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Reading Family of Secrets at Lisa's Lounge
from Day Drinking At Borders · #5
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3 minTim describes reading the Bush conspiracy book at a dive bar named after a woman who died drunk driving, discovering Murray Rothbard and Federal Reserve conspiracy theories, and how the book changes how you view politics.
- 32:00Tim hung out at Lisa's Lounge, a corner bar named after the owner's daughter who died in a drunk driving accident.
- 32:14The memorial to a woman who died in a drunk driving accident was a bar where people could get drunk and kill other people.
- 32:51Tim got into Federal Reserve conspiracies, Murray Rothbard, and the idea that US dollars represent a slave system we're all part of.
- 33:24Russ Baker's book focuses less on George W. Bush and more on his father as a CIA operative involved in a Gulf Coast Saudi connection.
- 33:56Reading the book makes it very hard to talk about politics in the same way ever again.
- 34:37Bush and Barbara Bush deliberately put fake stuff in their memoirs so historians would later absolve them.
- 34:52Tim on what kind of person doesn't have the foresight to plant false information in memoirs: people who jerk off in Barnes and Noble.
Russ BakerGeorge W. BushGeorge H. W. BushBarbara BushFamily of SecretsLisa's Lounge