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Real Narcos

Introducing: Real Narcos

Real Narcos

NOISER

Drama, History, Fiction, True Crime

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

If the US Government asked you to move to Colombia to hunt down the world’s most brutal narco-terrorist, what would you say? Real Narcos meets the real DEA agents tasked with bringing down some of history’s most notorious criminal masterminds - from the King of Cocaine, Pablo Escobar, to the most powerful drug trafficker on the planet, El Chapo. For ad-free listening, exclusive content and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Now available for Apple and Android users. Click the Noiser+ banner on Apple or go to noiser.com/subscriptions to get started with a 7-day free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

When you work undercover, you really have to play the role because you stand and lose more than just an Oscar.

0:10.0

If you make a mistake, these people will kill you in the blink of an eye.

0:17.0

If the American government asked you to move to Columbia to hunt down the world's most brutal narco terrorist, what would you say?

0:26.0

I was a rookie policeman, shaken in my boots. We would just find bodies shot in cars or in their homes.

0:33.0

In the 1980s, a new generation of American special agents landed in Latin America, tasked with capturing a new breed of ultraviolet narco terrorist.

0:42.0

She would kill you if you owed her money. She would kill you if you encroached on her territory. She would kill you if you personally insulted her. Sometimes she would just kill you for the fun of it.

0:51.0

He had all the resources in the world, hundreds of millions of dollars.

0:55.0

A man that could blow up an aircraft without hesitation. A man that could have a political candidate running for president, assassinated, on stage. This was war.

1:08.0

My name's John Cuban. I'm the host of a new podcast series called Real Narcos. It follows the stories of the world's most dangerous drug lords and the American special agents who hunted them down.

1:18.0

Here you are a doorway away from the most wanted man in the world. You're not expecting him to go down without a fight.

1:26.0

I figured that I'd be able to kill both of them if they had kept that something.

1:30.0

How are you going to arrest somebody who has multiple aliases and identities and you don't even have an image of that person?

1:39.0

We didn't have sophisticated software. That didn't exist. The software was a pen and paper.

1:44.0

You're hearing a man being tortured, being murdered, and you're hearing him beg for his life.

1:49.0

The only destiny drug traffickers have is either prison or death.

1:56.0

Real Narcos sits down with the fearless agents and journalists who are there on the ground at the time to tell the inside story of the hunt.

2:03.0

For some of history's most dangerous criminal masterminds, these guys are the real deal. And this is Real Narcos.

2:14.0

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