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3rd Shift Chronicles Episode 10: The Legend of the Desert Storm Ruffians

3rd Shift Chronicles - July 09, 2020 15:27 - 24 minutes
In this episode, I share my experience while serving in the US Army with the 204th Military Intelligence Battalion while deployed to the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Shield/Storm in 1991.  Our small group of intelligence badasses came to be known as the Desert Storm Ruffians!  ...

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3rd Shift Chronicles Episode 9: A Guy Walks into a German Beer Fest...and Gets Locked Up 3 Days Before Getting Out of the Army

3rd Shift Chronicles - April 26, 2020 21:10 - 31 minutes
In this episode, I share how I was locked up for a crime I didn't commit, 3 days before I my enlistment in the United States Army was up!  This takes place in May of 1993 in Augsburg, Germany at a Beer Fest!  Prost!!!

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Episode 5 - You Can't Catch Me

Fraud, Theft, and Schemes - Case Studies by a Special Agent - March 22, 2020 14:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
This is a case about a man, that had challenged the criminal justice system numerous times and had won. Mickey had been a con man his entire adult life, and had never been convicted or the few convictions that were part of his record, had been expunged. County officials, local police, and the FB...

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3rd Shift Chronicles Episode 8: My take on the Covid-19 pandemic

3rd Shift Chronicles - March 16, 2020 15:50 - 21 minutes
I have spent the better part of 30 years unfucking other people's problems.  I have an analytic mind and am always trying to find the solution to any problem I am faced with.  With the COVID-19 pandemic, I had to really read between the lines and try to make sense out of this global iss...

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3rd Shift Chronicles Episode 7: A Head Banging Incident

3rd Shift Chronicles - February 24, 2020 23:18 - 17 minutes
In this episode, I share a crazy story from my time as a cop in West Pottsgrove Twp. PD in PA.  This story details a domestic call that I responded to with a 6'5", 250lb guy wearing nothing but old school YMCA gym shorts who was high on PCP, Cocaine and Booze.  Let's just say, he went t...

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3rd Shift Chronicles Episode 6: "Up, Up and Away!"

3rd Shift Chronicles - February 16, 2020 20:32 - 20 minutes
In this episode, Matt details the most unusual moment in his 27 year police career - the night he and his patrol car were picked up in an F3 Tornado in Royersford, PA on July 27th at 11:48pm.  

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3rd Shift Chronicles Episode 5: Project Use Your Brain; My Logical Way of Understanding Today's Political Landscape

3rd Shift Chronicles - February 05, 2020 23:38 - 27 minutes
In this episode, I share how I come to rational and logical decisions when deciphering today's political landscape. In a world where news media outlets are so drastically in conflict on the same conversation, it is very difficult to know what is true and what is fiction. Who to believe ...

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3rd Shift Chronicles Episode 4: Matt Gets Locked Up Abroad

3rd Shift Chronicles - January 29, 2020 16:36 - 23 minutes
In this episode, I share my embarrassing and humiliating story from my U.S. Army days where I was "Locked Up Abroad" in Acuna, Mexico.  While this story is not one I am proud of, it most certainly was funny, insane, memorable and part of my life journey into who I am today.  Sit back, g...

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3rd Shift Chronicles Episode 3: God Speaks to a Naked Woman in a Mud Puddle

3rd Shift Chronicles - January 25, 2020 19:03 - 17 minutes
In this episode, I share a funny story from 1995 or so that features me and a few of my fellow officer's dealing with a 300lb naked woman who hears God speaking to her as she is laying in a mud puddle one summer night around midnight.  Disclaimer:  I am in now way slighting those with o...

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Third Shift Chronicles Episode 2: New Life in the Front Seat of a Toyota

3rd Shift Chronicles - January 20, 2020 00:53 - 15 minutes
On a cold early morning in December of 2012, I was dispatched to a maternity call while working the third shift at my police department.  What happened next was something I will never, ever forget for as long as I live!  Listen as I share my experience of delivering a baby in the front ...

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3rd Shift Chronicles Episode 1: "Mind Blowing" Call

3rd Shift Chronicles - January 16, 2020 00:53 - 24 minutes
In this, the first official episode of the 3rd Shift Podcast, I share an intense and mind blowing call that I experienced 6 months into my rookie year in 1994.  This call was INSANE!!!   I also share my views on law enforcement today and how the breed of cops is much different today tha...

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3rd Shift Chronicles Podcast: The Introduction

3rd Shift Chronicles - January 13, 2020 19:58 - 11 minutes
In this episode, Matt Cubbler introduces you to the format of the show and what you can expect each and every episode!  3rd Shift Chronicles Podcast is for anyone who has ever worked the overnight shift, a.k.a. 3rd Shift, and uttered the phrase :"You Can't Make this Shit Up!"  Sit back,...

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Episode 4 - Casimero Where Are You

Fraud, Theft, and Schemes - Case Studies by a Special Agent - December 22, 2019 16:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
Fraud, Theft, and Schemes – Case Studies by a Special Agent by James Carrieres I am retired Special Agent that worked for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Veterans Affairs for over 20 years. What I will discuss is the actual cases that I was the primary ...

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Episode 3 - World Champion Card Player

Fraud, Theft, and Schemes - Case Studies by a Special Agent - November 08, 2019 06:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
The defendant in this case was convincingly the most intelligent subject I investigated during my 20 + years as an agent. Some of my other defendants might argue this point, but he was a world champion card player and he ran a very complex scheme all the while concealing his identity. He worked ...



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Episode 2 - The ASU Bodybuilder - Part 1

Fraud, Theft, and Schemes - Case Studies by a Special Agent - October 24, 2019 13:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
This is part one of an investigation that lasted over 5 years.  Thank you for listening.

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Episode 1 - Creative Staging

Fraud, Theft, and Schemes - Case Studies by a Special Agent - October 22, 2019 00:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
Fraud, Theft, and Schemes – Case Studies by a Special Agent  by James Carrieres I am retired Special Agent that worked for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Veterans Affairs for over 20 years. What I will discuss is the actual cases that I was the primary...

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