Hey, everybody. Before we get going, I just wanted to say that today, possibly when you're listening to this, it's coming on January 17th. It is the day that the Midnight Kingdom, A History of Power, Paranoia in the Coming Crisis, is released. It's my newest book and probably the book I am the proudest of, the book I have worked the hardest on. I cannot wait for you to read this. It's the story of how

the modern world was created using evangelical lies, white supremacist conspiracy theories,

and in order to protect and expand the power of the powerful. So I hope you will go out to

wherever your local bookstore is. Order the Midnight Kingdom, A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Common Crisis. I can't wait to hear how the book treats you. And thank you again for all the support all along the way. All right, everybody. Welcome to the McCrack Podcast. I'm Jared J.J. 8 Sexton. I'm here with Nick

Alselman. Nick, we are going to have an interview here in a little bit with Dr. Sandra Bloom, an associate professor of health management and policy at the Dornside School of Public Health at Drexelah University. A really, really important interview that I think is going to be really helpful for an audience and understanding what's going on, but also how we can make a better world.

Before that, Nick, how you doing, buddy? You know, it's no rain. It's still chilly here. I won't say what the temperature is. I'm sorry. You know what, you're right. I was insensitive to people who are living in really cold weather. And, you know, the sun is out here finally. We'll have like a week of no rain. But we, I'm telling you, it was a deluge of rain, unprecedented in L.A. So that was a little bit rough, man. Well, good luck to the people in California. Nick, I got to tell you, I was doing an interview with somebody about the Midnight Kingdom the other day. And they, they're a new fan of the podcast. And they heard the episode where you were complaining about 54 degrees. And I'll just say that we had a nice little chuckle about that. Well, thanks for listening, at least. I'll take that as a win. But yes, I feel bad for everybody out there having remembered how cold it could be dammed.

That's true. That's true. Well, we're going to have to talk about Nick's old stomping grounds in Illinois.

We're going to have to talk about George Santos. Nick, shockingly, he has ties to Russian oligarchs.

Who could have imagined? Before we get to that, a lot is happening with President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.

I've had some conversations with members of the party about some sea changes, some internal

fighting that's taking place.

Before we get into that, though, Nick, they have found five more pages of documents within

Biden's residence. This scandal continues to get worse.

There are a lot of moving parts. My first question is, will it ever end?

Yeah, you know, there's a finite amount of documents, right? At some point, it won't have any more.

Is there?

I don't know.

We talked about this in the last spot. I said this over the weekend to talking to people about how we have this notion of, you know, the Jack Ryan and the CIA and all this stuff and how competent they must be with all these secrets. And it's really, this is a farce, it seems like, to me, like barely keeping it together as a ship is almost about to explode any chance it can get.

But, you know, I'm all for, you know, yeah, let them investigate.

That means they can continue to investigate Trump.

But again, I think what it ends up being, I think what you said was it just gives Merrick Garland an outs for all of this.

Yeah, it does and and and what

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