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Nov. 27, 2023 - MyronGainesX

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Fed Explains Ross Ulbricht & Silk Road

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	Yo, what up, guys?
	Welcome to Fresh Rate Podcast.
	Just kidding.
	Welcome to Fed Reacts, guys.
	We're going to be covering Ross Olbrick today and the Silk Road.
	Let's get into it.
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	Yo, what up, guys?
	Welcome to Fed Reacts.
	Today we're going to be covering Ross Olbrick, aka the creator of Silk Road.
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	Yeah, so guys, so I'll get that fixed out by today, but we'll have the code up for tomorrow.
	And then tomorrow we got Mark Tilbury on for Money Monday.
	That's going to be lit.
	I'm going to go up there, do an interview with them, and then come back down.
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	Oh, Twitter.
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	It's growing pretty quickly.
	We're gaining almost 1,000 or so a day, which is pretty cool.
	You know, 500 to 1,000 a day.
	So that's good.
	I cover a bunch of topics on there about pop culture.
	I cover pop culture, politics, geopolitics.
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	So I cover all that.
	So don't worry, guys.
	If you guys want to go ahead and see another side of me, and a lot of you guys want that stuff, get my opinion on certain current events, etc.
	I cover it all there.
	So make sure to check me out on Unplug FedEx.
	I want to grow that thing to 100K if we can.
	And I also did a speaking of Twitter.
	I did a pretty cool interview with Elijah Schaefer, guys.
	Go check it out on his YouTube and on his Rumble.
	Pretty good stuff.
	We talked about a bunch of different stuff.
	And what else here?
	And then, okay.
	So you guys are spamming the chat about Angie.
	Let me make this very, very clear.
	I'm going to address this one time and one time only.
	Okay.
	She went to the beach.
	She went with her childhood friends for Venezuela.
	I know everything that she does.
	Okay.
	I have access to all her shit.
	She removed 5,000 plus people on her Instagram.
	Okay.
	And her profile is private.
	People went ahead and stalked her friend's profile and her profile, screenshot it, and made it sound like, oh, what the hell's going on here?
	She went to the beach.
	Yo, if she can't go to the beach with her friends, with me knowing about everything that she does, then I don't know what to tell y'all.
	Like, I know everything that Angie is doing, guys.
	All right.
	She's my chick.
	I know what the fuck's going on.
	And for her to be scrutinized like this to go to the beach with her friends, right?
	With me knowing what the hell's going on.
	I mean, I'm the authority here.
	Okay.
	Trust me.
	I know what the fuck I'm doing.
	Okay.
	She's not your girlfriend.
	She's mine.
	So everything she does is under my authority.
	I know what's going on.
	I have all her passwords, etc.
	And it is what it is.
	So if you guys don't like it, whatever, man.
	But that's really weird that y'all are over here looking at a profile, which I've caught some of y'all, literally like asking her, Hey, please accept my request.
	Hey, I'm going to buy you nails, blah, blah, blah.
	Some of y'all are really, really weird, bro.
	And she's had to remove 5,000 plus people following her.
	And she tries to live a private life.
	And to be honest, I'm the one that put her in front of the camera.
	I said, hey, help me out with Federica, etc.
	She didn't really want to do it because she's a pretty private person.
	But yeah, man, at the end of the day, guys, respect her privacy.
	Like, you know what I mean?
	She's not a public figure like me.
	Y'all want to criticize me?
	That's cool.
	But trust me, I know everything that's going on.
	I definitely do.
	She checks with me before anything that she does.
	And if she wants to go to the beach with her friends, I don't.
	Hey, it is what it is, her childhood friends.
	It is what it is.
	Yeah.
	You know, I know what's going on.
	So that's weird, man.
	That is weird that y'all are like stalking her that hard.
	But yeah.
	So anyway, with that said, where are we at here?
	Guys, you guys gonna want to say what's up to the people?
	Yo, what's going on?
	This is Mo.
	Happy to be here with you guys.
	And yes, those are bin Laden Raid is out on Rumble, especially.
	So yeah, Rumble only for certain reasons.
	But other than that, you guys can follow me at Big Mo underscore B-I-T-W.
	That is B-I-G-M-O underscore B-I-T-W.
	Don't forget the memo to believe in Big Mo because that is an M-O.
	What's going on, guys?
	J Bills, you guys can follow me on Instagram at JBills.
	Appreciate all the love from the Brad Pill stream.
	Go ahead and comment and keep getting views up.
	And this should be a good show today.
	All right.
	Cool.
	So, Andre, you want to tell them anything about what we got coming up or cases that they got?
	Well, I have an updated list.
	I didn't upload it.
	I didn't update it like this week because we're going to have Silk Road.
	So this week that is coming now and December 1st and all that stuff.
	Actually, on November 3rd, on Thursday, November 3rd, I'm going to make another live.
	So to update this list that I have right now.
	But the one that I have right now that I updated last week, I have Jonathan J. Poehler, which is an intelligence analyst.
	Jeff Davis A, Michael, Michelle Blair, Mark Duggan, Mahek Bukhari.
	Also, guys, you keep sending cases from outside, foreign cases.
	And as I told you before, we're going to prioritize the ones here in America.
	And then we're going to do the ones that you guys request the most.
	The one that is upvoted right now, it's the Canadian Sealer Killers, the Ben and Barbie killers, Paul Bernardo and his wife.
	And that's the ones that I will probably cover next for foreign cases.
	That's the one from Canada.
	The Osama Bin Laden dropped this Thursday, if I'm not mistaken, Rymo?
	Yes.
	On Rumble?
	Yes.
	Just came out this Thursday.
	So yeah, you guys have been requesting that one for a while now.
	They won the University of Texas Clock Tower.
	It was ages ago that the Clock Tower, they put a bomb in it.
	Oh, damn, they asked for that a long time ago.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	Chicago outfit.
	The Ronda Genocide.
	I think that's from Africa, if I'm not mistaken.
	I'm not sure.
	Yeah, the Iceman.
	I don't know.
	You said, like...
	Yeah, because we...
	Remember, we spoke with a couple mafia people.
	Actually...
	Actually, Michael Francis himself said that it's sensationalized.
	He didn't kill that many people.
	So once, and you guys know he was a capo for, god damn it, which crime family it was.
	Michael Francis.
	He was a capo, Colombo crime family.
	Thank you.
	When we brought him on, he was saying how the Iceman.
	And I always suspected that his numbers were off a bit, that he didn't kill that many people.
	And a lot of it was sensationalized for Klout, but yeah.
	Anything else?
	Ivan Milet is the most prolific serial killer in Australia.
	People have been asking for that as well.
	And yeah, I think that's about it right now.
	Oh, they're Rob Elementary School Shooting.
	Okay.
	That too.
	And then one other thing, too.
	I said, just to put a bow on this thing with the whole Angie thing, people saying what they're going to say.
	Somebody mentioned that she went to a concert, whatever, with a guy.
	Guys, that's her brother.
	I've met him on multiple occasions.
	They went to a comedy event.
	I've had dinner with him.
	I've spoken with him.
	I know him personally.
	That was her brother that she went with, guys.
	So, you know, if you guys want to sit there and say, oh, blah, blah, blah.
	Okay.
	You can say what you want to say, but I know him.
	I've met him on multiple occasions.
	He came down from Tampa to visit her.
	They have a very close relationship.
	I trust him, obviously.
	That's her fucking brother.
	So, you know, they go out together every now and then because they have a very tight bond.
	They don't see each other that much.
	So, you know, obviously I don't have to explain myself or whatever, but it just goes to show how sick and weird some people are where they're stalking Angie's private life and making assumptions that just, quite frankly, aren't true.
	Hell, she was thinking about deleting her Instagram, and I told her, no, you're not going to let these weirdos win.
	Keep your Instagram.
	I know what's going on.
	You don't have to worry about that shit.
	And it is what it is.
	But yeah, people spreading these false rumors is simply not true, man.
	It's simply not true.
	I do want to address something real quick.
	I'm not going to get emotional.
	Myron didn't want me to talk because he would think I would get emotional because I was really pissed before this.
	I do want to address whatever you hear, guys, from people that whatever name pops up.
	I did used to live with some people before in Doral ages ago, right before Myron.
	And I didn't have anything to do with these people.
	They were just roommates, and that's it.
	So the fact that you're popping out names that I haven't heard in ages, like it's just crazy to me.
	I don't know who you're talking with, whoever is clipping this or like putting this information out.
	But I suggest you to just come to me.
	Check your facts with me, you know, like because I'm the firsthand contact that you can like verify this information with.
	So instead of creating rumors and causing me problems, because it's getting so far that you guys are going to my family and like DMing.
	Yeah, messaging her parents and shit.
	It's weird.
	It's really bad.
	And a lot of people that know me, because they don't speak the language, they don't know that I do this and they don't know what I do.
	So when you guys go with this rumors and stuff and you go to them and ask stuff, they are going to ask me.
	And I'm here.
	They're all confused.
	So before creating rumors, just come to me, ask me personally if you have a question.
	I can easily address it.
	Yeah, remember, Angie, the truth doesn't matter when a story that isn't true is more entertaining.
	Don't forget that.
	But yeah, guys, that's pretty much it.
	We addressed it.
	It is what it is.
	You guys can go ahead and run with whatever rumors you want.
	But we addressed the concert situation, the beach, whatever it is.
	You know, people are going to say what they want to say.
	I think it's actually kind of ridiculous that we even have to talk about this.
	But hey, there's your answers, guys.
	Okay.
	Don't believe everything you see on the internet.
	A lot of it is being sensationalized to draw your attention and cause needless drama.
	But we're going to go back to making out the content you guys are here for in the first place and not necessarily address strange, awkward drama that isn't true.
	Cool.
	Let's go ahead.
	We can hit some of these chats real quick.
	And then we'll go ahead into the documentary.
	We got two documentaries that Angie found for y'all that cover this.
	But I'll read these real quick.
	Let's see here.
	Let's see.
	Okay.
	Satoshi, BTC will humiliate re interms and ROI in a decade.
	Okay.
	I mean, you know, I think it's good to be diversified.
	Hey, Mario, do you plan on showing us all the weightlifting exercises we all need to do in the gym when you do the self-care channel?
	Need help on creating my workouts.
	Also, what color is your Honda Civic?
	Andrew Tay Voice.
	It's silver.
	It's silver.
	And that's from Taco 713.
	The reasonable man adapts himself to the world.
	The unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself.
	Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
	Okay.
	Markovelli goes, drop 20 pounds.
	I'm looking to drop 20 more from 180 to 160.
	What do you recommend for passing the plateau?
	This is why it's important, guys, to track your calories.
	When you track your calories, know where you're going.
	And if you're not trying your calories, you're basically operating blind.
	I always use the analogy that you wouldn't drive somewhere you've never driven before without a GPS.
	Well, you shouldn't go ahead and go on your weight loss journey without tracking your calories because if you're not tracking your calories, you don't know what you're taking.
	If you don't know what you take in, you're not going to know how to adjust when you inevitably do hit that fat loss plateau.
	So you always want to be periodically decreasing your calories by about 100 whenever you hit a plateau, and then bam, the fat loss continues on.
	Okay.
	And when you're tracking everything, you can go ahead and figure out what the best tool is, whether it's taking another 100 calories away, maybe adding in one day of cardio per week.
	You can play with different variables when you're actually tracking things.
	Okay.
	Let's see here.
	Hey, Martin, do non-agent FBI technology field operations wear a tire windbreaker jacket when out in the field or is only reserved for agents?
	Not a lot of information about this online.
	So here's the thing.
	You only typically wear a raid jacket if it's an enforcement action.
	You know, have we given raid jackets before to tech people whenever we have them on site to do something?
	Yeah.
	Just so that they're identified, etc.
	You don't have to necessarily be a gun totter to wear a raid jacket during a search warrant, but you're definitely not going to be anywhere near the property when they raid it.
	You're going to come in after it's secure, you know, and then you can go ahead and assist with the search.
	Like, for example, let's say we raid a house, right?
	And the place is secure.
	We got everybody detained that we need to detain.
	House is ready to be searched.
	Then the support staff and personnel that might have an expertise, et cetera, can come in.
	Like I remember before, I've been on a raid where we went after someone who was selling like fake pharmaceuticals, right?
	And we had someone, a rep, from that company, right, there to identify the counterfeits versus the reels, et cetera, and something like that.
	If we don't want them to be identified or whatever it may be, once the house is secure, it might give them a raid jacket.
	They could come in and help us identify, et cetera, just so that the public might not necessarily know who they are, whatever it is.
	So sometimes you bring a subject matter expert or you bring someone in that isn't a gun total, or maybe you bring one of your analysts, et cetera, and they're in there.
	They'll wear a raid jacket during the after everything is safe.
	So, and a lot of agencies employ that tactic with their person support staff.
	Very nuanced question, but a good question nonetheless.
	Let's see here.
	Do the Derek Todd Lee case, that's from Keem Chillin.
	All right.
	It's Liddy.
	It's written down.
	Liddy Titty goes, After watching a lot of FNF, whenever I am at public and I see my bitch, I find myself insulting them in my head instead of thirsting.
	I think it's a superiority complex, okay?
	The last hopebender, part one of two.
	Mo, what was your reaction to CM Punk surprise return?
	Yeah, that shows crazy.
	What do you think will happen?
	Processor Triple H for keeping it a secret until the last minute of the show.
	None of the WW wrestler staff production knew.
	Best in the world.
	Go ahead, Mo.
	What is it?
	Best in the world, baby.
	Yeah.
	You guys already know that's where the BITW, my name stat, came from.
	So big up to CM Punk.
	I wasn't that surprised.
	Triple H is very in touch with, he's very in touch and very in tune with what's going on in the wrestling community, what people want, the talent that's going over.
	So like, and every and everyone's been happy when Triple H has been taking the helm.
	And then, of course, I don't know if I talked with Myron about it, but of course, with Sean Michaels running the developmental system.
	So it was like WWE is still in great hands.
	I'm still a big believer in AEW.
	I still think competition is good.
	I still believe that AEW has a great product, but this was huge for WWE.
	This was huge for CM Punk.
	This was well warranted.
	I was against CM Punk leaving in the first place.
	I understood why.
	I know he just wants to close out WrestleMania.
	And he should.
	He's good enough, big enough to do it.
	But I'm actually, yeah, I'm very happy.
	So, yeah.
	Cool.
	And what do we got here?
	The loss, the last hope under.
	Oh, do you think WWE employees' reactions were real or K-Fabe?
	Michael Cole threw his pen in frustration.
	Big booty Ray Ripley, W Pogs, gave the middle finger and mocked punk.
	Seth Rollins started yelling, gave the finger, and had to be held back.
	I think it's probably a work.
	You know, Kayfe basically are they staying in character?
	I do think it's a work.
	I probably, it's probably in character.
	I do hear that there was like backstage stuff, but there's times you're not too sure if there's backstage stuff.
	If there is.
	It's probably under contract where they have to stay in character anytime they're on the premises, right?
	Yes.
	Like you got to, like, it doesn't matter, like, you know, you're here.
	Because I remember Maven has a YouTube channel, and he basically said that they got to be there at like 1 p.m. for Raw.
	Yeah.
	Something crazy like that.
	Like nine hours.
	Very early.
	Very, very early.
	So I wouldn't be surprised if they're not instructed to stay in character at all times when they're on the premises.
	I remember when I went to WrestleMania 28, that was down here in Miami.
	I went there like noon p.m., like noon, 1 p.m., and I was already seeing wrestlers coming in.
	And I was just there, I was meant to just do like tailgating.
	Yeah.
	There's a wrestler that they made that rule because one wrestler would always show up late.
	Who was it again?
	I'm not.
	Like that eight-hour rule.
	That I'm not too sure.
	That's not an uncommon thing.
	Well, not like uncommon.
	Most wrestlers do come in on time.
	They do come in early.
	Yeah.
	I forget who it was.
	Was it Jake the Snake?
	Somebody chronically would always show up late.
	Is it Andre the Giant?
	Somebody, man.
	I forget who it is.
	Someone in the chat might know.
	Someone said, bring Maven on the pod.
	Maybe, bro.
	We could reach out to him.
	I remember watching Tough Enough back in the day.
	That was it.
	And seeing him win.
	Yeah.
	Like, I remember that.
	I remember that one too.
	Yeah, that was way back in the day.
	I mean, his YouTube channel's been growing a lot.
	You know, shout out to him.
	He's been giving a lot of the background on how the WWE works, etc.
	Yeah, maybe we'll bring him on.
	I was very happy.
	And I know another thing, CM Punk, he's big on his protection for the wrestlers.
	I think WWE does the best job more than any other wrestling company when it comes to protecting the wrestlers.
	A lot of times I say you got to protect these wrestlers from themselves.
	WWE does that better than anyone in the wrestling industry.
	That is my take.
	I don't care, which some people might disagree.
	I don't care.
	WWE does a great job protecting wrestlers from themselves.
	Sometimes you have to do that.
	So, yeah.
	Fair enough.
	What else do we got here?
	King of the Rula.
	This is pretty good question.
	Myron, I have a GS7 interview coming up as a tech for the FBI this week.
	This is in San Francisco.
	I'm having a hard time figuring out what questions are going to be asked.
	Interview is remote.
	Please guide me towards resources.
	I need to be prepared.
	Okay, so I've done a actually good perfect person to ask.
	I've done an FBI panel interview before.
	And as you guys know, I was hired by the FBI back in like 2017, 2018.
	Dude, just know that they're going to ask you questions about your character.
	They're going to ask you questions about integrity, et cetera.
	You know, more than likely, they're going to want to hear a story of a time where you were in a very tough decision.
	You had to make a very tough decision where it might have been easier for you to get something done.
	But, you know, you took the high road XYZ.
	Have a story like that somewhere.
	Just be truthful, man.
	You know, obviously be candid.
	You know, they understand that you're human, et cetera.
	You might have made mistakes or whatever.
	But whatever you do, just be honest.
	Don't lie.
	Tell stories that if they ask you to tell a story about yourself that shows integrity or candor, have one that comes to mind, right?
	It could have been.
	I remember for me, it was I was in college and everybody was smoking and doing drugs and all my friends were there and I wanted to stay at the party, but I left because I knew that being in an environment like that is just not a good look, especially with me wanting to get into a certain career field.
	So obviously I had to sacrifice, you know, building camaraderie with the friends and shit like that and some fun for the long term.
	So having a story like that in the back of your mind, et cetera, that you actually experienced that puts you in a compromise, not compromising, but puts you in a tough situation, that a lot of times speaks volumes.
	So have something like that in the back.
	And just be honest, bro, and don't take it too seriously.
	It's going to be a remote interview, so it'll be a little bit easier.
	But I remember, yeah, when I did mine, I had three agents interviewing me.
	And typically what they'll do is they'll have a 13, right?
	So a senior agent.
	Then they'll have a supervisor, which is a GS14 or a supervisory special agent.
	And then they'll have an assistant special agent in charge or an ASAC interviewing you.
	HSI does the same exact shit.
	Most of these agencies, when they do their panel interview, that's how they do it.
	They have an agent that actually does cases, a supervisor, and then that second line supervisor, which is an ASAC.
	And they'll ask you questions.
	So don't be scared, bro.
	You're interviewing.
	They're probably not going to grill you as hard because you're not applying for an 1811 slash special agent position.
	So you're not going to be grilled as hard.
	But, you know, don't stress out too bad.
	Okay.
	Good question.
	Fantastic question.
	And then also, dude, do me a favor, watch my watch my pod.
	I literally did an episode on how to prepare for a law enforcement career and how to deal with interviews, background checks, all that shit.
	Okay.
	What else do we got here?
	K Rowdy goes, hey, Myron and Angie.
	Hope you're both doing well.
	I've been watching PDP podcasts and Timpool and keep hearing stories about people in power finding a way to cancel the next electoral votes by any means necessary.
	What's your take on it, Myron?
	My take is if Trump doesn't win, we're fucked.
	That is my take.
	Very simple and concise.
	But if Trump does not win the 2024 election, we are going to be in a very, very bad position.
	You know, as you guys know, we got conflicts all over the world.
	One in the Middle East, one in, well, multiple in the Middle East, one in Russia slash Ukraine, et cetera.
	And, you know, it's ironically enough, people say that Trump is terrible for Foreign affairs, when I think actually, we probably had some of the best foreign relations when Trump was in office.
	His bravado attitude and his, how do I say this?
	His lack of fear with holding other nations accountable is actually what kept us safe.
	You know, you got someone like Biden who has interests in other places like China, etc.
	We did a whole video, by the way, talking about the Biden crime family and him being involved with Ukraine and China and getting money from foreign nationals in questionable ways.
	You know, go ahead and check that episode out.
	But yeah, it's just not, it's just not a good look, man.
	So we'll see what happens.
	We'll really see what happens.
	But I really do think that we can't have, obviously, we can't have someone like Biden come in again.
	And we need someone from the GOP.
	I think Vivek Ramas, Vivek Ramaswamy, Ron DeSantis, and Trump are all good candidates.
	But the reality is, Vivek and Ron DeSantis don't have enough of a market share to actually win.
	It's going to have to be Trump.
	Trump is so far ahead, he doesn't even go to the political debates, guys.
	Like, that should tell you something.
	You know, so it is what it is.
	You know, Ron DeSantis, I think, was did a good job as governor in Florida.
	I think he should stay governor.
	You know, shout out to him for trying to be president, but I just don't think he has the oomph to push there.
	His marketing isn't good enough.
	And then Vivek is just way too goddamn small.
	Not enough people know about him.
	His policies are great.
	People might criticize him here or there, but I think in general, he's mostly good.
	But yeah, Trump is going to have to win, man, because he's pretty much going to be the Republican candidate.
	Anyway, anything?
	What else do we got here?
	Well, let's lit fam.
	Well, we lit.
	Let's go, team.
	Fucking annoying how people be starting all these rumors as of late.
	I swear they'd be having nothing better to do with their miserable lives.
	Yeah, it's a little weird, man.
	But you guys, this is kind of the price to pay for this.
	You know, I'm going to take 100% accountability.
	This isn't Angie's fault.
	This is my fault because I'm the one that dragged her into the limelight.
	She wanted to be behind the scenes more.
	And I said, no, it'd be better if you were just here.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	I'm the one that told you to come on, right?
	So it's on me.
	It's not on you.
	She's a very private person.
	You know, and she's made a lot of sacrifices because of it.
	And I appreciate that, but it's on me 100% because I'm the one that dragged her in this light.
	So this is what comes with the territory, unfortunately.
	Them niggas should go watch Kardashians or Love Island since they love Douglas so much.
	Dudes acting like some fucking females.
	Yeah, it is what it is, bro.
	You know, it's amazing to me that I have to explain that.
	Yeah, that guy is her brother, guys.
	And they're like, whoa.
	But yeah.
	Yo, Elliot Rogers, aka leader of the incels, would be a fire episode.
	Okay.
	Dudes are more worried about y'all's lives than spending that time improving their own keyboard warriors.
	Yeah, it comes with the territory, man.
	Jeremy goes, Myron, you should do a gun safety stream at the Range with Fresh and Sneeko.
	Also, W, Angie, fuck the haters.
	Yeah, I'm going to do a gun, a gun range stream with Sneeko.
	We're supposed to do one today, but I just woke up late, man.
	So I'll, but I'll give y'all a gun range stream with Sneeko soon.
	The Liam and you, I just wanted to give a shout out from California to the whole FNF team.
	I'm 23 years old.
	Managed to get my credit score up thanks to your videos.
	Went from 430 to 700 plus.
	Currently, waiting on my platinum card.
	Congratulations, the Liam and you.
	That's awesome.
	Whenever you guys show me your wins with making more money or getting better credit, et cetera, it's a big W. Shout out to the whole FNF team.
	W Myron, W, Angie, W, Medium, Mochula, and Wilt Blitz.
	Because of you guys, I went from no credit until 30 years old to now a 730 credit score looking at four plexuses to house hack.
	Love y'all.
	Yo, that's awesome, bro.
	That's what we're talking about.
	Good shit.
	What else?
	Anything else?
	Medium mochula.
	I like that.
	That's pretty much all that.
	That was it.
	All right.
	And just so you guys know, as we speak right now, actually, I got Andy in the house.
	What more?
	And 10 and up.
	Okay, 10 and up from here on out.
	Okay.
	As you guys are here right now, okay, someone asked a pretty good question.
	He asked any tips for real estate as a Muslim?
	Guys, that doesn't want to use interest loans, obviously, because usery is banned.
	The only way around it, really, guys, you got to buy houses cash.
	So, you know, is that the best and smartest financial way to go about things?
	No, but I completely understand that some people don't want to be involved with interest and be involved in usury.
	So I respect that.
	Just, yeah, you're going to have to buy houses cash.
	The positive to that, though, is that you own the house free and clear and you're going to get way more cash flow.
	But your cash on cash returns might not necessarily be as good as using leverage.
	But it's up to you guys.
	What else do we got?
	We're going 10 and up from this point forward.
	And then, damn it, I was going to say something and I forgot it was.
	Oh, as we speak right now, guys, I am getting the Fed React studio made right now.
	Andy's in the house.
	It's been a work in progress, guys.
	As you guys know, we prioritized building this studio up to the highest level first.
	Once we got that built, took a short break.
	Andy had a bunch of projects that he was doing.
	So right now, he's actually here building the second studio.
	I would normally be helping him, but we're live on air right now.
	I just can't stand behind and not help.
	I got to help too.
	I'm very particular about how things are.
	But either way, so you guys will see a new Fed React studio.
	We're going to decorate it, make it nice for y'all.
	And I've alluded to this on Sneeko stream.
	I might talk about it here a little bit.
	I'm thinking about potentially gaming, okay?
	On there.
	Now, with that said, this is why y'all like Fed Reactions because you guys get to see another side of me here.
	I used to play Overarch guys at an extremely high level back in the day, okay?
	I made top 500, okay?
	Maybe for like a day or two.
	I wasn't on there forever, but I made top 500.
	For the nerds out there, that's like well over 4,000 score.
	Playing McCree, Reaper, Zenyata, Anna, who else?
	Saria.
	Hell no mercy.
	What the fuck?
	And Soldier.
	Lucio.
	And hell.
	No, I never played Lucio.
	The only healers I played were Zenyata and Ana, people that actually take skill.
	Yeah, I was a really good Ana, too.
	Let's see here.
	But anyway, those are the characters that I played, all right?
	And I made it to GM level doing that, right?
	So, but I shouldn't be admitting this, but I'll admit it anyway.
	Take some of the heat off Angie because y'all roasted her.
	But all jokes aside, I am a very bad sport, guys.
	Extremely bad, okay?
	I've been banned off Xbox Live.
	No way!
	Yes, I've literally been banned off Xbox Live at least, buddy.
	Maybe 50 times in my lifetime.
	Maybe 50 times with different gamertags.
	Gamer tags, man.
	That's insane.
	Yeah, I had to make different gamer tags because they would ban me for bullying and harassment.
	So I had one gamer tag.
	It was Xbox Live Can't Ban Me Serious.
	And then I had another one called Teabag at Xbox Live.
	So yeah, I used to, yeah, man.
	You broken some remotes.
	Oh, yeah, I broke some controllers too.
	Some controllers.
	I'm a very bad.
	A big reason why I quit video games, two main reasons why I quit video games.
	Number one, it was hurting my productivity, right?
	And then number two, I'm a very bad sport.
	I was breaking fucking controllers.
	I was getting a new controller like every other month and shit.
	I was raging.
	I was going crazy because I hate losing.
	Especially when I'm like killing it and I'm like out here fucking killing everybody and then I'm carrying and we still lose.
	I fucking lose my mind.
	So I'm going to have to figure out because if I go on Twitch, I'm going to get banned.
	I already know.
	If I stream on Twitch, it's a fucking rap, bro.
	It's fucking done, man.
	Like, I used to do wild shit.
	Like, I remember I'd be playing like Halo 2 back in the day, like a girl at Ed to the Lobby.
	I'd immediately boot her out.
	You know what I mean?
	Like, I would never want to play all girls on my team.
	Or if I was playing Overwatch, you come in.
	I'd be like, why aren't you making a sandwich for a man who's superior to you?
	I'd make stupid jokes like that, right?
	And, you know, I'd always get banned.
	Talcot.
	So, y'all, if I do play Overwatch, well, if I do play, what I'll do is I'll probably play Overwatch.
	I'll take like a week or so to get back to it, right?
	And like, get, get, because I haven't played since 2018.
	I quit get video games.
	I'll never forget.
	2018, I stopped playing.
	I played like a few matchmaking games with McCree and I said, fuck this shit.
	I just quit because I knew that it wasn't to my best interest.
	But now, you know, things are a lot better.
	You know, obviously kind of hit where I've wanted to hit.
	I think for you guys, it would, you know, be, I mean, I'm going to keep buying real estate and keep making the podcast the best.
	Don't get it fucking twisted.
	But it's something that I might do with y'all maybe once a week where I stream video games.
	Y'all can see me, you know, kill people because I can't play video games and be trash.
	I'm keeping a thousand with y'all.
	I can't do it.
	I got to play at a high level.
	I got to be wrecking kids.
	I got to be talking shit.
	I got to be saying you're fucking garbage.
	You know, your mom's a whore.
	I got to be in my element.
	Okay.
	I got to literally be sitting here bullying them while simultaneously destroying them.
	Okay.
	Letting them know how garbage they are because I'm a big, big fucking trash talker.
	Okay.
	So yeah, I don't know.
	We'll see what happens.
	But probably not even on YouTube.
	Probably not even on YouTube.
	Yeah, maybe not even on YouTube.
	I don't know.
	I'll have to figure out how I'm going to do this.
	Once you in your zone.
	Oh, Lord.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, man.
	That's true.
	So just a little thing.
	Let me know in the chat if y'all want me to stream playing Overwatch or some shit.
	But yeah.
	Anyway, let's go ahead and get into the topic at hand, right?
	Anything else did I forget?
	I'm afraid.
	Yeah, man.
	I've been banned off Xbox Live a lot for bullying, man.
	Jesus.
	Because there's no mercy.
	I go hard as hell.
	Get it?
	No mercy.
	Yeah.
	Okay, WWF, no mercy.
	I see it.
	I was thinking the healer, the healer.
	Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	She trash, bro.
	Hey.
	Oh, and speaking of which, I made it to GM level without a Pocket Mercy.
	Oh.
	Without a pocket mercy as a McCree, which is for all my nerds out there, y'all know how hard that is.
	Okay?
	No pocket mercy, bro.
	I had a guy that I played with that was a good Reinhardt, and we fucking just rose the ranks.
	You know what I mean?
	Shout out Reinhardt.
	Yeah, yeah, shout out Reinhardt.
	Shout out to all the shitty Reinhardts that always be charging niggas, though.
	You know that one guy that never holds a shield up and just always charges that niggas?
	You know his move where he just fucking like and then he just fucking slides over the slides through the map.
	Yo, yo, those are the worst Reinhardts, man.
	They never puts the shield up.
	Just, ah, there just fucking goes in there.
	They just fuck his ass up and he dies.
	And then your team gets obliterated because they don't got a goddamn shield.
	So, all right, I'm getting really nerdy right now.
	Let me stop.
	I would resurrect the whole team with ease, bro.
	I'm like, oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	We drive.
	He was never dying.
	Yeah, that shit.
	I'm like, yeah, yeah.
	I thought Mercy was good.
	I thought it was a, yeah.
	But now you resurrected.
	How I was every Tracer's nightmare, bro.
	Oh, God.
	That Tracer tried to come in behind the scenes.
	Flashbang, boom, headshot.
	Pro shit, bro.
	Pro shit.
	Yeah, nigga.
	I never fanned the hammer.
	Scrubs do that.
	Oh, let me fan the hammer.
	No, that's trash.
	Flashbang headshot.
	Boom.
	Done.
	Hell, I got so good.
	I got to a point where I was using high noon just to reload.
	It's hard to damage.
	Because for the dudes out there that are really good, y'all know what I'm talking about.
	It's easy to build that alt-up.
	So you'll be bam, bam, bam, flash bang, headshot, boom.
	And then someone else comes in, you're like, oh, shit, high noon, get a free six, and then bam, just fuck his ass up.
	And then all your abilities reload too when you do that when you do that.
	So you could roll again, throw another flashbang, hit him in the head.
	I don't know if they nerfed it or whatever.
	But yeah, bro, fan and the hammer is for sorry ass niggas, bro.
	If I ever see someone doing this dumb shit with their McCree, I'm like, yeah, garbage.
	Well, there's an Overwatch 2.
	No.
	They did recently come out with a second one.
	Yeah.
	A lot of the same stuff.
	I started playing.
	You know when I stopped playing?
	I stopped playing right when they released that chick.
	The female.
	The female cowboy.
	Fuck.
	What's her name?
	Someone in the chat is going to put it.
	God damn it.
	It's been a minute since I played Overwatch.
	Okay, okay.
	Someone in the chat is going to put it.
	But it was a female McCree.
	Ashie.
	Ash?
	Was it Ash?
	Yeah, Ash.
	Bam.
	That's when I stopped playing.
	Once they released her.
	That's when I pretty much was done.
	But anyway, cool.
	Let's go ahead and get it to the top.
	Let's talk about the Silk Road and then just.
	Yeah, this is interesting.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Overwatch 2 did drop like last year.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, that shit was fun, man.
	That shit was fun, but I was raging.
	I just showed my nerd self just now.
	With my fucking Goku sandals.
	I think we know already, Myron.
	W nerd and Myron.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	What do we got here?
	With.
	I've been telling people, bro, like, I'm one of y'all, man.
	I'm the same.
	Like, I'm not one of these fucking natural Chads.
	Question for everything you know was blank.
	Bro.
	Oh.
	Man.
	Yo.
	Yo, y'all are fucking crazy, bro.
	Yo.
	Nigga on YouTube.
	What the fuck, man?
	Yo.
	W filters, bro.
	Yo, just follow me on Twitter, dude.
	You just follow me on Twitter, man.
	Just follow me on Twitter.
	Elon, take his Twitter.
	Come on, man.
	Myron, thinking of joining NYPD, took the test.
	The only thing holding me back is the background check slash amount of jobs I've had since being in college.
	It's been a good amount, and that might get me turned away from NYPD thoughts.
	As long as you weren't fired for like some problems, like where you were stealing or doing some dumb shit, you'll be fine, bro.
	Okay.
	You'll be fine.
	And NYPD is actually a very good gig, man.
	You'll make six figures within a couple years.
	Granted, New York City sucks, but you'll make a decent amount of money.
	My tip is work, work in the city, but try to live in Connecticut or New Jersey.
	King Darula, Myron, when having a Fed job, getting a second job to supplement income is a priority.
	Can you go over your story?
	Seems so crazy how you made a second six-figure stream in such a short amount of time.
	Can you go over the steps?
	Okay, I'm going to do a Cliff Notes version.
	Then we really got to get into the topic at hand, okay, guys?
	But I love y'all.
	I want to give you guys some sauce.
	And we started a little bit late, so I feel like I owe you guys this.
	Okay.
	Number one, if you're going to be a special agent in the government, guys, you are going to get six figures at some point, okay?
	Most of the time when you get hired in, you're going to get hired.
	If it's ATF, DEA, HSI, et cetera, most of the time they hire you between a five to a seven.
	Then if you got a mass degree, a lot of times they'll hire you in as a nine.
	However, once you hit GS13, you will be making $100,000 per year, okay?
	Maybe even a GS12 in some cities, depending on the locality.
	So don't worry about that.
	Within five years, you're going to be making six figures a year.
	Now, to be honest with y'all, that's more than enough money to live in most places in the United States, assuming you don't spend your money like an absolute moron.
	Now, let's say you want to start a side business or whatever it may be because you just kind of want to do it, right?
	What I personally did was that money that I made, since I lived way below my means, I was able to save and I invested it in, obviously, with Brandon Carter, got that mentoring, and then I was able to start up my fitness business and I was able to do it six figures.
	However, being very transparent about this, it was an online business, which means there was very little overhead, no brick and mortar, no none of that.
	I was able to do everything online.
	So when I wasn't working for the G, I was able to do everything from my phone and deal with clients and everything else like that.
	So if you are going to start a side hustle while working for the government, especially with an invasive job like a special agent where you're working all hours of the night, et cetera, you're going to need to do something that's online that has low overhead.
	Okay.
	Some kind of online service-based business is the way to go.
	It could be consulting, whatever.
	But step one, and I've said this a million times: all got my guys in the military, all my guys in law enforcement, whether you work for a city, state, municipality, federal government, whatever it may be, always fill out outside employment paperwork.
	If you work for the government, I don't give a fuck if it's the county, the city, the state, the federal government.
	I don't even give a fuck if you work for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
	Any type of government job, all right?
	Military, whatever it is, always fill out outside employment paperwork or make sure that you don't need outside employment paperwork for whatever you're going to do.
	But knowing it's a government job, 99% of the time, they're going to want you to fill out some type of outside employment/slash outside activity paperwork.
	Get it cleared with your chain of command before you even start the business or start doing it, okay?
	Because it's outside employment and activity.
	All right.
	So even if you're not being paid for, you still got to disclose it.
	Now, you know, people are, oh, but Myron, why do I got to do that?
	They're probably going to decline me.
	Well, trust me, put it this way: it's better for you to try and get declined than you do it behind their back, and then they find out.
	And the next thing you know, fucking internal affairs investigation on your dumbass.
	Stupid.
	So it ain't worth it, guys, to lose your main gig over it.
	But that's how I did it.
	Service-based business online, low overhead.
	You could do it on the side and understand the other thing too.
	You're going to have to sacrifice.
	You're not going to have time to go out and be as social as you want.
	You're going to have be running a business while also doing your main job.
	You're going to have very little free time.
	So ask yourself if you're prepared to sacrifice.
	I think you should, but everyone is different.
	Some people are not willing to sacrifice being social.
	Okay.
	So that's the answer.
	Gotta get myself down, Mark.
	Brandon, what do you say to a girl on the first date when you pick her up and you're in the car on the way to a date?
	I mean, bro, simple shit, man.
	Ask her to talk about herself.
	You know, simple questions, man.
	Guys, don't overcomplicate it, man.
	It's just a conversation.
	That's all it is.
	All right.
	All right, let's get into the topic at hand.
	We've delayed this.
	Apologize.
	Let's go ahead and hit the Wikipedia first.
	So, guys, today we're going to be covering Silk Road and Ross Ulbricht.
	I hope I pronounced that correctly.
	Here he is.
	Russ William Ubrecht, born March 27, 1984, is an American serving life imprisonment for creating and operating the dark net market website, Silk Road, from 2011 until his arrest in 2013.
	The site operated as a hidden service.
	One second, just make it a bigger.
	Okay.
	Where we are here?
	The site operator right here.
	The site operated as a hidden service on the toy network and facilitated the sale of narcotics and other illegal products and services.
	Ulbricht ran the site under the pseudonym Dead Pirate Roberts after the fictional character from the Prince's Bride.
	In October 2013, the FBI arrested Ulbricht and Silk Road was taken offline.
	In 2015, he was convicted of engaging in continuing criminal enterprise, distributing narcotics, distributing narcotics by means of the internet, conspiracy to distribute narcotics, conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy traffic, fraudulent identity documents, and conspiracy to commit computer hacking, which kind of sucks because he just facilitated the website to let it happen.
	But obviously, according to American law, you being involved in facilitating a crime also makes you a principal.
	So he's currently in the United States Penitentiary in Tucson, Arizona.
	Real quick, early life, let's see here.
	I graduated from high school.
	He was a Boy Scout.
	He was a Boy Scout.
	Okay.
	I'm trying to figure out if he's one of them boys.
	Maybe not.
	Maybe not.
	Okay.
	All right, all right, all right.
	All right.
	All right.
	Let's move on to the next one.
	So, Silk Road, guys.
	Silk Road right here was a network of Eurasian routes active from the second century.
	What?
	Nigga.
	No, no.
	Nigga, picked up the Silk Rock Silk Road.
	You gotta put Silk Road.
	Silk Road Marketplace.
	This nigga.
	Marketplace.
	Yeah.
	Y'all can't blame me, bro.
	Yo, man.
	That's the most nigga shit I've seen.
	This nigga really searched Silk Road and clicked the one of the historic times.
	You gotta put Sick Road Marketplace in.
	I didn't notice either.
	I don't know this either.
	All right, we got it.
	We got it.
	Y'all got it this time.
	God damn.
	All right.
	Silk Road was an online black market and the first modern dark net uh market.
	It was launched in 2011 by its American founder, Russ Ulbricht, under the pseudonym uh Dead Pirate Roberts.
	He managed to uh the entire uh marketplace from his personal laptop, which was seized by the FBI on October 1st, 2013.
	As part of the dark web, Silk Rose operates as a hidden service on the tour network, allowing users to buy and sell products and services between each other anonymously.
	All transactions were conducted with Bitcoin cryptocurrency, which aided in protecting user identities.
	All right, so we got a documentary here.
	Um, Angie, you want to tell them about the documentary that we're going to get into here a little bit?
	Um, it basically explains everything about um how Rose Oldbridge built this whole um like network thing, like yeah, marketplace.
	Um, this was a marketplace site that was operating in the dark web.
	So, I don't know if you guys know, but if you do your research, you will know that there is a lot of federal agents, um, like um, I don't know how to say it, but they they like all they are always there, like checking if somebody's doing like yeah, so they have their tools and like and their ways to find these people that do this.
	And you, I don't, I have never tried the dark web ever, but I don't want to, I don't want to do it.
	But if you research at least a little bit, you'll find that it's really like you find horrible stuff there.
	They don't only sell drugs, they you can find how to buy like an organ crazy stuff there.
	So, yeah, so yeah, get a liver, buy one, get one free.
	Yeah, yeah, the dark web.
	Yeah, they sell kits.
	That's where people that do like C C P, you know, yeah, yeah, the thing we can't say yeah, yeah, that yeah, they they do it there, so that's like they may and that's why he got such a heavy sentence because he facilitated all that on the website, even though he wasn't the one that was actually selling it.
	The fact that he facilitated it is what they're going after.
	And I believe that the main agency that goes after these people is the FBI, yeah.
	HSI does it too.
	Um, if you look when they shut the website down, they had the uh um Homeland Security seal and they had the FBI seal because HSI is really big on cybercrime as well as uh piracy because they're selling a lot of bootleg shit on there as well.
	Uh, but you know, like I told y'all before, I've given I've told you guys this: that HSI is terrible at marketing itself.
	Uh, it's not uncommon for HSI to do a case.
	FBI comes in after the fact, and then they take the case down, and everyone thinks it's an FBI case because HSI is terrible at fucking marketing themselves.
	Um, it's one of the things actually, like, if I ever went back, I would tell them, like, y'all need a better online presence.
	You guys need to fucking like, I would run the social media.
	Like, y'all are fucking trash with this shit.
	Like, it's fucking terrible.
	Like, the one thing that the FBI does really, really well that other agencies don't is they know how to market themselves, they know how to keep themselves relevant in the movies, they know how to keep themselves relevant in pop culture.
	They do documentaries where they give insights to old cases so people can learn.
	Uh, that's one thing that they're really, really fucking good at that other agencies need to learn how to do.
	You know, DEA is getting better at it, um, but HSI, absolutely terrible.
	ATF, absolutely terrible.
	Um, you know, ATF is even worse.
	Like, they just have negative stigmas pretty much, you know, Fast and Furious.
	Um, you know, these types of big cases, people that know the Waco siege, like when you think ATF, it's like terrible shit.
	You know, um, Bureau has his bad shit too, but right, at least they have um good shit as well.
	You know, they have a the FBI nowadays is getting a bad rap for all the dumb shit that they're doing with you know, uh, political um how do I say this being used as a political force almost, especially with the Trump indictments or whatever.
	But, you know, that's a whole other conversation.
	Let's see here.
	Uh, so uh, I don't know if this video will get hit with the cover, but if that happens, I have another one as a backup that we can also watch.
	Okay, okay.
	So, this is the one you want to start with, yeah.
	This is the internet's favorite drug lord.
	And this comes from, let's give a shout out to the uh, the um, the creator here.
	Uh, oh, it's ah, Philion.
	Oh, why?
	What happened?
	Oh, I didn't know it was this nigga, man.
	Why, what happened?
	Yeah, he's not really uh look.
	I'm not even gonna be a hater because I didn't because I because I didn't see this.
	Angie picked this.
	Um, what happened?
	I'm so confused right now.
	I'm so sorry.
	What happened?
	Oh, man.
	Now, you didn't know.
	You didn't know.
	Let's go ahead and use the other one.
	That's funny.
	Use the other one, man.
	Oh, this is like OG.
	Yeah, yeah, he took a lot of shit about us with like no, three years ago.
	Yeah, late 2020.
	Yeah, late 2020.
	2020.
	Yeah, he made some videos talking shit.
	A lot of people wouldn't know.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, right.
	Angie ain't gonna know that shit.
	She ain't gonna know that.
	Give him a like.
	Give him a fall.
	I'm like, yeah.
	That dick is a hater, bro.
	Hey, yo, fuck him.
	He's a hater, man.
	You almost follow him.
	You almost like the videos.
	I'm surprised because normally what he does is he just makes videos talking shit about people.
	That's normally what he does.
	Well, he made like a whole documentary on these guys, so he's kind of cool, though.
	All right.
	Well, hey, man, I hope he continues to do that instead of just bashing people all day because that's what he normally does, just bash people all day.
	But yeah, we'll use this one.
	Who's this one from?
	News Think?
	All right.
	We cannot use that either.
	Oh, my God.
	No, no, we can use Newsthink.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	We go.
	We can't get it.
	W backup.
	October 1st.
	Yeah, go ahead.
	W backup.
	Yeah.
	W backup, yeah.
	And this was shorter anyway, so.
	Yeah, this is short.
	But he's a woman that's 24.
	Woman?
	What?
	Nah, it's okay.
	A woman.
	In San Francisco.
	Yeah, I know how you guys have to.
	He arrested 29-year-old Ross Ulbricht.
	Ulbricht ran the largest, most sophisticated online market for illegal drugs in history.
	He named it Silk Road, a reference to the ancient trade routes that connected China to Europe beginning in the second century BC.
	Ulbricht hoped to create his own modern-day marketplace, except his would sell hardcore drugs and other illegal goods.
	Over the two years and 10 months that Silk Ridge operated, federal prosecutors say it processed nearly 214 million in sales using Bitcoin.
	The site operated on a hidden part of the internet called the Dark Web.
	Prosecutors say a journal the FBI found on Ulbricht's computer stated he wanted to be able to get away anonymously with no trail whatsoever.
	Yeah, yeah, you could go 1X.
	However, that could lead back to them.
	Unfortunately for Ulbricht, he did leave a trail of digital breadcrumbs that ultimately took him down and his empire with it.
	Albricht was born on March 17, 1984 in Austin, Texas.
	He was a Boy Scout, attaining the highest rank of Eagle Scout, just like his dad.
	He was in Texas, just so y'all know, by the way.
	One of the fastest growing cities in the United States for the past like, you know, 15 years or whatever.
	Austin has constantly been in like the top 10 cities.
	Really bad traffic, though.
	Underrated.
	People don't know how bad the traffic is in Austin.
	Funny story.
	I remember I had an arrest warrant for a guy.
	This is back like 2014, 2015-ish.
	I had an arrest warrant for a guy, and they're going back in time right now.
	And, you know, as you guys know, I was in Laredo, Texas.
	Laredo is about three hours south of Austin on Interstate Highway 35.
	And he got arrested in Travis County, which, if I'm not mistaken, Travis County is where Austin is located.
	San Antonio is in Bear County, and then Austin is in Travis County.
	He got arrested in a little rinky dick town outside of Austin.
	And they called me and said, hey, we got your, because whenever you have an arrest warrant on somebody, right, they call the agency that has the arrest warrant on them to see if it's still valid.
	And they call, hey, we got your guy in custody here, blah, blah, blah.
	We see that there's a federal arrest warrant from what, blah, blah, blah.
	So I was like, oh, yeah, no, I'll definitely, you know, obviously we're going to honor that.
	So I fucking, you know, jumped in with my guy from DEA and we drove all the way up to Austin, Texas.
	And, you know, and we went to go get him and bring him to court and shit like that.
	And I'll never forget the traffic, how bad it was, bro, because there's one main highway that goes through Austin and it's Interstate 35.
	I know there was another highway that goes around Austin, so you don't have to go through the traffic.
	But the thing with Austin, Texas is that it's been basically the city grew too fast and the infrastructure has not caught up to the population explosion.
	Okay.
	It's been growing for a significant amount of year.
	Sorry, it's been growing exponentially for years now and the infrastructure never caught up.
	And now, right, you got people like Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, Google, fuck, I forget what other tech company you moved out there in Austin, Texas.
	But big tech, a lot of them left Silicon Valley and went over to Texas for obviously more attractive taxes, better cost of living, et cetera.
	Not as woke.
	And, you know, Austin now is super, it's a little bit more liberal.
	Now, I would consider Austin one of the few places in Texas that isn't really Texas because it's kind of woke over there.
	But yeah, great city.
	Stay away from 6th Street guys at night can be pretty dangerous.
	But yeah, I would say one of the worst traffics, one of the worst traffic traffic in the country by far.
	People always complain about Houston and LA and New York.
	Austin might be worse.
	And the reason why is because there's so many people that live there compared to the infrastructure that's there because the city is the infrastructure for the city is like really for only a few hundred thousand people, but there's a lot of people that live there now.
	So yeah, so that was a funny story.
	Their courthouse is nice though.
	I remember because after I dropped, because you know, as you guys know, when you arrest someone, you have to bring them in front of a magistrate judge within 24 hours.
	I brought him in front of the judge, presented him, whatever may be.
	He gets remanded to the marshals, right?
	Because he was a flight risk.
	And then at this point, it's like 3, 4 p.m. in the afternoon, you know, and at that point, that's rush hour, right?
	In big cities like this.
	So I said, fuck it.
	I just ended up staying the night because it was just, it would have taken me way too long to get back down south to Laredo.
	But yeah, that's my.
	And then also, I rode in Austin a few years, my first year in college.
	We went to Austin for a training trip.
	I remember it was fucking cold.
	Holy shit.
	We went in like December thinking it was going to be warm.
	It was cold, dude.
	But yeah, nice place.
	I like it.
	A little woke now.
	It's not what it used to be, but good place.
	And some of the most expensive real estate now as well.
	One of the fast-growing markets for real estate.
	It exploded after the pandemic.
	So, anyway.
	Shout out, Kumo and Kamino.
	Shout out to y'all.
	Growing up, an easygoing hipster but serious student who scored 1,460 on his SATs within the 96th percentile and got a full ride to the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied physics.
	He then won another full scholarship for a master's at Penn State in Material Science and Engineering.
	It was at Penn that he evolved into a hardcore libertarian, a political philosophy that advocates individualism and minimal state involvement in people's lives.
	He was a fan and follower of libertarian economist Ludwig von Mises, who opposed government interference in the economy.
	When then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney asked, what is America's greatest challenge?
	Ulbricht responded like this on his YouTube channel.
	You know, but I think the most important thing is getting us out of the United Nations.
	Ulbricht wanted to create a world free from institutional or government control.
	That mindset led him to create Silk Road in January 2011.
	You couldn't type in a normal web address to get to Silk Road or use a normal web browser.
	You needed software called Tor that works as a web browser.
	Tor was developed by the U.S. Navy as a way of communicating privately over the internet.
	It conceals the real IP address of computers on the network to hide the identity of the user, and it can't be traced by the government.
	Silk Roads.
	Oh, go ahead.
	Ludwig von Mises.
	Okay.
	Ludwig von von von Mises.
	Oh, who's that?
	No, I know that, but like, did he get mentioned in the documentary or something?
	Yeah, yeah, he was just mentioned in there.
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah.
	Oh, oh, oh, okay.
	Okay.
	I get what you say.
	The guy, the libertarian guy?
	Yeah.
	Oh, well, interesting.
	I just looked up early life.
	Yeah.
	Fair enough.
	Karl Marx as well.
	The father of communism?
	The father of communism.
	Yeah.
	Also.
	Yep.
	Bolsheviks.
	Oh, yeah.
	All right, we keep going.
	My heart fucked my head up.
	Yeah, man.
	That early life tells you a lot, huh?
	Oh, Lord.
	Let's keep going.
	There you go.
	Address used a bunch of random numbers and letters that ended with dot onion.
	Ulbricht made the site by teaching himself how to code.
	When he needed more help, he reached out on a Bitcoin community forum, writing, I'm looking for the best and brightest IT pro in the Bitcoin community to be the lead developer in a venture-backed Bitcoin startup company.
	Anyone interested was to contact him via his email.
	Plus, Ross Ulbricht at G. Bills, I want to get your take on this because you do coding.
	Obviously, we'll watch a little bit more, but I want to get your take on it, like how difficult this feat is that he's about to embark on, as far as from like a coding perspective.
	Bro, it's damn near.
	It's pretty impossible, honestly.
	It was damn near impossible at the time.
	He did a great job.
	He found like super genius people to come together and make Silk Road.
	If you know Tor Browser, you know Tor Browser.
	Technology way ahead of his time?
	Bro, of course, bro.
	He used Bitcoins like saying that he used the Bitcoin.
	It sounds genius, bro.
	And around 2011, that's exactly when Bitcoin was just about getting really up there.
	Yep.
	Yep, yep, yep.
	It was still, I wonder, what was Bitcoin in 2011?
	What was one Bitcoin?
	Can we Google it real quick?
	It was probably like $100.
	Yeah, let's see what Bitcoin was in 2011, like the cost for one Bitcoin.
	Nowadays, right?
	Let me look here and see what the cost of Bitcoin is now.
	It's $30.
	It was $30 in 2011?
	Yo, okay, compared to today, it is, bro, did you hear about the guy that bought like a Domino's pizza with like 10 Bitcoin?
	A Domino's pizza.
	He bought a Domino's pizza like in 2008 or 2009 with like, well, like 10 Bitcoin or some shit like that.
	That's crazy.
	Yeah.
	Now Bitcoin's worth $37,000.
	As a testimonial man right now, 10:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on November 26th, 2013, 2023.
	Sorry, 10 years later, it is now worth $37,244.
	You know, Bitcoin.
	Isn't that crazy, bro?
	W Bitcoin.
	Get a dollar market.
	Yeah, man.
	Yeah, man.
	Yeah, someone in the chat, some of y'all know, how much did he spend on that goddamn pizza?
	You can Google it real quick, Bills on the side.
	Ermo, can you facts check it?
	I don't know how much he spent on that fucking pizza because it was crazy, bro.
	Maybe I just saved that shit.
	You know what I just remembered?
	10,000 Bitcoin?
	Bro.
	No, y'all a cap.
	He doesn't spend no fucking 10K Bitcoin.
	Bitcoin was like Bitcoin was less than a penny at a point.
	I'm positive it probably was.
	God damn.
	Yeah, bro.
	I could believe that.
	That's funny.
	And you know what's so funny?
	I remember like Silk Road.
	Silk Road helped Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in such a big way.
	He said it was in May 22nd, 2010, buying two Supreme Pizzas.
	And how much did it cost?
	10,000 BTC.
	Wow.
	Mo, that sounds like some shit you'll do, nigga.
	Yo, man.
	So in 2013, which was when the site closed, because they found this guy and he got arrested, Bitcoin was the highest, yeah, the highest price that it was, it was $1,000.
	$1,100, so $1,100.
	Oh, 2013 is the highest.
	Today's equivalent is $266 million.
	Yo!
	I hope those $266 million pizzas were good, man.
	God damn, what were they?
	Papa John's?
	Papa John's.
	Papa Retard.
	God damn.
	Worth it.
	Yeah, that's exactly what I did.
	Yo, bro.
	Those are some expensive pizzas, man.
	I thought I was fat, bro.
	Holy shit.
	Oh, man.
	All right.
	I wouldn't even buy that shit.
	I know that's a good thing.
	You know what's crazy?
	When they closed this thing down, the whole site was costing 9,500 Bitcoins.
	9,000.
	The site, Silk Road.
	It had 9,500 Bitcoin in it.
	Oh, the government probably sees that shit.
	So what would that be?
	Equal 9,500 Bitcoin?
	Yeah, I cannot say the number.
	It's too long.
	Okay, Mo, can you multiply it for us real quick?
	9,500 Bitcoin times 38K.
	Oh, that's a lot.
	That's going to be a lot, bro.
	That's going to be a lot.
	The site was making sales of that amount.
	Every day?
	I mean...
	Every day he was doing that?
	So this is the amount in dollars.
	I don't know if you can spell that number.
	It's too long.
	What the fuck?
	That's like a trillion.
	Bro.
	Yeah.
	What?
	The math does not compute.
	No.
	That's the Bitcoin?
	Yeah.
	God damn.
	All right.
	That's a lot.
	All right.
	Let's go back to the doc.
	Hold on, what's that going up right now?
	Email.com.
	Making his email public would later come back to.
	Oh, yeah, that's L. He also got coding help from a buddy of his from undergrad, Richard Bates.
	Albricht had no choice but to eventually tell his friend what he was up to.
	He also told his girlfriend, Julia V. One day, he showed her the psychedelic mushrooms he was growing and selling as a starter product on his new website.
	Silk Road would eventually be a marketplace for all kinds of drugs.
	Weed, cocaine, LSD, ecstasy, heroin.
	This fit Ulbricht's libertarian mindset.
	He believed that whatever someone decided to put in their body was their choice and no one else's, least of all the government's.
	Ulbricht also believed everyone had the right to self-defense when guns started appearing on Silk Road.
	However, he realized he didn't need the controversy and soon took weapons off the site.
	After getting his business up and running, he turned his attention to a that's one thing I'll disagree with as far as like um because I have a lot of libertarian stances as well as far as like from a political standpoint.
	But that's one thing I don't agree with is like just letting people use drugs because the problem is that when you um illicit drugs come with inherent problems that are dangerous to society.
	What ends up happening is you're always gonna end up with a black market of people that are selling the drugs and are willing to use violence to distribute said drugs, right?
	Now, I know some of you guys might say, well, if you just regulate it, it'll be fine.
	There's always gonna be a way that criminal enterprises are gonna be able to bring in harder, purer, cheaper drugs than the pharmaceuticals, etc.
	So you're never gonna really remove that street element from drug trafficking.
	I mean, look at, look at this.
	Marijuana is legal, right, in a lot of states, but there's still illicit marijuana trade all over the country.
	And then I think Portland, if I'm not mistaken, just recently decriminalized drugs and crime has actually went up from doing that.
	So, you know what I mean?
	I know they say, oh, no, just let people use drugs.
	It's a personal decision, blah, blah, blah.
	The problem is that drug use comes with inherent problems that are not just limited to the actual drug use.
	That's the problem with it, you know.
	And I can tell you guys that from being on the front lines, right?
	People might say, oh, Marin, you're biased, blah, blah, blah.
	Well, not really.
	I just see that the drug trade comes with inherent societal issues and presents societal dangers just from it existing.
	So that's just kind of what it is.
	That's why I don't think that legalizing drugs is ever a good move.
	And then on top of that, making it legal and making it more available to the general public isn't a good look in general because more people are going to be, oh, let's experiment.
	Let's try it.
	So I think demonizing it from a societal standpoint, making it illegal from a society standpoint, helps a lot with deterrence.
	And then punishing those that traffic it also is a form of deterrence.
	I know people are going to say, bro, but that doesn't mean anything because someone else is going to pop up and sell the drugs.
	That's true, but we shouldn't make it easier for them either.
	So that's my take on it.
	Some of you guys might agree, some of you guys might disagree.
	But drugs always come with other problems as well.
	It's not just the free use of drugs that's the issue.
	It's all the other auxiliary problems that come alongside it.
	Let's go back to the doc.
	Also, guys, we got about over 3,000 yellow in here between YouTube and Rumble.
	Do me a favor.
	Can you guys please like the video on YouTube?
	And let's get back to it.
	682 likes.
	Yep.
	682.
	Let's get one to 1,000, guys.
	Attracting customers.
	He decided to write a post on a magic mushrooms forum called The Shroomery, pretending to be someone who happened to come across Silk Road.
	He used the username Altoid, posting, I'm thinking of buying off it, but wanted to see if anyone here had heard of it and could recommend it.
	He included a link with instructions on how to access Silk Road.
	He did the same on a Bitcoin community forum about buying and selling heroin, describing Silk Road as in anonymous Amazon.com.
	It wasn't long before buyers showed up.
	To limit scams, there was a rating system for sellers similar to Amazon reviews.
	If a seller sold bad drugs and got a poor rating, it would hurt their sales.
	The drugs arrived by mail with fake return addresses.
	They'd be slipped inside CD and DVD cases.
	Some sellers got even more creative and put them in little ripples of cardboard.
	The packages had printed mailing labels rather than handwritten ones to look like they came from a legitimate business.
	Ironically, that backfired.
	The printed labels actually attracted the suspicion of authorities.
	In the summer of 2011, Department of Homeland Security agent Jared Der Yegian learned of a small email package with the printed.
	Oh, yeah.
	This guy's HSI.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Yeah.
	So see, again, terrible marketing from HSI.
	They're just saying DHS special agent.
	They don't know that he's from Homeland Security Investigations.
	But hey, that's, you know, ICE and DHS not doing a good job of marketing the agency.
	It is what it is.
	Let's keep going.
	Address going through Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
	It contained a single pink pill of ecstasy, which was also suspicious.
	Okay, they shipped in blue.
	All right, guys.
	So we're going to see.
	You guys are going to see something called a control delivery.
	I'm going to explain it to you guys here in a little bit what a control delivery is.
	Y'all about to get some sauce today, baby.
	Welcome to FedReact.
	I've done these myself, so I'll explain what this is after they go through it.
	So let's run it and then I'll tell you when it pause.
	Bulk.
	Soon, two or three packages begin arriving, then 50, then up to a thousand a day.
	Many came from the Netherlands, which is a notorious source of drugs.
	Agent Der Yegian visited an address where one of the packages was to be delivered, chatted with the roommate of the buyer who said the drugs came from a site called Silk Road.
	Dur Yegian had never heard of Silk Road before.
	He did some digging online and came across an article written by Gawker journalist Adrian Chen in June 2011.
	Chen wrote, Making small talk with your pot dealer sucks.
	Buying cocaine can get you shot.
	What if you could buy and sell drugs online, like books or light bulbs?
	Now you can.
	Welcome to Silk Road.
	The article attracted 3 million views and put Silk Road on the map.
	All right, pause.
	Not only did Silk Roads, the package came in through the Chicago O'Hare airport and it was intercepted.
	So normally, let me go ahead and break down for you guys what this is, okay?
	Whenever a package comes in, right, from foreign, all right, it is subject to customs, custom search.
	Remember, guys, at the border, you have no Fourth Amendment right, right?
	Which is basically, you know, the right to privacy or, you know, right to having a reasonable expectation of privacy.
	You don't have that when you come into the United States.
	That's why they're going to search you.
	That's why they're going to search your packages, everything you come with.
	Hell, they can even detain your phones and look through your phones, right?
	You have no expectation of privacy, no Fourth Amendment rights at the border.
	That includes packages and people.
	Everything coming into the United States is subject to search by customs.
	Okay, now that we've established that, this comes into the Chicago O'Hare Airport, okay, in Illinois.
	And it's obviously subject to customs inspection.
	CBP officers, customs and border protection officers, the guys with the blue uniforms.
	Okay, and remember, I've explained this to the difference between Border Patrol and the difference between customs and border protection officers, right?
	They're both under, there's one umbrella, CBP, and then there's two sides to it.
	There's Office of Field Operations, and then there's Border Patrol.
	All right.
	So it's one umbrella, CBP.
	Wait, wait.
	DHS, then underneath DHS is CBP.
	And then underneath CBP, there's two factions.
	There's CBPO, which is Office of Field Operations, and then Border Patrol.
	Whenever you're at a valid port of entry, like an airport, a bridge crossing, etc., you're going to have the blue uniform guys there.
	Anytime you're not at a valid point of entry, aka you're trying to go across the Rio Grande River or something like that, you're going to see green uniforms, border patrol.
	Give me ones in the chat.
	That guys makes that makes sense to you guys so that I can continue this explanation.
	Give me ones.
	And if it's and if it doesn't make sense, give me a two and I'll re-explain that part and then keep going because I want you guys to really understand how this works.
	And if you're going to put a two, please tell me what is confusing.
	Don't just put two.
	Put two in Y. If you're going to put two.
	Someone said two because I have ADHD.
	I just tweeted about that.
	I knew he was going to catch that one.
	You did just tweet about that.
	Yeah.
	You just lack focus, bro.
	Two because El Myron, hating, hating.
	Two because I just got in.
	How do we two of the abbreviations?
	Okay, I'll go through it.
	Tua wasn't listening.
	One, no, keep it pushing.
	Two, I'm a woman.
	Misogyny.
	Let's see here.
	American school system.
	Alright.
	Nigga said two because L Fresh.
	What the fuck?
	What the fuck, bro?
	All right.
	Okay.
	So you have the Department of Homeland Security, DHS, Department of Homeland Security, right?
	Underneath, think of this as Department of Homeland Security's police officers, okay?
	Customs and border protection.
	Okay.
	Within customs and border protection, there's two factions.
	Okay.
	You got border patrol, green uniform.
	You got customs and border protection office of field operations, CBP officers, which are blue uniform.
	When you go to the airport and you travel internationally, the CBP officers, aka the guys in the blue uniforms, are the ones that check you in, correct?
	And then if you're coming in illegally, maybe through a southwest border or a top border where there isn't a port of entry, like an airport or a sanctioned point of entry, you're going to see green uniforms, border patrol, okay?
	So now that we've explained what DHS is, CBP is, and then what customs and border protection is, and then what border patrol is, because remember, CBP and border patrol are two different things, okay?
	Since we're at the airport, the airport is a designated port of entry, okay?
	Packages come in through there.
	CBP, the guys with the blue uniforms, inspect the packages because they're customs officers, okay?
	They have customs authority, Title 19.
	So when they're searching the packages, if they find something where there's drugs or contraband or whatever it may be, they're going to contact who?
	Homeland Security Investigations, HSI.
	All right.
	Now, HSI, think of them as the detectives for the Department of Homeland Security.
	Okay.
	They're the investigators.
	CBP, by law, whenever they catch someone trying to smuggle drugs into the country or smuggle legal aliens or whatever the fuck it is, they have to contact HSI, okay?
	Because they are not investigators.
	They are interdiction officers, which means their job is to stop, to detect and stop.
	And then as far as furthering the investigations, that's when they call HSI and they come in and they respond.
	Okay.
	So HSI comes in and responds, just like this agent saw right here.
	He probably got a call from CBP, showed up to the airport, saw all these packages, okay?
	Then at that point, it's up to the agent, the case agent that comes in, whoever's on call.
	It's up to him if he wants to do something called a controlled delivery.
	And what a controlled delivery is, guys, is the package that has a contraband is obviously destined to go somewhere.
	So what you're going to do is you're going to allow the package to go to his destination to identify conspirators in the drug network or in the criminal activity.
	Okay.
	So you deliver the package.
	A lot of times it's going to be an HSI agent, you know, dressed undercover, whatever it may be, maybe in a DHL or a UPS, whatever the fuck it is.
	He's going to drop the package off and they're going to wait.
	They're going to set a tripwire in the box.
	As soon as that individual opens it, they're going to bust in, arrest him, and then try to flip him.
	Okay.
	Flipping is when you try to get someone to cooperate so you can identify other members of the conspiracy, as you guys know.
	The drug trade is a compartmentalized, large-scale conspiracy where you have people that are distributors, transporters, money launderers, sources of supply, etc.
	Okay, you have different roles in a drug traffic organization, and it's very compartmentalized where individuals might not necessarily know who's in the drug trafficking organization all the time.
	So you ask them where were these drugs destinated, especially when they get a big package, nine out of ten times, it's not there for their personal use.
	They're going to distribute it to other people.
	So they're getting it from abroad.
	They get it.
	Now you pretty much have identified someone who more than likely is going to be a regional supplier to some degree.
	You try to get him to flip.
	Hey, where's this supposed to go?
	Okay, I was going to distribute it to here.
	I was going to distribute it here.
	I was going to drop it here.
	I was going to give it to one of my workers, whatever.
	And then it's up to the case agent how far they want to take it and how much they want to expand the investigation.
	That is how a controlled delivery is done.
	Give me ones in the chat if that made sense.
	Give me twos in the chat if it didn't make sense.
	It could be more complicated than that, but I was going very surface level there.
	And you could do a controlled delivery with anything.
	You could do it with, hell, I did a controlled delivery one time with illegal aliens.
	which that's a whole other story.
	I might have to do an episode for y'all on that one.
	That one was wild.
	But you can do it with anything that's contraband.
	Drugs, sensitive military parts that shouldn't be being moved.
	Give me, if you're going to put a two in the chat and you're not confused, give me a two as to why you're confused.
	Because I'm a PhD.
	I'm a PhD.
	Niggas said two.
	I'm Chris's former student.
	That's actually your first bunny.
	You said two because Moe is breathing like Billy, Biggie.
	And so is it.
	Two because Mo is fat and rumble.
	All right.
	School shooter we see you.
	Or school shooter.
	School shooter we see you don't.
	He was the first one to say the Chris joke.
	Okay.
	All right.
	That's Don Demon for you, bro.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Someone said two because I watched after hours.
	Two because Chris is a fat bum.
	Yo, man.
	All right.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Cool.
	All right.
	A-O-W Chapman.
	You guys in the show.
	All right.
	Let's keep going with the documentary.
	But that's how a controlled delivery typically works, guys.
	Okay.
	And you can obviously involve other agencies as well when you do these controlled deliveries.
	So.
	Do you attract the attention of thousands of drug dealers and buyers, but also politicians like Senator Chuck Schumer, who called for the site to be shut down?
	The U.S. government was concerned, but not only about drug sales.
	As Nick Bilton detailed in his book, American Kingpin, Homeland Security agent Duryegian feared that a terrorist organization could enter the country and then buy something from Silk Road to harm Americans.
	He convinced the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago to take on the case.
	As Silk Road came into the spotlight, Ulbricke's college friend Richard, who helped him with programming, said he urged him to shut it down.
	Giving y'all a little bit more sauce.
	Also, guys, I need you guys to like the video because we only got 869 likes I'm giving you guys.
	I'll just explain to you guys what a controlled delivery is.
	99% of people on YouTube can't explain that to you because they've never done one.
	I've done one.
	I've done multiple, actually, controlled deliveries.
	The other thing I want to say also, guys, is notice how he said he had to go to the U.S. Attorney's Office and convince him to take the case.
	I said this before, one more time for all the new viewers.
	Federal prosecutors, guys, are divas a lot of times.
	They don't have to take every case that comes across their desk.
	This is why the feds almost never lose because the AUSAs, Assistant United States attorneys, by the way, not to be confused with assistant district attorneys, ADAs, which are their federal counterparts, AUSAs have the privilege of taking on cases that they want to take.
	They don't have to take on cases, all cases.
	They only take on the ones that they want, that they feel that they can win.
	Okay.
	So with that said, he obviously had to go in there and say, look, I've identified this or this online website that is transporting drugs, et cetera.
	This is a national security risk because they can go ahead and traffic other things outside of drugs, you know, exploitation of children, weapons, etc.
	And this can be a problem.
	So we need you guys to take the case.
	And I ended up, luckily, the U.S. attorney ended up taking a case.
	But I say all that, guys, because I've been in those boardrooms with, you know, me, my supervisor, and my ASAC.
	And then I'm sitting across from the U.S. Attorney and, you know, two or three of his best AUSAs.
	And I'm talking to them about a case.
	And I'm like, look, we need you guys to do XYZ because a lot of the times the United States Attorney's Office, they don't want to take cases that they're not 100% sure that they're going to win.
	They only take cases that they know that they're going to win.
	This is why the feds never lose, right?
	They might say something like, oh, just give it to the state or we're not interested, blah, blah, blah.
	They absolutely have the right of refusal.
	So obviously this agent had to go ahead and convince the U.S. attorney's office to take the case.
	But I just wanted to make sure that we highlight that because a lot of people think that the feds take every single case that comes across their table.
	The answer is no, they actually don't.
	They take a very small percentage of cases.
	The average AUSA in the United States only carries about 15 cases, guys, versus if you take the average ADA in a major city, they have hundreds of cases.
	Why?
	They're dealing with DUIs.
	They're dealing with everything from, you know, they're dealing with fucking a stupid disorderly conduct case all the way up to murder, right?
	Because the state has a wide array of crimes that they could prosecute.
	And local police are making way more arrests than federal agents.
	So that is why their case backlog, the state is almost always way more backlogged than the feds are, okay?
	Typically, they don't want to allocate federal resources to small-level crimes.
	They only typically go after felonies, not misdemeanors, okay?
	All right, let's continue on.
	Give me one's in the chat if that made sense for y'all as far as like prosecutorial discretion.
	This is one of those more educational podcasts today, my friends.
	I want to make sure that y'all get it, but let's keep going with it, Bills, please.
	Ulbricht and his girlfriend Julia broke up soon after the launch of Silk Road.
	She said one of the reasons was because of the insane pressure she felt to keep his secret.
	Ulbricht lied to her and Richard, telling them he had sold the business to someone else and no longer had anything to do with it.
	He moved to Australia for a while and lived with his sister in Sydney.
	Around this time, he was contacted through the site by a person going by the name Variety Jones.
	Variety Jones became his right-hand man and someone Ulbricht described as a real mentor.
	Neither knew the other's true identity.
	Variety Jones pointed out the gaping holes in security on Silk Road.
	Ulbricht decided to encrypt all the files on his computer.
	This is the actual laptop he used to run Silk Road.
	He put in a kill switch that would automatically shut down his device by pressing a predetermined key in case authorities rushed in at the last minute.
	He also prepared an escape plan if needed, including destroy laptop, hard drive, find a place to live on Craigslist for cash with a new identity.
	Variety Jones came up with Ulbricht's infamous pseudonym on Silk Road, Dread Pirate Roberts, a reference to the fearsome captains from the film The Princess Bride, who passed the name on to a chosen successor.
	In the same way, Ulbricht hoped to one day pass on the name Dread Pirate Roberts to someone who might succeed him.
	Variety Jones got him to see how big Silk Road could grow to be.
	Ulbricht wrote in a personal journal disclosed by prosecutors, Silk Road is going to become a phenomenon, and at least one person will tell me about it, unknowing that I was its creator.
	In two short years, Silk Road grew to more than 100,000 users with sales of nearly 214 million, including 13.2 million in commissions for Silk Road, according to prosecutors.
	The feds were left scratching their heads as they still had no clue who was the mastermind behind Silk Road.
	Who was this dread pirate Roberts?
	Who was the captain of the ship?
	It became somewhat of a competition amongst the various government agencies to be the one to identify dread pirate Roberts.
	To better understand how Silk Road operated, Department of Homeland Security agent Duryegian posed as a buyer and made 52 undercover purchases.
	He also seized thousands of packages, linked certain sales back to their source, and arrested several people.
	Pause.
	His biggest get came.
	And by linking those packages, he did control deliveries to do so.
	And then as far as like doing undercover purchases, guys, you know, this was probably was a big case, so they probably had it undercover undercover program.
	And they were getting funds, right, through the treasury, whatever it may be, to do these undercover buys.
	And then each of those things that they get, it's a piece of evidence that they obviously keep for the investigation.
	Do we have any chats?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Let's hit some of these chats and then we'll keep going.
	Give me one.
	Guys, also do me a favor, man.
	Like the video, guys, because we got 1,800 y'all in here, man.
	You guys could be anywhere else in the world, but you're here with us on FedReax, man, which we appreciate.
	Please like the video.
	Let's hit 1,500 likes if we can.
	W1811, why changed the name?
	I found FNF in the Tates a year ago.
	Thanks for bringing the value WMO in the team.
	I changed the name because it was easier to find FedREX than Fed 1811.
	And then having numbers in your name isn't really a way to go.
	And very few people know that 1811 is a job series code for special agents.
	So I said, you know what?
	It's going to make it a little bit more easier for people to find.
	And then also, whenever people search FedIT, they'd get like Reddit links.
	So that's another reason, too.
	It was harder to find a channel.
	Yeah.
	Trump Gaines 2024, Angie's Gaines, first VP, Lady Moen Department of Comeda and Music, Blitz, Department of Laughs and Dreads, Icy Department of Punching, Shimutas, Nida, Myron, Español.
	Judger Jaja.
	Okay.
	Yeah, I know.
	Why do you continue?
	This just sounds better.
	This Russian facepañol is coming together.
	Goku the goat.
	Going back.
	Go back.
	What is that?
	LOL, what hypocrite?
	I had an eight-hour DBZ stream, but talk about me, but you played Overwatch nerd.
	When have I denied being a nerd?
	Goku, I got you, bro.
	What the hell?
	What doesn't matter?
	What you think?
	What?
	What did I deny being a nerd?
	I'm confused.
	All right.
	Must be new here.
	WFNF for always providing value.
	The FedReax channel pullings the same numbers as RiceGum, who has 10 million followers.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Trying to give you guys some value so that you guys learn.
	Ludwig von Mises.
	Yes, he's one of them boys, them boys, but he's actually base.
	He debunked socialism for real for he get a pass on my book, misses.org.
	Woo, yeah, I give him a pass.
	Better than Karl Marx.
	$10 for you to watch Dave Smith, another good them boys on Rogan posted on Thanksgiving.
	It mostly talks about the bang bang conflict in the desert right now.
	Oh, I know what you're talking about.
	Bang, bang, conflict.
	Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely, man.
	Guys, there's a bunch of bro.
	There's a bunch of them boys that are fucking solid people, man.
	Whale alert 8,200 BTC.
	Oh, okay.
	It's equivalent to $252,469,449.
	Transfer from Silk Road seizure to unknown new wallet.
	This happened on July 12th.
	God damn.
	Okay.
	Damn.
	Yeah, somebody got a bag, I guess.
	Anything else?
	Yeah, we got a stream apps.
	Shout out to all my ninjas in the chat, guys.
	Guys, let's get to at least 1.5 likes on YouTube.
	I'd really appreciate it.
	As you guys know, we get a lot of hate, and we also get this channel is demonetized.
	So I'd really appreciate if you guys like the video.
	Don't got to donate a dollar to the stream.
	I only ask that you like the video and subscribe to the channel if you haven't already.
	If you like content like this, it's the best true crime channel on YouTube.
	Okay, sneak on Myron.
	Jokes about Africans' floor eating habits and them boys owning news organizations.
	Angie immediately laughs.
	W races Angie, also WNG and Icy for putting the dark elf near Fresh Side.
	Yes, that was funny.
	This is Fresh, and that's Myron.
	Yes.
	In case you guys didn't know, they knew.
	They definitely know.
	Dude's name is Goku Sandals, okay?
	Myron, it's awesome you're nerding out about Overwatch and play McCree do an Overwatch Fed React stream explaining the case on why they changed McCree's name to Cassidy.
	I don't know why they changed it to Cassidy.
	Did they change it to Cassidy?
	They did change it to Cassidy.
	Oh my god.
	What?
	Bro, I still call him fucking McCree.
	That's what I thought.
	I thought it was still McCree.
	Damn, bro.
	That's how, that's how, damn, that's how behind I am.
	I didn't even, because I was looking for, like, I was on the internet yesterday.
	I was like looking for new McCree footage, like to see how people play him nowadays.
	Because obviously, you know, I played him a certain way when I was playing Overwatch back in the day.
	You know, I obviously, a good McCree, right, is a mid-year playing mid-rage, you're staying around your healers, you're protecting your healers.
	So when a flanker or some shit like that tries to come in, you flashbang, headshot those motherfuckers and kill them, right?
	Because if you, you know, a headshot is 140 points damage.
	Two headshots, pretty much you're killing everybody in the game, except for like tanks.
	So, so yeah, I hmm, interesting.
	No wonder I couldn't find him.
	They call him Cassidy.
	I wonder why they did that.
	Someone in the chat, can y'all tell me why they changed his name to Cassidy?
	That's kind of weird.
	I would love to know.
	Yeah, I kind of want to know.
	Watch it be for some fucking woke reason.
	It probably is.
	Probably for some woke reason.
	All right, let's see here.
	We got Myron.
	Did you forget about the call-in show again, sir?
	Hmm.
	You ready to see this one?
	I don't know if we should do the calling show tonight.
	I mean, we kind of did tell them we would do it.
	Yeah.
	We missed it last week.
	Give me another time.
	We'll do it next week.
	Myron feeling nasty.
	We did Friday, though.
	They had a chance.
	They had a chance.
	They had all night Friday.
	Y'all had all night.
	We did five hours.
	Y'all know I could have done seven hours.
	Five hours.
	We had a calling show for five hours straight, bro.
	But we're going to make it happen still on the Fed Reacts, bro.
	So, but give us some time.
	We got you.
	Hmm.
	Hmm.
	I mean, if you ask for likes, maybe.
	Yeah, if we get the likes up to 1700, I'll open the phone lines.
	There we go.
	There we go.
	If we get the likes up to 1700, 1800, what we're currently at right now, I'll open up the phone lines.
	Right now, we got 1K.
	Let's see what happens.
	2K?
	2K likes?
	I don't know if we can get we got 1,800 watching.
	If we get 1,800 likes, we get almost 100% engagement.
	I'll open up the phone lines for y'all then.
	Just 24 hours too, I'm 24 and a half.
	Okay, let's see here.
	What's up next?
	Othon goes, I'm here at TJ Fridays working, sending emails and watching you guys.
	And one of the waitresses asked me, Do you watch Fresh of Fit?
	I'm like, of course.
	She says she watches with her man.
	Shout out to our black queen.
	Shout out to you, bro.
	And shout out to her as well.
	Till I said thank you for watching the show and supporting.
	It always makes me very happy.
	Pause when couples watch our show together.
	BC better than real estate.
	Even after Silk Road and FTX, Bitcoin stands strong.
	Myron, invest your next mill in BTC and it will become tens of millions.
	Stop being so risk averse and take some risk.
	I got a few Bitcoin, my friend.
	I have Bitcoin.
	Trust me.
	I'm in crypto.
	But come on, man.
	For you to say that Bitcoin is better than real estate, bro.
	You're just not.
	That's just 100% not true.
	You're not going to get the same tax benefits from real estate.
	Sorry, from Bitcoin that you're going to get with real estate.
	You're not going to get the depreciation.
	You're not going to get the cost segregation.
	You're not going to get the cash flow with tenants.
	You're not going to get the same level of write-offs.
	It doesn't even come close as far as real estate when it comes to long-term holding.
	Like, yeah, you might enjoy better appreciation with Bitcoin, right?
	Assuming that it continues to go up, et cetera.
	But if you buy real estate in the right markets, guys, all the houses I bought back in like 2021, et cetera, they're all up like 100K now.
	The ones I bought in Florida.
	So, I mean, you can't borrow against it.
	You can't get a loan from the bank, right?
	To and only put 25% down.
	You can't use leverage to acquire Bitcoin, right?
	At least not conventionally.
	So, yeah, bro.
	I mean, there's a reason why real estate has created more millionaires than any other asset class.
	Now, with that said, I have Bitcoin too.
	I have crypto as well.
	I think you should be in every single asset class.
	But to say that crypto is better than real estate from a holistic standpoint, I disagree.
	I really disagree.
	Maybe it might be better from an appreciation standpoint, right?
	Where you're going to be able to enjoy more appreciation over time because Bitcoin is more volatile.
	So you'll be able to enjoy a bit more appreciation.
	But at the same time, you can get a lot of depreciation.
	It could absolutely lose value as well, right?
	And you don't get cash flow from cryptocurrency unless like you're hedging it or something like that.
	And that always goes up and down.
	It's not consistent income all the time.
	So I disagree with you on that one.
	But crypto is absolutely a good asset class to have.
	I think everyone should have cryptocurrency in today's day and age.
	El Fresh, have you done controlled delivery for Cuban cigars?
	If not, would they even consider it or do they have bigger fish to fry?
	Excellent question.
	I don't see them wasting their time on Cuban cigars doing a controlled delivery unless it was like a ridiculous amount, maybe it was a high-value target.
	They already have an investigation and then individuals that they're doing the cigars, delivering the cigars to are involved in some other criminal activity.
	Maybe they're terrorists, maybe they're really bad people.
	Then I could see that.
	But the feds aren't going to do like a cigarette smuggling or a cigar case a lot of the times unless the individuals are really involved in some shit.
	Matter of fact, go watch the episode I did.
	I did an episode, guys, on a cigarette smuggling case that Hezbollah was involved in in North Carolina back in the 90s.
	It was a really good breakdown.
	Actually, one of my favorite episodes that I did.
	Go check that out if you guys want to see a scenario where it's a case, a scenario where a charge that normally would never be charged was applied in this case because the targets were obviously involved in some very nefarious activity.
	So yeah, go check that out, guys.
	It's going to be Fed.
	Just type in FedReacts Hezbollah and you guys will see it.
	Keem Chilling.
	Is that Border Patrol at the place where they check your car when you come in from Laredo, McAllen, Brownsville area?
	No, that is CBP.
	They're going to be in the blue uniforms.
	Border Patrol is going to be green uniforms, unless you're at a checkpoint 29 miles from the border or whatever may be.
	Keem Chilling.
	What else we got here?
	We got King Darula.
	Hey, Martin, when you develop enough passive income from your assets, generally, what does your active income come from?
	Does it become entrepreneurial by nature or do you revert to a supervisor position?
	In other words, what do you do after financial freedom?
	Well, that's the key word in freedom, my friend, whatever you want.
	You can continue to do your entrepreneurial ventures and keep your active income coming in.
	I suggest you keep doing your entrepreneurial ventures and excuse me.
	And still continue to acquire earned income because the more earned income you get, the more you can invest into your passive income and just continue to grow that passive income to the point where you're making as much as your earned income.
	But that's my goal personally.
	I'm trying to get to a point where my passive income is pretty much equivalent to my earned income.
	And that's going to take a while.
	I'm not going to lie to y'all.
	But that's where you want to be, guys.
	So that if, God forbid something happens, you're making as much money passively, right, as you did when you were actively working.
	Okay.
	God forbid you get sick.
	You need to take time off.
	You need to take care of a family member or whatever it may be.
	You're still able to provide for the people you care about regardless of you not working.
	That's the whole key of being financially free, guys.
	Being able to do whatever you want to do and being able to be around those that you love and take care of those that you love, whether you're working or not.
	Anything else?
	No, that's all.
	No, we're caught up.
	All right, let's get back to the documentary, man.
	Like the video, guys.
	Y'all want the phone lines open?
	Y'all got to like the video.
	When you track down a Dread Pirate Roberts employee, a moderator on Silk Roads user forums, going by the name Cirrus.
	He forced her to hand over her account and then he pretended to be her.
	Duryegian posing as Cirrus got assignments directly from Dread Pirate Roberts.
	He wasn't the only federal agent chatting with a Silk Red boss.
	DEA agent Carl Force was part of a task force in Baltimore that was also investigating.
	Force used the username Knob and posed as a drug dealer, originally from the Dominican Republic, who smuggled millions of dollars worth of cocaine and heroin into the U.S. every year.
	He was on friendly terms with dread pirate Roberts, who had no idea.
	He was speaking with a DEA agent, an agent who, in a twisted case, turned out to be corrupt.
	So, you guys see here that you got two different agencies working the same case and they don't even know it yet.
	All right, this is where deconfliction comes in later on, but I'll explain that.
	But let's keep going so I don't want to interrupt.
	Force convinced Dread Pirate Roberts to pay him $50,000 in Bitcoin by claiming he had insider information from a government employee.
	When Forrest reported the conversation to the DEA, he claimed he never received any payment when, in fact, he funneled the Bitcoin into a personal account.
	And believe it or not, a second agent who worked on the same Baltimore task force was also stealing.
	Secret Service agent Sean Bridges.
	When Silk Road customer support rep Curtis Clark Green was arrested at his home with a kilo of Coke, Bridges used Green's admin access to steal 20,000 Bitcoin from other user accounts.
	Dread Pirate Roberts thought Green to be responsible for the theft.
	He wanted to rough him up and got egged on by his mentor, Variety Jones.
	Pause real quick.
	Dread Pirate Roberts knew Green's.
	Mo, do me a favor.
	Can you double check and see that DEA guy Force if he was an actual DE agent or a task force officer?
	I'm willing to bet he was a task force officer.
	And then the other guy was a secret service agent.
	I remember when these guys got arrested, man, it was fucking crazy because, you know, it's not often that you find corrupt 1811s.
	You know, it's far and few between.
	But yeah, these guys are fucking idiots, obviously, thinking that the anonymity of the internet would have saved them.
	So it is what it is.
	Let's keep running it.
	Real identity.
	Because as a condition for being on Silk Road's payroll, staff had to hand over their government ID.
	Dread Pirate Roberts turned to Knob, aka DEA agent Carl Force, to beat up Green.
	Knob agreed.
	However, Dread Pirate Roberts then changed his mind and messaged, Can you change the order to execute rather than torture?
	Dread Pirate Roberts said he had, quote, never killed a man or had one killed before, but it is the right move in this case.
	He didn't want to risk Green giving up information to the authorities as he knew he had been arrested when he searched him up online.
	Knob agreed to do the job for $80,000 in Bitcoin.
	Ulbricht later received photos of a dead Green, except he wasn't really dead.
	Agent Force staged Green's death, complete with photos of him on the floor, covered in Campbell's Chicken and Stars soup.
	The Dread Pirate Roberts is said to have ordered hits on five others whom he felt threatened by.
	Silk Road had been prey for blackmailers and extortionists.
	However, there was no proof that anyone was ever killed.
	Ulbricht was never charged with murder for hire.
	The government agencies were still nowhere close to the city.
	So he could hear he was actually an ATLA.
	The Force guy was actually a DEA agent.
	So yeah, what a dummy doing this stupid shit.
	Stupid.
	Speaking of, you know, murder for hire, whatever.
	I did a murder for hire case before.
	It didn't end up like coming all the way to fruition like we wanted.
	But yeah, I mean, it's not uncommon for you to, you know, fake the death of the individual, you know, with like blood and all the other stuff and then send it to the guy and say, hey, the job is done, whatever it may be, so that you can show that they're complicit in it.
	So I've done a murder for hire case as well before.
	And when we cover the ATF and motorcycle gangs, you guys are going to see, because we haven't covered a motorcycle gang yet, have we?
	No, we haven't.
	People are asking for the Waco.
	We did Waco already.
	The Waco motorcycle game.
	Oh, the Waco motorcycle thing.
	Before we do that, I think we should cover like some big, because that's more advanced.
	That's like people, we need to cover one on Hell's Angels, one on Banditos, and then we can go ahead and mongols, all that other stuff.
	Then we can go ahead and cover that one with the Waco one.
	That's the one that they've been requesting the most, though.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Okay.
	We need to do motorcycle gangs.
	We haven't done that yet.
	We haven't even.
	Yeah, I completely forgot that.
	Damn.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Yeah, we haven't done it.
	Yeah, we'll do a motorcycle gang for y'all because there was a really good ATF agent that went deep undercover in Hell's Angels.
	I think he almost became patched in, if I'm not mistaken.
	The closest that a law enforcement officer has ever actually come to getting his patch.
	Or did he get patched in?
	Fuck.
	I'll double check.
	I'll double check.
	He either got patched in or he or he was very close to being patched in with the Hell's Angels.
	And he was undercover ATF agent.
	He was undercover for fucking years.
	So we'll talk about that.
	And definitely, I think you guys will be interested in the motorcycle gangs.
	Let's go ahead.
	The DEA enlisted the help of the FBI's cybercrime team in New York as it had more technological know-how, including experience with the dark web.
	FBI agent Chris Tarbell knew that in order to catch Dread Pirate Roberts, they had to wait for them to make a mistake.
	And according to the FBI, the Dread Pirate Roberts did finally slip up about a year after the agency started investigating.
	In May 2013, investigators noticed coding errors, vulnerabilities on the Silk Road website that leaked IP addresses.
	As a result, they discovered the Silk Road servers were housed in a data center in Iceland.
	By the way, Ulbricht's defense team doesn't buy this explanation.
	They believe the NSA spied illegally and tipped off the FBI to the server's location.
	Agent Tarbell flew to Reykjavik, where Icelandic authorities gave him a drive with information from the servers.
	The FBI accessed a treasure trove of data.
	They could see the number of transactions processed, who logged in and out.
	And crucially, Tarbell and his team had identified that the master computer Silk Road servers talked to, the one Dread Pirate Roberts used to log into Silk Road, was named Frosty.
	Oh, shit.
	And Dread Pirate Roberts was logging in with an encryption key that ended with Frosty at Frosty.
	They could also tell Dread Pirate Roberts recently used internet from a San Francisco cafe to log into a Silk Road server via a VPN.
	By the spring of 2012, Ulbricht had returned home from Australia and eventually moved to San Francisco to live with a childhood friend.
	So now the FBI had the name of the computer and could focus their search on San Francisco.
	But still, no idea of Dread Pirate Roberts' real identity.
	That piece of the puzzle would be filled in by Gary Alford, who worked for the IRS, the Internal Revenue Service, as a tax investigator.
	He was assigned to follow the money, but instead discovered the identity.
	So you guys can see here that all these different agencies are investigating the same website and kind of coming at it from different angles based on their authority.
	You got the DEA involved because they're selling drugs on the website.
	You got HSI involved because they're shipping in illegal substances from foreign countries.
	You have the FBI involved because there's computer hacking.
	And then IRS now because obviously there's money that's coming in that isn't being taxed, right?
	And there's a financial aspect to the investigation.
	So you can see all these different agencies are working the same case, probably at this point, unbeknown to each other, and hitting it from different angles based on their respective authorities.
	Interesting stuff.
	None of them knew about each other?
	They probably found out at some point.
	And there's something called deconfliction where you can figure stuff out like that.
	But even early on, I know they eventually would find out that they're all working on the same thing with each other, but they didn't know like, hey, IRS and DEA and FBI is all working on this.
	Yeah, there's ways to deconflict, but I mean, it's happened before where you'll be doing a case.
	And this is why it's happened because there's been blue on blues where they'll be at a raid and they'll go in and they didn't know that it was undercover from another agency there.
	So there's deconfliction now, where if you have a target, you put them into this thing, right?
	This like website or whatever, like it's a law enforcement website.
	You put your target in there.
	And then if anyone else searches that guy, you're going to get notified and they're going to call you and then they'll put you in touch with that agent so you guys can talk.
	And this is to avoid blue on blue incidents where law enforcement ends up, you know, doing a raid or some shit like that.
	And they didn't know that there's an undercover from another agency working it so they can kind of like coordinate and make sure that they kind of get on the same page because it's happened before.
	It's called deconfliction.
	Guys, like the goddamn video.
	Ain't nobody gonna be explaining to be able to explain that to y'all.
	I like it on Rumble too, guys.
	There's only 300 likes on Rumble.
	Yeah, I like the video, damn it.
	All right.
	Especially.
	What?
	What's up?
	Especially, because I'm thinking about, you know, when you explain how these agencies, they have to be communicating and working with each other, especially since the 9-11 incident in 2001.
	Some of them do, but some of them don't do it, right?
	Some agencies do what?
	They prefer not to work together.
	Yes.
	To get the credit.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Some agencies, yeah, they have very bad, like it always comes down to the agent level.
	You know, there's always going to be good and bad agents no matter what agency they work for.
	But yes, some agencies just have certain reputations, unfortunately, where they don't, they're just not good to work with.
	You know, the Bureau notoriously has, you know, issues working with others because they kind of think that they're elitists and shit like that.
	DEA never likes to share information because for the longest time they had a blood culture of having competitive 13s, which I've explained that on other episodes.
	I don't want to bore you guys with details, but it has to do with pay and how they rise up the ranks in DEA.
	It's weird.
	So every agency has their pluses and negatives.
	But yeah, but deconfliction is typically how you identify that you guys are investigating the same target, which in this case, since it's an online case, they don't know who he is yet.
	So anything else?
	But you can also put in websites in there.
	You could put in names, phone numbers, addresses.
	You could put all these things into deconfliction.
	And then if any of them match, they will call you and say, yo, this agent from XYZ office and XYZ state is also looking at XYZ license plate, XYZ phone number, whatever.
	And they'll put you guys together.
	And then you guys can go ahead and deconflict because that's very important from a safety perspective.
	Yeah, that's why I was questioning the communication.
	Yeah.
	Because they're supposed to be communicating since.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And a lot of it is for safety reasons.
	It doesn't obligate you to share your information if you don't want to, but it at least puts you in touch with someone else that's looking at the same guy to avoid blue on blue, which is the biggest reason why they do it.
	Deconfliction, it's called.
	All right, let's do it.
	And every agency has access to deconfliction.
	State, local, municipal, federal, all of city police, they all do it.
	Because remember, there's investigators at all different levels.
	So.
	Of Dread Pirate Roberts.
	Alfred figured that whoever started Silk Road would have had to drum up interest in it long before that Gawker article came out.
	So he decided to do Google searches for Silk Road prior to June 2011.
	That's when he stumbled on Ulbricht's online posts where he pretended to be someone who happened to come across Silk Road.
	Alfred noted the username for the posts, Altoid.
	He also noticed another post where Altoid asked for IT help on the Bitcoin forum that also included his personal email, rosselbricht at gmail.com.
	Someone with a username Altoid also posted on Stack Overflow with a question related to Tor.
	Soon after, that user changed the alias from Altoid to Frosty.
	Alfred didn't know the significance of the name Frosty at the time, but what he did have was a real name to track down.
	He googled Ross Ulbricht and came across the LinkedIn profile of a young man with rather cryptic life goals.
	Quote, the most widespread and systemic use of force is amongst institutions and governments.
	So this is my current point of effort.
	Alfred asked himself, could Ross Ulbricht be the brains behind Silk Road?
	Bam, they got him idea.
	In July 2013, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers intercepted nine fake IDs coming into the U.S. from Canada.
	Homelands.
	Okay, test for the audience.
	Customs border protection officers.
	What color is their uniform?
	Let's see what the chat says.
	Blue or green?
	Let's see it.
	Let's test time.
	Let's see how much you guys are paying attention.
	Let's see if you guys have learned.
	Test time.
	Pop quiz.
	What color is a CBP officer's uniform?
	Let's see the IQ of the chat.
	Let's do a poll, Bills, on YouTube.
	Blue or green?
	What color is CBP officers uniform?
	I explained it earlier.
	And you guys just saw that a bunch of IDs were seized at the border.
	What color border patrol officer?
	No, CBP officers uniform.
	Yeah, let's see what they say on CBO.
	What was the officer's?
	What's CBP officers?
	What color is it?
	Blue or green, guys?
	Let's see.
	We're going to put the poll up right here.
	All we do this poll.
	I'm going to take quick piss.
	I want to see how much y'all pay attention in the IQ of the chat.
	And then also, Mo has a quick announcement about the DMs on demand.
	Alert Airport will tell you everything.
	And the DMs on demand.
	Black Friday, the Black Friday deal is finally up.
	Now, the code is cyber blackfresh.
	So, yeah, right.
	But yeah, the code is cyber blackfresh.
	You guys can check it out.
	Now, I'm pinning it in the chat right now as Myron's going to the bathroom, taking the piss.
	And make sure you guys are answering the poll in the YouTube chat.
	Damn, 50% off?
	Is it 50% off?
	Whoa.
	Oh, so it was right.
	Cyber BlackFresh.
	All right.
	Yeah, facts on guy.
	Yes, sir.
	The code is cyber black fresh.
	Put it there, Mo.
	Write it again.
	Go back and write it again so they can see it.
	Yeah.
	Angie, you know I'm here.
	Oh, okay.
	It happens, but you got it, Bill.
	I'm joking on it.
	Facts, facts, facts, facts.
	So cyber blackfresh.
	That it is, yeah.
	Cyber Black Fresh.
	Apply that half off on God.
	Damn, next time we have to make these polls, like way before Myron drops the question, because I know for a fact this guy's been like searching on Google the color of the uniform.
	You know what?
	That's facts.
	Right, guys.
	Cyber Black Fresh.
	50% off on DMs on the write it down.
	We are currently 64% blue, 36% green.
	Make sure you guys answering this.
	It's definitely blue.
	Make sure you guys answer the poll.
	Angie, it's green.
	Come on.
	Bro, we all know it's red.
	It's green.
	Yes, W Red.
	W Red.
	It's obviously blue.
	Bro, y'all know damn well is red, bro.
	It's obviously brown sugar.
	Brown.
	Come on, guys.
	Facts.
	Facts.
	I think it's green, though.
	I mean, if you look for border costume, no costume border um patrol, it's gonna be green.
	But I think Martin said CBP, right?
	Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's blue.
	Pretty sure.
	Yeah.
	Oh god.
	Nigga said Argentina great.
	Like the elf that we got for fresh.
	Man said Argentina greater than Venezuela.
	How dare you?
	There you go.
	How dare you, bro?
	I mean, I mean, both.
	I got in-laws in both countries, but still.
	So, guys, make sure you guys like the video.
	What's the code again, Mo?
	It is Cyber Black Fresh.
	50% Iraq.
	I couldn't believe it.
	Hey, I don't blame them.
	Cyber Black Fresh.
	50% off, bro.
	Oh, God.
	Okay, what did they say?
	65% blue?
	Damn, the rest of y'all niggas are fucking stupid, bro.
	You stupid.
	How many times do I gotta explain it, man?
	Border Patrol is green.
	CBP officers are blue, guys.
	Okay?
	Damn, I nailed it.
	I said it.
	Damn, Delmar.
	It wasn't red?
	It wasn't red.
	No, it was not red, Mo.
	Okay, let's see here.
	What do we got?
	Let's keep going with the documentary.
	It wasn't brown sugar either.
	This guy.
	Let's go ahead.
	Security agents decided to pay a visit to the intended recipient.
	They showed up at 2260 15th Avenue in San Francisco.
	The address for Ulbricht had been staying.
	Oh, that's it?
	He had moved out of the place he shared with his friend and into a sublet he found on Craigslist, where he paid his rent in cash.
	He took every precaution, including adopting a fake identity.
	His roommates knew him as Joshua Terry, though he kept much of his backstory the same.
	He said he was from Texas.
	I wonder if he worked in IT, which is why he was always back.
	I wonder if that was actually the idea that he had because that looks like a picture he will take with somebody and they cut it out.
	Yeah, they, yeah, maybe.
	I don't know.
	That's a good question.
	But what I will say, though, as far as like having a backstory or whatever, that's very common where you typically don't want your backstory to be far off like your real story, so that whenever you're under duress or whatever, you're able to tell the same story every single time and it's accurate.
	So that's actually very common with undercover agents, etc.
	That their backstory is fairly similar to their real story.
	So that you don't have to, because you know what they say, whenever you lie, you know, you can never lie once.
	You want to minimize lying so that even in times of duress, you're able to lie, the stories match up.
	You gotta keep up with the lie.
	Yeah.
	So, all right, let's keep going.
	He's on his computer and had recently returned home from Australia, which made not having a cell phone less suspicious.
	Joshua kept to himself and ate steak dinners for one.
	When the agents questioned Ulbricht, they observed that he became visibly nervous.
	He didn't admit to purchasing the fake IDs, let alone that he bought them so he could rent additional servers to deal with Silk Road's growth, as well as security issues.
	Prosecutors later claimed he prepared for a life on the run, including seeking citizenship on the island of Dominica.
	Ulbricht volunteered to the agents who showed up at his door.
	That hypothetical anyone could purchase anything they wanted on a site called Silk Road.
	The agents had never heard of Silk Road and were apparently unaware of any federal investigations.
	But they did document the incident.
	So when IRS agent Gary Alfred ran another search on Ulbricht, he found that homeland security file on the fake IDs, which cemented his belief that they had the right guy pieces of the puzzle.
	Fine.
	And that is probably what led to the deconfliction, which they identified, hey, he's a part of this case.
	And then, bam, HSI and IRS start working the case together.
	What are the likes at?
	We can end this poll, by the way.
	1,200.
	1,200?
	God damn, I guess y'all really don't want us to turn on the phone lines.
	They don't want to see the sun with us?
	Yeah, I guess.
	I guess not.
	All right, let's keep going.
	And Dominica is Caribbean country.
	Ah, okay.
	How far is it from Haiti?
	Pretty far.
	It's more like south, a little closer to Venezuela.
	It's a little closer to Venezuela.
	It's a little closer to South America.
	But yeah.
	On the island?
	Yeah.
	Are they like, do they look black?
	Do they look a stretch?
	Yeah, they look more black.
	Yeah, but they look more black.
	And the official language is Creole?
	Yes, yes.
	Dominica Creole.
	Are they a sovereign nation or are they like a territory?
	I know it used to be one of those French-owned countries.
	Yeah, let's look it up.
	Yeah, all the people in the islands are black.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Yeah, I wonder if it's like a Haitian territory or another country's territory.
	Let's see.
	We can go back, Bills.
	You can keep going.
	Mo come with the answer.
	Came together.
	When Alfred got on the phone with the other agencies to see what they all had, Alfred mentioned the username Frosty that he had found on a forum.
	That floored FBI agent Tarbell, who knew Frosty to be the name of the computer Dread Pirate Roberts used.
	Bingo.
	They knew Ross Elbricht was dread pirate Roberts.
	In their pursuit of evidence, federal agents followed him everywhere.
	They also had a subpoena from Gmail.
	And notice that whenever Dread Pirate Roberts logged into Silk Road, Ulbricht was also signed into his Google account.
	Wait, and whenever Dread Pirate Roberts logged out.
	Real quick, do you know, Myron, how hard it is or like, yeah, how hard it is to get like a subpoena for a website like Gmail?
	Very easy.
	Good question.
	Yeah, so with a subpoena, and certain agencies can do this.
	Okay, before I go into this explanation, chat.
	I'm going to ask the chat if they want me to go into it because I've explained it before, but I don't know if they, I don't want to be sound redundant.
	If you guys want me to go over the difference between a subpoena and a search warrant, give me a one in the chat.
	If you guys want us to just continue, give me a two.
	Because I could obviously have this conversation with Angie on the side.
	So, guys, one in the chat if you guys want me to go over the difference between subpoenas and search warrants, or two if you guys want me to just keep going.
	Because I think I've explained this before, and I don't want to put y'all to sleep.
	But let's see what the chat says.
	And it's been independent since 1978.
	So 1978.
	Okay, independent country.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	But still a Caribbean country.
	Bumbucker.
	they kind of talk like that uh it's mostly two in rumble Mostly.
	Let's do a poll on YouTube, I guess.
	Type in explain subpoenas and search warrants or move on, Bills, as the chat thing.
	We'll give the people what they want.
	Give it a minute.
	But while we wait for y'all to go ahead and vote on this, you can like the video.
	You guys can go ahead and like the video.
	Subscribe to the channel if you haven't already.
	Check us out on rumble.com/slash fresh shit, rumble.com/slash FedReacts.
	Also, castleclub.tv.
	And also make sure to check me out on Twitter, UnplugFedX, where I cover a bunch of different things.
	It's you know, X-rated content, but it ain't no porn, goddammit.
	So, yeah, go check me out over there, UnplugFedX, guys.
	Very based Twitter, cover a bunch of different stuff.
	And what else?
	Yeah.
	Follow up Reacts on Instagram.
	Yes, follow FedReacts on Instagram.
	That's where Angie runs the Instagram and she posts reels on there.
	Were you posting one reel today, or how are you doing it?
	I can't remember if I posted it today, but I'm making it.
	It's just that the ones that I usually post or the TikToks are not updated.
	So I'm trying to make new ones.
	Oh, shout out to the person that is helping me out.
	That DN me on the Instagram and told me how to download them on a high quality.
	And yeah, so hit me up so we can work that out how to make more clips for the channel.
	Thank you, by the way.
	Ding.
	Press the thing.
	Thanks, Smoke.
	Okay.
	70% are saying yes.
	Let's see what Rumble says.
	Rumble, one of you guys want me to explain subpoenas and search warrants or two if you want us to keep going.
	Damn.
	Okay.
	70% on YouTube say yes.
	Let's see what Rumble says.
	Because we're pretty much split down the middle right now on Rumble and on YouTube.
	Shout out to all y'all ninjas, by the way, man, that are watching on Rumble and on YouTube.
	Guys, if you don't mind, if you're watching on Rumble, open up another tab and like the video on YouTube because the likes are really important for YouTube, right?
	To get pushed in the algorithm.
	So let's see.
	Yeah, it's mostly, I see it's like 50% on Rumble with the twos.
	Yeah, 50%, I would say.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	Since it's a small mind, it's a small difference.
	I'll explain it very quickly.
	Guys, subpoenas are administrative.
	Search warrants are pretty much more official, right?
	It's a judicial process.
	So, well, they're both judicial processes from a legal perspective.
	But the search warrant is an enforcement action versus a subpoena is administrative action, okay?
	So when you do a subpoena, certain agencies have the ability to do admin subpoenas.
	HSI, DEA, and FBI have the authority to send an administrative subpoena.
	What does that mean?
	Hey, I identify this phone number.
	I identify an email address.
	I identify maybe a username on a website.
	I'm able to send a subpoena to that company and say, I need to know who the subscriber is of this phone number, of this email address, etc.
	And they are obligated to give me that information, okay?
	But here's the problem with subpoenas, though.
	When you send a subpoena, the company reserves the right a lot of the times to notify the subscriber that they gave their information to a federal agency.
	Okay, so like everyone is different, like Facebook, Google, whatever it may be.
	They might give you maybe a grace period of 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, but where they're going to go ahead and notify the individual that the federal government, you, requested a subpoena on their account.
	Now, if you do a search warrant, not only are you going to get subscriber information, you're going to get like actual usage on the account, everything, right?
	So, if I do a search warrant on, let's say, someone's Instagram, I'll get the DMs, I'll get everything that I requested for in a search warrant.
	But obviously, you need way more evidence.
	You need probable cause to be able to do a search warrant on someone's Instagram or on their email, whatever it may be, right?
	And then, if you want to get the emails real time and get the emails as they're coming in, then you need something called a Title III, which is like a phone tap.
	Okay, anything when you're getting information real time is considered a Title III.
	But I don't want to go into that because that's a whole other thing.
	I've explained Title IIIs before in this podcast.
	But regardless, that is the main difference between subpoenas and search warrants.
	Search warrants, you're getting it approved by a judge, okay?
	And it's typically an it's typically for enforcement action, okay, versus a subpoena as an administrative action.
	And you're just basically giving a sheet of paper saying, Hey, under this authority, we have the authority to send a subpoena to you, and you are to give us a subscriber information, but it's limited information a lot of times.
	But it'll give you a lot of times the probable cause that you need for a search warrant.
	So, let's say I identify an email.
	Now, let me give it to you guys in a practical scenario so this all makes sense, okay?
	Let's go into dream scenario real quick.
	Um, thank you.
	Let's say I'm investigating a criminal, right?
	Maybe they're a drug trafficker, right?
	And I figure out that their email address is Myron Gaines sells drugs123, right?
	At AOL.com, right?
	Or Yahoo.com, right?
	And I'm right.
	And I'm like, I wonder who this individual is.
	This email address came up during the course of my investigation.
	I do an administrative subpoena.
	When I do the administrative subpoena, it gives me back the name of the individual, right, that owns that.
	And it gives his phone number, right?
	I looked through my investigation.
	I figured out, oh, my informant called this phone number to get drugs before.
	So now I'm going to start writing a search warrant for that email address to go through the actual contents of the email because I have probable cause now because I've identified the phone number as part of being involved in drug transactions.
	And I suspect that this individual is involved in drug trafficking activities.
	So that subpoena allowed me to further the investigation, identify the individual through a phone number.
	Now that I have the phone number identified, that number has come up in other parts of my investigation.
	And I can now write a search warrant.
	I go to the judge with this information.
	I want a search warrant on the email, et cetera.
	And now I'm able to go ahead and get this information.
	And that's a very surface-level, watered-down version of how you can advance the investigation, but that's the difference between a search warrant, guys, and a subpoena.
	Yeah, what's the other question?
	Well, does the subpoena cover, does the subpoena cover like all the way through just the email?
	Or can you get that far to get the information from the user of the phone number?
	For example, if the user used like a fake name to create the email, you're going to get the fake name and that's it.
	If you do a subpoena, all you're going to do is get the name that was put on file with it.
	The fake name, the phone number, whatever information they used to sign up for the account, you're going to get a lot of times just the subscriber info, surface-level stuff.
	That's lame though.
	Maybe an address here or there, but the search warrant is going to give you everything.
	Okay.
	You'll be able to be way more invasive with the search warrant.
	But sometimes doing the subpoena will kind of wedge the door open a little bit so you can kind of see what's going on there.
	And then that will give you more probable cause of right a search warrant.
	That's why it's easy to get a subpoena than a search warrant.
	A subpoena is administrative.
	So you can go ahead and just send one to like it was easy.
	I had like a subpoena form.
	I would write it up to ATNT.
	Hey, I need the subscriber for XYZ phone number.
	And then they will tell me who the subscriber was for that phone number.
	A lot of times it'd be a name, phone number, and an address.
	Okay.
	And then sometimes it's fake, it's a P.O. box or whatever, but that will at least guide you to it.
	Then you can figure out, okay, it's under appeal box.
	Then I figure out, I send a subpoena to that P.O. box.
	Who owns this P.O. box?
	Oh, you know, Cindy Lucia.
	Okay.
	Who's Cindy Lucia?
	Look up her driver's license.
	Oh, that's my target's girlfriend.
	See how you can use it to figure shit out?
	But you got to get like a bunch of subpoenas, though.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's really annoying.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, it is a pain in the ass, but that's how you do it.
	Okay.
	Cool.
	Guys.
	Marco for that.
	Yeah, yeah, seriously.
	Because I could tell you guys this from experience because this is what I used to do, man.
	So like the goddamn video.
	Good questions, Angie.
	Let's keep going because I'm sure people in the chat have similar questions.
	Ulbricht also logged out of his Google account, but they knew this wouldn't be enough to nail him.
	They needed concrete evidence.
	They had to catch Ulbricht while his laptop was open and he was logged in on Silk Road as Dread Pirate Roberts.
	An unlocked computer was also necessary so agents could access his files.
	This would be difficult to pull off.
	Authorities knew their best bet was to catch him off guard and arrest him in a public place.
	Homeland Security agent Jared Deryegian was still pretending to be Silk Road staff member Cirrus and continued to maintain contact with Dread Pirate Roberts.
	This communication was crucial to the plan they hatched.
	On October 1st, 2013, at 3:08 p.m. local time, Duryegian saw Dread Pirate Roberts log on.
	Ulbricht was sitting in the science fiction section of the San Francisco Public Library's Glen Park branch.
	Duryegian started up a conversation with Dread Pirate Roberts while posing as he was in the fiction section, but shit's about to get real very soon.
	Fair enough.
	I thought it was funny.
	Okay.
	Let's keep going.
	Siris.
	Hi.
	Are you there?
	Hey.
	How are you doing?
	I'm okay.
	You?
	That's the HSI agent, by the way, guys.
	Sirius.
	Can you check out one of the flagged messages for me?
	The flagged messages were in the main administrative section that only Dread Pirate Roberts could access.
	Dread pirate Roberts responded.
	Sure.
	Bam, and it confirms he is admin.
	You did Bitcoin exchange before you started working for me, right?
	Dread pirate Roberts asked this for security reasons because only the real Cirrus would know the answer.
	Luckily for authorities, the real Cirus had told them how to answer the security question.
	Agent Duryegian hoped he recalled correctly when he typed, yes, but just for a little bit.
	It was a nerve-wracking moment.
	Oh shit.
	Not any more than that?
	No.
	I stopped because of reporting requirements.
	Damn regulators, eh?
	Okay, which post?
	Duryegian knew Ulbricht was now looking at an admittance screen.
	He gave the signal to the other agents positioned in the library to make a move.
	A commotion soon broke out near Ulbricht.
	A woman yelled, you, as the man next to her appeared like he was about to punch her.
	When Ulbricht turned around to see the fight, the agent swooped in and grabbed his open laptop.
	At that point, Ulbricht quote lunges towards the laptop and another agent walks behind him, bear hugs him.
	Ulbricht was arrested and taken away.
	The man and woman who were arguing were in fact and guys, they had to create that diversion to make sure that they can grab the laptop because remember, he had a kill switch on there if he were ever apprehended by police.
	So they had to get him away from that laptop before anything.
	So that's why they created that diversion, take his attention away.
	And the first agent just grabbed the laptop first before they even grabbed him.
	So there you go.
	And remember, they didn't know what he looked like, guys.
	So they had to do all this.
	The undercover HSI agent had to, you know, verify, yo, I'm Cirrus, blah, blah, blah.
	And then once he was able to go into the admin section, that showed that it was him.
	He's able to give the takedown signal.
	The FBI holds this laptop till this day.
	Oh, really?
	They have in the artifact.
	I'm sure they are probably a part of history now.
	Yeah, they probably have a museum in San Francisco for it.
	Yeah, certain FBI offices have museums in their field office, which is kind of funny.
	San Antonio has a museum.
	I've been to that one.
	They have a bunch of artifacts from the 9-11 too.
	Oh, yeah, the New York field office for sure.
	Yeah.
	It's very common where they'll have old pieces of evidence or artifacts from old cases.
	In the FBI film fact for you guys, in the FBI field office in San Antonio, they have a bunch of Tommy guns and shit like that and grenades from like the mob wars.
	Yeah.
	Oh shit.
	Yeah.
	Do you have any stuff like you collected?
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	I have like little trinkets and like old stuff, which you guys will see in display in the new Federacs room.
	Yes, you will.
	I see angie are decorating it for me, so that'll be good.
	In the room, so you guys are gonna, you guys are gonna like the new studio.
	It's not gonna be obviously as lit as this one, but it's gonna be, you know, it'll be cool.
	A little different for y'all.
	So it'll be cute and different.
	Yeah.
	Well, I want to say cute.
	That's kind of gay, but you know.
	Okay.
	Let's go ahead next.
	Tabitch.
	Undercover agents who created a distraction.
	Ulbricht's family and friends were shocked.
	How could the kind, fun, loving man they knew be the same person who ran a global drug bazaar?
	They couldn't believe it.
	Ulbricht was indicted on seven charges, including distributing narcotics by means of the internet and engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise.
	He pleaded not guilty to all charges.
	The trial began on January 13, 2015 and lasted three weeks.
	Many of Ulbricht's supporters showed up, believing a guilty verdict would be a miscarriage of justice.
	Oh, yeah, Ulbricht's defense attorney argued.org.
	Can we pull that up on the side, guys?
	We could show it after we finish the doc.
	there's a bunch of people that still support him and I think there's like 500,000 people that signed a petition Yeah, that really want him out because they don't believe he's a murderer.
	There's people that believe he was a murderer because he hired people to kill other people.
	And there is a bunch of conspiracy theories and like rumors about this case.
	And then about this guy, so him, him and Julian Assandra have huge followings for like their well, in Julian Assange's cases that he shouldn't be prosecuted and he shouldn't be extradited.
	A judge actually recently said that he's to be transported from the United Kingdom to the United States for extradited to face charges here.
	So yeah.
	Yeah, crazy shit, man.
	Crazy, crazy shit.
	Give me one chat if y'all niggas want us to cover Julian Assange.
	I'm surprised that we didn't cover him yet.
	I think I have him on the list.
	I think I haven't.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Well, so Ross Ulbricht turned 39 this year, and he's been in prison for like 10 years now.
	So yeah, he spent most of his 30s in prison.
	I think he made it, like, he even made a tweet about it.
	Like, I spent most of my 30s in prison.
	I mean, he got like two life sentences or something like that.
	Yeah, life imprisonment, yeah.
	He's gonna spend a lot of time there.
	All right, let's see.
	Let's keep going.
	We'll pull up the website here in a second.
	I've seen it.
	I have it up already.
	All right.
	We'll finish and then we'll play it.
	It wasn't dead pirate Rob Roberts that he had given away the handle in Silk Road to someone else, but the jury didn't buy it.
	On February 5th, 2015, a federal jury found Ross Ulbricht guilty on all seven counts.
	Before sentencing, Ulbricht wrote a letter to the judge begging for a more lenient sentence.
	I've had my youth, and I know you must take away my middle years, but please leave me my old age.
	Please leave a small light at the end of the tunnel, an excuse to stay healthy, an excuse to dream of better days ahead, and a chance to redeem myself in the free world before I meet my maker.
	On May 29, 2015, U.S. District Judge Catherine B. Forrest delivered her sentence.
	You were the captain of the ship as the dread pirate Roberts, and you made your own laws, and you enforced those laws in the manner that you saw fit.
	So it wasn't a world without restriction.
	It wasn't a world of ultimate freedom.
	It was a world of laws that you created.
	They were your laws.
	It is fictional to think of Silk Road as some place of freedom.
	No drug dealer from the Bronx selling meth or heroin or crack has ever made these kinds of arguments to the court.
	It is a privileged argument.
	It is an argument from one of privilege.
	You are no better a person than any other drug dealer, and your education does not give you a special place of privilege in our criminal justice system.
	It makes it less explicable why you did what you did.
	There is no reason to make a choice between these two people that I see that are on display.
	The Ulbricht who is the leader of the criminal enterprise and the Ulbricht who is known and loved.
	What is clear is that people are very, very complex, and you are one of them.
	They are made up of many different qualities and many characteristics, with no one quality defining them.
	And there is good in you, Mr. Ulbricht, I have no doubt.
	But there is also bad.
	And what you did in connection with Silk Road was terribly destructive to our social fabric.
	Mr. Ulbricht, it is my judgment, delivered here, now, on behalf of our country, that on counts two and four, you were sentenced to a period of life imprisonment to run concurrently.
	On count five, you were sentenced to five years imprisonment to run concurrently.
	On count six, you were sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, also concurrent.
	And for money laundering in count seven, you were sentenced to 20 years, also concurrent.
	In the federal system, there is no parole, and you shall serve your life in prison.
	This is far beyond what the prosecution had even asked for.
	Ulbricht had hoped Silk Road would become such a success that he would be famous.
	According to a journal entry read by the prosecutor to the jury, Ulbricht wrote, I imagine that someday I may have a story written about my life, and it would be good to have a detailed account of it.
	His dream came true, but perhaps not in the way he had imagined.
	The FBI later identified Ulbricht's mentor, Variety Jones, as Roger Thomas Clark, a Canadian arrested in Thailand in 2015.
	In 2020, Clark pled guilty in a Manhattan court to conspiring to distribute massive quantities of narcotics.
	As for the two corrupt officers investigating Silk Road, former DEA agent Carl Forrest was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for extortion, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.
	Former Secret Service agent Sean Bridges was sentenced to nearly six years in prison on charges of money laundering and obstruction of justice.
	He was later sentenced to an additional two years for another theft of Bitcoin from the U.S. government.
	This guy.
	Thanks for watching.
	For City Link, I'm Cindy Palm.
	All right.
	Hope you guys enjoyed that one, man.
	You know, short and concise documentary on the situation, giving you guys a bunch of tidbits in there with some knowledge, etc.
	I think that was one of our more educational episodes of FedReacts.
	I got some dots on the Silk Road.
	So the Silk Road.
	Let's pull up the website too, Bills.
	So it generated approximately 1.2 billion in sales and $80 million in commissions.
	And also on November 3rd of 2020, law enforcement seized over $1 billion worth of digital currency from this case.
	So that was three years ago.
	God damn.
	And there is also something here.
	They actually got a person, a guy named James Ellingson, aka red and white, with narcotics trafficking and money laundering offenses in connection with his sales of large quantities of narcotics on the Silk Road online marketplace.
	And in connection with this, he claimed that he had ranched for the murder of five people for sick road funder Ross Aldrich.
	So shit.
	And he was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin back then.
	All right.
	Let's pull up this website here real fast.
	As you guys can see, this is, I think, the petition website to get him freed.
	Freeros.org.
	It's freeross.org is what it is.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	You know, obviously, over half a million have signs of free Ross.
	He spent 3,707 days in prison.
	He got two life sentences plus 40 years without parole.
	Scroll down.
	Smeared with false allegations is what they're saying.
	And then scroll down some more.
	And then they show the sentencing disparity, right?
	You can see all the people that were Silk Road defendants that got, you know, seven years, three and a half, six years, 17 months, three years, five and a half years.
	13 and a half years, co-owner for Roger Clark, Carl Mark, right?
	Corrupt federal agent.
	Obviously, Sean Bridges, you guys can see here.
	And you can see the, you know, the disparity amongst all the other people.
	But the thing is, is that he's a boss.
	So that's why they're going to punish him the hardest.
	But yeah.
	And then he's serving as 11th year in prison.
	Scroll down.
	Is that a prison pick right there?
	Yeah, I guess him with a bunch of, looks like a bunch of gang members.
	This is the hood, ain't it?
	That's interesting.
	Well, this is Arizona.
	So in Arizona, I don't think there's as much race divide as like in Texas and in California.
	So he's a model prisoner, according to BOP.
	What else do we got here?
	So yeah, they're trying to get him out.
	Who's that?
	His mom?
	Okay.
	So, yep.
	There you go.
	That's the petition.
	I mean, you know, it's up to you guys.
	You guys want to sign a petition?
	There's a website right there.
	Like, I'm kind of in the middle with it.
	You know, obviously he did some dumb shit, but she gotten life.
	No, absolutely not.
	I don't think he should have got life.
	Twice.
	Yeah.
	So I think that's a little wild for him to get life.
	I think that's a very hard punishment for non-violent offenses.
	But the way that they're looking at it is he facilitated the ability for violent drug offenders to do what they do or violent criminals to do what they do.
	Because remember, guys, the website sold a bunch of shit besides just drugs.
	Are they treating it like Rico?
	Almost.
	With the continued criminal enterprise statutes?
	Yes, almost.
	It's not necessarily Rico, but it's a tier right below.
	A good point.
	All right.
	Didn't we hit the numbers, did we?
	Damn, y'all don't want to like the 24.
	I guess we're not going to see the sun.
	I guess we're not going to open up the phone lines.
	We gave y'all plenty of time to like the video so that we can hit the phone lines, but it seems like you guys don't want to do it.
	He was about to say see the sun.
	No, I don't see the sun.
	No, no, no.
	We could have been on the phone for like 30, 40 minutes.
	But yeah.
	But yeah, I guess these guys don't want to do it.
	We only got 1.4k likes.
	We told y'all, man, 1,800 likes and we would do it.
	But it doesn't look like you guys want to do it, man.
	We actually have 1,700 watching right now.
	But we told them before we had like 1,800.
	Mario, you could do big mo hours in these phone lines.
	If you say so.
	That's it.
	All right.
	Well, I hit some of the chats.
	All right.
	Can you put a holiday discount on your consulting price, one hour costs for the price of what you would normally charge a half hour?
	Man, you got some nerve to ask that.
	Yeah, no, I mean, guys, it's, you know, like I said before, I got to protect my time, man.
	It's not about making money.
	It's about just protecting time.
	Blizzard, the company that created Overwatch, had internal conflict of sexual harassment, and they were basically getting canceled.
	McCree was the name of one of the guys that worked at the company that was accused, so they changed it to Cassidy and Overwatch.
	Oh, how do I fucking know some woke bullshit, man?
	Yeah, bro.
	Shout out to you, Jonad.
	SEO 971.
	Hey, Martin, if you want a real tour of the dark web, you should look into a guy named Ryan Montgomery.
	He is a white hat hacker, a good guy that goes after Petos online.
	He would make a great guess.
	I think I've heard of him.
	Okay.
	Kingdom Rule of Marine, when working at a specific position for the Bureau and eventually you want to transfer to another position in the Bureau, such as Intel Analyst, can I transfer internally or do I have to go through a manual application process?
	Is there a shortcut?
	You'll probably have to manually apply like everybody else, but since you're already in the Bureau, it'll be a lot easier for you to transition over to agent or Intel Analyst.
	Just keep in mind that you're probably going to have to go back to Quantita Co because Intel analysts I know go to the academy for a few months and then agents go for a few months as well.
	But analysts is less than agent in training.
	Al Boyce, any updates on getting the channels remonetized?
	Is it a possibility?
	We'll see.
	Marvin goes, you say subpoena.
	I hear the sound of blackberries being smashed by hammers.
	What?
	Okay.
	Potato potato.
	Am I right?
	Love blasting pod in my custom bulldozer.
	All right, Marvin.
	Hi, Martin.
	Did you ever look at any of the code, statistics, and data I sent you?
	I sent it before and updates during the DBZ stream.
	Moreover, I can help with your engineering issues.
	Blue screen, BSOD.
	Where do you send it?
	Reading math, send it to Fed React.
	Can you send it to FedReacts, bro?
	Because I get too many DMs.
	I'm not going to see your guys' DMs nine out of ten times.
	They don't even show up sometimes.
	So send it to Fed Reacts and then put what pull up his Instagram.
	Sorry, not his Instagram.
	Pull up his message again and put it.
	What in all caps?
	Put stats.
	Put stats in all caps when you message FedReacts ReenMath 97 so that Angie could find it and bring it to my attention.
	It'll be a lot easier for us to catch you over there than on my main Instagram, man.
	I get literally hundreds of DMs a day.
	I don't even look at them.
	I don't have Instagram.
	God damn it, bro.
	God damn it.
	Snigger man.
	Dude.
	All right.
	Message.
	How could they get a hold of you?
	FNSReach at gmail.com.
	Oh, is the account made?
	Yeah.
	I see.
	I made it already.
	Yeah.
	FNFReach at gmail.com.
	Yeah.
	FNF Reach.
	Spell it for the people.
	FNF.
	F as in November.
	F and then November and then F again.
	Yes.
	Reach at gmail.com.
	Reach at gmail.com.
	Bam.
	Okay, guys.
	That is the official email.
	Y'all heard it here first.
	That's the official email for wanting to get in touch with us, guys.
	F and F Reach at gmail.com.
	Again, Fox, November Fox Reach, R-E-A-C-H at gmail.com.
	Okay.
	Icy and Angie manage that email address and they'll respond to you guys there.
	That is where you go ahead and ask your consultation.
	If you wanted to book a consultation, if you guys want to ask a question, if you guys want to suggest a guest for the show, if you are a creator and you want to collab with us or whatever else, that is going to be our general inbox for everything.
	Okay.
	Fnfreach at gmail.com.
	You put gmailo.com.
	I just don't correct it.
	Yeah.
	Nigga said gmailo.
	Yeah.
	Fnfreach at gmail.com.
	So message it there, bro.
	And Angie will have access to it along with Icy.
	All right.
	Let's see here.
	We got another chat.
	Another one?
	Okay.
	FB24 goes, I work for DOD and just want to say I'm a huge fan and love this channel.
	God bless.
	Shout out to you, bro.
	And thank you for keeping us safe over there at DOD.
	That is the military, pretty much, Department of Defense.
	I think we're caught up on everything, right?
	We got one more right here.
	One more.
	Angie already took a picture.
	He just basically sent his email.
	I don't have Instagram.
	My email is at okay.
	And you got it.
	I got it.
	Nigga dropped his real email, NYU, EDU.
	God damn.
	Okay.
	Yeah, she'll be looking for your email, bro.
	Message that email, fnfreach at gmail.com.
	And for all you guys that have questions or whatever, you want a book consultation and put it in the headlines.
	Like if you want a consultation, put console.
	If you for this situation here, put stats.
	She'll know.
	Okay?
	Because like I told y'all before, I'm trying to update the stats on our link tree.
	So we appreciate that.
	Other than that, man, I guess we're going to close this thing out because you guys didn't get the likes up like we wanted.
	Check me out on Twitter, guys.
	Oh, shit.
	We're at 38k followers now.
	We're like 37 earlier.
	So like we're growing, man.
	So anyway, yeah, go check it out, man.
	Unplug FedEx.
	You know, it's not that crazy.
	I'm sensationalizing it a bit.
	It's not as crazy as people say it is.
	But yeah, man, go check it out there for some of my political stances, geopolitical stances, thoughts on certain situations going on in the world.
	Use the code Black Cyber BlackFresh.
	Okay, link is in the description, by the way.
	If you guys want to go ahead and get DMs on demand, half off.
	You guys have been asking for it for damn near a year.
	So we got it for y'all.
	And we got a discount code.
	Cyber Black Fresh again?
	Cyber Black Fresh.
	Cyber Black Fresh because Fresh is black as fuck, man.
	So go ahead and check it out over there, guys.
	We're going to close out the show.
	Y'all didn't get the likes up.
	Maybe on the next one, you guys can show some love and like the video, and we'll get the phone lines open for y'all.
	But other than that man, we love you guys.
	I get extreme excited.
	We appreciate y'all supporting the show.
	For all the haters, just tune into the beginning of the show.
	I explain all the other BS drama with Angie.
	You guys, we're not going to address it again.
	We answered y'all questions.
	You know, if people are going to analyze us that crazy, even after I've told you guys what it is, then hey, it is what it is, man.
	You can't make everybody happy.
	It is what it is.
	We love y'all.
	Catch you guys next episode tomorrow.
	We got Mark Tilbury in the house.
	We're going to talk about Money Monday.
	Peace.
	I'm special agent with Homelands Investigations, okay, guys?
	HSI.
	This is what FedReacts covers.
	Defender Jeffrey Williams, an associate of YSL, did commit the felony.
	Here's what 6ix9ine actually got.
	I can check the script.
	This attack shifted the whole U.S. government.
	This guy got arrested for espionage, okay?
	Trading secrets with the Russian.
	John Wayne Gacey, aka the killer clown, okay?
	One of the most prolific serial killers of all time.
	Killed 33 people.
	Zodiac Killer is a pseudonym of an unidentified serial killer who operated in Northern California.
	Serial killers got they really get off on getting attention from the media.
	Many years, Jeffrey Epstein sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls at his home.
	It was OJ working together to get Nicole killed.

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