Somewhere in the world, there's probably a criminal who's like "Isn't that Johnson?"

@jordynhooks1133

4 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@jonathanmasilela1569

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂🤣

@mr_h831

4 жыл бұрын

Amon Scarlet if there is likely they've been arrested. This guy seems very proficient at his job.

@forshor1998

4 жыл бұрын

@@mr_h831 Not necessarily. Most people you'd meet on an undercover OP you probably don't receive enough information to arrest and prosecute at the end of the operation or it simply isn't worth the resources and risk to get that information on certain members as it would risk the officers position which could be more useful chasing bigger fish.

@sixthsith5432

4 жыл бұрын

LOL I was thinking the same! Hahaha.

TFW you realize Fast and Furious was a more accurate undercover cop movie than a car movie.

@Orcawhale1

4 жыл бұрын

Well yeah, it's a rewrite of "Point Break" but instead of Surfer dudes, it's car guys.

@mizraim2947

4 жыл бұрын

To be fair The Fast and The Furious started off as a cop movie with a gimmick being cars. Even 2 Fast 2 Furious and Fast and Furious followed this theme until Fast 5 changed it into criminals and ultimately Furious 6 changed it into...well what Fast and Furious is now. The F&F is my favorite movie franchise but it should of ended at 5. It was the perfect ending but greed prevented that from happening

@GhostEye31

4 жыл бұрын

@@mizraim2947 I expect by the next one they'll basically be fighting the Avengers.

@MrSalsa1995

4 жыл бұрын

@@GhostEye31 something something Thor's Hummer

@barneyismyhero1

4 жыл бұрын

Kyuba it became ridiculous once the rock got involved

This man has the quietest confidence I have ever seen

@connermcd

3 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment

@burneraccountforthewin

2 жыл бұрын

Great way to describe him

@zigotina

2 жыл бұрын

it's a normal dude

@michaelj6392

Жыл бұрын

He’s just British

@ash7182

Жыл бұрын

You have to for a job like this.

Somewhere, someone is watching this and saying “I KNEW THAT GUY WAS A COP!”

@tipi5586

2 жыл бұрын

I often think about this. I can't help but feel that 99% of undercover cops are unrecognisable outside of their areas and outfits.

Plot twist: He's actually still undercover as an Ex-Undercover cop to find out what's really going on INSIDE INSIDER

@kakahannu5895

4 жыл бұрын

Plot twist : hes accually not even a cop, he just fakes it on insider to be able to sell fake information to the cartels.

@berno8535

4 жыл бұрын

@jeff well the cops might be a joke, but I won't say gangsters in Britain aren't tough.

@faisalmir

4 жыл бұрын

@jeff well thts better than everyday mass shootings in US so surely u gotta hv better police

@kollarpg

4 жыл бұрын

He is an undercover alien that pretends to be a human, that works for a foreign government as sleeper agent and pretends to be an undercover cop that pretends to be a drug dealer.

@davidsagitas343

4 жыл бұрын

He's been undercover investigating Ricky Gervais for over a decade. Goes by the name "Karl Pilkington" on the streets.

I like that instead of just bashing some of the more unrealistic films, he actually acknowledged the reasons why those decisions were made for that particular medium

@AeneasGemini

4 жыл бұрын

to be honest, sometimes inaccuracies are forgivable, but sometimes it's just an excuse for sloppy writing

@KasumiRINA

4 жыл бұрын

They kinda didn't mention that in Lethal Weapon, Mel Gibson's character is a suicidal dude has a death wish, he literally TRIES to get killed, and provokes criminals for that. And he isn't really undercover, it's also one of their crazy plans. Of course the movies aren't supposed to be realistic, rather, the first two used crazy action to set up complex questions, like is it feasible to give diplomatic immunity to racist authoritarian regimes like in authoritarian South Africa... Which become very important 30 year later when russian diplomatic mail was found out to be used for drug trafficking.

@cov9290

3 жыл бұрын

AeneasGemini a lot of the time it isn’t done on intentionally. It isn’t easy getting everything realistic whilst having engaging plot line. Godfather was an unrealistic mafia movie yet one of the best movies ever.

@teke4567

3 жыл бұрын

Shut up

@filianablanxart8305

3 жыл бұрын

Just as in most genre of films; Most Cop Movies are based upon Other Cop Movies much more than real life .

As a German speaker, The first time I watched the in inglorious Bastard scene, I knew Michael Fassenbender was going to be toast. That sign thing was very authentic.

@lpr5269

9 ай бұрын

I remember that this guy who was a Russian agent was identified by the way he held flowers after he bought them. I guess in Russia it's customary to carry the flowers with the bulbs pointing toward the ground, so they knew right away.

I HIGHLY recommend his book 'Good Cop Bad War', especially if you're interested in what fighting the war on drugs does to an emphatic human being. Still need to read his second book! As a former drug addict Niel Woods is my hero - a cop that understands drug addicts are people who hate their life but without the drugs have extreme & life-consuming trauma & mental illness and don't have the money or resources to get them treated. And that criminalising instead of treating addicts is just pushing them further and further from ever having a normal life. Everyone is telling you it's your fault you're addicted when you yourself HATE it, your life is constant danger, violence, betrayal, death & poverty and you've tried to get clean hundreds of times but it never lasts because there's always a deep psychological problem that causes you to become a heroin addict in the first place - no one, ever, has said when I grow up I want to be a heroin addict. There's no heroin addict doesn't hate their life, no heroin addict that doesn't desperately want to quit. Most heroin addicts don't even enjoy taking heroin, it's not a pleasant drug, especially compared to others, but it's the ultimate pain reliever, moreso mentally than physically, it just makes you feel blank, removes the emptiness, depression & PTSD symptoms. I got very lucky and got psychiatrically detained (for about the 7th time) but that time got put in a private psychiatric hospital with weekly therapy, something I'd never had access to before even after probably 18 months of time in psychiatric hospitals behind me. Without that I could never have got clean. Not a chance. I've been clean 14 months now and I'm happy for the first time in my life. I still have PTSD flashbacks and nightmares every day, a lot of them from the experiences I had while addicted to drugs (it's a brutal and violent life where you know you're going to die soon, and friends are dying constantly, sometimes in front of your eyes, from overdose & murder but you don't care because death is better than being trapped in the life you have now). But I made it to age 30 and I'm still alive! Which is something that for 17 years I lived in absolute certainty that that could never happen. Niel Woods in his book talks about finding out while undercover in Brighton that addicts were being murdered for introducing undercover police to dealers (thinking the were just another junky who was from out-of-town and going through withdrawals). He informs the local police chief of this and he doesn't care at all about junkies dying, even when it's murder. I lost a lot of friends to overdose but nearly as many to murder and oftentimes we knew exactly who'd done it (nearly always county-lines drugs dealers from London) and the police had everything they needed for a successful prosecution but they never, not once, investigated it properly and never once charged anyone. Of course because of that the dealers felt like they could kill people at will with no risk so they did it a lot. Often over very minor things like a £20 debt or one time someone they were forcing to move the drugs for them between the flat they were in and the alley they were sending customers to coming back just £5 short because he'd not counted the money properly ("busting the shots" ie selling the bags to people is a very high-risk, high-stress thing and addicts regularly manage to confuse the dealer or the person the dealer is forcing to "run" the drugs to the "spot"). They even killed his dog too. But the way the police didn't regard the murder of our friends and what was essentially our community as human lives worthy of having any care about very much deeply sums up how you're looked at as an addict and how much you're trapped by your addiction, cos it feels like no one but your drug and other junkies will ever care about you, or treat you as a human being. If you've read to here then thank you. If you want to help a human being then next time you get asked for money on the street don't give them money, give them love & respect; sit with a beggar and talk to them, find out about them, treat them as a human being with their own interests, personality, hopes, fears, humour and problems. And please don't try to sympathise with how hard their life must be, they want someone to treat them normally; if you do they will probably act like you can't understand how hard their life is or what they've been through and that's because cos you probably can't. You probably wouldn't expect to be able to relate to the suffering a child soldier has been through so why should you be able to relate to someone whose life had also been death violence, death and abuse in it from a young age. Please also remember they might be withdrawing and don't have time to talk to you because they need to make money as quickly as possible. Please don't be offended by this because withdrawals are like a parasite that controls your brain; you can't think of anything other than getting well again. But most of the time that person is going to be so so glad to talk to someone who doesn't look down on them, or preach to them, or focus on their addiction and how hard their life must be, but instead just talks to them like another human being with aspirations and interests and stories, who gives them a name and a face and a personality rather than just seeing them as another faceless beggar they walk past every day but never even acknowledge. This is what will help them. If you get to know some addicts and find out they're actually decent people who are suffering and want to help even more then you can find your local substance abuse/misuse services and volunteer your money or time. Studies have shown addiction is formed from a lack of care from other humans (especially at a young age), so the person bonds with a drug to alleviate the lack of bonds with other humans. Just a conversation can help rebuild a shattered bridge between an addict and society and take them one step closer to believing they are with knowing and could live a normal life if they kick their addiction. Thank you.

@philsayer2447

2 жыл бұрын

@Gavin B. Hi Gavin. Yes thanks - coming up for 23 months, so nearly two years, clean soon & I feel so far from that world now I can't imagine going back anymore. Got my life together, am a productive member of society which feels absolutely amazing, to be contributing, paying taxes & working, and I'm teaching myself Mandarin, I could never have done that before. Have made a lot of new friends & the biggest step has been I've learnt to trust people, that outside of that world I don't have to assume negative intentions in everyone I meet or that everyone I'm around, no matter how well I know them, is probably playing an angle for their own advantage & would drop you in a moment if you're inconvenient. The sad thing about that is too that a lot of people who are clean (not just strangers, most dealers have this attitude too) assume because you're homeless & an addict that anything about you can be bought or sold, that you have no principles or that drugs are the only thing that matters or will ever matter to you. There's a few out there that maybe that's true for, but even then that's because they made that choice along the way. Being an addict is like doing terrible things constantly while also trying to insist to yourself you're a decent and moral person, you can't ever let go of that belief really, despite the evidence. It's got its own internal logic & morality in a way, and you are far from just being available to the whims of the highest bidder. But yeah learning to trust people has been the biggest step & the longest journey. It took a lot of believing people were out to screw me over & finding out they weren't to get it back. And it took a long time to feel like people would see me as someone equal & someone valued, not like I had this black mark on my forehead. Anyway, thanks so much for reading, just that really makes a difference. I think if there were more people who genuinely wanted to hear addict's stories, their real stories warts & all, not the noble, rose-tinted version that we had to tell to beg for money or to avoid being judged (or often just because we were ashamed of ourselves, our choices & our lives) then that'd go a long, long, way towards healing the broken people on the streets, the people addicted to crack & heroin. Because living every day knowing it's not very likely you'll last much longer & feeling relieved & comforted by that - that's a very broken human being. So thank you. Words cannot describe how lucky & how grateful I was to be given a way to get out. I still bump into and talk to people from that life all the time (none of which have shown anything at all but the greatest genuine happiness for me for doing it or any hint of wanting to pull me back in) and honestly I feel so much pain when I see them, even the ones who screwed me over or did me wrong, because they're all people to me: people I laughed & joked with, people I talked to for hours sat in alleyways in the rain waiting for dealers, or in hidden spots just out of the public eye to use, learning about them, what their story was, what they were good at, what they had wanted to do with their life, where things had first gone wrong and where things finally went wrong - every conversation like that is always had in the sense of the final: this is where our life has ended & all our ambitions, hobbies, things we care about are in the past now and can never be returned, life's just a slow suicide from here on. I think that sums up what it's like more than anything and I wish there was a clear path for every user to see & take that led to getting clean & getting out, and actually doing it for good. Thanks again, I really appreciate you taking your time out of your day to read it, and even more for actually hearing it. Sorry for the long message again, it's really difficult to talk about this stuff without a lot of words, if that makes sense... All the best to you Gavin.

@MrTrickBrick

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly an inspiring read, you should be proud of yourself for the progress you made. I want to go check out that book now, this is a real eye opener on something I admittedly hadn't thought about much before.

@ilovedogsilovethem

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your story ❤

@henriquealmeida348

Жыл бұрын

Hey buddy, I hope you are doing well!

@Kozuu7

Жыл бұрын

A wall of text written by people smarter than you doesn't change the fact that it's a choice. Even without help many trauma victims cope without drugs. You chose to shoot up, knowing it's a crime, and whatever you did under the excuses of "I'm an addict/high/victim" doesn't exonerate you. You are not a victim, addicts make victims. Decriminalization only creates more victims, what we need is enforcement, cops rarely arrest junkies so many weak people take drugs knowing them will be seen as a "victim". Enforce it and less people will take the risk of ever starting.

The fact that The Departed is somewhat realistic is kinda unnerving.

@ehren.newton8563

4 жыл бұрын

great film though

@westnilesnipes

4 жыл бұрын

Ehren .Newton Yeah, no doubt.

@morimo11

4 жыл бұрын

a deputy in my academy class was arrested about a year after we graduated (early 2000’s) for being a plant. iirc he was caught smuggling contraband into the jail system.

@westnilesnipes

4 жыл бұрын

morimo11 That’s nuts. Don’t they vet people pretty thoroughly before they join the academy? I wonder how no one noticed he was a plant.

@morimo11

4 жыл бұрын

@WestNileSnipes yes very thoroughly. But with no arrest history, no gang tattoos, and enough people to lie to the background investigator the system can be beaten.

I gotta say, I really like this guy. I hope he comes back. He explains concepts of his work eloquently and comprehensively. I wish he was my teacher, thats how good he is at explaining.

@TheOrangeDuke01

4 жыл бұрын

I think you saw a different video than I did.

@johanliebert4622

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheOrangeDuke01 Nah.

@OmenBelfast420

4 жыл бұрын

If you wanna hear more of this guy he’s done a podcast with truegeordie on KZread just search truegeordie undercover cop and it should come up

@SirGuifoyle

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheOrangeDuke01 What are you on about? He's experienced, articulate, and professional.

@alextresadern3326

3 жыл бұрын

If you're interested he has a few books about his career I listen to his audio books a lot, his "Good Cop, Bad War" is a very good book

It's amazing that they found 30 seconds out of the entire Fast and Furious franchise that rings relatively true.

@spornge

Жыл бұрын

My biggest problem with the Fast and Furious is the guy who does the engineering Jesse, F1 Prize money is like $36 million USD prize money and that is just for winning one race, never mind the engineering and peripheral technology design and patents it can generate. If the guy was as good at designing engines as he is supposed to be in the movies, there is no way street racing could make him the kind of money that being in Formula 1 could provided. He could easily be making 175,K a year , plus a percentage of prize money , plus some patent or percentage of the team , if he was as good as the movie makes him out to be. Adrian Newey has something like 10 million.

I love the way he discussed with Jason Bourne how the inaccuracies were in the context of communicating to an audience in a visual media. It’s a great way to approach a judgement of accuracy

@raidzeromatt

Жыл бұрын

Yeah but in the context of this movie I'm pretty sure he grabbed a random phone as a burner And Bourne is never undercover, he's always evading being caught lol

"I had to take some speed once, which was quite uncomfortable......"

@studogable

4 жыл бұрын

I take Adderall for ADHD. At my usual dose, it really isn't very noticeable. One day I absent-mindedly took a double-dose. "Uncomfortable" is a good word for it. I was basically hanging onto my desk for three hours.

@michellemuskeyn329

4 жыл бұрын

Eren Yeager idiot

@samuelboucher1454

4 жыл бұрын

@GazB And those people are called idiots.

@studogable

4 жыл бұрын

@@leohong5845 when I doubled my dose, there was no fun involved.

@capralmarines4043

4 жыл бұрын

@@leohong5845 Wahahahah, that pseudo-flex on the internet. Sure bud, whatever helps you cope.

"I had to take some speed, once... {recalls traumatic flashback} ... which was quite uncomfortable."

@hydeperv

3 жыл бұрын

I didn’t get the comments about it, what’s speed like? Isn’t it enjoyable? (Sorry, oblivious to drugs)

@ZOSOqueen

3 жыл бұрын

The speed he took was 40% strength and the highest percentage of speed bought on the streets is roughly 8%. Apparently this stuff was so potent it was practically dissolving the bag it was in. He said he was royally sick as someone with no former experience of speed and thus no tolerance, and was up for 3 days straight. He also had to not alert his wife and newborn baby that he was high as a kite as she wasn’t allowed to know the nature of his work, but he did say his house had never been so clean. He also had to go sick from work on the fourth day after taking the speed because he was so hungover, and his colleagues again didn’t know he was involved in undercover work.

@hydeperv

3 жыл бұрын

@@ZOSOqueen that’s insane! How do you know this?

@ZOSOqueen

3 жыл бұрын

Eleanor Zeigl It’s all in his book: Good Cop, Bad War. Thoroughly good read, can recommend. The full audio book is available on KZread 🙂

@nigeh5326

3 жыл бұрын

Eleanor Zeigl speed can make you feel today is the best day ever, it can make you feel paranoid as hell, it can drive you to doing routine tasks that you might not normally enjoy, it can make you physically shake, it can drive you to a heart attack. And it can destroy your life because when you are on it you are in a bubble oblivious to how you are hurting those you love. I used it for 20 years and I wish I hadn’t.

Seen two of his videos now. Why has no-one made a movie? This guy is a legend. The things he's done, yet so calm and collected.

"The trouble is: It's a half a trillion dollar industry worldwide, and that inevitably causes corruption" - Man literally describes problems far outside of the illegal drug trade.

James McAvoy could play him a movie.

@nbofddsrtre6216

4 жыл бұрын

Agree

@nbofddsrtre6216

4 жыл бұрын

Should do movie contract

@meu02136

4 жыл бұрын

I could play him a movie, I've got a blu-ray player.

@EricConnor218

4 жыл бұрын

I was thinking Edward Norton

@duxnihilo

4 жыл бұрын

Can he do that accent?

In fairness to Riggs, he WAS trying to get himself killed, pretty much all the time.

@Dianimations_

4 жыл бұрын

Yes^

@Lymmar

4 жыл бұрын

DAMMIT, RIGGS!

@SwiftFoxProductions

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly. What Riggs did wasn't something any normal undercover cop would (or should) do but, it was absolutely true to his character. His reputation for doing things the average cop would consider crazy/suicidal was a big part of his character arc.

@bruffmeister1

3 жыл бұрын

And Riggs was a plain clothes detective and not a full on deep cover undercover cop.

@martinarurali4538

3 жыл бұрын

@usmc 03retired and Christmas movie, too

This guy is a hero and also has a common sense approach to decriminalising drugs. He’s someone who’s spent his career fighting the war on drugs and has the balls to highlight the absurdity of it.

I was a heroin addict for years. I hated every moment of it. I had morals and stuff. I didn't steal, I worked 2 jobs to pay my bills and my drugs etc. One of the guys I bought drugs from was a well known drug dealer but was pretty much untouchable. One day this homeless guy came into the house of the drug dealers house (he was a connect so people that needed a dealer needed to know somebody who used drugs basically and this homeless guy would feel out the person and eventually introduce them over time) he brought this older gentle men. This older gentleman was dressed down but kind of clean cut which I found odd. He reached his arm out to shake the dealers hand and I saw a tan mark on his wrist where a watch used to be and a worn spot where he had a wedding ring. It didn't take me long to put 2 and 2 together. My dealer started asking questions (he was really suspicious of people ) and I knew my dealer was gonna ask questions. I let it start to play out but the gentleman was quick on his feet but it wasn't answers my dealer wanted to hear (it all went down really fast) so I pretended to recognize him I said "did u used to be known as JJ? " and I give him the look of "dude go with it" and he did. So then I hugged him and basically pretended to know him. I asked him things like "so how's your mom doing? Ur family still own that big lot ?" Etc and he went with it. My dealer recognized that I knew him and he cut it out. My dealer was the type that wouldn't wait. He'd kill u. Id known him for many years (we went to school together) so we had a friendship in a way. After the meeting was all said and done, I left with "JJ" and we started walking down the street and of course a car was parked on the side of the road with 2 people in the front and I knew they were watching their UC. It obviously was his first case as a UC and they must have wanted to watch to make sure the first meeting went safely. Once we got far enough away I stopped and told him "u need to cover your wrist till that tan line goes away" (generally cops, military, personal protection specialist etc all wear their watches the same way) and to put a ring on. I told him my dealer was about to bust his face up and ask questions (my dealer would use xanax with heroin and for some reason he would really really get paranoid but with meth he was fine) I told him I didn't want to watch him get killed . I told him I didn't care what he was there for but now he is vouched for,he can do his job (they weren't after me so I knew I was safe). He just nodded. About a month later my dealer was arrested. He got out about a year and a half later for "good behavior " and he developed a heart condition that the prisons basically didn't want to pay for so they let him go. My dealer obviously went back to dealing drugs and he eventually shot and killed himself. They didn't really want my dealer, they wanted to arrest him to turn him so they could get to his supplier which was the cartel. I doubt he turned, he wasn't the type at all. Years later (I finally got clean and at this point I was like 2 years clean) I volunteered for this police education program where recovering addicts will talk to officers about what to look for, what behaviors to look at etc(the town I live in has a giant heroin problem which the police had been trying to clamp down on for a hot minute) I went to the classroom cause I was asked to speak and here comes "JJ" marching in. He recognized me right away (took me a minute to remember) he was really good about it. He first said he was so happy to see me clean and healthy, then he said he was sorry for my loss (my dealer was over all a really good man just haunted by his demons. I mean his mother used to put heroin in his baby bottle to get him not to cry for God's sake. Everyone that was close to him knew his a good guy with a good heart, he just became a paranoid bad person when he did drugs. I knew for a fact he had killed like 2 people but they tried to steal his drugs and he easily had connections to make it all disappear). "JJ" thanked me for covering for him that day and I just told him I didn't wanna see someone get hurt. After I was done doing my whole speech thing, "JJ" introduced me to his boss, tole the whole story blah blah blah and offer to sponsor me through the police academy. I was honored but unfortunately I take seizure medication and law enforcement don't really like to hire someone with a health condition like that which is understandable but I did always want to be a cop or go in the military but when I was diagnosed I knew that would never happen. He said to just try the academy and see how I do, so I did. I aced through all firearms training (my dad was a marine so I've already been taught to shoot, break down a weapon etc), I had no issue with hand to hand combat (I did martial arts for 20 years) but of course I struggled with the actual book work but I did pass. Once I was done, "JJ" asked if I would reconsider but I said no because I don't want the politics which he understood so he asked if I would be interested in personal protection so I agreed to do it. Now I work as a personal protection specialist (body guard) I've done jobs for politicians, famous people, average Joe who has a lot of money etc. I absolutely love my job and love my life and its all because a UC came into my drug dealers home one day and I just happened to have the eye to notice details that most people didn't. "JJ" and I still keep in contact to this day. He has been retired for many years as a UC now and he just retired from the force 2 years ago, my wife and I went to his retirement party. Great guy. Such a random situation but thankful it happened. Life is funny that way I guess.

@yuricora7113

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing, bro! Hang tight

@amirpourghoureiyan1637

2 жыл бұрын

Glad things are working out for you now, very few have the bravery to stand up in a situation like that.

@Mostopinionatedmanofalltime

2 жыл бұрын

You need to write a book about your experience. Your writing is very good 👍

@nicholasvinen

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mostopinionatedmanofalltime yes, except they need to learn about paragraphs! Otherwise, a fascinating story.

@nailslacquer

2 жыл бұрын

So you saved a lying revenue collection agent of the state who would steal your belongings and put a boot on YOUR neck had he been given the orders to do so - way to go!

The best thing about Inglourious Basterds is that it's a German playing a British character who is going undercover as a German.

@LastOfTheConfessors

4 жыл бұрын

And Fassbender even admitted once half the reason he wanted the role was to show off his German speaking skills 😂

@rebeccamcnutt5142

3 жыл бұрын

Half German / half Irish

@PsstImAFanOf

3 жыл бұрын

he's a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude

@svenandersen

3 жыл бұрын

@@PsstImAFanOf more like he's a dude playing a 'mate' disguised as another dude.

@ferox3334

3 жыл бұрын

@@PsstImAFanOf gold

To be fair, Mel Gibson was playing a suicidal character in Lethal Weapon.

@septimiusthedestroyer7394

4 жыл бұрын

Good point

@Cybjon

4 жыл бұрын

True but you kind of wonder why no one at the precinct picked up on that and how he managed to remain an undercover cop in the first place!

@Leprutz

4 жыл бұрын

But you also forget that this movie is just pure entertainment.

@hjembrentkent6181

2 жыл бұрын

Yes he was "playing" yes

@davidking4838

2 жыл бұрын

He later reprised that role in his real life.

Most accurate part of the entire FF franchise was Walker's character calling for medical help 🤣

It’s interesting because ‘being a different version of yourself’ and ‘using your own imagination’ is the essence of good acting. Good acting is never just pretending or imitating.

@socrattt

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but actors become radically different in the process.

“I had to take some speed once... which was quite uncomfortable.” I could not have some up with a more British sentence if I tried 😂

@Alva2k

4 жыл бұрын

Not that British because most of you love powdering your nose at all times

@thomashan4963

3 жыл бұрын

About that speed, he mentioned in one video that “he didn’t sleep for 3 days and his apartment was cleaner than ever” 😅

@aroncanapa5796

3 жыл бұрын

@@thomashan4963 same minus staying up 3 days I just stayed up over night

@sandraswan9008

3 жыл бұрын

@@Alva2k uhhhh

@user-bp1gx3qt3o

3 жыл бұрын

have you ever been out on a friday night in britain

Most realistic undercover scene is from the most unrealistic action movie ever In history period.

@anvaryusupov8245

4 жыл бұрын

It was the first chapter. Which was more or less realistic

@v-trigger6137

4 жыл бұрын

the first part was actually a little bit of realistic compared to the rest of the movies

@87Tempests

4 жыл бұрын

@@v-trigger6137 apart from Brian's partner who almost encouraged him to switch sides

@JTtheMid

4 жыл бұрын

The fast and furious movies started out a little more grounded, and then with each film, they became more outrageous. I'm still waiting for the film that will have a space shuttle. They've ripped a vault out of a bank, used an attack drone, controlled cars like a swarm, flew out of skyscrapers in Dubai, had a submarine, had a tank, used an EMP explosive, had the main character turn bad for a portion of the movie, had a bad guy help out (Jason Statham), fought another tank, grounded a huge plane, had GTA gokarts, now they've attached rockets to the back of a car, and they've survived just about every cliff situation they've been in to where it's not even impressive. I'm still waiting for the full on space shuttle

@thelastmanonearth2631

3 жыл бұрын

I dunno man, the Transporter 2 is just....yeesh.

The bit where Mel "tastes" the drugs to see if they're legit, every time I see similar scenes in movies it always reminds me of the Robert Di Niro scene in Showtime when Wil Shatner is showing the cops how to check the drugs by tasting it and Di Niro's character, looking very unimpressed, simply says "What if it's cyanide?"

@michaelj6392

Жыл бұрын

Fentanyl nowadays. You can die pretty fast.

Someone in my family was an undercover guy decades ago during the cocaine wars in Chicago. Put a ton of mob guys away. To this day, he's the hardest man in the world to read. This guy's comments about knowing your anecdotes are dead-on. My family member (I'm being intentionally vague since mafia promised to kill him and his family) can lie about virtually any topic. He's told stories that I still don't know the veracity of. It's as if lying is a sport to him. Don't get the wrong idea, he doesn't lie maliciously like most people. He just sees what ridiculous stories he can get people to believe. And he wears a straight face at all times. Never seen him crack once. Until he starts to feel bad that you're being duped. Really interesting part of policing. Takes a special kind of person.

I think Lethal Weapon should have gotten 10/10. He said himself, “That would be a good way to get yourself killed.” And In that part of the movie he was actually trying to get himself killed.

@AbsolXGuardian

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Oftentimes in these videos a scene is graded as inaccurate because the characters aren't following best practices, but in context there's absolutely a reason for them to not do things correctly.

The photo of him undercover kinda reminded me of Thom Yorke.

@tigermunky

4 жыл бұрын

He IS Thom Yorke. Radiohead was just a cover story that went a bit too far.

@gavrilopricip11

4 жыл бұрын

He was on an assignment trying to infeltrate and bust crminaly overrated bands

@09nob

4 жыл бұрын

@@gavrilopricip11 ooooohhhh ha ha lol, love it.

@AnthonyTNT85

4 жыл бұрын

Lollol

@Majewski79

4 жыл бұрын

How to disappear completely.

How can you talk about undercover work, and not bring Donnie Brasco? That's one of the best undercover movies in the world.

@DAN420.

2 жыл бұрын

Also based on a true story.

@alexeycherkashov6913

2 жыл бұрын

Because this guy was real life Donnie Brasco!

@davidwaldo0089

2 жыл бұрын

Forget about it

@JR-ob5sw

2 жыл бұрын

Because he drove a cadillac not a lincoln

@alexeycherkashov6913

2 жыл бұрын

Forget about it

That was a really interesting one. The way he's calm and settle and shares some real knowledge, without unnecessary judgment.

"You've got to feel invulnerable". That's how you know this job is for a very special type of person.

Just answer every challenge with "u wot m8?". Easy job, easy living.

"I had to take speed once... which was uncomfortable..." Ahh British understatements at their finest.

I really liked this a lot. You can tell this man has been exactly there in the siutation, where it more like talking to the school bullies than making an incredible story up. Try to fit in, be normal, be yourself .. those are the things.

I saw this guy give a talk about his years undercover, his experiences are incredible. Some of the stories he told were terrifying.

@idislikemints

3 жыл бұрын

Where is that video/interview?

@jumpnam

3 жыл бұрын

@@idislikemints I don't think it was recorded, it was a talk in Oxford at a small event in a pub. Organised by a group called Sceptics In The Pub. If you check them out, they might have some footage

@idislikemints

3 жыл бұрын

@@jumpnam thank you!

@YoMamasLlama22

Жыл бұрын

Did you find the footage?

Plot twist: This guy was an undercover cop in Harlem for 15 years. He lead a drug kingpin away in handcuffs and got a call later that night. The kingpin was on the phone and said to him "Okay this prank has gone far enough! If you don't let me out of here I'm callin the cops!"

@kymrayperrucci5837

2 жыл бұрын

I need more

This is a great video. Love his explanations.

What a line of work to be in. There would be so much stress in doing this! I couldn’t imagine how anyone could pull this off for a career.

I don’t know why “bit harsh” killed me

Welcome to another episode of: “Where the quarantine has lead me today”

@peterdagata1610

2 жыл бұрын

Love your channel bro

I wanna see this with a cop from the USA I feel like it would be waaaay different

DAMN he really pulled that man bun off!

Next : real cars rates disney pixar cars

@AtheistGamerz

3 жыл бұрын

Real furniture rates Disney beauty and the beast furniture.

@exploitofdeleted5864

3 жыл бұрын

Next: real insects rate a bug's life

@reeba4824

3 жыл бұрын

This would be a fun idea for them to make on april fools or something 😁

@ribbonsofnight

2 жыл бұрын

real couples rate "romantic" "comedies"

I watched a similar video from Vanity Fair. Their Undercover expert claimed he never used illegal drugs. I found that hard to believe. This guy seems much more credible and honest.

@AK-74K

4 жыл бұрын

This guy has been in the media a bit recently. Seems the real deal as an undercover cop for sure

@kenneththompson8933

4 жыл бұрын

Read his book its amazing

@sleepcrime

4 жыл бұрын

@@kenneththompson8933 what's it called?

@aishah7730

2 жыл бұрын

@@sleepcrime good cop bad war

@mizzouranger134

3 ай бұрын

I watched that one as well and one thing to consider would be what were his undercover jobs for? And that guy was FBI and not about drugs but other crimes so he most likely could have very easily gone without ever using drugs… just something to think about

This guy is awesome. I need several more videos of him speaking about abutting he wants.

Learning the story in Reservoir Dogs may not have been realistic but I really loved it. Best part of the movie by far.

Stop putting "Change Me!" in the corner of the clip. It's distracting and adds nothing.

@janlanser648

4 жыл бұрын

Pellbort how are you distracted, I didn’t notice it until you pointed out

@waibhavkrishnaChandra

4 жыл бұрын

@@janlanser648 He is paying attention, i was also distracted thinking it was some kind of score for the clip

@bassemb

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, what the hell is it supposed to mean anyway?

@alexisjnea

4 жыл бұрын

Pellbort what is the change me referring to you think? Commenting because I’d like a solid logic based answer lol just curious because I saw it too

@legalosmumakilslayer

4 жыл бұрын

@@alexisjnea Easy. Change clips

Love how profesional this guy is then goes onto to say "roll a spliff". This guy is great!

@johntaylor8463

4 жыл бұрын

People of all kinds have been saying that for over 60 years.

@User0000000000000004

4 жыл бұрын

He did go onto to that, didn't he?

"You have to have your cover story" - "Shoot him he's an American spy" "Bit harsh..."

Great explanations

In Argo they were vulnerable. As none of the people trying to learn their “legends” were cops. Undercover or otherwise. They were diplomats trying to get out of a country, so they only needed the essentials name, DOB, SS#, for customs agents. No custom agent was going to ask them about a bartender on a Wednesday night as they are trying to get through customs. They just want to make sure you know your basics info and maybe why you were in their country.

@Lurklen

4 жыл бұрын

The thing is, just give them a birthday they already have. Unless the people looking for, or questioning them already know exactly what their real information is, and are looking out for that, getting somebody to remember a bunch of specific new information about themselves is just setting up a bunch of traps for them. If you can't use your birthday, use your spouses, or your brothers, or even a holiday, and just use your birth year. Keep the story simple and close to who you really are, and it's far easier to remember the stuff you're meant to be lying about.

@edwardlongshanks827

4 жыл бұрын

Including this film as an example of one of 13 supposedly iconic undercover police officers to be commented upon struck me as just bizarre. It's as if the person selecting the films had no clue what this movie was about.

@KasumiRINA

4 жыл бұрын

@@edwardlongshanks827 same with Lethal Weapon. Riggs is breaking the protocol as he has a death wish after an unsuccessful suicide attempt.

@alexandriac6641

4 жыл бұрын

@@Lurklen In the film the Iranians are able to eventually reassemble the shredded documents from the embassy and find the details of the missing staff, so they know their names and dates of birth etc. They have to take on aliases as a Canadian film crew to escape so they do have to have a complete backstory, and Ben Affleck tells them the Iranians will be able to get people to question them who have lived in Canada and know all of the little details a Canadian would be expected to know.

@HisSnuggleBear18

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lurklen Go watch Wired's spy review. Tony's actual Wife reviewed it. Tony is the person Ben was playing. It was real.

For me, the scene in Fast and Furious, where Brian breaks undercover to save Vince, has always stood out as one of the best scenes in movie. Such good scene, and amazing done by the cast, director of photography and director...

"He injected heroin without a filter into his groin." Call me overly cautious, but I'm beginning to think that heroin is a bad idea.

Plot twist: this guy is actually Keyzer Soze. Everything he talked about was on my room wall and I just broke my coffee mug.

Riggs in lethal weapon wanted to die, so the situation was quite dumb to choose here

I want a episode with Dwight, telling about his undercover missions.

@gokul6582

4 жыл бұрын

Propably classified and the gangs won't like it

@lukeforrest9878

4 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure i watched him on the Shaun Attwood podcast

Very good video and very credible.

Man just needed one more clip. Donnie Brasco but still great vid

So Fast and the Furious is the most realistic? I did not see that coming...

@derPetunientopf

4 жыл бұрын

Only that one scene of course.

@alfredino724

4 жыл бұрын

and it's not the cars?????😂

@polreamonn

4 жыл бұрын

Mind Blown

@stephantom8237

3 жыл бұрын

Seems more like Fast and the Furious is the most flattering tbh

@psarc9451

2 жыл бұрын

The first one is actually a great movie. Then they got crazy.

Glad I watched this, I never would have known Dwight and Michael in the office wasn't that realistic.

4:30 - THIS is scary stuff! Imagine how many police officers whom are dirty. There's virtually no control whom enter the police academy as long as you don't have a criminal record.

@B-26354

2 жыл бұрын

There's all kinds of control on who enters the "Police academy" in the UK a person is vetted financially as well as criminally, throughout training candidates are monitored. Corruption isn't widespread and tends to come about from poor impulse control from cops (who develop bad habits or have bad 'friends.')

I can't even imagine being undercover with people who do drugs. You have to partake. I wonder how many undercover cops have died of an overdose, became addicted, or were figured out by the bad people. So scary!!

"Cannabis a few times" yea me too guy me too 😂

@ella17734

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, if you watch his body's reaction when he said that, I am betting it was more than a few times.

@aroncanapa5796

3 жыл бұрын

My last name means cannabis haha

@saltyark7564

3 жыл бұрын

🤣

What about Donnie Brasco? I wanted to hear his view on that

@loke72

4 жыл бұрын

They did that in the Ex mafia member ranges Mafia movies

EXCELLENT!!! THX!!!

7:30 good observation that "it would be a way to get killed" since Riggs was actively trying to get killed on duty in that part of the franchise. Just an 80's action movie, but nonetheless, good catch :)

Me: “The guy looks as clean cut and business like with such an honest face. How the heck can he be undercover officer?” 5:29 Somehow transforms to look more like a criminal than the guy he is busting.

I was so hoping you would review Eastern Promises.

Maaaan, that Deep Cover movie was really good!! I saw it once, back in the 90s and forgot all about it until seeing a clip of it here. I still remember one of "Larry" Fishburne's lines from that film. He was on a date with a girl, explaining his rise in the drug world. He says to her "I went from almost nothing to almost something."

Some people seem confused by the Inglorious Bastards scene. In Germany when we signal "3", we use thumb, index and middle finger, not index, middle and ring. So it would seem extremely odd, that someone signals three like that. And we signal it in places like bars due to the noise, as 2 and 3 can sound quite similar (which is why ie in the military you'd sometimes say Zwo instead of Zwei over radio etc, so they can understand you better).

@sugarnads

Жыл бұрын

Its explained clearly in the scene itself so yeah, weird ppl dont get it.

@benb9151

Жыл бұрын

This is annoying if you go to Germany. If I were a foreign agent I would be discovered by the end of the day

@youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692

Жыл бұрын

@@benb9151 Yes, or maybe Anglos are just stupid with cripple hands? If you count on your hand, do you start "1" with thumb or index? It's also uncomfortable imo to make the 3 the anglo way.

@benb9151

Жыл бұрын

@@youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692 you're a fun person, really

@youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692

Жыл бұрын

@@sugarnads read the comments, plenty of slow people. Which is why Democracy is clearly overrated, when you consider that if they can't understand this, they clearly can't understand complex policy issues...

No Donnie Brasco not even once??

@ProgJester

4 жыл бұрын

I KNOW RIGHT

@ritaturner368

4 жыл бұрын

Hey guys, don’t be unkind, they couldn’t show Donnie Branco cos it was a raging success. I saw an interview with a mafia chief who was around then, and he said Branco was so convincing NOBODY suspected him. He caused the capture of a massive amount of mafiosi, and pretty much started the demise of the mafia. Maybe they didn’t judge it cos he’s still alive.

@ritaturner368

4 жыл бұрын

Tamer Ciftci , hey don’t lose your s#!t cos you can’t count or read. I didn’t say “I think” at all, and the only “maybe” referred to who created the video. You need to take a walk and get some fresh air. Clearly you’re spending too much time in your own company and you’ve forgotten how to be nice.

@rachels209

4 жыл бұрын

Arghh forget aboud it.

@loke72

4 жыл бұрын

It was in the video Ex mafia member ranges Mafia movies

The way he so casually glosses over events that would reasonably cause any normal person a lifetime of nightmares makes me think that maybe my life isn't so bad after all.

I really like this guy, hope they get him on again sometime.

Great video

A lot of folk seem to confuse an 'undercover' officer with a 'plain clothed' officer. Two completely different things.

@ribbonsofnight

2 жыл бұрын

Is the real life distinction strictly adhered to in movies? Of course it's not, so it's no surprise people are confused.

@marknorris1381

Жыл бұрын

You find the media confuse it, which may also be part of the problem. E.g. 'the suspect was arrested by undercover plain clothes police'. Detectives aren't undercover (as you point out), they identify themselves when they have to, they make arrests and they work together or in teams. No so for undercover police officers.

7:29 To be fair, Riggs is trying to kill himself.

@Rallarbusen

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, Murtaugh is wondering if Riggs is just trying to draw psycho-nut pension or really is a psycho-nut.

@Rusaarules

4 жыл бұрын

@@Rallarbusen Well, they show him even attempting to shoot himself in his trailer so there ya go.

@KasumiRINA

4 жыл бұрын

@@Rusaarules but he can't pull it off. Also, his "attempted suicides by gangs" also never work because he doesn't really want to die and defends himself.

For the clip "Inglorious Bastards" the guy didn't look at him because he was hostile, he looked at him because of the fingers that he used to count the number 3, in Europe they start counting from the the thumb and not the index that's what sold the guy out, it wasn't so much so his hostility. But apart from that i love his explanations, hope he comes back again.

Funny thing about the anecdote from "Reservoir Dogs" is, that this story actually happened to me about 25 years ago. So now everytime I tell the story of me having been "caught" having weed on me by a police dog, who then got yelled at by "his" police officer, because the cop didn't think I was looking like somebody having weed on him, people will say "Nah, you got that one from that Tarantino movie". Fortunately I am not a gangster, as other gangsters would immediately think I was an undercover cop if I'd tell them the story. ^^

@ritacarbajal7950

2 жыл бұрын

This is the most wholesome. I am so happy to hear that your journey took you to a happier place.

12:25 never thought I'd hear this again

i love the way he speaks , his accent , his attitude

ID and the departed are two of my favourite films, absolutely great acting

Plot twist, he isnt a “former undercover cop” and hes still actively undercovering.

I saw this lad on the Shaun Attwood podcast, fascinating man..

POINT BREAK would've been a great movie to get his feedback on. Anyhoo, fun vid. :)

@dudeLaurence

4 жыл бұрын

They used the point break remake instead (i.e. fast and furious)

@User0000000000000004

4 жыл бұрын

The real one.

Serpico is actually a very true story. All the way down to the fact that he was set up by his own Squad and shot. New York during the 70s was disgusting and the police department was almost completely corrupt.

I like how he stresses "If someone is suspicious of you, they will challenge it *Instantly* ". Hilarious.

Neil Woods Book is an amazing read. Highly recommended read.

It’d be fair to not trust Orange, he obviously wasn’t great at his job.

@marknorris1381

3 жыл бұрын

He stood back and watched White blast two of his colleagues. Orange forgot where the line was.

@alexander1902

3 жыл бұрын

@@marknorris1381 wasn’t that his first UC Job? In reality what was he expected to do in an era before cell phones and surrounded by armed murders?

@marknorris1381

3 жыл бұрын

@@alexander1902 remembering it was just a movie and not real life, if you were applying it to reality, yes, I agree, it would have been inexperience on his part. In a way if such a situation were real you'd question why the LAPD would put someone inexperienced in over their head like that. The characters were all definitely killers who would shoot you pretty quickly.

Decent guy, good info. Great vid

I think he dismissed "Rush" a bit quickly, seeing as it was based on the memoirs of an undercover narcotics officer in 1970s small town Texas and they took pains to portray it straight. Another good undercover scene was in "State of Grace" (1990) where Sean Penn is grilled by Ed Harris on the places he's been.

He seems like such a delightful person lol very good at explaining all of this too.

@User0000000000000004

4 жыл бұрын

Wrong lol

Next : Aliens react to Aliens in movie

@JadedJassy21

4 жыл бұрын

I would watch.

@locutusdborg126

4 жыл бұрын

@@JadedJassy21 They asked me to be the technical expert. But I am an undercover alien so I declined.

@MrJayateabug

4 жыл бұрын

"Well that was totally unrealistic, I never drop down from ceilings and rip human beings heads off. I go for their hands first after I spray all their friends in the eyes with my acid breath. Hands are dangerous; they can operate weapons and cameras!"

@jannelaineeleodinmuo2442

3 жыл бұрын

"This part is completely true. We are all TERRIFIED of water and it destroys us on contact. Pool parties can be a REAL bummer." 😂🤣😂🤣🤣

@alexeycherkashov6913

2 жыл бұрын

...That wasn't quite realistic. Not only the protocol of approaching landing is highly uncommon for xzandar, the atmosphere wouldn't allow projectile thrusters to be used at risk of igniting the runway READ the galactic portal-orbital regulations, latest edition!!

Wish you'd reviewed the scene from True Detective Season 1. Great video though.

Great video.

9:59 Perhaps nowadays earphones with leads may be getting less common, but you see earpods everywhere now, so I think an updated Bourne film could easily have him with an earpod doing exactly the same thing and it wouldn't be suspicious.

Imagine a police officer's first duty being to preserve life, would be nice

😂 Dwight and Michael, I really wasn’t expecting that.

This guy is a legend. No show-off, just badass