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Listen Now: Varnamtown Episode 1

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6871 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Two years ago, Kyle MacLachlan, the star of Twin Peaks, called investigative journalist Joshua Davis with a strange story. Kyle had heard a rumor that Pablo Escobar did a deal in the early 1980s with a remote, coastal Southern town of 300 people. In exchange for vast wealth and limitless cocaine, Escobar would be allowed to land planes and ships in the area. Over the last 24 months, Josh and Kyle investigated the rumor, journeying to Varnamtown to knock on doors and find out what really happens when a firehose of money and cocaine is turned on a small, tight knit community. Listen to Varnamtown wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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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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