Episode 227- Sinaloa Cartel Leader El Mayo Zambada Pleads Guilty
The Sit Down: A Crime History Podcast
Jeff Nadu
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sit Down, a Mafia History podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | Here's your host, Jeff Nadeo. |
| 0:20.0 | What's up everybody and welcome in to another edition of Here's your host, Jeff Nadeo. |
| 0:26.0 | What's up, everybody, and welcome in to another edition of The Sit Down. |
| 0:27.7 | I am your host, Jeff Nadeau. This is episode 227 of the podcast. |
| 0:31.6 | Hope everybody's having a great week. |
| 0:34.2 | Make sure if you're enjoying what we're doing here on the show, whether you're on iTunes, |
| 0:37.8 | Spotify, wherever you're listening, make sure you leave us a detail of you, a five-star rating, |
| 0:41.7 | hit the like button, subscribe, all that good stuff. It helps grow the show and allows us to do |
| 0:46.6 | 227 episodes and many more here on the show. Got a great show plan you today. I get people all the time talking about |
| 0:56.2 | what's going on down to Mexico, what's going on with the cartel world. And the difference is |
| 1:01.2 | with the American mafia, there's not a lot always going on, but the cartel world is full of info. |
| 1:07.2 | Recently, a Mayo Sambata pleaded guilty to a life of being the head of a drug cartel. |
| 1:13.9 | We'll talk about what that means. |
| 1:15.7 | What will happen to El Mio? |
| 1:17.2 | Did he flip and will he become essentially a rat? |
| 1:20.4 | We'll talk about a really concerning and bizarre and demented report coming out of Juarez that I know our guest was involved in. |
| 1:30.6 | Is there a super cartel? |
| 1:32.5 | Are there super cartels now in Mexico? |
| 1:34.3 | Is that the future of where this world is going? |
| 1:37.4 | We'll talk about influencers being taken out in Mexico, which is a normal thing now. |
| 1:42.4 | Where do we go from here? |
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