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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 minMore 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.
- 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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