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Post-Interview Debrief: Best Episode Ever?
from Inside the Cia (with John Kiriakou) · #54
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8 minTim and Ray react to the interview, calling it possibly the best they've ever done, discussing Kiriakou's earnestness, the revelation about CIA-FBI institutional hatred, the murdered Saudi princes detail, and joking about wanting the "sociopath" female CIA officer to come on the show.
- 1:33:57Tim calls the interview one of the best episodes they've ever done.
- 1:34:13He wanted to hate the guest but found himself respecting him instead.
- 1:34:31The guest got them on his good side by asking thoughtful questions and flattering them.
- 1:34:48Tim notes how interesting it is to interview someone who actually ran the CIA at a high level.
- 1:35:10They discuss wanting to get the woman from the Pearl Harbor documentary on the show.
- 1:35:46Tim explains how people become radicalized when someone close to them dies and they get angry.
- 1:36:23The guest seemed pragmatic, claiming about 25% of conspiracy theories are probably real.
- 1:36:44Tim found the mechanics of how these agencies operate interesting, including details about princes being killed.
- 1:37:24Saudi Arabia and Israel cooperate because they both hate Iran—enemy of my enemy scenario.
- 1:38:18The CIA and FBI apparently hated each other internally during the 9/11 period, not cooperating as expected.
- 1:38:44Tim notes the absurdity of doing a deep CIA interview and then immediately having to plug comedy tour dates.
- 1:39:28He promotes tour dates and the Crazy Bus tour signup on timdylancomedy.com.
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