Pablo Escobar Part 1: Baptism of Fire

Real Narcos

NOISER

Drama, History, Fiction, True Crime

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In the 1980s, a new generation of American special agents lands in Colombia, tasked with capturing the most infamous cocaine trafficker on the planet: Pablo Escobar. We’re embedded with the DEA as they track down a man who blows up commercial airplanes, bombs civilians and murders government officials virtually at will. 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

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0:00.0	The world will never see a criminal as big as Pablo Escobar again.
0:06.3	He was ruthless.
0:07.4	He was a villain.
0:08.7	He was notorious.
0:09.8	He was a murderer.
0:11.0	He was a terrorist.
0:12.1	He had every component that represents evil woven into the fabric of what made Pablo
0:17.4	Escobar.
0:18.4	He had big ambitions.
0:20.4	He was able to realize those ambitions through a combination of bribing whoever he could
0:26.0	bribing and killing whoever he couldn't bribing.
0:30.1	What made him particularly terrifying was that he didn't always give you the choice.
0:35.9	He didn't try to buy you off a lot of times.
0:38.6	He would just kill you.
0:41.1	If the American government asked you to move to Colombia to hunt down the world's most brutal
0:46.4	narco terrorist, what would you say?
0:50.6	In the 1980s, Mike Vigil, Ken McGee, and Joe Toft were asked that very question.
0:57.4	They were young DEA agents looking to tackle crime.
1:01.1	So when they were tasked with capturing history's most notorious drug lord, Pablo Escobar,
1:06.6	do they agree?
1:09.3	You bet they did.
1:13.5	My name is John Cuban.
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