187: From Vietnam to the DEA: David Hess’ Wild Ride in Law Enforcement

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🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Murph welcomes retired DEA agent David Hess for an incredible deep dive into his life story. From growing up in a coal mining town in Pennsylvania to serving in Vietnam, Hess shares how his unexpected path led him to a career in drug enforcement.

What was it like going from the battlefields of Vietnam to fighting the war on drugs?
DEA Academy training and the wild reality of working in Albuquerque
Meth lab disasters and the dangerous evolution of drug enforcement
A high-stakes shooting during an undercover drug bust
From DEA agent to teacher & author – life after law enforcement
Funny & shocking stories from decades in the field!

💥 If you love true crime, first-hand police stories, and real-life heroes, this episode is a MUST!!

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0:00.0	This kid in my class, big tall, goofy kid, and he's disrupting my class.
0:04.6	Probably the best thing ever happened is he was disrupting my class because I literally had no idea what I was doing.
0:10.8	Yeah.
0:11.3	So this kid kept acting out, and I finally got mad one day, and I said, look, if you keep disrupting my class,
0:19.2	I'm going to come down and I'm going to take a desk,
0:21.2	and I'm going to shove it right up your ass.
0:22.7	All righty.
0:23.3	Yeah.
0:24.1	And then he behaved.
0:25.1	Then about a week later, the department head, who was a very nice man, called me in his office,
0:31.8	and he said, Mr. Hess, said, and has recently come to my attention, you told Mr. So-and-so that you were going to
0:40.4	insert a desk in his rectum.
0:42.8	And so exact words.
0:44.4	And he said, did you really say that?
0:47.2	I said, yeah, I did.
0:49.8	And he said, I've been wanting to say that for many years.
0:53.0	He said, please don't say it again.
1:09.7	Everybody, welcome back to the next episode of Game of Crimes with Murph in the morning.
1:15.3	You're not going to believe what we've been going through, not just for today, but for days,
1:20.0	trying to get everything set up. As you can see, our guest is blacked out today.
1:24.1	That's because we just could not figure out how to get his camera to work.
1:26.9	And I'll tell you, part of it was he hadn logged in his computer since 2021, and here we're recording in 2025.
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