Announcing: Surviving El Chapo Season 2

After billions of dollars and thousands of decisions made over decades as powerful drug traffickers, Jay and Pete Flores are now free and living a new life. But their incredible story is not over. Every time the twin brothers seem to turn a corner, the consequences of their decision to cooperate with law enforcement come back to haunt them.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
That lord Mexicans or foreign mass. S'm your own foreign
raising Chicago. I've got to Fitz Jackson.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
And I'm Charlie Webster. Join us as we bring you
the epic next season of Surviving El Chapo, the twins
who brought down a drug lord.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
There was no book and how to escape the creator alive.
I didn't think that we were ever going to escape
out of this kind of unharmed.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Season two picks up the story of Pete and j Flores,
the twins from Chicago who became America's biggest drug traffickers
before escaping to Mexico and becoming right hand men to
the world's most powerful drug kingpin, l Chapo. But they
found themselves faced with a choice become El Chapo or
cooperate against him.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
I remember when the plane landed, were looking at the
window and I just saw nothing the police lights and Lattle.
I think it was the first time I ever thought like,
why are we doing this?

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Find out what really happened? When they took their first
steps on US soil after turning themselves into the US government,
it was just the beginning of a fourteen year journey
to turn their lives around.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
So They're like, Okay, guys, it's going to be odd
or nothing. It's time for you guys to finish doing
your job. We need to incorporate against all your customers
based in the United States. I was like, hell, no,
we're not doing that.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
We're not doing that.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
I felt like we just cooperating for nothing, like.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
We have nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
The government means that when they say it, if you're
going to cooperate, it's all or it's nothing. Here what
it was like to go head to head against El
Chapo in court.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
It was so ugly to being a quote, I'm anxious
and I'm worried, and I'm sick to my stomach piece
is down. And no matter what, when every time I
love you staring at me, you're staring at me the
whole time.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
He stop staying at me.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
And we'll bring you right up to the present day
and reveal the shocking reason the twins' wives now face prison.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
Vianna and I are Laklina to ten years in prison?
Do I think that the world would be a safer
place because my wife is in prison?

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Do I have to answer that?

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Join fifty and I to hear the next chapter of
the Flores family.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Story Surviving O Chapel.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Listen to season two.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
On iHeartRadio, app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get podcasts.