Introducing: Varnamtown

Deep Cover

Pushkin Industries

True Crime, History

4.3 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Today we're bringing you a preview of another podcast you might like: Varnamtown. Two years ago, Kyle MacLachlan, the star of Twin Peaks, called investigative journalist Joshua Davis with a strange story. Kyle had heard a rumor that Pablo Escobar did a deal in the early 1980s with a remote, coastal Southern town of 300 people. In exchange for vast wealth and limitless cocaine, Escobar would be allowed to land planes and ships in the area. Over the last 24 months, Josh and Kyle investigated the rumor, journeying to Varnamtown to knock on doors and find out what really happens when a firehose of money and cocaine is turned on a small, tight knit community. Follow Varnamtown wherever you listen to podcasts.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:09.4	Hey it's Jake. If you like Deep Cover Season 1, The Drug Wars, I have a podcast to recommend for you.
0:16.0	It's called Varnam Town. It's hosted by Twin Peaks Star Kyle McLachlan
0:22.0	and New York Times best-selling journalist Joshua Davis.
0:26.1	The story centers around a rural fishing town in North Carolina called Barnum Town.
0:31.5	Back in the 1980s, this town effectively did a deal with the Colombian drug lord, Pablo Escobar.
0:38.0	The deal allowed Escobar to use the town as a shipping and transportation hub. It quickly became the busiest port of
0:45.3	entry for illegal drugs into the US. So what really happens when a fire hose of money and cocaine is turned on a small tight-knit community?
0:56.2	Well, Kyle and Josh travel to the sleepy backwater fishing town in Brunswick County, North Carolina
1:02.2	to find out.
1:03.0	They speak to local residents, former dealers, and law enforcement,
1:07.0	all with a tale to tell.
1:09.0	Because, as you can imagine, everyone's life changed for better or worse.
1:15.0	Check out Varnam Town, wherever you get your podcasts.
1:19.4	Okay, Kyle, tell me what you know about the connection between Ario Speed Wagon, the super band from the 70s and 80s,
1:28.1	and Pablo Escobar, the drug kingpin.
1:29.8	It's a story that revolves around a little town in North Carolina on the coast fishing
1:38.8	village really town of about 300 people, very small.
1:43.0	This is my friend Kyle McLaughlin, the star of Twin Peaks.
1:46.0	And he's telling me about how he discovered a real life Twin Peaks in rural North Carolina,
1:51.0	not far from where he filmed Blue Velvet.
1:53.2	Really a little town that time is forgotten. Nobody goes there. Turns out a substantial
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