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Podcast: Mike Safo
Episode: Mike Safo with DEA Agent Javier Pena, Netflix show, Narcos
Description: Joined today by the REAL Javier Pena from the hit Netflix show, Narcos. Agent Pena and I talk about his time before Colombia with the DEA, why he joined, what his early assignments were and how he got sent to Colombia in the first place. Javier tells us about meeting his partner Agent Steve Murphy, the obstacles and dangers they faced in Colombia and what their “normal” days were like. Agent Pena talks to us about how he got involved as a consultant with the show Narcos, and what was true and what was Hollywood. For example, was he really as smo...