Transcript
A (0:00)
All right, guys, special day. If you go Back to episode 10 with Nick McKinley, the CIA operative who then started Deliver Fund, we've had so many requests to have him back on, and today is the day, so I'm excited for this. Nick, thank you, as always, for being here. It's gonna be.
B (0:17)
Thanks for having me back.
A (0:18)
This. This is gonna be special. This is gonna be unique. I don't see stuff like this out there, so I'm fired up to do this segment, so thank you. This is part one of a Part two series. The first one's gonna be laughing and joking, and the second one's gonna be serious. So the first one. I love your title. The Sleep Tight America stories. What is that?
B (0:38)
So Sleep Tight America actually comes from one of these stories, but essentially everybody thinks of the new US national security apparatus as this, like, super serious Jason Bourne movie, right? And I think one of the. You know, after doing 30 combat deployments between Special Ops and the CIA, I have way more funny stories than I do scary stories. And I think that's actually one of the ways that you can tell whether or not somebody's telling the truth is when they're talking about combat. If everything is this, like, so there I was, dark of Night kind of story, and it's all serious all the time, like some kind of movie, then, you know, they're probably full of it because there's just so many things that happen that you could never predict that just make things pretty funny. So Sleep Tight America came from an operation that we were doing in a country that ends in Stan. And, you know, dark. Dark of night, you know, covert, covert operation. And. And we were doing it under surveillance and so not telling you anything that's classified here. You can read about all this stuff on the open Internet, but there's a way to do intelligence operations when you have the bad guys following you like you're under surveillance, they're trying to figure out what you're doing. And. And that's actually often a good thing that they're following you because now you know where they are. So the whole movie theme of, oh, we're gonna go lose them, right? We're gonna go shake the tail or whatever, you know, language they use that. That's pretty stupid, quite frankly, is. Is like, that's not really what you do. Sometimes in very, very rare circumstances, you'll do that. But most of the times, if they start following you, you wanna let them follow you so you know exactly where they are. And then you look for opportunities to act when you Know that maybe they don't have visual on you for a few seconds or maybe a minute. And so we put this whole operation together where we were very purposely going to draw out our surveillance units. They were going to fall like the bad. So the bad guys are following us, and we're going to go around this corner. And when we go around the corner, we've. We selected a very specific place where there were some bushes where we knew they couldn't see us. And we were going to have one of our guys, literally where you're like, we're not stopping the car. We're just slowing it down a lot as we go around the corner, but no brake lights, doors open, they roll out, literally roll into the bushes. You know, the guy. Another guy in the back pulls, pulls the door closed, and we're gonna. We're gonna put up a dummy. So it appears from headlights and stuff that there's still somebody in the back, right? Like, like some, like, movie level intelligence operations stuff. Right. And so we're. We're. We've rehearsed this. We got it down. We know what we're doing. We leave for the actual op. And, and so we get to the. We get to the infill point and we get the, you know, we're. We're given the. The calls as we go out. And it's like, all right, one minute, all right, everyone. Everyone's getting ready. And then 30 seconds, all right? Guy's got his hand on the door. He's. He's ready to go. We're making sure that, you know, the light, the. The dome lights and everything are all turned off and everything's ready to go. And then, all right, you know, three, two, one, go. Door comes open, and he goes to dive out of the car, and his feet get wrapped up in the wires that are running down the center, you know, to. To the radio console that's in the front for all these specialized communications devices. And so he gets caught up, and then it's like, oh, crap, what do we do? What do we do? Right? Because, like, this part, we didn't. We didn't train for. And radio wires are like, they're like, shielded in steel. I mean, there are obviously some. Some relatively thick cables. So it's not like you can just like, start cutting those things. Plus you kind of need the communications. Oh. So, I mean, it probably didn't take as long as it seemed. This whole. This whole. This whole thing was supposed to take less than 10 seconds. We're probably 30 seconds into it. We're were rolling down the road with the frigging door open in a third world country with this guy half hanging out and, and his feet, you know, tangled in these wires. And you got another professional tough guy in the back trying to like, untangle his feet from the wires. And it turned out his, his shoe had like, his shoe lace had actually caught on one of the like, clamps that was holding the wire down. I mean, you couldn't, you couldn't reenact that if you tried it another 10,000 times. So, so that's what it was. So the guy finally gets him cleared, he rolls out and like some kind of Cirque du Soleil gymnast, like, manages to like, get on his feet and, and as he's walking away, he looks at us and he goes, sleep tight, America. We got this. And then just kind of disappears in the bushes. And so we're trying hard not to, like, to control our laughter. As you know, everything is fine. We're rolling down the street, we see the surveillance unit from this other country roll around the corner. They obviously can't see anything. They don't know that anything has gone on. That's, there's more of those types of incidents that happen in combat. There is firefights and, oh my gosh, I almost died.