So I'm there, right? I'm on duty. They say, hey, there's this guy here. He doesn't want to talk to any of us. He wants to talk to a special agent. He says he has some information on criminal activity going on on the Mexican border on his side. He says that he used to work for one of the Trevino's. I sit with him and I talk with him one-on-one. You start telling me that he's a Sicario. And his job was to make sure that the boss got away, and when the Mexican Marines started shooting at them, he'd get out and he'd start firing back with his machine gun. And for every Mexican Marine that he killed, what he would do is he would take a souvenir, like he would cut one of their fingers off or whatever it may be, and he'd get a bonus per body part that he brought back. I guess today is Myron Gaines, host of the popular and controversial Fresh and Fit podcast.

Before he was a podcast host, Myron worked as a detective for Homeland Security,

first in Laredo, Texas on the U.S.-Mexico border and then later in Miami.

He has wild stories of being involved in gigantic cartel busts and human smuggling operations. He gave a firsthand insight into the way that

Mexican cartels actually work from being on the front lines of the war on drugs. This is the

first federal agent we've had on the show, and he cleared up a lot of myths about immigration,

the migrant crisis, and the Mexican cartels that most so-called experts get wrong.

Also, for a very special bonus episode this week, go over to patreon.com slash the Connect show.

Okay, without further ado, I give you Myron Gaines, one half of the Fresh and Fit podcast right here on The Connect with Johnny Mitchell.

I mean, obviously, a lot of those images stick with me to this day. You know, it's kind of something that I kind of, and it's funny that like, I put it in a section on my brain and didn't think about it, but now that we're like talking about it, I can see those faces in my, in my head. It's horrible, man. It really is horrible. That's when I see lights behind me, start to flash. And I didn't even think. I just hit it. I was driving like my life depended on. And then I parked the car, popped out, closed the door, and I started running. And he pulls out a burner, shank, it's like six inches. And he passes it to me. And he goes, here, that's yours. Don't ever leave the cell block without this.

He was the reason I made it out of that place alive.

You're the first law enforcement. Have we had, okay, we had a Mexican cop on, Ed Calderon, right? And then we had like a white boy undercover from like the Dallas, you know,

narcotics squad. Okay. But you're the first

Fed. Bam. You're the first mother fed that we've had on the channel. I'm stoked. So I'm just

going to hand it over to you. Tell us how you became a Homeland Security officer. Yeah. So

my official title was a special age with Homeland Security Investigations, or HSI, just

so the audience kind of understands.

So before 9-11, there was no Homeland Security.

There was Immigration Naturalization Service and the U.S. Customs Service.

After 9-11, the Homeland Security Act was created, and in 2003, the Department of Homeland

Security was created. Underneath Homeland Security, so if you look at Homeland Security here, you have something called Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. People tend to think ICE is just like, oh, immigration, oh my God, but there's two components to ICE. There's enforcement and removal operations who deals with the immigration and actually deporting of the illegal aliens that are here.

And then there's what used to be called the Office of Investigation, but now known as Homeland Screen Investigations, HSI.

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