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The Kyle Seraphin Show

Passion Became A Paycheck

The Kyle Seraphin Show

Kyle Seraphin

Politics, News, Government, News Commentary, News:politics

5 β€’ 1.1K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Kyle opens the show by explaining how his job as an FBI Agent went from a passion to nothing more than a paycheck. A synopsis of the bureau's bungling of the Larry Nassar investigation originated with a SAC's desire for a $400k CSO job with USA Gymnastics. A whistleblower reveals that the FBI does not like it when you share images of their agents from your doorbell camera. Steve Friend joins late to share new revelations from the OPR files. πŸ›’ Shop πŸ™ Give Send Go ⭐️ 5-star Review 🚨 Follow Kyle

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0:00.0

Prep to hear the truth from a real whistleblower and American Patriot.

0:04.0

Here's Civil Liberties Enthusiest, Second Amendment Defender, and indefinitely suspended FBI agent, Kyle Serra Finn.

0:12.0

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us for the Kyle Serra

0:15.0

show. Today is Wednesday, December 14th.

0:17.0

I've got it slightly later than normal.

0:20.0

We've got 4.15 in the afternoon here.

0:22.0

And I've got with me producer Phil who's going to be keeping us on track I hope.

0:27.1

Today's episode is going to be called what started as a passion has become a paycheck. I think this is a common sentiment for people in the FBI. It's something that has identified where people have identified with when I've spoken to them, former agents, current agents, and I've had at least three long-form conversations today with friends of

0:45.9

mine in the Bureau in various different places, you know different levels of experience and

0:50.1

seniority and they all kind of agree with that like right now people in the FBI that want to keep their job are

0:55.5

tucking in, they're holding on, and they are trying to just not upset anybody. A good friend of mine told me that he was able to kind of keep a job that is sort of administrative right now as long as he wants.

1:07.0

And there's this constant fear that you text the wrong thing to the wrong person, you send the wrong

1:13.4

email with a sentiment that offends some sort of sensitive group and that could be the end for you

1:16.4

it's very similar to the kind of experience that I've had and you know you step on the

1:20.4

wrong toes and that's where you end up.

1:23.2

So what started as a passion to come a paycheck,

1:25.8

I first actually heard that from producer Phil

1:27.7

and that was a couple years ago.

1:29.2

Phil, when did you first realize that that was the case for you, Bud?

1:33.0

Well, I think it starts even earlier than when you're in the job.

1:37.0

Do you remember when you were at the Academy and maybe like day one, day two, they asked asked the question something to the effect of hey who took a pay cut to actually join the FBI and like the majority of the hands in the class go up, which stands to reason because most of these folks were probably professionals before.

1:58.8

Sure.

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