Episode Transcript: #2295 - Scott Payne

up to speed right from the beginning you spent 25 years undercover working for the fbi in the clan

nazi organizations and biker gangs and then some yes sir what a crazy crazy life that is

what first of all how did you get how did you first get started doing that uh good question i grew up in

south carolina um played ball all that stuff i i was always kind of a i mean if you look back not

trying to be cocky whatever because that's not it you've had plenty of people on this show that are

complete badasses um but i was kind of a bully of bullies i didn't i always looked out i like the

underdog um i bounced in college uh so i was already learning that gift of gab um and fight techniques

and stuff like that and then i got i became a cop because when i was in college i took a course i'm

taking electives i went to college so i'd have four more years to figure out what i was going to do

because i didn't know what i was doing except partying except you know i did three years

i was good at partying um but uh i hit an elective that was criminal justice and man i really liked it

um psychology was always a strong thing for me but it took a back seat and i ended up coming out with a

major in criminal justice and a minor in psychology but during those criminal justice courses i was like

at first for a fleeting moment i said i'm gonna be an attorney yeah i'll be an attorney and then i

realized i'd be a terrible attorney i said because if i was the defense attorney and they said they did

it i would probably just walk up and go they did it right that's not going to get me any clients

and if i was the prosecutor i pictured me being like sam kennison grabbing them and going say it

you know you did it so i'm like yeah that's probably not the best role for me and i did a ride

along with cops and uh the department and that was it but once i got in to law enforcement i was