Hunting An Invisible Drug Lord - Jeremy McDermott - #339

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Oh, hello, people in Podcastland. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Jeremy McDermott. He's an investigative reporter and the director of Insight Crime. We are talking about how you hunt an invisible drug lord. Modern drug lords in South America learned that anonymity is a better defense than a well-armed militia. Jeremy has spent the last decade of his life chasing one of the most notorious members of The Invisibles, Memo Fantasma, otherwise known as The Ghost. Today I expect to learn how the vice president of Colombia was implicated in a drug lord's operations, how The Ghost deleted his entire identity, why Jeremy turned up on a kingpin's doorstep in Madrid, why the DEA probably had Memo on their payroll and much more.
This story is one of the most mental things that I've ever heard in my life. I can't believe that it's not already a movie. That if you enjoy tales about organized crime and political backbiting and financial institutions and corruption, this is so for you. Just sit back and enjoy. You don't need to remember anything. There's no hacks to take away. There's no self-development. It's just an awesome tale told by someone with a beautiful British accent and a ton of experience. If you enjoy the episode, the best thing that you can do is share it with a friend. The only way that this show grows is from people like you sharing it with people like you. And if you do it, it would make me very happy. It was hard to find someone as interesting as Jeremy. Jeremie. It was hard to find someone whose name I could pronounce as badly as Jeremy's. So just share it with a friend who would make me very, very pleased. I thank you. In other news, this episode is brought to you by the Hybrid Pillow, the first pillow to combine traditional comfort with revolutionary memory foam support technologies. If you like the comfort of a traditional feather pillow, but you need more support, the support that you would get perhaps with a thicker pillow or a memory foam one, this is for you. It's a big Easter egg, right? And on the outside of the Easter egg is memory foam, 22 mil of memory foam, but in the middle is a 50-50 blend of duck feather and down core. So having that hybrid mix, it provides the orthopedic support of memory foam, which relieves pressure buildup around your neck, and it keeps your head and your spine aligned, while the feather and the down core softens the pillow and makes sure that you stay cool and comfortable throughout the night. If you've tried other memory foam pillows, but found them too firm and uncomfortable, this is for you. It'll help reduce muscle soreness in the morning and keeps your spine properly aligned throughout the night and reduces how much you wake up from head movement. Also, you get a 20% discount and a guaranteed better night sleep or your money back. Go to thehybridpillow.com and use the code MW20 for that 20% discount. Plus you've got that guaranteed better night sleep or your money back. That's thehybridpillow.com and MW20 for that 20% discount. In other other news, this episode is brought to you by Active Life RX. Get out of pain and reclaim your fitness with the same company that I trust to look after my training program. If you have any injuries that you're dealing with, biomechanical deficiencies, beliefs that I'm not going to be able to do deadlifts again or I'm not going to be able to run again or whatever it might be, you need to give these guys a call. They've worked with over 10,000 people living on six different continents, including five CrossFit Games champions, professional baseball players, rugby players, Olympic medalists and more 94% of their clients report that they would recommend using them to their friends and family. And the main thing that I like is you get a one-on-one coach, but they have that coach has access to doctors and physiotherapists and chiropractors, all sorts of other people that work behind the scenes at Active Life, so that they can tap into their expertise and then use it for you to make sure that your program is the best that it can be. Also you can get a free consultation call with them where you can chat through all the different options, speak to one of their coaches, see what they can do for you. Go to bit.ly slash rxwisdom, that's bit.ly slash rxwisdom. Free consultation call, no obligation. See if you can get yourself out of pain and reclaim your fitness with Active Life RX. But now it's time to hunt Invisible Drug Lord with Jeremy McDermott.