.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: How you doing, buddy? Great to see you again. How
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: you doing? Tony Pagaro. Pleasure.
• 21:44
  Speaker 12: Mark Musick. Mark, pleasure to meet you. Hi, I'm Mark Musick.
• 21:48
  Speaker 12: I'm a planetary scientist.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Hi, my name is Krista Stone.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: My name's Katrina Collins. I'm the director of MNPS Environmental,
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: and we are the 501 that is doing the fundraisings
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: to deploy the Boise Bernadetti.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Hello, I'm Jim Oppenborn.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: I'm the St.
• 22:02
  Speaker 9: Lucie County Artificial Reef Coordinator, and this is the Boise Bernadette.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: She was built in Germany, in.
• 22:09
  Speaker 9: Flindersburg, Germany, in 1965, and was a legitimate freighter for
• 22:14
  Speaker 9: a number of decades. Finally she was sold into the
• 22:17
  Speaker 9: drug trade and confiscated twice, not once, but twice by U.S.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Customs. Wow, I can't believe what they've done to this thing.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: The last time I saw this boat, I mean, it
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: was a ship. It was a cargo ship. And if
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: you look over here, hey, Daryl, the Xs. There's the Xs.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Every X means that's where bales of cocaine were. And
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: if you count all the Xs, there was literally tons
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: of cocaine. Tons of cocaine on this vessel. You know,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: looking at these drug traffickers, if they went into legitimate business,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: they would be part of the Fortune 500 group. I mean,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: these guys are so innovative. They're so creative. They come
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: up with ways that they can smuggle drugs that you
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: can't imagine. It's just amazing to see their work. Sometimes
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: I got to admire them, but we.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Also catch them.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Literally millions and millions of dollars would have been generated
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: from the sale of this cocaine. And how many lives
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: would have been impacted? How many lives would have been destroyed?
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: It's unmeasurable. I mean, this is... This is almost like history.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: It is.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is going back. This boat was used
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: back and forth.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: How many times it went into the.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Port of Miami?
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: Who knows?
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: You know, walking around this ship brought back a lot
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: of memories. Back in the day, me with a dog,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: searching these ships, going around, finding these drugs that are
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: on board these ships. It's amazing.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: There was evidence of families living on board with children
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: of all ages.
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: There was children's bicycles. There were dolls. There were small toys.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: It was absolutely disgusting. The smell was horrendous. The whole
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: thing was horrific.
• 23:59
  Speaker 12: We got a new home, a new way of utilizing
• 24:02
  Speaker 12: these ships so they're not junk, they're not trash.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: They're going to become.
• 24:05
  Speaker 12: Homes for fish, coral, sponges, and basically any marine organism
• 24:11
  Speaker 12: that wants to call it home.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: You and I were both part of the cocaine cowboy days. Oh,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I was right there.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: I lived through it.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Exactly. And, you know, those were the days that drug
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: smugglers were just blowing drugs into the United States left
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: and right. We're in 2018. And look, it's still happening.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: It's still happening.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: But this one, this is a benefit. This one's going
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: to go down the right way. The drug traffickers went
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: to jail. The drugs got seized, so they didn't get
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: on the streets. The ship is going to be turned
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: into a reef, which is going to help the ecosystem.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: This is going to be a win-win-win all the way around.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: It's a good thing.
• 24:51
  Speaker 11: With projects such as the artificial reef and projects like
• 24:55
  Speaker 11: Voicy Bernadetti, we have been able to have science back
• 25:00
  Speaker 11: up data that proves that the oculina coral are now
• 25:04
  Speaker 11: starting to grow back off the Fort Pierce Inlet.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: It's pretty amazing.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Me and Tony are walking around.
• 25:10
  Speaker 9: Tony's showing me this ship, how we went through different
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: cargo areas.
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: We went into the engine room. We went into the
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: high top where they do the.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Driving of the boat. And it's pretty amazing. It brought
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: back memories.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: It's a good thing to see.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Wow. Oh, yeah. They got this thing ready to rock
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: and roll, man. This thing's going to go down.
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: Whoop.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: It's a nice view up there.
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: It is.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, just think, somebody was standing here driving this,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: looking straight out over here. And all the dope was
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: just sitting right there. And they pulled right in like
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: it was nothing. Amazing. Amazing.
• 25:45
  Speaker 12: Truth is, the reason everybody moves to Florida, especially this area,
• 25:49
  Speaker 12: is the natural beauty that surrounds us. It is the
• 25:51
  Speaker 12: largest estuary in North America. There are 4,000 different plant
• 25:56
  Speaker 12: and animal species that call the estuary home.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: You know, the water quality is the lifeblood of Florida.
• 26:02
  Speaker 9: We wanted to make sure that we were clean and
• 26:05
  Speaker 9: clear and not harmful to the marine life.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: That's our mission.
• 26:09
  Speaker 12: As a friend of mine likes to say, the structure
• 26:11
  Speaker 12: might be artificial, but the reef is alive.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: You know, Darryl, every time we used to board one
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: of these, the guys would always have a lot of weapons.
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Protecting the ship, basically, is what they're doing. This ship
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: was filled with weapons. It had to be.
• 26:24
  Speaker 9: With that much cocaine on this boat, they were all carrying.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they had some good automatic weapons that they were
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: going to, yeah, because they were going to take no chances.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Pirates were not going to take this over. No, they
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: don't back down.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: No.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: And look at the other side over here, too. It's
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: completely rusted out. I mean, I don't even like standing
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: on this. This boat's made to go down.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: What's up, Wilson Walter?
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: So I would say we could probably do more than 100.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Yep, probably.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, depending on the size of the animals.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: So after my previous meeting with Walter, we touched base
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: to make sure everything was a go.
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: Very nice.
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: I'm impressed, Tony.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: Hey, Tony.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: How you doing, bro? Good to see you. You remember Carol.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Hi.
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: Hi, from the sexy game.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Hi.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: How are you doing?
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: Good.
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: Good.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: So the cost is ready to go? The cost is
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: ready to go. Okay. And we got everything cleared for
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: the flight and all that stuff?
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: I've got all the clearances. Customs has been filed.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Everything is all good.
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: Everybody's so super excited.
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: You have no clue.
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: Good.
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: Good.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: We'll make it work. This deal is done. We figured
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: out a great price. We can do it. Everything's good.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: What else is going on?
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: We just got us a helicopter that we got to
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: go test run here.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Just to recap, that's the same dodgy helicopter that that
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: guy tried to sell us.
• 28:07
  Speaker 10: So actually, you guys came just in the right time
• 28:08
  Speaker 10: because we got to go for a little ride.
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: Oh, no, no, I'm not going for a ride.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, no, no. We already said you. It's not a plane.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: It's a helicopter.
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: Okay, it's the same thing. It just goes up.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Totally different. Totally different.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: They're not getting me on no chopper.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: See that bird right there? That's the one we're going in.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Come on.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: I'm not so sure about that.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Come on.
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: Are you smoking crack?
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Nah, don't worry.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: This thing has no f * * * ing doors.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: I know. Don't worry about it. Doors are for sissies.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Her eyes got like this big. I'm like, relax. Look
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: at it this way, Curly.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: I can't do this.
• 28:43
  Speaker 8: I don't ride bitch on someone else's bike. I ride
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: my own bike for a reason. You could put me
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: in a helicopter, but I better be flying it. You
• 28:51
  Speaker 8: could put me in a parachute, but that parachute better
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: be on my back, no one else's back.
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: You put me in a helicopter.
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: With no doors, this is not going to go well.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: You got to press that button there when you want
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: to talk.
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: Hold it down?
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: You just press it. While I'm screaming?
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: Oh, boy.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: This is going to be interesting. Turning blades. Feels really
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: nice and smooth. Great day for flying. Yeah, it's gorgeous.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: We're out flying around, and everything's going cool, everything's fine,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, something happens.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: What's that.
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: Noise? Things are kind of behaving weird.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what this thing's doing. Oh, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: You know, if I was screwing around with Carol, it
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: would be funny. But it's not. Walter was really struggling
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: trying to control this chopper. Why are you doing this?
• 30:56
  Speaker 9: Got to chop it right here and see if I
• 30:59
  Speaker 9: can get us down here.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Here we go, here we go, here we go.
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: Nice job. Oh, fuck.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: What the fuck was that all about? I don't have
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: any fucking clue.
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: I'm leaving.
• 31:11
  Speaker 8: I'm getting off this fucking thing now.
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: All right, hold on.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Cal, Cal, don't go anywhere. Just don't go anywhere.
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: Stay in the helicopter.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Stay in the helicopter. Just relax. You know, we went
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: from shits and giggles to holy crap, this is bad.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Carol was really scared. And let me tell you something.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Walt is trying to figure out what's going on with
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: this helicopter. And thank God he's the pilot. Because if not,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: I won't be talking to you today.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: So I open up some of the engine panels. I
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: start looking around.
• 31:54
  Speaker 10: And lo and behold, I find a very simple thing
• 31:58
  Speaker 10: that happened that caused all of our problems.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Tony, I figured it out. Somebody didn't cotter pin a connection.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, crap. In every bolt that's put on flying equipment,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: there is a pin that goes through and they bend
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: it over to assure that the vibration doesn't back that
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: bolt out, and that's exactly what happened.
• 32:18
  Speaker 10: And around and around we went, and up and down
• 32:20
  Speaker 10: we went. So all I had to do was take,
• 32:23
  Speaker 10: put that back on, and I made a makeshift pin
• 32:25
  Speaker 10: that cotter pinned it, closed it to where it was
• 32:27
  Speaker 10: safe to be able to go fly the aircraft again,
• 32:29
  Speaker 10: and we're ready to go.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: So that's why we lost a fuel controller.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Ah, that's why the gauge dropped the way it did.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:36
  Speaker 10: So that's the reason why it went high, and then
• 32:38
  Speaker 10: all the vibration came on, and then came out.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: And that's the reason why we were spinning, because we
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: had so much torque.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Right, right, right. Most simplest thing.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: The bolt didn't come all the way out.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: So we got it.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: It was in the bottom.
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: So I'm going to re-pin it, and you should be
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: able to get back out of here.
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: Cool.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Cool.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Now that we found out what the problem is, I
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: got a bigger problem. I got to convince Carol to
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: get back into this helicopter and fly out of here. Ha!
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: If you think that's easy, you don't know Carol. Okay?
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: I'm not getting back on that thing.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you are. Yeah, you are. You have to.
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: No, someone can come help me out.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Carol, look, you're in the middle of nowhere, okay?
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: I'm like, no, Tony.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: We're out in the Everglades. I mean, there's nothing out
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: there but gators. Like, you can't walk around here, you know? So, no,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: there's no way I'm letting her just wander around here.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: She'll become lunch meat for some gator. It's done. It's
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: over with. We're going to be, Carol... Carol, where are
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: you going? Carol, where are you going?
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: Anybody out here?
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: No, no, there's nobody out here, Carol.
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: Carol.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: I've never seen Carol like this. She's tough as nails.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: I will stay with you. I'll sit back. We'll put
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: the camera guy up front. I'll go in the back
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: with you, and we'll ride back together.
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: You promise?
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: I promise.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: But wait, he tried to convince me. Now you convince me, sir.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, we're all good. We're all good.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: I found out exactly what it was. And look, you
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: just survived a helicopter crash, right?
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Now listen, listen.
• 34:04
  Speaker 10: The chances of you ever having another one is almost
• 34:07
  Speaker 10: slim to none.
• 34:08
  Speaker 8: So I get back on the chopper and I made
• 34:11
  Speaker 8: Tony sit in the back with me and I sat
• 34:13
  Speaker 8: in the middle.
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: On the flight back.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: I jumped in with her, put my arm around her,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: strapped her in. and hugged her all the way back.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: I still think I got the marks around my hand
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: and wrist from her squeezing me.
• 34:34
  Speaker 8: The only thing I really wanted was to get my
• 34:36
  Speaker 8: feet back on land.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: You know, once we land it, touch the ground, there
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: was good old Carol. She came right back to her
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: old self again.
• 35:00
  Speaker 9: We did it!
• 35:04
  Speaker 6: Motherfucker!
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: Back on dry land, done with the choppers.
• 35:10
  Speaker 8: I will ride my motorcycle standing up, frontwards, backwards, drive.
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: My RV, race my cars... and continuing being crazy on
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: the ground.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: All right, that's all that counts. You're on the ground,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: we're back, you're safe, everything's good.
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: I can breathe.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: You're good, you're good, okay? Obviously, this chopper needs some work,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: so we're gonna get the mechanics on it, let them
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: go through the entire helicopter, make sure all the safety
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: checks are done, make sure there's no missing carter pins.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: We're gonna sell it, we're gonna flip it, but we
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: ain't doing it today. You know, I would tell you
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: about this buyer, but, you know, a lot of our buyers,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: they don't want nobody to know who they are or
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: where they're from. But at the end of the day,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: we made bank. Let me give you the breakdown. We
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: bought it for $ 350, 000. We put about $ 150, 000 into it.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: And we sold it for $ 750, 000.
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: That's a $ 250, 000 payday.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Not bad for a day's work. Now that the choppers
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: are done deal, we haven't forgot about Carol.
• 36:34
  Speaker 13: We are here in absolute chaos.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Organized chaos, actually.
• 36:39
  Speaker 13: And I don't know how many dogs this is, but
• 36:40
  Speaker 13: this is our second load for the week. And there's
• 36:43
  Speaker 13: a bunch of amazing people here helping us load.
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: This is what magic is made out of.
• 36:50
  Speaker 13: Lots of people helping to get creatures to safety.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: It was amazing.
• 36:56
  Speaker 13: Kind of like what I would imagine an apocalypse would
• 36:58
  Speaker 13: be like with trash everywhere and a lot of heartbreak.
• 37:03
  Speaker 14: In the chaos and ruin left behind by Hurricane Maria
• 37:06
  Speaker 14: in Puerto Rico, pets were an afterthought.
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: In order to escape, these.
• 37:11
  Speaker 13: People had to get on a plane.
• 37:13
  Speaker 8: So.
• 37:14
  Speaker 13: The animals were not allowed on commercial flight, so the.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Amount of animal dumping was overwhelming.
• 37:21
  Speaker 13: You can tell we're owned and loved pets on every
• 37:24
  Speaker 13: street corner.
• 37:25
  Speaker 14: And that's where Animal Rescue's based in South Florida stepped in,
• 37:29
  Speaker 14: creating the Coalition for Animal Rescue. Together, they found a plane,
• 37:33
  Speaker 14: raised funds for fuel, and filled it to the brim
• 37:36
  Speaker 14: with pet supplies, generators, and food 10 times. Those 10
• 37:40
  Speaker 14: flights back, however, had a very different kind of cargo.
• 37:44
  Speaker 13: We have been able to secure flights back for close
• 37:48
  Speaker 13: to 1,500 animals now. It's been such an overwhelmingly beautiful experience.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Of course, there is.
• 37:55
  Speaker 13: Medical expenses that are associated with those animals coming back.
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: Many of them are injured.
• 38:00
  Speaker 13: We've had a lot of orthopedic issues, hit by cars,
• 38:03
  Speaker 13: injured during the storms.
• 38:05
  Speaker 14: While the coalition has had help and donors from across
• 38:08
  Speaker 14: the country, they still have a lot of work to accomplish.
• 38:12
  Speaker 13: Monetary donations are massively needed. We are continuing to bring
• 38:17
  Speaker 13: animals stateside, but we've started what we call our phase
• 38:20
  Speaker 13: two in the coalition, which is sterilization programs across the
• 38:25
  Speaker 13: island of Puerto.
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: Rico, St. Thomas, and St.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: John.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: The Casa was a perfect plane for this operation. We
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: were able to get all those dogs back. There's nothing
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: better than helping all of those animals and a good
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: friend at the same time. Let me recap. I met with.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: Kelly about the plane I brought back from Belize.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: She was out of pocket, so I handled it myself. Yeah,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: something you don't do. Kelly made it very, very clear. Dude,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: it's been a pleasure. I'll catch you later, man.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: You've told me this a million times.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: I got it.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: You're really pissing me off right now.
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: I need for you to stay.
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: Out of it.
• 38:59
  Speaker 12: Okay.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Got the bell ranger Walter was talking about. Went over
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: to see the seller. To me, that guy is a
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: little sketchy. I'm not comfortable, and I want to walk
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: away from this deal. Walter got a hold of the
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: real owner, and we made the deal. After that, I
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: ended up getting with Carol. Tells me about moving all
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: these dogs from Puerto Rico.
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: Oh, OK.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: So then I got to get her up to Archangel.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: She meets with Walt. We get to put together a
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: deal over there that leads us to transport all these
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: dogs with our casa. I find out that this ship
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: that we ended up getting was really not good enough
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: to go back to work. So we have to make
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: it a reef. So we're gonna donate it to a
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: group that does artificial reef restoration. We go back to
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Archangel with Carol. We're gonna take this helicopter up on
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: a shakedown flight. Great. What could happen on the shakedown flight? Damn,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: bolt comes off. We end up almost crashing. Walter did
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: a great job saving our lives, but I had to
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: deal with Carol. Carol don't like me very much at
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: that point, but we worked it all out. Everybody's home safe.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: About a 50, 55-foot work boat. Now, one thing about this,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: you know, it has to be quick. You got about
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: 48 hours. So you guys are all set to fly out,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: and you're going to fly into the D.R.? We could
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: be about five minutes out now. Hey, guys, we got
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: five minutes out. Anybody, any looky-loos, anything? So far, nothing.
• 40:20
  Speaker 6: Perfect. Good.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Well, let's just do this quick.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's get out of here. I can't believe nobody's here.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: This is too easy.
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: OK.
• 40:27
  Speaker 6: Gracias.
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: Gracias.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: No. I'm out here. The guy telling me go this way.
• 40:34
  Speaker 11: Perfect.
• 40:35
  Speaker 7: Deal, bud.
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: If you send us on a wild goose chase with
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: these batteries that you.
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: Don't need, send us through God knows where.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: So now what happened? You think the insurance paid off
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: on it, and that's how we ended up with it?
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: We got a bid on it?
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: That's exactly what happened.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: All right, dude.
• 40:48
  Speaker 8: Well, look.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: We're burning data.
• 40:50
  Speaker 10: Give me one more pass.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: I want to try to check to see if there's
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: a line. Yeah, I'm looking at a line on the stern.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: Let me know when you're ready to go.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: The guy's getting out of the car and he looks
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: like he's going to be walking this way.
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: Let's get out of here.
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Hey, you grab down. Grab the other car. We'll meet
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: at the rounding point. Come on, camera guys. Get the
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: f * * * over here.
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: Go, go, go.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Dude, it's been a pleasure. I'll catch you later, man.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Got another one.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: We'll be right back.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: MUSIC CONTINUES
• 42:14
  Speaker 7: Thank you.