S2E4 With Friends Like These

About this episode

John Kiriakou explores the essential friendships formed during his prison experience and the impact on his humanity.

THE BLURB: While, on the one hand prison is NOT the place you go to make friends, once you're there, you need to have (and be able to rely on) a tight circle of friends just to survive. In the last episode, John introduced you to some of that tight circle. In this episode, John dives a little deeper into those relationships plus a few others that were essential parts of his prison experience. But, you can't befriend killers, conmen and pathological liars without having your own humanity ding-ed. John begins to grow oblivious of how dead-eyed he's becoming. SHOW NOTES If you enjoy this podcast, please check out everything else we're doing at Costard & Touchstone Productions . Your next great podcast addiction might be just a click away! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: John Kiriakou

Topics covered

• prison relationships
• survival
• humanity
• friendship
• personal experience

Keywords

• prison
• friendship
• survival
• relationships
• humanity

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