4.9 • 37.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2019
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Steven Rinella talks with John Nores and Janis Putelis.
Subjects discussed: Cartels growing pot on public land; wildlife poisoning by weed growers; Vietnam War-style punji pits in Shasta National Forest; special ops game wardens; pink death; concealing man tracks with fake cow prints and carpet slippers; Phoebe, the one-in-a-million K9 lifesaver and her 900+ arrests; secret attack commands; 445 miles of poly pipe; DIY dams; Silicon Valley science camp; and more.
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0:35.0 | Okay we're joined by Lieutenant John Norris like Chuck Norris like Chuck Norris you got |
0:41.9 | it so no different spelling right N O R E S a little different yeah author of Hidden |
0:47.4 | War. |
0:52.0 | Reading that book man I was reading the book over the weekend people are going to figure |
0:56.1 | out what the book is box when we talk about a bunch but it's about like the Hidden War |
0:59.6 | is the war against illegal pot growers so on public lands. |
1:10.4 | And otherwise just around I read it I had like a hundred questions come up and we'll |
1:15.3 | get I want to get into some background on you and stuff but the main question I think |
1:18.4 | that needs to be dispatched right away is like you're retired now right game warden lieutenant |
1:25.1 | right you're a game warden right you came out of like busted people for not having their |
1:31.0 | fishing license yep having too many uh trout on the old stringer how in the world did |
1:39.0 | it become your guys responsibility to like take on like cartel backed illegal growers |
1:48.3 | I mean like why is that not the cops yeah you know Steve that is a great question and that |
1:52.4 | is the question that everyone started to ask when we got into this and you know like all |
1:57.2 | of us at the table here in the studio I grew up loving to hunt fish the outdoors were kind |
2:01.7 | of the spiritual cornerstone where I was at so when I met a game warden you know for |
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