Jad Abumrad
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6,321 appearances
21 recordings
5 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 11 Sep
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Yes.
Think of it as, you know, the nation's bank of last resort.
Okay.
Now, what made that $2 billion sort of particularly amusing was
was the US found that most Americans had no interest whatsoever in $2 bills.
But rather than pulp the unused, unwanted bills, figuring that after nuclear war, people would be much less choosy, what the Federal Reserve did was they actually shrink-wrapped the $2 bills and hid them inside the bunker.
Oh, my God.
So if you or I went to take out a loan in this post-apocalyptic world, we'd be walking out with a stack of $2 bills.
Like, what percentage of people working for the federal government would actually be saved to run all these things?
Yeah.
So the short answer is very few in the grand scheme of things.
I would presume.
You know, in round numbers, probably about 10,000 government officials in Washington would be saved.
And this actually gets to the heart of doomsday planning, which is the goal is not for any single American to survive nuclear war.
The goal is for America to survive nuclear war.
And like America is an idea.
Which is arguably true of every country.
But here... We don't have, you know, a hereditary monarch that has been handed down through hundreds of years in a single, unbreakable fashion.
What we have are these institutions and sort of these historical totems that have bound us together generation by generation.
And so if you are trying to preserve America, if you want to say that the America of the apocalypse is the America of before, you need these historical totems.
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