Patriot Place, Raytheon, and Vigilant Guardian

• 45:53Every sign at Patriot Place is brought to you by Raytheon, a defense contractor.
• 46:10Ruby Tuesdays at the stadium no longer have waitresses; everyone orders on iPads.
• 46:38Boston is the apex of the military-industrial complex, with MIT, Harvard, and defense financing.
• 47:20Tim tries to make a joke about New York and finance that doesn't come off as anti-Semitic and decides there's no way to do it.
• 47:56On 9/11, NORAD was running a war game simulating planes being hijacked and flown into buildings at the exact moment the real attacks happened.
• 48:29Interceptor jets involved in the exercise had to be refueled and took hours to scramble for the actual hijacked planes.
• 49:00The 9/11 Commission included Thomas Kean, who investigated Iran-Contra, and Bush wanted Henry Kissinger as investigator before objecting to releasing his client list.
• 49:44Tim's not claiming to know what happened on 9/11, but the coincidences warrant investigation in a mature democracy.
• 50:13George H.W. Bush's son Neil was scheduled to have dinner with the Hinckley family on the night Reagan was shot by John Hinckley Jr.
• 52:27America has zero introspection about whether its leaders are actually more benevolent than those in Russia, Germany, or Arab dictatorships.

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