30 seconds.

One time for the underdder.

Ignition sequence star.

Let me see you put them up.

Reach the skies, touch the stars up above because it's one time for the underdaw. I'm Patrick Medevia host of Aitam and today.

I'm Patrick Medevia host of Aitim.

And today I sit down with a 30-year FBI undercover agent

and he shares and exposes what it was like to be an undercover

agent for the Cinaloa cartel, La Kossa Nostra and the Russian mob.

Michael, thank you for flying out and being a guest with us.

Thank you for having me, Pat.

Yes. And it's exciting because you just retired two years ago so a lot of your

stories are going to be a good time we're going to have some stories that are

recent some that are older this is a good mixture it is so when did you wake up and

say I'm gonna go be an FBI agent? What was that like? I never did.

So the way that came around was I grew up in a police family

My father, my grandfather were police officers. My son is now a police officer. I didn't think I had a choice.

That was the family business. We were Blue Bloods before there was a Blue Bloods.

So I knew I was going into police work, but I expected to be a police

officer and that's what I became right out of college. I became a police officer. And while I was a police

officer, we were responding to bank robberies in which the FBI also had jurisdiction.

And one day one of the FBI agent asked me if I had considered joining the FBI. And it literally was the first time it crossed my mind and I told him not

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