Jim Comey
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98 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Jim Comey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah. And talking about it as a spectacle is like it's the Met Gala. It's not about the fashion and the form. There's something deeply, substantively troubling about this. It's not a spectacle. Yeah.
Well, because I am a devoted fan, I was watching and listening when that man said that hurtful thing about me. And I thought, yeah, you bastard. My family, at least on the surface, seems to like me a lot. My dog died a few years ago, but was very fond of me. So I, I look, I, I have to laugh. I'm married to a trained marriage and family therapist, thank God.
So I have in-house help, but I'm a happy person because I- You ever feel like you need a hug? If I need a hug, I got five kids. I got five grandchildren. I watch my grandchildren all the time. And so my life is full of hugs and people who tell me I'm awesome, but that's because I'm their pop.
Yeah, that's right. And I knew that's what he was talking about. And he's right. I mean, there are partisans on the bell curve at both wings. Many of them have strong negative feelings for me. I can't do anything about that. And so it just is what it is. But yeah, the MAGA world is wrong that I am some influential figure, especially on the left side of the political spectrum. I'm a bulwarker.
I have no home except a group of people of principle who don't really care if we're liked, but care deeply about this country and its values.
I would hope so. Again, I had never heard of it used in a threatening sense. I actually still haven't seen any examples of from literature or theater or any place else where it's used as a threat. But I mean, I took the post down because I thought whether it's reasonable or not, if people are going to say that, I want no part of that. It's my Instagram account for God's sakes.
I hope we keep the meatballs and they remain free.
I have not flown into JFK in many years. LaGuardia is Valhalla of airports, I'm told. So I would fly to LaGuardia. Valhalla's nice.
We have history, but I feel like we're over the history. And she was guilty as heck, but... She was punished for her crime, and so I have nothing against her cookbook, so I wouldn't 86 it in any sense. We're not 86ing it.
I get asked that fairly frequently. Most often people just say, how tall are you? But yeah, I wouldn't 86 that because people don't mean it in any negative way. So I would let that one go.
That one I might want to have in the rearview mirror.
No, embrace. Important part of being alive and staying sane. Knowing the difference, doing things you can change and things you can't, and having wisdom and connection with both. All right.
It's a story about a right-wing podcaster based in New York who is trying to motivate his followers to physically target and engage in acts of violence against people he doesn't like. a variety of people around the country. Does he post seashell pictures to do that? There are no seashell pictures.
Another thing that an editor would have stricken is making no sense at all. So it's about this podcaster and my protagonist, Nora Carlton, whether she can make a case and stop the violence. And it's about policing this line, which is really important between speech and crime and about the challenges she faced. And it's a twisty courtroom drama in the main that I won't give anything away, but it's,
It's real. It's true to the way things are really done. And I think it will hold people pretty well.
S.B. It must have been deep in the subconscious.
It does in the sense that I have to figure out what to write next that will be interesting but not turn off readers. Readers don't want to read in my stuff. what they're getting in the news every day. I think it would depress them. And so I have to – you write these books. I write these books a year in advance. I'm just finishing the fourth, which is a Russian espionage story.
And so Russian espionage will still be relevant in 2026.
I hadn't even thought of that. But who knows, right? You're supposed to skate to where the puck will be. I have no idea where the puck is going to be a year from now. So I wrote this book not knowing what America would do. be exactly like in May of 2025.
But I knew that this question of, so where is the line between speech and violence and the influence of these right-wing voices of hate would still be a feature of our life. So next spring, Russian espionage will still be a feature of our life. I don't know what the book after that will be. And then I'll be out of the Trump administration, God willing, I think, by that point.
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