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Waiting on the Call: Recruitment Fantasies and Prison Reform Jokes

from Our Best Episode (Inside the CIA with John Kiriakou) · #136

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8 min

More stalling riffs before the call connects: jokes about wanting to be recruited by the CIA or Mossad, mocking Kiriakou's prison reform ambitions, and the CIA deputy director trolling him with prison rape jokes on Twitter.

In this bit13 moments
  • 55:21Tim wants to know how they got recruited into the CIA and whether they can discuss it.
  • 55:47Tim says he wants to be like Batman and has been an advocate for the rich, but they ignore him.
  • 56:23Tim describes being in a career phase where things are going well but he lacks the wealthy friends with Hamptons homes that come with major success.
  • 56:56Having a TV show seems to be the threshold for rich people to invite you to stay at their houses.
  • 57:37Ralph told Tim that everyone on their network is either a drug addict or ex-drug addict with no bank accounts or family relationships—comics are the last circus people.
  • 58:35Tim says the most successful people in comedy are still complete zeros to the rest of the world, including himself.
  • 59:11Tim imagines getting a major recording contract where one guy defends him while walking in with his gut hanging out, comparing himself to Michael Jackson.
  • 1:00:53Tim discusses a caller who got out of the CIA and prison for leaking state secrets and is now interested in prison reform.
  • 1:01:28Tim mocks the idea of a privileged white guy going to prison and then deciding he might want to get involved in prison reform depending on how his book sells.
  • 1:01:56Tim notes that the deputy director of the CIA was trolling the caller on Twitter before his jail sentence with infantile jokes like 'don't drop the soap.'
  • 1:02:23The caller emails back saying he's ready whenever they are and sends an invitation to the show.
  • 1:02:38Tim observes that a CIA agent calling in should be able to coordinate a smooth conversation, but this guy apparently can't.
  • 1:02:53They decide to call the person back to continue the conversation.
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