WEBVTT - Milk The Cows! 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:05.640 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:09.879 George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.239 Armstrong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:26.520 We have won because New Yorkers have stood up for 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:32.760 a city they can afford, a city where they can 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:34.400 do more than just struggle. 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:38.839 And it's where the mayor will use their power. 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:48.839 To reject Donald Trump's fascism, to stop mass ice agents 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:55.480 from deporting our neighbors, and to govern our city. 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:57.440 As a model for the Democratic Party. 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:01.120 Get used to him, and Donnie. He is going to 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:02.640 be the mayor of New York. 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:06.720 Barring some really seismic something or other, he is going 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:08.880 to be the mayor of New York. And he is good. 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:11.520 He is only thirty three years old. He's in the 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:18.400 in the long history of super wealthy socialists, the capitalist. 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:21.319 System was horrible for others. 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.039 But not you, apparently you and your wife. 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.759 Well, he's never had to do the things it takes 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:27.840 to be successful in America. He was born to it. 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:30.800 He was gifted it. So he doesn't understand why everybody 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:33.160 isn't it just gifted everything they want. 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:38.600 It's surprising how many big time socialist leaders don't come 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:43.479 out of the working class anywhay, he Trump tweeted out 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:47.320 yesterday after the surprise win of Mumdannie, who was like 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:50.680 way behind in the polls just a couple of weeks ago. 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:53.600 It was a it was a bad, bad little run 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:56.080 for polling. It would seem there in New York. Or 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:00.800 he closed really hard because Andrew Cuomo ran such a 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.680 horrible campaign. Anyway, it doesn't really make any difference, Trump 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:04.920 truthed out yesterday. 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:08.200 He looks terrible, terrible knoll caps. He looks terrible. He 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:10.720 doesn't he he looks. He's a really handsome young man. 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:13.040 Trump. His voice is grating. 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:13.600 It is not. 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:15.240 He's not very smart. 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:19.520 He's got the same political cajunists you have for one thing, 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.840 AOC plus three dummies all backing him, and even our 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:28.120 great Palestinian senator, even our great Palestinian senator crying. 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:29.679 Chuck Schumer is groveling over him. 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.679 Eric Adams, the current mayor of New York, who will 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:38.400 be running against Zoran Mumdani as an independent, called him 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:40.079 a snake oil salesman yesterday. 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.320 But this Mandami dude. 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:49.639 Who, as I mentioned earlier, he and his wife had 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:55.160 a lavish like we're movie stars wedding in Dubai a 0:02:55.200 --> 0:03:01.320 few years back, and that's not very socialism, I don't think, 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:02.680 But anyway. 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:03.960 That's his deal. 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.080 I was watching Mark Halpern's podcast yesterday and he said, 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:08.400 the mainstream media. 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:10.920 Did a horrible job of. 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:14.000 Giving you any information about this guy, and all that's 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:17.440 gonna come out between now and election day. Though Mark 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.320 Halpern believes like most everybody does, there's no stopping it now. 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:24.320 I mean, he won the Democratic nomination and there are 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:28.040 no Republicans or Independence with the heft or the time 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:29.639 to derail him. 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.880 So there is a desperate search for said unicorn going 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:37.160 on right now. I guarantee you there is so much 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:37.920 money at stake. 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.800 I'm sure there is, but that person should have emerged earlier. 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:48.320 Tremendous amount of oppo research, according to Mark Halprin that 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:50.960 is laying out there that nobody's used yet, some of 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.880 the papers this guy wrote in college, or things that 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.880 he's said or done when he was younger and less, 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:00.560 you know, trying to be mainstream. 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.080 That he is as a thirty three year old. 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.440 I do want to hear what twenty two year old 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.160 him had to say about the United States of America 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:08.720 and a variety of different things. 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:10.440 But he's still gonna end up mayor of New York. 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.680 Greg Hipp, the Great housing market writer for The Wall 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.160 Street Journal, is headline today is New Yorker's vote to 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:19.920 make their housing shortage worse, and he contrasts New York 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:25.760 with Austin. How Austin saw a housing crisis and enlarged supply. 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:29.159 New York through some dan he's going to do the opposite. 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.640 They are going to severely constrict supply to keep prices down. 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.039 I would like to know how much of his popularity 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:42.200 was his policies too much if no matter how much 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.200 it was, it was too much for my taste, and. 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:45.600 How much of it was his. 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:52.040 Vibe and approach to politics, which we'll get into here 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:53.960 in just a little bit. It's very similar to Trump's. 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:59.160 But a little breakdown on this dude. His dad is 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:04.320 a Columbia University professor of anthropology, political science, and African studies. 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:07.240 What does that sound like? 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:12.039 While the candidate's mother is an Oscar nominated filmmaker, so 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:16.000 he comes from a family of filmmakers and Colombia African 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.479 Studies professors. 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:21.600 The family of education and entertainment. 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:25.080 The family moved to the Upper West Side from Uganda. 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:28.200 Upper West Side is where all poor, hardworking socialist people 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:33.400 end up from Uganda while growing up, but paid little 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.400 in rent because they were set up in the Columbia 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:36.320 housing situation. 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:39.400 So they got there and lived on that. 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:44.880 And Mamdani himself graduated from Bodwin College in Maine. 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:46.560 Has worked for. 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:51.239 Advocacy groups and nonprofits, like not really earning a salary 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.040 or you know, there's no measure of whether you accomplished anything, 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.680 kind of like the whole Obama Community Organizer thing. 0:05:57.960 --> 0:05:59.159 Was also a music. 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:02.520 Supervisor brief for a Hollywood film directed by his mother, 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:06.640 which is nothing, and a short stint as a rapper. 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:13.240 That's his entire back ground in the working very Carl Marx, Yeah, 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:13.880 it really is. 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:15.200 Basically did nothing. 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.560 Although where'd family money come from? Because I mean the 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.719 wedding you're talking about, that's crazy money. You know. 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:23.760 I didn't even get a breakdown on actually where the 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:24.640 money came from. 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.520 I mean, because an academic, you know, higher placed academic, 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.680 that's a solid salary. And I've never heard of this woman. 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:32.760 I suppose she might have a couple of victories in 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:35.960 the movie business, but I've not heard anything about that 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:37.279 where they get all that money. 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:42.440 I know his wife is successful. Also, they met on Hinge, 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:43.839 so good for him. 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:48.360 She's an illustrator, yeah, offer illustrator something. 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:51.400 She's some sort of artist person also. Anyway, this is 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:55.880 the stuff that I thought was interesting from the Wide 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.719 World of News newsletter today written by Mark Alprin about 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.719 the similarities between Trump and Mam Donnie and I actually 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.160 thought about this yesterday as I. 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:05.720 Was watching him for the first time. 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.400 I'd heard that he was good on the campaign trail, 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:14.960 but his various tiktoks and speeches and like he'd walk 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:18.200 out with a microphone and interview you know, people making 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:20.360 sandwiches and that sort of stuff, and he's really good 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.680 at that sort of thing. Both men possess a post 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:27.320 modern flare. They wink at the camera, they know they 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.400 are in a show, and they invite you to know 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:34.080 it too, which is interesting. I remember hearing this about 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:38.040 Letterman years ago. Norm MacDonald, the community the comedian, talked 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:42.440 about when he finally understood Letterman, when he realized that, 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:46.240 like you, the guest were the bit and Letterman and 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.160 the audience were in on the whole thing, and you 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:52.520 were like the foil, and every guest was and that's 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:54.800 why Letterman Show was so different than everything. And I 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.960 think that is exactly the postmodern thing that Trump and 0:07:58.000 --> 0:07:59.600 this Mom Donnie character have done. 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:03.080 It's like, you mean, the voters, You and I are kind. 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:04.880 Of in on it, and we're like kind of making 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:08.760 fun of everybody else, which is an interesting trick to 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:15.040 pull off and healthy helping of I speak your language, 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:16.400 I get your references. 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:20.320 I am of you, whether it's the Heartland, which is 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:25.120 really amazing for a born to wealth New York real 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:28.000 estate developer, or this guy. I've seen some of the 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.840 social media stuff man, and it is straight out of 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:35.600 like top level TikTok influencer stuff. Yeah, his sense of 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.959 irony and hipness. And it's the way he handles the 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.040 camera and everything. He knows the language he ought to 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:42.960 be speaking. And that's you know, that's part of the 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.079 connection with the young. Plus you can get them to 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:47.760 fall for idiotic policies that will never work and never have. 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:51.160 But and Helpern goes through how Trump, you know, being 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:53.240 a TV star, understood all that, and Mom Donnie, for 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.640 whatever reason, you know, coming from a Hollywood filmmaker background 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:01.319 or whatever understands the modern world and modern med Also, Mamdani, 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.600 like Trump, wears his ideology on his sleeve, sometimes literally 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.120 in this case, in the form of branded jackets or 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:10.160 tax the rich merch but never lets you forget he's 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.440 in on the metajoke of modern politics, which is a 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:17.240 Trump thing. Also, this is all just a phony joke, 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:18.320 and they're all screwing you. 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:19.040 But I'm on. 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:23.480 Your side, right that whole deal. Both break the fourth wall. 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:25.120 Trump would call. 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.760 Into cable news shows unannounced, altering the news cycle on 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:32.320 a whim. Mamdani records Instagram videos directly addressing his constituents 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.640 with all the production values of well funded college activist groups, 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.640 and yet they work because he, liked Trump, knows that 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:42.120 message discipline in the twenty first century means being the 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:46.480 message yourself, living on social media and in real life 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:50.320 in synchronism tandem with you, so your message and you 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:54.280 you live your message every single day. Critics scoff at 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.320 this for both of them. They call it unserious or 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:02.199 narcissistic or both. But we are living in the age 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:08.040 on authenticity as performance. Neither man hides the fact that 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:11.040 he is selling something, but they are good at it, 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.360 and that in today's media ecosystem is more powerful than 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:18.679 one hundred endorsements from one hundred editorial boards that nobody ever. 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:20.720 Reads, which I think is interesting too. 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.640 You are the message, you are winking at people. They 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:29.440 are in on your joke that you've got going. In 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:33.240 a way that you look at other politicians. Postmodernism is 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.199 hard for me to wrap my head around. But when 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.839 I see somebody that's got the new thing, like Trump 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.520 and this guy, all the other politicians, they look like 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:44.160 they're from a hundred years ago in the way that 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:47.600 they handle their messaging and trying to relate to audiences. 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.600 That's such a great point though, and intriguing that the 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:59.160 way you establish authenticity is to admit you're not being authentic. Yes, yes, exactly. 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.680 I know he's not trying to job me because he 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.520 admitted to me that this is all a show. Okay, Yeah. 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:07.439 I always use the example of. 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.480 Trump going to the big Harley thing with all the 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:15.319 Harley riders, and every politician had always thrown on a 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:18.319 leather vest and ridden on a motorcycle or ridden on 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:19.880 the back of a motorcycle. If they didn't know how 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.440 to ride a motorcycle and warn the garb and tried 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.559 to pretend they're one of them. Trump shows up in 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.559 a limo in his suit and says he doesn't like motorcycles, 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:33.079 and the crowd goes wild because he's authentically inauthentic. 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:36.520 Right right now. I'm just here for the votes, everybody. 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.319 Yeah, But for whatever reason, that worked, And Mom, Donnie's 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:42.800 got a big slice of that too. And one more 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:44.719 thing on this before before we let it go when 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:45.679 he take a break. 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:49.280 Is he hates the Jews. Oh nope, something different, Okay, 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:49.679 go ahead. 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.079 I think he is a socialist and I think he 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:54.960 does hate the Jews. So he got that crowd from 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:56.720 that standpoint. But I also think he got a big 0:11:56.800 --> 0:12:00.640 chunk of like the way Trump does of I do 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:03.720 things that everybody tells you you're not supposed to do. 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.400 Everybody tells you you can't say this. I said it. 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:09.120 Trump does that all the time, and Mom, Duddie, they're 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.600 gonna try to tell me I can't say a globalized INTIFA. 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.600 To screw them, I can say whatever I want. People 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:17.320 love that from there. 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.360 The person they're gonna vote for now, nobody's gonna tell 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.800 me I can't say this. Trump has done it on 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.360 a variety of topics, and this guy did it too, 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.840 And I think people that's with the enthusiasm for him. 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:30.719 He's from another country, so he can't be president of 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:34.400 the United States, but he could be a major player 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.959 mayor of New York gets a lot of attention, and 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.280 the Democratic Party is gonna have to deal with him 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.400 because he's gonna have such a you know, a prominent position. 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.320 How they're gonna do that, I do not know. 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.120 Trying to find that quote from that email about uh 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:59.000 ker kergarden freud perverse. Will people will do. They'll embrace 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.599 that sort of even if it is self damaging. 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:06.600 Yeah, I'll look into that. It's interesting. We'll be following 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:08.520 this for quite some time. I'm sure more on the 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:16.240 way stay here. Actor Orlando Bloom and singer Katie Perry 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:21.760 have broken up after a six year engagement. That's a 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:25.600 long time to be engaged getting married anyway. I'll bet 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.920 he couldn't handle being married, or now that she's an astronaut, 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:31.480 she couldn't handle being married to a non astronaut. 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.560 I'll bet that's right. Being gone for hours at a 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:39.320 time on her Space missions oh yeah. 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:44.720 No place to raise your kids. The Atlantic with a 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:48.800 piece about the movie Jaws on its fifty year anniversary 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:52.920 and what it meant about class struggle is being mocked 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:55.520 by some of my favorite people in a hilarious way. 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:57.080 So I hope you can stay tuned for that. 0:13:57.600 --> 0:13:59.640 Excellent I'm so excited about that. Holy cow, we have 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:03.880 almost there's no time. All right, here's Neil. Nobody's talking 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.120 about the big beautiful Bill because some of the geopolitical 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.440 stuff that's going on right now, it's got all sorts 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:11.320 of stuff wrong with it, but it's got all sorts 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:16.679 of stuff right with it too, and those who profit 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.960 from what they're trying to fix are going to come 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:24.080 out hardcore against it. And I just think it might 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:27.600 be at the point where it's some horrifying sausage making, 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:29.800 but it's the best sausage we're gonna get. One of 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.040 the things they're going to get rid of is this giant, 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:36.160 incredibly expensive medicare scam. And I think this is a 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:39.080 good summary of how it works. And if your eyes 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:43.560 start to close gloss over, that's the point. That's how 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:46.640 they keep getting away with it. So in the eighties, 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:51.640 States came up with this government sanctioned racket of Medicare 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:55.600 provider taxes. The idea was to get more federal Medicaid 0:14:55.680 --> 0:15:01.280 matching funds and therefore spend less from there general tax revenue. 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:05.320 We'll get the Feds to pay for our citizens' healthcare costs. 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:09.680 So that has enabled states to expand benefits and greatly 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:14.800 diminish the incentives to operate efficiently, meaning to squeeze your 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.080 tax dollars best they can. So here's how it works, 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.240 and this is a good summary. Keep your eyes unglossed. 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:26.440 States assess taxes on healthcare providers, mostly hospitals. They tax 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:30.880 the hospitals, they channel that tax revenue back into their 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:36.240 Medicaid program and spend it, which draws more federal money. 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:39.880 For every dollar the state's spend on Medicaid, they get 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:43.680 one to three dollars back from the Feds, and nine 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:48.200 dollars for every dollar for able bodied individuals covered under 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:52.200 Obama Care. Ooh, which Craig, the healthcare guru, warned us about. 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:53.840 Yeah, I don't like these incentives. 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:58.520 So what about those poor hospitals getting tax this money? 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:03.320 No problem. They then receive more in Medicaid payments. Then 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.840 they pay in the provider taxes. The states make sure 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:09.240 a good chunk of revenue is routed back to the 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:14.160 hospitals so they're made whole plus more money. And in 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:19.040 nineteen ninety one, George H. W cracked down on this. 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:23.640 Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer voted for it. Long story short, 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.720 but the states and the big government to Democrats have 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.640 found ways to get around that, especially through Medicare that 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:32.640 effort at reform. So the big beautiful bill is going 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.600 to really crack down on this stuff. You are going 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:39.720 to hear screeching like half of Congress is being murdered 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.680 in the streets about how this measure is going to 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:46.640 deny people their Medicare and their healthcare and children are 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:48.680 going to die of the common cold and the rest 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.800 of it. That's because the hospital lobby and the healthcare 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:55.880 lobbies are spending so much money to kill this. Just 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.440 be aware of what's happening, because it's about to start 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:02.960 in earnest. It was the movie Jaws and allegory about 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:06.520 class divisions in America. Of course, it's about a big 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:07.679 fish botton people. 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:09.280 Of course it freaking wasn't. 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:09.800 It wasn't. 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.439 Put The Atlantic claims it was, and people are mocking that, 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:16.120 so stay tuned for that. On the fiftieth anniversary of Jaws. 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:23.160 Coming up Armstrong and Getty slowly, Pitch, I can go slowly. 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:24.760 It's come on down and chump some edition. 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:48.560 You gotta need a bigger proach. Terrifying. 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:52.320 The movie Jaws came out fifty years ago this summer, 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:56.199 horrifying swimmers all around the world and hoping to God 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:58.080 that as you bobbed around in the ocean you did 0:17:58.119 --> 0:17:58.840 not hear a cello. 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:07.080 All right, bought them, bought them, but it Oh, so 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:08.320 this is funny. 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:11.679 This reminds me of our friend James Lindsay when he 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:14.480 and his friends did the Grievance papers. They put out 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:19.240 these fake studies. They're incredibly over the top and ridiculous, 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:22.400 but you couldn't tell them for the real thing from 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:24.639 the real thing, because the real thing is over the 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:25.639 top and ridiculous. 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:28.280 To that point, I'm going to do a mock one. 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:30.080 I could switch the mock one. 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.040 With the Atlantic piece and you wouldn't be able to 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:35.680 tell the difference. But the Atlantic has a piece out today. 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:39.120 The film Jaws came out fifty years ago this month. 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:43.320 It portrays Clash divisions differently from the novel that inspired it, 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:47.040 in ways it anticipated a fight that has arguably defined 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:49.240 American politics since twenty sixteen. 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:51.520 What Jaws got wrong is the title. 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:53.960 I thought it was about to fish bite and peeple. 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:54.359 It was. 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:58.119 It was about a scary shark biting people, and it 0:18:58.160 --> 0:18:59.919 made people think, oh my god, that could happen to me. 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.040 The ocean and the end and they catch the shark 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:03.920 and it's a bloody finale and blah blah blah. 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:06.160 There's nothing else to it but that. That's it. That's 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:06.720 the whole thing. 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.320 And it's hilarious that the Atlantic is turning it into 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:13.680 some sort of class division and a commentary on today's politics. 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:19.160 It anticipated today's politics or whatever the crap. Anyway, Noah 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:21.720 Roffman of The National Review decided to. 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:26.080 Write in that style, mocking it. Basically. Charles C. W. 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:29.520 Cook, who Joe and I both really like, responded to 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:31.720 Noah's peace by saying, I am in awe. 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:35.199 Let me read a little bit from it. 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:38.400 The character Quint, that's the guy we just heard from, 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:40.240 the guy who owns the boat that says we're in 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:42.920 need a bigger boat. He's the salty old dude. 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:47.760 The character quint represents the suppressed male id, which struggles 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:52.800 against structural and metasocial taboos, prescribing the full expression of 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:54.879 the archetypical masculine ethos. 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:57.040 He is consumed by the sleek. 0:19:56.760 --> 0:20:00.880 White metaphor of sexual equality, against which which he rages. 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:04.400 Until the last minute he bids farewell and ado, not. 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:07.560 To those Spanish ladies, but to the shackles of conventional 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:11.960 gender roles. Exactly what I thought, That's what I took 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:12.320 from it. 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:14.920 Yeah, when I watched the Shark movie. I mean, this 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:17.600 is no more over the top than the Atlantic piece. Really, 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:20.600 the drive to open the beaches by the fourth of 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:24.439 July is a classic expression of American jingoism and the 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:27.919 blood spilled over his rote commitment to commercialism as an 0:20:28.000 --> 0:20:31.080 unremarkable feature of the rapacious capitalist enterprise. 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:34.080 I find that sort of. 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:37.920 Thing hilarious, and that it is so not even this 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:40.960 much different from the actual pieces. 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:46.080 Some of these crazy people write about this stuff right right, 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:49.080 so easy to bamboozle them if you know the language 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:49.840 to throw around. 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:51.880 Noah Rothman actually said at the end of he said, 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:53.760 this is really fun. No wonder so many people do 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:54.080 it for. 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:54.679 A living. 0:20:57.119 --> 0:21:00.639 One more jaws, A portrayal of the monstrous, menacing, and 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:06.000 potentially violent other foreign, indeed alien. It haunts its pursuers, 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:10.400 dominates their conscience, and is subject to abuses and indignities 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:15.399 until it meets out the righteous vengeance of accumulated transgenerational memory. 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:19.200 The Shark is the global South, the black and brown 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:23.240 diaspora of the bun Dung Revolution, whatever the hell that means. 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:25.480 And I'll just give you one more that I like 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:28.800 Martin Brody. Who is is? 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:29.160 Is that? 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:31.600 The uh oh Brody is the police chief right. 0:21:31.720 --> 0:21:35.960 Okay, the weak and crumbling edifice of the post war consensus, 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:39.520 exhausted and plagued by indecision. He serves as our link 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:42.399 to the fraying social order of the past. His triumph 0:21:42.520 --> 0:21:45.480 is pirate. I mean, it wasn't worth it. Perched atop 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:48.520 a sinking ship, dealt a mortal blow by the rising 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:52.240 vanguard of the subjugated and militant, His reprieve from the 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:54.119 oppressor's fate will be short lived. 0:21:56.960 --> 0:22:00.359 The Atlantic pea is great. The Atlantic piece that I 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:04.520 read is so not much different than that. Yeah, And 0:22:04.560 --> 0:22:06.640 it's just who dude are? 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:10.400 It gets to the previous conversation of like Trump and 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:13.320 this man, this New York mayor dude whatever his name 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:14.920 is being in on the joke. 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:16.560 Is the Atlantic in on the joke? 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:17.920 Do they know it's a joke. 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:19.679 And they're writing it for their readers who think it's 0:22:19.720 --> 0:22:21.560