Danny Gold
speaker
4,199 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Danny Gold’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
Pakistani heavy hitters.
If you didn't listen to the first episode, Afridi is known as the Pablo Escobar of Pakistan, a man who controls the lawless tribal area known as the Khyber Pass.
He's a chieftain, a tribal warlord slash drug lord with 5,000 armed tribesmen under him, who lives in a mountain compound untouchable to the Pakistani state or anyone else.
The man atop the most prolific drug trafficking organization in Pakistan.
At a time when Pakistan is the number two heroin exporting country in the world.
good.
Face to face, man, doing business the right way.
touchstones.
Here we have we've got the buyer from Long Island and the king of Kyberheroin in the same room shaking hands.
Everything in part one and everything in this episode has been converging on that handshake.
Afridi has one of his partners rent a house in Karachi as the deal office, and in that house, and at Big's home, the four of them plan the next shipment.
Twenty tons double the Fourth of July.
And the tradecraft goes industrial.
Newton ships commercial vacuum packaging machines from New York to Pakistan so the product can be compressed and sealed against the sea.
Learning from the seawater issue from the last time, and a Friday orders a whole lot of tires because this load is going inside them.
Then it's March of 1985.
Newton's been in country for a minute, and they're at the staging camp in the desert outside Karachi, where hired villagers are packing hash into rubber tires, tons worth of bricks stacked under the open sky.
And then
It rains.
Three to four hours of hard rain on an uncovered desert staging ground, and much of the 20 tons is soaked.
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