Every weekday, we recommend a podcast related to a movie or TV show you can watch at home: In the early years of the Mexican drug world, there were no cartels—there were only kingpins. The border region was a lawless desert governed by bloody shootouts, crooked cops, and folk-hero bandits. And to rule an old-fashioned frontier, it takes an old-fashioned outlaw. For more episodes like this one, subscribe to Kingpins on Spotify. The series Narcos: Mexico is now available to stream!

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