Episode 240 - Anthony Arismendi

Cleared Hot

Society & Culture

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 168 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Anthony Arismendi is a former FBI agent with a highly decorated and distinguished career spanning two decades of undercover and special operations against drug cartels, gangs, organized crime, violent criminals, and terrorist organizations. He has served as a member of the FBI’s SWAT team, as a supervisory agent in two field offices and FBI Headquarters, and as a unit chief in the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division. He is the recipient of the Hispanic American Police Command Officer’s Association’s (HAPCOA) Medal of Meritorious Service, the Special Act Award from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner’s Criminal Investigator’s Award, and he was recognized by FBI Director Louis J. Freeh for his nomination to the prestigious FBI Director’s Award for Excellence in Investigations. Today, he is the President and CEO of ARIXMAR, author and sought-after public speaker, sharing his compelling and motivating story with public and private organizations across the country.

In his new book, “Outsider Agent” he tells the story of how he moved to the United States from the dangerous streets of Caracas, Venezuela as a teenager in the mid-seventies, with the dream of becoming a US citizen and an FBI agent—adapting his survival skills to a new culture, one harrowing day at a time, overcoming homelessness, prejudice, and poverty to achieve the impossible.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Good morning ladies and gentlemen, it's almost the 4th of July. Do you know what that means?
0:04.8	Well, hopefully for what it means for most people, they're celebrating the
0:08.8	birthday and independence of this country, but for other people what they kind of want to do is shop
0:12.3	and I'm not going to judge either way. I think you can do both. So if you're looking for something
0:16.5	cool to buy for the 4th of July, I actually rhymed. That was unintentional, but I'm going to go with it.
0:22.8	Go to BlackWry for Coffee.com where you're going to find the landing page that says the 4th of July
0:27.1	sale. Buy more and save more. Up to 50% off your first coffee club order. You're going to get 20%
0:33.7	off if you spend over 50 bucks, 25% off over 75 and 30% off over a hundo. And of course you could
0:40.5	just go crazy. That picture you're going to see is Matt Best in an American flag set of overalls.
0:47.0	No shirt. Don't know what to say about it. Not the marketing that I would go with even though he's
0:50.8	chiseled and ruggedly handsome man. I would have just gone with something slightly different. But
0:55.2	if you like coffee and you like cool brands, go to BlackWry for Coffee.com and check out what they
0:59.6	have to offer. Now let's move on from the business side of the house. My guest today is a fascinating
1:08.0	man and one of the cooler conversations that I've ever had. His name is Anthony. He goes by Tony,
1:13.8	though, RS Mendy. And his background is should be in my opinion inspirational for everybody who listens
1:26.3	to this episode. He comes from a place that I think most people would probably try to avoid.
1:31.6	Move to this country with almost no grasp or understanding of the English language lived in a
1:35.7	situation that again, most people would try to avoid and continue to grow and build and move forward
1:43.2	one step at a time and eventually became an FBI agent in that capacity. He served on the SWAT team
1:48.1	as a supervisory agent in two field offices and FBI headquarters and as a unit chief in the FBI's
1:54.6	criminal investigation division. Eventually decided to move on for reasons he talks about in the
2:00.0	podcast and became the CEO and president of his own company. I'm probably going to murder this,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Cleared Hot, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Cleared Hot and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.