Defining 'Credible' and Chasing Book Guests

• 1:00:25Tim defines credible: able to be believed and convincing, then dismisses the definition as too loose for booking guests.
• 1:00:52Soliciting listener recommendations for book authors with interesting subjects like aliens or paranormal activity to appear on the show.
• 1:01:06Tim tried to book Mark Galeotti, who wrote about Russian gangsters, but received no response despite Galeotti's busy book tour.
• 1:01:26Annie Jacobson, who wrote about DARPA, won't come on the show despite being friends with Tim's friend.
• 1:01:42Tim seeks credible guests and mentions re-contacting a previous prospect who claimed to have inside stories.
• 1:01:56A Major League Baseball player who knows about doping offered to share stories, but Tim only picked up one sentence of the conversation.
• 1:02:30Tim dismisses the most recent episode as sounding like a homeless encampment being broken up.
• 1:02:54The episode covered arresting children, which Tim acknowledges sounds bad when taken out of context.
• 1:03:15Tim explains he was making a point about why teachers shouldn't have guns, not literally advocating stabbing kids.
• 1:03:38Tim invites listeners to judge the episode for themselves to decide how well the conversation actually went.

Annie JacobsonDARPA