A bunch of cocaine was found in the White House, and no one knows where it came from. Who could it come from? And who could it belong to? Is it a member of the Biden administration, a visitor, or even a Biden family member? Who could be the culprit? And why is there a reward offered for the return of the cocaine? And what are the chances of finding the cocaine in the first place? And how did it get there? All that and much more on this week s episode of the podcast, featuring special guest Alex Blumberg, host of the popular podcast "The Nod" and co-host of the excellent podcast "Behind the Curtain" on the case of the missing baggies of white powder that were discovered in the West Wing of the Executive Mansion by a Hazmat team responding to a 911 call on Sunday morning. Alex explains what happened, and offers some clues as to who could be responsible for the discovery, and why it could be a big deal. And why it s a good thing that it s missing from a building with lots of cameras and lots of surveillance cameras. Also, Alex explains why this is a good idea, and how to solve the cocaine mystery. If you like conspiracy theories, this episode is for you. Thanks for listening, Alex! and if you re looking for a good conspiracy theory, check out Alex's new podcast, "Behind The Curtain," wherever you can get your fix of the latest breaking news and breaking news, and let us know what you think of it. You can find Alex on the internet here: bit.lyndr@crackcocaine.co/crackcoke.co And if you have a tip about the drug that s missing baggie? . and we ll make sure to let Alex know about it on the next episode of "Cocaine at The Nod on our social media feed! at the linktr.ee/cockeyscrunch by tweeting us what s missing, and we re talking about it! and what s going on there! , and we'll send it to Alex will be checking out your thoughts on this episode at or your thoughts about it if you're looking for more information about the cocaine found in Washington, D.C. or what you d like to be included in this episode. and more!
00:00:07.000Let's say that there was somebody who had, like, a long record of doing crack cocaine, and there are lots of pictures of him doing crack cocaine.
00:00:14.000In fact, there was a story this week about this dude doing crack cocaine while driving 172 miles per hour on the freeway to Las Vegas so that he could, you know, have sex with a bunch of hookers.
00:00:23.000What if that person lived at the White House and actually roomed with the President of the United States?
00:00:29.000Sort of like the mystery of how the Hamburglar, you know, you have a McDonald's, all the hamburger goes missing, and there's a person there, whose literal name is the Hamburglar.
00:00:38.000Who could have taken all the hamburgers?
00:00:42.000Well, according to audio, which has now been released of the Hazmat team, here's what it sounded like when they found cocaine in the West Wing of the White House.
00:00:49.000Director Richard Hazmat, we have a Resolving the Gemini.
00:00:58.000We have a yellow bar stating cocaine hydrochloride.
00:01:09.000Well, originally, the suggestion from the tape is that it was found in the White House library, then they claimed that it was not found in the White House library, but the mystery remains.
00:01:19.000According to the Washington Free Beacon, shifting stories about where law enforcement officials discovered a substance identified as cocaine at the White House this week are raising questions about how it ended up inside the building.
00:01:30.000Fire Department dispatch call on Sunday said the White Power identified as cocaine hydrochloride was discovered in the library of the executive mansion.
00:01:36.000A Secret Service spokesperson later said it was found generally in the West Wing.
00:01:39.000The West Wing houses the daily work offices for President Biden and White House staffers.
00:01:43.000The library is located in the White House living quarters below where access is more restricted.
00:01:46.000So it makes sense if you're trying to hide.
00:01:49.000Who was behind the cocaine to suggest that it was just in the West Wing more broadly.
00:01:54.000You have hundreds of people who are working there.
00:01:56.000The location of the substance, according to the Free Beacon, could provide clues to whether it was brought into the building by a White House staffer, a visitor, or a Biden family member.
00:02:03.000Now, of course, you'll remember that Hunter Biden just pled guilty to tax and gun charges in June and has publicly struggled with cocaine addiction for years.
00:02:36.000Meanwhile, law enforcement is bewildered and bamboozled, which is weird because there are a few cameras in the White House.
00:02:43.000You would figure that this would be a pretty easy crime to actually solve, but apparently the FBI is really on top of the classified documents in Mar-a-Lago.
00:02:53.000According to Politico, law enforcement officials confirmed on Wednesday cocaine was found at the White House over the weekend, but one official familiar with the investigation cautioned the source of the drug was unlikely to be determined, given it was discovered in a highly-trafficked area of the West Wing.
00:03:06.000Small amounts of cocaine was found in a cubby area for storing electronics within the West Exec Basement Entryway into the West Wing, where many people have authorized access, including staff or visitors coming in for West Wing tours.
00:03:17.000I mean, I've actually been in this area of the White House, and this area of the White House does in fact have like this little cubby area where you're supposed to drop off your cell phones so that you don't record anything that happens in the West Wing.
00:03:43.000It's a bit of a thoroughfare. People walk by there all the time. Now, here's the deal. Even if it
00:03:47.000were somebody associated with the Biden family, we would never find out about that because, I mean,
00:03:52.000the Secret Service has covered up for Hunter Biden in the past.
00:03:54.000You'll recall that when Hunter Biden actually applied for his gun license while lying on the forums, right?
00:04:00.000I mean, he pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge on that one.
00:04:04.000He ended up actually being sent to a diversion program for his drug abuse.
00:04:09.000But he lied on his gun forms, which would theoretically be a felony.
00:04:11.000And then his then girlfriend and sister-in-law, who he ended up having sex with and sleeping with
00:04:19.000after his brother was dead, well, she took the gun
00:04:22.000because she was afraid of him having it, and she dumped it in a trash can behind a grocery store,
00:04:26.000which was directly across from a high school.
00:04:28.000And the Secret Service actually showed up and then approached the owners of the store
00:04:31.000where Hunter bought the gun, according to Politico, and asked to take the paperwork involving the sale,
00:04:34.000according to two people, one of whom had firsthand knowledge of the episode.
00:04:37.000The other was briefed by a Secret Service agent So the Secret Service showed up to actually, presumably, cover up for what exactly Hunter Biden was doing at the time.
00:04:46.000So even if it were, somebody, call him I don't know, maybe his name rhymes with Blunter Schmeiden.
00:04:52.000Even if it were somebody like that, the question as to whether the Secret Service would ever allow that thing to, you know, be released is, I think, questionable at best.
00:05:00.000We'll get to the White House response to all this momentarily first.
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00:06:05.000Okay, so I will say there's one solid piece of evidence that it was not Hunter Biden who actually left a cocaine in the White House.
00:06:10.000And that is that dude really loves cocaine.
00:06:12.000And the chances that he would leave behind some very nice cocaine Are fairly low.
00:06:16.000If there's one thing about cocaine addicts, they really like to hold on to their cocaine as a general rule.
00:06:21.000Which does raise the question as to who else was attempting to bring the cocaine into the White House.
00:06:25.000Well, there were no answers forthcoming from the members of the White House Press Secretary's office.
00:06:31.000Corinne Jean-Pierre, world's most untalented White House Press Secretary.
00:06:35.000She announced that the Biden administration is proud to have restored the rule of law in the White House.
00:06:40.000Other than, you know, like drug law and that sort of thing.
00:06:45.000The president is proud to have restored the rule of law in his administration and I can tell you here and I can tell you now that he will not exploit his office with conventions at the White House like it was done in the last administration.
00:10:49.000If you're a Democrat, none of this sort of stuff matters.
00:10:52.000If you're a Republican, all this sort of stuff matters.
00:10:54.000If you're a Democrat at the White House, you can have a man jiggling his fake breasts at the White House, and that's not a problem.
00:11:00.000That's actually just a sign of true freedom.
00:11:04.000Or if you're Barack Obama, you can have Snoop Dogg at the White House, openly talking about doing pot at the White House, with no ramifications, no repercussions.
00:11:12.000And here's Snoop Dogg back in the day when Barack Obama was president,
00:11:16.000openly talking about how he toked at the White House.
00:11:37.000I mean, there was an open talk during one of these big star-studded White House events that Snoop Dogg was, you know, doing some pot in the White House bathroom.
00:11:46.000That, of course, is not a big deal at all.
00:11:48.000And, of course, Barack Obama himself made it part of his struggle to talk about his drug abuse when he was a youngster.
00:11:54.000When it was George W. Bush and he was hit with the DUI well before he was running for president, that was like a career-shattering scandal that put his presidency in question.
00:12:02.000When it was Barack Obama openly admitting that he had done, quote, a little blow And, you know, maybe back in the day was passing that sort of stuff around.
00:12:12.000Well, that was that was when he said that it was so off limits to even ask him about it, that people objected to the notion that he would even be asked about it during a presidential campaign and the standards for morality at all.
00:12:23.000They just do not apply to Democrats from the media.
00:12:42.000Because the rule is that if you are Hunter Biden, a 52-year-old moral derelict who snorts cocaine off the asses of hookers, then you are a beautiful boy.
00:12:53.000And the real story here is your beautiful relationship with your addled old father.
00:12:58.000If, however, you're a Republican, and anything remotely like this happens, then it's outrageous, it's just terrible, it's awful across the board.
00:13:06.000Speaking of lack of moral standards, we'll get to the Biden grandchild scandal in just one moment.
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00:14:14.000Okay, meanwhile, The other scandal that is a brewing regarding Hunter, aside from, you know, the overt criminality of Hunter Biden and the very high likelihood that he was involved in a corrupt scheme where he was trafficking in his father's name and then having the money passed through him, quite possibly, to his dad.
00:14:42.000Hunter Biden signed, as we've discussed, an actual arrangement, a custody agreement with
00:14:48.000his former lover where he was able to lower the amount of money that he was paying her
00:14:54.000per month, but he did give her some oil paintings.
00:14:56.000And also, she was not allowed to use for her daughter, the Biden last name, which is literally the only thing that has made Hunter Biden a success in life at all.
00:15:02.000I think he's a giant failure in life, but the only thing that has granted him any level of monetary fiscal success, Hunter Biden, is trafficking in the last name.
00:15:09.000That is exactly the thing he denied to his illegitimate child by a former stripper and secretary who is essentially performing sex acts upon him and with him.
00:15:20.000And so the question is, where is Joe in all this, right?
00:15:22.000Isn't Joe a man of honor, where the Biden family means everything to him?
00:15:25.000Well, the White House has asked about this.
00:15:27.000Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about the seventh grandchild, who is never mentioned by the White House.
00:15:31.000There was a story in the New York Times over the weekend about Hunter Biden's daughter in Arkansas.
00:15:36.000Does the president acknowledge this little girl as his granddaughter?
00:15:38.000I don't have anything to share from here.
00:15:40.000I don't have anything to share from here about, you know, whether he actually acknowledges having a granddaughter who is clearly his granddaughter.
00:15:46.000Does that seem like a nice old man to you?
00:15:49.000Or does it seem more and more like across the Hunter Biden story that Joe Biden is just an enabler and that maybe he enables his son, not only because he doesn't know what to do with him.
00:15:57.000I mean, there are a lot of parents who don't know what to do with kids who are wayward, but maybe it's also because, you know, his son clears an awful lot of cash for him, as it turns out.
00:16:04.000Breitbart is now reporting, based on a piece from the Washington Times, quote, a staffer for then-Vice President Joe Biden cc'd Hunter Biden on an email to Joe about a scheduled call with former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, a document released by the National Archives due to a FOIA request chose.
00:16:20.000While Hunter Biden was earning 83 grand a month as a board member of Burisma Holdings, Joe Biden's assistant, John Flynn, looped in Hunter on a scheduling email dated May 26, 2016 about a call between Joe Biden and Poroshenko.
00:16:31.000Flynn wrote to Joe and Hunter Biden, quote, On May 27th, the call took place.
00:16:34.000Joe Biden urged Poroshenko to reform Ukraine's prosecutor general office, the establishment media reported.
00:16:37.000At that time, Burismo was under suspicion of money laundering and public corruption.
00:16:40.000commencement, Nate will have your draft remarks delivered later today or with your press clips
00:16:43.000in the morning. On May 27th, the call took place. Joe Biden urged Poroshenko to reform Ukraine's
00:16:48.000prosecutor general office, the establishment media reported.
00:16:51.000At that time, Burisma was under suspicion of money laundering and public corruption. Prosecutor
00:16:55.000Victor Shokin was investigating the case before his termination by Poroshenko
00:17:02.000That Hunter is being copied on conversations between Joe Biden and Poroshenko?
00:17:08.000And it was Poroshenko who fired the prosecutor who was investigating the Ukraine case that involved Burisma, which was Hunter Biden's firm.
00:17:17.000Biden, of course, famously bragged about the firing and how he went to Poroshenko and basically had Chokin fired.
00:17:22.000Quote, I looked at them and said, I'm leaving in six hours.
00:17:24.000If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money.
00:17:26.000Well, son of a bitch, he got fired, said Joe Biden.
00:17:29.000An FBI informant claims to possess two pieces of evidence showing Joe and Hunter Biden received $5 million each in bribes from Burisma, according to House Republican investigators.
00:17:37.000So yet another piece of corroborative evidence that Hunter Biden was looped into relationships in Ukraine involving Joe.
00:17:44.000All this is rather gross, to say the least.
00:17:48.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden trying to forge forth with his 2024 campaign.
00:17:52.000The economy continues to be on very shaky ground, but Joe Biden is running directly into it.
00:17:57.000So he actually tweeted out about Bidenomics.
00:18:00.000So he keeps trying to make fetch happen and fetch isn't happening here.
00:18:02.000So he keeps just saying Bidenomics over and over in the hopes that somehow it'll latch on.
00:18:07.000So he tweeted out, quote, every American willing to work hard should be able to get a job no matter where they are and keep their roots where they grew up.
00:18:15.000Now, you may be asking yourself what the hell that means.
00:18:18.000How is that even a school of economics?
00:18:19.000Normally, when you say Bidenomics, Reaganomics meant supply side economics, right?
00:18:23.000Reaganomics meant lower the tax rates and that will increase production, it will increase investment, and that will generate a bigger A bigger economy which will generate more tax revenue.
00:18:35.000Clintonomics was the idea that a balanced budget would eventually achieve significant economic growth and more full faith and credit in the American dollar, right?
00:18:45.000Obamanomics was we are going to just spend endless amounts of money on random projects Under the demand-side Keynesian theory that if we do so, we'll grow the economy.
00:18:55.000Let me read that phrase to you again, what he says.
00:18:57.000Every American willing to work hard should be able to get a job no matter where they are and keep their roots where they grew up.
00:19:03.000Well, I also can say stupid statements like that.
00:19:06.000Every American willing to work hard should be able to make $7.3 million per year at the job of their choice in the beachside resort of their choice.
00:19:16.000You're just saying random sentences now.
00:19:18.000Every American should be able to work the job of their choice without an educational degree even up to and including brain surgeon in the city of their choice in a penthouse apartment.
00:20:42.000I mean, why do you think people are in a pretty sour mood?
00:20:44.000Could it be because his economy is not all that good?
00:20:47.000We'll get into more economic problems facing Joe Biden in one second.
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00:21:53.000Okay, so speaking of the stagnating economy, the The federal officials at the Federal Reserve actively considered raising rates in June.
00:22:05.000Okay, what that means is that they're having trouble actually reining in inflation to the extent necessary to allow for future economic growth.
00:22:12.000And they're afraid that if they raise the interest rates too high, they're going to sink the economy in time for Joe Biden's re-elect effort.
00:22:17.000This is why when anybody claims the Federal Reserve is truly independent, it's really not true.
00:22:21.000According to the Wall Street Journal, most Federal Reserve officials expected they would need to lift interest rates further this year after pausing increases last month.
00:22:27.000Though some want it to raise rates in June because the economy hasn't slowed enough.
00:22:30.000Minutes of the June policy meeting released on Wednesday offered nothing to dispel recent market expectations of a rate increase this month to combat inflation.
00:22:37.000So the Fed is just sending a bunch of mixed signals right now, and you can sense it in the markets.
00:22:40.000People don't know whether they should put their money in, whether they should keep their money out.
00:22:44.000And when in doubt, people are keeping their money out.
00:22:48.000When the Federal Reserve says, we're not sure, did we raise the interest rates high enough?
00:22:51.000Maybe we should raise a little more next month.
00:22:53.000When they are treating the economy and the strength of the United States dollar as essentially a soup, and they are just constantly tasting the soup, that doesn't lend confidence.
00:23:04.000All 11 voting members of the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee agreed to last month's decision, but the minutes suggested that several of the 18 voting and non-voting officials would have agreed to raise rates then.
00:23:13.000Some of them favored or could have supported a rate increase, according to the minutes, because momentum and economic activity had been stronger than earlier anticipated.
00:23:19.000There were few clear signs inflation was on a path to return to the 2% objective over time.
00:23:24.000And there will come a point here, by the way, where if Joe Biden is faced with a serious economic meltdown here, Then you could see a world in which the Federal Reserve basically just changes its benchmark.
00:23:34.000Instead of looking at a 2% rate, they say, you know what, it would be so bad if we were at like 3%.
00:23:38.000Now remember, inflation is the silent destroyer of savings.
00:23:43.000If you inflate at a 2% rate, then that means that over the course of the next 50 years, your savings are worth literally almost nothing.
00:23:52.000You've basically by 100% increased the money supply, at which point all of your savings are worth virtually nothing.
00:23:58.000So that is one of the things that is happening here.
00:24:01.000And people who are saving don't know whether to spend and spend into the economy or they should hold out in the hopes of the interest rates go back down.
00:24:08.000Plus, there are some other significant market problems that are waiting in the wings, and people know this.
00:24:13.000The Wall Street Journal reports, this was supposed to be the year that higher interest rates started to bite, taking down dodgy borrowers who had loaded up on too much debt.
00:24:19.000Some are now in trouble, but investors don't expect problems to spread far.
00:24:22.000I think they're making a mistake, especially if rates march higher.
00:24:27.000Even as distressed companies start to hit the headlines, notably a major water utility in Britain, the riskiest part of the bond market has performed the best.
00:24:33.000The CCC-rated borrowers closest to default have returned 10% this year.
00:24:37.000The worst performing are safe investment-grade borrowers with AA-rated corporate bonds returning 2.7%.
00:24:43.000In other words, there's still so much money floating around in the economy that all of that bad debt has yet to be called in.
00:24:48.000A lot of investors, myself included on a personal level, are betting on the idea that over the next two years, cash is going to be very hard to come by, and a lot of these companies are going to struggle to actually come up with the money necessary to pay back their banks, at which point a lot of equities are going to come onto the market at very, very lowered rates.
00:25:06.000As McIntosh says, for now, it's only among smaller companies that shareholders seem to care.
00:25:10.000Just as junk bond investors like the trashiest investments, big stocks with the weakest balance sheets, measured using economist Robert Merton's distance-to-default scores, are beating those with stronger balance sheets.
00:25:49.000The economy will be held back by the need to shore up those highly indebted companies.
00:25:53.000And so there are a bunch of weak links in the economy.
00:25:55.000When that debt comes due, is the federal government going to pump up the inflation again by lowering the interest rates again to prevent companies from simply failing?
00:26:04.000Or is there actually going to be a recession in which it will be a buyer's market for the smart investor who stayed out?
00:26:09.000Macintosh says there are a bunch of weak links.
00:26:28.000The second type of weak company is more worrisome.
00:26:29.000Decent businesses with solid cash flow piled on huge amounts of debt during the era of easy money, but now facing a reckoning.
00:26:35.000Rising rates make it harder to service their debt.
00:26:37.000And steady, supposedly safe businesses can have problems.
00:26:39.000This is where I think the market is going.
00:26:41.000I think there are going to be a lot of opportunities for people who have cash in the bank to buy up some pretty decent companies at lowered rates.
00:26:48.000The third type of weak company is the one that ought to be doing it best.
00:26:50.000A business with earnings that swing around a lot without too much debt.
00:26:53.000These should benefit from growth in the economy while not suffering much from higher interest rates.
00:26:56.000They're more likely to be listed than the financially engineered high-debt businesses.
00:26:59.000Private equity doesn't like them as much because their higher volatility means they can't actually borrow much.
00:27:03.000And in fact, those are the companies that are outperforming right now.
00:27:08.000Well, those risky companies, if they start to underperform, if the economy tanks or if they are unable to pull back their debt, then you're going to see a pretty significant economic pullback, a pretty significant recession.
00:27:21.000I still believe that bad economic ideas have consequences, and we've seen over the course of the last several years some really, really bad economic ideas.
00:27:29.000Those are all in the short term, by the way.
00:27:30.000We have a much bigger long-term problem, and that is the baby boomer generation are all about to retire.
00:27:35.000And when they all retire, then the systemic debt problem in the United States—now remember, we still have to service our debt at the increased interest rates.
00:27:44.000The boomers are all going to want their social security and the base of people who are there to support them is much smaller than it was 20, 30 years ago.
00:27:52.000As the Washington Post points out, lower numbers of workers per retiree threaten the future of programs such as Social Security and Medicare, which support older Americans by taxing current workers.
00:28:00.000And maybe the stupidest thing is in our modern politics, you're literally not allowed to talk about this as a presidential candidate.
00:28:06.000The minute you say we need to look at our entitlement programs and restructure them because we don't have enough workers able to pay these bills, the minute you say that, people from both sides of the aisle come and yell at you.
00:28:15.000Donald Trump will yell at you if you say that we need to restructure Social Security and Medicare, which we clearly need to do, and so will the Democrats and so will the media.
00:28:22.000Baby boomers have broken the so-called population pyramid.
00:28:25.000Normally, a population demographic chart is supposed to look like a pyramid, with people 20 to 29 at the bottom, acting as sort of the biggest base, and people 70 and over at the very top, representing like a very small slice of the population.
00:28:40.000So as you striate the population in terms of age, what you end up with is a very pyramid-looking chart.
00:28:45.00020 to 29 is the biggest, followed by 30 to 39, 40 to 49, etc., because people die off as they get older, obviously.
00:28:50.000But because the boomers are such a large generation, you're starting to see the population pyramid invert.
00:28:56.000Right now, the population pyramid almost looks like a rectangle up and down.
00:29:00.000That's a real problem because the people at the top of that rectangle, those people are not paying into the system.
00:29:05.000They're just drawing out of the system.
00:29:08.000The workforce currently is older than it has been ever.
00:29:11.000In 1984, people under 40 were 60% of the workforce.
00:29:29.000We saw it materialize in terms of inflation.
00:29:31.000If you don't think the other market realities, namely the recession that comes in the wake of easy money spends and bubbles that burst, is going to happen, I'd recommend that you look at reality a little bit.
00:29:40.000In just a second, we'll get to the Joe Biden educational plan.
00:29:42.000The National Education Association has, surprise, surprise, reelected all of its old bosses and friends, and Joe Biden had things to say about the magic of education.
00:29:50.000We'll get there in just one second first.
00:29:52.000Let's talk about the thing that keeps you sane.
00:29:55.000So one of the things that keeps you sane in life is connection with God.
00:29:57.000It's one of the things that keeps me sane in life.
00:32:11.000So the NEA is one of the most nefarious forces in American life, along with the American Federation of Teachers.
00:32:16.000Both of these groups worked very hard to make sure that your child could not go to the local public school during all the COVID shutdowns for no apparent reason other than it was great to have their teachers paid by the state to not work.
00:32:26.000Well, now, the NEA has re-elected all of its leaders.
00:32:30.000They're doing such a magnificent job over there, not teaching your children.
00:32:34.000It is fairly amazing that America continues to wildly underperform educationally, and the big solution offered by the Democratic Party and teachers' associations is, pay the teachers more.
00:32:42.000I am loathe to- I honestly cannot think of another career where the worse you perform, the more you get paid.
00:32:47.000Like, at a certain point in athletics, if you're very bad, they just waive you.
00:33:33.000What do you have to do to get these people to show up for you?
00:33:35.000Well, I mean, you pay them lots of money.
00:33:36.000And then you say that it's not corruption in politics.
00:33:38.000One of my favorite things is when Democrats, people on the left are like, there's too much money in politics except for the giant teachers unions that handle everything related to your kids and use money that you pay in taxes in order to indoctrinate your kids and get paid richly for being bad at their jobs.
00:33:54.000Money they seize from you, via your tax money, and then pay to these teachers, and then the teachers have to pay the unions, and then the unions pay the Democrats.
00:34:09.000Anyway, they're doing a stellar job over there.
00:34:12.000Miguel Cardona, who is the head of the education department, one of the departments that needs to be immediately erased over at the federal level, he talked about the magic of the National Education Association and he talked about the evils of privatizing education.
00:34:27.000God forbid your children should be able to go to a school of your choice.
00:34:31.000In some parts of this country, there developed an intentional toxic disrespect against teachers in public schools.
00:34:40.000A toxic disrespect from so-called leaders that complain about public education but sleep well at night knowing their teachers are making less than $40,000 a year.
00:34:52.000A toxic disrespect from those who want to privatize education and starve public schools from the resources they so desperately need.
00:35:01.000A toxic disrespect from those seeking to divide our nation by politicizing equity and inclusion.
00:35:14.000You're teaching my kids, quote-unquote, equity, which means that if the results are not equal, there must have been racism.
00:35:19.000You're teaching kids that, and then when we say no, that's toxic disrespect.
00:35:25.000When you teach kids that the only thing that matters is ethnicity, and then people say no, you call that toxic disrespect.
00:35:30.000By the way, who the hell is he talking about when he says public school teachers all over the nation are making under $40,000 a year?
00:35:37.000I mean, it really depends on the state.
00:35:38.000In the state of Florida, which is, I assume, the state he's talking about there, the toxic disrespect state, the average public school teacher salary is like $54,000 a year.
00:36:07.000And no one can see, apparently, in the media, or they'll refuse to see, I suppose, the fact that there is a corrupt bargain that has been between unions and the Democratic Party for as long as unions have been a powerful force in American life.
00:36:20.000A very corrupt bargain in which the Democratic Party essentially cuts bargains on behalf of the unions with taxpayer dollars, and then the unions pay off the Democratic politicians by helping them get elected by spending billions of dollars.
00:37:50.000It's amazing how the real heroes shifted from the doctors and nurses, who actually went into fairly dangerous health situations from time to time, and, you know, the people who are out there delivering your food.
00:38:00.000Those people we don't talk about anymore.
00:38:01.000It's the teachers who truly suffered, the teachers who are over-employed as it is, teaching lesbian dance theory at their local community college, and also the high school teachers who are teaching Art theory, but making sure that all of the kids in their class know about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
00:38:30.000Her husband has a school named after him.
00:38:32.000You want to talk about affirmative action?
00:38:35.000Only white lady in history get affirmative action, Jill Biden.
00:38:39.000And you know, I knew that Joe would always be the education president.
00:38:46.000Because he knows that our nation's, you know, the success of our nation starts with you, the educators, who shape our students' lives.
00:38:56.000And so, you know, we've invested so much in our schools, and our counselors, and our nurses, and administrators, who make them all successful.
00:39:09.000Glenn Youngkin, the governor of Virginia, was asked about the Biden education agenda.
00:39:13.000And he's like, Jill is the only one who believes that Joe is good for education.
00:39:17.000Let's get your reaction to First Lady Jill Biden saying that Joe Biden is America's education president.
00:39:23.000Well, I hate to say that I think she may be the only person who believes that.
00:39:27.000I think the vast majority of Americans believe that Joe Biden has so under supported and under prepared our kids for what we're dealing with.
00:39:36.000I mean, listen, Schools were closed for an extended period of time because Joe Biden thought schools should be closed unnecessarily.
00:39:42.000And now we're seeing a learning loss across the nation that's unprecedented.
00:39:46.000We've lost decades and decades of progress.
00:39:53.000He's, of course, exactly right about all that.
00:39:56.000By the way, how deeply in the pocket of the unions are Democratic politicians?
00:39:59.000So Governor Josh Shapiro, who was elected over the terrible candidate Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania, so he had suggested that he might support a school choice program and that he might support tuition vouchers for students in failing schools.
00:40:16.000So Republicans in the state legislature passed that.
00:40:26.000Here is the statement that he put out.
00:40:27.000quote, Pennsylvania is the only state in the nation with a full-time divided legislature,
00:40:31.000meaning nothing gets done unless it can make through a Republican-led Senate and a Democratic-led House.
00:40:35.000Over the past several weeks, I've worked with leaders in both chambers to craft a common-sense,
00:40:38.000responsible budget that makes critical investments in public safety, agriculture, economic development,
00:40:42.000public education, workforce development, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
00:40:45.000Last Friday, the Senate passed a responsible budget that delivers critical funding to our shared priorities
00:40:49.000and sent it to the House for its consideration.
00:40:52.000Now we stand at an impasse, largely over one provision of this budget.
00:40:55.000Pass scholarships, a proposal I support that has been passed by the Senate.
00:41:00.000But one that Leader Bradford has made clear does not have support of the House, where it was voted down in committee on Friday.
00:41:04.000Over the weekend, Leader Bradford requested a legal memo from the Office of General Counsel, which confirmed that without enabling legislation setting up the program, my administration legally cannot implement it.
00:41:13.000Knowing the two chambers will not reach consensus at this time to enact pass, unwilling to hold up our entire budget process over this issue, I will line-item veto the full $100 million appropriation.
00:41:22.000It will not be a part of this budget bill.
00:41:23.000So instead of weighing in and pushing his own Democrats in the House, in Pennsylvania, to allow for vouchers for kids, Josh Shapiro is now using his line-item veto to simply slice it out of the Senate budget.
00:41:36.000He's pledging to do that so that he can get the rest of his budget passed.
00:41:41.000So, um, Amazing work there from Josh Shapiro, refusing to say boo to his own party.
00:41:47.000The unions got to him is what happened right there.
00:41:49.000The unions and the Democratic Party in his own state, they got to him because again, the Democratic Party is run in large measure by various public unions, which is one of the reasons why you see so many Democrats like Joe Biden deeply in hock to these unions.
00:42:03.000Okay, meanwhile, in other local Democratic news, we have the tragic marital story of Bill de Blasio and Charlene McRae.
00:42:11.000And if those two crazy kids can't make it...
00:42:38.000And I think we should all shed a tear for Bill de Blasio.
00:42:41.000That dude's had a rough couple of years, right?
00:42:43.000He was mayor of New York, and then overwhelmingly people hated his guts.
00:42:46.000And then he tried to run for president, and people overwhelmingly hated his guts.
00:42:50.000And then he thought about running for Congress, and people overwhelmingly hated his guts.
00:42:53.000And now it turns out that his wife might overwhelmingly hate his guts, as it turns out.
00:42:58.000We'll get some more on that story in just one moment first.
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00:44:19.000About two months ago, another stale Saturday night of binge-watching TV at their Brooklyn home, Bill de Blasio and Charlene McRae surprised themselves.
00:45:23.000They are not planning to divorce, they said, but they will date other people.
00:45:28.000They will continue to share the park-slope townhouse where they raised their two children now in their 20s, the vinyl-sided hub of a thoroughly modern political family whose mixed-race symbolism helped send a spindly progressive long-shot to City Hall.
00:45:40.000As with much about their marriage, its strain is imbued with civic resonance, a decade after the pair became what was then the most significant and dissected biracial couple in American politics.
00:45:50.000As with much about their marriage, they see lessons for others, even in its tunnels, both for workaday couples negotiating the challenges of growing old together, and for the small subset who expose themselves to the uncommon glare of public scrutiny.
00:46:00.000So their marriage fails, and they're banging others, and their immediate response is, we should lecture everyone else about how marriage should work.
00:46:34.000It is easy to forget now, after two uneven terms, a calamitous 2020 presidential bid, a decade of slashing tabloid headlines by turns, earned and gratuitous, precisely because of what it felt like to see Mr. de Blasio and Ms.
00:48:04.000McCrae, 68, were alternatively wistful and upbeat, self-critical and defiant.
00:48:08.000Rather than issue a terse joint statement to announce what they called a trial separation, the carefully worded fate of so many political marriages before theirs, the two suggested they wanted to get considerably more off their chests.
00:48:21.000Instead of just being like, they're not even divorcing, by the way.
00:48:23.000They could have just done what they did.
00:48:25.000Instead, they're like, we won't even do a statement.
00:48:27.000We will call up our New York Times reporter and do a three hour interview.
00:48:31.000They concluded, Mr. de Blasio more forcefully than Ms.
00:48:33.000McRae, that their marriage would not have reached this place if he had never been mayor.
00:48:37.000As grateful as they said they were for the experience and as proud as they remain of their work.
00:48:41.000They cited the COVID crisis as an all-consuming external shock that suppressed more probing discussions about their post-City Hall lives might look like.
00:48:48.000It made me emotionally very needy, he said, and we were not as connected.
00:48:52.000I think that he was very annoying is the impression I get.
00:49:45.000While Mr. de Blasio said they had become so secure in their marriage he had little reason to doubt its strength, unwelcome thoughts could creep in.
00:49:51.000One of them both said it involved their own parents' difficult marriages.
00:49:55.000For the guy who took a chance on a woman who's an out lesbian and wrote an article called, I am a lesbian, Mr. de Blasio said, there was a part of me that would at times say, hmm, is this a ticking time bomb?
00:50:04.000Is this something you're going to regret later on?
00:50:16.000They're both happier now than they have been in some time, they said, taking care to project a practiced warmth inside their kitchen, where Mr. de Blasio at one point wiped something from her face.
00:50:31.000A few weeks after their impromptu session amid that Saturday night of television, they exchanged written messages outlining what we felt about the moment.
00:50:37.000What's cool, what's not cool, whatever else.
00:50:40.000One of the things we're saying to the world is we don't need to possess each other, he added.
00:50:53.000And one prized by his brother, a Tibetan Buddhist, avoid attachments.
00:50:58.000So they're going to share a home, and it's going to be super awkward, and yeah, that's going to be terrible, and thank you guys for sharing, and your marriage sounds terrible, and if you could go away, that'd be unbelievable.
00:51:14.000And by the way, can you imagine what the actual dates are like?
00:51:19.000Like the blazer just shows up on a date, can you imagine how fast his date You know, creates a Wile E. Coyote-style hole in the wall running out of the room.
00:51:37.000The Sound of Freedom has been almost entirely ignored by the mainstream press.
00:51:41.000We talked with Jim Caviezel and Tim Ballard, who are involved in the making of the movie.
00:51:48.000The Sound of Freedom has blown it out at the box office.
00:51:51.000David Suisa, writing in the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, points out that this movie grossed around $11 million on its July 4th opening.
00:51:59.000Its per-screen average was twice that of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
00:52:04.000About $4,600 in 2,600 theaters compared to $2,600 in 4,600 theaters for Indiana Jones.
00:52:10.000The movie's been blacked out of any coverage from mainstream outlets because, of course, Jim Caviezel is an overt Christian.
00:52:19.000And the media apparently don't care all that much about child trafficking.
00:52:21.000So there are lots of important messages the media are perfectly willing to resonate to, including, of course, gay storylines for children.
00:52:29.000But when it comes to actually fighting sex trafficking of children by making a mainstream movie about it, the media have completely blacked out Sound of Freedom.
00:53:25.000Well, because the people who made The Chosen made it, and because Jim is in the movie, and we must ignore anything that an overt Christian is in.
00:53:34.000So, uh, good for the makers of the film.
00:53:36.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:53:43.000So, Jada Pinkett Smith seems like an awful human being.
00:53:47.000I say that because she banged her son's friend, and then she taped herself telling Will Smith about it, which seems really, really unpleasant.
00:53:56.000And you want to talk about broken relationships, relationships that don't seem to work too well?
00:54:02.000One of those externalities was Chris Rock's face during the Oscars.
00:54:06.000But in any case, she is now reacting to her son Jaden's claim that she introduced their family to psychedelic drugs, which is excellent momming, by the way.
00:54:13.000That's like the best kind of momming, is you're just, you're home with your kids and you break out the LSD or whatever it was.
00:54:18.000It's like, kids, for dinner, we have spaghetti and coke.
00:54:32.000In any case, last week, Jaden24 told audience members at the Psychedelic Science Conference all about his personal experience using psychedelics.
00:54:39.000According to BuzzFeed News, he claimed he was introduced to this by his mother, Jada.
00:54:43.000He said, I think it was my mom actually that was the first one to really make that step for the family.
00:54:47.000He said it was just for her for a really, really long time, and then eventually it trickled and evolved,
00:54:51.000and everybody found it in their own ways.
00:54:53.000He said this going on to explain that using psychedelics allowed him to feel a new level of love for his sister Willow
00:55:00.000Well, that's uh, one way to uh, put things.
00:55:05.000Siblings can argue so much and fight so much and Lord knows me and my siblings have done so much of that in the past, he said.
00:55:09.000But the level of love and empathy I can feel for them inside of the psychedelic experiences and outside of the experiences has been something that's profound and beautiful.
00:55:16.000Okay, so I suppose that this now means that the answer to my children fighting one another is to drug them.
00:55:23.000I have four of them, and they have lightsaber fights that occasionally degenerate into, you know, actually just kind of smacking each other.
00:55:30.000So I guess it's time to break out the mushrooms.
00:55:40.000Perhaps unsurprisingly, Jaden's claim his mom had been the one to introduce their family to psychedelics is the one that took the internet by storm.
00:55:47.000Lady, introduce a dog or camping to your family.
00:55:48.000You don't introduce psychedelics, said one person.
00:55:50.000This is the most unserious family ever, said another.
00:55:55.000Jada said that she would be explaining everything we need to know in her upcoming memoir, Worthy, set to be released on October 17th.
00:56:10.000Hollywood is filled with the most narcissistic people in the world.
00:56:12.000I mean, truly, they make Washington look like a place of great humility and tactfulness.
00:56:17.000It all gets answered in the book, she said, before adding that the memoir will also explore all of the assumptions made about her and Will's family.
00:56:40.000In fact, Jada spoke about the subject with Jaden himself on a 2021 episode of her Facebook show, Red Table Talk.
00:56:47.000That would be the same talk show where she just unleashed on her husband that she had banged her son's friend.
00:56:52.000Explaining that she was introduced to a plant medicine a decade prior to help deal with depression, Jada told Adrian and Jaden, I struggled with depression for so long.
00:56:59.000The thing about the plant medicine is it helps you feel better, but also solves the problems of how you got there in the first place.
00:57:02.000Well, my favorite thing about that is all the people are like, trust the science!
00:57:47.000Then Jaden opened up about how he started using magic mushrooms out of sheer curiosity.
00:57:51.000After discovering that scientific studies had labeled the drug as one of the most significant advances in treating depression since Prozac.
00:57:57.000Explaining that he experienced ego dissolution, a state in which self-identity is completely lost.
00:58:02.000Jaden said, it was always in my head talking, telling me what I was, what I wasn't.
00:58:05.000That was the moment that really changed me.
00:58:08.000Oh, it seems like so many beautiful families in Hollywood who should probably be writing scripts and making films that they then sell to you and your kids about how families ought to operate.
00:58:17.000Their moral standards are the best moral standards.
00:58:20.000We should totally take them seriously on all of these matters.