Listen Now: Varnamtown Episode 1
The Underworld Podcast
The Underworld Podcast
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so I got a good one for you guys right now. |
| 0:04.5 | Sometimes I feel like I've just heard about every single true crime story that there is in the history of true crime stories. |
| 0:11.9 | And then there's a new podcast that will come out and I'm just kind of shocked at this true crime tale that I'd never heard of. |
| 0:19.3 | Take, for example, this new podcast by Twin Peak star, Kyle McLaughlin, and journalist co-host |
| 0:24.8 | Joshua Davis, who we actually recently had on this podcast. |
| 0:29.4 | Their new series is called Varnham Town, and it's a boots on the ground inside look into |
| 0:34.7 | this rural, small fishing town in North Carolina called Barnumtown. |
| 0:39.3 | The town has only 300 residents and they quickly become corrupted by cocaine shipped in |
| 0:45.3 | by none other than Pablo Escobar. |
| 0:49.3 | Once, you know, all that cocaine and money and everything arrives in town, everyone's life is changed |
| 0:56.0 | for better or worse, mostly worse. It's a wild tale of drugs, drug trafficking, corruption, |
| 1:04.2 | murder, and, you know, fun things like that. And the two hosts, they do a really great job |
| 1:09.3 | of talking to the residents of the town, hearing |
| 1:11.9 | their sides of the story, and just trying to put the pieces together in, you know, this true |
| 1:17.2 | crime extravaganza. |
| 1:18.8 | Listen to a clip we've got right here. |
| 1:22.4 | Okay, Kyle, tell me what you know about the connection between Ario Speedwagon, the super band from the 70s and 80s, |
| 1:31.4 | and Pablo Escobar, the drug kingpin. |
| 1:35.1 | It's a story that revolves around a little town in North Carolina on the coast, fishing village, really. |
| 1:43.1 | Town of about 300 people, very small. |
| 1:46.8 | This is my friend Kyle McLaughlin, the star of Twin Peaks. |
| 1:50.0 | And he's telling me about how he discovered a real-life Twin Peaks in rural North Carolina, |
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