In "Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down a Drug Lord," rapper and businessman Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and journalist Charlie Webster help guide listeners through a conversation that they have with twin brothers Pedro (Peter) and Margarito (Jay) Flores, drug dealers and federal informants whose cooperation led to the indictment of Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán and many others.
The first season of the podcast, which premiered Oct. 19, is 12 episodes long. The final episode will be released Wednesday and is produced by Lionsgate Sound and G-Unit Audio in collaboration with iHeartPodcasts. Speaking publicly for the first time, the brothers tell the story of how they grew up in Chicago and were groomed in the ways of illegal drug trading by their father. That life led to another life of on-the-run adventures and many brushes with death. In their own words, they take listeners step by step through their harrowing tales of being kidnapped, finding love, using McDonald's as a business template and getting the incentive to cooperate with authorities.
The brothers pleaded guilty to narcotics distribution and, after the government indicted them in 2008, became informants. The brothers had become not only invaluable to the cartel, but also had gotten close to Guzmán himself. Their undercover work led to indictments of Guzmán, his top leaders and dozens of other drug wholesalers from Chicago to Mexico. It also apparently led to the slaying of their father, who traveled to Mexico and vanished in 2009.
