Matthew Cox

We were chasing a ghost.

He's the best counterfeiter in the world.

Grabbed the Rolling Stone.

I opened it up, and there is his face on a $100 bill.

The king of counterfeit.

Went to college and grad school for criminology, and when I did that, did an internship with the Secret Service.

It just seemed like an interesting career.

So it was one of those things where I tried out for it.

After a couple years, after I got my master's degree and was blessed, had kind of a square life, I guess, so to speak.

I always was staying out of trouble, not using drugs, those types of things.

And I was blessed to start in Chicago.

Uh, yeah.

Well, if they did, they showed up at the door, uh, basically read me the, Hey, this is going to be, you're going to be traveling.

You're probably going to get divorced X, Y, and Z. They, I mean, really kind of try to talk you out of it.

Uh, you had a, I had to do a polygraph.

The background check was crazy.

Um, so it was one of those things where I was blessed to be able to kind of navigate that process, but it was something that I've been married for 27 years.

So my wife at the time knew that that's what I wanted to do.

So she was, uh, on board on the front end of it.

Yeah, so six months of training, half down in Georgia and then half up in Beltsville, Maryland.