Best Bikers El Podcast Podcasts (2024)

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The Fugitive British Gangster Instagramming His Crimes in Africa: Sam Walker 46:40

2d ago46:40

46:40

Sam Walker already had a huge rap sheet in his native Liverpool before 2018, when he took off across Europe and through the Sahara Desert into Sierra Leone - posting on social media the whole time. There he crafted a new life as a saviour of Freetown’s slums. But is there another, darker motive for Walker’s second act? Learn more about your ad choi…

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El Chapo's Sons Built a Fentanyl Empire: Los Chapitos 49:56

4d ago49:56

49:56

With El Chapo locked up in a supermax prison and never going home, there's been a battle to maintain the power of his feared Sinaloa cartel. Many thought his sons, groomed to take his place, would falter. Seen mostly as spoiled rich kid "narco juniors" who possessed neither the intelligence nor the strength to outmaneuver older, more experienced dr…

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The Deadliest Biker War in History: Hells Angels vs Rock Machine 52:27

14d ago52:27

52:27

In the mid 90's, the Quebec Hells Angels made an offer to every drug trafficking organization in Montreal: buy from us or die. The Rock Machine motorcycle club refused to bend the knee, allying with a secretive group of business owner drug dealer money launderers known as the Dark Circle. What followed was 8 years of unparalleled violence, resultin…

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The Meth SuperCartels Destroying Tropical Paradise 43:52

23d ago43:52

43:52

For years the Pacific region, and its tiny, tropical nations, steered clear of the global meth and cocaine trade. But politics, war and wild profit margins have pushed ships and planes out from Latin America to Australia across a new ‘drug highway.’ The phenomenon is prompting mass murder, crippling governments, and creating a wave of addiction whe…

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How the Hells Angels Became Canada's Most Powerful Crime Family 48:22

27d ago48:22

48:22

The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club first chapter emerged in the US in the 1940's but didn't reach Canada until 1977. Less than 20 years later, they would be neck deep in the bloodiest motorcycle gang war ever fought as the Quebec chapter sought to monopolize the cocaine trade, utilizing car bombs and death squads to turn the city of Montreal into a w…

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El Salvador's War on MS-13: Nayib Bukele Goes Hard 55:47

1M ago55:47

55:47

Since 2019, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has smashed the country’s two main gangs, MS-13 and Barrio 18, throwing almost 80,000 people into megaprisons and implementing a harsh but effective “state of exception,” aka martial law. Murder rates have plummeted and, for the first time in years, Salvadorans can live without the fear of violence, ext…

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India's Gangster Assassins Are Running Wild 40:30

2M ago40:30

40:30

When hitmen shot dead Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar near Vancouver last June, Canadian cops blamed the government of India’s strongman leader Narendra Modi. Subsequent assassination plots in NYC, the UK and Germany have pointed at two men. One is India’s most notorious mobster. The other is its most decorated spy, a man whose undercover ops—an…

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The Most Corrupt NYPD Detective & His Mafia Uncle w/Steve Fishman 45:58

2M ago45:58

45:58

Louis Sarcella might be one of the most corrupt NYPD detectives ever, though he was once heralded as a master at getting confessions on homicides. A slick dressing, tough talking cigar smoker who could bench 400 pounds, he got such a good reputation that he was invited on the Dr. Phil show. But while he was waging a war on the streets, his uncle, N…

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The Gangster Warlords of Haiti's Collapse with Jason Motlagh 44:08

2M ago44:08

44:08

Haiti's gangs have effectively taken over the country, plunging into chaos and violence as warring gangster warlords like the infamous Barbeque fight for territorial control. In February gangs stormed police stations, shot up the airport and freed thousands of prisoners after storming the country's biggest prisons, causing a humanitarian crisis. Th…

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El Mayo: The Undisputed King of Mexico & the Betrayal of El Chapo 42:46

2M ago42:46

42:46

In the late 2000's, the Mexico government put together a list of dozens of Narco kingpins it wanted to bring down. Only one name from that list is not imprisoned or dead, and still sitting stop the Mexican cartel world: El Mayo. Nearing 80, he's never so much as been arrested despite co-founding and then co-leading the Sinaloa cartel for decades. L…

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El Chapo's Boss & The Most Powerful Kingpin in Mexico: El Mayo 49:16

2M ago49:16

49:16

Everyone knows El Chapo, the infamous leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, one time most powerful kingpin that Mexico has ever seen. The man who revolutionized the Mexican cartels' drug trade. But...what if he never actually was at the top of the food chain? Some have long suspected that the head of the Sinaloa cartel has always been Ismael Zambada Garcia…

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Andrew Tate & the Romanian Mob: A Match Made in Criminal Heaven 52:07

3M ago52:07

52:07

With influencer and living meme Andrew Tate about to face trial in Romania, we dive into his connections to a powerful pair of Mafia brothers and their casino empire—and how the Tates pivoted from MMA to a gang that has terrorized the European nation for years. We also go deep on the history of Romanian organized crime, from Ponzi schemes to ATM sk…

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The Most Dangerous Russian Mobster America Has Ever Known: Boris Nayfeld 57:53

3M ago57:53

57:53

Boris Nayfeld's life is like something out of a movie; orphaned in the former Soviet Union, he served time in a brutal penal colony before establishing himself as a top tier street criminal before escaping for America. No stranger to violence, he got involved in the burgeoning Russian mafia factions rising up in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach during the…

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The Rise and Fall of Golden Triangle Dope: From a Jailed Kingpin to a Casino Shootout 43:08

3M ago43:08

43:08

Lo Hsing Han was a Burmese narco so powerful that Richard Nixon called him a Godfather. But the Kokang king tried one too many shady deals, sending the Golden Triangle’s heroin industry on a helter-skelter path toward a bloody, 2023 shootout with Chinese cops—at a lawless casino town on the edge of nowhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m…

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Skinny Joey Merlino and The Philly Mob Wars: 46:28

3M ago46:28

46:28

Well, they blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night. And they blew up his house too. And the racket boys, they really did have a fight...a brutal one that lasted decades and saw Skinny Joey Merlino come out on top. He's not just America's next top crime podcaster and patreon star, he's also the one-time boss of the Philadelphia mafia and (alleg…

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The Zombie Drug Robbery Gangs of Medellin Preying on Dating Apps w/ Toby Muse 58:34

4M ago58:34

58:34

Medellin was once the world's most violent city, torn about by Pablo Escobar's murderous cartel warfare and later, Don Berna's meteoric rise to control the city's drug trade. Over the last decade, though, the city has grown quite safe, becoming a tourism hotspot and hub for digital nomads attracted to it's people, parties and culture. But a recent …

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Kokang Cowboys: Burma’s Transgender Narco Royalty, a Secret Army, and a “Special Belt” 43:03

4M ago43:03

43:03

Olive Yang—or Miss Hairy Legs, or Two-Gun Mulan, or any number of nicknames folks gave her—was the gunslinging princess of Kokang who bucked the royal yolk to become one of the Golden Triangle’s biggest narco traffickers. With DC’s backing she built an empire all over Asia, and did some pretty impressive spycraft on the side. Part one of this crazy…

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Digital Hucksters, Crypto Scams and the Internet’s “Enshittification” with Cory Doctorow 57:16

4M ago57:16

57:16

From Ponzi schemes to shitcoins, phishing scams and Nigerian princes, we’re living in a golden age of online crime. But hasn’t it always been this way? Cory Doctorow’s latest novel “The Bezzle” dives into some of these recesses, and America’s prison-industrial complex—all part of something he’s dubbed the “enshittification” of the World Wide Web Ge…

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The Most Successful American Mobster EVER: Tony Accardo 54:06

4M ago54:06

54:06

Tony "Joe Batters" Accardo aka the Big Tuna (!) was one of the most powerful Mob Bosses that the American Mafia has ever seen, sitting atop the brutal Chicago Outfit for 40 years. From being an errand boy turned hitman for none other than Al Capone to taking the Outfit from a local prohibition gang to a national powerhouse with multiple Vegas casin…

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Listen Now: Varnamtown Episode 1 4:08

4M ago4:08

4:08

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…

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The Bamboo Union Triads, Taiwan's White Wolf Godfather, and a Murdered Reporter in SF 40:04

5M ago40:04

40:04

When Chinese-American reporter Henry Liu was gunned down in his Daly City garage in 1984, it brought the Bamboo Union, Taiwan’s most powerful Triad, to global attention. But while the killing frayed ties between the island and DC, authorities skipped over a guy in California pulling the strings all along—a silver-tongued philosophy grad who’d gone …

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The Yakuza Boss Caught Selling Burmese Nuclear Material to Iranian Generals (Sort Of) 44:40

5M ago44:40

44:40

You may have seen the news last week, about a Yakuza boss caught in Bangkok trying to sell nuclear material to a fake Iranian general. Takeshi Ebisawa and a group of co-conspirators are behind bars, awaiting extradition to the US, the dopes in a sting operation that could’ve been lifted straight from Hollywood. But how legit is the bust? And who is…

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She Hunted Down the Zetas Cartel Members Who Killed Her Daughter 45:24

5M ago45:24

45:24

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 …

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From Helicopter Prison Breaks to Missing Millions: The French Bank Robbers Who Became Heroes 41:41

5M ago41:41

41:41

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 f…

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The Headhunting Burmese Tribe Running the World's Biggest Cartel: The Wa w/ Patrick Winn 1:03:52

6M ago1:03:52

1:03:52

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 s…

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The Fugitive British Gangster Instagramming His Crimes in Africa: Sam Walker 46:40

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El Chapo's Sons Built a Fentanyl Empire: Los Chapitos 49:56

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The Deadliest Biker War in History: Hells Angels vs Rock Machine 52:27

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The Meth SuperCartels Destroying Tropical Paradise 43:52

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How the Hells Angels Became Canada's Most Powerful Crime Family 48:22

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El Salvador's War on MS-13: Nayib Bukele Goes Hard 55:47

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India's Gangster Assassins Are Running Wild 40:30

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The Most Corrupt NYPD Detective & His Mafia Uncle w/Steve Fishman 45:58

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The Gangster Warlords of Haiti's Collapse with Jason Motlagh 44:08

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El Mayo: The Undisputed King of Mexico & the Betrayal of El Chapo 42:46

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El Chapo's Boss & The Most Powerful Kingpin in Mexico: El Mayo 49:16

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Andrew Tate & the Romanian Mob: A Match Made in Criminal Heaven 52:07

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The Most Dangerous Russian Mobster America Has Ever Known: Boris Nayfeld 57:53

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The Rise and Fall of Golden Triangle Dope: From a Jailed Kingpin to a Casino Shootout 43:08

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Skinny Joey Merlino and The Philly Mob Wars: 46:28

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The Zombie Drug Robbery Gangs of Medellin Preying on Dating Apps w/ Toby Muse 58:34

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Kokang Cowboys: Burma’s Transgender Narco Royalty, a Secret Army, and a “Special Belt” 43:03

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Digital Hucksters, Crypto Scams and the Internet’s “Enshittification” with Cory Doctorow 57:16

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The Most Successful American Mobster EVER: Tony Accardo 54:06

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Listen Now: Varnamtown Episode 1 4:08

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The Bamboo Union Triads, Taiwan's White Wolf Godfather, and a Murdered Reporter in SF 40:04

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The Yakuza Boss Caught Selling Burmese Nuclear Material to Iranian Generals (Sort Of) 44:40

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She Hunted Down the Zetas Cartel Members Who Killed Her Daughter 45:24

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From Helicopter Prison Breaks to Missing Millions: The French Bank Robbers Who Became Heroes 41:41

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The Headhunting Burmese Tribe Running the World's Biggest Cartel: The Wa w/ Patrick Winn 1:03:52

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