921 - Health Scare feat. Tim Faust (3/31/25)

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🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Tim “T-Bone” Faust makes a long overdue return to the program to brief us on the series of guerilla town halls on Medicaid he’s been doing in Wisconsin. But first, we start with a brief roundup on one of the most important health issues facing the nation today: Soda, and the role it plays in keeping Americans healthy. Tim then takes us through the current administration’s assault on Medicaid & Medicare, how the failure to push for healthcare reform in the face of COVID paved the way for hucksters like RFK Jr, and how health justice remains a bedrock principle for a left political program going forward. Tim is happy to book a town hall in YOUR neck of the woods if you reach out to him: https://x.com/crulge And here’s a quick flier he put together for Hands Off Medicaid if you want more info: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jusscubmipf5fsd5hob24/national-flyer.pdf?rlkey=b1327wky6zte79m00g8peo8iq&e=2&st=d3dngrl3&dl=0 On Will’s rec, go see “The Encampments” if you have the chance: https://www.watermelonpictures.com/films/the-encampments

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0:00.0	All right
0:02.0	All I want to be is there to trouble.
0:07.0	All I want to be is a trouble By the way is it a joke.
0:36.6	By the way, Felix, speaking of people who have been vindicated,
0:40.6	I've really been enjoying the Cartman post that you've been retweeting.
0:44.6	Yeah, holy shit.
0:51.7	People are, every time I think that we've, like, reached our, like, lowest level of Republicat intelligence, we go lower. There are like viral
0:55.9	posts of people being like,
0:57.6	Cartman was right.
0:59.8	I just want to make clear to our
1:01.8	audience here.
1:03.6	Though Cartman may hold up a twisted
1:05.9	mirror to the values of society,
1:07.8	he's not your role model, okay? He's not the hero
1:09.9	of the show. Well, I mean, like, are we going to condemn Johnny Cash for killing a man in Reno?
1:15.2	I mean, come on now. He's also not a villain. You know what I mean? I think I think there's a
1:19.5	little bit of Cartman in all of us. And, you know, sometimes he speaks truth that are uncomfortable.
1:24.8	And I think we just need to hold space for Cartman and for everyone in South Park.
1:29.1	Most people didn't see this because it was on a podcast in Spain, but Anna Darmus talked
1:33.6	about how when she first came to Hollywood, when she was like 19, Eric Cartman helped
1:39.0	her out a lot.
1:40.1	And she expected him to like take advantage of her because that's what she was used to and like older more established actors and he was like come on honey i'm like twice her age like and he would never talk about it he goes to hospitals he doesn't let people take pictures unless it's the families that's just the kind of guy he is no he's been he's getting a lot of, he's been, he's been getting unfairly demonized for quite
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