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of our website as well. You're Wrong is off today as Molly and David
continue celebrating the Fourth of July. I guess, but that means I'm here,
and I'm here with the one and only Christopher Bedford, Executive editor over
at the Common Sense Society. Chris, Welcome, how is your fourth of
July? It was awesome? I actually I think I made the best cheeseburger
I've ever made so far. What was the what made it different? Things?
This has been a long journey. I used to have a barbecue,
a burger high test in my backyard. I charged five bucks a burger and
people would go off and they have votes. And I started off within a
really something that a purist would not appreciate. I mean I had some sloppy
Joe mix in there, I had blue cheese in there. I had French
onion mix in there hot sauce, eggs, worce to share and it was
a great burger. But I don't know if Purist would even quite colored a
burger. And this is what you made yesterday? I had Worcester, sure,
hot sauce, blue cheese, what else? That's crazy? That seems
that's what I made in high school and college. Okay. I was like,
that's there's something going on here. So I want to go back.
For fraternity unions. I think they pick up the ingredients. It's like part
of the ritual. Now, let's just pick up the ingredients and I grow
them up at the party appwards. But no, I changed. You know
a lot of a lot of bars and restaurants to have these bestro burgers that
you can't eat like it's you have to unhinge your jaw, like the way
the French should show affection to each other in order to eat this burger.
And it's a mess and it falls apart and there's just too much and you
can't eat it and it's annoying. You end up eating like a burger salad.
And I was at this bar writing for the Federals during COVID. There's
something Star Saloon and Utah, north of Salt Lake City, oldest bar west
of the Mississippi, and they ate this amazing burger. There was just really
thin with fresh sliced tomatoes in the backyard and lades and bacon and just an
old fashioned mon cooked them the griddle. And I've become like really devoted to
the gridle recently and grinded my own burger. I just I know it's just
gonna annoysome people, but I think a grilling meat has too many, too
many pitfalls. Like if you're grilling burgers, you're you're losing on that grease,
you could be cooking them in. You're lading of fires under the grill
is slamming out on everyone's can say, like it's a back grill or whatever.
I've got used to grill professionally, and you're still light fires. It's
just better to cook most of those things on the griddle like you get in
a great diner. And so yesterday's burger, to get to it, it
was eighty percent elk, which my friend, my friend regular shot elk is
delicious meat, but it's kind of no fat. So I wanted to come
up with a twenty percent fat content to add it. So I ground up
just cheap Safeway bacon twenty percent Safeway bacon eight percent ground elk and took that
on cast iron with a salt, pepper and garlic. I think that,
yeah, all I put in there. They did a smash burger style and
put it on a toast. It just cheap on from the grocery stores where
I live in Joe Biden's America. And even a cheap cookout costs like one
hundred and thirty bucks once you get the charcoal together and the light and everything
else. And because Sarah didn't insist on charcoal even though it was ninety two
degrees and I was cooking the burgers inside, and then I didn't add usually
had like red onion. I think that the English mustards are great things to
add to burgers. I had catchup mayonnaise out there. No one added anything,
just hating them straight, like no, that's one hundred percent the sign
of a good burger. Um if you can eat it without any condiments.
There's a great place in northern Wisconsin. I love that. Just the burger
itself is so good. It would be terrible to put anything on. It
would be so much worse to have to put anything on it. So I
don't object to putting things on the burger, but I do think if you're
testing the quality of the burger itself, that's essential, like can it be
eaten without the accountremont And that's where you know whether the burger itself is fantastic.
Yeah, and I guess, I mean twenty percent of it was.
The bacon was kind of I guess I count. It's like putting ketch up
in your burger and say, my burger is so good it doesn't need ketch
up. Yeah, but I I love American cheese and a burger. Blue
cheese is great in a burger, But most of those cheeses you get like
they have most restaurants weren't even off for your American cheese, Like what doesn't
melt right? Yea? The America like it's party. I know people like
wat it's not even a real cheese. I know, yea, but I
like it. I also had just a fantastic burger yesterday's smash burger style with
American cheese not too thick and toasted, bund super easy, super simple,
and that's exactly what you want. Now, I don't I'm not like saying
some of the experimental stuff people do isn't interesting, but there's just nothing like
a burger on its own. So what did you do for? I just
hung out, you know, here and here in DC. I was up
in Maine over the weekend, but it did the what nine hour drive?
Came back down here and I was in They're and back. That's right.
Why you know, I recently just got a used car. I wanted to
put some miles on it. See how it did. To be honest with
you, Yeah, why you drive on fourth of July weekend to New England.
That's that's a lot of traffic. A few of my friends from college
all happened to be free, um at this exact same time, which is
super rare. All of our significant others happened to be free at the exact
same time, so it was fantastic. Where you go? We went,
like the Wells area, a gun Quit area. Beautiful. I mean it's
amazing. You get fried clan Bullbilly. I did do Barnacle Billy's clamchowder,
but again I was actually only there for two days, so she didn't do
fried clams. You can get a kind of shower here, but you can't
get really a whole belly fried plan in the minute lack. I'm not a
big like fried clam person, to be honestly, do you even know I'm
I tried trying to meet sticks when I was in room temperature cheese. It
doesn't need to be refrigerated when I visited your state, And you're not going
to try a fried clan, And I'll go, that's true, so fast
it Frankly, you know, now that you say it in that way,
I guess I should have thought twice about it. But you know, I'm
not a big sea food person. Just in the Sarah and she loves a
full belly fried clan. Really Okay, well that's interesting, but she doesn't
mind any secret that looks like it did when it was alive. That's a
Blue Crabs Nors trilogy, rayfish. Really, She's like, what do you
do with this? I guess your suck on the head and you squeeze the
tail. Oh see, I actually love Blue Crab and crofit. That's yeah,
that's she's wrong on um anywhere this is We're going probably a little bit
too deep into the culinary weeds on a personal level. But all of that
aside I couldn't do a whole podcast on it. We've done many whole podcasts.
I remember we did a whole podcast on how to grill the perfect Fourth
of July meal a couple of years ago. So folks that are interested,
they can go listen to that one. Um. It was actually a really
interesting conversation. All that aside. Um, there's cocaine in the White House,
it's actually in the library. In the library, Like when the story
came out, I thought maybe the way they said it, they said white
House property or White House grounds. It's something that Secret Service, the White
House itself put out, And I was like, does that mean somebody like
accidentally dropped their cocaine on Pennsylvania Avenue it got kicked under the fence or something
like that. No, it was in the library of the White House.
Yeah, I mean, and people do. I mean. I I was
at a wedding one time where somebody found cocaine. It's like, people,
listen, you know what you're you're doing it. You lose a track,
You're you're not always making the strongest decisions, the best decisions when you're on
cocaine. When I first started, I assumed there was like on top of
a toilet, paper roller or something in the bathroom or like on a counter
in a restroom. But to learn that it was in the White House library,
which is you know, it's it's not something where staffers would be.
It would be for family because I think it's private living quarters. It's it's
in the actual residence. Staffers can't just walk into the library there, so
you'd have to be a high level staffer or a member of the family,
or probably a member of the staff, which I guess they could probably blame
it out there. There is one person in the White House there's frequent access
who is a confirmed fiend for cocaine and also sometimes leaves things behind places and
forgets about them. Doctor Jill, Doctor doctor Jill. Then it's a great
educator. So my main question here is do you did he lose the coke
and Hunter loves the cocaine in the library because he just had so much of
it that he lost track. Or did he lose it because security was coming
in or I mean, there's no such thing as leftover crack, and there's
usually not so such thing. It's leftover cocaine, like people look for that
when they lose it. Well, yes. First of all, yes,
But secondly, I have a hard time understanding how staff would get cocaine into
the White House, even very high level staff. It seems more likely to
me that's not hard to smuggle drugs, small amounts of powdered drugs. I
mean the dogs. They have dogs at the White House, so they prey
through a sniff test. But dogs are either trained to sniff out explosives or
snipout drugs, which I learned from my friend of mine. He's a smuggle.
He said. If you're not flying out of Denver or Miami or I
think Dallas is a couple of airports, they don't have drugs sniffing dogs.
They have explosive snipping dogs. This concludes Bedford's how to Smuggle Drugs lesson Today's
podcast. No, I mean, it's not going to pop on a metal
detector. It's not gonna it's not gonna show up as explosives. It's not
going to learn an explosive sniffing dog. So if you have like a dime
bag in your pocket, you could probably walk into the White House. Also,
a White House security is like, like much of American security is kind
of exaggerated. We exaggerated to make people not take that shot. But as
we learned during the Obama years, like, if you want to build a
helicopter at home, you can probably land it in the White House lawn.
If you want to jump the fence, you might be able to get through
a door before someone even notices you there. When I was in college.
In college, we're taking my parents rounds. We imagine we walk to the
White House. We're like, man, there's like thirty cypers from their scopes
on us right now as we walk by. That's totally not true. It's
not true at all. And you could probably you can walk out with confidential
papers, you could probably walk in with cocaine. And as we learned,
who can land a helicopter on the lune? Now? I actually think that
people have, Yeah, so Willie Nelson, I think Snoop Dogg there and
full of celebrities who said that they've smoked weed in the White House. And
I think before it was legalized in the district, which is which which actually
would really go along with your theory. Support that supports your theory that it's
really just not that difficult to submit. It takes law in order to maintain
law. And order, Like people have to have a fear and respect of
the law because like the reality which we are living in in Washington, DC
right now with the teenage crime waves, is you probably won't get caught like
those television shows about the people get caught. I mean, if you're brazen,
if you do it, you'll generally be fine. You'll you'll you'll read
about people who go to prison for things like that's not leading drugs on an
airplane with something. But I mean there's like millions of pounds of illegal narcotics
moving through the United States every day, and there's time least people get interested.
Well, this is the way I was thinking about it, is that
if you're if you're taking a I wasn't so much thinking of it as drugs
but a white powder bringing it into the White House. I'm just again,
I know you can smuggle or imagine you can smuggle things in like that,
But do you know what they've always pull aside me for the airport as if
I go anywhere with talcom powder or something like, they'll always pulled out aside
and test it because it's a large quantity of powder. But obviously I've I've
never smuggled drugs on an airport, an airplane, even if I want to
probably check it out at the end. And so what happens to get caught
sall embarrassing, But I have a good story about that. But I'm like,
they can tell it. They can probably take a you can probably do
small amounts. I mean, that's the question is how much struggs was it?
And was it a family member who's going to walk through without getting searched.
I mean, everyone knows that members of the Biden family are above board.
They wouldn't be like hiding secret documents or moving illicit in our cotics through
the White House. They would like they're they're beyond approach. Well, remember
when it was recently reported that someone snuck into Jake Sullivan very high level White
House staff or Jake Sullivan snuck into his home and secret he had a like
big security deep or our seven security detail, and they didn't catch it.
And then that's like a drug person went into the wrong house or something right
and then didn't it happened again. I'm not remembering the specifics of what happened
again, maybe it was like I'll look it up, But every time this
happens in the Biden administration, the right wing explodes with like they're obviously gay.
It's like always the first reaction of like the right wing blog is sphere
and then and it does not help because no, like no police officer ever
wants to actually answer the questions. They locked it up and it's all secret,
and like when that happened, just like the first text messages, who
were that conspiracy theory is laughing at it. So I also say, like
the so, what part of this is a If it's Hunter Biden calls into
question why he's been traveling so much with the President of the United States.
If it was a friend of Hunters, which seems totally plausible to me,
that someone was able to bring it in, had it on their person whatever,
and ditched it in the library, left in the library whatever again,
or a friend of I actually think there are a lot of Biden family members
living at the White House right now, so you can imagine, you know,
any friend coming in and just leaving stuff around. You could imagine it
being Hunters. Maybe he had some like musician in the White House who brought
it an undetected was a guest of the presidents. Although I was comfortable enough
to pump out a couple of lines in the library, like not even like
this, like a key bunk like us, Like I want to line this
out in the White House library. If they were already high, it would
not surprised me that someone made that decision. But all this is to say,
like this, so what isn't like we can talk about this, a
joke about it all the day, but it's just like, what is going
on in the house? Did you see Steve Guests? Steve Guests used to
be a ted cruise before there with the RMC. He's just a rapid fire
Twitter animal. And he pulled a clip from c Span from last night he
turned his black fourth fireworks a hunter coming up in the balcony and I got
news you as someone who's been in DC politics for long and before that went
to an American college. That guy is yacked up. He is He is
high as a kite. He's reading hard, looking back and forth, wiping
his hair back truck. He's like, he's like if someone was on speed
who's trying to act cool, what he would do? What he would do?
And Steve Guests is tweeted that this is the hunter Biden schif that you
needed so, I mean, is he still smoking crack? Maybe not,
but there's it's it's hard for an act to addict to quit trucks and the
and the combination of this evidence found at the White House, this footage looks
bad for him. I liked Megan McCain's point the other day, which is
that if there had been somebody exposing their their breasts on the White House lawn
and cocaine found the next week in a Republican white House, what kind of
explosion do you think would have happened? Don't you don't remember this? But
the coverage of the bush Girls was merciless. They weren't doing anything like like,
they weren't doing that at the White House, but there was. It
was tough coverage on them. No coverage Trump's family was brutal. But the
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man while he's in the throes of substance abuse and are bad and of yourself?
I mean again, like, the serious question is whether Secret Service is
like completely incompetent protecting the highest office, the leader of the free world.
I mean, I guess it's just a little bit of cocaine. I guess
it's just a little bit of cocaine. You can't mess around with that stuff.
The Chinese have done more of sober Up Washington, DC than a million
dare advertisements because if you do cocaine now you're dropped death at all. And
it's also just part of this pattern. We've seen breaches recently that seemed inexplicable,
So that's concerning and further to be a breach that close to the seat
of power, the literal seat of power, I think is absolutely concerning.
Second of all racist questions, Like we publish a really good piece of the
Federalists by Matt Boebe a week back on how Hunters shady lobbying predates his problems
with substance abuse or his current problems with substance abuse. He had been recovered
and then sort of in the middle of all of that, got involved with
these foreign lobbying campaign at large. And so the cocaine to me, if
it does belong to Hunter Biden, which there's a good I think there's a
decent case. So the decent likelihood that it does, I don't know if
it's you know, more likely than not, but it seems like there's definitely
not the only person who have access to the White House who uses others,
right, including his father, right. But I think those are ministered by
a doctor. But the Prince had a doctor. I think Michael Jackson had
a doctor. Hang Williams had a doctor, Johnny Cash and a doctor.
Yes, although in those cases, the recent ones, at least Michael Jackson,
I don't know their name, is actually prescribing cocaine itself. Yes,
if you go further back. But all that is to say, Um,
this is the actual there's a serious national security question of somebody who's been at
Camp David, who's been at the White House, living at the White House,
and has very very very close access to the president. It could be
compromised, um, and could be in in a less than sounds How do
you get compromised once once the whole world knows that you've slept with your dead
brother his wife well married, what are they what are they gonna what are
they gonna put on you that compromises you? Well, your reprotations on impeachable
at that point, that's true, although he like what he's doing now is
new and it's directly related to his father's time as president of the United States.
Yes, and this is different, And this is not that they trying
to excuse us with drugs. And there are people out there, a lot
of ourls just probably know them. Who knows someone who fell into alcohol or
drug addiction and ruined their family, shoated on their wife or out of their
husband, or was a bad father or but I don't know anyone who got
to take to the drugs and made millions of dollars still at the White House
to the Chinese of the Ukrainians. That's a that's one heck of a high.
Yeah, hey wow, that was actually a very well like who've done
full circle wise in terms of keeping the metaphor going um Chris the other thing
we wanted to talk about, And this gets to the double standard question too.
That is an emerging narrative for the last So you have potentially Hunter Biden
or someone affiliated with Biden. We know that. We know that at this
point because nobody else would have gotten into the library with cocaine in the Biden
White House. We'll see what happens. But you have that situation. You
have generally like the New York Pizza oven situation, the guests of situation,
the long running now do J double standard that continues to be. We see
the selected prosecutions of and I think this was really well done in the Durham
Report, the selected prosecution of Trump versus Hillary Clinton. He laid out the
case for that really well. So there's this large emergent narrative that is kind
of sad to talk about it in the week of the fourth of July.
But you see a system like our so easily slipping into it's actually exactly what
you just said about the rule of law. It's that is the actually the
perfect transition here, because you're working on a story right now about carbon and
what one thing we know is that as carbon is restricted by force of government
and in some very creative and novel ways, what we are going to see
is a double standard. What we are going to see is the rule of
law being a being not just broken but shattered, and we're going to see
a laws applied differently to different people. Tell us a little bit about what
you're working on, and if you could do it in the context of the
point you made earlier about rule of law, I think that would be really
helpful. Well, it's it's not what we're seeing as a double statard.
It's what we can call it, heeds a call it. That's called hypocrisy.
But it's just the realization and revealing, the pulling back the curtain.
Who actually is in control? And I got any show like you might you
might elect some more Republicans in the next election, but that doesn't mean a
conservative interests or in control of this country in any of the commanding heights.
They don't hold it. I kind of feel like like a socialist might in
nineteen twenties America, where it's like, oh, yeah, we may have
some power. We can do this. You can go out, you can
straight in the streets, you can yell in the unions. You've got a
couple of people who are yelling from the state houses. But they're not they're
not in charge of this country. Yes that they don't control the industry,
they don't control the military, they don't control the education. They don't control
you. And that's where conservatives find themselves now, and they pick and choose.
I guess what they want to penalize, but one thing to keep an
eye on to start, But you see conservatives, I think it's helpful to
also be like to recognize it's not just conservatives at this point, it's probably
sixty percent of the country that sees the excesses of progressivism and isn't there they're
more centrist or independent and not necessarily conservative, but across the board on things
like selected prosecution, rule of law, trans athletes. You know, you
can go down the line at sixteen nineteen project all of this. Um,
they don't they don't have voices. Yeah, they pushed out a lot of
folks will actually make a lot of these calls. I mean, I don't
even really think the leaders in Washington may eighty year old oxygenerias and scripting the
power are really in command. There's a lot of different whether Silicon Valley or
Titans of Industry or some of the global corporation, corporate leaders, those sorts
of frankful lot of the calls New York City, it thinks a a little
bit removed that, but it doesn't remind me of Now there's a there's an
anti human agenda afoot, and they're a hashment for a long time, but
it's really taking shape in the environmentalist movement in particular and the Netherlands. They're
making it legal further, they're shutting down farms. They're saying you have to
cut you have to cut your kurds by about a third, or we're going
to close you because herds lot off nitrogen, which is a natural byproduct of
life. Now, when the environmentalists started, this is what I'm writing about
it, at least when environmentalism started, they were trying to clean chemicals under
rivers. They were trying to make it so you wouldn't get ill when you
swam in the Charles River or in the Chesapeake Bay. They're trying to make
it so you wouldn't get ill breathing the air in San Francisco or Maine or
New York City. You know, there's a lot of pollution in Maine.
Actually kind of funny enough because it comes right up the Gulf Stream and just
gets stuck up there from all the corporate from all the industry south And those
are enviable goals. But now the two mains things that have really sort of
the change is the regulation of this natural outputs of life, whether it's carbon.
They're trying to stop wood stove wood, wood burning pizza ovens in New
York City, and bakeries the place in the home of the New York Bagel,
the home of the New York Slice because burning trees is bad. I
mean, that's just a natural output. Carbon is something that we breathe out
when and nagrogen this is something that's emitted by cattle which we eat. These
are animals, but it comes from a point of view of people who think
that humans themselves are pollutants on this planet that must be handled, It must
be dealt with. The humans themselves need to be targeted. So it starts
off as like all these stupid jokes like that we're dealing with the New York
I can't believe we're going to do this, But it ends up with what
they're doing right now on Holland, which is destroying the livelihood of an agricultural
bread basket of the continent to over apparently increased nitrogen levels and parts of the
environment that are completely used to that level of nitrogen. So it's not like
like nitrogen is something that can affect biodiversity in environments that are not used through
the levels of nitrogen potentially, but this is not the case, and nitrogen
has been reduced across Europe over thirty years. It's been continually a klinient since
the nineteen nineties, and now they're going to wipe out the herders. The
herds that's completely inscite, and I mean New York City is it's easier to
breathe in except on a hot summer day, so it's disgusting garbage in that
high city, but it's easier to breathe there than it was when there was
actually more industry age when a long time since there was a lot of heavy
industry Manhattan. Why are they going into the peace atums? Does anyone walk
through the streets? They the band smoking cigarettes in New York You can't even
have a cigar in Central Park getting yelled at it, and they has anyone
I've been walking to New York City and said, man, I can't breathe
here because someone's making pizza. It's just anti human. Well, and the
other thing I was recently reading about was how the EU subsidized farming in the
Netherlands for They have been subsidizing it for years and years and years, and
now they're pulling the rug out from under people who they have subsidized, meaning
they have been encouraging it. Right, So there is subsidies aren't incentives,
And so you have them creating these market incentives for decades, people building their
lives around it, and then pulling the rug out from under them and acting
like it whatever, We're going to keep flying on our private jets. But
yeah, and that's to the rule of law part there exactly. It's the
same thing that Eric Adams is doing. They are suddenly discovering a zeal and
an extremely strict interpretation for different rules that bureaucrats or a past maybe in some
cases over a decade ago, Like they just woke up one day and they
decided that they're going to read the law this way. Yeah, and that's
a that's a fun mental breakdown. I mean, just because there's a law
that you could point to doesn't make it rule of law. It's it's if
it's especially in the case of the Netherlands, where they're specifically targeting a single
group of people, it's not a rule of law. I could write a
law tomorrow that says people with the name Emil Kraschinski and not allowed to cross
the street anymore, and that would not be a rule of law. That
would be targeted attack against you and anyone else who shares who shares your lovely
name. This is the same thing they're dealing with the Netherlands. Uh.
This code in the New yorkspan on the books for a while, but they
had to elect a bug eating vegetarian to be their new mayor before somewhat before
he decided that he was going to start cracking down on this. Yeah,
and he's not really a bug eater, he's a vegetarian. But it's kind
of a word to use for all these yeah, all these weird new people
who are like like some of them my friends, Like, why why would
you enjoy a nice meal when you could just drink a protein shake? Yeah,
and you walked through New York City. I like New Yor City.
I'll be back up there next one for a few days. But I mean
humans the only the only other creatures on the planet that live like they do
in New York City, or insects, Chris, And that's should that should
give you some thought. Chris has transitioned fully into his boomer era. His
glasses are like almost all the way down to the tip of his nose,
and he's ranting about Manhattan bug eaters and I've lost my microphone, so can
you please I'll lead a new emistency. Oh, it's all right. That's
that. Though. One point I think is important, and especially I mean
Chris and I both have been aligned found ourselves at various points in our career,
like aligned with libertarians, but less so now much much much less so
now, often on the complete opposite side of those debates. But I really
one thing I find so incredibly frustrating is when we're talking about the just think
of these subsidies subsidies to Dutch farmers for years and years that they then use
to completely uproot a lifestyle or a career that you've sort of built your family
and your livelihood around. Well, that's why the answer to a lot of
this stuff is genuinely like no, no to that, and no to that,
no all around, because we've inflated the size of government to the point
where here in the US you have people in New York or like a great
example, what we talk about a lot is that the vaccine mandate. I
know that the courts obviously struck this down, but was justified by the Biden
administration was predicated. They predicated their justification for it by an obscure provision in
OSHA, like the law that Nixon signed establishing OSHA. And a lot of
this bureaucracy is just snowball to the point where you have subsidies that are being
used as leveraged by elites in different places. You have obscure provisions of laws
that are being leveraged by elites in different places that were asked on this in
this sort of good faith social contract. Whether you agree with it or not,
I know a lot of conservatives were pressient looking at things like Ocean.
Even though it was signed by a Republican president, a lot of real like
small government conservatives were prescient on how some of this stuff would happen. And
it's not just you know, that doesn't mean you have to be categorically against
subsidies. It doesn't mean you have to be categorically in favor of free markets
or category. It just means that we can sort of walk in chew gum
at the same time and say a lot of this stuff is just playing the
combination of elites being willing to overreach and having the bureaucratic tools to overreach.
And I think subsidies and bureaucracy are a huge, huge part of that,
and the right should be much more smart about making that argument. Yeah,
I mean, I think that's totally correct. I have to leave in a
second to pick up Christopher from camp. But my general thanking is with the
size of government, the size of the authorities, they're grinding themselves. If
you want to find a regulation to shut down Jewish bakeries and Italian pizzerias,
you can do it. And if you've got the boldness to just ran some
cocaine, as the White House you can do it. You just need to
be. You just need to be, have to have vision these people I
want. I want a Netherlands without farmers. And who could smuggle? I
want to get high in the library, which is a nice room, right,
I'm sure it is. I've never been in there. But who could
smuggle cocaine into the White House Library better than a renowned artist, renowned artists?
Bound artist? Yeah, I would think great painter, a contributor to
Western culture. There's someone with the imagination to get around secret service. Just
just do it, Christopher Bedford. I assume this is your sign to me
that you got to head out the door. I do unfortunately. Wow,
wow, I'm so bound. I'm so bound. I know, I know,
I know you are. That's all right, Well, we appreciate it.
We're glad you had successful burger making on the fourth of July. And
Christopher Bedford, executive editor over at the Common Sense Society, make sure you
look out for his piece on carbon over at the Common Sense Society, right,
Chris, Yes, yep, All right, there you go. Everyone.
Well, you've been listening to another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
I'm Emil Joshinsky. Culture to be here at the Federalist. We'll be back
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