Episodes 25
Avg. Duration 39m
Activity Dormant
Since Mar 2020
Latest Episode Apr 2025

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Weekly
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About This Podcast

If the US Government asked you to move to Colombia to hunt down the world’s most brutal narco-terrorist, what would you say? Real Narcos meets the real DEA agents tasked with bringing down some of history’s most notorious criminal masterminds - from the King of Cocaine, Pablo Escobar, to the most powerful drug trafficker on the planet, El Chapo. For ad-free listening, bonus content, and early access to new episodes across the Noiser podcast network, join Noiser+. Click the subscription banner at the top of the feed or go to noiser.com/subscriptions to get started. For advertising enquiries, email [email protected] No part of this podcast may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems. In accordance with Article 4(3) of the DSM Directive 2019/790, Noiser Ltd expressly reserves this work from the text and data mining exception.

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Recent Episodes

S1 Introducing: Titanic: Ship of Dreams - Episode 1

Apr 09, 2025 51m Bonus

This is a taster episode of a brand-new podcast from the Noiser podcast network. Join host Paul McGann as he explores life and death on the most famous ship in history.You’ll be right there on board…

S1E24 El Chapo Part 7: The Curtain Falls?

Mar 28, 2021 35m

A desperate flight through a sewage pipe is not enough to deliver El Chapo to freedom. Arrested and extradited to the United States, his story closes in a packed Brooklyn courtroom, in front of the…

S1E23 El Chapo Part 6: Hollywood Comes Calling

Mar 22, 2021 37m

It’s late 2014, and El Chapo is finally back behind bars. The prison he’s in has a reputation as a fortress - it’s even more secure than the last one. But if anyone’s going to have a crack at busting…

S1E22 El Chapo Part 5: Cornered on the Coast

Mar 15, 2021 39m

The DEA agents make a huge breakthrough in the investigation, when a routine wiretap in Arizona unexpectedly leads them to El Chapo’s personal cell phone. Monitoring his personal communications, they…

S1E21 El Chapo Part 4: The Great Escape

Mar 08, 2021 40m

It’s 2001, and Mexican drug baron Joaquín Guzmán Loera has spent nearly a decade behind bars. But now he becomes a fugitive once more, as he pulls off the most daring escape his super-max prison has…

S1E20 El Chapo Part 3: Showdown at the Border

Mar 01, 2021 37m

After escaping a hit at Guadalajara Airport, El Chapo disappears from view. Acting on a tip-off, the authorities close in on a hotel in the border town of Tapachula. Returned home in handcuffs, Chapo…

S1E19 El Chapo Part 2: The Tunnel King

Feb 22, 2021 41m

In the early 1980s, Chapo Guzmán is still in his mid-20s. But he’s already grabbed the attention of the Guadalajara Kingpin. Promoted to the Cartel's inner circle, he uses tunnels, ships and even…

S1E18 El Chapo Part 1: Public Enemy Number One

Feb 15, 2021 38m

El Chapo: the scourge of Mexico and America’s most-wanted. Joaquín Guzmán Loera, to use his real name, escaped from custody multiple times and dodged death many more. For years, he rode roughshod…

S1E17 Félix Gallardo Part 3: The Fall of El Padrino

Feb 07, 2021 38m

With one of the Cartel leaders behind bars, the DEA have taken a big step in rounding up Agent Camarena's killers. The search is ramped up for the remaining fugitives. The noose tightens around Félix…

S1E16 Félix Gallardo Part 2: A Kidnapping Like No Other

Feb 01, 2021 32m

In Guadalajara, DEA agents search frantically for their missing friend and colleague, Kiki Camarena. The US-Mexico border is almost shut down as 50% of all cars crossing at San Ysidro are searched…

S1E15 Félix Gallardo Part 1: The Mexican Godfather

Jan 25, 2021 40m

In 1981, DEA Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena lands in Mexico. His task is to bring down the man known as El Padrino (The Godfather). This drug lord's real name is Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo. Gallardo…

S1E14 Matta Ballesteros Part 2: Face to Face With the Cocaine Chemist

Aug 10, 2020 48m

Everyone assumed Matta Ballesteros was just a low-level pusher. But it turns out he’s the shady mastermind funnelling eye-watering quantities of cocaine into the United States. After a long and…

S1E13 Matta Ballesteros Part 1: The Faceless Phantom

Aug 02, 2020 42m

The drug lords in this series tend to be larger than life. This guy is a little different. The man they call ‘El Negro’ – ‘The Black One’ – is an elusive, faceless phantom. Hunting him is like trying…

S1E12 Griselda Blanco Part 2: The Black Widow Devours Her Mate

Jun 29, 2020 42m

Griselda Blanco outhustled and outwitted the men in her orbit to rise from desperate poverty on the streets of Colombia to remarkable wealth on Miami Beach. In Bogotá, a domestic dispute between…

S1E11 Griselda Blanco Part 1: The Cocaine Godmother

Jun 22, 2020 42m

In the early 1980s, the US Coast Guard are inundated with speedboats, propeller planes and helicopters loaded with ton upon ton of high-grade cocaine. Sleepy towns find themselves on the front line…

S1E10 Introducing: Real Dictators - Kim Jong il

Jun 08, 2020 55m

From the creators of Real Narcos comes Real Dictators, the show that explores the hidden lives of history's tyrants. Kim Jong-il built a volatile rogue state with nuclear missiles trained on its…

S1E9 Barry Seal Part 3: Sleep With One Eye Open

Jun 01, 2020 51m

Barry Seal has gone from smuggler to informant, and now penetrates further into the heart of the Medellin Cartel than any American before or since. But this daredevil pilot flies too close to the…

S1E8 Barry Seal Part 2: Into the Lion's Den

May 25, 2020 51m

Tom Cruise played him in a Hollywood blockbuster movie. Barry Seal’s name has passed into legend. In this episode of Real Narcos, Barry Seal flips. The world’s most illusive smuggler becomes the…

S1E7 Barry Seal Part 1: The American Pilot

May 18, 2020 36m

Pablo Escobar couldn’t have reached the heights he did without smugglers willing to traffic cocaine by land, sea… and air. The story of Barry Seal starts in a bar in Baton Rouge in 1981. It will take…

S1E6 Pablo Escobar Part 5: The Final Battle

May 11, 2020 38m

The DEA agents finally discover Escobar’s whereabouts. Pablo’s empire comes crashing down. Shot dead on a Medellin rooftop, the most powerful cocaine smuggler of all time meets a grisly end. The…

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