I'm Alice and I'm Brett and episode of the prosecutor's legal briefs. I'm Brett, and I am not joined with Alice today. She had to work, but don't turn off the recording yet because I am not alone. Thank goodness for everyone. I am joined with Ben Johnson, and we are going to have an awesome discussion

about the United States marshals, their history, a new museum focusing on that and some of the

cool cases they have worked on before. So, Mr. Johnson, welcome to the show. Thank you, sir, very much. Good to be here.

Yeah, and thanks for joining us. When you guys reached out and started talking about this, I mean,

basically you mentioned the U.S. Marshals and that was it. I was done. I was ready to do it because

I love the U.S. Marshals. It's an awesome group of people. We've had FBI agents on.

We've had ATF agents on and don't tell them I said this, but the U.S. Marshals are my favorite,

not least of which because one of the things they do is keep us safe in the courtroom.

So, you know, I have like a personal interest in liking them. But thank you so much for coming on.

I do want to give you an opportunity to introduce yourself to everyone who's listening.

Sure. So since August of 2022, I have served as the president and CEO of the Marshalls Services

one and only National Museum dedicated to their now 236 years of history.

I'm not a deputy, never wore a badge, don't carry a gun to work most days.

I'm a geek.

I've been doing this for a long time.

I've been in the museum business since about 2003. And really, I got into it

because I didn't want to write another paper in college. So I had an opportunity to go in and do an

internship at a museum. And I didn't get paid anything, but I could go sit in an old airplane

anytime I wanted. And I got to hang out with cool people who had great

life experience and for me it was a bit of a dream come true. I mean it was all the stuff that I

enjoyed doing and reading about anyway. I just got to do it for college credit and like a lot of

nonprofits you hang around long enough eventually they're going to start paying you to be there. So I did, I got a little bit of money and then a little bit more and then a

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