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DEA Agent Stephen Murphy | Tom Talks 11

Tom Talks

YMH Studios

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Stephen Murphy is a retired DEA agent who was one of the lead investigators in the manhunt for Pablo Escobar. He joins Tom Segura for this episode of Tom Talks to discuss starting on the Pablo Escobar case, life in Columbia, the $300,000 bounty that Escobar put on him, finally catching Pablo Escobar, and the Netflix series "Narcos" which he serves as a consultant on.

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0:00.0

Big deal today. Special agent retired. Steven Murphy, one of the main main guys that helped

0:11.4

track down and eventually capture the elusive drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, a story that so

0:20.4

many people have been fascinated, captivated by still to this day, like we're all enthralled

0:27.7

with the details. You find out more every day. You along with your partner, Javier Pena,

0:34.6

and obviously a team of other agents and Colombian police as well. The story, like I said, captured

0:43.0

so many people, eventually inspired the hit series Narcos on Netflix, which I have not

0:48.6

missed a single frame of. You guys wrote a co-wrote a book, Man Hunters, How We Took Down,

0:54.8

Pablo Escobar. You can get it on the website, denarchos.com. Sales outside the US can be ordered

1:02.3

through eBay. You guys have been going on a speaking tour now in its six-year and coming

1:07.3

soon, a weekly true crime podcast, Game of Crimes, which will feature, I guess, both good

1:12.6

and bad guys. Hope to release in early June. All exciting stuff. This is super cool, man,

1:17.9

because as a kid, there's something about when you learn stories as a kid. I have to say,

1:24.6

I'm sure it's not thrilling to hear from your part, but as a kid, I'm like, man, this Escobar

1:29.7

guy sounds pretty cool. He's got a zoo, and he's got a bunch of chicks and cocaine and money,

1:37.0

like, yeah, he's living it up. Tom, we're probably going to have somebody stop by and talk to you

1:42.7

a little later, so don't resist, okay? Okay, okay. But yeah, and then as you grew up, you're like,

1:48.8

oh, he's actually not that cool of a guy. Now, I think one of the things that, like, so I have

1:56.1

a friend of mine who's a Colombian who grew up a Colombian and left, like, after 92, 93, and that,

2:02.9

and I don't think people, I mean, hearing it firsthand from him, really understand how destructive

2:11.9

the, this cartel was to the people that inhabited, that lived in this country. I mean, it was

2:18.5

really an insane place to be living at that time, and you were there as an American. Yeah, you know,

2:25.2

DEA didn't hire me because I was real smart. We need a couple of suckers to go to Colombia. I'll

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