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Doing Something at the Highest Level: A Broadcasting Origin Story
from Our Best Episode (Inside the CIA with John Kiriakou) · #136
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3 minTim muses on wanting to do podcasting at its highest level, tracing his broadcasting roots back through past podcasts (Stood, Unbelievable, Guys From Queens) and his childhood love of talk radio, Howard Stern, and Joan Rivers' Bush jokes.
- 2:36Tim on doing something at its highest level: if you dedicate yourself to a craft—whether athlete, parent, or business owner—you want to feel like you're doing it at your best.
- 3:17He had a podcast called Stood with Mike Racine about food that devolved into yelling about ISIS within five minutes.
- 3:44Tim did an earlier conspiracy podcast with two other New York comics called the Unbelievable Podcast.
- 4:00In 2010 and 2011, he hosted his own show on the Guys from Queens Network out of Queens, though it was very short-lived.
- 4:27Growing up, Tim listened to right-wing talk radio—Bob Grant, Rush Limbaugh—not for politics but because they were funny and could talk for three hours straight.
- 4:56He grew up listening to Howard Stern with his father and loved it.