Bolivar
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Oct 13, 2026
Bubba StalankeAUDIENCE
Good morning, Michael.
Bubba StalankeAUDIENCE
This is Bubba Stalanke in Bolivar, Tennessee.
Bubba StalankeAUDIENCE
Trump calls me Stanky, so that's why he had me on the call with Putin checking on this plague.
Bubba StalankeAUDIENCE
Trump has me working on something too, a high-pitched fart worse than the Havana Syndrome.
Nikesha Elise WilliamsHOST
Did you go to Tennessee and do research at your family land or any of that?
Shannon SandersGUEST
I've been to Tennessee a number of times for family trips, so I had been to a town that is very much like the one in the book, which is called Bolivar, Tennessee, which is where my grandmother's from.
Shannon SandersGUEST
And then I did get to go to Tennessee in May of this year, but I did not get to go during the period of writing the novel itself.
Nikesha Elise WilliamsHOST
So this pulled from, like, nostalgia and just what you know from all of your family trips back for reunions and stuff?
Shannon SandersGUEST
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Shannon SandersGUEST
Memphis, Tennessee, which had been previously the Dedrick plantation, this very large, prosperous plantation that became, like, a freed persons community.
Shannon SandersGUEST
And so I did a lot of research about that, and I kind of blended it with memories of Bolivar.
Shannon SandersGUEST
And also, I talked to my grandmother a lot.
Catherine Austin FittsGUEST
You know, I started to look at, at what was happening in, with what I call the financial coup, trillions of dollars going missing from the US government.
Catherine Austin FittsGUEST
As of 2015, it was $21 trillion that had gone missing, and I always tell the story of sitting in Bolivar, Tennessee.
Catherine Austin FittsGUEST
I was running errands talking to Dr.
Catherine Austin FittsGUEST
Mark Skidmore, who's a professor, who had helped me with the survey.
Catherine Austin FittsGUEST
You know, I started to look at, at what was happening and with what I call the financial coup, trillions of dollars going missing from the US government.
Catherine Austin FittsGUEST
As of 2015, it was $21 trillion that had gone missing, and I always tell the story of sitting in Bolivar, Tennessee.
Catherine Austin FittsGUEST
I was running errands talking to Dr.
Catherine Austin FittsGUEST
Mark Skidmore, who's a professor, who had helped me with the survey.