The Underworld Podcast

Advertise on podcast: The Underworld Podcast

Rating
4.7
from
610 reviews
This podcast has
180 episodes
Language
Explicit
No
Date created
2020/08/26
Average duration
-
Release period
4 days

Description

Underworld exposes the secret world of transnational criminal networks that have flourished since there were banks to bust, drugs to smuggle, and scams to run. Journalists Danny Gold and Sean Williams bring their experience reporting on dangerous people and organizations to take listeners on a global tour of mobsters, warlords and crooks - from Brooklyn to Beijing, from the streets to the boardrooms - and everywhere in between. Underworld is a show about heroes, villains, and the barely visible mafias that affect all our lives, whether we know it or not.

Social media

Check The Underworld Podcast social media presence


Podcast episodes

Check latest episodes from The Underworld Podcast podcast


BONUS: STASH HOUSE 5 Yellowcake Yakuza and Cartels in Cork
2024/02/23
She Hunted Down the Zetas Cartel Members Who Killed Her Daughter
2024/02/20
When members of the fearsome and brutal Zetas cartel kidnapped her daughter, Miriam Rodriguez did what they asked and paid the ransom. But it wasn't enough, and she never saw her daughter again. Fed up with a lack of help from the police, she went on a one-woman crusade for justice, tracking down the men responsible for killing her daughter by any means possible. New York Times reporter Azam Ahmed joins us to talk about his new book, Fear is Just a Word, about Miriam Rodriguez and the quest for hard to find justice again Mexico's cartels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
more
BONUS: STASH HOUSE Episode 4: Stash House Episode 4: Cuban Chicken Heist, Montana Narcos, Bukele’s Second Act
2024/02/15
Stash House Episode 4: Cuban Chicken Heist, Montana Narcos, Bukele’s Second Act
From Helicopter Prison Breaks to Missing Millions: The French Bank Robbers Who Became Heroes
2024/02/13
On the face of it, Toni Musulin and Redoine Faïd couldn’t be more different: one a quiet, skinflint armored vehicle driver, the other a flamboyant gang leader who went on the lam in Tel Aviv disguised as religious. But the crimes of both men captured French hearts and minds, catapulting them to infamy and prompting some, in the wake of the global financial crash, to describe them as Robin Hoods. But neither man fit that particular bill—even if their money-grabbing plots could’ve been ripped from a Hollywood script. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
more
BONUS: The Tiny Carolina Town that Pablo Escobar Made A Deal With
2024/02/12
In the 1980's a tiny rural town in North Carolina with a population of around 300 people made a deal with Pablo Escobar to become a stateside cocaine smuggling hub for the Medellin Cartel. Seriously. We're joined by journalist Joshua Davis who teamed up with Twin Peaks Star Kyle MacLachlan (seriously) to investigate this crazy story in their new podcast, Varnamtown.
more
The Headhunting Burmese Tribe Running the World's Biggest Cartel: The Wa w/ Patrick Winn
2024/02/06
The Wa tribe, an indigenous tribe residing in the mountainous Burma China borderlands, has long had a reputation as a people not to be trifled with. And yes, they were actually headhunters, well into the 20th century. Known as powerful warriors who weren't keen on outsiders telling them what to do, they were able to carve out their own autonomous state in Myanmar despite the ruling junta's militant authoritarianism, Long before they launched the powerful United Wa State Army in 1989, various warlords had grown opium and sold it to a shadowy group of Chinese dealers known as The Exiles. And then in the late 1980’s, there’s a man that takes the helm. He’s quiet, unassuming, basically an accountant and logistics guy. He’s half Chinese and Half Wa. Not a tough guy cowboy headhunter war lord. But even today, they still speak his name quietly, if at all. Wei Xuegang. And he sets up his heroin trafficking operation to be one of the biggest the world has ever seen.  Much, much more in this episode, with Patrick Winn, Bangkok based journalist and author of the new book Narcotopia, including various CIA and DEA entanglements, battles with the infamous Khun Sa, and the move to the potent asian methamphetamine pills known as Yaba. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
more
Bonus: The Weird World of Criminal Finance: From Fake Firms to Multibillion Dollar Scams With Graham Barrow
2024/02/03
Graham Barrow is an experienced banking and finance pro—specifically in compliance, where he’s unearthed all kinds of criminal practices over the years. He’s also a speaker and adviser on money laundering, offshore fraud and financial crime, and he’s co-host of The Dark Money Files, a show about how quote “money laundering, corruption, bribery, tax evasion enters the financial system and infects everything it touches.”
more
BONUS: Episode 3 of Stash House, Our Weekly Crime Report
2024/02/02
Danger in Nassau, a Fijian Megabust, US-China coopeartion on Fentanyl and a crazy trafficking story from the US, UK and India
Behind Ecuador's Gang TV Takeover: Prison Kings, Megabusts and Daytime Executions
2024/01/30
This month armed men stormed an Ecuadorean TV station, shocking the world and plunging the nation into gang hell. Prosecutors have been assassinated and gangs are looting offices, universities and even hospitals, as martial law takes hold. It might seem like Ecuador has gone from Latin American idyll to narco-state overnight. The truth, though, is that it’s been bubbling under the surface for half a century. We dig into the laws, routes, rebels and cowboys that have gotten us here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
more
BONUS: Episode 2 of Stash House, Our Weekly Crime Report
2024/01/25
Episode 2 of our weekly crime update for subscribers is here, let us know if you like these and if we should keep doing 'em in addition to the patreon interviews.
Griselda Blanco and Miami's Drug Wars: Netflix's New Narcos
2024/01/23
Dubbed the Cocaine Godmother and the Black Widow, Griselda Blanco rose to power when the cocaine boom was taking off and Colombian cartels started pumping product into the US, mainly through Miami. As the floodgates opened and tens of millions of dollars were being made on the streets, everyone wanted to be on top of pyramid, including Griselda...and she was more than willing to have people killed to get there, innocent or otherwise. Griselda's shooters turned Miami into a war zone as her Colombian connections in her hometown of Medellin got her a never-ending supply of the best product...but even the cartels soon tired of her recklessness and bloodthirsty methods. Now the inspiration for a new Netflix Series starring Sofia Vergara (call Sean!) Head to factormeals.com/underworld50 and use code underworld50 to get 50% off! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
more
A Cop-Cartel Heist and Sky High Homicide Rates: What the Hell is Going on in Tijuana
2024/01/16
When a team of cops drove a truck laden with Sinaloa Cartel product out of a Tijuana warehouse in November, experts predicted violence even worse than the city had suffered in recent years, as roiling fentanyl and meth industries had made it Mexico’s most dangerous city by far. The reprisals began just hours later—and they still haven’t stopped. Now, with bodies piling, sex and people trafficking at all-time highs and the golden days of prohibition racetracks a more-than-distant memory, what on earth can be done to quell the killing? With Tijuana’s mayor holed up in an army barracks, perhaps not a lot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
more

Podcast reviews

Read The Underworld Podcast podcast reviews


4.7 out of 5
610 reviews
Whostolemybalogna 2024/02/13
Banter is Best
If two world-class reporters bringing you some of the best criminal stories of all time every week sounds right for you than look no further! Sean Wil...
more
Esank1 2024/02/07
Definitely one of my favorite podcasts
This podcast is awesome. Love the underworld stories you never hear about. All the topics are well researched, the selected stories are incredible and...
more
Gangster bilbo 2024/01/30
Great podcast. I need more banter and more names
When you turn this podcast on, you better buckle up, because it’s two man rockets indulging in a name-dropping banterfest. If you can’t handle it go l...
more
Pleoavcee 2024/01/30
Top worldwide reporting
Keep em coming Love fresh funny sparkles exBrooklyn Berlin bodacious boys delivery of tragic truth triumphantly having happy feelings when each new ep...
more
BKPslope 2023/12/29
Excellent show!
Really interesting stories told well. Excellent research and journalism and fun to listen to. These guys do a great job. One of few podcasts I really ...
more
Begown 2024/01/16
I’d love to give it 5 stars…
…but more often than not, the shows get bogged down in names and then lost in minutia instead of telling an entertaining story. It’s not uncommon for ...
more
OfWriteMind 2024/01/07
Great Research but Annoying Banter
In a nutshell the title sums it up nicely. The podcast has relevant and very interesting topics. The depth of research I very good. The hosts becom...
more
Thomas Prior 2023/12/22
Love this
These knuckleheads are great. Proper journalism and very entertaining. The first podcast out of 100 I’ve listened to that I’ve paid for extra content ...
more
YUsucksobad 2023/12/05
Smart, funny, informed, void of pandering.
Most true crime podcasts about organized crime are basically just poorly-read book reports. Even when you occasionally quote someone else’s thoughts v...
more
yoshi763 2023/09/06
Consistently the best podcast out there
Always delivering with good humor and gritty history based stories of fascinating under forks and organized crime events, even as a foreign affairs gr...
more
check all reviews on aple podcasts

Podcast sponsorship advertising

Start advertising on The Underworld Podcast & sponsor relevant audience podcasts


What do you want to advertise?

Ad Format

Campaign Budget

Business Details