Alphabet Boys reveals the secret investigations of the FBI, DEA, ATF, and other alphabet agencies. Hosted by journalist Trevor Aaronson, Alphabet Boys exposes secret undercover recordings that the government never wanted the public to hear. We explore cases that are both dangerous and absurd in order to ask this question: Are America’s top cops catching criminals -- or creating them?
Season two is “Up In Arms.” An international weapons deal to arm rebels in Colombia tangles up the DEA, the CIA, and the FBI in the same case. But who’s the good guy? And who’s the bad guy? This spy story is not at all what it seems.
Alphabet Boys is a production of Western Sound.
The Brothers Ortiz is the story of two brothers–both successful, but in very different ways. Gabe Ortiz becomes a third-highest ranking officer in all of Texas while his younger brother Larry climbs the ranks in Puro Tango Blast, a notorious Texas Prison gang. Gabe doesn’t know all the details of his brother’s nefarious dealings, and he’s made a point not to ask, to protect their relationship. But when Larry is murdered during a home invasion in a rented beach house, Gabe has no choice but to look into what happened that night. To solve Larry’s murder, Gabe, and the whole Ortiz family, must ask each other tough questions.
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13 May 2025
Introducing - The Burden: Get the Money and Run
“Trying to murder my father, this was the thing that put me on the path.”
That’s Joe Loya and his path was bank robbery.
Joe was one of California’s most daring bank robbers. He used disguises, body doubles, speeding getaway cars…and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars, even as the FBI was closing in. Joe was also a soul searcher, driven by a dark rage he set out to understand. To do that, he must understand why trying to murder his father felt so good.
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Season 5: Get the Money and Run immerses you, the listener, into Joe Loya’s world. This podcast is a fast-moving and entertaining listen that keeps you locked in from start to finish.
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20 Feb 2025
Introducing: Into the Madness, new from Trevor Aaronson
Into the Madness is a new Audible Original from Trevor Aaronson and Western Sound.
On July 4, 2022, a shooter climbed onto a rooftop in Highland Park, Illinois, and opened fire on a Fourth of July parade below, killing seven people and wounding dozens more. Prosecutors charged Robert “Bobby” Crimo III with the mass shooting. But this attack was part of something even more insidious. Bobby had created an elaborate game—complete with cryptic videos, a book of numbers, and an eerie online presence—designed to seed a conspiracy theory about the massacre.
Into the Madness is a deep dive into the events leading up to the mass shooting and the story of a woman who became a confidant to Crimo and the final player in his game. Drawing from dozens of interviews and more than 48 hours of recorded calls with Bobby, investigative journalist Trevor Aaronson tells a story that will challenge everything you think you know about mass shootings, conspiracy theories, and the fragile boundary between reality and illusion.
The series explores the rise of nihilistic violence, the role of technology in fostering extremism, and America’s collective descent into conspiracy thinking. Into the Madness will leave you questioning where the truth ends—and the madness begins.
Into the Madness is an Audible Original, produced by Trevor Aaronson and Western Sound.
Search for Into the Madness on the Audible app or go to audible.com/intothemadness (https://www.audible.com/pd/Into-the-Madness-Audiobook/). Start listening today when you sign up for a free 30-day trial.
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419,108,275
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Apple Podcasts (US)
4.4 / 5
964 ratings
Spotify
4.8 / 5
748 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 75 / 100
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YouTube
93
Engagement
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