Introducing: Alphabet Boys: Season 2, Up in Arms

Alphabet Boys, Season 2 is “Up In Arms.” An international weapons deal to arm rebels in Colombia tangles up the DEA, the CIA, and the FBI in the same case. But who’s the good guy? And who’s the bad guy? This spy story is not at all what it seems. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ah, good afternoon. How can I help you? Hi?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Her my name is Flavio and I was born in Romania.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
But right now I'm I'm usp Then.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
It's April twenty twelve and a Romanian man makes a
call to the United States Central Intelligence Agency. He says
the matter at hand is urgent and he needs to
meet in person with a CIA agent in Europe, and
soon I.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Need to talk with someone personally over here.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
The official on the phone sounds skeptical.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Okay, then you need to go to Then you need
to go to the embassy then, because if you don't
want to tell me over the phone, I'm not going
to send somebody out to meet you. Okay. If you
need if you need to talk in person only, then
you need to go to the embassy.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
The caller says, this is very serious and sensitive. He
can't just walk into some embassy and start talking. He's
been approached by someone who needs to buy weapons, some
serious weapons that will target Americans. These guys are dangerous.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
So you do personal security all over the world. You're
connected to all these different people, and you had somebody
call you and say, can you get grenades and guns
for this guy in Columbia not certify grades a lot
of ammunitions, a muni AHA forty seven.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
You think a call like this would set off alarms,
wouldn't The CIA love to catch some arms dealing bad guys.
But that is not what happens. I'm Trevor Aronson from
Western Sound and iHeart Podcasts. This is a new season
of Alphabet Boys. This time it's an alphabet soup with

(01:49):
the CIA, the DEA, and the FBI all mixed up
in the same case. It's the story of a jet
set Romanian businessman, a brash Colombian drug runner, and a
seventeen million dollar arms deal that goes really really wrong.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Is the.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Romanian government on my ass right now? Because I think
I'm bullshitting.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
At the center of everything, it's Flavio. But who is Flavio?

Speaker 4 (02:25):
When I land, there's Flavio in a suit, It's like
follow me?

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Is he a secret agent?

Speaker 4 (02:32):
And he slams down his badge in my passport and
they just stamp it and I'm like, something's going on here?

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Is he an arms dealer?

Speaker 2 (02:40):
You have to come to.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Monte Negris because of your friends, because I have a
right now in my head?

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Or is Flavio something else entirely What's college fum.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
An inmateant at a prison.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Alphabet Boys is back with season two. Up in Arms.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
I see movies with arm dealers on TV, but hold on,
I have to learn. I have to create a mindset. Okay,
I'm going there for say, but I'm gonna die.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Listen to Alphabet Boys starting June twenty sixth on the
iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.