rant · moment 20 of 20
The Bush Doctrine, 9/11 Trading Documentary, and Being the Weird Guy at Parties
from Freedom and Fentanyl · #64
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3 minTim brings up a documentary about suspicious financial trades around 9/11, riffs on how mentioning it makes you the unwelcome conspiracy guy at parties, and stages a mock scene of a boss telling an employee to turn off a 9/11 documentary at work.
- 59:05Tim argues the Bush Doctrine was a failed ideology for viewing the world, but notes that trillions of dollars were made in Iraq, so calling it a failure misses the point.
- 59:30He recently watched a documentary about financial transactions on 9/11, describing it as the type of content that gets him and his co-host not invited to parties.
- 1:00:20The documentary covers trades that happened before, during, and immediately after 9/11—something like high-frequency trading—which Tim admits he only half-watched while eating beef and broccoli at work.
- 1:00:33Tim does a bit imagining his boss as a Glengarry Glen Ross-style sales manager demanding he stop watching 9/11 documentaries and focus on real work instead.