FULL EPISODE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9Cc8wrbojs&t=2275s Subscribe Here: @JulianDoreyDaily JOHNNY'S LINKS: YouTube: ‪ @theconnectpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamjohnnymitchell/?igsh=bTk1OHZiNG50bHBy&utm_source=qr# Newsletter: https://juliandoreypodcast.beehiiv.com/get-julians-top-10-books CLIPPERS DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/8QmWEKJ3BT --- Watch the FULL EPISODE here: [INSERT LINK] Johnny Mitchell is a former drug trafficker and standup comedian who hosts The Connect with Johnny Mitchell — a true crime podcast that takes listeners inside the world of drugs crime prison and the politics of the War on Drugs. He has firsthand experience running operations and embedding with cartel members and he sits down with Julian Dorey for the most operationally specific and most institutionally alarming cartel conversation this podcast has produced. This segment covers Johnny's first night in jail and Punchmade Dev, the realities of max security including talent shows and the future of short-form content, the US training cartels and printing money, the CIA and banker connection to organized crime, Chapo's kids and where the cartel power structure actually sits right now, why the CIA benefits from cartel wars and the shift from the war on terror, the unease of operating in cartel land and The Connect, cartel decline, the China-Mexico fentanyl funnel, the narco Panama Canal and what a future without cartels would actually look like. The US training cartels thread is the episode's most institutionally alarming and most personally credentialed contribution. Johnny Mitchell is not a commentator or an analyst. He is a former trafficker who ran operations and embedded with cartel networks. His specific account of the documented relationship between US government training programs and the cartel organizations those programs subsequently produced — and the specific mechanism through which government money printing has historically sustained the financial infrastructure that cartels depend on — is the most operationally grounded version of this argument available from someone who has been inside the system it describes. The CIA and banker thread is the episode's most structurally significant and most broadly consequential contribution. The documented connection between CIA operations and cartel activity — from the Iran-Contra era through the Fast and Furious gun running scandal through the present — is examined by Mitchell from the specific perspective of someone who has operated in the spaces where those connections manifest on the ground. The banker dimension — the specific financial institutions and mechanisms through which cartel money moves through the legitimate economy — is the most consistently underreported element of the entire cartel accountability story and the one that Mitchell argues most directly explains why the war on drugs has never been designed to succeed. **Inside This Clip:** - Johnny Mitchell's first night in jail — Punchmade Dev and jail fights - Max security reality — talent shows and why Johnny thinks about short-form content differently now - The US training cartels and printing money — the documented institutional relationship - The CIA and banker connection to organized crime and cartel operations - Chapo's kids — where the cartel power structure actually sits right now - Why the CIA benefits from cartel wars — the war on terror shift and what replaced it - The unease of operating in cartel land and what The Connect has revealed - Cartel decline — what is actually happening to the traditional cartel structure - The China-Mexico fentanyl funnel — the most important current cartel story - The narco Panama Canal and what a future without cartels would actually look like This is the cartel accountability story told from the inside — by the former trafficker who has been in the rooms the institutions and the geopolitical spaces that the war on drugs has consistently failed to address — and who now documents all of it through The Connect. --- ***TIMESTAMPS*** 0:00 - First Night in Jail Punchmade Dev & Jail Fights 06:57 - Max Security Talent Shows & Short-Form Future 20:39 - US Training Cartels & Printing Money 27:39 - CIA & Bankers Chapo's Kids & Organized Crime 37:16 - CIA Benefits From Cartel Wars & War on Terror Shift 47:05 - Uneasy in Cartel Land The Connect & Cartel Decline 53:31 - China-Mexico Funnel Narco Panama Canal & Future Without Cartels @JulianDoreyDaily