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Javier Peña and Steve Murphy, the DEA Agents Who Took Down Pablo Escobar

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4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

During his heyday, Pablo Escobar and the Medellin cartel were pushing an estimated 70-80 tons of cocaine into the U.S. every month. Our guests, DEA agents Javier Peña and Steve Murphy, were the real 'Narcos' stationed in Colombia assigned to take down Escobar and the Medellin cartel.

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0:00.0

The Root Force. If it doesn't work, you're just not using enough. You're listening to software at radio, special operations military news, and straight

0:26.8

talk with the guys in the community. And hello again everyone, and welcome back to Soft Rep Radio. I'm your host today, Steve Vallstraer. We're doing a show today with a couple of very important guests here and ones we're really looking forward to talking to.

0:54.0

We have Javier Pena and Steve Murphy from the DEA and if you guys don't recognize their names,

1:00.6

you will recognize who they took down and that was Pablo Escobar and you know we're going to talk about the years they spent in not only in Columbia but you know where how they got there to begin with we're going to

1:14.7

talk about their book called man hunters how they took down Pablo Escobar and they also

1:21.1

worked on the Netflix show, Narkos, which I think everybody in the world has seen at this point.

1:28.6

Because that everyone you talk to has seen Narkos. Now a lot of that and we'll talk about that too.

1:35.1

A lot of that is Hollywood.

1:37.8

They kind of played with the facts a little bit

1:40.4

as they always do.

1:41.2

But we want to welcome these guys.

1:43.4

Harvey Steve, thank you for taking the time today. I was really excited to do this one.

1:48.8

Steve, thank you very much for having us on the show. We're just as excited as you are.

1:52.4

Yep, we appreciate it. Looking forward.

1:56.3

Well, before we get into the nuts and bolts, I know two of the guys that read our columns and stuff every day on Softrop.

2:04.8

They sent me a message and they said you have to ask Javier, did he really

2:10.9

have sex with all of Pablo's hookers?

2:15.0

Let me just say, that's the one part of Narko's that's true, Steve.

2:19.0

If you think I get, then yes, yes, yes, yes I did.

2:23.8

Of course.

2:24.8

Yeah, because I, you know, a couple of guys had heard through the grapevine

2:32.0

that, because I had done a book review on on

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