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Setting Up the CIA Guest and Ranting About Panko Breadcrumbs
from Inside the Cia (with John Kiriakou) · #54
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5 minTim previews the upcoming call with a former CIA agent turned convicted leaker, riffs about whether they've been unfair to the CIA, and drifts into a bit about mozzarella stick breading (panko vs traditional breadcrumbs) before circling back to hype the guest.
- 3:04Hampton hotels charge $900 for a standard king room and don't want you out there for one night.
- 3:32The city exists in its own dimension where elites separate themselves from everyone else, but it's harder to do outside of it.
- 4:04Many comedians in New York have day jobs like dog-walking in multi-million-dollar apartments before they make a living at comedy.
- 4:27Tim sits on a couch in a $10 million Tribeca apartment with Justin Timberlake upstairs and Ryan Reynolds down the hall while doing nothing.
- 4:45A finance guy making $200,000 a year has never been inside an apartment like that, even as a guest.
- 5:27Knowing the chimney sweeps and dirt bags gets you into spaces that regular jobs never would expose you to.
- 6:12Rich people don't care if strangers are in their apartments because they have cameras and understand the separation of wealth.
- 6:38Having money in New York means never having real privacy with people constantly in and out—nannies, cleaners, dog walkers.
- 6:58Wealthy people in New York seem always at work even at home, living in sparsely decorated houses that feel like hotels.
- 7:33Tim and his guest acknowledge that the listener will never have the problems of the rich, unless his boat-related career takes off.
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