Catching The Codfather
The Sporkful
SiriusXM Podcasts
4.6 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Sirius XM Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | This episode contains explicit language. |
| 0:15.0 | They coming back in this is, the numbers doesn't justify, I'm in 75 million. |
| 0:20.0 | So stupid of me, |
| 0:22.5 | I go in the bottom draw. |
| 0:24.2 | Of this desk where they're sitting at right now. |
| 0:26.3 | And what he does, he opened a drawer. |
| 0:28.3 | And I got another set of books. |
| 0:30.3 | And he put it on the desk. |
| 0:32.1 | Right here. |
| 0:33.3 | Tell me it's not worth $175 million. |
| 0:36.9 | I regret that for the rest of my life this, son of a bitch. |
| 0:40.6 | They would have never, never got me. |
| 0:45.8 | But hey, it's over. |
| 0:50.7 | This is the Spork Fall. |
| 0:52.3 | It's not for foodies, it's for eaters. I'm Dan Pashman. |
| 0:55.6 | Each week on our show, we obsess about food to learn more about people. |
| 0:59.8 | For decades, Carlos Rafael owned the biggest fleet of boats in the most valuable fishing port in America, New Bedford, Massachusetts. |
| 1:07.9 | He was so powerful in the fishing industry there, he was known as the Codfather. |
| 1:12.8 | That is, until an IRS sting brought it all crashing down. Today we're sharing the first |
| 1:17.9 | episode of a brand new series from Ian Koss and WGBH News called Catching the Codfather. Ian |
| 1:24.3 | previously created the excellent podcast series, The Big Dig, about the most expensive highway project in the U.S., which completely transformed the city of Boston. |
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