rant · moment 12 of 25
Dog-Walking Comics in Rich People's Apartments
from Our Best Episode (Inside the CIA with John Kiriakou) · #136
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
4 minThey discuss how NYC comedians survive by house-sitting and dog-walking in multi-million dollar celebrity apartments (Justin Timberlake, Ryan Reynolds), and the strange, sparse, hotel-like lives of the ultra-wealthy who have no privacy.
- 46:35Dog walkers and personal assistants in New York get access to multi-million dollar apartments most people never see, hanging out in places where Justin Timberlake and Ryan Reynolds live.
- 47:07A friend making $200,000 a year in finance has never been inside an apartment like the ones Tim enters as a circus person through comedy connections.
- 47:51You need to know the chimney sweeps and dirt bags to get real access to wealthy people's lives in the city.
- 48:27Tim has slept overnight in $15 million apartments while house-sitting for rich people who don't actually care that he's there.
- 48:37Rich people have cameras everywhere and don't care about strangers in their homes—you're still nowhere near their actual life even when you're inside their apartment.
- 49:06Having serious money in New York means never having real privacy, with a constant stream of people putting food in your refrigerator, watching your kids, and cleaning your home.
- 49:21Wealthy New Yorkers seem perpetually at work even when home, living in sparse hotel-like spaces rather than lived-in houses, constantly behind a MacBook and iPhone.
- 49:39At high levels of society there's only pressure to go up or down, no coasting—with constant expenses for kids, wives, ex-wives, and obligations to maintain.
- 49:59Tim jokes that at least he and the host won't have those problems, unless his boatsman career takes off.