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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from how Stuff Works

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Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark,

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Speaker 1: and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, there's Jerry Rowland that

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Speaker 1: makes this stuff you should know. Continuing Law Enforcements saga,

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Speaker 1: this has got to be it. It's you say that

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Speaker 1: every time. I don't think this is it. Well, this

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Speaker 1: is the one that I U is one of my picks.

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Speaker 1: And I stressed up until like an hour ago that

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Speaker 1: we had done this, even though I looked like twenty times. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know, I I. Um, I thought that too when

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Speaker 1: I first saw it, but the article so new, there's

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Speaker 1: no way we did. And then, um, I think what

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Speaker 1: it was Chuck was probably the counterfeiting episode. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: probably got that one really crossed over a lot. I

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Speaker 1: think you're right. We did do a good one for

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Speaker 1: everybody who's not familiar on counterfeiting. I don't remember exactly when,

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Speaker 1: but go check it out because it was good. Um.

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Speaker 1: And the reason why the two things would have crossed

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Speaker 1: over is because when most people think of Chuck the

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Speaker 1: Secret Service, which we're talking about today, they think of,

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Speaker 1: you know, dudes, big dudes in suits stark suits, sunglasses,

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Speaker 1: got the wire in their ear. Every once a while

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Speaker 1: they put their finger in the ear to look cool.

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Speaker 1: You know, I thought that's just if they had, you know,

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Speaker 1: your wax building up. Maybe that's the other ear. Um,

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Speaker 1: And that they're usually running alongside the president as he

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Speaker 1: or eventually she um is driving down the road, right, Yeah. Sure,

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Speaker 1: But the Secret Services test with doing way more than that,

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Speaker 1: and that's actually protecting the president or the vice president

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Speaker 1: of the first Lady or certain other people. That's actually

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Speaker 1: secondary to their main role. And that role actually came

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Speaker 1: decades after the Secret Service was first established. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean I think secondary. I took issue in the article

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Speaker 1: when I read that, But I think secondary in terms

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Speaker 1: of allocated uh personnel, right, but for sure primary and importance. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: for sure, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think protecting the president's life is more important than catching counterfeiters, right,

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Speaker 1: But a much much smaller allocation of people are actually

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Speaker 1: on that protection force. Yeah, and I think that's I

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Speaker 1: get the impression that that's the glamorous um assignment, you know,

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Speaker 1: like protecting the president specifically. It's probably pretty pretty plumb.

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Speaker 1: But um, that that again, that's that's not what the

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Speaker 1: bulk of people in the Secret Service are doing at

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Speaker 1: any given point in time. All right, So should we

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Speaker 1: go back in time a bit? Yeah? Two, Uh the

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Speaker 1: close of the Civil War, of the American Civil War specifically, uh,

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Speaker 1: and this was an eighteen sixty five and very with

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Speaker 1: a great deal of keeping irony. Uh. I did not

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Speaker 1: know this. This maybe the fact of the show. President

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Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln um officially signed the legislation to create the

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Speaker 1: Secret Service, um the evening that he was killed dead, Yes,

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Speaker 1: that day, right, he signed it and then went to

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Speaker 1: the Ford Theater, I believe. Yeah. So ironic in one

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Speaker 1: sense that you know, obviously you can't look at that

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Speaker 1: not ironic when you look at what he was signing

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Speaker 1: at the time, which was not hey, we need somebody

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Speaker 1: to protect presidents, because that didn't come along until uh

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Speaker 1: well just um, like less than thirty years later, is

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Speaker 1: that right? Twenty nine? Yeah. Um, informal protection started with

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Speaker 1: Grover Cleveland, but after McKinley's assassination nineteen o one was

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Speaker 1: when they said, hey, maybe we need to really just

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Speaker 1: codify this agency and I'll tell you about irony. It

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Speaker 1: turns out that when McKinley was assassinated, there were three

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Speaker 1: Secret Service agents flanking him at the time. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: familiar with. I wasn't either, but it was pretty fascinating. Um.

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Speaker 1: And then it was an anarchist, correct, an anarchist in Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: Garfield didn't get any mentioned in here. Um, he he was.

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Speaker 1: He definitely served to make the Secret Service kind of

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Speaker 1: become part of presidential protection, and that he was the

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Speaker 1: second of three sitting presidents to be assassinated technically while

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Speaker 1: the Secret Service was in existence. So when that that

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Speaker 1: and both of them, by all accounts, were assassination attempts.

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Speaker 1: we should just knock that out one day. Let's do it.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe we haven't already. But today, if we're

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Speaker 1: talking Secret Service, just by the numbers, about six hundred

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Speaker 1: people work there. About those or special agents. Another hundred

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Speaker 1: just people who keep the agency running and UM there

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Speaker 1: apparently there have been women there since nine so I

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Speaker 1: thought was somewhat progressive. UM. And then as of today,

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Speaker 1: there's the first outsider in the the hundred year history,

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Speaker 1: have been outsiders previously, but the first non Secret Service

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Speaker 1: appointed by Trump. Actually a guy named text text Als

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Speaker 1: General former Marine Corps General Randolph Texts. Owls is it

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Speaker 1: als al's ales Alice alice is another way to say it. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And you mentioned women, and of course, very famously Julia

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Speaker 1: But as we'll see later on, there were quite a

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Speaker 1: she she forced out or resigned or kind of what's

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Speaker 1: the difference. I think what's the difference is the impression

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Speaker 1: I have so UM, I think her tenure kind of

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Speaker 1: part of a culture that has long been around part

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Speaker 1: We've been doing all this from eighteen sixty five the

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Speaker 1: to combat counterfeiting, right, And I think we said in

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Speaker 1: our our Counterfeiting episode, UM, there was just a ton

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Speaker 1: just ridiculous. Yeah, so Lincoln knew that was a problem.

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Speaker 1: like well we need someone to monitor like fishing scams online,

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Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. So, Um, besides the counterfeiting and all

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Speaker 1: basically like the Secret Service protects the president, the vice president,

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Speaker 1: anytime the president's traveling like that, all this stuff is

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00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 1: on tape again, not on tape reels because like there's

426
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Speaker 1: a Prouder film, like you need to have this stuff

427
00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 1: in case of an attack or an assassination attempt. Um,

428
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:04,919
Speaker 1: so you can you know, rewind and watch the crowd. Right,

429
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: it's just handy, but it's kind of reactive, whereas like

430
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 1: the advanced people are proactive and trying to prevent an

431
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:18,119
Speaker 1: incident from ever taking place. Right, did you mention the details?

432
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: They are specific to like people who are permanently guarded.

433
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:26,919
Speaker 1: So there, if you're a Secret Service agent, you might

434
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 1: be assigned to like a field office, and if the

435
00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:32,600
Speaker 1: president comes to your state, you might be called up

436
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:36,439
Speaker 1: to go work what's called the standing position, which is

437
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:40,440
Speaker 1: literally just standing around. Right, So if you're if it's

438
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 1: a hotel room, this article uses a pretty good example.

439
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,199
Speaker 1: If it's a hotel that the President is staying at,

440
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 1: the advanced team who goes right before the president arrives

441
00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:52,120
Speaker 1: with the President will say clear to steer a stairwell,

442
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,160
Speaker 1: checked it for anything, cleared it, and then you come

443
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 1: in and you stand there and make sure nothing changes

444
00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,119
Speaker 1: to that stairwell. No one else comes in. Uh, no

445
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 1: one drops anything off, there's nothing like that. That's your job,

446
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 1: right then, that's probably a pretty common assignment for somebody

447
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 1: who works protection in the Secret Service, right Yeah. But

448
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: if you are protecting, say the first Lady, you're going

449
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 1: to be part of a detail that is a crew

450
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 1: of people whose job it is to protect the first Lady,

451
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 1: and they get to be pretty close apparently U or

452
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 1: it can happen, I guess you mean emotionally, romantically, no,

453
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:34,120
Speaker 1: emotionally surprised that hadn't been a wrong come yet. It's

454
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:36,879
Speaker 1: like Three's Company, but in the White House. But it's

455
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 1: funny you mentioned that stairway detail like, that's literally the

456
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:41,639
Speaker 1: worst job you can get as a p A on

457
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 1: the film set. Yeah, that's pretty bad. It's called lock

458
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 1: up where you're like three blocks away just saying no, three,

459
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: you can't go around this corner, right, And there's always

460
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 1: a guy like me who's like, uh, you can't legally

461
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 1: keep me from walking on the sidewalks public sidewalk. J

462
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 1: I was the worst lock up guy when I was

463
00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 1: a p A because I would always just be like,

464
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:03,600
Speaker 1: all right, you're totally right. People choke you look them

465
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 1: through again. I'm like, dude, what am I gonna do,

466
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 1: like physically restrain somebody. I always felt so bad when

467
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:12,399
Speaker 1: we were shooting our TV show. Yeah, when people were

468
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 1: redirected from their normal path. You know, we look at

469
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 1: the bright side. You didn't have to feel bad for

470
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 1: too long. That's there's also the food detail. Um, and

471
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 1: even in the White House with the very much trusted

472
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:32,639
Speaker 1: White House uh cooking staff, there's someone in the kitchen

473
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: from Secret Service watching over that stuff. Yeah, making sure

474
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 1: seven didn't have any kind of break and is now

475
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:43,400
Speaker 1: trying to poison the president. Correct. Apparently if you want

476
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 1: to order a pizza though, as the president, like literally

477
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 1: I don't want the White House pizza. I want the

478
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 1: pizza from whatever. Uh, you can do that, but they

479
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:56,000
Speaker 1: say that they send it to, um a different address.

480
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 1: They send it to the Naval Observatory usually just to

481
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: kind of throw them off the scent. Seems smart, but

482
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: certainly not fool proof. No, you know, but I guess,

483
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 1: especially now that you just told everybody, I guess it

484
00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: couldn't poison every pizza going to the Naval observatory though,

485
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 1: because they would be outed. I don't know, like some

486
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 1: evil organization like Specter probably could. Yeah, that's true. Good point. Um,

487
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 1: this is a pretty is that a good point? I think?

488
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 1: So this is a pretty expensive process to the fiscal year.

489
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 1: That is uh seven d and fifty million dollars on

490
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 1: just protective operations, which is about half of its overall budget,

491
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 1: which is a you know, I mean, it's worth it, obviously,

492
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 1: but that's a lot of dough going towards the very

493
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 1: smallest thing that you do. When half your money is

494
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: spent on that, then uh, you're gonna run out of money, right, Yeah,

495
00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:00,560
Speaker 1: And they did actually um the fiscal year a gooes.

496
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 1: We're recording actually before the end of the two thousand,

497
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 1: seventeen fiscal year. But the Secret Service said, UM, we're

498
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: gonna run out of money like right around the end

499
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: of the fiscal year, and we still have three more

500
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: months of operations that we have to do, So what

501
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 1: do you want to do? You know? And apparently there

502
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 1: was also I was I was reading in the Washington

503
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 1: Post about um a dispute over money about actually terms

504
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 1: of a lease when um this the Secret Service tried

505
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: to rent out office space in the headquarters in Trump

506
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 1: Tower that the Trump organization UM said you should go

507
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 1: find office space elsewhere because they couldn't come to terms

508
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 1: on a lease somehow, And so the Secret Service moved

509
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 1: down to a trailer on the sidewalk in front of

510
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 1: Trump Tower, which I guess they found out that they

511
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:56,479
Speaker 1: burned through all their money and they were like, you

512
00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 1: guys go to a trailer on the sidewalk. Yeah, that's

513
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:00,720
Speaker 1: probably the most expense of property in the world that

514
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 1: has a trailer on their front lawn. It's pretty funny, um,

515
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 1: And we should mention we joked about the dark glasses

516
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 1: that was actually do sort of function. Um, they're not

517
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 1: just trying to look cool, they're trying to um keep

518
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 1: their eyes hidden for what they're looking at. Yeah, you

519
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: know what was that one agent's name and uh um

520
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 1: taxi driver in the line of fire. No, no, it

521
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 1: has nothing to do Secret Service Matrix. The matrix. Oh

522
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: this is Smith, right, the main bad guy I think so. Yeah.

523
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:37,760
Speaker 1: I thought he did a good job rocking the glasses

524
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 1: and everything. So that literally had nothing to do with

525
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 1: anything but him looking cool and glasses. Right, Okay, you

526
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 1: want to take a break, Yeah, let's do. I think

527
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 1: I just threw us off. We probably should and regroup.

528
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: H all right, Chuck. We talked a little bit about

529
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: other stuff that the Secret Service gets down on UM counterfeiting,

530
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: male fraud. Those are some throwbacks, but then they've got

531
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 1: the whole new cyber crime thing with like fishing and

532
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 1: stuff like that. But they also have UM to combat

533
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: this crime. They've accrued some pretty cool stuff over there

534
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 1: over the years, not the least of which is an

535
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 1: ink library. Yeah. This I think is for me the

536
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 1: coolest part of this show. So this article types of

537
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 1: ink I saw eleven thousand, four hundred. That's believable. Yeah.

538
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 1: So the idea is they literally have collected since the

539
00:32:56,320 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 1: nineteen twenties, what they think is every kind end of

540
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 1: ink and every kind of pin that is ever been made. Yeah,

541
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: that's the goal at least so they can use that. UM.

542
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 1: I think when like when Bick makes a new pin,

543
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: they will send them their ank and stuff. Otherwise they

544
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 1: have to collect it. And this is who I didn't like.

545
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: You know, if they ever get a letter about any

546
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 1: kind of crime that is under their per view, they

547
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: have a database to compare it to UM. And not

548
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 1: just with things like ransom notes and threatening letters. Apparently

549
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: they'll use that kind of stuff for if somebody's forged

550
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: a baseball signed by Babe Ruth or something. I said,

551
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 1: Oh interesting, Um, if it's like a really high profile

552
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 1: crime that has to do with ink, they'll they'll freelance

553
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 1: for somebody. Interesting. Yeah, and they use gas chromatography. It's

554
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,920
Speaker 1: not just like this one looks black. Oh, this one's black.

555
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 1: I figured out who did it. Um. But the the apparently,

556
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 1: if you're a field agent going around own the world,

557
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 1: the Ink Library guys will ask you to like grab

558
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 1: some pens while you're in you know, Cartagena. Oh really,

559
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 1: it's like a standing request. They also have an information

560
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 1: database for handwriting too, the forensic information system for handwriting

561
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: database or phish Yeah, decent acronym yes see, yeah, but

562
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 1: it breaks our one rule of acronymic, which is just

563
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: kind of forgetting about another word. So it looks cooler

564
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: right yeah than fished, right right exactly, Or it could

565
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:42,319
Speaker 1: be the Phish database. I guess that's true fish. So

566
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 1: this is basically just a handwriting database, and I imagine

567
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 1: there's a lot of overlap here with FBI and CIA,

568
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:53,359
Speaker 1: don't you think, um what else? Ninety four they added uh,

569
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,919
Speaker 1: providing Evidence and Assistance to Missing and Exploited Children. Yeah,

570
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: I thought that was pretty cool. Uh. And their big

571
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: bag though, was really um counterfeiting in bank fraud. Um.

572
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: They executed twenty one more than arrests um for stuff

573
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 1: like that and recovered it. They recover a lot of

574
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,160
Speaker 1: money every year too, right. Yeah. There was one bust

575
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 1: in two thousand and sixteen and Lima, Peru, where they

576
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:24,320
Speaker 1: recovered like three million in counterfeit US dollars and fifty

577
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 1: thou counterfeit euros. Not bad, which I think was their

578
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 1: biggest single bus to date. It's a lot of a

579
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,840
Speaker 1: lot of mula. It is a lot of fake moula.

580
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 1: So do you what if you want to be what

581
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,799
Speaker 1: if Josh wants to be in the Secret Service? I

582
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 1: don't think that's gonna work out for me. Well, it's

583
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 1: too late first, they Yeah, you have to be between

584
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:47,720
Speaker 1: twenty one and thirty seven. You have to do a

585
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 1: pp screen. Yeah. Um, they don't want you to have

586
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 1: any visible tattoos or piercings, which I imagine that's probably

587
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 1: getting harder and harder these days. Yeah, it's probably not

588
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: a good look to have, like the presidential detailed guy

589
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 1: having those big ear ring gauges. Right, So what those

590
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:10,359
Speaker 1: are called gauge? Yeah, you know, like one of those

591
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:14,439
Speaker 1: big two inters. Can you fit a hot dog through it? Yes?

592
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 1: I can. You're hired. Uh No tattoos, a piercings? What else?

593
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: You gotta pass that polygraph? You gotta take a physical. Um,

594
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 1: gotta get that Secret Service Uh top security clearance? What

595
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: can take? It can take geez nine months to get that. Yeah,

596
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 1: and I looked into that. Depending on what level of

597
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: security you're looking for, it says nine nine months here,

598
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,280
Speaker 1: but I saw they could do it in like sixty days.

599
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 1: But depending on how thorough they go, like they're either

600
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:43,399
Speaker 1: going to go back five years or ten years into

601
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:48,320
Speaker 1: your past. They're gonna interview your coworkers, your neighbors, your friends,

602
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: your pastor whoever, and they're gonna ask him all sorts

603
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,920
Speaker 1: of personal questions like is uh is this guy a freak?

604
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:59,279
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, like a freak freak? Um?

605
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 1: Does he you like to get wasted? Uh? Does he

606
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 1: love America? What country? Does he like as much of

607
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: not more than America? Which is stuff like that? Like, seriously,

608
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 1: they're gonna they they're gonna look into what your foreign

609
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 1: preferences are. You know, Ronnie, he was always going on

610
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,879
Speaker 1: about Spain. Yeah, I couldn't get enough that explains it.

611
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: His whole catchphrase was oh ay. So if you go

612
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 1: through all that, you take a written test, you have

613
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 1: an interview. If you pass all that junk, the new

614
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:31,560
Speaker 1: you are sent to lovely Glencoe, Georgia, right here in

615
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:35,400
Speaker 1: our our home state, to the Federal Law Enforcement Training

616
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 1: Center for ten weeks of training. Uh. This is down

617
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: down near the Georgia coast where it's hot and humid

618
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: and muggy. Yeah, but if you want some good shrimp,

619
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:49,400
Speaker 1: it's a good place to train, I imagine. So. Um,

620
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:52,239
Speaker 1: so you know, ten weeks of hardcore training, then an

621
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 1: eighteen week course at a place called the James S.

622
00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:00,879
Speaker 1: Rowley Center in Beltsville, Maryland, which is basically Camp X. Yeah,

623
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 1: kind of the special Special Agent Basic Training Center. Um. Yeah,

624
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: and that's the one where it's probably i mean they

625
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: teach you how to shoot guns. I'm sure you already

626
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 1: know at this point. I doubt if it's like I

627
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:21,360
Speaker 1: never held one of these emergency medicine that's a big one. Um.

628
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 1: I saw that they travel with the president with um

629
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:30,399
Speaker 1: a full full supply of the president's blood, which makes sense.

630
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 1: I never really thought about that, like as many leaders

631
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 1: are as in the president right then, I don't know,

632
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 1: I mean it said, uh, they said what they they're

633
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: trained in what's called ten minute medicine, which is they

634
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 1: never want to have the president more than ten minutes

635
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: away from a trauma center. And uh, not only that,

636
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 1: when the president is traveling, they have an agent at

637
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: the nearest hospital already who has gone through the operating

638
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: room and emergency staff. So they have these bags of

639
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: blood if a transfusion is knee did and um, you know,

640
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 1: basically in that just that ten minutes, they need to

641
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: be able to keep the president alive, Yeah, which was

642
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 1: a big deal. When Reagan was shot. Yeah, you want

643
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 1: to talk about that, Yeah, I mean he he was

644
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:15,879
Speaker 1: shot in the chest. It was it was bad yeah,

645
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 1: by John Hinckley Jr. Right, Yeah, or as our articles

646
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 1: just says, a crazed assassin. Yeah. I thought that was

647
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 1: really weird, Like maybe the author was like, I'm not

648
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 1: putting his name in print, I'm not giving him any press.

649
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 1: It definitely seemed weird to not say who it was.

650
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:33,439
Speaker 1: And Hinckley was trying to impress Jodie Foster so that

651
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: she would fall in love with them and they could

652
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 1: move into the White House if I remember correctly. Right. Yeah,

653
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 1: So to do that, right, you had to get Reagan

654
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 1: out of the way. And Reagan was coming out of

655
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 1: the Washington Hilton Hotel hed just given a speech. This

656
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 1: is in I think, uh, January one. It was early

657
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 1: in night one, and um Hinckley walked up and just

658
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 1: shot him at least twice I think got him once

659
00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:00,080
Speaker 1: in the shoulder and then once in the chest. It

660
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 1: might be confusing with another assassination. He definitely got him

661
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 1: in the chest, like you said. And there was this

662
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 1: agent named Jerry Parr, who was I think like fifty

663
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 1: at the time. Um, and he immediately threw I think

664
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 1: he threw his coat over Reagan. Threw Reagan into the limo,

665
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 1: landed on him and shut the door and told the

666
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: limo driver to drive. And Reagan UM was like, I

667
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:26,239
Speaker 1: think you broke one of my ribs throw me into

668
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:29,479
Speaker 1: the limo, did you know that? And he said that's

669
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,919
Speaker 1: the bullet, sir, right. But yeah, that's when Parr was like, oh,

670
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 1: you got hit. So he told the limo to go

671
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 1: to the hospital instead of the White House. Yeah, I

672
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 1: think he was. Um had blood coming out of his mouth,

673
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:47,399
Speaker 1: which was the surefire telltale sign that he had. There

674
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 1: was a lung punctured apparently when you're bleeding from the mouth,

675
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 1: and so he knew, no, no, no, we we need

676
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:55,880
Speaker 1: to go straight to the hospital and not too whatever

677
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 1: medical staff we have at the White House. Ye, saved

678
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,799
Speaker 1: his life, he did it. He actually became convinced from

679
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 1: what I saw that um uh, he had been chosen

680
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 1: by God to save Reagan's life. And he became like

681
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 1: a pastor after that. Oh yeah interesting yeah, well, um,

682
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:16,719
Speaker 1: the speaking of limos, the driver of that limo is

683
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 1: trained I mean the presidential limo is bulletproof, flat tire proof,

684
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:27,880
Speaker 1: um as bomb proof as it can be. And the

685
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: driver is trained. It's like a you know, it's like

686
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 1: a trained stunt driver, right, and it's a Secret Service driver, right, Yeah,

687
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 1: And they need to be able to they're trained to

688
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:40,440
Speaker 1: do those like super cool looking one eight moves to

689
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 1: get the heck out of there, to drive backwards at

690
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 1: high speeds, and um, all the other stuff that you

691
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 1: see stuntman stunt drivers do these, the Secret Service limo

692
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 1: drivers can do so. On the other end of the spectrum,

693
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: speaking of limo drivers from the Secret Service, um is

694
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 1: JFK's assassination. Um. I read this in this article didn't

695
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: even mention that, right. It's like in the Secret Service

696
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 1: successes and failures not even mentioned at all. So I

697
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 1: read this article on it from Vanity Fair that was

698
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 1: called could the Secret Service have saved JFK? Go read it?

699
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:24,760
Speaker 1: Totally worthwhile read. But they um, apparently the Secret Service guys,

700
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 1: not all of them, but a handful of them. We're

701
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: out partying like all night, uh the night before into

702
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:35,439
Speaker 1: the morning, um, and showed up after three or four

703
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 1: maybe five hours of sleep in some cases, uh, ready

704
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 1: for duty. And if you look at it through that lens,

705
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 1: apparently you can see how yeah, it looks a lot

706
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 1: like being hungover and maybe even still a little drunk.

707
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 1: Definitely affected their responses. And one of the guys, um

708
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 1: was the limo driver who UM really like took it

709
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 1: personally immediately that he had failed. But he he did.

710
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 1: He didn't swerve, he didn't speed up, He just tapped

711
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 1: the brake a little bit and actually, if anything, gave

712
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 1: um Lee Harvey Oswald a clear second fatal shot. UM.

713
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 1: And they think that it was because of this culture

714
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: of like drinking and partying that was just endemic at

715
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 1: the time, UM, and that it actually led to JFK's potential.

716
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 1: Potentially he his life could have been saved, is what

717
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:32,800
Speaker 1: the article says. Obviously could have died from the neck wound,

718
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:38,360
Speaker 1: but they didn't do enough in retrospect to protect against

719
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:41,879
Speaker 1: that second fatal shot. That definitely did it. Yeah, it's

720
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,400
Speaker 1: worth reading man. Well, I mean, you talk about the

721
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 1: party atmosphere, and I think early on some listeners MND

722
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 1: have thought you were kidding around. But that's really the

723
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 1: case apparently, UM. And it probably has a lot to

724
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 1: do with just how understaff and overwork they are that

725
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,840
Speaker 1: they kind of unwind. Um. They have been known to

726
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: unwind and pretty epic fashion. Um. And and recently and

727
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:08,359
Speaker 1: in the last like five or six years, have been

728
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 1: some pretty high profile blemishes on the agency. One in

729
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:16,320
Speaker 1: two thousand twelve when a bunch of agents a hundred

730
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:20,400
Speaker 1: and seventy five I went to Columbia um before Obama visit,

731
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 1: and twelve of them were caught taking prostitutes back to

732
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 1: their hotel. And apparently the same kind of thing happened

733
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:32,239
Speaker 1: the year before in El Salvador Um. And then wasn't

734
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:36,280
Speaker 1: there another kind of big party bust or something? Yeah Amsterdam?

735
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 1: Oh right, well, of course, yeah, there were three agents

736
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: were found passed out drunk, one of them in the

737
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:45,279
Speaker 1: hallway of the hotel that the President was staying at

738
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 1: the below and um, they got sent home and put

739
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 1: on leave for that. And they came like right on

740
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 1: the heels well two years later after the first scandal

741
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: in two thousand twelve, and that was on the heels

742
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,880
Speaker 1: of Oscar or take a hernandez um shooting at the

743
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 1: White House. Why he did that, well, I mean he

744
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:12,960
Speaker 1: claimed he was Jesus I hadn't. I hadn't had a

745
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 1: chance to look up at on that one, and I

746
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: just didn't know what his motive was. Yeah, I mean,

747
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 1: by all accounts, I think he was mentally ill. He

748
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 1: claimed like he made a video for Oprah Winfrey incident

749
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 1: to her claiming he was Jesus. And it's funny if

750
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 1: you look at the guy, he looks like Jesus. Well,

751
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 1: I mean, whatever your conception of Jesus is, I don't know,

752
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 1: but the kind of the classic Jesus um figure that

753
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: you see a lot, the guy kind of looked a

754
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:42,919
Speaker 1: lot like him, like more more than you do. Let's say,

755
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 1: I could I could see that most people do look

756
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 1: more like Jesus than me. But he he fired a

757
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 1: semi automatic weapon rifle at the White House quite a

758
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:57,640
Speaker 1: few shots. And this was just kind of bungled. The

759
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:01,360
Speaker 1: investigation was bungled. They had no clue what was happening,

760
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 1: what was going on. It took four full days to

761
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 1: realize that he actually hit the White House. And that's

762
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:09,799
Speaker 1: when a housekeeper said, you know, there's broken glass and

763
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:13,319
Speaker 1: cement on the floor in here. Remember, Michelle Obama was

764
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 1: really upset. I can imagine that this happened. They weren't

765
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 1: home at the time, but I think one of the

766
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 1: daughters was um. And this is, you know, after the

767
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:28,759
Speaker 1: same thing. It happened in the Clinton administration. Yeah, I

768
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 1: don't remember that at all. The Clinton one. Yeah, that

769
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:33,239
Speaker 1: was another guy that just you know, shot at the

770
00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:35,839
Speaker 1: White House. Basically, yeah, I think he did it from

771
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:39,279
Speaker 1: the street, but this guy actually got through. Oh wait,

772
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 1: was this one from the street too? I think it

773
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 1: was from the fence, Okay, but no, the guy that

774
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:46,879
Speaker 1: got through was a guy with a knife. Yes, made

775
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 1: it through several lines of security, through the fence and

776
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:52,839
Speaker 1: made it all the way to the north portico, which

777
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 1: is basically the front door of the White House, with

778
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 1: a knife before he was finally apprehended. Said he was

779
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 1: caught sprinting towards the front door with a knife. But yeah,

780
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:04,400
Speaker 1: that was And again, the capital or the White House

781
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:07,399
Speaker 1: police are part of the Secret Service too, And these

782
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:11,240
Speaker 1: are the people who look like you know, paramilitary police

783
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:14,240
Speaker 1: officers patrolling the White House. They're part of the Secret

784
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: Service police. Wow. So yeah it was. There were a

785
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:22,759
Speaker 1: bunch of controversies that rocked the place, which is why

786
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:24,759
Speaker 1: one some people are like, oh, it might be good

787
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:28,000
Speaker 1: that this Marine Corps colonel who has no connection to

788
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:32,799
Speaker 1: the Secret Services coming in maybe bring in a fresh perspective,

789
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:37,479
Speaker 1: because I guess there was a study that found that

790
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 1: it was an insular culture that has historically been resistant

791
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 1: to change. As the Congressional investigation, so who knows, but

792
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: they've done a lot of good too. Agreed. I can't can't,

793
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:53,839
Speaker 1: just don't want to just end on the controversies, but man,

794
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:57,959
Speaker 1: there's been some doozies. Are you got anything else? Yeah?

795
00:47:57,960 --> 00:47:59,840
Speaker 1: I got just a couple of more little things that

796
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: if you look up like coolest Secret Service secrets. There's

797
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:08,840
Speaker 1: just an abundance of articles, um, from mental flaws to

798
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:12,920
Speaker 1: breeders digest and I compiled a couple of these and

799
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 1: we've gone over most of them, but this one I

800
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 1: thought was neat Um. Secret Service isn't actually in the

801
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 1: Oval office most times, UM like inside the room. They're

802
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 1: right outside. But they have installed weight sensitive pressure pads

803
00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 1: throughout the Oval office, so they know where the president

804
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 1: is at all times. Oh wow, that sounds like it's

805
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: made up, but it's supposedly true. I could see that. Um,

806
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:40,839
Speaker 1: when the President delivers the State of the Union, they

807
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 1: hold one member of the cabinet behind hidden at Mount

808
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:50,480
Speaker 1: Weather in case someone bombs the entire thing. That's like

809
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:53,960
Speaker 1: that show Designated Survivor that I've never seen never What

810
00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 1: is that? It's like, uh Keia not Kena Reeves Key

811
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:02,160
Speaker 1: for Sutherland show where he's like a cabinet member who

812
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:05,239
Speaker 1: who like, I think that very thing happened and like

813
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:08,160
Speaker 1: there was bombing and it killed everybody and now he's president.

814
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 1: That's all I know. Uh what else? The headquarters of

815
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 1: Secret Service in Washington, d C. Does not have trash

816
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:21,680
Speaker 1: cans anywhere near it on the sidewalk, okay, because you know,

817
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 1: put a bomb in there. Apparently Reagan carried a gun,

818
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 1: his own gun. I believe that right. He carried a

819
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:33,320
Speaker 1: thirty eight in his briefcase and apparently uh Vice President

820
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 1: Bush didn't even know about it. Wow, really, that's what

821
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 1: it says. He found out the hard way. And then uh,

822
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:44,280
Speaker 1: when he crossed drawnnee and some policy yeah, President Ronnie,

823
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 1: not oh yeah the gipper. Yeah, not Secret Service Ronnie.

824
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,959
Speaker 1: When he crossed the gipper. Uh. And then finally, um,

825
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:54,320
Speaker 1: apparently the code word for when there's a big private

826
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:57,360
Speaker 1: investigation going on at the White House. They they're renovating

827
00:49:57,360 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 1: a room, so the First family gets out of the

828
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 1: house and they don't really know what's going on. And

829
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:07,160
Speaker 1: so it said over the years, whenever you hear like

830
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 1: Clinton Obama renovated the treaty room, Clinton renovated Room Bush

831
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:15,400
Speaker 1: renovated the briefing room. Clinton's was the music room. Apparently

832
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:21,359
Speaker 1: those were all um private investigations going on. I don't understand. Well,

833
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess they just they need to set

834
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 1: up shop in the White House and too even not

835
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 1: alert the first family that that's going on. They'll quote

836
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:35,080
Speaker 1: renovate unquote a room. Wow. That sounds a little hinky

837
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 1: to me, though. It does like I would guess that

838
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 1: the president is a prize of just about everything that's

839
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 1: going on, including investigations. Yeah, there may be some more

840
00:50:44,080 --> 00:50:46,200
Speaker 1: clarity on that that someone will know an email us

841
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 1: about where did they come from Reader's digest Now I

842
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:52,759
Speaker 1: think that, Uh well, boo, that was huff po a

843
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:56,359
Speaker 1: bunch of commies. Yeah. Really, they'll say anything to make

844
00:50:56,400 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 1: the president look bad. Pe Well, don't take it seriously. Okay,

845
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:06,359
Speaker 1: do you got anything else now? Uh no, sir? Okay, Well,

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Speaker 1: Go check out this article on how stuff works. And

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Speaker 1: on Satanism that we're gonna read. I want to thank

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Speaker 1: you guys for the Satanism episode. I myself am a

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Speaker 1: my faith in objective and fair manner, but I do

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Speaker 1: take issue with you calling us hippies. Feel your summation

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Speaker 1: the various TST programs and that's the Satanic Church or

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Speaker 1: a temple uh to accurately represent much of what we

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Speaker 1: strive to do. But I wish you had taken the

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Speaker 1: time to go over the our core beliefs like you

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Speaker 1: did the Church of Satan. And then he sent them

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Speaker 1: to me, so I'll just read them, and he said,

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Speaker 1: here's a fiver for each of you. What wish um.

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Speaker 1: One should strive to act with compassion and empathy towards

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Speaker 1: all creatures. The struggle for justice is an ongoing and

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Speaker 1: necessary pursuit should prevail over laws and institutions. One's body

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Speaker 1: is invite, inviolable, subject to one's own will. Alone. The

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Speaker 1: freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend.

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Speaker 1: A belief should conform to our best scientific understanding of

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Speaker 1: the world. Uh, we should never care to distort scientific

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Speaker 1: facts to fit our beliefs. That's a good one. People

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Speaker 1: are fallible. If we make a mistake, we should do

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Speaker 1: our best directify it and resolve any harm. And finally,

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Speaker 1: every tenant is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility

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Speaker 1: and action and thought. Yeah, so he said, the takeaway

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Speaker 1: basically is what we try and reflect as a focus

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Speaker 1: on scientific inquiry, nobility and action and thought and respect

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Speaker 1: for oneself and others. And he closes out by saying,

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Speaker 1: Haile satan and his name is Caleb Tarat Tuta Tera Tuta.

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Speaker 1: Sorry but I thought it was Caleb Tarantula, and I

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Speaker 1: was like, that's a great name for a Satanist, like

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Speaker 1: Peter Grim or if you want to get in touch

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