Ep 257 | Undercover FBI Agent Battled a DEMONIC Underworld | Scott Payne | The Glenn Beck Podcast

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Glenn Beck Program – Episode 257 | Undercover FBI Agent Battled a DEMONIC Underworld | Scott Payne

Introduction

In Episode 257 of The Glenn Beck Program, hosted by the Blaze Podcast Network, Glenn Beck engages in a profound conversation with Scott Payne, a retired FBI special agent known as the "Hillbilly Donnie Brasco" for his extensive undercover work. Released on May 17, 2025, this episode delves deep into the harrowing experiences Scott faced infiltrating white supremacist groups, battling a demonic underworld, and navigating the complexities of faith and personal turmoil.

Background on Scott Payne

Scott Payne shares his journey from street-level operations to deep undercover assignments within dangerous criminal organizations. His tenure in the FBI allowed him to embed himself within notorious groups like the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, one of the "big four" 1%er clubs, alongside the Hells Angels and Bandidos.

“In law enforcement, it's 1% of law enforcement that does undercover work, like deep undercover work. So I guess I'm a 1%er at some point.” [05:44]

Undercover Work in White Supremacist Groups

Payne recounts his two-year infiltration of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, detailing how he built trust through minor criminal activities before gaining deeper access. His role required him to participate in various illicit operations, from insurance fraud to drug deals, which gradually exposed him to the group's darker facets, including murder plots and pagan animal sacrifices.

“I went in there for two years developing relationships and getting evidence of criminal activity... crimes were being committed.” [06:30]

Personal Struggles and Faith

Balancing his undercover identity with his personal life proved challenging for Payne. He reflects on his upbringing in a devout Christian household and how his faith was both a source of strength and a point of internal conflict during his undercover missions.

“What hit me after all these days of praying is that what I heard was the Lord saying back, son, you would have never been able to do what you did if it wasn't me for blessing you in the first place.” [78:30]

Payne describes a pivotal moment during a demonic ritual with the supremacist group, which led him to seek solace in church and reaffirm his faith.

“That was it for the demonic stuff for me.” [18:56]

The Dark Side of White Supremacist Movements

The conversation intensifies as Payne exposes the twisted belief systems within white supremacist ideology, such as the "Christian Identity" movement. He explains how these groups distort biblical narratives to justify their racist agendas, blending paganism with extremist views to create a demonic underworld intent on societal collapse.

“They say that Eve, the fruit of the forbidden tree was a sexual act with the serpent Satan, a man of color.” [31:39]

Accelerationism and Recruitment Tactics

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to discussing "accelerationism," a strategy adopted by extremist groups aiming to hasten societal collapse to establish ethnostates. Payne illustrates how these groups leverage online platforms and dark web applications to recruit disillusioned individuals, often targeting vulnerable youth through video propaganda and hate-filled rhetoric.

“They believe this society is going to collapse either on its own or from man-made events. And they want to accelerate it.” [32:57]

Payne narrates his infiltration of "The Base," an accelerationist white supremacist group, detailing their violent ideologies and preparations for guerrilla warfare.

“They want to poison a water system, start killing lefty journalists or anti-fascists.” [33:07]

The Role and Trust in the FBI

Amidst discussing extremist threats, Payne addresses the evolving trust dynamics between the public and the FBI. He acknowledges past shortcomings and instances of corruption but asserts his belief in the agency's mission to protect and serve.

“Do I think the FBI is bad? No. I've stayed very apolitical through the book and everything.” [45:08]

Payne shares personal anecdotes highlighting both his trust in fellow agents and the challenges they face in combating extremist threats without succumbing to the very evils they fight against.

“Most of the time in these cases, you're not reactive. You're being proactive.” [09:26]

Key Stories and Anecdotes

Several gripping stories punctuate the conversation, offering listeners a first-hand glimpse into the perilous world of undercover operations:

1. Demonic Ritual Experience: Payne describes a chilling encounter during a pagan ceremony where he witnessed and participated in a goat sacrifice, culminating in a near-disastrous event that reinforced his commitment to faith and duty.

   “When I rolled over, what I saw was all red, like a watery image. And it was a demon looking at me... I screamed probably the highest I've ever screamed.” [16:53]

2. Attempted Exposure: Payne recounts moments when his cover was almost blown, such as being held at gunpoint in a crawl space during the Outlaws case, and how he narrowly escaped detection through quick thinking and support from his team.

   “He looked right at it and missed it.” [90:42]

3. Violent Encounters: The episode highlights the violent intentions of extremist groups, including planned attacks and the use of firearms, which Payne had to navigate carefully to gather evidence without endangering himself or others.

   “If you can't deal with that, that's cool. But... What if you have to lock the door?” [21:58]

Insights and Conclusions

Scott Payne's testimony underscores the pervasive and evolving nature of white supremacy and extremist ideologies in America. He emphasizes the critical need for awareness, proactive law enforcement, and community engagement to counteract these threats.

“There are evil people on this planet that want to do evil things to good people. And it's been that way pretty much since the beginning of time.” [20:25]

Payne advocates for restoring faith and moral foundations within society as a bulwark against the rising tide of extremism, urging listeners to recognize and confront the underlying issues that fuel such movements.

“God has to be put back in. And then the foundation of the country, which was based on God, needs to put back in.” [49:16]

Notable Quotes

• “We just have to be able to have a conversation. You can't keep cutting me off. Let's have a conversation.” – Scott Payne [52:09]

• “If you can't deal with that, that's cool. But if we tell you, lock the door... A lot of these things, you just have to.” – Scott Payne [21:57]

• “You have a lot of work to do. But if we tell you, lock the door. Lock the door... It's not your fault you lost the shirt.” – Scott Payne [23:11]

Conclusion

Episode 257 offers a compelling and unsettling exploration of the hidden battles against white supremacist undercurrents in America. Through Scott Payne's harrowing experiences and insights, listeners gain a deeper understanding of the complexities faced by law enforcement in combating deeply entrenched extremist ideologies. The conversation not only highlights the immediate dangers but also calls for a broader societal reflection on faith, morality, and the enduring fight against evil.

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Disclaimer: The content discussed in this summary touches on sensitive and potentially disturbing subjects, including violent activities and extremist ideologies. Listener discretion is advised.

Transcript

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[Scott Payne]

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[Glenn Beck]

Factor meals.com listen50 code listen50 t's and c's apply. In reading your book, I don't know how you're not schizophrenic I mean, honestly, I don't know.

[Scott Payne]

How did you balance the two worlds in the beginning? Not very well. You know, if you're doing like I started at a street level, we call it street level. So you're doing street level buys. You roll up, you make a buy. You know, you're not deep undercover necessarily, but once I got in the FBI. And then you're doing deep cover for long times, long periods of time. Yeah. The balance for me, where I messed up, really, it wasn't like a lot of people think, hey, you're acting. I'm pretending to be somebody I'm not. Yeah. I'm not a criminal, you know, of course I'm not a white supremacist or, you know, a super violent person, you know, committing crimes, but I'm still me. I'm still Scott, you know, I'm.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, but I mean, I was fascinated in. In when you said, the friendships are real.

[Scott Payne]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

I just betray them. Yeah, yeah. And. And, you know, there are times when, you know, one of the guys, you know, cry and said, I love you, man. And that has to.

[Scott Payne]

That one hurt.

[Glenn Beck]

It had to.

[Scott Payne]

Yeah, that one hurt.

[Glenn Beck]

Tell that story.

[Scott Payne]

So I did a two year case inside the Outlaws motorcycle club. That's one of the big four 1 percenter clubs. And you got Hells Angels, Outlaws, probably Bandidos, and then somebody else after that.

[Glenn Beck]

Explain 1 percenters.

[Scott Payne]

Oh, sorry, 1 percenters. For the listeners or viewers, 1 percenter comes. It came out around 1960. It was during the Vietnam War, but a lot of veterans were coming back and they were creating these biker clubs. And the president of the American Motorcycle association came out and blasted this media thing, marketing that said, hey, listen, 99% of all motorcycle riders are good, law abiding citizens. It's only 1% that's bad. And they took that as a badge of honor. And that's why you see those clubs, you'll see a diamond patch with the 1 percenter in it. But I've recently made the correlation that was kind of crazy to me because I did enjoy that lifestyle. I am a biker. But in law enforcement, it's 1% of law enforcement that does undercover work, like deep undercover work. So I guess I'm a 1%er at some point, but yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

So you're in the 1% yes club. And what are you there to do?

[Scott Payne]

Well, the case starts usually on the long term cases, like the case team's already been working it. I'm not up there. I wasn't in Boston. I was Assigned to San Antonio division at that time. But the case team works it. They get to the point to where they can actually maybe try to introduce an undercover. And then we come in and we come up with a game plan and try to do that. They had a lot of evidence and through law enforcement activity, that crimes were being committed. But is it enough to get a federal charge? How do you know what they're really doing deep within. And undercover can give you that if it's a success, and ours was. So I went in there for two years developing relationships and getting evidence of criminal activity. It started with them. It started with, like, insurance fraud. Like, they would, they would report their car stolen and they would get their money from the insurance company, but I would buy the car or vehicle, truck, motorcycle from them at a stolen price. And then they believed I was taking them to Mexico because I was based out of. I was based out of McAllen, Texas. And, and then that starts with that. And the next thing you know, you start gaining more trust. You start becoming. You get more scrutinized as the circles open up. And then they carjack somebody and they call me and they're like, man, we need to get rid of this car. It is hot. We just took it from somebody at gunpoint. Blah, blah, blah. Then they start talking about home invasions, and then you're picking up some stuff on extortion, and there's always dope deals, and we were building that case. You kind of go where the case takes you. But back to your original question is you do develop friendships. Now, don't get me wrong, on some cases, I mean, like, am I really. Can I really bond with a violent white supremacist?

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, yeah.

[Scott Payne]

No. I mean, I can try to find something to talk about, but on some cases, and especially that one, you can develop some pretty close relationships. And I did. Over that two year period.

[Glenn Beck]

Is it. I, and maybe I'm just really naive, but I, I, I meet people who are supposedly, you know, horrendous one way or another, and I can, I feel as though I can see who they actually are, not who they were born to be, who, who they really are, you know, without all the crap of their life. Is that what you bond with? Do you see that sometimes, like, good things in really bad people sometimes?

[Scott Payne]

Absolutely. I mean, I'm a human.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Scott Payne]

But, yeah, you can look a lot of times, it's not every case, but there's been numerous times where I've looked at me looking at it through my eyes, I'm going Well, that could have been me. They grew up in this environment. Something happened here, and they chose this way. When at that proverbial fork in the road, I chose this way. But that could have easily been been me.

[Glenn Beck]

How many of these people do you meet? And they're just like evil to the core?

[Scott Payne]

A lot. Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

I mean, how do you deal with that? How do you stay in a room? I watch these mo. You know, I watch movies of people who are undercover, you know, even like, you know, mission Impossible. And I'm a peripheral character going, I could never do that. I would freak out of my mind. How do you. How do you stay in a room full of just what you know is evil? How does that happen?

[Scott Payne]

What do you do to turn off? Well, that's a good question you're asking me. And what's poppin in my head is I'm just in work mode, you know, I mean, I know I've got a job to do. I know I'm there. But essentially the job is to find out. I mean, we're being proactive. Most of the time in these cases, you're not reactive. You're being proactive. You've got reporting possibly of some bad things happening. But just take the white supremacy stuff and that kind of rhetoric under the first amendment, freedom of speech protection, right? So you go in there, and maybe after five months, you find out they're not doing anything illegal. So I'm kind of in work mode. But don't get me wrong. I mean, when I'm sitting across the table from a pedophile who's hiring me to kill the kid that he molested, I have to. I mean, I have to. Maybe that is acting right there. Maybe because we don't say it's acting and we don't call it an acting school. I'm using what. What I know about me, and I'm just.

[Glenn Beck]

You got to be using.

[Scott Payne]

Personifying that. But yeah, when you're sitting across from. Even as an agent, not just as an undercover, but even as a case agent, and you're working those types of cases, and you're seeing the hard, the horrific things, and there's a lot of people out there that just don't know how evil the world can be or is. Yeah. And I get it. I mean, maybe their brain doesn't let them deal with that. I got family members that can't deal with it. You know, you see something and they're like, oh, my gosh, how can something like that happen? And I'm like, well, you don't even know the half of it, but I am an optimist and I'm a glasses half full guy. And my faith has carried me through a lot of things.

[Glenn Beck]

What is the role of faith? That. I mean, because I. And I was so glad to see this in your book. You make a big deal out of faith, and I haven't really seen that covered on another podcast with you. And I think. I think that's so critical here because I want to later go into what the dark side of the stuff that you have seen that is on the horizon with the new brand of really bad people. But tell me about faith. Tell me about your faith when you were young. How'd you grow up? What happened?

[Scott Payne]

So I grew up in a Christian home. It was more Southern Baptist. Where I grew up, it was the hellfire and brimstone. Don't do this, don't do this, that, and then. And then usually that's the person you find doing it anyway, which is. I'm like, that's human stuff, right? I'm like, well, you know, you're on the front line now. I didn't want it till you told me I couldn't have it, you know, But I grew up that way, and it was just what I was. The way I was raised by my parents and the love and my whole family. I mean, both of my grandfathers were pastors. Wow. And I saw. Did I see? I'm pretty sure I saw my mom's dad preach a few times, but he would get a shout out on the gaithers. You know, they talk about being at a tent revival in South Carolina, and they're like, ah, that's my grandpa. But that's what I grew up around. Does that mean I stayed that way? Absolutely not.

[Glenn Beck]

Because you had a brush with darkness.

[Scott Payne]

Oh, big time. Yeah. My first seven years of school was at a Christian school. My parents were doing well enough to put me in a private school, which had its own issues. When I went to public school in eighth grade, you know, I was like, let's just say peer pressure was a new thing for me. You know? You know, it's wrong to do it, but if somebody calls you a chicken, you're like, I'm not a chicken. You know what I mean? I mean, I know I'm gonna get expelled if I do this, but I might be a lot of things, but I'm not a chicken.

[Glenn Beck]

I think I learned a lesson. I think it was in Back to the Future. Two or three.

[Scott Payne]

Yeah. Yeah. So in my teenage years, I Did. And I put this in the book. I went through a little spell of. It started with like witchcraft stuff and then it led into like.

[Glenn Beck]

You were in.

[Scott Payne]

Yeah, yeah. Like a friend. I always use air quotes. My friend introduced me. And it starts kind of innocent and stuff stupid. But I ended up just going into full blown Satan worshiping, you know, wanting to sign a contract in blood and all this crazy stuff. I watched every horror movie from A to Z that was out, you know, at the. When you could go rent movies.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, yeah.

[Scott Payne]

On a VCR tape. And I was just in a real dark place. I didn't realize at the time, of course I didn't, I was a teenager. But when you get older and you look back, I'm like, oh man. My parents had gotten divorced and that, you know that, hey, are you okay with this? Because I'd never seen my parents argue at all. But that last year, that last year they argued non stop and then they got a divorce, they got separated and then they got a divorce. And looking back, I could see that, you know, it's like, hey, are you okay with this? Yeah, I don't care. Yeah, I don't care. I was probably saying something else a little more. A little more vulgar in my mind. You know, I don't, you know, but that went into everything I did. I started. And that's kind of like I don't care. And. And it kind of goes. It doesn't kind of go. It goes with. If you look at gangs, cults, extremism, whether it's far left, far right, radical jihad, they kind of. You'll see this thing where they're grabbing somebody who has a need to belong, wants to fit in, maybe even as a young man. You want power and you. That's kind of. That's that slippery slope that led me down that path. And then as I tell the story in the book, I'm still unbelievable friends with my core high school group. And the only thing we can chalk it up to is that it's everything we went through growing up that kind of made us keep this bond. But one of my buddies was there. We were drinking one night and I'd gone to this full fledged deal where I'm just talking in demon voices. I was losing friends. I was just, it was just evil. Man, I would like I had a Volkswagen. Oddly enough for my first vehicle, they do have good headroom.

[Glenn Beck]

They don't seem like the Volkswagen Beetle. Yeah, yeah, you don't seem like the Beetle. Did you have the little flower in the back?

[Scott Payne]

No, they didn't do that then. This is a 1971 outbreak, so. Yeah, but solid white with chrome rims. Yeah. You know, it doesn't matter what the body looks like as long as you got good tires on it. But the place that worked on the car was a Christian workshop. And I would set the tape, say the band's Grim Reaper. And then somewhere in there in that 80s satanic pentagram stuff, there'll be some demonic speak. And I would set the cassette to where when they cranked the car, it would just be blaring. Because you could do that back then and it would be blaring. That's just evil. It's just. I mean, I was just being. I was not cool. And I was shooting everything in my backyard. I wouldn't. Wasn't good. And one night I'd started doing these, like, skits, if you want to call them that. But I would, like. I was acting out a scene that I'd seen in the movie where it's a demonic possession.

[Glenn Beck]

And you were with people or.

[Scott Payne]

Yeah, we'd had a party and we were at somebody's house. I don't remember the name. I could see the guy. I can't remember his name. I didn't drive there that night. So just alcohol, no psychedelics, nothing to hallucinate or nothing like that. And I was doing the thing. We were in the same room. It was my buddy and his girlfriend, and I was on a couch. Nothing nefarious happened. Everybody, at least I didn't think it was. Everybody's passing out. But I'm doing this scene in my head that I'd seen in a movie. And you talk like yourself, and you're screaming, no, no, no. And then you laugh like the demon, and you talk like that. And I was going back and forth, doing this. I don't know, play if you will. And it ends with the demon winning and the demon taking over your body. And I was facing the back of the couch. And when I rolled over, laughing, like the demon or the satanic, whatever, possession. When I rolled over, what I saw was all red, like a watery image. And it was a demon looking at me, smiling with his crooked finger and nails and looking at me and giving me the. Come here. And I screamed. I laugh now because I'm 54, but I screamed probably the highest I've ever screamed. And from just me reaching, like sitting up on the couch and reaching for the light switch, I was as white as a sheet. I was panting, pouring sweat, of course, my buddy jumps up, like, what the heck is going on? You know? And I looked at him and I said, man, if I ever do that again, if I ever use that voice or even do this again, you got my permission to take a baseball bat and crack me over the skull with it or something to that effect. He got completely calm, Glenn. It was like the spirit just entered the room. Everything just went. And he looked at me, and I don't even know if he remembers saying it, because I think it was the spirit. He looked at me and he leaned in as if he knew what I'd seen, and he said, I told you, didn't I? That was it. I didn't sleep. I walked to church. I don't know how many miles it was. That was a Saturday night. And I walked to Edwards Road Baptist Church in Greenville, South Carolina. And I think I sat through every service.

[Glenn Beck]

I would have, too.

[Scott Payne]

That was it. That was it for the demonic stuff for me.

[Glenn Beck]

What did he mean by I told you?

[Scott Payne]

I think early on, he. He said, like, man, you need to stop that crap. You know, you're scared.

[Glenn Beck]

So he was not part of.

[Scott Payne]

No.

[Glenn Beck]

Oh, okay.

[Scott Payne]

He was one of the friends I was losing because I was going to such a dark place. And then, you know, throughout my. My life. Have I seen demonic stuff? Yeah. Have I seen. Have I. Like, have. I had to go to a. A satanic concert festival for three days?

[Glenn Beck]

How do you do it?

[Scott Payne]

I've very transparently is because they had Jack Daniels there. That's the only way I said, as.

[Glenn Beck]

An alcoholic, I can appreciate that.

[Scott Payne]

I'm like, it's at a bar, right? And they're like, yeah. And I go, do they serve whiskey? And they go, yeah. And I go, I think I can do it. I was like. Cause I don't know about walking into. It's just a bunch for me. When you walk in, it's sad because it's a bunch of lost souls is what it is.

[Glenn Beck]

How many of those lost souls actually know what they're dealing with? Like, you didn't know what you were dealing with until it happened?

[Scott Payne]

Yeah, I don't. I. I would venture to say a bunch, because they're probably just on it for the kick, or maybe they're saying they're atheist and they're doing it just to be funny, you know? But you start scratching at the surface. I'm telling you right now, in my belief system, there's definitely spiritual warfare and all kinds of stuff.

[Glenn Beck]

It's the only way to describe, I think, what's happening because it's sweeping the entire world. And it's either deep mental illness or it's possession of some sort. There is. You know, I have friends who are atheists who have said to me, I don't know how to describe what I'm seeing other than evil. And I know that's not an atheist word and I know what it means, but I can't describe this any other way.

[Scott Payne]

Yeah. And that's what I try to tell people. I put it in the book. I'm sure it's been said before. But the best way for me to explain it, a lot of these interviews, I've been blessed on this book launch tour and stuff, and even the Rolling Stone magazine article back in 2022. But I just say, look, you just need to understand that there are evil people on this planet that want to do evil things to good people. And it's been that way pretty much since the beginning of time. If you can't deal with that, that's cool. But if we tell you, lock the door. Lock the door. You know, don't. Like, I think like a bad person. It doesn't make me bad. It's just I think like a bad person. I'm like, I was dating my wife before we were married, and we're out in the. In a great part of Nebraska, and I was a narcotics officer at that point, at the sheriff's office. And you go to go to bed at night, and they don't even. Not only do they not lock the door, they don't even shut the door. It's just a screen door. And I'm like, am I gonna lock the door?

[Glenn Beck]

I've been there.

[Scott Payne]

And they're like, oh, you don't have to worry about that around here. I go, well, if I was a bad guy, this is where I'd come. That's the first thing I say. I go, this is where you see that murder show where some serial killer comes to town and three families are murdered and they don't find out for like two weeks. I'm like, man, lock the door. There's also crimes of opportunity, like. Like you walk by a car with the window down, and it's got a. Back when there were CDs. Let's just say it's a CD or a DVD sitting on the seat. And you're like, man, I've been wanting to see that movie. You're not. I've never thought about thieving, but this person's dumb enough to leave their window down and leave it sitting right here. I'm gonna teach them a lesson. I'm gonna take this thing. That's a crime of opportunity. So a lot of these things as I've been talking about since kind of going out, I just. Cause I meet people that are way left of where I live. I meet people that are way right of where I live. And I'm like, look, if we just put it on the table, just let's put everything on the table. First of all, we need to be able to have a conversation. You can't keep cutting me off. Let's have a conversation. But let's look at it and say, first question, is this good or is this evil? Because most of the time you can break it down pretty quick. In my opinion, you can see this is not good. This is a bad thing.

[Glenn Beck]

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[Scott Payne]

Yeah, the grandfather's clan. The White hoods and ropes.

[Glenn Beck]

Right.

[Scott Payne]

I infiltrated them too. I actually played music. I played music for the spring and fall rally for a Klan collection.

[Glenn Beck]

Is it harder to do this, to be undercover now that the Internet? Yeah, yeah, it's gotta be.

[Scott Payne]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

Wait a minute, I just saw you and you play in the band for your church.

[Scott Payne]

Yes.

[Glenn Beck]

Right. And they just didn't film you above.

[Scott Payne]

For a year and a half because the case for that year and a half, the case I was doing was the public corruption case. And it was close to where I live, so that's why that was off. But they stream these things into prisons and stuff too, you know, so that was another walk in faith for me. I had to say, look, am I going to let my job interfere? I know it's not good operational security, I know it's not the wisest thing to do, but I've let my job interfere with me worshiping up until this point.

[Glenn Beck]

I would think you needed that.

[Scott Payne]

And yeah, I needed it bad. That's why I always laugh because it's volunteer based. So sometimes I'm there multiple. Especially now that I'm semi retired. But you know, even when I was working heavy, I'd, you know, maybe my wife or somebody like, man, you've been putting in a lot of time at church. I'm like, you can't get too much Jesus. I said, I'll take all I can give. I just need a D minus. I want to get inside the gate. You know what I mean?

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, yeah.

[Scott Payne]

I just need to pass.

[Glenn Beck]

So you have, you're with the old style clan, the hoods, the robes, the very historical.

[Scott Payne]

I mean it was literally, it was a lot of. It was like a history class. I mean, I had to learn a lot.

[Glenn Beck]

How do you mean that?

[Scott Payne]

I just, I mean like that's when you go in and you get naturalized as a clan member.

[Glenn Beck]

Meaning what?

[Scott Payne]

Well, I went through it. I didn't know what was happening. I'm like, what am I doing right now? I'm blindfolded. They're telling us to say this stuff. And then at the end of it I go, I think I just joined the clan. And then as I was walking across the field, I was like rehearsing everything, replaying everything in my head. I'm like, and I'm thinking about the legal is, I mean the rules and the policies of the FBI. And I'm going, should I done that? Okay, this happened, this happened, this I get, Yep, I just joined the clan.

[Glenn Beck]

That's amazing. It's kind of like you know, it's kind of like as an. Again, an alcoholic, you ask yourself, am I an alcoholic? And all alcoholics will say, if you're asking that question, the answer is most likely yes. If you find yourself asking, did I just join the Klan? Most likely you did.

[Scott Payne]

Yeah. So I. Yeah, those were. Those were some pretty comical times. But literally, you had to go to clan craft class every week. And, like, craft class, like Facebook messenger. And it would be like, you. All the newbies would be in the group and like, the leader of the group would be like, they would throw. Because they've got all these insignias and acronyms and it's like, you know, like, he'll teva type a Y a K. So you try to answer quick, are you a Klansman? Because that's what it stands for. It's like, good. That's right. You know, Loti l O T I E Ladies of the invisible empire. You had to know all these things. Like, when was the first cross lighting? I don't think I remember that one. I want to say, like, 1945, 1915. No, no, no.

[Glenn Beck]

First cross sliding.

[Scott Payne]

Yeah, it was in Stone Mountain, Georgia. I know that.

[Glenn Beck]

Really?

[Scott Payne]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

Since I was late because the Klan was around right after the Civil War.

[Scott Payne]

But it was Stone Mountain, Georgia. So it's somewhere in there.

[Glenn Beck]

What is the cross lighting?

[Scott Payne]

That's when you see the cross on fire.

[Glenn Beck]

I know. Is it. But is that a gathering or is that just. You just put it in. You can put it in somebody's yard.

[Scott Payne]

Sometimes they put it in somebody's yard. But the thing I got to see was. Or be a part of was. And I remember the guy telling me so my sense of humor also carries me through a lot of things. Right. Because I'm out in the middle of a field in the middle of nowhere in the middle of Alabama. And this guy's like. I'm like, hey, I see this, like, 20, 30 foot metal cross, and you wrap it in burlap. And then they take steel wiring and hold the burlap on you, soak it in diesel fuel, and then you have to stand it up in the hole. And that's when I learned that you call. They call diesel fuel clan cologne. Because there's no way for you to stand that cross up, not get it on you. And then they go smoke cigarettes. I'm like, I don't know. I'm like, I. I don't know how quick this thing will spark, but not get away from me. And you got like $500 worth of fireworks. In your trunk too. I'm like, what are we doing? But I remember you get naturalized, you take those classes, and then you have to take a test. You take a K Uno test to pass it. Duo, trio, and then quad. And the case kind of fell apart before I ever did anything. But I remember asking them, I was like, hey, are we going to have a cross burning tonight? And the chaplain, which was the clud, was like, the clud. That's whatever their chaplain is. It's in the book. You break it down. But like I said, there's a lot of history. I'm sure some of it is very skewed. But you see, Abraham Lincoln said it's all this stuff and it's the history of the clan and the secret, the invisible empire. But he said, now, Scott, it's not a cross burning, that'd be sacrilegious. It's a cross lighting. And I went, But I'm standing there like, I don't know. And I don't. But I'm like all enthused. I'm like, oh, okay, all right, all right. He goes, see, a burning would be sacrilegious, but the lighting, it signifies the light of Jesus Christ coming down in the world and driving the darkness out. And I'm going, in my mind, I'm laughing to myself because I'm thinking you're nut. But I'm thinking, yeah, I met so many white guys named Jesus. You know, that's the first thing I think. I'm like, all right, I mean, whatever you got to do. Tell yourself. And by driving the darkness out, I'm assuming we're meaning non whites, right? It just gets. It gets kind of convoluted. So you can go, there's a long term belief system in white supremacy that's called Christian identity. Not to be confused with Christ. Followers of Christianity, they take the story of the Garden of Eden and they twist the you know what out of it. They say that same kind of story, Adam and Eve, serpent, fruit of the forbidden tree, sin. But they twisted to this and it's a dual. It's called the dual dual seed theory. And then a DLC line, I think. But this is the way it goes. They say that the actual forbidden act was Eve having sex with the serpent, AKA Satan, AKA a man of color. You got to follow me because it doesn't make any sense. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense.

[Glenn Beck]

I read the Bible. I've not seen that in any Bible.

[Scott Payne]

But okay, apparently they read it different. So they say that Eve, the fruit of the forbidden tree was a sexual act with the serpent Satan, a man of color. And from that intercourse Cain was born. And that is what they call the mud race all the way down, which is non white. And then they say, but the procreation between Adam and Eve is Abel and that's the pure white race. That's why it's a dual seed line and it's. I mean, but you can take paganism. I've got friends that are devout pagans that are some of the most peaceful, loving people I've ever met. It's not my belief system. Right. But I respect them. And now you see a lot of that coming into the white supremacy and extremism realm they're using because Hitler, did you know that Neo Nazi, I mean you see the Norse mythology and stuff like that. And I mean it's. I mean, if you think about it from a young man, what's cool standpoint, Viking. I mean, I got Vikings all over my home. That's cool, right? Yeah, for them anyway. But they would take Christian identity and twist it. And that was the Reverend Butler, Red Ray Fairn, the Aryan nations up in Idaho. That was all that stuff. And then it's trickled on down. Then you get.

[Glenn Beck]

Hang on just a second. Just a personal note. I live part of the year in southern Idaho. Is there still really bad up in northern Idaho?

[Scott Payne]

I've got friends in northern Idaho now.

[Glenn Beck]

I know, but your friends are sketchy. We've already established this guy's not sketchy.

[Scott Payne]

Former SWAT team leader, former FBI agent, not sketchy. All right. And he says, he goes, yeah, we get a bad rap up here because of that compound stuff way back when. But they got, I mean the government seized all that and they went down and they're dead now. But so that's Christian identity. So you see that. And then through neo Nazi, you know, you might see like there was a phase there where you have like 80s 90s, maybe early 2000s, you've got your skinheads and all this stuff and that stuff's still around. But then you saw a shift to like the clean cut white guy who was a neo Nazi, like Richard Spencer and these other ones that would go out there and speak. And their idea was the entryism belief is to infiltrate the government left and right. If you infiltrate the left, bring it down from within. If you infiltrate the right, twist things more towards white supremacy, which I don't understand. There's not a lot of afterthought for a lot of these businesses. I'm like, okay, so you take over as. Let's just say you're a mayor and you open a restaurant that's whites only. You don't think people are gonna notice that? I don't understand where this whole ethnostate ends is the ethno state. We hang out at this one restaurant. I don't know what you mean. But again, going back to your extremism beliefs, some radical jihad, it's like, hey, they're gonna get a caliphate. Everybody kind of wants their own piece. So then you get to what you ask about accelerationism. In the 80s, there was a group that was there that kind of had the belief system, but it wasn't called accelerationism. And we started seeing this stuff coming up and I ended up going and being undercover on one of the cases against a group called the base. And I learned going in and infiltrating, this is where I learned the belief system. And the belief system is this. They call it siege culture because there's a book out there called Siege that was written by James Mason, longtime white supremacist, created the Atomwaffen white supremacy group. But he's got a book, it's a lot of interviews, idolizes Charles Manson, things like that. I mean, what a great role model, right? If you're gonna pick somebody, you know, I'm saying that sarcastically, that would be sarcasm. Yeah, but that kind of lays out this accelerationism view. And the view is this, they don't believe that there's a political solution that can save the white race. They believe this society is going to collapse either on its own or from man made events. And they want to accelerate it. So they don't like, you're not going to see. You see the division in the country back and forth. Hate begets hate. I don't care whether you're left or right, you do one thing hateful to this side, they do something hateful back to you. Hate begets hate. But when they see they don't like any government, right, they're not Republican, they don't like any government. And you're not going to see an accelerationist out on the corner with picket signs marching up and down the street like a Charlottesville type thing or some protest, maybe like a KKK thing, they're going to be hiding because they want to do things like guerrilla warfare tactics. They want to poison a water system, start killing lefty journalists or anti fascists. I mean some of these, I mean, it's in the book. I mean actually it's in the court records. If people don't believe it. I mean I've had to sit there with these guys talking about, I could say guys, I mean 20 somethings, you know, maybe a 30 something, but talking about when D day happens, which they refer to as the boogaloo, that if their father did not agree to be fascist, if you didn't follow fascists, that automatically made you anti fascist. And once the boogaloo hits, penalty's death. And they're sitting there telling me sometimes crying, saying I'm going to have to, I may have to very well, I'm very well may have to put a bullet in the back of my father's head, but I'll do it if he doesn't come to fascism. Now are they willing to follow through with it? I don't have a crystal ball. Are you doing overt acts in furtherance of doing it? Well, that's how we built the case. It wasn't against the parents, but it was against who they believed were an antifa couple and they wanted to murder everybody in the house as our first hit. Murder everybody in the house, burn the whole house, murder everything in the house, living. One guy even said, man, I don't have. Because somebody says, hey, do we know if they got any kids? He said, I don't have a problem killing the commie kid. Like, okay, what about pets? No. So are you just talking or are you going to do it? Well, you buy catch bags to put on your ars. So if you do have to shoot it, even though it's going to be super loud, it'll catch the brass. So you don't leave anything for law enforcement. You've got a pistol with a silencer on it. They've talked about all kinds of things to prepare for this night of murder. Leave all your electronics in one spot. Go to a pay by the hour motel, scrub yourself of all dead skin, put Vaseline on your facial hair. We're gonna wear balaclavas, cover our whole body, tape your sleeve to your gloves so nothing comes out. Same thing as your boots and your ankle. The guy leading the whole thing even came up, he did research and said that he saw red. That sometimes when people murder somebody for the first time, they lose control of their Bible. So he was suggesting we all wear Depends. And then you still have a parent who says, you made my boy do that. And they were just going through a phase, they were just talking stupid. I'm like, hey, I was just as shocked when your son told me that we were going to kill people as anybody else. I thought we were Going to put up flyers and posters.

[Glenn Beck]

So I want to come back to what you just said about, you know, the acceleration, but let me go to there. I used to trust the FBI. I always trusted the FBI. FBI was a friend. I trust cops. You know, I trusted the government. I trusted our Secret Service, I trusted our CIA. I trusted everybody. Because, you know, like after 9, 11, we all stood, we all wept, we all looked and said, my gosh, I love my country. And then something happened to us in the last 25 years. And I'm like, wait, wait, wait, wait. We don't all love our country. We don't all hold these truths to be self evident anymore. And I don't know what to believe. I really don't. I mean, my son was being groomed by somebody he was playing a game with online.

[Scott Payne]

Okay.

[Glenn Beck]

And we would. That's a lot, by the way. Yeah, I know. We would have lost him if the guy didn't call once in two o' clock in the morning and then hang up the phone. And we had multiple lines and I could see that the line went back on. And I'm like, one of my children or somebody is in the house that's using our phone and went up and he was talking to a guy, and he was talking to this guy. And we're just talking about games, dad. And he wanted to meet. And I was like. We called the FBI. The FBI came in, they took the gaming thing and said, we can. We will handle this. And they did. And it was fantastic.

[Scott Payne]

Tended to be your son.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, yeah. And it was fantastic. But now you look and go cfp. And I'm asking you this question. Is the FBI good? Is the FBI bad? Is this like the Whitmer case?

[Scott Payne]

I was on the outskirts of that case.

[Glenn Beck]

Were you? So tell me what happened.

[Scott Payne]

I don't know. I really don't. Because I was on the outskirts. I was another undercover that they were using to possibly bump the guy that was making the bomb. I can't remember his name right now, but he doesn't need any publicity anyway.

[Glenn Beck]

What do you mean bump?

[Scott Payne]

Like I was gonna be introduced to him. Because what you saw was the main undercover going on. Right. And I don't know. I really don't have any idea. I know the two guys that, that, that did it. And I don't know what happened up there at that first trial because from what I understood, they had great overt acts. I do remember the guy's name. I won't say it. Yeah, I won't say it. But this Guy like, they. Like the Baltimore office. I'd worked with them on the base case, and they called me and said, hey, just in case it doesn't work on this avenue, maybe try to talk to this guy because he likes to meet new people. And he was the guy that. Trying to get him again. You're spewing a bunch of crazy stuff. You're putting all these videos out there that falls within your First Amendment right. But how do we know if you're really going to go forward with it or not? You know, and you get a lot of pushback and people that don't like law enforcement or have had bad, bad experiences with law enforcement.

[Glenn Beck]

I've always had good experiences.

[Scott Payne]

I've had bad ones. I had bad ones before I became a cop. I had bad ones when I was a cop.

[Glenn Beck]

I mean, look at you.

[Scott Payne]

I know, right? Yeah. I'm not talking looking like this. There's a line of a former buddy I had. I still love him to death, but he said, sometimes you forget what a piece of trash you look like. It depends on where we're standing. That's right. We're at the biker bar.

[Glenn Beck]

Right.

[Scott Payne]

But yeah, the thing is this. If you're not doing anything illegal, what are you worried about? I've done many cases where I've gone in, even if I was running it as an agent or I was the undercover, and I'm in for five months. Thousands and thousands of the most hateful, vile, anti Jewish, anti African American white supremacy, but it's covered under the First Amendment. And nobody's planning on doing anything. They're just waiting for the day. So there's nothing to charge. So we. I got to pull chalks and back out. Now you ask about, is the FBI good? Yes, I believe so, in my heart of hearts, because I did work a lot. I was a workaholic and I know my peers and are there some bad things? Yeah, like you see. Like you see something come out on the news on that Olympic that the. The doctor or whatever molested all the girls, apparently he came or somebody came and brought that to the FBI. And whoever got it, unfortunately, it was subjective, not objective. And you got that person that day, and they said, oh, there's nothing here. I would absolutely. Even though that wasn't even the violations I worked, I would have walked that baby. We'd have figured out something because, you know, it's not right. We just got to figure out what charge to go with. And if it's not at a federal level, well, let's go State. But it's like, for me, it's a lot like anything else in life. One person or a group of bad actors. Like the George Floyd thing. Atrocious. I mean, I'm a defensive tactics instructor. I was the lead tactical instructor, a firearms active shooter, SWAT operator. I'm like, what is your goal? Is your goal to get that guy handcuffed and in the car? Then why are we doing what. What is. You know, And I. And it's tough because a lot of us don't want a Monday morning quarterback, but we can't make those mistakes again, you know? And you see that. And now all cops are bad. And I'm like, no. No, they're not. I mean, does New Orleans have a history of Karev? Yeah. You know, does the border. Yeah. Does the border. Yeah. I mean, you're making. When I was down. Let's just say you're making 25 grand a year. And then somebody says, a cartel member says, I'll give you 10 to 15 grand if you just turn your head for three minutes. Let this car go through. That's over half your salary. You think there's a chance for corruption, man?

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Scott Payne]

You know, so do I think the FBI is bad? No. I've stayed very apolitical through the book and everything. Do I think that the FBI needed some change in. Yeah, I do, personally. Absolutely. But. And like you said, 9, 11. What's sad is, unfortunately, it usually takes some catastrophic events for everybody to come together and swing the pendulum back towards better things. And I hate that, but it just seems like that's the way it works.

[Glenn Beck]

Sometimes it just seems as though there are more and more of these groups. Free Palestine, you know, Black Lives Matter. The Klan, you know, the Neo Nazis, crazy people. Just all of these people who. You know. Do you know who Alexander Dugan is? You should. You should read. You'd love this. He is. He is a guy. Was. Putin's brain is what they called him.

[Scott Payne]

Okay.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, he was. Yeah. You know him? Yeah. So he. I mean, his symbol is the ancient symbol of anarchy. Okay. And he believes. And so do the. The Twelvers in. In Iran. They believe that they can hasten the return of the Promised One. He believes that we can hasten the correction of the world if we push the world into chaos. And so they will work with anyone, anyone to bring chaos to the world if it's going to cause problems. Oh, I'll work with you. Absolutely.

[Scott Payne]

Because they want to bring their.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, they want the world to collapse.

[Scott Payne]

Sounds like accelerations.

[Glenn Beck]

Right. Because they think that they're gonna be the ones I'll take care of. I'll take care of that group after. Let's get this done. You know what I mean? And there's so many of those. And when I'm reading and I'm seeing accelerationists, that's what they are, isn't it?

[Scott Payne]

Yeah, but theirs ends with an ethnostate. Just like.

[Glenn Beck]

Well, but everybody ends. You know, the, the. The 12ers in Iran end with an Islamic state. You know, Putin's guy ends with a Russian state. I mean, they all have that.

[Scott Payne]

I love how they all end with basically socialism and you get your stuff for free.

[Glenn Beck]

Right.

[Scott Payne]

And I did ask him one time because my sense of humor, again, being somewhat dark. We were on a rook and it's like five. Five of us. I don't know. And we stopped to rehydrate up on top of a mountain somewhere. And I'm saying, yeah, so we're neo Nazis. Yeah. Okay. Boogaloo. Yeah, man. D day. Yeah, we're going to take over. Yeah. Ethnostate. Because the base was already looking at property in the Appalachian Mountains, was looking at prop. The North Central, was looking at property in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Pacific Northwest, had land to create your own ethnostates. Again, not a lot of forethought or afterthought. I'm like, so what do we do if the cops come? What do we do if the National Guard comes? What do we do if the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard and anybody else comes? And it was just. And then I even asked one time, I'll go, so who's going to be Hitler? And then it just kind of like, you know, I'm like, well, there's going to be one who's going to lead this thing. You know, it's. It's. It's sad. But you talk about, like, foreign influence stuff. Absolutely. I mean, it's anything to create chaos. And you're right. If people don't believe that our adversaries, our enemies going back to Cold War and before. Right. Aren't trying to feed chaos. Feed things to create chaos in the United States. You're living under a rock, man.

[Glenn Beck]

But the scary thing is we've lost a center of truth. And God has to be put back in.

[Scott Payne]

Absolutely. In my opinion.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. God has to be put back in. And then the foundation of the country, which was based on God, needs to put back in, and we need to start putting people in jail that need to be put in jail.

[Scott Payne]

I agree.

[Glenn Beck]

Stop. Just stop all of this crap. You know what I mean? But because we haven't done that for so long. You have all these groups and, you know, when you talk about the boogaloo, they'll figure that out when they get there. They just want the collapse, and it's everywhere. And I'm afraid regular people, if you start to really become disenfranchised, you'd be like, you know what these guys are? Even though you don't believe everything, at least these guys are going to take care of it.

[Scott Payne]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

Wow. Is that trouble?

[Scott Payne]

Yeah. And, you know, on a scale, like, some people would be like, yeah, but it's only a one. It's kind of like you hear somebody say, well, it only took over two apartment buildings. Two apartment buildings. I'm like, well, one's enough, you know, and I'll get on a little bit of a soapbox for law enforcement here. It's very rare, especially when you're a uniformed cop, that you show up and everybody's happy.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Scott Payne]

You know what I mean? Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

You're showing up when everybody's at their worst.

[Scott Payne]

Yeah, Usually. Yeah. It's not Facebook. Look at how happy I am right now. Look how great, great my life is. But it's. You see things like that and you go, yeah, until something happens to you or something happens to your family, and then you want to know. I used to always say, before I retired, I only retired in 21. June of 21. I used to say, look, man, don't. Don't hate me. I'm a law enforcement officer. I'm here to serve and protect. I took an oath. My title is peace officer. That's the way I should be acting. It's not always that easy, especially when you get. There's a whole nother tangent to go down. But the things that. That law enforcement sees on a regular basis can be pretty horrific.

[Glenn Beck]

I would say the same thing to them that I said to you at the beginning. How do you do it? Yeah, you're seeing the very first how do you do?

[Scott Payne]

We're number one in suicide first responders. And I'll throw a military one at military first responders. And that's not just. That's. That's medic. That's fire first. We're. We're first in suicide. We're first in divorce. We're first in alcoholism, which you can throw pills and other stuff in there now. And we're usually. If we're not first, we're pretty high and dying within five years after retiring because it's just such a pressure cooker. But I used to always say, look, you know, don't hate me. I'm just enforcing the law. If you don't like the law, then change the law. Then that's my parameter, right? I'm looking. This is the law. You broke the law. And then we went through this phase where they were just picking and choosing what they wanted to charge. It's like, oh, well, I disagree with that federal law, so I think it's okay to break that one.

[Glenn Beck]

No.

[Scott Payne]

What kind of slippery slope is that? Yeah, you know, I'm like. And then you've got agencies strapped that can't even do their job yet you want them to go out there and be on the front line and take a brick to the the face. It's tough. It's tough. But for me, I just, I think, I love talking and I think everybody just needs to come to the table and be able to have a conversation.

[Glenn Beck]

Agree.

[Scott Payne]

Like if I took, I'd say it jokingly, but I'm like, if I took a white supremacist and let's just say it's a black separatist. Because I've met a lot of people since I've retired, like through Eradicate Hate Global Summit. I'm talking about. They call them, I hate to put a title, but it's like a former. You're a former, like you're a former radical jihadist, you're a former Weisburg, You're a former black separatists. And we're all sitting down at a table and having a meal together because now they're with life after hate and stuff. I don't know where I was going with it, but yeah, I was headed somewhere.

[Glenn Beck]

But oh well, I love that when that happens. Let me take you to. How are these accelerationists attracting new people?

[Scott Payne]

Oh, they big on recruitment. Recruitment. You kind of hit on some of it in the gaming. Like you said your, your kid was being groomed, man, that happens all the time. Parents need to be aware. Look, I get not wanting to be a helicopter parent. I don't agree with helicopter parenting personally, but online you have to. You have to. I mean, there's great applications out there. Like bark, just like it sounds. Bark. You can install that on your kids phone, man. I don't know how many thousands of people they got working it, but they got people working it. It will notify you if there's suicidal talk, firearm talk, dope talk, sex talk, all that stuff. And it'll also quiz you as a Parent to. Do you know what this means? This is the current thing right now. This is the current. When you see this emoji, do you know what that means?

[Glenn Beck]

How long has this been out? I just. My kid today, my daughter is graduating from high school. I would have liked that.

[Scott Payne]

Yeah, listen, I'm with you. I found out from another law enforcement officer who had already done the research and development. And he told me, he said, I'm like, dude, or like. Like I'm in the FBI office. And I come in and I'm very transparent. And I'm talking to the guys and gals on the cyber squad about some things that I found on Snapchat when my daughters were younger. And they're like, oh, yeah, Snapchat's the devil for young kids. And I'm like, well, see, that'd be nice for you to spread through this entire office. Yeah, because I didn't know. That'd been good to know about three months ago, actually. You Jack wagon, right? So, yeah, just putting it out there. But gaming, huge recruitments there. But all these dark web apps, like. And maybe it's not even considered dark web, but Telegram, Gab Wire, Riot, Discord, all these things, they can be for good things. But let me just let you know that there are people with nefarious plans going to those things to recruit. And that's how I got in the base. I went to Gab. They were posting all kinds of stuff. They would get. Their channel would get closed down and they would change one thing and come back.

[Glenn Beck]

What is. What is the base?

[Scott Payne]

They said they were a survival. Survivalist group, training for whatever. And then you start. You see, like, save your race, join the base. And then it would have an email at Proton Mail, because that's not in the States. Right. So you can do that. Anything that they believe is encrypted.

[Glenn Beck]

In.

[Scott Payne]

A lot of people's mind, that means, okay, basically the feds can't subpoena this because it's in another country. Right. And sometimes it's true. You know, VK was the Russian Facebook for a long time. I don't know if it still is because I'm not in the game anymore. But you go on there and it'll be like, hey, here's a room. Whites only. Well, I wonder what you're going to find in there. Fourteen words, which is this is all throughout white supremacy. The 14 words coined by David Lane. I don't have it memorized anymore. But basically securing the future of the white race and our children. So you start Going in there. And then you see like people go to a lot of work, they'll put together these videos where they're showing real things that happen, where, let's just say it's blacks attacking whites or just brutal beat downs and stuff. And they show that stuff to get your hate going. But if you go over to the black separatists, they're showing videos of white people doing bad things to African Americans or whatever. And it's like again, it's that whole, it's evil, it's hate, it's the devil, man. You walk over here and whisper in this ear.

[Glenn Beck]

And a reasonable person would say both of those are true. Yes, let's not be a part of any of that.

[Scott Payne]

Yeah. And they're just. And they go to these great lengths to recruit in the base. The rule for us was every video we released for recruitment, the next video had to be better. Had to get better every time. So putting up flyers, doing videos. And you see a lot of young kids diving in here, you know, from all over the world. I mean, we had members in the base from. Because I mean, you got a, you got a phone now you got a smartphone and that shrinks the world. And you had members from Australia in Australia, South Africa, Canada, the uk, Germany, I think Norway, and there's plenty more.

[Glenn Beck]

How dangerous do you think it is to where. But I don't want to get you into politics. But the, in Europe they are importing all of or, you know, allowing all of these people to come on refugees. And they're, they're not listening to the people. And I'm not talking white people, I'm talking people who are any color, but that's their country and they don't believe in this policy and they feel their country is being overrun and nobody seems to be able to explain exactly how this is good for our country. And I'm watching these farmers, you know, with the WEF thing where they're being told, you can't farm that land, you can't use fertilizer. And they're like, well, how are you going to eat? And nobody seems to have a good answer. And they're all going the same direction. And I look at this as a ticking time bomb for two things. One, civil unrest, like nobody's business, and extremism. When you back people into a corner and nobody is making any sense, you'll go to the only person that's saying the things that you're thinking about this deep, not thinking that they're this deep on all of those things.

[Scott Payne]

You know, being in prison, pretty sure I'm probably gonna side with the white group because it's prison. You know, it's like, all right, because, I mean, you're trying to survive at that point.

[Glenn Beck]

Are you. Are you concerned about that?

[Scott Payne]

I am. But again, I'm an optimist. And the glass is half full, guy. If I wasn't, I don't know, I'd probably jumped off a building a long time ago. You know, sometimes, if they push far enough, hopefully everybody wakes up. Hopefully a catastrophic event, something horrific doesn't have to happen, and they can wake up and go, wait a minute. We have gone too far. There's humanitarian. I get the humanitarian thing. I work the border for six and a half years.

[Glenn Beck]

I was with the president two weeks ago, and I said. And he said, I know. I'm the same way. I said, look, if I'm living in Mexico and my. My town is overrun with drug lords, my kids have no chance of ever progressing. I tried to vote, and they kill the guy I'm voting for. And America doesn't care about their borders. I am there in a heartbeat. I'm taking my whole family. I'm trying to get everybody to America. I get it. I 100% get it. So we have to have compassion and understand. We also. We don't want to be the Titanic without lifeboats. We have to have life. How do you do it?

[Scott Payne]

Maybe they can speed up the process. I don't know. I'm not an immigration guy. I worked with them like crazy for years. But humanitarian side, man, I've seen a mother and a daughter get caught because I've apprehended a load. Because when. When I was in McAllen, Texas, for six and a half years, the bulk of that time, I'll say it was the flavor of the month, but it was special interest alien smuggler. So it was undocumented aliens coming into America from threat countries. But it was very rare that you would find a pipeline, say, Chinese triad from China all the way to New York City. It would be. You've got multiple smuggling groups all on the Mexico side, and they're bringing people in. And it might be 10 loads of just what they would call other than Mexican or Mexicans. And then in that 11th load, you got nine Chinese or you got somebody from Yemen, or so you have. It was very rare that you had this straight pipeline. But I've seen horrific things. I mean, and I'm. I wasn't even working it every day, but like a mother and a daughter who came from somewhere way away. Had to come on a ship. There's no telling. I mean, I'm pretty sure I won't get into it, but there's been horrific things that they had to go through.

[Glenn Beck]

I know.

[Scott Payne]

Or you see a girl that went through Guatemala in. In a hidden compartment by the engine of a bus. No AC in that heat for, like, 16 hours. And then through Mexico in a hidden compartment next to the bus engine for 16 to 18 hours. And then you finally make it across the river and you get caught. And they send them right back. Or that mother and daughter, they flew them back. And I'm like, but I've seen evil people, because they were Mexican, they just kick them back across the river. And I'm telling you, Glenn, well, before we're even close to finishing processing everybody or even attempting to get paperwork done, I have a source calling me going, hey, they're back in the stash house. And I'm like, I'm still at the border patrol station. And they're like, yeah, they're back at the house. They've already kicked them. They've already come back across the river. They're back.

[Glenn Beck]

This is the. The problem, though. I think all of our compassion is misplaced if we're not thinking about the compartment next to the engine in the bus.

[Scott Payne]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

First of all, by not being clear on what our rules are, that person, wherever they are, thinks they have a chance to escape whatever horror they're in and get to America. And then, I mean, again, I would do the same thing.

[Scott Payne]

It's a dilemma, because you also know that, or at least I know because I've worked it. When that opens up, you know that bad people are going to use that for their advantage.

[Glenn Beck]

That's what I mean.

[Scott Payne]

And that's what happens.

[Glenn Beck]

All of the people along the way that are making all kinds of money and exploiting those people that we don't seem to care about the suffering that goes on because we're unclear. And all of the bad guys, we're empowering.

[Scott Payne]

A lot of people don't know it. They don't want to know it. And. And depending on what your political stance is or what you're running for, some people, I mean, it's politics. They won't, you know, they. They want the votes.

[Glenn Beck]

How much do these. I don't know, clan and everything else, how much do they have in common with what the drug cartels are really turning into? The drug cartels seem to be.

[Scott Payne]

It's different. It's different because, like, a lot of the White supremacy stuff I did. There wasn't really a lot of. I mean, if it was drugs involved, it was because they were using. Personally using Adderall to help them shoot faster. You want some Pale Horse? I get. No, I'm good. I got coffee.

[Glenn Beck]

Right.

[Scott Payne]

I don't know where you got that, man. Yeah, it's probably got Fentanyl. No, I'm not going to do Adderall. I didn't see a lot of that. That was more about the ideology and getting your own ethnostate. Or like even the Klan changed from being white supremacists. They go, we're not white supremacists anymore. We're white separatists. And I'm like. Because it sounds less offensive about me.

[Glenn Beck]

Oh, you're the politically correct.

[Scott Payne]

You can have your town look on this other side of this ridge and those pine trees. You can have all black. Whatever you want. We just want our all white right here. And I think the words, it's in the book, but I forget the actual transcription. It was like, I mean, you don't see. You don't see cats and dogs having sex, but we don't like race mixing. And I'm like, that's absolutely. Okay. So that's a cat and a dog. These are two humans.

[Glenn Beck]

I'm like, I think if I see somebody with a giraffe having sex, I'm going to say no to that.

[Scott Payne]

I'm like, I kind of see what you're saying, but I don't see what you're saying.

[Glenn Beck]

You were at something where me. Yeah, you were at something where they sacrificed a goat.

[Scott Payne]

Ah, yes. Tell us. Yes. That would not be they. That would be us. I was there and took part in it. So we'll circle back on that paganism thing. So a lot of your white supremacy groups that I've been involved with at the end of the. Were falling more towards paganism. But I say that loosely because just like how the white supremacy movement took Christianity and made Christian identity, Church of Jesus Christ, Christian, all that twisted Garden of Eden stuff. And there's a whole bunch of other stuff, too. The white supremacy realm was taking paganism and twisting it, and it's not what it's supposed to be. So this was the group, the base, and it was a Halloween Hate Camp. 2019. Yeah, Halloween. Yeah. I mean, we didn't call it that.

[Glenn Beck]

I'd love to see the flyers in the school halls. Come to the Halloween hate camp.

[Scott Payne]

Everybody's welcome. I mean, almost not.

[Glenn Beck]

Not everybody.

[Scott Payne]

I mean, not you, man. People. But they. We had probably like 12 or 13 members come from all over the United States. In North Georgia was the cell C, E L L. I always spell it because I got a country accent. The closest cell to me was in North Georgia. It just ends up luck, divine intervention. That. That's one of the people we were trying to find out about. And this guy Luke, he went by the. For the. Most of the time, he went by tmb, the Militant Buddhist. Everybody has a moniker. I was Pale Horse, which is the title of the book the. He had. He lived on 100 acre.

[Glenn Beck]

Can I stop for a second?

[Scott Payne]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

Why the pale. Because of the pale horse. Death.

[Scott Payne]

Yeah. Well, the story goes like this. I came in as White Warrior, which was more of a boomer kind of. Kind of a thing. But of course, I'd argue back, and I go, well, I'm sorry. When I was in this movie and I've been in it longer than you've probably been alive, we wore it proudly. Tattoos, all this stuff. I just twisted it to make it believable. But Pestilence was one of the main guys. And I asked him, I said. Because he was like, white Warrior is such a boomer name. And I'm like, okay, all right. First of all, I Googled it. I don't even fall within the boomer years, but whatever, you little punk. But I'm like, so where did you come up with Pestilence? And he said, well, it's one of the Four Horsemen. It's. It's. You know, it's the plague. And I'm like, wow, that is really cooler than mine. Now I do feel like that's pretty. That's pretty good. And then I said. I said, man, would you be offended if I took Pale Horse? I said. Because I've always been fascinated with, you know, death on a Pale Horse, the Grim Reaper. You know, you throw in the Metallica song, you know, full horseman. And he goes, absolutely not, man. Take it. And that's how I became Pale Horse. I was Pale Horse at Eater of Souls. You had to have, like, an thing under you.

[Glenn Beck]

Oh, my God.

[Scott Payne]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

Okay.

[Scott Payne]

Yeah.

[Glenn Beck]

So you're back now. These people. Now you're cool. You're at the Halloween hate party with all the kids. All the cool kids.

[Scott Payne]

All the cool kids. Yeah. With guns. Right On Adderall. Some haven't slept in three days. Good times. You think you right, Jack Daniels?

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Scott Payne]

You know, but I. It was Halloween. We were doing this. This probably be like four days of training. Luke's dad has a hundred acres out there. And it was gorgeous. I mean, gorgeous land. But unfortunately not good. Things were happening on it. But we, we do like hand to hand combat training, some firearms training, and then this wicked cold front comes in. And I went to charge my phone and I kind of dozed off for a bit. I wake up to him pounding on my window. Pale horse. Pale horse. Man, you're not gonna believe it. You got to get up. I'm like, what's going on? And they had. Went and stole a goat or a ram. I still, I've talked to owners of both. It had horns. It's pretty big. I don't know if it's a ram or a goat. I still haven't figured it out. I've even googled it. And I'm like, I'm still.

[Glenn Beck]

I don't know.

[Scott Payne]

But they called it a goat. Interim. They did both, but they stole this ram from not too far away. Almost got caught doing it. And you got a picture. The, the base members, we all wore like flecktor and camo because that's the German camouflage pattern.

[Glenn Beck]

Everything is a fleck.

[Scott Payne]

What is flecktorn? It's just, it's just the style of camouflage. So not that anybody wearing flecked on as has got to be a white supremacist.

[Glenn Beck]

Well, it comes from Germany, but it's a German drink.

[Scott Payne]

Jagermeister. You figure that out. But they, they woke me up and I go over there and man, they've got this, this ram and it's crapping all over the bed of the truck. And one of the dudes is like, because they got their balaclava zone, their battle rattle, which is their plate carriers, gun belt, all this stuff and all fleck turned out. And, and I remember one of the members, Dema, he was like, he goes, man, this thing's crapping all over. He worded it different, but he's like, this thing's crapping all over the place. And I said, well, man, I would be too if a bunch of big dudes with mask and jerked me out of my backyard and threw me in the bed. So the guy that was going to be leading the blot, which is supposed to be the, the, the ceremony for paganism, was a guy named Eisen. And he was not necessarily like a saw true, certified. He was just twisting it. But he was going to sacrifice the goat ram. And he named it Gar because his middle name's Garfield after his grandfather Garfield. And I'm like, we're naming the goat that we're going to sacrifice okay, man. And I remember walking up to him and I was like, hey, is it bad that I feel sorry for the goat? And he's like, you said that to us? Yeah, I said. And he's like, oh, don't let the goat hear you say that. And I'm like.

[Glenn Beck]

Oh, crap, it's too late. I just had a conversation with him.

[Scott Payne]

I'm pretty sure he's thinking other things. And he said, we've got to show this goat love. We're going to be sacrificing this goat to Odin. It's going to Valhalla to kick off the wild hunt. Well, in Norse mythology, the wild hunt is essentially Odin and some other gods going out and just destroying their enemies all through the night.

[Glenn Beck]

Rape, pillage kind of stuff.

[Scott Payne]

I don't think it was rape and pillage. I think it was destroy them. But I'm not a guru on it.

[Glenn Beck]

But what do you know? You don't know the difference between a goat and a ram.

[Scott Payne]

I know, right? It looks the same, I'm not gonna lie. But the he in his twisted version, the wild hunt after the sacrifice was going to be the kickoff of the wild hunt to the base Neo Nazi accelerationist movement was going to be us starting to cleanse the world of anti fashion non whites. So I went over to my listening device. One of my devices won't say what it was, where it was from, tradecraft, but I mean, heck, I could have picked up a phone and called somebody. But I'm like, I tell the. Because I know the case team's listening in there and they're covering me because I'm in the. I'm on this farm for four days. So I'm covered for four days. And I leaned in and I'm like, hey, man, I don't know if you guys heard basically, but I think we're getting ready to go sacrifice this animal. And I'm running it through my mind. I'm thinking as an undercover coordinator, a senior investigator, I'm thinking all the policies and I'm like, laws. I'm like, I can't come up with a reason in my head to not go and blow this whole thing. I said, but if you guys don't want me to do this and you want me to shut it down or walk away, give me a sign. And I sat there and I waited and I waited and I waited. And I'm like this leaning over the device and I'm like, well, I guess I'm going down to the woods for this sacrifice then. You know However I worded it. And we went down in the woods, and Eisen said some things, talking about the Wild Hunt and what the sacrifice was going to be. And he had something similar to a machete, and he went to come down on the back of his neck. He was. He was like, he's a pretty stocky kid. He's, like, doing his practice swings. It's fun. Somebody's like, just do it. And we're all in a circle on our knees around the goat and ram, whatever. And I'm at the back of it. I still don't know how I got at the back of it. Wasn't the wisest thing, but that's where I'm at. So, like, musical chairs. That's the spot I got. And he comes down full fledged with the blade. And I don't even think it broke a hair. I don't know if the blade was dull or if the back strap of the ram was so thick, but it just went ba. Like that. And I went, oh, man. Somebody's like, hit it again. Do it again. And somebody's like, it's probably gonna take more than one swing. I guess he was picturing, like, a guillotine. Like, the head was gonna come off. And then somebody says, does anybody have a gun? We weren't supposed to bring any weapons down there. The one guy who was the least qualified to be handling a live firearm who hadn't slept in probably two or three days was the guy who had the gun. And it even shocked Luke tmp because me and Luke were like, what? And they were like, what are you doing? And Luke took the gun from him, hands it, and it gets passed Eisen. Well, Eisen chambers around, points towards the goat, ram the head, and then looks away. We're all in a circle. So the instructor in me comes out. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What are you doing? And he's like, what? And I go, man, look at what you're shooting. We're all in a circle. Jack wagon, you know, I mean, you know, for Odin. And I mean, we're supposed to look because he told me, we need to show this goat. Love this. This goat is being blessed. It needs to. So he comes, he finally looks and puts it in. Pow. You can even hear on the recording, you hear it fall on the ground. It kicks for minutes. It's still shivering. I'm like, I don't know if it's dead or not. I'm like, man, put another bottle bullet in it. And he's like. He goes well, I'm pretty sure it's dead. And I go, you know, for the goat, it needs to be. Yeah, love going to Odin. That's in Valhalla, kinda. It's still wiggling. Finish it. And then he finished it. And then you think you're done, and you're not. They go and slice the throat of the goat, fill up a big cup with this blood. And I'm holding a flashlight for Eisen. Everybody's still on their knees, and we're going. Cause we're in the middle of the woods. It's pitch black except for the torches. And I'm shining the light. And he brought acid. So now he's tearing off acid, hits off the sheet and giving it to members. Almost every member did it. A couple of us didn't, but gives them that, and they chase it with the blood as part of the sacrifice. So by the time the cup gets to me, the blood is all coagulating. It's chunky, it's like clotted. It's like. Like old thick egg yolky looking. And I'm looking going, man, I really don't want to drink this. And I think it was Eisen that gave me an out. He said, you can just dip your finger and taste it. It was getting. I was like, this thing is getting thick, and I dip my whole finger down. The blood sucking my mouth sucked all the blood off. And then they cut the head of it off, threw its innards in the creek. Some members tried to cook it. It's the game. It's not made for eating. Not made for eating. Glenn, that was the gamiest meat I've ever tasted in my entire life. And then we carried the head around for like, three more days, and there was photos of us blasted all over BBC, because it turns out there was another member of the base that was not law enforcement, but was working for, like, either Southern Poverty Law center or something like that. And he had gotten the pictures. And we didn't know where it was coming from, but we eventually found out, but that's why it was. The next thing you know, it's all over the news. And here we are. And there I am in the picture with them. You can't tell because we're all covered up, because nobody wants to get doxxed. That was the big thing with the. With them is if you get doxxed, then you lose. The far left was really good about showing up and protesting at your house, your kids, school, and then you lose everything because everybody now knows you're A white supremacist.

[Glenn Beck]

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[Scott Payne]

I would say yes and no because I know that my belief, I'm right with my Lord. And I've talked to even pastors about it. You know, I'm like, hey, I'm doing this, you know, because like my tattoos on this whole arm, it's Viking warrior stuff, but for me, it's the armor of God. I've got the shield, I've got the boots, I've got the belt, I've got the helmet, I've got it all in there. And that's what it means to me. And once I retired, I put the Ephesians verse on there. But I'm in work mode. And I know that somebody had to kick Satan out of heaven, you know what I mean? There was times where I've crashed mentally, physically, and I had to really had to have a come to Jesus meeting and pray and figure out, am I ever going to be able to get back to where I was at. What hit me after all these days of praying is that what I heard was the Lord saying back, son, you would have never been able to do what you did if it wasn't me for blessing you in the first place. So I know that I've been blessed with that. And, and I'm doing that. I'm not, I'm not really worshiping.

[Glenn Beck]

Right, right, right. Yeah.

[Scott Payne]

Because there's a part in the. There's that same weekend, there's a part in the book, I go into detail about where we do a bonfire two days after. Because the second day was completely blown because almost everybody did acid. So there was no training, everybody was still high. But we had a bonfire burning Bibles, burning American flags. Death to America. If your Jewish God all. Everything you can picture being yelled is being yelled there.

[Glenn Beck]

How many people?

[Scott Payne]

Like 13 maybe. And been.

[Glenn Beck]

So you just like you just must at some point just go, this is. Your people are pathetic. You have 13 people in the woods. Yeah, you're pathetic.

[Scott Payne]

Well, it's. But they found a bond. They. A lot of those guys have been bullied, are outcasts. Some of them are on the spectrum a little bit autism spectrum. You've got. Can't get a partner. And they sit in their bedroom all night on this phone and dive down rabbit holes of hate and find like minded people who have been treated the same way. So they've a lot. I mean some of them can be fixed. They've just been led down the wrong path. But yeah, at that moment, little crazy. A little crazy. But they're burning the Bibles. And we watched, I watched the flames go up. It's even on the video, the propaganda video. You see them open face put it down in the fire. And the fire goes up, it comes back down. One of the members is stoking the coals and you know, now he's trying to get the fire going again. And a Bible flips over, opens up, not a page burn on. It sings on the edge and on the but pages and start tearing them out page by page, get the fire going again. And I'm thinking that was pretty odd, you know. But then people talk science, they're like, well, some of the Bibles, the page is made out of clay. It doesn't burn. I'm like, whatever. I'm like, I watched it burn. An American flag, you know what, whatever. So flames go up, it's dying back down. Yeah, I start stuck in the coals again. Second Bible flips open unburned. I wish I could have seen what book it was. That would have been cool. But one of the members said, man, these effing Bibles just won't burn. And I did my little. I didn't do it. In my head, I did it. I did a little, little Sammy Sosa down. I look up, I go, that's pretty cool. I get it, you know, but yeah, it's tough. I got to that weekend now. I went, I got home, I felt dirty. I reached out to my pastor, I said, man, I may need you to pray over me a little bit, you know, and just get my head back in the game.

[Glenn Beck]

How'd your, how'd your wife deal with all the time that you were gone, everything that you would go through, come back home.

[Scott Payne]

If you talk to her, she says she just gave it up to God. Because back in the Outlaws case that would have been like 2005 to 2007 or 08. And I didn't know that's where I said I thought I was doing pretty good, and I wasn't. But she would be so nervous and worried that she would just move furniture all the time. I'd come home, the house will be completely rearranged. And she finally said, look, I got to give it up to God because she can't control it. And I'm like, if it's my time to go, it's my time to go, you know, and I'm not going in lax. And I've got a skill set, and I think I'm good at, you know, what I do, and I think I'm doing it for the right reasons. But even, even towards the end of my career, like the base case, we were sitting out and just talking, and she's like, she said something about COVID me. And I kind of giggled because I'm like, man, I was a narc when you met me, you know, I mean, I was. I mean, how We've been doing this for 20 something years. And she jerked a knot in my tail. She said, listen, it's. I'm your wife and it's my job to cover you. And when you're out there on these undercovers, I'm covering you in prayer. And I, man, I was like, I am sorry. I didn't mean to giggle. Thank you. And. And that means a lot. So, yeah, it's not. And she's not a. My home in like a military home, you know, where you can disappear for six months and the family still stays together. Mom would probably implode. I don't know. I'm not even sure if the house would be there when I came back, you know?

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, I know. The, the operation Poetic justice and murder for for hire. How often were you an assassin for hire or played that role?

[Scott Payne]

Yeah, a bunch, actually. I mean, I mentioned the one, the pedophile, who. He knew that he wasn't going to do good in prison, and he had gotten locked up for a purported molestation. But while he was in San Antonio, the jail, Bexar county, he solicited somebody to help him find a hitman to kill this kid. Because in his mind, if the kid was dead, no trial, which is on the scale of some of the murder for hires, that's not a bad plan. But, yeah, I went in and I met him. It was just two quick meets, but I had to go sit in the phone room with all the stainless steel with baby mamas and everybody yelling and screaming, and I'm trying to get a recording of this guy saying he wants to hire me to kill the kid. And that was probably one of the quickest ones I've done, but one of the most satisfying cases.

[Glenn Beck]

Oh, I bet it was. I bet it was. Can we just spend. I just only have a couple minutes left. But I have to ask you, the guy that trained you is kind of the original badass. Brasco, right?

[Scott Payne]

Yeah. Joe Pistone.

[Glenn Beck]

Donnie Brasco.

[Scott Payne]

Joe Pistone is still a friend. Graciously did a blurb on the book. Yeah. I mean, so in 1972, the FBI never worked undercover under Hoover. And pretty much when Hoover went out the door in 1972, they picked 25 undercovers. There's a black and white picture of the first ever undercovers in the FBI. And they were, like, from Philly, New York. Really New York.

[Glenn Beck]

Hoover didn't do it.

[Scott Payne]

No, he didn't believe. He didn't. For whatever reason, he didn't believe in undercover.

[Glenn Beck]

He just believed in wiretaps.

[Scott Payne]

But. So back then, there was no attorney General guidelines. It's like, here's this recorder about this big, and here's a wad of money. Let's go make a case. So, yeah, Joe did six years in the Mafia, and that safeguard process that we all do now, or I'm retired. But if you're inactive undercover, you have to be psychologically assessed. It's mandatory. And that program was built by Joe and another FBI agent who was. Who was previously a psychologist. And that's. That's to take care of, make sure you're mentally stable. Your family is very important because we're type A personality. So we'll go out there and keep saying yes and keep saying yes.

[Glenn Beck]

Yes.

[Scott Payne]

I mean, I cover it in the book. There's at least twice. I've just been. Two times I was put on timeout. They're like. They're like, you're not recommended. You are not going back on that undercover. And I'm like, okay, you know, what's.

[Glenn Beck]

The closest you've come to either breaking the COVID blowing it. Where is there a time when you've gone, oh, crap?

[Scott Payne]

Well, there's a bunch of. There's a bunch of craps. But as far as blowing my cover, Just getting caught.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, just getting caught.

[Scott Payne]

The biggest ones, probably the Outlaws case. That's where they took me down. After a year and a half undercover, they year and a half undercover doing all those insurance things, carjackins, whatever, and some dope stuff, we up the ante to do a big shipment of drugs so they could be introduced, because they've been asking. So they could be introduced to some cartel contacts. Because what does a drug dealer want? They want the highest purity product they can get for the lowest price they can get, because then they can step on it and, you know, and make more money, right? So imagine if you're in Massachusetts and you get a straight pipeline from Mexico. You're probably going to get some good stuff. And we up the ante. And then at that year and a half point, they carry me down into the basement. It's more like a crawl space of the clubhouse. And stripped me at gunpoint looking for a wire. The problem was, is I was wired to the hilt. And they almost. They almost found it. It was close. It was close. And what are you gonna do? I'm like, even if you think you're a tough person and you can fight, you're in a crawl space, basement, whatever. I can't stand up straight. I could probably touch the wall on both sides. They've already shown me their pistols. I'm not free to leave. And even if I could get past those two guys without getting shot, you got everybody up. I got another probably 10 upstairs with the door locked with a metal bar across it and everything else. And it came close. Like I had an oh, crap moment. Adrenaline dump. Your auditory exclusion happens. Your time dilation happens in your eyes. Everything you see is in screen grabs. Everything slows down. Everything you hear is going whoosh, whoosh, real slow. And what seems like an hour is probably a couple of minutes. And I took all my clothes off, wrote down my name and everything they wanted me to. I was panicking like crazy. You can clearly hear that my voice does not sound like this. My throat is a lot tighter. My pitch is a lot higher. Some of my addiction is terrible because I'm talking through my nose, because I'm freaking out. And I thought I was done. And then clothesline, who was supposed to be my buddy, not the FBI undercover buddy, but, you know, the Scott callaway buddy. He. He grabbed a piece of clothing, and that piece of clothing had some equipment in it, and he starts kneading it with his fingers. You know, he's like, working it. He cracked the joke. He's like, hey, man, I'm not gonna find anything in here. I don't want to. Like, some naked pictures of my old lady. And I'm like, I hope not, you know, But I'm watching him do this, and I don't even know how to do it. You can hear me on the recording go. Because, I mean, what am I going to do, you know? And he looked right at it and missed it.

[Glenn Beck]

Wow.

[Scott Payne]

By that much, by that much. There's crazy. There's crazy things like that. Because that's another. It goes back to my faith. That night when I called my wife. I'd always called her, especially during that case. I gave her like a covert phone, a burner phone I bought and set up so I could call her from my undercover phone. And I called her that night, and the first thing she said is, are you okay? And I was like, yeah. Why? She said, man, I was driving in McAllen with the girls. Our girls were little at that time, about like 3 and 1. And she said, I just got this overwhelming feeling. And I pulled over on the side of the road and started praying for you. And that's when I was in the basement. I looked at the time. That's when I was in the basement. So. Wow. Yeah, that's freaky, freaky stuff. But I mean, there's been other things where, like, you know, somebody's got a double barrel shotgun with both hammers cocked back like this on the table, pointing at you, going, my brother. His brother's right there. My brother says, you're a cop. And you're looking at his brother going, he's right, because I arrested him when I used to be a uniform patrol, you know, how do you get out of that?

[Glenn Beck]

How did you get out of that?

[Scott Payne]

I started counter accusing, deny, counter accuse. Because I didn't have near as much training back then. That was when I was at the sheriff's office. But, you know, you find yourself in a situation again with another case. Poetic justice. You brought it up, guys. Got a shotgun, double barrel hammers, cockback. I should learn my lesson with those, I guess. And he's. He's like, he's already told me, if I find out you the law, you a dead man. You hear me? If I find out you the law, you're a dead man. And then I did something to bolster my bona fetus, to bolster myself. Is looking like I know what I'm doing. Like I'm really a criminal. And it. And I overstepped my bounds. I underestimated. And he. It's a chess game. He got me on that one. The next thing I know.

[Glenn Beck]

Can you say what you did?

[Scott Payne]

Yeah, I told him that I've been like, hey, man, that dope that I bought last time from his relic relative, it was weak and it was. And any dealer or user is going to know. And they're going to come back and be like, hey, what the hell was that? You sell. You sold me, you know? And I told him, I said, oh, yeah, so that stuff was weak, man. He goes, well, this isn't. Try this. And I was like, oh. And. And next thing you know, I've got a red bone hound in my crotch. And that thing was mean. Mean. I was like, you just didn't move. You just like. Because it's going, like, touching you, and you're like, okay. And then he's got the shotgun, and then there's open bag of cocaine in my face. And he's like, just do it. Just do it. And I'm like, I'm talking. And I'm like, man, I told you I don't do it. I'm laying out everything that I think I could lay out for me and my story. And then I realized, this is his test. And I even said. I said, this is your test. This is it. And I just did some real quick hand movement, and I didn't ingest anything. And I was pissed. I'll let him know I was pissed. But as soon as that happened, you have to be able to see, is this situation deteriorating? Clearly it was. But as soon as I did that, he immediately. Everything was fine. And he's like, hey, come to the back room. Here's all the dope. My relatives are the cop. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it was. It was. It was good to go after that. But I. I shouldn't have let that happen, you know, but again, that's the chess game. You're trying to stay moves ahead while you're still connecting with people and gaining trust.

[Glenn Beck]

I have to tell you, I think I should have worn Depends just for this interview. I would have peed my pants I don't know how many times if I were you. But I'm glad people like you are out there. Thank you so much.

[Scott Payne]

Well, thanks for having me. And, you know, it's an honor. I mean, again, it's a calling. You don't do it for money.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah, I know.

[Scott Payne]

You don't do it for fame. I mean, there are men and women out there that have done way more than I have undercover. And, you know, I've been blessed, so I'm just trying to. Trying to pay it forward.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah. You know, thank you, thank you, thank you.

[Scott Payne]

Appreciate it.

[Glenn Beck]

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