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🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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0:00.0 | Okay, so I got a good one for you guys right now. |
0:04.0 | Sometimes I feel like I've just heard about every single true crime story that there is in the history of true crime stories. |
0:12.0 | And then there's a new podcast that will come out |
0:14.4 | and I'm just kind of shocked at this true crime tale that I'd never heard of. |
0:18.8 | Take for example this new podcast by Twin Peaks Star Kyle McLaughlin and journalist co-host |
0:24.8 | Joshua Davis who we actually recently had on this podcast. Their new series |
0:30.4 | is called Varnham Town and it's a boots on the ground inside look into this |
0:35.0 | rural small fishing town in North Carolina called Barnum Town. The town has |
0:40.2 | only 300 residents and they quickly become corrupted by cocaine shipped in by |
0:45.8 | none other than Pablo Escobar. Once you know all that cocaine and money and |
0:52.3 | everything arrives in town everyone's life is changed |
0:56.7 | for better or worse mostly worse it's a wild tale of drugs, drug trafficking, corruption, murder, and you know fun things like that. |
1:07.0 | And the two hosts, they do a really great job of talking to the residents of the town, |
1:11.7 | hearing their sides of the story, and just trying to put the pieces together in, you know, this true crime extravaganza. |
1:19.0 | Listen to a clip we've got right here. |
1:22.0 | Okay, Kyle, tell me what you know about the connection between Ario Speedwagon, the |
1:29.0 | super-band from the 70s and 80s, and Pablo Escobar, the drug kingpin. |
1:33.2 | It's a story that revolves around a little town in North Carolina on the |
1:40.4 | coast fishing village really town of about 300 people very small. |
1:47.0 | This is my friend Kyle McLaughlin the star of Twin Peaks and he's telling me about how he discovered a real life twin peaks in rural North Carolina, |
1:54.7 | not far from where he filmed Blue Velvet. |
1:57.5 | Really a little town that time is forgotten. |
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