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Change Agents with Andy Stumpf

Cartels Have Infiltrated Montana (John Nores Returns)

Change Agents with Andy Stumpf

IRONCLAD

Society & Culture

4.9648 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

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. He is the author of the book Hidden War: How Special Operations Game Wardens Are Reclaiming Wildlands From the Drug Cartels as well as War in the Woods: Combating the Marijuana Cartels on America’s Public Lands. The 2nd edition of Hidden War is out now. He is the co-host of the Warden’s Watch and the Thin Green Line podcasts  He first appeared on Change Agents last summer to discuss cartels operating in America’s wild lands, and today, he returns to talk about how they’ve infiltrated all the way into Montana  He recently testified in the House of Representatives National Resources Committee during their Securing Our Border, Saving Our National Parks oversight hearing to discuss the scope of the cartel infiltration in America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZdaxmUlcCY SPONSORS:  Change Agents is presented by Montana Knife Company.  Use CODE "CHANGEAGENTS10" for 10% off your first order at ⁠⁠⁠https://www.montanaknifecompany.com/⁠⁠⁠ Four Branches Bourbon Please check their story out at ⁠⁠fourbranches.com⁠⁠ and pick up a bottle of their fine bourbon today. Use the code “IRONCLAD10” to get 10% off.  MTNTOUGH  Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://mtntough.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ and enter code CHANGE to receive 40% OFF - a savings of about $100 your MTNTOUGH+ annual subscription.  NAVY SEAL FOUNDATIONVisit ⁠shop.navysealfoundation.org⁠ to grab your gear now. Show your respect by wearing your support. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There's no limit.

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I mean, these chemists are very smart.

0:03.0

They're very creative.

0:04.0

And they just experiment.

0:06.0

And I think there's a lot of dead people in the part of that experiment.

0:09.0

They just work there.

0:10.0

You know, it's like a bad episode of Breaking Bad, but it truly is making that blue

0:15.0

meth that was highlighted in that television series.

0:17.0

And one thing I like about that series is it showed the chemistry involved. It kind of went in depth a little bit to the concept of you don't need to be, you know, some mad PhD scientist out of like the Stanford think tank or, you know, some bio lab. These are Mexican. These are Chinese. These areel, gangster chemists that have a little bit of

0:37.7

base knowledge and they're creative. So they will continue to experiment and they'll find something

0:42.9

that will make them more money with no concern for life or humanity and that is going to get

0:49.6

people addicted quicker so they can sell more product. How can I help? How can I be useful in ending needless suffering?

0:58.0

Do not be afraid of work that has no end.

1:02.0

We have to organize a social movement.

1:07.0

We have an opportunity to lead by example versus just talking, hot air.

1:14.7

I think the more people in this fight, the more we grow, eventually it could change.

1:19.5

The people are the ones that can make the change.

1:25.6

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Change Agents, an Iron Cloud original, proudly presented by Montana Knife Company.

1:33.0

Today, we're going to be talking about something that is very close to home for me, and I mean that literally and figuratively.

1:39.4

We are going to be discussing how cartels are infiltrating the state of Montana.

1:44.8

Joining us on today's show is return guest John Norris.

1:49.5

If you have followed a podcast, the first time that we spoke, mostly was about his time

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