The Connect- with Johnny Mitchell

Johnny meets up with an OG Harlem crack Kingpin @uniquemeccaaudionyc to discuss the history of hustling in New York City, as well as Unique's rise from Jamaican immigrant to street hustler in Brooklyn and the South Bronx, where he worked a trap house that made millions of dollars a year when he was still a teenager. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Johnny breaks down the slang he used in the streets as a small-time hustler, big time drug trafficker, and then inmate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Johnny talks about America's new illegal cannabis kingpins-- the Chinese, the spy balloon and the fact that China might be gearing up for war. And finally, he interviews a former enforcer for the Detroit mafia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Johnny Mitchell explains how drugs are smuggled throughout the world, how he smuggled them, and the best ways to smuggle in order to reduce your time spent in prison or get away with it altogether. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Johnny visits the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco to witness firsthand the affects of fentanyl on the drug trade in one of the worst slums in North America. He interviews drug dealers and drug users to get a firsthand account of what life is really like in this infamous district. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Johnny dissects exactly how to make money selling cocaine, who the players are, and how he made a killing selling coke in college. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Former inmate Johnny Mitchell talks about almost getting caught smuggling a balloon in prison, getting drunk off prison wine and almost dying, plus the craziest stories he heard from his cellmates. Sign up for the Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/theconnectshow?fan_landing=true&view_as=public Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Youtube celebrity Big Herc joins the show to talk about his life in the 90's adult film scene, robbing a bank and taking the cops on an insane high-speed chase, and then spending the next 9 years inside one of the most violent federal prisons in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Johnny talks about his trip to Culiacan and goes in depth on how the most famous drug cartel in the world actually operates today, including the new "boss of bosses," the difference between drug trafficking organizations and the Cartel, and why and how the Cartel is now stronger than the government in Mexico. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Johnny spends a week in Culiacan, stronghold of the world famous Sinaloa Cartel, to view their new dispensary pot operations and interview bodyguards for El Mayo Zambada, the world's most wanted drug trafficker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ex gangbanger Chad Marks describes getting locked up for 17 years in an extremely violent federal prison, becoming a jailhouse lawyer, and then helping other inmates get released and win their appeals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Johnny answers fan questions like what the future of drug trafficking looks like, what are his biggest regrets, and the state of his former cellmate Jimmy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Johnny describes fighting his case from inside the belly of the beast- county jail. He breaks down the broken bail system and explains the difference between paid lawyers and "dumptrucks," talks about his first jail fight, taking a plea deal, and finally- gives tips on how to stay sane in the midst of the madness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Johnny describes the day he got arrested-- a high-speed chase with the Portland Police, trying to bribe the cops, and getting interrogated by the DEA. Finally, he gets charged with federal drug charges. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Johnny describes his time living in Colombia, where he flourished selling coke to tourists, paid off the police, rubbed shoulders with the most powerful drug cartel in the world, and fell in love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Johnny breaks down day-to-day life in a maximum-security prison, including shot-callers and their function on the yard, how drugs get smuggled in and the underground drug economy, the types of weapons used in shankings and killings, prison riots and how they occur, and his cellmate Jimmy who protected him from being killed by the Aryan Brotherhood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Johnny describes his first day inside of a maximum-security prison, including a brutal fight that ended in death- as well as meeting his cellmate Jimmy, a top shotcaller at the Two Rivers Correctional Facility. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Johnny breaks down from A to Z the modern cocaine business, from street sales to mid level trafficking to the new kingpins of Europe and the power of the Sinaloa Cartel. He also tells his own story of traveling to Colombia and getting connected to the Cartels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Johnny breaks down exactly money laundering works, describes his failures as a drug money launderer, and explains the best ways to launder money and the ultimate goal of being a gangster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Johnny breaks down exactly how he smuggled pot across the country, from picking up product from the Cartel growers in Northern California, to transporting it on the highway back up to Portland, and finally- the ways that he moved it to the his buyers on the East Coast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Johnny talks about getting his start in the marijuana business back in 2004 and his ascent through the ranks of the game until he finally made a million dollars before getting arrested and sent to prison in 2010. He goes in depth about the industry and how things have changed since legalization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices