Jake Cornell

They had passports with other names.

And the way it was described to me is that they were not spies.

They were recruiting spies from other countries.

And in doing so, they were, you know, pretending to be people who they were not.

And I think my mom said something like, oh, you know, it's just meetings and memos.

And I was like, yeah, I figured.

Just boring stuff.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, definitely using boringness as a kind of deception.

Yeah, it actually wasn't until a lot later that I realized that a lot of adults do have friends and still hang out.

And there were things like when I would go to the mall with my mom, she always made sure we knew a code word.

And she would say like...

Okay, so if mommy's ever not here and somebody comes to pick you up, make sure they know the code word.

And the code word was always Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Yeah, we'd be in the back seat and she'd be like, okay, boys, what's the code word?

And we'd say Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Maybe the biggest clue of all is that we lived right across the street from the CIA headquarters.

Yeah.

That makes a lot of sense because my dad was super pragmatic and he hated traffic.