Mhm. Hello, thank you for joining me today on the Private Investigator Experience Podcast. I'm your host, Phil Little, answering the questions, what's a day like in the life of a PI? But before I do, because this is a very important day in America, it's Veterans Day. Happy Veterans Day to all my veterans and my friends and those that I don't know. If you served, thank you and God bless you. And I just watched a very moving service on Saturday night at the world outreach church in Tennessee. They had as a guest speaker, Chad Robichack, who is a former Marine recon, special forces into Afghanistan eight times. One of those that went in early. Blending with the, the locals and just had a an amazing career, but dealt with all kinds of issues when he come home and he talks about those. But at the end of it, he told about someone he was having on his podcast. Aaron. Hale, another soldier who came back blind, but here and went through that thing in life that many of us have gone through thinking we don't really have anything to live for. His story is very touching and worthwhile. So check that podcast out at Chad Robocheck or. The World Outreach Church. I think you can connect with it there. And the soldier's name is Aaron Hale, and he's on his podcast. Now, back to the PI life. Well, I've structured our operation based on my law enforcement model and my experience there, and I, I, Pulled in a lot of my military intelligence service and then adding a touch and maybe a big touch of my biblical worldview because I found out that that handbook, the Bible, is also the best investigator training tool that we can have. I've been asked thousands of times, probably over the last 50 years, from all over the world, wherever I've gone, what's it like to be a PI? What is your day like? Is it dangerous? Is it like television? All these questions and I would. Particularly for women who would, these big eyes would be open, just engrossed in you, and everyone would usually say, Oh, you know, I would be a great EI. Will you hire me? And on and on it would go. Well, prior to the internet, you know, the remote meeting possibilities we have now we were established much like a police department. We had a headquarters station. We had a front desk and people would come through the door in those days. Before they had that internet to easily find you or connect. And they would come and tell the front desk they had a problem and it would be everything that you could think of. In my early days, I would meet with every client that came through those doors as walk ins when I was in the office, unless I was traveling for some reason. and the ones that would be calling that I would go to meet with in their offices, like the one I'm going to talk about today. Well, what I loved about those early days was the ability to listen to people and have a blank slate about what I could suggest that would help them in public law enforcement. We were restricted to what we could say and do. So I couldn't always recommend the kind of things that might be their best best help for them. sometimes they didn't need a detective, but a counselor or prayer. From a God that loved them just to come and help them with the thousands of cases that we had, there would be hundreds that would go away without hiring me, without paying me with a solution to their problem and hope for a new life. And that was worth every minute that I spent with him. I was a early morning person. I would be at the office early, sometimes six, six 30, or at least seven. We had a 24 hour. A team who would deal with after hours problems at a 24 hour communication with all of our agents and units out and my first stop would be in that 24 hour center and they would always have a summary of what had gone on the night before and any issues and how they dealt with them. They do. I like that. And then I would move on to a short staff meeting with the key staff people and talk about what we had going on to that day. Then as I went to my office and I was sitting there and my assistant said, you have a call from a man that wants to talk to you about an issue they have. As I picked up the phone and said, well, how can I help you? I've heard his name and knew it because he was one of the executives of a Studio close by even though this is an older case, I'm not going to talk about names at this point. I feel that in our world, it's best that I don't do that. He said, we have a serious situation coming up, very sensitive, and we're concerned about leaks. Coming out prematurely before this is made public, could you come up and meet with us? And, and I said, sure. We picked a time at 2 PM that afternoon. He gave me his address and the suite and the floor they were on. And so I arranged to to go meet with them. Then before I hung up, he said, do you still have limos? And I said, yes, we do. He said, okay, see you later. As I got off the phone, I called in my operations chief and said that we have a meeting I want you to go with me on up at the studio. I'm not sure what the situation is, but it seems to be very sensitive. We arrived at his Office at 2 PM and they urshed you to send to the conference room where there were 4 individuals, 3 men and a woman. The CEO was at the meeting. The chief legal officer was also there and he said, we want to retain you, but we need to have you sign this NDA so we can give you all the information. I reviewed it. It was standard. I had my operations chief sign one. I signed one. And then as I gave it back, he passed a check over to me for 10, 000 as a retainer, solidifying the retainer agreement. They were very concerned about security. The CEO gave us a background of why this was important as they were meeting with a foreign company about the purchase of the studio. And for it to leak out to the public before it was complete could cause disruption and might block the sale. We're concerned about having a meet here where people would see them coming and going and leaks of people maybe overhearing things they shouldn't. And what we would like to do is have you take them out in your limo with our team and drive around and being out where no one could record it, overhear it. So that the basics of the agreement could be agreed on so we could finish the paperwork and make this thing happen. I said, sure, we can handle that. I asked him how many would be coming to be in the car, the limo, and he said, eight people. And I said, okay, we can handle that because the limo it's a 10 passenger. We talked about any kind of drinks or refreshments or. Next, they would want in the car and we also discussed when the buyers will be coming in, they would be coming by a private jet into the Van Nuys airport and he wanted us to arrange to pick them up and then we were going to have a another limo pick up the clients at the studio. They were going to leave there and we would rearrange a meeting place. So that. The buyers wouldn't have to come to the studio in that particular meeting. So they were, they were very concerned about the security of this. And as I looked around the conference room in the area, I thought, you know, this maybe could be big time. They should do a electronic bug, sweep. So I suggested them. To them about doing an electronic sweep of their location and the conference room when they agreed to that. And so that electronic sweep of, we call the listing devices bugs, as you've probably heard. And we would do that at night when nobody was in the offices. When we went back to our headquarters, my concern was the security on our end. Which was just as important as the security at the client's location that they were concerned about. Even though we had very professional people, people were people, and you can never be a hundred percent sure, no matter the limits you go to. Make sure that you've got honest. Dedicated, committed people who knows when to keep their mouth shut, even though their ears have heard things they shouldn't. So I went over all these details with our operations chief and also our electronics division, which would handle the bug sweep. I gave them the information about the client's contact and To set up that location and do it within the next week, as we wanted that done before we got closer to the client meeting with the potential buyers. I also had each one of our team members there that knew what was going on, signed another NDA, particularly for this situation. I also wanted that whoever you think should be our driver. And the bodyguard with them, then I want to meet with both of those individuals before the situation is concluded with them and they will not be told anything about what was going on or what the, the clients were going to be doing. And it would just be a. Situation where they were going to be driving clients to a location and that was going to be something that we want to nail down very tight. And so in creating the file on this client, I created a dummy file with a number. On it and kept all the information in the safe under their name until the case would be finished and the next 2 weeks. We were on the phone with the client a lot talking about details, their concerns that they might be having. We had mapped out a route that we would be. driving, which would be, we wanted it on flat ground, not going around curves or up and down hills, which is the back of a limo, if you've ever been in one, it's more pronounced than being in the front of the limo or in a car. So we want it to be very inducive to talking and papers not flying around over the back. So we laid out that, gave it to the clients and they approved that. And we talked about the time frame on when we would pick up their executives and go to meet the limo at this remote location we had established, which would be where the both limos would meet and then they would all get into the one limo that we had selected to be their conference room, their boardroom. The secure one with all the walls hardened. So nobody could hear. Right. Yes. Well, this case was very important because the studio we'd done things for them before, and it was a big potential client because we did a lot in the entertainment industry. So I wanted to make sure it went right. There could not be any glitches, not one. So I followed this like an old mother here, I suspect. I know my team. Thought I was a real perfectionist. And I guess, yes, I really was. I, I, I didn't like to hear from clients since there was a problem. I use my old air force model was prevent, prevent, prevent. He had a jet airplane. We put him up in the air and we wanted to make sure they didn't come down before they wanted to land because we had the life of the pilot and the plane at stake. So we rehearsed this, we planned and planned and over planned, run through the routines, had the cars out, went through both of the cars, one leaving the studio, one leaving the airplane, arriving to the location timing the time it would take for both cars to get to this location. We didn't leave anything to chance. And, as it would be when D Day came, Everything went off without a glitch. That was a West Coast Detectives International way. The airport went smooth. The meeting with the limo from the studio went smooth. They're four hours. They rode around. Talking. And I don't know how much our Driver and bodyguard heard they claimed they really didn't hear anything, but we made sure that there wasn't anything that leaked and it didn't nothing week from our end, nothing week from the clients him until it was announced about the sale and the electronic sweep at the office that we did the week after we were there and revealed there were some weak spots. In their executive offices and procedures and physical structure that they could correct and they could have a better sense of security and making sure people were remotely reporting in their meetings with them. We'd set up some electronic measures to detect if someone was recording. We also set up some devices on phones that would monitor any for a third party activity. So, we did everything we could to secure their communications, not only for this case, but for the future. After it was done, the buyers were on their way back home and the clients were back at the studio. The next day I received a big thank you. It was a job well done. You said that. Was more important to me than the money and the fees that were paid. If you like we've some comments, I would really appreciate that or questions on any of the platforms. Or if you have a case that you would like to hear about, if you would have some specific question about a private eye or, private investigation or anything about that, what's going on in the world, send it to me, leave it on any platform, or you can email me directly at plittlepi777@gmail.com com. You help me by liking, sharing, subscribing, and you know the drill, hit that notification bell for future posts. That would really help us a lot. Till next time. Be safe. May God bless you, your family, and may God bless America.