Speaker 1: Pushkin. About a year ago, I heard about this guy,
Speaker 1: a former FBI agent named Ned Timmins, and Ned he
Speaker 1: had this crazy story I almost couldn't believe. It went
Speaker 1: something like this back in the eighties and Ned was
Speaker 1: a rookie at the FBI, and one night he arrests
Speaker 1: a fugitive at this biker bar and I just lean
Speaker 1: up to his ear and said, Toby FBI, and Nin
Speaker 1: he goes, fuck you. Turns out this guy, Toby, has
Speaker 1: some connections in the criminal underworld, and that's Ned's in.
Speaker 1: He goes undercover with a biker gang, learns how to
Speaker 1: ride a Harley, grows a Fu Manchu mustache, and well
Speaker 1: starts spending a lot of time with his new buddies.
Speaker 1: You don't make progress unless you're dealing with sociopath I think,
Speaker 1: homicidal crazy people. Ned's wife at the time was also
Speaker 1: an FBI agent, and she started to worry, will you
Speaker 1: hang around that long with a bunch of bad guys
Speaker 1: fitting in with them? Your behavior is going to change
Speaker 1: and where you draw the line changes. But this was
Speaker 1: just the beginning. Ned tells me he would go on
Speaker 1: to live his double life for years and eventually uncover
Speaker 1: a vast criminal conspiracy. It involved celebrities, the CIA, a
Speaker 1: dictator down in Central America. Not just that ultimately it
Speaker 1: leads to a war, I mean a full scale US invasion.
Speaker 1: We're going to work this upbright to the top. Our
Speaker 1: objective is to work up and kill the head of
Speaker 1: the snake. Skeptical here, so is I. And then I
Speaker 1: started doing a little detective work of my own. I'm
Speaker 1: Jake Albern and this is deep Cover, a show about drugs, motorcycles,
Speaker 1: an FBI agent, and a dictator with a machette. Well,
Speaker 1: you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to realize that
Speaker 1: we stumbled up on something that was large and scale
Speaker 1: and that it was international. The story was way too
Speaker 1: big for the FEDS. I would have considered them very
Speaker 1: polished executives that they just happened to ultimately be involved
Speaker 1: in smuggling. You could smell the money, there was so
Speaker 1: much of it. Money has a very distinct owner, and
Speaker 1: there was just so much of it you could smell it.
Speaker 1: Terrible characters or are stock and trade. It's the criminals
Speaker 1: who know how to get around the law and get
Speaker 1: around all of the systems who can help us do
Speaker 1: our job. You know, you don't have to choose that path.
Speaker 1: You don't have to choose to work a case in
Speaker 1: that way. You don't have to choose to go deep cover.
Speaker 1: You are who you are. You're just an FBI agent,
Speaker 1: You're not God. At any time, I could have gone
Speaker 1: to my bosses and said I'm done and they would
Speaker 1: have respected that. Why didn't you, pink as I want
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