#392 - “It’s all STAGED!” - Top Cartel Journalist EXPOSES El Mencho’s Assassination | Kat Szulc

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Julian Dorey

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🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 181 minutes

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0:00.0	My name is Sherlock Holmes.
0:02.0	It's an unusual name.
0:03.0	Introducing Young Sherlock, a new Guy Ritchie series.
0:07.0	What game are we playing today?
0:09.0	Discover the origins.
0:10.0	It's cleaving. Those days are surely behind me.
0:12.0	Of crime's most iconic mind.
0:14.0	There has been a break-in.
0:17.0	Astoned. You should be a detective.
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0:35.2	They're both a huge, huge help. Thank you.
0:37.0	Thank you. So you're just getting back from El Mancho's compound? Yes, I was there for three days.
0:52.5	How the fuck do you get onto El Mancho's compound right after?
0:57.0	I mean, he was like the most one guy in the world.
0:59.0	Yeah.
1:00.0	How'd you get in there?
1:01.0	Well, it actually wasn't that complicated.
1:02.0	So I got a lot of questions about this, but there was a lot of press there.
1:06.0	It was wide open.
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