Matan Confronts John Kiriakou For Secretly Working For Israel

Hello everybody, welcome back to the podcast.For today's guest, we have John Kiriakou.Welcome in.For today's co -host, we have Mike.Welcome in, Mike.So please introduce yourself in case anybody doesn't know you and all that one.

Sure.I'm John Kiriakou, former CIA counterterrorism officer, former chief investigator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and convicted criminal.Convicted criminal?Can you go into that a little bit?Sure.I was convicted of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982.

After I blew the whistle on the CIA's torture program, they came down on me like a ton of bricks.I was utterly unapologetic.Didn't anybody ever teach you that snitches get stitches?Well, that was the thing, is that I had to be the one given the stitches when I got there.

Why is that?I thought you were torturing people.

No, I was the good guy.I didn't torture anybody.But they're terrorists, they need to be tortured.Eh, you know.Sometimes you have to look past that kind of thing.What why because we got to be the good guys, right?

We got to be a country of laws.We have to be the good we're supposed to be this shining But what if we make a law that allows it allows to torture them?That's different Oh, if you want to torture people I'm gonna disagree with you, but you got to change the law and then so you're against the idea of torture I'm against the idea of torture.

What if it's like a loud dog?Well, I did try to kill a chicken one time because it wouldn't stop crowing early in the morning Yeah, I mean, but a chicken is food, a dog is domesticated, but it still upsets me sometimes.And it's the neighbor's dog, and I tried to feed the dog poison, but it did nothing to him.

Yeah, no, that's too much.Thank you.Oh, Italian brain rot.Thank you.Can you see who you give me?

I'm hoping for that wooden guy.

You don't have the wooden guy?No.I like the brain.The brain is..

.Oh no, you don't get the brain.I don't think he's an option.I see.No, I think I'd rather have the shark.Open it up.

You're so excited you're almost losing it.

Oh!Oh!Yes!

Yep, there it is. I always get what I want with these things.That's pretty good.I got the toilet last time and now I got the wooden brick guy.

What about the banana?You have the banana?

No, he's nothing compared to the wooden brick.

Yes.I kind of like the ogre.The ogre's a good one.

I don't even know his name.

I know this one's name.Very good.Made in Ireland, of all places.

I doubt it.Can you tell me the most confidential secret you learned while working at the CIA?You're not allowed to tell anybody.

You know, people ask me on Cameo all the time to tell them the deepest, darkest secret.I can't.Prison was not as hard as I thought it would be, but it's not someplace I want to go back.

So you would go to jail again if you did something like that?

Oh, yes, sir.

Okay, so maybe you tell me one, and then you can try to get out of it again by telling a funny story afterwards.

I could.I could, but I won't.Why?I could tell you lots of funny stories.I could tell you about this guy I was sitting next to when we were writing papers for the president.I was working on an Iraq political paper, he was working on an Iraq military paper, and I'm typing away, he's sitting next to me, he's typing away, and then he says, John.

I turn, I look, and he goes, I think I'm having a heart attack.And he falls off his chair.Start to panic.I call 9 -1 -1.I run and tell my boss Jeff's having a heart attack the paramedics come they pick him up They put him on a gurney they strap him down to the gurney So he doesn't have like a seizure and fall off and then he blows this ridiculous fart serious not an indication of death It was an indication that it was just a fart and then he got off the gurney and started typing the paper again Then you would have had less competitionNah, because we were like apples and oranges.

I didn't, I wasn't a friend of the guy or anything, but I'm not going to begrudge him life.

No, no, not begrudge him life, but you wanted to wipe out the competition.

No, well, yeah, I guess we were competing.How would you feel if you didn't have breakfast this morning?Yeah, I didn't have breakfast.But I did feel like I got ripped off on the size of my coffee.But how would you feel if you didn't?I did have a large mocha that was like 12 ounces.

I said, buddy, I ordered a large mocha.The guy's like, that is the large.I said, what planet do you live on?

OK, I think you're about to failing the test because you're answering with a real a real answer.I think I think you failed it, but it's OK. I was just testing if you knew how to do a hypothetical and it didn't.Oh, sorry.

Well, see, but my reputation is as a truth teller.So I gotta tell you the truth.

Well, I think you're telling me facts, maybe.I guess it would be the truth, but I think you're giving your own take on it that I disagree with about torturing people.

Okay, that's cool.That's cool.That's cool.You know, I worked with torturers.And most of them were, you know, normally when they're not torturing people, they're decent guys.Our kids played together.

Our wives were friends.Your kids and the guy was getting tortured kids?No, unfortunately.Why?No.They tortured his kids too?

Well, that's kind of a hypothetical, but...Not in my experience.I'll say it that way.

Not really.It actually isn't a hypothetical at all.

Well, you know there were rumors that Well, there were rumors that the CIA tortured the kids of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed That would be pretty cool too because it's like who really in America get to torture.It's like a one -of -one experience Maybe I would get in on that.

That's that's not a world I'd want to live in but you live in it It seems like I hope not.Are you going to kill yourself?Not myself.So it seems like you're going to kill yourselfto live in this world.

Yeah, I'd like to.

You see that trick there, that mind game?

That was very clever.That was very clever, yes.I may kill somebody else, but not myself.

Is that a threat of violence to the president?

No, no, no, no, no, no.Absolutely not.

That's what it sounded like.No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.Not at all.

No.

That's very illegal.You know, I was at that dinner.Which one?With Kanye and Nick Fuentes and Trump?

No, the White House Correspondents dinner.And I'm eating a salad.

It's the same one.

Nick Fuentes wasn't there.

Him and Kanye and Trump.Kanye?

I didn't see Kanye at that dinner.Oh, so maybe this was a different one, I guess.

Go ahead.Sorry.

I'm eating a salad and I said to my date, that can't possibly have been a gunshot, right?And she's like, no, no.And then we just kept eating.And then everybody started diving below the tables.

Oh, the one from a couple of weeks ago?

Yeah.

Yeah.Yeah.That wasn't the one.

I'm talking about the one in Mar -a -Lago.Oh, the famous one where Kanye and Nick Fuentes went.No, I went to I went to Mar -a -Lago one time.I will admit to you, it was the best egg salad I've ever had in my life.But that was pretty much the extent of it.How would you sum up your experience working for the Mossad?

My experience with the Mossad has been that they probably wish they were working for me. I mean the CIA, sorry.

One and the same.

Pretty much.

How would you sum up that experience?

You know, it was great until I realized what the heck was actually going on.But I did enjoy the travel.I went to 72 countries with the CIA.

Which was the worst one?Which had the worst, most despicable, ugly people?

See, I'm gonna get death threats for answering you, truthfully.

Probably, if you answer it correctly, these people won't even have a phone to look at.

I hated India.I just hated it.

it.If you want to take a shit...Unfortunately, they have phones.That's for sure.

You want to take a shit, you're walking down the street and people just pull down their pants and take a shit right there on the street and then pull up their pants and walk away.You saw that happen?Every day.Every single day.I've been in poorer countries that they didn't do that.

And I say that that's a thing and then people call me a racist.No, it's a thing.And I am using it to racially insult Indian -Americans who don't do that sort of thing.But their family does, and it's in their blood to do it.

I'll tell you another thing I saw in India that I hated.The people?

Their color?

Standing right outside the nice hotels, where all these dudes wearing dresses and saris.

You say nice hotel in India?

Yeah, like the Marriott and the Westin.There are all these dudes wearing dresses.And I said to one of my Indian friends, I said, What's with all these dudes wearing saris and dresses?And he said, oh yeah, they're criminals.What they do is they come on weekends and they disrupt people's weddings.They'll go in and like smash the wedding cake and throw chairs around.

And then you have to pay them to leave.That's how they make their living.

What a low level of like extortion type thing.Yeah, it's bad.Like the dumbest thing I've ever heard.Then why are they wearing dresses?I didn't really get that part.I don't know.

It's just part of the shtick, I guess.So maybe they actually have some sort of artistic sense in it.

I suppose you could look at it artistically.

They're not just stupid gangsters.

Right, you could look at it artistically.

Why did you stop that man from burning himself alive?He may have been cold and it would have heated everyone up.

No, when I got there he was just a black spot on the ground.Are we talking about the same thing?

I don't know.When the guy was pouring the oil on himself, he was about to light himself on fire?

No.

I saw you in the video, you're in the background.Oh, that guy!Yeah.Yeah.

Oh Yeah, I did stop him from setting himself on fire.Why because we were all standing there agreeing with each other It was this this was in front of the Justice Department a couple of years ago It was it was a protest in support of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and this fucking guy goes right up to the podium where we're speaking and he takes all of his clothes off so he's butt naked and then he squirts lighter fluid all over himself and he pulls out a lighter out of his pants pocket that he had on the ground and a buddy of mine...Maybe he was trying to let all the wildling tribes know that it's time to attack the wall.Maybe, maybe the poor guy was just having a mental breakdown.

Maybe, maybe he was cold also.

It could have been.Although it was a pretty comfortable day that day.I remember.It was a warm day in October.Yeah.Yeah.

In fact, there was a woman there who was an attorney.And she ran up to the cops when the cops arrested him.And she said, I'm an attorney.He's clearly mentally ill.Don't hurt him.Oh, really?

Yeah.And instead of taking him to the jail, they took him to the hospital, which was kind of nice.

Why would they take him to the hospital?You guys stopped him or the mental hospital?

Mental hospital.

But he didn't even do anything wrong.No, that's why they didn't take him to jail.

He didn't do anything.

No.Why would they take him to the mental hospital?He's clearly stable.

Yeah.Yeah, maybe for today's Washington.

Would you put a rooster in your room to wake you up when it's time?

No, because the roosters don't stop from like three o 'clock in the morning.I live next door to this rooster in Athens.I wanted to go out and kill it.And the only reason I didn't is because my wife said she would leave me if I did.

If you killed the rooster?Yeah.So what did you do?You killed it?No, I just...

Are you still with your wife?I just suffered.No way.So then...Yeah, I kind of chose the rooster over her.

Yeah, I mean you should have just expedited it then and killed the rooster then you wouldn't have had to go through whatever theyou did.I probably still would have had to go through...Why didn't you just kill your wife?Believe me...

Didn't you have, like, immunity or something?That is a...That is an issue that, yeah, could have been debated.Right.See, I come up with all these great ideas that nobody ever takes advantage of.Although you may have been discontinued from the CIA, you would have come up with such a genius idea, you would have killed your wife and you wouldn't have had to go to jail, plus a rooster.

Plus the rooster.Yeah.Do you see how many motherfuckers be walkin' around with the strap?

All the time.

Why dat?You gotta protect yourself.

The next guy's not gonna protect you.What if a fuckin' guy got flies in his ear?Well, he's gonna have to deal with the nine I had in a tearaway fanny pack on my waist and the 38 on my ankle.And just in case things turn to shit, I had a buck knife in my back pocket.

You one of those Jewish motherfuckers with a hat?

I didn't run into them overseas.I only see them in New York.

All the fucking guys, they're fucking lawyers and shit.Fucking guys, you never get a hold of them.They're always fucking...They're working on buildings and they don't even be doing anything with you.You don't even know how to top them.

Seriously.Crazy shit.

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OK.Were you considered a snitch in prison?No, thank God.No.I got a story there.OK.

The New York Times, the Sunday before I went to prison, I went to prison on a Thursday.The New York Times front page saying he's going to this prison in Pennsylvania.There was a guy there, an Italian guy who became my best friend.Yeah.And he he took it upon himself to go to every single one of the Italians and tell them, listen, there's a CIA guy coming on Thursday.He's not an FBI.

FBI is rats and snitches.CIA protected us from the Muslims, he said.Okay.You actually protected the Muslims?Well, the Muslims thought I protected the Muslims.The Nation of Islam guys.

The Nation of Islam guys.Why are you laughing at?I was thinking of these Nation of Islam guys.Big ripped guys, one of them came into my room the first day there and he handed me a newspaper that had - He asked you to read it for him?Well, the poor guy, no, he had read it.But he said - He could read?

He could.Wow.Quite well.He said, Reverend Farrakhan called me the hero of the Muslim people.And so I wasn't going to have any trouble with them.So I didn't.

They were good.I mean, they said that, I put my hand up to shake his hand and he says, I don't shake hands with the white devil.But that, I said, that's cool.You're talking to what, an Israelite?I don't know what he was.

Why are there more Israelites in the CIA?Is it because they're all...

There are more Mormons in the CIA because they speak funky languages.Oh, it's not good.This is not good.But I think you're doing it on his nose.It's gotta go down his throat.

Okay.His mouth is right here.Yeah.

Yeah, it's not.See what I mean?It's not good.It's not good.I wondered what the hell you were doing.

I'm just torturing you.

Well, that's kind of the idea.You just take random people and do it to them.Yeah.See, it's not good.

We can get more going later.

Yeah, you need like gallon jugs.

You know, actually, you should try.

Oh, yeah.Thanks.We waterboarded each other in training.Practice it was not not pleasant.Yeah, see he he got it all wrong though.He's got to be on a he's got to be on a Board he's got to be on a board

that's why they call it the water board and his feet have to be higher than his head and this towel is too thick and holds too much liquid you need like a like a pillow case or burlap yeah that works but he's got to be laying almost flat okay we can do that as well okay See, now try it out, John.

Okay, here you go.

Where's his mouth?There's his mouth.See, that's why you need the gallon jug.

To keep going while they're talking coffee.

This isn't gonna do anything.

You're right.Get out of here.

You didn't tie him up tight enough.

Waste of time.I didn't even learn anything.

No, see, that's kind of the conclusion.

It's a waste of time.He's good.He needs to convalesce first.Maybe I can get him a concussion as well.We did that a lot.

So what's the next best thing I should use on him?Well, there are two next best things.

Okay.

The first one is the cold cell.You strip him naked, you chain him to an eye bolt in the ceiling, you chill the cell to 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and every hour you throw a bucket of ice water on him.The second thing is sleep deprivation.

I don't have access to that, though.

Right.

I need something I can do, like waterboarding.It's simple.

Sleep deprivation.Oh, yeah.That takes a lot longer.But I can do that.You need to go, you know, eight, nine, Days without sleep.Then he goes into organ failure.

I mean, you might as well just kill the guy at that point.Yeah, I mean, that's kind of the end result half the time.

Yeah, but he's a terrorist, isn't he?I don't know, I haven't met him.Just look at his face.

He looks more like a crazy person than a terrorist.

He's the same.These homeless people.Why didn't the CIA ever consider playing soldier boy to torture people?You know, they did that all through the Vietnam War.Oh, really?Oh my God, yes.

I don't think Soulja Boy was around during the Vietnam War.

Was he?Oh, I thought you meant colloquially Soulja Boy.I don't know.

No, no, Soulja Boy.

Oh, Soulja Boy.

Yeah, Soulja Boy.

Yeah.

Kind of like how I was talking a minute ago.Yeah, Soulja Boy.

Not to be confused with Soja Boy.Who's that?He's Nigerian.Isn't that also Soulja Boy?Oh, is he Nigerian too?

I don't know.

What do I know?I'm too old for this kind of thing.

That's not something you guys ever tried.I feel like it would be more effective than all of the other ones.

No, what they did was they played the Bee Gees on loop or the Spongebob Squarepants theme song.

So they actually did something similar to this.

Yeah.

But why Spongebob?I love that song.I do too.

But after you hear it 10 ,000 times, you start to...

Then you will know all the lyrics.

Yeah.So actually...And if it's a good song, if it's like Bohemian Rhapsody or something, okay, I could sing that 10 ,000 times.

Yeah, so I don't get why this is torture.

Yeah.

I would much rather waterboard some guy.Why does the man on the bus always ask for three different coins?One metal, one purple, and one green?He says if I bring him the metal one, the purple one doesn't come, because the green one absorbed it.He tells me the earth is made of metal, purple, and green coins.Is he right?

And should I give him the metal, purple, and green coins?

That sounds like about half the emails that I get every day.

But this one's real, unlike all those other ones.

Yeah, that one I don't know.But I wouldn't be surprised if that was communicated to you through a chip in your brain or a filling in your tooth.

Is that something somebody's told you before?

Every.Single.Day.

I think maybe this is some MKUltra stuff.Stranger things have happened.And I would like to get behind that.Is that something they're still doing?

That's the toughest question that you've asked me so far.

Oh really?They would say no.I would say it's impossible to know.But you might actually know the answer.

Nah, I wish I did.I'd blurt it out.So it seems like the answer from you is yes, I mean...I mean, if I knew, I'd say yes, and I would dare them to do something about it.Why?Because then they'd have to admit that it was true.

Oh really?So you would do another whistleblow on that level?I would.So why don't you tell me one of those secrets like I asked from earlier?

Because bad stuff is like sources and methods and stuff that we need to keep secret to try to keep the country safe.

But if you say something that can help not keep the country safe, then maybe, and it's a big if, but it's a good one, if it can lead to the destruction of Israel.

Yeah, that's nice.for me.You don't want to be responsible for that?I do not.Nah.

You're missing out.

Yeah, maybe, but it's not for me.

Is it true that you have to be at least 51 % Jewish to be in the CIA?I had not heard that.Are you 51 % Jewish?I'm not.I'm like 2 % Jewish according to 23andMe.It's always a trick though.

It's like, are you Jewish?Oh, just a little bit.And it's always more than they say.I will tell you a true story.

My mother's maiden name was Chrysopolis.When a Greek name ends in opolis, that just means you're from the Peloponnesian Peninsula.But the first part of the name, chryso, it means gold.And I said to my mom one time, your name doesn't make any sense to me.And she said, what do you mean?And I said, gold.

I said, gold.it uh she says probably somebody in our family was a was a jeweler and i said no we were farmers for 2 000 years i think it's more probably like goldman or goldberg or goldstein goldberg yeah so i spear i don't even know oh he had a great spear and so i did a 23 and me and it said yes jewish on my mother's father's side from lithuania no less you see what i'm saying it's always It's like your mother's maiden name is Goldberg.

You see what I mean?That's just life.But let's assume that's not true or if it was you can't tell me.It's one of those secrets.How many Jews did you see in the CIA?A lot of them?

I never really paid attention to tell you the truth.It's right out in the open with them sometimes.I don't know.You could look at me and know that I'm not Jewish.You know what I mean?I don't actually.

No?I feel pretty insulted right now.Sorry, I didn't mean to rain on the parade.And what year did you end up leaving the CIA?2004.So you were in the CIA during 9 -11?

Oh yeah.Do you have anything you can tell us about that?Probably a lot I can tell you about that.Anything like new?Any new info?No, it's pretty much all out there.

Really?Pretty much.You believe it was an inside job?

No.

No.I don't.It was a terrorist attack from Al Qaeda?Yes.No Jewish?No, but...

I spoke to Andrew Bustamante, the leader of the CIA, former leader.Oh, yes.And he told me that it was the Jewish.

I'm sure he thinks he was.Yeah.No, I think that the Israelis knew it was coming and didn't warn us because they knew that if we were attacked, we would end up doing what they wanted and just go around the world, kill Muslims, which is exactly what happened.When we captured Abu Zubaydah, we also captured his diary.And in his diary, he had the personal cell phone numbers of three Saudi princes.So we went to the Saudis very angrily and said, you better do something about this.

And the next thing you know, one prince dies in a one car accident on the Riyadh to Jeddah highway.One prince...It's unfortunate.Yeah.Well, one prince goes in for stomach surgery and dies on the operating table.And one prince goes into the desert to go camping and dies of thirst.

That makes sense.I mean, he's in the desert.

Yeah, but he camps in the desert all the time.You'd think he would take a bottle of water.Maybe he ran out.He was trying to waterboard somebody.He wasted all of it.Drink your own piss, then, and save yourself.

Get in the car.Does that work?Drive to a 7 -Eleven.

I thought it was like drinking salt water.I don't know.I've never tried it.

It's like drinking ammonia, it seems like to me.

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No.Why?We shouldn't be in the business of attacking elementary schools anywhere.I agree with that, but he needs to do it to go to heaven.No, I think he needs to respect international human rights to go to heaven.Remember, he's supposed to be the peace president.

He's going to win the Nobel Peace Prize.He's making peace all over the world.Yeah, he wanted.

He forced that girl into giving it to him.Did you see that?Yeah.So he kind of wanted because he didn't kill her or anything.He kind of got it through a peaceful method.

He just took it.

She offered it up.She gave it to him.What a nice lady.

And you've met him?Yeah, I've met him.How was that experience?Honestly, he was lovely.

You want him to give you your pension back?

I hope he does.I'm waiting.Let's see.

much do you not get from that?

Altogether, it was $700 ,000.

Will you get all of it back?I would get all of it back.If they excuse it?

Yeah.

In retro, whatever it's called?

Yeah.

Retroactively?Retroactively.And then how much did you get a year?What is it, like 50?Oh, it's not a ton.Yeah, it's just under $50 ,000.

That's less than you made when you worked there, right?

Oh, yeah, way less, yeah.

How much did you make?What's the pay?

I think when I left, I was making not a ton.I was making maybe $110 ,000, $112 ,000.2004, that was good money.

It seems like a stressful job for a hundred grand a year.

Yeah, but you don't do it for the money.You do it because you're a patriot.

Or to torture people.

There are unfortunately some people who do it for that reason, yes.

You say unfortunately, I say that they're destroying terrorism.No, they're not.Has there been any more terrorism since then?

Oh, lots.

Yes, lots.I disagree with that.Okay, tell ISIS.No, they've been defeated.Oh, have they?Yes.

I missed that.They've all been defeated by the Great White Hope.

Yes.

Do you like f***ing white boys in the a**?

No.I've never, uh, never given it a try.

That's not my question.That's from Bird B -U -R -T.F***er.F***er.Oh, okay.That's what his name stands for.

It's a weird question, but I had to ask.Why is it F***er?What?F***er.F***er.F***er.

Oh, I got it.Some gay thing reference.I don't know.It's disgusting, really.

Yeah, yeah.It's not for me.

No, you don't?

No.

Now, I can't really relate to him, but I guess I'll try to continue this conversation or this questionnaire on his behalf.I guess the follow up would be why.

Yeah, it's just it doesn't do anything for me.Could you use MKUltra to turn somebody into a gay?I mean, if MKUltra had worked out the way they wanted to work it to work out, you couldturn him into anything.You can turn him into an assassin.That was the idea.

What about a gay?Probably.And you could hypothetically make somebody not gay anymore?Geez, I have no idea.If that's true, I feel like maybe we need to get behind the start of GoFundMe or something.

Well, I mean, if we already have hypnosis, isn't that the same thing?You hypnotize someone so they stop smoking.You hypnotize someone so they remember some...

Doesn't usually work, though.Yeah, no, I've seen it work.You've seen it work?I worked with a hypnotist while I was on an operation.Maybe we're talking about different levels of one, but I've...Maybe.

I've seen some and they seem to be liars.

Oh, I think most of them were probably frauds, but the one that I worked with, it was the real deal.

See, but...When it works, it's only for a limited period, no?

Yes, yes.

With MKUltra, you can hypothetically get somebody forever.

Yeah, but then you're gonna have them jump off the roof of a hotel, or hang themselves from a tree, and all kinds of crazy stuff happens.

No, you tell him not to do that.

I don't know, man.It didn't work out in practice.Why not?I don't know.It just didn't work.

Maybe it did, actually.That's why I...No.

Nah, we started in 1952, ended in 1975, and had nothing legit to show for it.

Yeah, there's actually way more gay people nowadays than before, so.

There's way more autistic people now than there were before, too.

So it really must have failed.

Something's going on.

The whole operation, like, was a big spit in our face.

Something, something's going on.

Can you tell me about that?Some secrets?

I don't know about it.That was way before my time.

You weren't born then?You weren't in the CIA in the 50s?

I wasn't in the CIA, no.I was born in 1964, so I missed it.So if you were like nine years old, though, you could have been around in there.I guess I could have been in those circles if I was nine years old.

Maybe they did it to you as a kid.

Well, have you heard the joke that we're all trained to tell?No.Yeah, they train us to tell this one joke.This joke is, I'm driving around McLean, Virginia by the CIA, and I see a sign.It's on a telephone pole.It says, Talking Dog, for sale, and it has an address.

So I go over to the address, because I wasn't in a hurry.And I knock on the door, and I said to the guy, you got a talking dog for sale?The guy says, yeah.I said, can I see it?He says, it's around the back.So I go around the back, and there's a dog sitting there.

It's a mutt.And I said, hello.And the dog looks at me.You know how dogs do their head like that?And he goes, hello.I said, oh my god, you do talk.

And he said, yeah, that's how I got a job at the CIA.I said, I work at the CIA.He said, yeah, I was in counterterrorism.I said, I'm in counterterrorism.What did you do in counterterrorism?He said, well, because I talk, they sent me on to bin Laden's compound, and I listened to what bin Laden was saying.

And I come out and I tell them.And that went so well, I went to Kim Jong -un, and I listened to what he was saying, and I came out and told them.And then finally, they sent me to the Kremlin.I listened to what Putin's saying.And I came back and I told them.I said, that's incredible.

You're an American hero.I said, I'm going to buy you.So I said to the guy, how much you want for this dog?He goes, 20 bucks.I said, why so cheap?He said, that damn dog's a liar.

He didn't do any of that stuff.What's the joke?I don't get it.See, my sister reacted the same way.I always thought it was fucking hilarious.

If I saw a talking dog, I'd fucking get ready to battle.

But he's just laying there.He's not threatening you in any way.

He's threatening me by being a dog that's talking to me. I'm either crazy and I need to kill this dog because I'm crazy.

Or you're afraid he's going to rat you out on something.

Well, I mean, if what he's saying is true, then yes.Listen to what the dog just told you.But the guy said the dog made it all up.It was just all made up.

That's why it was only $20.

But this guy is interacting with you as if the dog was actually talking.He's just a liar, dog.

He's a liar.

But the dog is talking.

Yeah, he's just lying.

Then the dog needs to be eliminated.I mean, this is beyond even a talking dog.This is a sophisticated, conscious dog that's lying to you, so you buy him.Yes.

Are you sure it's not just like a m****?No, I don't know.It could have been a m****.Wait a minute.

I think we're not supposed to say m**** anymore.I mean, who are you going to offend?M****s?What are they going to do to you?Yeah.They're going to bite your leg?

It's really like a dog.

Pretty much it.I don't even think we have midget throwing contests in bars anymore.

I wish they were still like those clowns who used to try to ride lions, which was really just dogs that they would put big ears on.Right.Now these guys, it's always, you have to fucking pay them $500 an hour to debate a clown and the Domino's employee and Stiney, another clown.It's getting ridiculous.You know what I'm talking about?I can't disagree.

$500 an hour for a m******t.

That's ridiculous.Of course, you don't want to begrudge the m******t a living.The guy's got to make a living.He needs half of a normal living.Whatever the market will bear, that's the price.

That's the one thing that I don't agree with capitalism on.Huh.Think about that.

I think I do agree with capitalism on that.

That there can be sh** with a lot of money?

Sure, why not?

It makes us look like an underdog.shit country.I'm not even sure the last time I saw a m****.Why did the CIA create m****?Is it to distract everybody by making them laugh too much?

That could be it.

Yeah.

It could be so that they can sneak into places and not be noticed.You know what I noticed though?They're all very stupid.No.Yes, they are.I worked for a m****.

Oh, God.She was my first office director at the CIA.She was brilliant.

A m**** in the CIA?Yes, an actual m****.

Holy shit.

And she was brilliant.I thought we were the best country.

We are the best country.Imagine going to Russia and telling them that there's a m**** in their whatever.I bet there is.

They'd probably rip your neck off if you insinuated it.

There's got to be one.There's got to be.No.Yeah, now I think I'm against capitalism.I think I've shifted.Nah, I'm just now getting my first taste of capitalism.

I'm liking it pretty well.

Just recently you've been making a lot more money?Finally.What about the money you were paid by the Russian state media?Yes.

They don't pay very much.

No?Did you have to tell them any of the CIA secrets or you just had to?Nope, they never asked.Really?

They said, here's a microphone, we give you a radio show, knock yourself out.

And what did you talk about usually on the show?

Whatever happened to be in the news that day.

Oh really?Did you have to take Russian positions on it?Nope.Were you working for them when the Ukraine war started?Yes.And what's your position on that?

The very first thing I said on my radio show that day was, I unreservedly condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine and I call on Russian troops to withdraw immediately.And then you were fired?Nope.It was part of my contract that I could say anything I wanted and criticize anybody I wanted.

What about Lognech?

I don't know who that is.

He's my next guest in five minutes.Are you allowed to criticize him?Of course.

I don't...I criticize everybody because I got nothing to lose.

So can you criticize him?

Why not?

Go ahead.Where is he?He's a little bit late.He's supposed to be here five minutes ago.He's five minutes away though.Okay.

So give him some criticism.But I don't know anything about him.I can't even mock his physical appearance.

I'll show you a photo of him and you will.

Oh yeah, he's... that's one ugly fucking guy.Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, that's not... yeah.He's here in five minutes, by the way.He makes money with that neck?I doubt it.I doubt it too.Does he look like he has a lot of money?

No.Although his lick here tattoo probably cost, what, 150 bucks?I feel like that's probably like a sponsorship he did.Ah, I didn't even think of that.It probably is.

They paid him with that tattoo.

Yeah, gross.