The Underworld Podcast

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• Stash House: Cartel Wars, Coke Boats, and Gangs Gone Global

  September 29, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

  Danny and Sean take another lap around the criminal world, where somehow everything is getting bigger, stranger, and more international. Sinaloa’s cartel war grinds on, Romanian crews allegedly drain millions from American food-benefit…

• Assassination Nation: The Balkan Clan War that Took Over Europe

  September 22, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min

  In the picturesque Montenegrin port of Kotor, a cocaine trafficking partnership fractured into one of Europe’s bloodiest gang wars. A dispute over a drug shipment in Spain in 2014 split the organization into two rival clans, the Kavač and…

• The Fall & Rise of Pakistan’s Escobar

  September 15, 2026 · 52 min

  In our final episode on the rise and fall and rise of the Pablo Escobar of Pakistan, he negotiates his own surrender to the DEA, maneuvers his way into the U.S. while dodging Pakistani intelligence agents out to kill him, and enjoys the…

• How an Albanian Mobster Derailed MAGA Island

  September 8, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

  In Albania's turbulent Nineties, the small, seaside town of Vlore became a gangster’s paradise, playing host to hundreds of crooks ferrying drugs, weapons and people into nearby Puglia alongside Italian mafiosi. One of them was a slim…

• The Biggest Unknown Drug Dealer in US History

  September 1, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

  He might just be the biggest US drug smuggler you’ve never heard of. 1.3 billion in product moved. 16 different aliases. Bank accounts in 10 countries. A phantom, and a logistical genius. Stewart Newton quietly built what feds called the…

• Shafted: How Cartels are Killing for Rare-Earths

  August 25, 2026 · 45 min

  Bolivia's Cerro Rico has been spewing out tons of silver for centuries. It was the economic bellows of the Spanish Revolution, whose lust for the precious metal came at the price of some eight million slaves. Some of the empire's earliest…

• The Heroin Warlord of Pakistan: Armed Tribesman, the CIA, & a Smuggling Empire

  August 18, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

  5000 armed tribesman at his beck and a call. A mountain compound in a lawless territory. A seat in Pakistan’s parliament bought and paid for. And a heroin and hash empire that stretched from the mountains of Afghanistan to million dollar…

• Russian Mercenaries African Drug Empire, Israel’s Sushi Mob war & the murdered Assassin: Stash House

  August 11, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

  On this episode of Stashhouse: Wagner's leftover mercenaries are running a tramadol empire in the heart of Africa, while in Monaco a bomb takes out a Ukrainian tycoon, then someone takes out the assassin. Grenades, the mob, and Japanese…