The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast
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The Underworld Podcast
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Underworld exposes the secret world of transnational criminal networks that have flourished since there were banks to bust, drugs to smuggle, and scams to run. Journalists Danny Gold and Sean Williams bring their experience reporting on dangerous people and organizations to take listeners on a global tour of mobsters, warlords and crooks - from Brooklyn to Beijing, from the streets to the boardrooms - and everywhere in between. Underworld is a show about heroes, villains, and the barely visible mafias that affect all our lives, whether we know it or not.

  1. 3 DAYS AGO

    North Korea's Meth Trafficking: The Hermit Narco-Kingdom

    When a bizarre group of international gangsters shook on a massive meth deal with a DEA agent in Bangkok, Thailand eight years ago, it kicked off a manhunt ensnaring Hong Kong Triads, Outlaws bikers and an ex-US Army sniper’s band of contract killers. But the bust also shone a light on the shady drug network of North Korea, part of a crime machine fuelling the world’s maddest dictatorship. This is the story of how a war-torn Hermit Kingdom became a narco-trafficking, cash-counterfeiting, pimping Mafia state. An Underworld Classic Merch: https://underworldpodcast.myshopify.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    59 min

  2. 15 OCT

    Indian Posse: The Native Teen Gang Ruling Canada's Prisons

    Danny and Richard Wolfe were barely even teenagers when they formed the Indian Posse in their mother's basement with a handful of friends, but they had already been living the street life since they were in grade school, robbing, stealing and fighting. Never did they expect that within a few short years, the gang would balloon to hundreds and then thousands of members, taking shape in Winnipeg's poor and violent North End where there was no shortage of poor indigenous teens from broken families looking for brotherhood. Drug-dealing, pimping, armed robberies and murders went along with it. The Indian Posse exploded into Canada's western prairies in the 1990's and soon came to dominate the prisons, enforcing their reign with brutal violence. This the story of how the Wolfe brothers founded the gang, and then succumbed to its violent nature. MERCH: https://underworldpodcast.myshopify.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 5m

  3. 11 OCT • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    BONUS: How Balkan Hackers Laid the Groundwork for Modern Tech Warfare, w/ Matt Potter

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    57 min

  4. 8 OCT

    The Warring Prison Cartels Carving up Ecuador

    Jon Lee Anderson is an author and staff writer at The New Yorker. Anderson recently profiled Ecuador’s young president Daniel Noboa for a piece entitled “Ecuador’s Risky War on Narcos”. Jon Lee spoke about his weeks long visit to the embattled nation, its place in the wider drug world, and how political movements across Latin America have metastasized into the biggest and most violent underworld on the planet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 13m

  5. 3 OCT • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    BONUS: Mexico's New Cartel Wars with Ioan Grillo

    Author and journalist Ioan Grillo returns to the podcast to talk about Mexico's new cartel wars and try to make sense of what the hell is happening in Culiacan, the Chapitos, El Mayo's arrest, and the civil war brewing in the Sinaloa cartel.

    32 min

  6. 1 OCT

    The Cartel That Went to War w/Pablo Escobar: The Gentlemen of Cali

    As Colombia's cocaine industry exploded in the 1980's, Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel became the dominant player, capturing headlines across the world. But there was a second cartel rising up, one that operated more in the shadows and would soon grow more powerful - and more profitable - than even Medellin. The Gentlemen of Cali were slick, sophisticated and always looking for a solution that wouldn't attract headlines. They fancied themselves businessmen and aristocrats, and as Pablo went to war on the state, they invested hundreds of millions into businesses and politicians all over Colombia. Though originally good-natured rivals, the Cali and Medellin cartels maintained decent relations...only they didn't. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 3m

  7. 24 SEPT

    How Chinese Money Launderers Took Over the Narco Underworld

    When gunmen ambushed a Mexican-Chinese businessman outside his Guatemala City casino in 2016, few outside the DEA paid much attention. But the shootout presaged the downfall of a man who, feds would later say, hadn’t just made a tidy living out of money laundering, but pioneered it. But Xizhi Li, who grew up in the border town of Mexicali, was just one of a new army of Chinese money launderers who, tooled with millennia of underground banking skills, and China’s own economic policies, have become the go-to guys for Latin American cartels looking to wash their dirty cash. And with fentanyl flooding America’s streets, their work is becoming deadlier by the day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    52 min

  8. 23 SEPT • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    BONUS: Bum Farto Theme Song

    Due to popular demand, we have released the original Bum Farto drill track produced by our audio producer, Dale. Please ensure that it goes viral.

    1 min
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Underworld exposes the secret world of transnational criminal networks that have flourished since there were banks to bust, drugs to smuggle, and scams to run. Journalists Danny Gold and Sean Williams bring their experience reporting on dangerous people and organizations to take listeners on a global tour of mobsters, warlords and crooks - from Brooklyn to Beijing, from the streets to the boardrooms - and everywhere in between. Underworld is a show about heroes, villains, and the barely visible mafias that affect all our lives, whether we know it or not.

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  • Creator
    The Underworld Podcast
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    235
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    Copyright © 2002 Airwave Media. All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    The Underworld Podcast
  • Provider
    Daniel Gold

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