Jun 8, 2026 · 33 min · 8 segments
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…
John KiriakouHost
In our last episode, I introduced you to my circle of friends, an important thing to have in a place where you really can't trust anyone.
But as I pointed out, some of the friendships you begin in prison resonate in ways that no other relationships can.
Whatever it is, I wanted to spend a little more time introducing you to the friends of one kind or another that I made in prison.
Like, for example, he was very close friends with a prisoner from Erie, Pennsylvania.
If I had seen him out on the street somewhere, I would have pointed at him and said, that's a chomo.
And Robert said, no, he's a tax attorney and he's in on some tax charge of some sort.
It's like, Robert, what's wrong with you? First of all, you shouldn't be associating with pedophiles.
Secondly, you should never, ever, ever lie for the pedophile, lie to protect the pedophile.
I typed the guy's name into the computer and boom, not only was he a pedophile, he was responsible for more images of children having sex with adults than anyone who had ever been arrested in the history of the FBI.
Robert was, of course, eligible to sit at what we called the good table, which was essentially the Aryan table.
In our last episode, I introduced you to my circle of friends, an important thing to have in a place where you really can't trust anyone.
But as I pointed out, some of the friendships you begin in prison resonate in ways that no other relationships can.
Whatever it is, I wanted to spend a little more time introducing you to the friends of one kind or another that I made in prison.
Like, for example, he was very close friends with a prisoner from Erie, Pennsylvania.
If I had seen him out on the street somewhere, I would have pointed at him and said, that's a chomo.
And Robert said, no, he's a tax attorney and he's in on some tax charge of some sort.
It's like, Robert, what's wrong with you? First of all, you shouldn't be associating with pedophiles.
Secondly, you should never, ever, ever lie for the pedophile, lie to protect the pedophile.
I typed the guy's name into the computer and boom, not only was he a pedophile, he was responsible for more images of children having sex with adults than anyone who had ever been arrested in the history of the FBI.
Robert was, of course, eligible to sit at what we called the good table, which was essentially the Aryan table.
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