WEBVTT - Introducing Deep Cover

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<v Speaker 1>Pushkin. About a year ago, I heard about this guy,

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<v Speaker 1>a former FBI agent named Ned Timmins, and Ned he

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<v Speaker 1>had this crazy story I almost couldn't believe. It went

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<v Speaker 1>something like this back in the eighties and Ned was

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<v Speaker 1>a rookie at the FBI, and one night he arrests

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<v Speaker 1>a fugitive at this biker bar and I just lean

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<v Speaker 1>up to his ear and said, Toby FBI, and Nin

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<v Speaker 1>he goes, fuck you. Turns out this guy, Toby, has

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<v Speaker 1>some connections in the criminal underworld, and that's Ned's in.

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<v Speaker 1>He goes undercover with a biker gang, learns how to

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<v Speaker 1>ride a Harley, grows a Fu Manchu mustache, and well

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<v Speaker 1>starts spending a lot of time with his new buddies.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't make progress unless you're dealing with sociopath I think,

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<v Speaker 1>homicidal crazy people. Ned's wife at the time was also

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<v Speaker 1>an FBI agent, and she started to worry, will you

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<v Speaker 1>hang around that long with a bunch of bad guys

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<v Speaker 1>fitting in with them? Your behavior is going to change

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<v Speaker 1>and where you draw the line changes. But this was

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<v Speaker 1>just the beginning. Ned tells me he would go on

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<v Speaker 1>to live his double life for years and eventually uncover

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<v Speaker 1>a vast criminal conspiracy. It involved celebrities, the CIA, a

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<v Speaker 1>dictator down in Central America. Not just that ultimately it

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<v Speaker 1>leads to a war, I mean a full scale US invasion.

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<v Speaker 1>We're going to work this upbright to the top. Our

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<v Speaker 1>objective is to work up and kill the head of

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<v Speaker 1>the snake. Skeptical here, so is I. And then I

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<v Speaker 1>started doing a little detective work of my own. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>Jake Albern and this is deep Cover, a show about drugs, motorcycles,

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<v Speaker 1>an FBI agent, and a dictator with a machette. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to realize that

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<v Speaker 1>we stumbled up on something that was large and scale

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<v Speaker 1>and that it was international. The story was way too

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<v Speaker 1>big for the FEDS. I would have considered them very

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<v Speaker 1>polished executives that they just happened to ultimately be involved

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<v Speaker 1>in smuggling. You could smell the money, there was so

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<v Speaker 1>much of it. Money has a very distinct owner, and

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<v Speaker 1>there was just so much of it you could smell it.

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<v Speaker 1>Terrible characters or are stock and trade. It's the criminals

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<v Speaker 1>who know how to get around the law and get

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<v Speaker 1>around all of the systems who can help us do

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<v Speaker 1>our job. You know, you don't have to choose that path.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't have to choose to work a case in

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<v Speaker 1>that way. You don't have to choose to go deep cover.

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<v Speaker 1>You are who you are. You're just an FBI agent,

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<v Speaker 1>You're not God. At any time, I could have gone

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<v Speaker 1>to my bosses and said I'm done and they would

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<v Speaker 1>have respected that. Why didn't you, pink as I want

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<v Speaker 1>to make the case deep Cover brought to you by

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<v Speaker 1>Pushkin Industries and launching July thirteenth. Listen on Apple, Spotify,

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<v Speaker 1>or wherever you get podcasts.