248: Part 1: Secret Service: Protecting Presidents & Detecting Lies

Game of Crimes

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🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Retired Secret Service Brad Beeler goes behind the badge to reveal what it truly takes to protect the most powerful person on Earth, and what 25 years of high-stakes federal service teaches you about human nature, sacrifice, and the truth!!

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0:00.0	The night before the visit, about 5 o'clock, a call comes into the Republican National
0:04.8	local headquarters saying I'm a Marine, I'm a crack shot.
0:09.3	I'm going to take out the president tomorrow.
0:11.4	And, oh, man, obviously we took a curveball there as far as I thought I was going to have a nice,
0:15.8	easy day.
0:17.0	Now what do I do?
0:18.3	I'm Steve Murphy, DEA Special Agent Retired
0:20.9	and now host of the Game of Crimes podcast.
0:23.6	If you've seen the Netflix series Narcos, then you know my story.
0:28.1	I now bring you stories of heroism and bravery
0:30.5	from our law enforcement and military heroes
0:33.4	and occasionally from the criminals that they faced.
0:36.8	Welcome to Game of Crimes.
0:50.6	Hey, gang, welcome back to this week's edition of Game of Crimes with Burf in the
0:53.8	morning. Another fantastic guest this weekend, or this week's edition of Game of Crimes with Burr in the morning.
1:10.9	Another fantastic guest this weekend, or this week, I'm sorry, we were just talking about some things that happened this weekend that we're going to get into. And I know you guys are going to be interested in it. And I'll just tell you right now, this man is a 25-year veteran of the United States Secret Service. We've never had a Secret Service agent on this show.
1:13.5	In five years, believe or not, we did have a uniformed division officer on here who ended
1:19.2	going to DEA and was one of my best friends, Tommy Golden.
1:22.6	But this man was on the protection detail for First Bush, George H.W. Bush, which I'm interested to find out a little bit more about that.
1:31.5	And then he became a polygrapher.
1:33.7	And out of that 25 years, he spent 17 of those years as a polygraph examiner.
1:39.5	And that's what we're going to talk a lot about today.
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