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Liberty Risk

Liberty Risk

Von: Ryan Williams Kevin Kent Nick Betts
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Mostly true tales of barroom brawls, bad decisions, and near misses. From former Navy SEALs to your average badass, every story walks the line between chaos and comedy. It's the stuff that happens when the uniform comes off and the liberty clock starts ticking. Some made it out clean. Some barely made it out at all. Either way, it's one hell of a ride. Pull up a stool. This is Liberty Risk.2025 Sozialwissenschaften
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  • Ep. 78.5 • Part 2 • The Wild Side of Undercover ATF • John "Hollywood" Carr 🏴‍☠️ • Ep. 78.5

    Ep. 78.5 • Part 2 • The Wild Side of Undercover ATF • John "Hollywood" Carr 🏴‍☠️ • Ep. 78.5
    Sep 21 2026
    🏴‍☠️ Want to hang LIVE with Kevin, Nick & Ryan? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon crew: https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk John "Hollywood" Carr is back for Part 2, and we pick up right where we left off: deep inside his 34-year career with the ATF and his time working undercover as a fully patched member of the Mongols Motorcycle Club. This time we get deeper into what it took to survive inside the club, including the background checks, polygraphs, sponsors, club rules, and the constant possibility that somebody could figure out exactly who John really was. From there, the conversation goes everywhere. John takes us from outlaw motorcycle clubs to undercover weapons deals with the Sinaloa Cartel, sketchy cases that unfolded while he was inside the Mongols, and some of the stranger traditions and stories that came with living in that world. Along the way: • Selling .50 cals and grenade launchers to the Sinaloa Cartel • A Mongol 🗡️🗡️ two guys and trying to flee to Mexico • The infamous Mongols "wing parties" • How John became "J Hollywood" • An undercover ATF club vs. the Sons of Silence in a full-blown bar fight • The government trying to take the Mongols' name and patch • The late-night meth deal that finally made John say, "I'm done" But like Part 1, the conversation eventually gets into something much bigger than undercover stories. John talks about the mental toll of spending decades in law enforcement, losing fellow agents to suicide, and why the people doing these jobs often struggle to ask for help. That leads into a much broader conversation with the guys about coming home from deployments, decompression, some of the things they witnessed overseas, and the experiences that stay with you long after the job is over. After 34 years of 🔫's, gangs, bikers, undercover identities and more close calls than most people experience in a lifetime, John eventually knew it was time to walk away. This is Part 2 of our conversation with John "Hollywood" Carr. Pull up a stool, grab a drink and enjoy the show. CHEERS!! 🍻🍻🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ WANT TO GO DEEPER WITH LIBERTY RISK? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon Community for the stuff that doesn't make it into the episodes: behind-the-scenes footage, conversations between breaks, private community chats, merch & partner discounts, and plenty more. 🥃 Black Site members also get invited to our monthly Virtual Cigar Night where you can grab a drink, light one up, and hang LIVE on Zoom with Kevin, Nick & Ryan. No livestream. No audience. Real two-way conversations with the guys, other members of the LR crew, and occasionally a special guest or two. 🤫 If you enjoy the show and want to be more than just a viewer, come join the crew: 👉 https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk Liberty Risk Hosts: ✖️ Ryan Williams - https://www.instagram.com/invictus5326 ✖️ Kevin Kent - https://www.instagram.com/therealkevinkent ✖️ Nick Betts - https://www.instagram.com/n_betts Liberty Risk Podcast Sponsored by: ✖️ Black Rifle Coffee - https://www.blackriflecoffee.com ✖️ Bulkhead Energy Drink - https://www.bulkheadenergy.com ✖️ Liberty Risk Merch - https://www.liberty-risk.com/collections/shop-all ✖️ Industry Threadworks (screen printing apparel) - https://www.industrythreadworks.com ✖️ Archive 3PL (fulfillment for E-com brands) - https://archive3pl.com ✖️ Krupto Strategic Media - https://kruptostrategicmedia.com ✖️ K-Squared Advising - https://www.k-squared.cc
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    2 Std. und 27 Min.
  • Ep. 78 • Undercover ATF Part 1: Inside the Mongols Motorcycle Club | John "Hollywood" Carr

    Ep. 78 • Undercover ATF Part 1: Inside the Mongols Motorcycle Club | John "Hollywood" Carr
    Sep 17 2026
    🏴‍☠️ Want to hang LIVE with Kevin, Nick & Ryan? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon crew: https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk John "Hollywood" Carr spent 34 years with the ATF, building a career around undercover operations, gang investigations, firearms cases, and some of the most dangerous corners of organized crime. That career eventually took him deep inside the outlaw motorcycle club world, where he became a fully patched member of the Mongols while working undercover. John grew up in Northern California, played football at UC Davis, and eventually stumbled into an ATF recruiting booth while working on his MBA. His biggest question was whether they required a polygraph. Thankfully they didn't. 😂 Next thing he knew, he had a badge, a gun, a government car, and a career that would put him inside some very strange situations over the next three decades, which he excelled at. In Part 1 of our conversation, John takes us from the early days of his ATF career through the realities of long-term undercover work and into the operation that put him inside the Mongols. We get into the culture of old-school federal law enforcement, the psychology of living under an assumed identity, working informants, and the strange combination of trust, brotherhood, and violence that exists inside the outlaw biker world. Along the way: • Old-school ATF and some highly questionable workplace behavior • Waco and how it changed the ATF • The four-lines-of-coke incident • A Hells Angels murder investigation • Infiltrating the Mongols Motorcycle Club • Getting patched without ever prospecting in early 40's • "Hells Angels in the lobby" random dudes in the wrong place at the wrong time • What happens when an undercover agent's real life and criminal identity start getting dangerously close There's a lot of talk about 🔫🔫, 💊❄️, bikers and undercover operations, but underneath all of it is something John keeps coming back to: the TEAM. Why people seek it out. Why some guys will risk everything to stay part of it. And what happens when that team disappears. After nearly two hours, we'd barely scratched the surface. So we split this one in half. Part 2 drops Tuesday. Pull up a stool, grab a drink and enjoy the show, CHEERS!! 🍻🍻🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ WANT TO GO DEEPER WITH LIBERTY RISK? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon Community for the stuff that doesn't make it into the episodes: behind-the-scenes footage, conversations between breaks, private community chats, merch & partner discounts, and plenty more. 🥃 Black Site members also get invited to our monthly Virtual Cigar Night where you can grab a drink, light one up, and hang LIVE on Zoom with Kevin, Nick & Ryan. No livestream. No audience. Real two-way conversations with the guys, other members of the LR crew, and occasionally a special guest or two. 🤫 If you enjoy the show and want to be more than just a viewer, come join the crew: 👉 https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk Liberty Risk Hosts: ✖️ Ryan Williams - https://www.instagram.com/invictus5326 ✖️ Kevin Kent - https://www.instagram.com/therealkevinkent ✖️ Nick Betts - https://www.instagram.com/n_betts Liberty Risk Podcast Sponsored by: ✖️ Black Rifle Coffee - https://www.blackriflecoffee.com ✖️ Bulkhead Energy Drink - https://www.bulkheadenergy.com ✖️ Liberty Risk Merch - https://www.liberty-risk.com/collections/shop-all ✖️ Industry Threadworks (screen printing apparel) - https://www.industrythreadworks.com ✖️ Archive 3PL (fulfillment for E-com brands) - https://archive3pl.com ✖️ Krupto Strategic Media - https://kruptostrategicmedia.com ✖️ K-Squared Advising - https://www.k-squared.cc
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  • Ep. 77.5 • Ye Olde Plank Part 2 • Frogmen, Brotherhood & Desert Storm 🔱🥃🌴 • Extortion 17 Special at Ye Olde Plank

    Ep. 77.5 • Ye Olde Plank Part 2 • Frogmen, Brotherhood & Desert Storm 🔱🥃🌴 • Extortion 17 Special at Ye Olde Plank
    Sep 15 2026
    🏴‍☠️ Want to hang LIVE with Kevin, Nick & Ryan? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon crew: https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk This is Part 2 of a two-episode special recorded during the Frogman Motorcycle Club's annual gathering honoring the men lost on Extortion 17. Part 2 from Ye Olde Plank Inn picks up right where we left off and this one goes from old-school SEAL debauchery to one hell of a Desert Storm story. Dave "Gut" Gutierrez and Billy Helmers join us for Frogman MC, old Team 5 and Plank stories, including Quonset hut keg parties, new-guy rituals, rockets that may or may not have worked as intended, bar fights, road rage and enough questionable decisions to remind everyone why this podcast is called Liberty Risk. But Gut also gets serious about sobriety, helping other team guys through addiction and life after the Teams, and why sometimes hearing "I've been there" from another guy who lived it hits differently. Then retired Navy Captain and former SEAL Team 5 XO/CO Tom Dietz sits down with us. Tom gets into his philosophy of leadership and "the gray area," including the incredible story of how he once had to take Gut's Trident while quietly fighting to give him a chance to save his career. Gut eventually became a SEAL Command Master Chief. Then we go back to Desert Storm. Tom walks us through a six-man SEAL deception mission off the coast of Kuwait involving minefields, C4, Zodiac boats, .50 cals, Mark 19s and thousands of Iraqi troops waiting onshore. Their job was to convince Saddam's forces that a massive Marine amphibious assault was coming. It worked. Iraq shifted thousands of troops toward the beach while coalition forces launched the real attack from the west. We also get into Tom's unexpected retirement, and the fulfillment he's gained from helped raise money for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation to provide education for the children of America's Special Operations community. Bar fights, brotherhood, bad decisions, leadership, redemption and one hell of a war story. Part 2 from Ye Olde Plank. Whiskey & War Crimes. 🥃🇺🇸 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ WANT TO GO DEEPER WITH LIBERTY RISK? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon Community for the stuff that doesn't make it into the episodes: behind-the-scenes footage, conversations between breaks, private community chats, merch & partner discounts, and plenty more. 🥃 Black Site members also get invited to our monthly Virtual Cigar Night where you can grab a drink, light one up, and hang LIVE on Zoom with Kevin, Nick & Ryan. No livestream. No audience. Real two-way conversations with the guys, other members of the LR crew, and occasionally a special guest or two. 🤫 If you enjoy the show and want to be more than just a viewer, come join the crew: 👉 https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk Get to know the crew better here: ✖️ Frogmen MC Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/frogmenmc ✖️ Billy Helmers Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/billyhelmers ✖️ Tom Deitz Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tdeitz142 Liberty Risk Hosts: ✖️ Ryan Williams - https://www.instagram.com/invictus5326 ✖️ Kevin Kent - https://www.instagram.com/therealkevinkent ✖️ Nick Betts - https://www.instagram.com/n_betts Liberty Risk Podcast Sponsored by: ✖️ Black Rifle Coffee - https://www.blackriflecoffee.com ✖️ Bulkhead Energy Drink - https://www.bulkheadenergy.com ✖️ Liberty Risk Merch - https://www.liberty-risk.com/collections/shop-all ✖️ Industry Threadworks (screen printing apparel) - https://www.industrythreadworks.com ✖️ Archive 3PL (fulfillment for E-com brands) - https://archive3pl.com ✖️ Krupto Strategic Media - https://kruptostrategicmedia.com ✖️ K-Squared Advising - https://www.k-squared.cc
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    1 Std. und 33 Min.
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