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North Korea Intelligence and Nuking Long Island
from It's A Small World After All · #79
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2 minThey joke about how little anyone actually knows about North Korea, CIA human intelligence problems, Dennis Rodman, and riff on which places (Long Island, the Hamptons) deserve to get bombed based on bad comedy audiences.
- 1:48Tim claims he has no people on the ground in North Korea and doesn't think there's much to know about the country.
- 2:01Getting human intelligence out of North Korea is extremely difficult, though vice journalists and Dennis Rodman have managed to get in.
- 2:22The CIA's typical approach of turning defense contractors doesn't work in North Korea because those people don't hang out in accessible places.
- 2:38Tim suggests if America has to kill a large number of people in a potential conflict, they should get a "little smack" first.
- 3:12Long Island is where Tim is most disappointed in audiences, prompting him to suggest it as a target instead of Manhattan.
- 3:28Tim jokes that the Pentagon probably discusses acceptable losses and how getting rid of Long Island would actually be strategically beneficial.
- 3:43The realtors on Long Island are described as predatory animals squeezing people in a strategic way.
Long IslandNorth KoreaKim Jong UnDennis Rodman