Companies/institution
Council on Foreign Relations
2016-09-27, 1 mention2017-01-03, 2 mentions2017-05-16, 2 mentions2017-06-06, 2 mentions2017-07-18, 1 mention2017-08-13, 1 mention2019-02-23, 1 mention2020-12-20, 1 mention2022-01-04, 1 mention2022-08-07, 1 mention2025-04-26, 1 mention2026-04-25, 1 mention
Tim’s take
His baseline claim is that the CFR is where the wealthiest and most powerful people work out a shared foreign policy consensus that gets handed down as fact, grouping it with the Trilateral Commission, Bohemian Grove, and Skull and Bones as versions of the same mechanism 13:53 1:25:03 57:16. He returns to this as a stand-in for "the experts" whenever he wants to gesture at unaccountable institutional power, from homelessness policy to the general list of elite groups arrayed against podcasters 23:59 1:10:30.
John Kiriakou pushes back twice, describing it firsthand as a well-meaning rich-people's dinner club rather than a shadow government, and Tim mostly just lets that sit without arguing 59:57 1:49:04. Elsewhere it's pure punchline material — a PBS pledge-drive sponsor joke, a throwaway dig at Biden and Hunter, a line about Trump's Middle East tour making him "the CFR" — so the shorthand and the joke coexist without him ever picking one as the final word 9:42 31:32 14:22 17:09.
Every Reference (15)
"would gather together in elite organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations which still exists and work out their policies and"
"worthwhile besides this but a lot of those guys are CFR dudes are American Enterprise Institute dudes. They're all very heavy in that"
Merch Pitch: Tim Dillon Going to Hell Thongs and Channel 13 Pledge Drives — Life In The Bloodbox+143s into the segment"Channel 13. It's so true. This is brought to you by the Council on Foreign Relations. You know, Mr. Rogers neighborhood is brought to you"
"tour of the Middle East right now I mean everything is he's become the CFR I mean he should because I mean he didn't know about North"
Trump-Russia Skepticism and the True Believers of the Deep State — The Long Island Way+90s into the segment"you have like people on the other side of the fence like, you know Whatever these the CFR they want but they want what they want pipelines"
Trump Unleashed PC Culture and the Far-Left/Far-Right Horseshoe — The Long Island Way+154s into the segment"like this is who we're just creating another fucking mercantilist and we're kept by mercantilist you know I mean explain it for the audience. That's what the Dutch did. They basically it's setting up satellite you know economies around the world."
"It's 15 minutes, it just drives right into the East River. And it's just Ray talking about the Council on Foreign Relations and the Fed as the bus goes out."
Who Took Johnny the Musical, Tour Dates, and Rolling Stone Shoutouts — Father Kump+60s into the segment"My wife is a life member of CFR and I'm not a member but I've attended many, many CFR events. Frankly, CFR is a bunch of well-meaning, highly educated, very wealthy, mostly business people who wish they were involved in foreign policy."
Al Qaeda Was Overblown, and the CIA's Grip on Trump and Obama — Inside the Cia (with John Kiriakou)+463s into the segment"tank. This, which stink tank? The big one, the one. The Council on Foreign Relations is not great. Sorry, the CFR. It's all right."
"involved in foreign policy. And so they underwrite the Council on Foreign Relations fellows and analysts. And you know, honestly, it's"
Trump, Russia, and CFR's Quiet Consensus — Our Best Episode (Inside the CIA with John Kiriakou)+35s into the segment"trashing biden he's like they got by not tape telling the council of foreign relations that he's in the ukraine his son's getting a lot of"
COVID Deaths and Family Excuses — #231 - Giuliani And The River of Gold | The Tim Dillon Show+75s into the segment"point is to All of these institutions, whether it's Council on Foreign Relations or all these things where people think of very like"
Who Was the Brains: Ghislaine's Intelligence Family Background — #282 - Lex Fridman | The Tim Dillon Show+162s into the segment"example just for the experts right yeah these experts council on foreign relations are those the experts those are definitely the experts"
San Francisco Homelessness, the Sore in Tim's Mouth — The Acid Story with Curtis Yarvin | The Tim Dillon Show #310+136s into the segment"Harvard, Yale, Princeton, all the Ivy League schools, the Council on Foreign Relations, all of these uh different organizations, public, private,"
Podcasters vs. the Establishment and Closing Out the Show — Candace Owens Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #441+79s into the segment"the Council on Foreign Relations, the trilateral groups, all these people talk about all these different groups that create a consensus amongst the wealthiest and most powerful people in the United States, Britain, Europe"
The Dying Unipolar World and the New Feudal Tech Oligarchy — The Palantir Manifesto & My Manifesto | The Tim Dillon Show #493+91s into the segment