#265 - Cartels are Creating Secret Narco Death Zones in Northern California | John Nores

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🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 191 minutes

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SPONSORS: - ACORNS: https://www.acorns.com/podcasts/?s2=julian&s4=julian_podcast (***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ John Nores served as a Game Warden for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife for more than 25 years and was a sniper on and led the Marijuana Enforcement Team (MET), an elite tactical unit targeting cartel drug operations. PATREON https://www.patreon.com/JulianDorey FOLLOW JULIAN DOREY INSTAGRAM (Podcast): https://www.instagram.com/juliandoreypodcast/ INSTAGRAM (Personal): https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey/ X: https://twitter.com/julianddorey GUEST LINKS Book: https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-War-Operations-Reclaiming-Wildlands/dp/1946267619 Website: https://www.johnnores.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/johnnores/?hl=en YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuWEYRHk5ximF_ASHQwXzKw LISTEN to Julian Dorey Podcast Spotify ▶ https://open.spotify.com/show/5skaSpDzq94Kh16so3c0uz Apple ▶ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trendifier-with-julian-dorey/id1531416289 ****TIMESTAMPS**** 00:00 - John Nores Connection to Jorge Ventura, Growing Up in Silicon Valley, Getting into Hunting & Fishing Warden 10:46 - Africa’s Wild Conservation & Ivory Trade Impact in California 18:51 - Hunting & Fishing Under Respected, Remote Operations & Wild Challenges 27:56 -1 Year Grace Period (Marij**na Legalization), Story of Black Market Going Legal 38:10 - California State Denying Access to Work w/ Federal Officers 45:28 - Cartel Ambush in Marij**na Grow Story, 1st Ever Cartel Grow Operation Story 57:21 - Massive 1st Plantation & (7,000), Camouflaging Marij**na Plants, Military Giving Equipment 01:11:10 - Chasing & Taking on Cartel, Close Call Stories 01:19:01 - Build Up to the 1st Cartel Grower Takeover, True Detective Analogy 01:24:10 - Cartel Set Up in Silicon Valley & Taking Down Combatants 01:37:50 - Informants in Cartel Groups, Water Boarding Cartel Guy, Chinese Crossing Borders 01:48:03 - Fentanyl Laced W**d & Dangers, Bipartisan Agreement Among Politicians 01:57:03 - Cartel Effects on Indigenous Lands, Border Policy w/ Donald Trump 02:11:01 - Building Border Wall & Migrant Crisis, Future of Border 02:24:35 - Criticizing Trump’s Rhetoric on Immigration Crisis, Trump’s 2025 Border Policy 02:31:45 - Chinese Military Aged Immigrants Crossing Over 02:43:55 - Future Plan for Handling Cartel & Border Crisis, Handling Mexico’s Relationship & Crisis 02:51:31 - No Longer Tied to Government & No Filter Expsoure, #1 Presidential Action if In Office CREDITS: - Host, Producer, and Editor: Julian Dorey - In-Studio Producer: Alessi Allaman - https://www.youtube.com/@UCyLKzv5fKxGmVQg3cMJJzyQ Julian Dorey Podcast Episode 265 - John Nores Music by Artlist.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	John, I had not heard about your story until it was either right before Jorge Ventura came in here, or I think it might have literally been when we were on air.
0:19.2	That day.
0:19.7	Yeah.
0:20.1	Yeah.
0:20.2	He was telling me about this. I think we recorded like air. That day. Yeah. Just tell me about this.
0:21.3	I think we recorded like the end of July. Okay. And what an oversight because holy shit,
0:26.0	you've been in the middle of this for a long time. My man. Yeah, it's been a long run. And I actually
0:30.8	heard about you for the first time from Jorge as well. Love that. And dude, you've been blowing it up doing great stuff. I'm glad to see this podcast doing what you're doing.
0:38.7	You're wired so right.
0:39.7	And it's honored to be on the show for one, but we've got to give a big shout out to our brother Jorge.
0:43.5	Absolutely.
0:44.2	He and I have done some fantastic work together, and Sognick, who kind of brought all the production behind the scenes.
0:48.8	And you heard a couple stories in his episode of The Madness we ran into in Sisku County, and I've probably got a few more. We'll talk about today potentially, but thanks to our brother. He's doing good stuff out there
0:57.6	as well. Absolutely. He's really impressive. I mean, that dude, there's some people who like to put
1:02.6	their fingernails in the dirt, and that makes him really great at their job, and there's no doubt he's
1:06.9	got that gene. Like, you know, it actually kind of reminded me like once i knew your story
1:11.9	his story's very similar like yeah bump when he went to make the first documentary that you were
1:17.0	involved with where he like bumps into this scene of like giant cartel plantations run by chinese
1:22.3	in california he's like what the fuck yeah and you working, it used to be called the California game and...
1:29.5	We used to be the California Department of Fishing Game.
1:31.5	And then we changed to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
1:35.0	Got it.
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