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Attribute claims to John Kiriakou, via KiriPedia. *The lecture circuit John Kiriakou described in December 2025: a tour of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland in January and February of that year, and a nationwide American tour due to begin the following February, one strand of a workload he said he was not sure he could keep up.* - **UK tour:** January and February, around England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland - **Next tour announced:** A nationwide American speaking tour starting in February - **Alongside:** Three podcasts and two books in the pipeline - **His own assessment:** 'I'm busier than I can maintain', 'but it's a good busy' Asked in December 2025 what he was working on, John Kiriakou gave an inventory that ended with travel. ## The tours He was going to start a speaking tour in February, he said, a nationwide speaking tour. He had done one in the United Kingdom at the beginning of that year, in January and February, all around England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland. [1] So he was, he said, busier than he could maintain, adding immediately that it was a good busy. [1] ## What else was in the inventory The tours were one item among several. He listed three podcasts: the daily programme he does with [Ted Rall](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/ted-rall) live from nine to ten every morning on Rumble and YouTube; a twice-weekly deeper look at the news, which he said had taken off and was approaching a hundred thousand subscribers having started only that March; and [Dead Drop](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/dead-drop-podcast), launched two months earlier on Apple Podcasts and then Spotify, which he said was in the top two per cent of all podcasts worldwide. [2] [3] [4] On the books: [Remains of the Day](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/remains-of-the-day-book), a guide to Washington's historic cemeteries, was due from Simon and Schuster on March 24; he had just sent his ninth book, [Whispers in the Dirt](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/whispers-in-the-dirt-book), a guide to the mafia graves of New York City, to the publisher; and he intended to do another three after that. [5] ## What he credits Asked what he attributes the growth to, Kiriakou pointed first to an algorithm, a year earlier, he says, he seems to have hit the YouTube algorithm just right, and went from videos getting five hundred or a thousand views to two shorts in a single week that got thirty million and thirty-eight million. He does not know how or why; it just happened. [6] Pressed on whether it was really the stories or the hard work, he offered one other thing he hopes played a role, and said it is the thing he is most proud of: it has cost him a lot, but he always tells the truth, and he thinks people have come to respect it. [7] ## See also - [Dead Drop (podcast)](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/dead-drop-podcast) - [Remains of the Day (book)](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/remains-of-the-day-book) - [Whispers in the Dirt](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/whispers-in-the-dirt-book) - [Kiriakou's podcast breakthrough](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/kiriakou-podcast-breakthrough) - [Ted Rall](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/ted-rall) - [Kiriakou's public-speaking training](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/kiriakou-public-speaking-training) - [Kiriakou's 2026 viral wave](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/kiriakou-2026-viral-wave) ## Sources 1. John Kiriakou – US Espionage and Foreign Policy (2025-12-17), at 41:31. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6pirxcMhK8&t=2491s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-12-17-pete-a-turner-john-kiriakou-us-espionage-and-foreign-policy/ 2. John Kiriakou – US Espionage and Foreign Policy (2025-12-17), at 39:26. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6pirxcMhK8&t=2366s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-12-17-pete-a-turner-john-kiriakou-us-espionage-and-foreign-policy/ 3. John Kiriakou – US Espionage and Foreign Policy (2025-12-17), at 39:56. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6pirxcMhK8&t=2396s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-12-17-pete-a-turner-john-kiriakou-us-espionage-and-foreign-policy/ 4. John Kiriakou – US Espionage and Foreign Policy (2025-12-17), at 40:26. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6pirxcMhK8&t=2426s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-12-17-pete-a-turner-john-kiriakou-us-espionage-and-foreign-policy/ 5. John Kiriakou – US Espionage and Foreign Policy (2025-12-17), at 40:58. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6pirxcMhK8&t=2458s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-12-17-pete-a-turner-john-kiriakou-us-espionage-and-foreign-policy/ 6. John Kiriakou – US Espionage and Foreign Policy (2025-12-17), at 42:34. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6pirxcMhK8&t=2554s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-12-17-pete-a-turner-john-kiriakou-us-espionage-and-foreign-policy/ 7. John Kiriakou – US Espionage and Foreign Policy (2025-12-17), at 43:06. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6pirxcMhK8&t=2586s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2025-12-17-pete-a-turner-john-kiriakou-us-espionage-and-foreign-policy/ --- From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's words. Web version: https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/kiriakou-uk-speaking-tour/ · About: https://www.kiripedia.org/about/ · Full index: https://www.kiripedia.org/llms.txt