Joe Weisenthal

Finally.

Completely our fault for not having made it happen sooner.

But what are you doing here?

What brings you to this particular conference?

What attracts you here?

As someone with two kids in the New York City public schools, I can absolutely confirm that the degree to which they associate the mayor with school lunch policy is extremely real.

And they like talk about like, oh, we used to have these like really nice waffles or something.

And then Eric Adams got rid of it.

Like they're really like keyed in.

Single issue voters on waffles.

They're like really pay attention to the degree to which school lunch policy shifts with administration.

Like this is like, they're really, they really think, what is state capacity?

We've been using this term for years on the podcast.

And we were like, during COVID, we were like, you know, it took a, it took, you know, a long time to stand up testing facilities for a sense on people's like, oh, we lack state capacity, but.

What is it?

Which is how the therapy models work.

Just to take the other side of the coin.

So recently in New York City, it was, I don't know, I think scandal is too strong a word, but there were a lot of headlines about how much the city had paid consultants for working on redesigning the trash collection.

Yeah.

system in the city.