Sometime in the early 80s, Ario Speed Wagon's airplane made an unannounced middle of the night landing.

This is my friend Kyle McLaughlin, the star of Twin Peaks. And he's

telling me about how he discovered a real life Twin Peaks in rural North Carolina,

not far from where he filmed Blue Velvet. What was on the plane was copious amounts of drugs coming in from South America.

Supposedly Pablo Escobar went looking for other spots, quiet, out of the way places to bring in his cocaine. My name is Joshua Davis, and I'm an investigative reporter.

Kyle and I talk all the time about the strange things we come across,

but nothing was quite as strange as what we found in

Varnam Town, North Carolina. There's crooked cops, brother against brother.

Everyone's got a story to tell, but does the truth even exist. Welcome to Barnumtown.

Barnumtown is available wherever you listen to podcasts. I'm Brett. I'm Alice. And we are the prosecutors. Oh, uh, man. Oh, uh, man. Oh, uh, And then. The Oh, Hello everybody and welcome to this episode of the prosecutors. I'm Brett and I'm joined as always by my Le a funte de Istresonne co-host, Alice.

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Yeah, and it means in Italian.

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How long have you been practicing that?

I'm very proud of you.

Just that was my first take.

I just went with it.

Some of it was probably maybe close.

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