The following is an archive podcast presented by the Branson and Hudson Foundation for

podcast recovery. This podcast is entitled The Interrogation of Walt Tremblay. It is the first and

only episode of the podcast. Welcome to episode one. This is CIA interrogation log number

E3850459 of subject Walt Tremblay recently apprehended wandering along the

M5 highway in Syria. America's good ally Bashar al-Assad agreed to extraordinary rendition him to America.

The legal standards for torture in Syria were too stringent to extract the kinds of information we need from this subject.

So he has been brought to a country with the most lax standards imaginable.

My name is Agent Havardi.

And with me is Agent Lutz, my partner.

Agent, would you like to take first blood or should I?

I don't think we've got to start out with blood.

I think we've got to talk to them for a little bit,

you know, shake them down, see what we can get out of it before we...

That was like a metaphor.

I didn't actually mean it literally.

Oh, okay, okay, okay.

Well, I mean, you know me.

I like to get, you know, I'm eager never actually suggest that right away. This is our first time. We've done over a thousand VR simulations in these scenarios,

Iron Maidens, you know, the pendulum, all that kind of stuff.

We tortured a few people for fun just to practice a little bit, but.

Yeah, but they weren't, you know, anyone that was bad. It was just, you know, volunteers.

You know, people, they volunteer for medical studies.

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