The Underworld Podcast
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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 227
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
The Antwerp Diamond Heist and the Gads Hill Train Robbery: History Daily Swap
This week we bring you guys an episode swap with the good folks at History Daily. In the first segment on February 16, 2003, five thieves break into the vault of the Antwerp Diamond Centre and pull o…
00:41:03 |
Tue 14 Mar 2023
The Time the Mexican Army Ruined My Cartel Sleepover
Even the best laid plans of mice and men don't stand a chance when the federales get involved. In this episode, Danny recounts the time he linked up with a prominent member of the Sinaloa Cartel's Lo…
00:50:50 |
Tue 07 Mar 2023
Underworld Special - On The Hunt for Himalayan Purple Haze in Nepal
For thousands of years, Nepali farmers grew some of the world’s trippiest marijuana, in Himalayan valleys so fertile they were considered sacred. In the 1960s western hippies flocked to capital city …
00:57:10 |
Tue 21 Feb 2023
The Narco-paramilitaries of Northern Ireland
For generations, northern Ireland has been no stranger to armed militant groups willing to dispense violence. But whereas those groups once fought over political ideals, now they fight over drug rout…
00:47:35 |
Tue 14 Feb 2023
Acid, Greasers, Hippies and Violence: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love
With slick hair, a wry smile and a penchant for violence, John Griggs was the picture of a Sixties California greaser. His gang caused chaos across Anaheim, and Griggs himself was a habitual user of …
00:55:08 |
Tue 07 Feb 2023
The Jamaican Posses Take Over America: Kings of the Crack Era
The Wall Street of Patrick Bateman was just ramping up, and rap had taken over the Bronx and Brooklyn as Jamaican-American deejays like Kool Herc were inventing and spreading the new genre. But there…
00:51:22 |
Tue 31 Jan 2023
Calabria’s ‘Ndrangheta vs the Good Mothers with Alex Perry
For decades the ‘Ndrangheta rose to become the world’s most powerful organized crime group—and barely anybody knew who they were. Then the deaths and defiance of women trapped in their medieval, ultr…
00:49:52 |
Tue 24 Jan 2023
The Rise of Jamaica's Warring Gangs & Bob Marley's Attempted Assassination
In the 1960's, Jamaica's leading politicians saw an opportunity in the street gangs that were forming up in Kingston's slums. Pretty soon, each gang leader, known as a don, had a political party back…
00:48:10 |
Tue 17 Jan 2023
Australia's Brutal Gang Families Waging War in Sydney
Sydney has long been Australia’s “Sin City”, a pot of gold for crooks with the right connections and friends in the police. But over the past two years an altogether more deadly war has broken out fo…
00:54:04 |
Tue 10 Jan 2023
The International Kingpins: Montreal's Rizzuto Family
International organized crime has rarely seen a figure as powerful and connected as Vito Rizzuto, Montreal's underworld king. When his father Nic left Italy for Montreal with his 8-year-old son, Nic …
00:56:03 |
Tue 03 Jan 2023
How FIFA’s Godfather and Brazil’s Biggest Gangster Forged a Deadly Alliance, ft. Conor Powell
Castor de Andrade might just be the most powerful mobster you’ve never heard of. Born into a life of crime in Rio’s suburbs, he graduated from local lotteries to an empire encompassing Cali and Sicil…
00:46:32 |
Tue 20 Dec 2022
Introducing: The Last Resort
The Last Resort explores big, crazy, dangerous ideas – ideas that no one took seriously, but which may now be our best options. What would actually happen if we put these ideas into practice? In seas…
00:06:14 |
Sun 18 Dec 2022
Japanese Schoolgirl Gangs and Kamikaze Bikers: How an Assassin’s Sword Kicked off a Criminal CountercultureDraft Episode for Dec 13, 2022
When a fascist killer plunged his sword into Japan’s socialist leader on live TV, few could have predicted its consequences. But gangs of sailor-suited ‘girl bosses’ and pompadour-wearing, ex-kamikaz…
00:50:55 |
Tue 13 Dec 2022
Sex Money Murda, Pistol Pete and the United Blood Nation (and Young Thug!)
This is the story of Pistol Pete, one of the most revered killers to ever walk the streets of New York City, who found infamy after the small click he founded in the Bronx, Sex Money Murda, linked up…
00:53:46 |
Tue 06 Dec 2022
Scammers, Traffickers and Bribes: The Dirty, Criminal Secrets Plaguing FIFA’s World Cup in Qatar - featuring Philippe AuclairDraft Episode for Nov 29, 2022
As things heat up in the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, Sean meets soccer journalist Philippe Auclair in a London pub (of course) to talk about the many crimes stalking the Beautiful Game—from bribery…
01:10:54 |
Tue 29 Nov 2022
The Brazilian Prison Gang Dominating South America: The PCC
In less than 3 decades, a Brazilian gang formed during a prison soccer tournament has become one of, if not the most powerful gang in all of Latin America, branching out from the jails cells, to the …
00:57:18 |
Tue 22 Nov 2022
BONUS: George Chidi on Atlanta's Rap Murder Spree
Sean met Atlanta crime reporter George Chidi to talk about the city's rap labels and their role in its spiraling gang violence—from Young Thug and Lil Baby to the even more extreme drill scene, and t…
00:32:57 |
Tue 01 Nov 2022
Update: Sean *Did Not* Get Kidnapped for Unpaid Cricket Bets
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00:04:03 |
Fri 07 Oct 2022
The Slave Armies Powering a New Kind of Golden Triangle Cybercrime
When the pandemic took punters from Southeast Asia’s most notorious gambling dens, their gangster owners turned to the web, entrapping thousands of unwitting slaves and putting them to work in high-r…
00:53:58 |
Wed 10 Aug 2022
Felix Mitchell:The Druglord That Took On The Black Panthers, and Oakland's Kingpin Wars
Felix "The Cat" Mitchell was like nothing Oakland had ever seen before. He took over the city's heroin market from, wholesale to retail, driving exotic cars through some of the grittiest streets in A…
00:42:25 |
Wed 03 Aug 2022
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