Scott Payne- Inside The Base: Goat Sacrifice, Murder Plots & America’s Hidden Extremists | DSH #1665
Descripción del Episodio
Undercover FBI agent Scott “Big Country” Payne spent 23 years infiltrating America’s most dangerous extremist groups, biker gangs, cartel operations, and neo-Nazi terror cells… and what he saw is absolutely shocking.
From being stripped at gunpoint while wired, to stopping an active murder plot, to participating in a goat-sacrifice ritual with armed white supremacists on acid, Scott pulls back the curtain on the underground world of extremism — and how these groups really operate.
✅ WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
🧠 How undercover FBI operations actually work
🕵️ How extremist cells recruit online & groom vulnerable young people
🔫 How mass shooters are “ranked” inside extremist forums
🐐 Why goat sacrifice rituals and pagan symbolism play a role in neo-Nazi groups
⚡ How Scott slowed down a murder plot from inside the group
🔥 What “accelerationism” is and why it’s spreading online
🚨 Why active shooter incidents keep rising and how to stop them
💀 How biker gangs test for undercover agents
💬 Why today’s online culture fuels polarization, rage & violence
🏚️ The psychological toll of years undercover — and how Scott recovered
CHAPTERS
00:00 – The murder plot Scott uncovered inside The Base
04:55 – Stripped at gunpoint while wired: the biker club basement incident
10:48 – Surviving by luck: how they missed his recording device
14:15 – Cartel cases, 40 kilos of cocaine & high-risk narco operations
17:50 – Scott’s path into undercover work & early infiltration skills
21:59 – Burnout, collapse & the mental toll of going too deep
28:04 – Active shooter training & why violence keeps rising
36:05 – Why debates are impossible today & the rise of cancel culture
38:55 – Online radicalization: how kids are groomed in chats & games
47:00 – The Base: pagan rituals, goat sacrifice & the “Wild Hunt”
55:56 – Inside the detailed murder plan & how Scott slowed it down
58:40 – The FBI takedown & preventing a mass killing
1:06:30 – 9/11 memories, undercover life & Scott’s final reflections
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