CLASSIC: Power, Politics, Corruption and Prayer: What is 'The Family'?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Washington, D.C. is home to numerous organizations and institutions created to broker deals and funnel power from one place (or policy) to another. Many of these organizations operate more or less openly, while others pride themselves on their discretion and ability to stay out of the public eye. The Family is one of the latter -- a secretive group founded in 1935 as a religiously-motivated movement to bring its interpretation of Christianity to the halls of Congress and beyond. But what exactly is the Family? More importantly, what exactly are they up to? Join the guys as they peer behind the curtain.

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0:00.0	Here is a classic episode for our fellow conspiracy realist.
0:06.0	Ben, never, never speak against the family ever again in front of outsiders.
0:12.0	You never speak against the family.
0:14.0	Right. We can't. We don't speak against the family and I hope you all hear
0:20.4	Noll's capital T capital F on the family there. We don't speak against the family
0:26.2	really in this episode but we do ask why things seem so weird in Washington DC.
0:35.0	Right, unless you think this is a story about like the Lacosso Nostra or like the mafia or something,
0:40.0	it's about a kind of a different mafia a political mafia one that
0:44.8	purportedly pulls the strings on political machinations from behind the scenes
0:50.4	and this might also as I recall folks check us here
0:55.0	this might be one of the episodes where
0:58.0	we get super into fundraiser dinners or breakfastices like the eggs and issues kind of eggs I remember that came up because we wanted to see the menu
1:10.2	that this conspiracy we did discuss that I believe there were maybe waffles I cannot confirm nor deny that but I know that you mentioned it Ben this is a real organization right and this is an organization that has a lot of kind of sinister whisperings about it,
1:26.2	about to what degree does it control what goes on in Washington and the kind of,
1:31.3	you know, Christianification of politics.
1:35.0	I'm not I don't use that term to say that's inherently like Christianity is bad
1:39.2	but there you know we did we do have a nation that is sort of meant to be founded where that kind of stuff is a little bit
1:45.1	its own thing you know hence separation of church and state but there are
1:49.3	organizations that would seek to do away with that kind of thinking, which I don't think is great.
1:55.6	Let's call this Shadows of Project 2025.
2:00.5	A little bit.
2:01.3	Yeah, let's roll it.
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