Special guest Owen Hanson on his journey from USC walk-on to the Cocaine Quarterback

Special guest Owen Hanson on his journey from USC walk-on to the Cocaine Quarterback

From Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion by USCFootball.com - Ryan Abraham, 247Sports, USC, USC Trojans, USC football, College Football

June 4, 2026 · 46 min

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Owen Hanson shares his journey from USC walk-on to international drug dealer and his path to redemption.

In this edition of the Peristyle Podcast host Ryan Abraham welcomes special guest Owen Hanson into the studio, the former USC volleyball and football player that turned into an international drug dealer. Hanson's incredible story is chronicled in Mark Wahlberg’s Emmy-award winning docuseries "Cocaine Quarterback," available on Prime Video. Hanson talks about his humble beginnings as a Redondo Beach surf kid that was highly recruited as a volleyball player and ended up at his dream school, USC. From there he walked-on to the Trojan football team, despite have never played a down of football in his life, and integrated himself into the program, winning a couple of national championship rings and rubbing elbows with the celebrities that surrounded the program back in the Pete Carroll era. Hustling his way in real estate, bookmaking and eventually drug trafficking and money laundering for a Mexican cartel, Hanson made fast cash and got caught in the fast lane, partying all over the globe. He was eventually arrested, served time in federal prison and now tells his story of redemption through his book "The California Kid" and the Cocaine Quarterback docuseries. He even started a…

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