The Time Sean Went to Burma to Find A Billion Dollar Meth Lab

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The biggest drug cartel in the world isn't Mexican, or Colombian. It's Asian. Buried deep in the Burmese jungle are networks of cutting edge meth labs, guarded by rebels and run by kingpins so powerful they make El Chapo look like a corner boy. In 2019, Underworld cohost Sean Williams went looking for one of the billion dollar meth labs spending months on the Mekong, in lawless casinos and hunting a drug industry bigger than any other on earth...and now he's a dad! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.0	Welcome back to the Underworld Podcast, the podcast where two journalists who have gone all over the worlds reporting on and
0:55.2	investigating crime and all sorts of things related to it take you through
1:00.2	another story every week about crime and all things related to it. I am one of your
1:05.1	host Danny Golds and fortunately or unfortunately I don't know however you want to
1:09.7	view it your other host Sean Williams is not here if you're a long time
1:14.4	listener to the show you may have noticed that this is one of our oldest
1:18.1	episodes but I also think it's a it's one of Sean's best because it's really some crazy on the grounds undercover stuff he kind of did when he was running around the jungles of Myanmar.
1:29.0	And the reason we're doing this right now is because over the weekend Sean became a father so uh yeah kind
1:36.3	wanted to give him a break and celebrate this I mean the dude is out of
1:38.8	control he wanted to record um today actually to get an episode up and I was like bro you one I'm worried
1:45.1	about your child's future now and two no we'll just play your classic or I
1:52.0	think your best episode and give you a little bit of break to you
1:56.4	know be a dad and that whole thing. As always we have bonus episodes up on
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