The Underworld Podcast
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Cuba’s New Synthetic Drug Wave
Oct 13, 2026
59m 52s
Cuba: From Lansky’s Casinos to Castro’s Guns
Oct 6, 2026
59m 13s
Stash House: Cartel Wars, Coke Boats, and Gangs Gone Global
Sep 29, 2026
1h 03m 46s
Assassination Nation: The Balkan Clan War that Took Over Europe
Sep 22, 2026
1h 15m 54s
The Fall & Rise of Pakistan’s Escobar
Sep 15, 2026
52m 21s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/13/26 | Cuba’s New Synthetic Drug Wave | How Cuba is Slipping into Drug Chaos Since the beginning of the year, the US has placed Cuba under an oil embargo, crippling its public services and throwing a society that was already on its knees into chaos. Blackouts roll for days, trash piles high and locals are getting sick from a smorgasbord of airborne diseases. Cuba has survived similar crises before: in the mid-1990s its people endured a calamity that wiped 90 percent off the economy. But today is different. And amid the madness, a new scourge has appeared on Cuba’s streets, a synthetic drug the locals call ‘quimico’. And as gangs coalesce to sell it, our correspondent got caught up in Cuba’s new street violence himself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 59m 52s | ||||||
| 10/6/26 |  Cuba: From Lansky’s Casinos to Castro’s Guns | Sean got beaten up in Cuba! To celebrate this, we’ve thrown together a biopoly of crime in the tropics, beginning with the story of how American organized crime flocked to Havana in the 1920s as a Prohibition rum-runner’s paradise. After World War II, mobsters then executed a takeover of Havana, building hotels, casinos, racetracks and bordellos as US tourism sought sun, sand, and vice off the Florida Strait. Chief among all Havana’s crooks were Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano, who in 1946 welcomed the great and good of America’s underworld to a ‘Mob Conference’ that would decide the fate of a new, offshore Mafia. But trouble was brewing—mainly in the form of a young, bearded nationalist who’d practiced his own violent form of ‘gangsterismo’ in the past. And as Havana’s criminal-friendly dictatorship buckled, the island was about to face a new anti-Mafia crusade, Fidel Castro-style. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 59m 13s | ||||||
| 9/29/26 |  Stash House: Cartel Wars, Coke Boats, and Gangs Gone Global | 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 accounts, and South Africa confronts organized crime increasingly tangled up with the state. Elsewhere, Sydney’s latest gang war features teenage recruits and drone-assisted hits, Belgian investigators finally wrap a massive cocaine case, and Spanish cops try to catch narco speedboats that are literally faster than theirs. There are also fresh Kinahan developments, a gang threatening to “rule” Canada, and an alleged arms dealer accused of supplying both sides of Brazil’s deadliest gang war. Some music licensed through Soundstripe.Code: 1VDUSIE5HAQQOMKK, ICXE0MTBHKMQDI84 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 03m 46s | ||||||
| 9/22/26 |  Assassination Nation: The Balkan Clan War that Took Over Europe | 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 Škaljari, turning former allies into sworn enemies. What followed was a sprawling campaign of revenge, with gunmen hunting their targets across borders and leaving dozens dead. How did a feud born in a tiny Adriatic town became an international bloodbath with a brutal house of horrors and hundreds of millions of dollars of coke at stake. Some music licensed through Soundstripe.Code: 1VDUSIE5HAQQOMKK, ICXE0MTBHKMQDI84 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 15m 54s | ||||||
| 9/15/26 | The Fall & Rise of Pakistan’s Escobar | 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 hospitality of the American justice system. Then he returns to Pakistan, gets arrested again, and things get weird. Taliban weird. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 52m 21s | ||||||
| 9/8/26 | Albanian mobstersdrug trafficking+3 | — | Sacra Corona Unita | AlbaniaVlore+2 | Albaniamobster+6 | — | 1h 05m 21s | ||
| 9/1/26 | drug smugglingtrue crime+3 | — | — | — | drug dealersmuggling operation+5 | coveron.comUNDERWORLD | 1h 11m 06s | ||
| 8/25/26 | organized crimerare-earth minerals+5 | — | EVswind turbines+2 | BoliviaCerro Rico+3 | Cerro RicoBolivia+7 | — | 44m 57s | ||
| 8/18/26 | drug traffickingorganized crime+4 | — | CIA | PakistanAfghanistan+1 | Ayub Afridiheroin+7 | — | 1h 02m 35s | ||
| 8/11/26 | mercenariesdrug empire+5 | — | WagnerIsraeli underworld+1 | AfricaMonaco+1 | Wagnermercenaries+7 | — | 1h 05m 06s | ||
| 8/4/26 | cartel warnarcopolitics+5 | Luis ChaparroMayo’s attorney+1 | Sinaloa CartelUS | — | Ismael Zambada GarcíaEl Mayo+8 | — | 1h 07m 51s | ||
| 7/28/26 | organized crimeChinese history+4 | — | Green GangJapan+1 | ChinaShanghai+1 | Du YueshengGreen Gang+6 | — | 47m 06s | ||
| 7/21/26 | gangster historyChinese underworld+4 | — | Communist Party | Shanghai | Du YueshengHuang Jinrong+6 | — | 52m 08s | ||
| 7/14/26 | drug traffickingcrime+4 | — | Brazil's Pablo Escobar | EuropeBudapest | Sérgio de Carvalhodrug trafficking+5 | — | 48m 47s | ||
| 7/7/26 | Mafia historyJoey Massino+4 | — | GambinosColombos+2 | — | Joey MassinoMafia+5 | — | 55m 38s | ||
| 6/30/26 | organized crimeChinese history+4 | — | China | Shanghai | Du YueshengShanghai+6 | — | 54m 46s | ||
| 6/23/26 | organized crimegangsters+4 | — | FBICalifornia state senator+2 | San FranciscoHong Kong | Shrimp BoyChinatown+6 | Patreon | 1h 11m 49s | ||
| 6/16/26 | drug traffickingorganized crime+4 | — | DEA | East AfricaAfghanistan+5 | Ibrahim AkashaEast Africa+5 | — | 59m 24s | ||
| 6/9/26 | yakuzaredemption+5 | Mako Nishimura | yakuzaJapanese underworld+2 | — | yakuzaMako Nishimura+6 | — | 59m 16s | ||
| 6/2/26 | drug traffickinggang warfare+4 | — | Sinaloa Cartel | West AfricaMexico+2 | cocainegangster+5 | — | 1h 05m 24s | ||
| 5/26/26 | yakuzacrime+4 | Mako Nishimura | yakuza | — | Mako Nishimurayakuza+5 | — | 1h 02m 14s | ||
| 5/19/26 | cartelsorganized crime+4 | Andrew Glazer | Cartel del NoresteZetas+1 | Nuevo LaredoTexas | Cartel del NoresteNuevo Laredo+5 | — | 1h 00m 32s | ||
| 5/12/26 | bank robberytrue crime+4 | — | Stopwatch Gang | CanadaNorth America | Stopwatch Gangbank robbery+5 | — | 1h 06m 23s | ||
| 5/5/26 | true crimeheists+5 | — | — | GreeceGreek mountain village+1 | Vassilis PaleokostasNikos Paleokostas+7 | — | 1h 03m 31s | ||
| 4/28/26 | drug cartelsorganized crime+4 | — | CJNGMilenio Cartel | CaliforniaU.S. | El MenchoCJNG+8 | — | 59m 57s | ||
| 4/21/26 | narco traffickingorganized crime+5 | — | Hong Kong TriadsHezbollah | ParaguayArgentina+3 | ParaguayTriads+7 | — | 58m 17s | ||
| 4/14/26 | smugglingorganized crime+5 | — | Union CorseUS drug squads | ParaguayArgentina+3 | Nazimobster+8 | — | 1h 03m 05s | ||
| 4/7/26 | gang warBoston+4 | — | Winter Hill Gang | Boston | BostonIrish Mob+6 | — | 52m 15s | ||
| 3/31/26 | digital crimescamming+4 | — | BeijingTriad | PalauTaiwan | Palaudigital scammers+6 | — | 1h 17m 20s | ||
| 3/24/26 | drug traffickinginternational crime+3 | — | — | EcuadorDubai+2 | Daniel KinahanSebastian Marset+7 | — | 58m 43s | ||
| 3/17/26 | gang warsblack-market tobacco+4 | — | middle eastern syndicatesbiker gangs | MelbourneIraq | Kaz HamadMelbourne+5 | — | 1h 06m 04s | ||
| 3/10/26 | organized crimecocaine trafficking+4 | — | Netherlands | Sierra LeoneFreetown+1 | Omar Shariffcocaine kingpin+7 | — | 53m 22s | ||
| 3/3/26 | cartel warsdrug trafficking+5 | — | CJNG | MexicoJalisco | El MenchoCJNG+7 | — | 1h 12m 20s | ||
| 2/24/26 | Irish gangstercrime+4 | — | IRA | Dublin | Martin CahillIrish gangster+5 | — | 1h 15m 48s | ||
| 2/17/26 | organized crimehistory+3 | — | Tammany Hall | Lower East SideNew York | Monk Eastmangangster+5 | — | 1h 03m 35s | ||
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Chart history for The Underworld Podcast
Peaked at #10 in RO, top 10 in 1 of 38 tracked markets, currently #10 in RO.
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| RO | — | #10 | #10 | — |
| TH | — | #16 | #16 | — |
| IS | — | #31 | #31 | — |
| NG | — | #41 | #41 | — |
| Australia | — | #42 | #42 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #45 | #45 | — |
| HK | — | #54 | #54 | — |
| Sweden | — | #55 | #55 | — |
| KE | — | #56 | #56 | — |
| MY | — | #57 | #57 | — |
| ID | — | #60 | #60 | — |
| CL | — | #60 | #60 | — |
| AE | — | #74 | #74 | — |
| United States | — | #80 | #80 | — |
| Ireland | — | #83 | #83 | — |
| AR | — | #83 | #83 | — |
| GR | — | #96 | #96 | — |
| Norway | — | #97 | #97 | — |
| IL | — | #98 | #98 | — |
| RO | — | #99 | #99 | — |
Chart Positions
38 placements across 35 markets.
Chart Positions
38 placements across 35 markets.