World on Drugs with Steve Furey

The Lubyanka Criminal Group is another name for Russia’s version of the CIA. They are known as the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB). Today on World on Drugs I’m going to talk about how the FSB was responsible for directing two civil wars and putting Vladimir Putin in a position of power. Beyond war and contract killings, we’ll also cover how they decided to poison their enemies who tried to stop them or spoke out against them. The FSB still carries plenty of power today and will continue

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8tJzsFEq8M –BBC news story on his poisoning.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/01/28/with-his-dying-words-poisoned-spy-alexander-litvinenko-named-putin-as-his-killer/

https://www.amazon.com/Blowing-Russia-Vladimir-Putins-Fake/dp/1783341556/ref=sr_1_1?crid=F5T6PBJBTQTI&keywords=blowing+up+russia&qid=1652826522&sprefix=blowing+up+russia%2Caps%2C140&sr=8-1

You heard about the brutality of the Jalisco Cartel, now it’s time to learn about the leader and his journey through the Mexican cartel and his journey to becoming the most wanted man in Mexico with a $10 million bounty on his head from the DEA. As El Mencho makes his way through the Mexican cartel world, his ambitions increase and he makes a point of grabbing power when El Chapo is finally apprehended by US officials. He still is on the run and his whereabouts are only known to those close to him.

(@jmscomedy) Internationally touring comedy star, Jessica Michelle Singleton just released her second comedy album to high praise from comedy fans and her comedic peers, reaching #1 on both iTunes and Amazon comedy charts, making this her second #1 album after the release her debut comedy album “Please. Don’t. Leave. Me.”  reached #1 on iTunes ahead of veteran comedians such as Brian Regan and Jim Gaffigan. The album was considered for the "Best Comedy Album" Grammy.

Production Comedy Store Records

Editor Bruce Gray

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/the-brutal-rise-of-el-mencho-196980/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/new-chapo-inside-look-hunt-el-mencho-mexico-s-bloodiest-n1113761

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-treasury-and-state-departments-announce-coordinated-enforcement-efforts-against

https://www.courier-journal.com/in-depth/news/crime/2019/11/24/el-mencho-what-know-powerful-cjng-mexican-drug-cartel-leader/4086498002/

* EP STARTS AT MIN 11

The Xalisco Boys are a group of business minded heroin peddlers from the town of Xalisco in the state of Nayarit. Not so much a cartel as a business strategy, the Xalisco Boys pioneered a new method of profiting in the drug trafficking world: delivery. In what is perhaps the darkest form of laissez faire, by acting as both the source and the mobile storefront the Xalisco Boys were able to quickly expand across America, using basic marketing strategies to become what many addicts have called “the best dealers they’d ever seen.” Unfortunately, their rise also coincided with the beginning of the opioid epidemic, and what resulted was a dangerous self-replicating style of retail drug trafficking, operating on a national scale from an individual level.

With Guest Laura Peek (@Laurapeekcomedy)

Researcher Gray Livingston

Comedy Store Records

Producer Bruce Gray

EPISODE STARTS AT 26 mins

Growing up in Sacramento, CA, Marcus ‘Big Herc’ Timmons was a straight-A student and talented athlete before he took a wrong turn into gang life, drug dealing and violence. He spent most of his teens incarcerated the California Youth Authority juvenile detention system and before he went to prison for bank robbery, he worked as a performer in the adult industry.

Today, Big Herc, is one of the fastest rising stars on YouTube. He spent nine years in the federal penitentiary for bank robbery, underwent a deep transformation during his time inside and came out the other side to thrive and empower others to choose a different path. He’s best known as the co-creator and host of the wildly popular YouTube series Fresh Out: Life After the Penitentiary and a number of spinoff shows including Prison Talk.

He’s also a motivational speaker, author, executive coach and an entrepreneur who has started multiple businesses. If you haven’t checked out Fresh Out or Prison Talk, let me just tell you that it’s some of the rawest, deepest and most compelling content you’re ever going to watch with insights into human nature and life lessons that people from all walks of life can learn from.

Big Herc’s mission is to help educate the world about the horrors of prison life and educate those headed inside so they can survive and get out alive. But most importantly, he wants to strip away the glamor associated with the criminal life on the street to help people on that path stop before they end up making the mistakes that he did. His content is amazing, his persona is magnetic and with his partners he’s expanding his empire into multiple YouTube series, the supplement business, coaching and much more.

Catch Big Herc at www.freshoutseries.com, follow him on social @bigherc916 and @freshoutseries. And don’t miss the Fresh Out content that is soaring to the top on YouTube.

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This episode I’ll tell you about Amil Dinsio and the Dinsio crew, the most prolific bank burglars (not robbers!) during the 1960s through the early 70s. I’ll give you all the details of their biggest score, stealing $13 million in Tricky Dick Nixon’s dirty campaign contribution money. Most of this information comes straight from a book self-published by Amil Dinsio to tell the real story and not the one his nephew told to that journalist in 2004. GUEST TORIO VAN GROL @toriovangrol