U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was a visitor final week on Nationwide Public Radio’s “Wait, Wait Do not Inform Me,” the place she revealed her Sweet Crush obsession and informed the story of her first hashish expertise throughout her first 12 months at Yale College.
The hashish story got here up when host Peter Sagal commented that Yellin’s “secret to success” is that she overprepares for all the pieces. “So, we’d prefer to know the way you ready to smoke dope for the primary time in school?” he requested.
Yellen responded that she’d by no means smoked weed earlier than however got here up with an incredible concept of the right way to put together for the problem.
“It was the summer time earlier than I used to be going to school and my roommate stated she hid some marijuana and we should always have a celebration and smoke marijuana. I had by no means smoked something in my life, however I prefer to be ready.”
How?
Yellen went out and acquired a pack of cigarettes, “smoke them and see if I can inhale as a result of I used to be informed which you can’t actually get pleasure from marijuana except you inhale,” she informed a stay viewers on Saturday.
The treasury secretary stated it was a horrible expertise and that she couldn’t inhale and cease coughing.
“I assumed ‘I’m not ready.’ I’ve to work tougher at this so I purchased some extra cigarettes and all week, getting ready for this social gathering, I used to be smoking cigarettes,” she revealed.
Occasion Time And Guess What Occurred?
“I went to the social gathering and smoked a few marijuana cigarettes. However I by no means did that once more … however what occurred to me? Inside a few months, I used to be as much as three packs a day as a smoker and it took me a decade to stop!” she stated.
A Crush On Sweet Crush
One biographer writing a guide about Yellen instructed that she attempt Sweet Crush Saga, she stated.
Yellen stated she replied, “Sweet Crush? I am not enjoying a sport like Sweet Crush. I play Brick Breaker!”
She added that she began enjoying “Sweet Crush Saga” frequently and proudly introduced that, this previous week, she had hit a stage above 6,100.
Yellen additionally informed the viewers that she performs Wordle day by day.
Inflation?
“Inflation – was that you just?” Sagal requested at one level.
“Not my fault!” Yellen replied. “That is the Fed’s job.”
As Sagal famous in his introduction of Yellin, she is a preeminent economist, a former chair of the President’s Council of Financial Advisers and chair of the Federal Reserve, who’s now the nation’s 78th treasury secretary.
“Meaning she indicators all of your greenback payments and, enjoyable truth, reads all of your Venmo receipts!” Sagal joked.
Picture: Courtesy of the Federal Reserve
