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Description:
This job's got it all right in the title. Alcohol, tobacco, firearms, could anything keep this job from being exciting? Well, maybe all the paperwork. That stuff's not exactly a roller coaster ride.
Transcript
- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in shmoop in careers agent Hey
- 00:07
i'm tony back Oh i'm in a t f agent
- 00:10
stands for alcohol tobacco and firearms So what am i
- 00:14
up to today Well today's mission which i had to
- 00:17
accept because well it's my job is working undercover in
Full Transcript
- 00:20
operation heavy hand as an agent One of my responsibilities
- 00:24
is to stop the sales of illegal weapons like this
- 00:28
puppy Why do i do it Very question not many
- 00:30
people grow up dreaming about being an a t f
- 00:33
agent but over ninety percent of guns found at crime
- 00:35
scenes in mexico can be traced back to gun dealers
- 00:38
in the united states Well when those guns fall into
- 00:40
the wrong hands thousands of people die I'm not the
- 00:43
kind of person who could be comfortable on the sidelines
- 00:45
after hearing that fact i started my day by getting
- 00:48
into character If anyone tells you that acting classes won't
- 00:51
pay off well they're just wrong So i'm still trying
- 00:53
to find a use for those interpretive dance classes when
- 00:55
i'm undercover is jose barriaux I like horse races steak
- 00:59
dinners and shooting powerful guns into the air but real
- 01:03
Life tony Well he's into surfing Veggie burritos and jackie
- 01:06
chan movie marathons Fiercely acting classes solid investment Let me
- 01:10
introduce you to my partner fernando I know this guy
- 01:13
has my back no matter what I also know that
- 01:16
he can't stay awake during a jackie chan movie marathon
- 01:19
but i like him anyway And for those of you
- 01:21
who think any lazy person like fernando here it can
- 01:23
become an a t f agent Sorry to disappoint you
- 01:26
but yeah there's Some pretty intense training We go through
- 01:29
you're there for a few months and they teach you
- 01:31
everything you need to know about going undercover You know
- 01:34
you could probably see why poor fernando is still tired
- 01:36
You picked a good day to tail me Today should
- 01:39
be the end of our mission Because jose here is
- 01:42
going to sell one hundred thousand dollars worth of guns
- 01:44
to a mexican cartel A few months ago fernando and
- 01:47
i met don and pedro at a bowling alley in
- 01:49
tijuana They were terrible bowler but had connections with the
- 01:52
cartel The was targeting six months after meeting mani a
- 01:56
jaguar a k a the high up guy in the
- 02:00
cartel Yeah We finally had gained their trust Fernando even
- 02:03
had to kill someone to prove his loyalty Of course
- 02:05
We knew it was all set up by the but
- 02:08
well the cartel bought it in turns What would we
- 02:10
do without him Well we spent a long time gathering
- 02:12
evidence wearing wires taking pictures and keeping track of the
- 02:16
people we met in the organization And now well now
- 02:18
it's go time And yeah this kind of deal is
- 02:21
just as intense as you see in the movies The
- 02:23
transaction goes smoothly but just in case well we brought
- 02:27
back up it's comforting I don't want that last veggie
- 02:29
burrito I had teo actually be my last veggie burrito
- 02:33
Anyway many approves of what we brought and we help
- 02:36
him load up the truck They give us the duffel
- 02:38
bag of cash manny's in high spirits and makes us
- 02:41
promised to see him again at his sister's wedding Yes
- 02:43
we're like a family to him Now we agree but
- 02:46
i can't help wonder if his sister will live stream
- 02:48
the ceremony so he can watch it after his arrest
- 02:51
in you know cell number thirteen Well here's Where the
- 02:53
magic happens once the truck is out of sight Fernando
- 02:56
calls the head of the f and they'd leave to
- 02:58
intercept manny and the guns before they can cause any
- 03:01
harm Guns off the street Bad guys behind bars and
- 03:05
me on my way to a veggie burrito It's A
- 03:07
tough job but uh well i wouldn't have it any 00:03:10.06 --> [endTime] other way especially when it ends with a burrito
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