Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 10 - Aftermath
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie finds out what information the feds used to indict Val and Viv, how they tried to fight their charges and their reaction to being sentenced to...
Episode 9 - Life After Prison
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie sits down with the children to get their perspective. Jay discusses adjusting to life on the outside. Within months of the twins being releas...
Episode 8 - Freedom
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
COVID hits the prisons so the twins can’t see their families for months. Jay spends 56 days in hospital. Finally, after 12 years in prison, the twin...
Episode 7 - Testifying Against El Chapo
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pete takes to the witness stand to lay out the case against El Chapo. He explains to the jury the details of the recorded call and his relationship wi...
Episode 6 - Trial Preparation / Re-Capturing El Chapo
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After an intense manhunt, Mexican authorities recapture El Chapo and extradite him to the US. Pete holds the key piece of evidence and spends 18 month...
Episode 5 - A Life Sentence
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With El Chapo finally captured, the Flores twins can now be sentenced. They are brought together for the first time in five years to discover their fa...
Episode 4 - The Politics of Prison
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jay and Pete adjust to their separate realities in prison. Jay ends up in a prison with better conditions, while the opposite happens for Pete. Jay pu...
Episode 3 - Separated
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Inside prison, the twins are separated for the first time in their lives. On the outside, their wives are forced to adjust to a life living under the ...
Episode 2 - The Three Bs
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pete and Jay continue cooperating from prison. With a few special privileges they are allowed to see their families. Pete takes advantage of some down...
Episode 1 - All or Nothing
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Flores twins arrive in the US after turning themselves in to authorities and end up in the Special Housing Unit - the SHU. They are faced with a c...
Bonus Episode - Flores Wives Sentenced to Prison (EXCLUSIVE)
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On September 25, 2023, Jay’s wife Val was sentenced to prison for her role in a money laundering conspiracy. Two months earlier, Pete’s wife Viv w...
Season 1 Recap
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Before you get started on Season 2, catch up on the story so far.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Announcing: Surviving El Chapo Season 2
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 12 - Escape
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After nine months of recording calls and feeding information to the DEA, Jay and Pete are given two hours to get their lives in order before being tak...
Episode 11 - Recording El Chapo
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The twins ramp up their cooperation with the US government and start recording incriminating calls. But there’s one piece of evidence that the twins...
Episode 10 - Negotiating with Fugitives
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Pete and Vivianna meet Jay and Val in their bathroom in an attempt to figure out a plan to turn their lives around. Before they can get any taste of f...
Episode 9 - Choosing Sides
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Mexican federales and the cartel face off in an attempt to save the twins from being turned over to US Marshals. The brewing cartel war forces the...
Episode 8 - Nothing Good Happens After Midnight
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At a strip club in the island getaway of Punta Mita, the Flores family find themselves in an impossible situation. With the prospect of life in prison...
Episode 7 - At The Table
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jay’s meeting with Chapo sparks a new business relationship. The twins find themselves at the table with the world’s biggest drug lords. El Chapo,...
Episode 6 - Meeting El Chapo
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jay comes face to face with the world’s most notorious drug lord. To negotiate his brother’s release, he must find a way to convince El Chapo that...
Episode 5 - The Road to Culiacan
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Creating a billion-dollar business comes with a lot of debt. The twins had to pony up their own money in order to secure supply. Pete discovers that i...
Episode 4 - On The Run
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jay must find a way to save his twin, Pete. Despite all the chaos, Jay and Val marry and head to Mexico for their honeymoon. An indictment out of Milw...
Episode 3 - Love Is Easy
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There’s two more people who are key to this story. Jay and Pete fall in love with the daughters of cops, Val and Viv. But it’s not their proximity...
Episode 2 - Twin, Call Me
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Three months into their drug trafficking career, the twins have a million dollars stashed under their bed. They are just seventeen years old. Pete and...
Episode 1 - Little Village
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Identical twins Pete & Jay Flores built America’s biggest drug trafficking empire and made international news because they are the reason El Cha...
Introducing: Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Speaking publicly for the first time ever, Chicago-born identical twins Jay and Peter Flores share the incredible story of how they went from dealing ...