Undercover FBI Agent Fact Checks Mob Movies & TV | Vanity Fair
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- Former undercover FBI agent, Mike McGowan, reviews notorious organized crime scenes from movies and television. He deep dives into ‘Reservoir Dogs,’ ‘The Departed,’ ‘Donnie Brasco,’ ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ ‘The Sopranos,’ ‘Goodfellas,’ ‘Scarface,’ ‘The Irishman,’ ‘Billy Bathgate,’ ‘True Detective’ and ‘Narcos' and analyzes the probability, craft, and execution of their tactics.
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There's gotta be someone who was in the mob that's watching this like "hey isn't that paul?"
he obviously isnt undercover anymore, hes just training or something
rousod Yeah, but it’s very possible that criminals won’t find out who the rat is even after all is said and done.
This post is underrated.
Juan Esteban Rendón its just dumb how is it underrated
Stolen
Currently he is undercover as Chancellor of the German Empire
Under the name Bismarck
Toby Tawaqal Does he have a plan?
Michael Alexander BISMARCK ALWAYS HAS A PLAN!!!
Hahahahaha
Von Hindenburg
I never clicked this thinking this man would say “I love Golden Retrievers”
I somehow read this EXACTLY at the time he said that.
Or that he went to “dirt school” swear it man, this guy is the Lorax after losing his forest.
I’d think he’d prefer schnauzer
@@GuestUser18 Either watch the video or read the comments. Don't do both, dickhead.
czcams.com/video/88yQhk7kd6E/video.html ...
This guy is the real deal. He was undercover as a Mythbuster for years.
😂😂😂 Jaime
Nah, the myth buster guy shaved his head.... 👀
@@selfproclaimednobody4614
Part of his cover - duh.
even his lips are undercover
Hahahah
Amazing.
Lawl
By far the best comment
Woahh....
Currently he is undercover as the Lorax trying to stop the Truffula tree trade
Lmao!
Bwah!
LMFAOOO
lol
Well he did go to Dirt school
This man is the most FBI FBI agent that has ever FBI’d.
In the history of FBI
😂
This guy looks like a confederate general what are you talking about?
Yeah, he couldn’t look like more of a fed if he tried. Hopefully he looked different back then.
This dude's actually brilliant. Any criminal would look at him and be like there's no way the guy that looks like a stereotypical fbi agent is actually an undercover fbi agent
Stereotypical FBI agent? Bro looks like the stereotypical Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard.
Hiding in plain sight.
His cover is impeccable, I'd have never guessed he was actually iron chancellor otto von bismark
🎶 _Bismark in motion, king of the ocean_ 🎶
🎶 _He was made to rule the waves across the seven seas_ 🎶
Otto bist dus?! Ihr Kelps
Otto* von Bismarck* ...
🚻🛂🛄 bone bone bone 😚
HAHAHAHA this was absolutely brilliant
This guy has the ultimate poker face. His eyes and eyebrows never move.
@D how did it go
That's cause he is wearing a mask. That's not his real face.
@@ashishhembrom3905 I unironically, think he's wearing a mask
That’s probably nerves of steel that he’s become used to due to the high stress situations he’s regularly in.
His mustache on the other hand...
With a great mustache comes great responsibility
Amen
that's fake he's wearing a mask watch his forehead
Every mob boss is calling for a surprise sock inspection right now
When he made an arrest he should have said "Go directly to jail, Do not pass go, Do not collect $200".
@@quappo stfu
@@rotisseriechickenlover-jb4cc calm down buddy. He is rightm
@@Ty-vj4wg IDC if he's right, ppl that spot inaccuracies in jokes are big cringe
@@rotisseriechickenlover-jb4cc Do you even know what cringe is? That isn't even close to cringe. That is just a fact. Yep, the joke was funny, but isn't close to possible.
JOG idk it’s better if jokes have at least some semblance of legitimacy otherwise it’s distracting that they don’t make sense
If the Monopoly man followed his passion
Missing his iconic top hot.
Mike Haywood loooool that made me fall off my chair
Seems like he’s a product of the monopoly man and the Lorax
Doug Dimmadome, owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome
5:14 ill purchase a hotel on park plaza please
“Wow you’re really knowledgeable about dirt, do you garden a lot or something?”
“No, I went to dirt school actually”
Haha!!!!!!! Omg
Thank you this made me laugh so f'ing much
"There's a 5 step training process. Preparation, preparation, preparation, preparation...."
"and preparation?"
"and go do it."
"Dammit"
"I disarmed him with ... uh ... the humor" - delivered in the most monotone voice xD
"Principal Skinner, you've been referred to as "the funny one". Is that reputation justified?"
"Yes."
*audience erupts in laughter*
DIABEETUS
the human*
Do people really still say XD
Han Lockhart thanks for that profound insight
He’s currently undercover trying to penetrate the monopoly cartel
If its the U.S monopoly cartel, hes part of it
😂😂😂😂
the monopoly cartel = uranus
That's hilarious!!!!
You're joking but that is a serious cartel
"That's not real. Law enforcement can't initiate violence." LOL
I like to imagine a bunch of crime bosses just spit out their coffee when they watched this
This guy really does look like he could be either REALLY italian, REALLY russian, or REALLY mexican.
And REALLY german
That's prpbably what gave him an edge in the undercover game. People are more likely to trust and take in their own kind.
80% of his backstories were the same, he just had to change accents depending on which mob he was dealing with 😂
CoolMan Caravan Nah dude he looks German AF
And really Austrian
It's real life Captain Holt. "I disarmed him... with humour" - in a robot voice
JoaoNMatz what is this marshed mallow?
@ I KNEW IT!!
Typical cop
except he's italian new yorker
Monotone humor is good
"Theres a lot to know about dirt"
Me: Laughs in civil engineering
This man looks like he’s seen more things than 20th century historians
"If I was Pablo Escobar, I never would have been around the airport that day" *smile for the first time during the video*
Plot twist: he is Escobar undercover for all these years.
When did he smile
@@bangtwicesib4281 right after he said that
@@bangtwicesib4281 right before he talks about how Hollywood sometimes gets it right.
I think he smiled during the departed segment...the fight part of that segment.
Timestamp?
"I will not give up any trade secrets that would lead Hedgehogs to the Chaos Emeralds."
Okay this one got me.
HA
Absolutely brilliant joke. Well done.
I’m the 1,000 like
I bet even Adam Savage did not realize Jamie was an undercover FBI agent all these years.
This guy is totally badass!!! "Yeah I was undercover with the mob"... Good god man you're cool!! His insights are so enthralling. I wanna hear more!
I was half expecting this guy to peel his face off at the end of the video and reveal that he was disguised the entire time
He's not saying where Jimmy Hoffa really is, because he's hiding him in his mustache.
Dammit! I was going right to the comments to say that he had a pistola hidden in is moostache.
shitslikebear 🤣
Lol
You can see jimmy Hoffa head poking out
moew
Oh he's a retired FBI special agent? I thought he was a railroad executive in an wild west movie.
J. P. Morgan.
Prospector
And he loves labradors
This is so accurate
He has many identities
"The key to being undercover is you can't act stiff" says literally the stiffest guy I've ever seen in my life
I really enjoyed his book twords the end you get the story of when he and the endure team went after El Chapo and his cartel. During the first meeting of the UCO the team was nervous so he goes to the bathroom sees this purple bathrobe so he takes his suite off and puts on the purple bathrobe and goes back out to where the agents are starts cracking jokes to ease everyone nurves.
Annnnnd he isn't undercover here.
Guy looks like a lot of fun to have a beer with
@@TeatroGrotesco exactly right
If you give people the impression you are rigid they will guess you could never be the person to effectively lie to them or act differently to your true persona
You are literally talking about a professional. What in the what
“Believe me, theres a lot to know about dirt” 😂
This dude out here looking like the emperor of Austria-Hungary
Franz Josef I (minus the whiskers)
Put him in a prussian Kaiser uniform also.
Austria-Hungary*
@@deamonic456820 yes sorry
Bismarck
"I had to go to dirt school.... To learn about dirt. And believe me there's a lot to learn about dirt that I didn't know until I went to dirt school. But once I went, and it was an organized crime case, I was able to talk dirt to the bad guys. "
So many questions. So many potential puns.
In the end, he was able to get enough dirt on the bad guys to put em all away
That case taught him how to fight dirty
I heard, when he took the stand, he talked dirty.
but that's so true. Soil science is fascinating!
He had to stop mucking around and get down and dirty - at least he didn't soil himself
I love this dudes face when he says he's seen it get heated to almost a fight so he was gonna leave it alone lol.... He's seen a fight lol.
It’s incredibly impressive that Donnie Brasco went to jewelry school on his own, and this guy actually went to “dirt school”
Thankfully his training at diet school saved him. Otherwise he might have soiled himself when things got hairy.
He looks like he speaks for the trees
This is easily the best mustache joke here.
Thought about inuyasha
Ent on LoTR
Literally made me Lol
Read this comment and nearly pissed myself laughing so hard
Bribing the dirt inspector is the most disappointing crime I’ve heard of lol
Someone recently dished the dirt on dirty dirt inspectors in the US. It was a sweeping success.
It was probably linked with some sort of land property scam.
its pay dirt
Soil has to be tested for construction and other purposes. If you're trying to hide something in the soil, like waste or bodies, that would likely be caught during a lab test, yes you would bribe the inspector.
Yeah but that’s the point
this guy's voice is so low and slow, but he speaks so well and engaging that you can't help to be kept engaged.
Stuff like this is literally the most intriguing videos ever. I love hearing the inner workings of this or drug dealing or robbing banks. This is the good part of the internet
Somewhere in the world there must be a mob member who's being like "Hey, isn't that Viktor?"
Edit : Thank you all for the 1k likes!
nice
No he's looking for Korean chicks
Nah, dat's Tony.
I'm mentally reading all of these in a New Yorker accent lmaoo
Nico Di Fictional I was reading it in Belgian accent 😂
Psh, dirt school?
Any farmer knows -- it's SOIL.
This guy must be...
... a plant.
Im so sorry
*way back in the room* I GET IT!
Go stick your head in the sand, eh soil, somewhere
🌱😛
No he's The Lorax.
Imagine going to prison for bribing a dirt inspector that turned out to be a fed
Right?? That has to be the last person I'd suspect was a fed 🤣
Hes' got everyone fooled. He's actually the coffee cup throwing his voice.
Lol
Is that why the body looks half dead?
7:23 "I had to go to dirt school and believe me: there is a lot to learn about dirt."
Well thats the undercover glory! Youre learning valuable things!
Christian Belzer so he can....talk dirty...to me
@@adamjackets2644 xddddd
@@adamjackets2644 🤦♂️
Currently he's undercover in a commercial to tell you about Diabeetus
Don't let his baby face fool you; this guy means business.
"Are you an FBI agent?!"
"Oh yeah, sure. I'm J. Edgar Hoover."
You know there's something so incredible about real-life cops vs. robbers stories. I love it. This guy is awesome.
@@H-to-O well, that good, im Prince William the III.
@@H-to-O Just FYI, one can enjoy cross-dressing without identifying as female.
There's something about him that just makes me believe back in the day he delivers it very Bruce Willis "Oh yeaaaah suuuure, I'm J. Edgar Fuckin' Hoover"
Currently he is undercover as a retired FBI special agent
For the Mob, the Cartel, and Russia
Funny
You know if that somehow turns out to be true he would be amazing
If he was born 150 years ago, he Looks like would have hunted outlaws with working at the Pinkerton office.
No way this dude actually looks like this in real life. Didn't anyone watch the Wired channel, they disguise everyone like this guy.
He has 6 identities and they all love Golden Retrievers.
That would make a killer opening line for a spy novel tbh
It looks like as if he's still wearing that MOUSTACHE as part of his COVER
He would be quite hideous without that stache
His code name was Diabeetus.
k
Almost like they didn't have a prop room in hand so they quickly improvised a disguise by shaving the nearest hairiest thing: an Old English Sheep dog.
Turns out he's actually undercover as a former undercover FBI agent,. Crafty.
"what's wrong is that the undercover agent encourages and initiates violence...that can't happen, that's not realistic. Law enforcement personal can only react to violence in self defense...."
I've seen plenty of videos that contradict that statement.....
Well there's a gap between what you're supposed to do and reality. But there's the impression he is talking specifically about protocol being undercover--because in that situation if you start committing a crime you can mess up the later prosecution.
He meant legally
Sopranos was a Legendary series....and Furio Guinta was the best character of all. He truly had the makings of a varsity athlete; was the strong, silent type; and also so helpful - There's a bee onna yo 'at!
Im convinced his mustache is growing him, not the other way around.
They did actually make a movie about the guy that was one of Escobar's main pilots, one of the wildest true stories in our modern history, called American Made.
He was a former airline pilot that made contact with a CIA officer who made arrangements for him to smuggle weapons to the contra fighters in south america. The planes where designed to haul as many weapons as possible anyway on the way down there, so the plane was just empty on the way back, so Escobar's people got into contact with him and he started hauling coke back across the border on each and every trip he went out there for the CIA. I don't think Pablo was there on the first day, but that guy did actually meet Pablo Escobar in person and was invited to a number of festive occasions by him personally.
The real messed up thing is, the CIA eventually found out about it and intentionally turned a blind eye to it until the administration changed, and then they burned his cover which eventually resulted in his death.
PhantomSavage was going to give it a watch
Barry Seal was his name!
In case you ever thought the CIA were "good guys," there's dozens of stories like this. They'll sooner let people die and nations burn than show their hand.
@@Osric24 I mean that is the point of any intelligence agency, Mossad, CIA, GRU/FSB, MI6, you name it, it doesn't matter what 3 letters define them, their motives and their tactics are roughly the same. The only difference is how they go about their tactics, there is no IA with clean hands and I challenge anyone to prove me wrong.
Look up Freeway Rick Ross
This is the what happened to the old time strong men who lifted the round barbells.. and wore the leopard print tights with one shoulder strap..
Can we talk about how this guy has the coolest face ever straight out of a book
This dude has his whole life written on his face.
Or give him a top hat and he is The Monopoly Guy
John Doe how does that have anything to do with the original comment 😂
He has seen things that we most like be have never will never and hopefully never see
@@rokkfel4999 your grammatically incorrect sentence is what i wish i never ever will be ever after or whatever i see :))))
RoxyDzey well ok then ....probably doesn’t help I have small phone with big fingers
I bet even Adam Savage did not realize Jamie was an undercover FBI agent all these years.
Cool so we’re all on the same page about this being Jamie 😂😂😂😂
I feel like if I could peek under his moustache I would be privy to the meaning of life
The only man whose mustache can rival Jamie Hyneman's.
I need a video of Michael Franzese and him meeting and having a chat about the 'good old mob days'
there actually is a video on that
@@carysthompson638 link?
Underrated comment
That man is legendary
@@carysthompson638 That's with Joe Pistone, the real Donnie Brasco
Ok, was anybody going to tell me that Dirt School exists, or was I just supposed to find that out for myself?
USDA
@John Volken No... he literally means dirt
@@joshlanier8567 Could be, or he could have swapped it out due to his disclosure about not revealing secrets. The important part, though, is that it's awesome.
I believe it’s under mineralogy
@@Just_A_Dude that's not a secret lmao
He uses the same coffee maker as James Bond uses in the actual books. Lol
“For as long as I can remember, I always wanted to be a walrus...”
You can't just grow a giant mustache and claim you're "undercover". It only covers a portion of your face.
good one
Going under cover as Doug Dimmadome, owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome
Made me laugh so much
Well he IS retired...
Glasses and mustache set: Allow us to introduce ourselves
That man's death stare would make me confess to anything
Are you afraid of goofy, cartoonish things??
@@nunliski sorry, your skills ain't gonna scare anyone bud. Gotta do more than that, champ.
@@mark-ish Wuhh? I was talking about Wilford Brimley, not myself.
I wondered what the Monopoly Man looked like without his hat
What he lacks in sleeve , he makes up for in mustache
He didn't keep the 1500 dollar suit.
I need this guy to do a collab with the mob guy that's been all over CZcams recently
Your talking about Micheal Franzese right?
Also that one thief, as that guy has also been all over CZcams lately.
Mechaghostman2 Larry Lawton?
@@TheMrrandomxbox
Yes.
Mechaghostman2 THE BIG THREE
“...and I had to go to dirt school, to learn about dirt.” LMAO. Why is that sentence so funny to meees.
Me watching this video
My FBI agent: “anyways so-“
WTF! BISMARCK 🤯 he left his pointy cap in his house 🤣
This is the guy that killed me in Red Dead 2
This is Micah Hall as an old man lol.
@@josephsharp5678 Micah Belle?
Agent Ross
Nate Arceneaux Micah Bell*
*Mikah Bel
He looks like he is still undercover and has an old-man face on.
lmaoooooooooo this made me laugh too hard
No, lie I was thinking the same thing lol. *Joe Rogan voice* "it's entirely possible"
@@stoneraleks6515 if you look into it
He almost certainly is, a big tell is facial hair. I saw a video where they demonstrated on crew members how they disguise former under cover agents to keep then safe and they apply alot of makeup around the cheeks and chin and add facial hair as well as a wig or a bald cap
Why Not His eyebrows never seem to move either. He keeps the same consistent facial expression through the whole vid. Wouldn’t be surprised if that’s not his real name as well.
I think he was actually undercover at that moment 😂
Agent: I won’t give out any information that will jeopardize my agents and put them in harms way.
Also Agent: I train my agents to go into bars and find targets information
Criminals: Okay, don’t go into bars. Got it 👍
It sounded like it was literally just random people designated as a target for practice rather than actual criminals.
Agent McGowan spent the majority of his career working undercover in Prussia as Otto von Bismarck.
He looks like a dragon quest character
lmao Rab in real life.
he's a real life poirot
He looks Wilford Brimley
@@ubermenschchan7671 Poirot would be ashamed to have such an untidy stache
He looks like an RPG master blacksmith
He has a constant disappointed dad look
Feddy McEyebags: "Risk is not worth the reward and crime does not pay"
Vanity Fair: interviews @LarryLawton
who else wants to see him and Larry the former jewel thief in the same room?
I want to see him and Michael Franzese in the same room just having a little chat about their lives
100%
@@kertaspaper94 i was just about to comment that...yeah, him and michael having a chat about the mob life would make for great entertainment
I thought the same thing when I watched this video.
"This is Mike McGowan." False, this is Wilford Brimley, and he'd like to talk to you for a few minutes about diabeetus.
I legit thought it was Wilford Brimley when I saw the thumbnail. Have a like.
Kidwell
Lmao!!! Or Quaker Oatmeal...it’s the right thing to do!
Hilarious!!!!!!!!!!
I like how he says he's not going to devolve to the tradecraft kind of basically devoting a bunch of tradecraft
that guy has done things in his life that we dont even think about would happen, you can see it in his face.
This guy is sooooo badass and cool but he also looks like Hercule Poirot. I could listen to his stories forever.
The cement shoes thing became so popular because there was one real life case recorded, however, the victim would have most likely been killed prior, and was used more as a body disposal method, to ensure it will stay on the bottom of a lake/river, rather than wash up wherever and be found by authorities.
I assumed that making sure that the body would stay down would be the reason to use it anyway and not to torture people to death.
That's always what I thought. Kill a guy take his teeth and concrete his feet send him to the bottom of the Hudson.
Wait, in true detective Rist wasn’t acting officially as an undercover agent, he had gone rogue.
This man's mustache is legendary
Interesting hearing him talk about how he enjoyed his time with the criminals just drinking, playing cards etc. makes you wonder if he ever regrets turning them in or whatever.
Based on how long he did it and how good he was I’m gonna say a hard no to that. He did his job and did it well. It’s not like he didn’t know what was going to happen going in. I’m sure he is proud of it. He can like them and be proud of it at the same time.
I’m not an officer but I bet a lot of law officers would agree with me that’s it’s beneficial to a perpetrator to be turned in. At least a chance to get them out of that life and repent for their crime.
@@mizzouranger134 Pride cometh before a fall. No fall, no pride.
Doubt it. Not too tough to build a mindset dividing a person’s actions. You can find a person enjoyable to hang out with but still deserving whatever the law dishes out.
I’d also imagine you need a pretty good handle on your emotions to do the job, or at least the ability to put stuff on hold.
We all know a guy who is pretty cool, and fun to hang with, but not someone we'd defend if it came down to it, you know?
Give him a bowler hat and he's a Pinkerton.
AGENT ROSS
hahahahh
@@SyabilMohar817 Literally the person I was thinking of
3:10 to yuma? Watched just last week great movie
Or give a top hat then he is the Monopoly guy
Wait a minute this guy looks like the guy that does my landscaping.
Dirt school. He was able to talk dirt... I talk dirt without ever having gone to school son! 😂
00:49 Reservoir Dogs
03:58 The Departed
05:37 Donnie Brasco
07:49 Boardwalk Empire
10:07 THE SOPRANOS
11:36 Goodfellas
13:11 Scarface
15:05 The Irishman
16:59 Billy Bathgate
17:36 True Detective
18:49 Narcos
🙏
I'm guessing he's wearing a disguise. Bald cap, fake moustache, and so on.
It seem to me that his chin moves a lot more than the rest of his jawline. I hope he is undercover here anyway, I imagine there are people out there that could identify him and want to harm him since he worked with gangs.
Ralitsa Angelova he’s retired, they can’t get to FBI agents anyway lol. It’s not like they can just be like hey, let’s go roll up to fbi agents and off them! It’ll be sooooo easy
Having prosthetics is very accurate
Ralitsa Angelova it’s cuz of the fat
If you look at other appearances by this man you can actually pick up on subtle differences in his face. Liver spots and blemishes are in slightly different positions compared to before.
It only adds to it that the main result on google for "Michael McGowan" is the Canadian filmmaker of the same name.
Only thing that makes me even question his legitimacy is that second point. It's poor form to use the name of people with some level of celebrity status as it usually only attracts attention.
This was the absolute best FBI recruitment tool of the last 30 years.
Change my mind.
4:06 he says MicroProcess’ehs like The movie haha
I feel like this man could create a standup comedy routine around accurately recounting his police experiences
Dirt school
As we speak, Seltzer and Friedberg are in negotiations to bring it to the big screen. It will star Rob Schneider and Chris Katan as bumbling FBI trainees. "This summer...get ready to SOIL yourself...at DIRT SCHOOL!"