I was getting close and they came after me.

Now when you're in a unit like this, is it kind of like what we see in the movies.

People that was brought in as a suspect, I believe was brought in for no other reason than the detective had beef with him. That's a really good bus story. My door knocked one day I was off and it was the DA, the FBI, and an analyst and came in my house and interviewed me for eight hours. Imagine spending your career putting drug dealers behind bars only to wake up one day and

realize the FBI thinks you might be one of them.

That's what happened to today's guest, Michael Dilks, a Florida narcotics cop who went

from busting traffickers to being investigated by the DEA and FBI, all based on suspicion.

Mike, welcome to locked in. Thanks so much for coming on the show today. I appreciate you having me, man. Really good stuff you're doing, and it's cool to be here. I appreciate it. Yeah, it's crazy how social media works. You just reached out on Instagram and we were able to connect. Yeah, it's like a fast. And it's like, it's funny, like, inmate, former cop. Like, it's just in the world, like how we end up connecting later on.

It's,, like, inmate, former cop.

Like, it's just in the world, like how we end up connecting later on. It's, I think it's good stuff. And it always good to get messages, stories. And, uh, like a success story like yours out is, is a good one. So I'm excited to be here. Yeah, those are my favorite episodes. I mean, the law enforcement ones because they're so different. And that'll be very different.

Yeah.

And the audience loves hearing the law enforcement ones because they're so different. And that'll be very different. Yeah, and the audience loves hearing the law enforcement ones, especially when you're being interviewed by someone that was in prison and is a criminal. So it works out good. I bet it does. Yeah. Plug in your podcast. Tell everyone what you got going on. I currently co-host the anti-hero podcast. That's on YouTube. And then our Instagram is at the underscore anti-hero

underscore podcast. That is the big one. That's, um, that's myself and Tyler. We do, um, primarily military

first responder type podcast for cops. We help them, you know, with, um, getting their stories out,

getting out, um, information. And then on my own, I run the cops. We help them, you know, with getting their stories out, getting out information. And then on my own,

I run the Copville podcast, which no attention to bite off yours, but I called it locked up with

Copville. That podcast started, and we'll talk about it, was due to being unfairly treated at

the sheriff's office where I worked. And I started a meme page,

Copville OG, which quickly blew up to over 100,000 followers the first time,

back to 70 after Instagram nuked me.

But I used dark humor of the cop world to become funny or make it funny.

And then from there went, you know, can make probably use this to help some people and

make a little difference so at cop villo g at the anti-hero podcast and then counterculture is our

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