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The Steve Austin Show

Varnamtown! Available now!

The Steve Austin Show

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Society & Culture, Comedy, Sports, Wrestling, Talk Radio

4.88.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 54 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 and follow Varnamtown at Apple Podcasts now! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/varnamtown/id1725195343

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0:00.0

Okay, Kyle, tell me what you know about the connection between Ario Speed Wagon, the super-band,

0:07.0

from the 70s and 80s, and Pablo Escobar, the drug kingpin. Well, sometime in the early 80s, Ario Speed Wagon's airplane made an unannounced

0:21.7

middle of the night landing.

0:23.6

This is my friend Kyle McLaughlin, the star of Twin Peaks.

0:26.9

And he's telling me about how he discovered a real life Twin Peaks in rural North Carolina,

0:31.4

not far from where he filmed Blue Velvet.

0:33.6

What was on the plane was copious amounts of drugs coming in from South America.

0:37.7

Supposedly Pablo Escobar went looking for other spots, quiet, out of the way places to

0:42.4

bring in his cocaine.

0:44.4

Okay hold on you're saying that a town of 300 people on mass did a deal with Pablo Escobar?

0:52.3

Yes that's what I heard.

0:54.0

My name is Joshua Davis, and I'm an investigative reporter.

0:59.0

Kyle and I talk all the time about the strange things we come across, but nothing was quite as strange as what we found in Barnumtown, North Carolina.

1:08.0

Here we are. We've arrived. It looks like a carnival horror show 100% it's like you don't want to walk in there and there's a giant bus that says the crackhead Express

1:20.8

It was pretty much thought I'd die and gone ahead.

1:24.0

It was.

1:25.0

I thought I died and gone ahead.

1:27.0

It was always sort of laid back till

1:30.0

oldest other stuff started coming in here.

1:33.0

Well, when you've seen a house go up, you think they sure have got a lot of money.

1:37.0

But where's it coming from?

1:39.0

This is the biggest smuggling operation on the East Coast.

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