Kingpins

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Undeniable power. Unbelievable stories. Unlikely origins. Kingpins follows the rise and fall of rulers of the underworld. Every Friday, we examine the leaders of organized crime rings, and how money and power corrupted and changed their communities. What makes a kingpin or queenpin, and how can we stop them? Kingpins is a Spotify Original from Parcast.

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  • Icheeysnap
    Great Content…Not So Great Hosts
    I really wish I could get over the stilted forced presentation of what could be fascinating info. If ever re-recorded with better hosts, I am binging the series.
  • Zootoppia
    Great podcast
    I’ve listened to another podcast about the Los Angeles sheriff’s coward “gangs” and was interesting and yours is just as interesting. I can’t help but laugh at these COWARD “deputies” and how tough they think they are.
  • Ela de Cali
    Fascinating
    Excellent quality of information and storytelling
  • Becca from VGB
    Kingpins is legit!
    I love the right to the point storytelling! Both of their voices are great for podcasts, too! You can tell they really do a lot of research on each subject.
  • lou jingle
    Best podcast ever!!!!
    If you love true stories, the KingPins is for you! I can’t stop listening!!!
  • ropeadopa
    Best crime boss podcast available
    Perfect. Took a bit of searching to find the right one but this is it. Might I suggest the story of a modern day active kingpin that has yet to be prosecuted and/or empire ruined? Maybe you have? I’ve got a lot of episodes to listen to still. Good work. Excellence.
  • AuthorTotten
    It used to be good
    This was a good show, until they decided to push BLM politics. Now? It’s propaganda.
  • Craig D.C.
    Two person narration is terrible!
    English guy and American woman read a paragraph each at a time. For whatever reason it makes it difficult to listen to which is a shame.
  • Sxnshxnx
    Interesting but simple
    The “red menace of communism”... 🙄
  • PodGod78
    Love this high end podcast
    These guys do a great job. I usually hate the two voice approach to storytelling but these two pull it off for me.
  • crazyscientistfarmer
    Lol
    Eee
  • BotasBlancas
    Informative and Gripping
    This is by far one of the most informative podcasts I’ve ever listened to. Ignore the conservative bootlickers who lose their mind at any “criticism”, aka discussing verified abuses of power, of the police and just give it a shot. And to anyone who can’t handle ads on a FREE podcast, get over yourself. You have always and can always just forward through the ads. Love the narration as well, looking forward to more podcasts! These have been some of the only things that has gotten me through this past year.
  • Stemsandseeds
    psycho babble
    drunk babies make more sense. STOP!
  • WardFromMichigan
    Radio Silence?
    There hasn’t been any new Kingpins episodes in almost two months! Ever since the police gang series (which seemed to trigger the crybabies on the elephant side of politics) there’s a glaring lack of new episodes. Did all the “woke is broke” morons scare y’all off? I really hope not.
  • Flaco8956
    Boooooring
    Can’t listen t to this
  • Viking1961!
    Review
    Love me some Kate Leonard
  • MSU 86
    Horrible commercial voice
    Show is good but the spokesperson, specifically, the mousy sounding girl is a total buzz kill. Her squeaky voice is horrible for doing advertisements. I dread the commercials! Just listen to the yamnaya...what a load of crap. That we all ‘may’ have come from these people. And what blasphemy to suggest that Christianity was born out of a pot culture. You people are unbelievable in your loose liberal anti-God ideology. Lots of ‘mights’ and ‘Mays’. How about lots of bull. Liberal hacks as usual. Lumping bad actors into the mighty blue. Yes there are bad cops who commit unwarranted violence but that is very minimal. Almost all of the hilited incidents involve hardened felons. Yet they are the ‘victims’. The media is a sham in this country and this podcast vehicle is no different. They turn interesting stories into liberal political banter. Sad
  • MR.A Rite
    To many ads
    Can’t even get into the show when they stop every 5 mins for a stupid ad hate having to take my phone out of my pocket to skip 2 mins all the time It’s like you guys don’t read your reviews get rid of the twoNarrators
  • Rain16590
    Awesome!
    I love this series, one of my favorites!
  • JLK 610
    LASD Series - Sponsored by BLM?
    This series should have just been a paid advertisement for Black Lives Matter. The hosts act as though this police gang activity is the norm instead an anomaly amongst cops nationwide and they then proceed to spout completely out of context statistics and the BLM defund the police agenda like it’s the only option to fix a non-existent problem. The Kingpins podcast would normally be a 4-5 star rating but this misleading social justice warrior crap and the vilification of the massively good policing in our nation just ruined the series.
  • Optimus Wiggle
    Can’t do it.
    I’m sure the stories are great... But I can’t handle the dual host format here. Maybe break up the content. Sentence for sentence is too distracting.
  • Sheen AA
    Woke
    As others have mentioned used to be an informative entertaining podcast, unfortunately they’ve jumped onto the woke or broke bandwagon.. irritating to say the least.
  • Vvlunn
    The narrators voice are annoying
    I can’t listen to the whitest sounding ( one from england the other woman a robotic voice) narrators talk about a very multi cultural , latino, problem in Los Angeles history. I’d rather listen to people who have more passion and i could relate too. A big skip.
  • ekyles
    Propaganda for Idiocracy
    Typical red meat for low information morons. Promulgates fake news and ignorance.
  • JRAM650
    This podcast has become “woke”
    I was enjoying some of the stories until I noticed they too have fallen into “wokeism”. I noticed they started using the woke word “Latinex” (I think that’s how you spell it) to describe Latinos. It may seem like an exaggeration but I’m unsubscribing. I’m not down with the woke non sense.
  • Jta0919
    Jump Out Boys Are Everywhere
    The Jumpout Boys aren’t isolated to LA but are more easily recognized in urban areas during the height of the crack epidemic as members of the DEA or drug/gang task forces. They ride around in black unmarked vans and literally jump out to perform arrests. Otherwise great episode
  • Jiacheng W.
    Woke propaganda down your throat.
    Only brainwashed leftists will find this show bearable. If you are one, listen ahead.
  • 36741(32)8.(/$)-?.$)/:?
    This show has changed!
    This show started as a great informational and thrilling crime series. Now it’s just a bunch of woke agenda ridden garbage to push the narrative against police and white folk. Disappointed to see yet another show fall to cancel culture and woke garbage.
  • T-REX81
    A once decent podcast ruined by wokeness
    This podcast use to be very interesting and informative. It has slowly gone downhill with the new cohosts. First they went from calling sex crime victims prostitutes to calling them “Sex Workers” (what are they onlyfans girls of the 1980’s) Then they started this new series by using Latinx every other breath. Living in a Hispanic community I can affirm most find this ridiculous gender studies double speak insulting. It denigrates the Spanish language. The cohosts are so far removed from the reality of modern crime they sound like woke virgins talking about sex. They’ve lost the authenticity of the crime books they regurgitate to their listeners by making sure no one gets “triggered”.
  • AlexxxxxFalls
    Pronunciation
    These episodes are so entertaining and informative. However I feel like the narrators could at least try to to pronounce the Spanish names the way they are properly pronounced. That’s the only thing that turns me off about this podcast. If you’re telling these people stories, the least they deserve is their names to be said properly. That’s all.
  • Escobarbarian95
    We need a Michael Franzese episode !
    I can’t go a day without listening to this podcast . You guys do an amazing job . We need an episode on Michael franzese . And especially Joseph Ardizzone, the first boss of the Los Angeles crime family . Hard to find info on the guy at all.
  • aksuedot
    Love it......
    Content is great, enjoy listening to your voice, presence. Always looking forward to new episodes.
  • Ramirez J.
    Milwaukee
    Interesting!
  • scottD125
    Ads, Ads, Ads
    Parcast is nothing but greedy at this point. The ads have become unbearable. This is like watching commercial television. A full third of the show is commercials. Combine that with their awful script readers and every podcast from this network is a waste of time.
  • admin111098765432
    narration makes it impossible to listen
    brilliant content idea but with the comically robotic narration will make u turn it off 5min in
  • Mr.Analog
    Stop cluttering my feed with “Daily” trash
    Used to enjoy this show and look forward to the new episodes. I subscribed to the podcast, not what you tacked on as an afterthought to get in my feed every day and add ad revenue. Shady tactic, get rid of the daily BS.
  • Abe Thul
    Use of BCE and CE is annoying
    I want to listen to this podcast, but it bugs me to have to translate the meaningless CE to AD and BCE to BC, in my head. Shouldn’t they say the equally meaningless “Uncommon Era” and “common era”? So one arbitrary day, eras were common or uncommon?
  • Cheap A##!
    Suggestion on next episode
    You should do one on Anthony Spilotro and el chapo
  • Norse girl
    One of the Best True Crime Podcasts
    Well researched and nicely put together shows. Not only do they have shows with well known criminals. They also tell stories about people hardly known. Plus the short quotes segments are fantastic!
  • Alatorre1503
    Blown away
    Every episode is mind blowing. The information that is given about all these King pins and there demise, the detail makes you feel lime you wittiness it for Your selfs
  • ashklphtdsxbklo
    To short
    Why the 7 minute episodes?! Plz go back to the 45 minute ones!!
  • CELI001
    No point of 7 minute episodes
    Honestly I only listened to the 40 minutes episodes and was out when those ended. But if you guys don’t listen to “Real Narcos” you should because it’s my favorite so far. Some pronunciation issues but no big deal. Better than this one by far. I’m just here to turn you on to a new podcast
  • rickross183
    Long episodes r good
    Full length 45 min episodes = 5* The 5 min ones? Are bad. No good, 2 star
  • extfan
    What happen to full length podcast
    Was good now these 7 minute episodes are terrible stinks delete
  • JamesMcNally000
    OK I'm done, unsubscribed and deleted from my iTunes.
    Used to be OK. Just getting lamer and lamer in recent months. And @whoever is reading this from the Parcast team, I'm sure you've seen the response on these daily shows. Everyone hates them. I unsubscribed. Maybe I'll check this out again in a few months.
  • rambo4454
    What happened
    This was a good podcast but now it’s just 5-8 min of just nonsense
  • rat terrier 2011
    I’m deleting this podcast
    This podcast has become boring. A total waste of time
  • BillyMadison88
    Daily episodes
    The daily(old) episodes are annoying.
  • Texas podcaster
    Give us longer episodes
    This podcast used to have 30-50 minutes episodes but now they’re doing 5-8 minutes (today’s quotes). It used to be a 5-star podcast but now it’s a 2-3 star podcast. Please give us longer episodes!
  • chiquix10
    Bring back full episodes
    You guys used to rock, these quote episodes are trash.
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