If Trump Isn’t Dying, Why Is He Being Treated Like a Make-A-Wish Kid? | Spike Lee

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Speaker 12 We do have a tremendous program for you this evening Spike Lee

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Speaker 13 Spike Lee will be here this evening.

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Speaker 17 now now normally as many of you may know who've been on this planet for a few rotations, August is considered a relatively quiet month for political doings.

Speaker 19 But as we have been told many, many times,

Speaker 5 this ain't normal.

Speaker 9 Come and try and catch up since we've been gone. The economy hit a brick wall, stalling on jobs, while inflation continued to rise.

Speaker 9 So Trump met with Putin in Alaska to force Ukraine to accept Crackle Barrel's new logo

Speaker 5 while Laboo Boo released a new Epstein file and Taylor got engaged.

Speaker 8 It's a blur.

Speaker 5 It's all a blur.

Speaker 19 But all of it takes a back seat to continuing concerns over the president's health.

Speaker 2 We haven't really seen much of the president over the last week.

Speaker 23 Basically absent from the public eye.

Speaker 2 He's clearly hiding something about his health.

Speaker 3 The hashtag TrumpIzDead trends it on social media. What the f ⁇ , you people?

Speaker 3 You reporters have no chill.

Speaker 7 Guy can't take a few days for some RR and a non-surgical breast reduction without everybody

Speaker 24 suddenly pulling out the toe tags on the president.

Speaker 13 It does say something about the ubiquity of Donald Trump in our lives that we don't hear from him for 20 minutes and we're like, he's dead.

Speaker 5 I think he's...

Speaker 24 Check.

Speaker 5 Can we track him?

Speaker 24 It's, how do you know he's dead? Well, it's been seven minutes since the word news scum has come up on my feed.

Speaker 5 He must be dead.

Speaker 14 But of course Trump didn't die in office, but I wouldn't put it past him.

Speaker 24 Trying once again to take credit for something Biden had already accomplished.

Speaker 13 With that being said, Trump is alive.

Speaker 22 Although I definitively would not go so far as to say alive and kicking.

Speaker 6 Something is up with his health.

Speaker 26 New today, the White House revealing President Trump has been diagnosed with a condition called chronic venous insufficiency.

Speaker 27 Chronic venous insufficiency, a relatively common condition, something that gets more common as you get older.

Speaker 27 Oh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 7 Did I wander into the wrong classroom at boring university?

Speaker 8 Can someone please explain his physical condition to me in a way I'd be interested in the style of perhaps a world-weary Brit?

Speaker 28 His ankles, swollen and straining over his Oxfords, aren't just unsightly cankles. They're flashing neon signs of a body under pressure.

Speaker 5 Put that Attenborough right into my veins.

Speaker 16 The aging president struggles to keep up with the herd.

Speaker 12 And as night falls, it's clear

Speaker 29 the lions will eat well tonight.

Speaker 5 On a menu.

Speaker 5 On a menu.

Speaker 25 Wait, I want to tell you the menu.

Speaker 5 On a menu.

Speaker 5 Of Cankles Epoiv.

Speaker 5 It might not have been worth the walk, but

Speaker 5 I felt I owed it to you.

Speaker 21 By the way, it's not just the Cankles he's got going.

Speaker 5 The whole meatbag seems to be having some kind of drainage issue.

Speaker 30 These images of the president have drawn attention in recent days showing apparent bruising on his hands that was covered with makeup.

Speaker 5 Jesus, Grandpa!

Speaker 5 Put him away.

Speaker 8 Holy shit.

Speaker 10 And what's with the makeup?

Speaker 14 It's not like you can treat leprosy at Sephora.

Speaker 5 God.

Speaker 5 By the way,

Speaker 7 may I remind you, these are just the parts poking out that we can see.

Speaker 13 I bet everything on that body not covered by clothes is all f ⁇ ed up right now.

Speaker 7 For all we know, the guy's gone full grimace.

Speaker 7 Blotchy hands, puffy ankles.

Speaker 8 Although, to be fair to Trump, people got a little nitpicky.

Speaker 31 We can see that there is sort of like a lumpy situation going on on Trump's forehead. One of his eyes is half closed.

Speaker 7 All right, now you're just being mean.

Speaker 8 Oh, he's got swollen ankles, got a little bit on the thing, but look at his f ⁇ ing eyes.

Speaker 5 They're lumpy.

Speaker 9 See, this is the problem with our superficial Instagram culture.

Speaker 21 We have unrealistic expectations in this country about the amount of fluid our bodies should be able

Speaker 14 to clear subcutaneously.

Speaker 15 It sends the wrong message to young people.

Speaker 14 These really are not medical appraisals.

Speaker 32 It's just more like insults like, hey, according to the Mayo Clinic,

Speaker 7 why are his eyes so lumpy?

Speaker 5 Insiders have been calling the president Skippy because under his skin looks a little extra chunky.

Speaker 13 Hey, the president's neck looks so much like Betty White's vagina that Milton Burrell...

Speaker 34 Too soon?

Speaker 34 Yeah.

Speaker 5 I was going to do the...

Speaker 22 The reason we did so that the tag to that was going to be that Milton Burrell tried to it, but

Speaker 14 you clearly rejected the premise. Why should I.

Speaker 13 came with the

Speaker 14 Now normally we might be able to dismiss these symptoms, but Trump himself seems very focused these days on securing a prime piece of afterlife real estate.

Speaker 37 I want to try and get to heaven.

Speaker 5 Sure as you do.

Speaker 14 But you know what? Hey, look, the first step is always admitting you have a problem.

Speaker 22 Maybe you can turn this thing around.

Speaker 33 If there's a will, there's a way for you to get yourself back up that golden escalator to the heavens.

Speaker 23 Just moments ago, Democrats on the panel posted this image with a caption that reads,

Speaker 23 Here it is, we got Trump's birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein that the president said doesn't exist.

Speaker 8 Going down.

Speaker 8 Oh well.

Speaker 8 It's okay. It's okay.

Speaker 21 But it's not just the physical symptoms that make you think the president is transitioning from this mortal coil.

Speaker 12 It's that whenever any of his biggest supporters are with him,

Speaker 5 it sounds like they're saying goodbye.

Speaker 39 Mr. President,

Speaker 36 Working for this government, for you, is the greatest honor of my life.

Speaker 41 When history looks back on you, how would you like to be remembered?

Speaker 42 I'll never forget standing in the East Room with you, surrounded by the coal miners from around this country, where you said, hey, big, beautiful coal.

Speaker 33 Remember, Mr. President?

Speaker 35 And I said, no, these are humans.

Speaker 36 The coal is what they dig for. And then...

Speaker 5 Anyway, we'll miss you.

Speaker 12 And have you ever been to one of those funerals where there's a video of the recently departed?

Speaker 6 Well, six days ago, the White House released one of them.

Speaker 43 Let me share some of the biggest lessons I've learned from a lifetime spent building dreams. First, if you think that you're too young to do something great, let me tell you that you are wrong.

Speaker 43 You're not too young.

Speaker 14 There's no such thing as too young.

Speaker 5 I'm having trouble getting a read on these people.

Speaker 14 If you're watching this video, I'm already dead.

Speaker 14 But by the way, once you begin to notice this pattern, you begin to see really the whole vibe around this president is very make-a-wish kid.

Speaker 13 Everyone who shows up to his office tries to make one of his dreams come true.

Speaker 5 We thought it was only appropriate to present you with

Speaker 19 our honorary United States Marshal Service badge.

Speaker 5 Look how happy they made him.

Speaker 7 She wiz, Mr.

Speaker 5 Ariel Marshall.

Speaker 14 This is even better than when they let me drive a garbage.

Speaker 14 Now you might be saying to yourself, and the make-a-wish thing is a little much.

Speaker 10 A grown man would recognize when people are condescending to him, treating him like a child, tiptoeing around his fragile ego with the idea that this person is so easily manipulated that even the cheapest of gestures could be persuasive.

Speaker 7 You wouldn't think that

Speaker 44 it is the trophy that the winner of the FIFA World Cup wins.

Speaker 44 Only the FIFA president and then those who win can touch it

Speaker 44 because it's for winners only. And since you are a winner, of course, you can as well touch it.

Speaker 44 Also,

Speaker 8 I have in the bag Thor's hammer.

Speaker 10 But only the bravest boy can pick it up.

Speaker 10 Only the bravest boy can.

Speaker 10 My God, you did it.

Speaker 10 You picked it up.

Speaker 10 You're Thor.

Speaker 24 I'm telling you, though, man, this goes way past trophy funneling and serial box deputy badges.

Speaker 14 The people around Trump know that he is a never-ending insatiable black hole of wishes.

Speaker 23 It's well past time that President Trump was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Speaker 39 When Operation Warp Speed was started, it was a massive success for our country. And I do agree that President Trump should get the Nobel Prize for that.

Speaker 37 I'm thinking that since he's basically taught the world trade economics, he might be up for the Nobel on economics.

Speaker 8 Oh, Donald Trump, the first recipient of the Nobel Prize variety pack.

Speaker 5 Economics, chemistry.

Speaker 14 Oh, here's one for monogamy.

Speaker 5 It's really entirely made up.

Speaker 24 Sure, why not just fire up the 3D printer and print all the Nobels for Donnie?

Speaker 24 Or perhaps they sell them at Spencer Gifts, which still exists.

Speaker 8 It's a real.

Speaker 14 You may have killed our bookstores, Bezos, but in America, we still shop in person for our lava lamps and our dildos that suction cup to the wall.

Speaker 5 By the way,

Speaker 14 word to the wise,

Speaker 10 the seal is unreliable.

Speaker 8 Everything about the treatment of this president screams make a wish kid.

Speaker 14 Ooh, you'll meet your favorite celebrities and they'll dress up for you.

Speaker 5 Oh,

Speaker 35 I know while you're president, you won't be able to sleep at your home and it probably feels a little scary and a little uncomfortable so.

Speaker 5 Makeover!

Speaker 12 Oh, and did you get an AoI?

Speaker 8 No, no, it doesn't look weird at all. In fact, we're all wearing them.

Speaker 5 It looks...

Speaker 14 It looks so cool.

Speaker 17 But if you think there are some government institutions that are above this kind of insulting obsequiousness, you would be wrong.

Speaker 19 Today, the Supreme Court bent over backwards to grant Trump even his most unconstitutional wishes, like maybe you can arrest people for looking Mexican.

Speaker 41 Breaking at this hour, the Supreme Court again has backed President Trump's approach towards immigration.

Speaker 41 It is now ruled that they are allowing federal agents to proceed with raids in Southern California if they target people for deportation based on their race or language.

Speaker 14 Hey, the good news, the Supreme Court supports affirmative action based on race.

Speaker 35 The bad news is that action is ICE deporting you.

Speaker 5 What the f ⁇ ?

Speaker 14 What kind of a make-a-wish kid wants to nullify the Fourth Amendment?

Speaker 22 I'm beginning to think Trump isn't a benign, suffering child at all.

Speaker 33 I'm beginning to think everybody treats Trump like this, not because he's the make-a-wish kid, but because he's that Twilight Zone kid.

Speaker 25 That anytime somebody made him mad, he sent them out to the cornfield.

Speaker 41 You're a bad man.

Speaker 47 You're a very bad man.

Speaker 4 And you keep thinking bad thoughts about me.

Speaker 5 Think I'm wrong?

Speaker 5 Let's play a game.

Speaker 32 I'll play you two clips.

Speaker 15 And I'll bet you won't be able to tell the difference between scared townspeople trying not to be sent to the cornfield and Trump's sycophants.

Speaker 3 It's good what you've done to Dan.

Speaker 45 You've been doing an amazing job.

Speaker 34 It was swell. It was just swell.

Speaker 48 Great job, sir.

Speaker 13 Okay, the production values give it away.

Speaker 7 But you gotta admit, it's weird.

Speaker 25 And it never ends.

Speaker 3 Good that you've done that.

Speaker 5 Oh, it's real good.

Speaker 45 People were applauding you.

Speaker 37 You're a good boy, Anthony.

Speaker 35 You're not just courageous, you're actually fearless.

Speaker 3 Everybody loves you, Anthony.

Speaker 49 They love you, son. The most consequential president of the modern era, if not all American history.

Speaker 5 Only American history?

Speaker 5 To the cornfields!

Speaker 8 But this is where we're at, America.

Speaker 6 This is where we're at.

Speaker 21 For your consideration.

Speaker 36 A nation held hostage by the fragile ego of a man-baby president

Speaker 29 who may or may not be dying of hand syphilis.

Speaker 5 But is puffy.

Speaker 32 He's very, he's certainly,

Speaker 10 I don't know if he's dying.

Speaker 36 He's weirdly puffy.

Speaker 38 And who we're trapped with for at least three more years

Speaker 36 in the Twilight Zone. When we come back, Spike Lee, you'll be joining us.
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Speaker 51 Welcome back to the show, my guest, tonight.

Speaker 14 Legendary Oscar-winning filmmaker.

Speaker 32 His latest is called Highest to Lowest.

Speaker 24 Please welcome Spike Lee.

Speaker 5 That scene,

Speaker 20 ASAP Rock,

Speaker 22 he's a young musician.

Speaker 9 He's going toe to toe with Denzel Washington.

Speaker 3 Well, that that was that scene was not scripted.

Speaker 16 He came in with Nas?

Speaker 3 No, that was Denzel that came with Nash.

Speaker 5 That's what I'm saying. Yeah.

Speaker 29 And then

Speaker 5 Ace Rocky. He was right there.

Speaker 10 He's just writing it. Right there.

Speaker 10 Wow.

Speaker 3 Ace of Denzel. I didn't know Denzel, but it made the scene better.
That's the genius of Denzel Washington.

Speaker 5 Yeah. It was amazing.

Speaker 5 But you don't.

Speaker 5 The young man.

Speaker 22 The young man

Speaker 10 was not intimidated

Speaker 9 to do that.

Speaker 3 And that's a

Speaker 3 big thumbs up to Ace of Rock because, you know, Denzel's one of the greats.

Speaker 3 I'm nervous.

Speaker 22 Even when I'm not acting, just saying hello to him.

Speaker 33 And I always feel like.

Speaker 3 But he stood right there and they were going toe to toe. So

Speaker 3 the genius of Denzel lifted that whole scene, which lifted the movie because this is at the end of the film, too. Like it's a high noon showdown.

Speaker 16 Oh, it's yeah.

Speaker 38 I mean, the scene in the movie, when you see it, like, it really is the climax between the glass, and they're just two alphas just going at it.

Speaker 3 The young buck and

Speaker 3 the old gun.

Speaker 16 It's, yeah, it's, it's an amazing scene.

Speaker 27 It's a western right there.

Speaker 17 And the music that he is singing when Denzel first comes in, is that?

Speaker 17 Is he just doing that too?

Speaker 17 He's singing,

Speaker 15 he's recording something. Oh, yeah,

Speaker 3 that's the song that he had two songs in the film.

Speaker 35 He was unbelievable.

Speaker 52 Who's he married to, though?

Speaker 10 Rihanna.

Speaker 10 Rihanna?

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Give it up.

Speaker 14 Come on, but you think I don't watch the TikToks?

Speaker 5 I watch the TikToks?

Speaker 22 Do you have to call him ASAP?

Speaker 52 I call him that.

Speaker 17 You call him ASAP? That's what he answered to? Okay. And Denzel, just Denzel.

Speaker 19 How many films have you made with Denzel?

Speaker 16 This is the fifth one yeah

Speaker 3 mobeta blues no yeah mobeta blues malcolm x he got a game inside man and now but denzel not did not know that inside man was 19 years ago he didn't realize that

Speaker 3 inside man was 19 years ago that's cool we didn't know it till the journalist told us that why we were doing press

Speaker 22 and you guys had

Speaker 17 You know what's amazing also about your body work is there's so many things layered into this movie that are nods to all these other

Speaker 9 a whole lot of stuff and it makes it so enjoyable for all-state mayhem you know all-state he's throwing an all-state mayhem he's got Jalen Brunson's signed jersey uh up on the wall he's got nick torturo in a subway car chanting about the yankees

Speaker 10 no he's his boston socks Oh, he did Boston Sucks as well, but he's got like New York Yankees carved into his.

Speaker 15 There's Eddie Palmero

Speaker 21 doing the King of Salsa.

Speaker 3 He died, he passed away three days before

Speaker 3 the premiere here in Brooklyn.

Speaker 5 Oh,

Speaker 16 I mean, that's a beautiful scene, too.

Speaker 46 And it's so, your love of New York in all of its.

Speaker 29 It comes through, doesn't it?

Speaker 15 In all of its chaos.

Speaker 5 And that's,

Speaker 36 I love that part of it.

Speaker 16 But also, the moral themes, you know, I know, like, school days, what it ends with, like,

Speaker 11 wake up!

Speaker 16 You know what I mean? And then...

Speaker 29 You know what?

Speaker 3 You know what Do-Right Thing began with?

Speaker 17 Sam Jackson.

Speaker 15 Samuel Jackson.

Speaker 16 Samuel Jackson doing. Wake up!

Speaker 11 Wake up!

Speaker 14 Yes! The first.

Speaker 10 Why am I saying it back to you?

Speaker 5 You know.

Speaker 5 I was checking to see if you knew. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 22 Wake up, wake up, and this movie feels like

Speaker 36 that

Speaker 15 come to life.

Speaker 5 Well,

Speaker 3 it was a novel written by Ed McBain.

Speaker 3 It's called King's Ransom. And then the great Akira Kurosawa did it high and low.

Speaker 11 1963,

Speaker 3 post-war Japan. Right.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 out of the blue, Denzel called me. I didn't even know what the number was.

Speaker 3 He said, Spike, I got this script. I'm not going to tell you anything.
I'm going to send it to you. Before you hung up the phone, I knew I was doing it.

Speaker 3 But I didn't even know what it was, but I said I'm doing it.

Speaker 19 Let me ask you a question.

Speaker 16 You just answer the the phone when you don't know the number?

Speaker 13 Like

Speaker 5 I could just call you up and you'd be like, hello?

Speaker 34 I just felt that this phone call was going to be a good one.

Speaker 5 You felt it. I was, you felt it.

Speaker 52 Deep, deep, deep down inside of me.

Speaker 11 Me and Denzel got that.

Speaker 5 You do have that.

Speaker 5 Does that, so

Speaker 10 in that world, you got an actor who has that kind of charisma and status and wait,

Speaker 14 does he ever say to you, I think we're done here?

Speaker 10 Like with a scene?

Speaker 9 How do you guys do that dance?

Speaker 3 Well, he might say, Spike.

Speaker 5 How much more we got?

Speaker 11 But, you know, he knows when we got it.

Speaker 17 He feels it.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I said, okay, can we just Spike go on? I said, look,

Speaker 17 next setup, next setup. And the music is so important to this film.
There's so much.

Speaker 5 That's from all my films.

Speaker 3 I'm the son of a great, great musician, Bill Lee. Yes.
He did my scores for She's Could Have It School Days, Do the Right Thing. No Better Blues.
Played with.

Speaker 3 He played in Simon Garfunkel's album, Gordon Lightfoot's album, or Bob Dylan is all over now. Baby Blue, that's him on bass.

Speaker 32 That's insane.

Speaker 5 And then... And that history.
But here goes the thing, though. Here goes the thing though.

Speaker 10 When Bob Dylan, when guitar,

Speaker 11 I mean went electric,

Speaker 3 my mother had to work

Speaker 5 He was not

Speaker 20 going with him. He wasn't plugging

Speaker 3 Really? She had to take a job She the teacher taught at St. Anne's in Brooklyn how Brooklyn Heights.

Speaker 11 My father was not

Speaker 11 He was not gonna play

Speaker 3 electric

Speaker 11 and I'm the oldest of five, so

Speaker 11 there's five of us

Speaker 5 Anybody saw Crooklyn? That was autobiographical.

Speaker 10 How How many times did you, when you were like 11 years old, go, just plug in?

Speaker 3 You know what?

Speaker 3 Seeing how hard my mom, she was working, coming home,

Speaker 3 cooking, cleaning, five crazy kids, five casey Brooklyn kids.

Speaker 5 So

Speaker 14 he stayed acoustic, but he wouldn't do chores.

Speaker 5 He would cook. He would cook once a week.

Speaker 36 But here's the thing, though.

Speaker 3 As I got older, I saw, you know, before I was like, I had

Speaker 3 a certain feeling.

Speaker 3 But as I got older, I understood, you know, he had scruples and morals, and he was not going to play electric bass.

Speaker 5 Isn't it interesting to think about where you come from?

Speaker 15 You have this, for those of you who don't know, Spegli, your work ethic is second to none. When he's not writing

Speaker 5 documentaries, I'm telling you,

Speaker 21 you just do it.

Speaker 17 Like, that's,

Speaker 17 and, but, but you also lace everything that you do with

Speaker 26 a moral, there's a moral center to everything.

Speaker 17 And it feels like, is that both your parents talking through you?

Speaker 3 Yes, and also, that's why I love this film.

Speaker 17 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Because

Speaker 3 from the novel, La Cursa before us, but Denzel's character is in a dilemma.

Speaker 29 Yeah.

Speaker 29 A dilemma.

Speaker 3 And he's so great

Speaker 3 that the audience

Speaker 3 is in his shoes. Like,

Speaker 3 if you have, I'm going to give it away.

Speaker 5 Everybody dies.

Speaker 11 There's a kidnapping, and he thinks that it's his son. Yeah.

Speaker 13 But it was the wrong kid.

Speaker 48 So he's putting to the limit. Am I going to

Speaker 11 pay a ransom of $17.5 million to switch francs for a kid that's not mine?

Speaker 3 And also, Jeffrey White.

Speaker 10 And it's just, just it's not just a random kid.

Speaker 33 It's really a very loyal employee.

Speaker 3 And Harlem, they grew up together.

Speaker 33 That guy's had a rougher life.

Speaker 3 He went upstate for a little while and now he's back.

Speaker 36 That's right.

Speaker 11 But

Speaker 11 I'm telling you, if you see the film, hope you do this on Apple, you're going to be in it, and you'll be asking yourself,

Speaker 5 who

Speaker 5 would, let's do a survey guy. Raise your hand

Speaker 24 if you had it, if you had it like that 17.5 million

Speaker 5 for a kid that's not yours.

Speaker 11 Who's making that?

Speaker 5 You're lying.

Speaker 5 You're lying.

Speaker 5 It's not your kid.

Speaker 5 Dude, these are upstanding people. These are good people.

Speaker 5 I like how a lot of people are just like, yeah, f ⁇ that.

Speaker 5 Nah.

Speaker 36 I only have one real, there's only one, you know, in watching it, and by the way, the walls of the movie, if you want to live Spike Lee's language, the walls of the movie are just etched with beautiful paintings and artwork and memorabilia that is so much you.

Speaker 34 It really is beautiful.

Speaker 52 Good, thank you.

Speaker 5 But

Speaker 13 I was waiting for that.

Speaker 5 If I may.

Speaker 9 The kids in the film play basketball.

Speaker 9 They show up to practice. Right.

Speaker 12 New York City,

Speaker 5 Brooklyn, LIU.

Speaker 5 LIU,

Speaker 13 the coach of the team with all the great players that have come through those boroughs

Speaker 34 is a Los Angeles Laker

Speaker 5 named Rick Fox. How could you, sir?

Speaker 11 Rick Fox and he got game.

Speaker 5 Okay, I'll give you that.

Speaker 5 He's a friend.

Speaker 7 You couldn't get Allen, Houston, John Starks, Lattrell, Spreewell, Bernard.

Speaker 52 Can I tell you something real quick? Yes.

Speaker 11 I grew up in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Speaker 3 There's a hospital called Cumon Hospital.

Speaker 3 Bernard King was born there. Albert King, Mike Tyson, and Michael Jordan.

Speaker 10 Michael Jordan? Yes. Really?

Speaker 52 Yes.

Speaker 11 Come on Hospital, Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Speaker 5 Huh? Yeah. You know.
Brooklyn House.

Speaker 5 So, so

Speaker 5 my

Speaker 10 grandparents, my father grew up in Brooklyn, Coney Island.

Speaker 17 He was Abraham Lincoln?

Speaker 33 No, he went to.

Speaker 7 It's a high school, Abraham Lincoln.

Speaker 5 Yeah, yeah. No, no, no.

Speaker 21 Jewish, so he went to Stuyvesant.

Speaker 5 Oh, so he was smart.

Speaker 3 For those of you, you have to take a test in the Stuyvesant.

Speaker 14 You got to get a test.

Speaker 48 Bronx Science. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 8 But back then, this is 1930s, 1940s.

Speaker 9 You know, my grandfather drove a cab.

Speaker 25 They moved to, because back then, before Uber and Lyft and all that, your medallion was your retirement.

Speaker 19 Right.

Speaker 39 So he had...

Speaker 36 It was hard to get to back then, right? Hard to get.

Speaker 17 So he worked his ass off, got a medallion, and then was able to move everybody out of Coney Island over to Benson Hurst, 8th Street Avenue. Oh.

Speaker 35 And so they lived above this little candy store.

Speaker 5 It was like Pizzeria?

Speaker 20 The Benson Hurst.

Speaker 8 Yeah, no, the Benson Hurst back then was not the Benson Hurst of Do the Right Thing.

Speaker 36 It was slightly different.

Speaker 11 Jungle Fever's best hurt.

Speaker 5 Not do the right thing.

Speaker 11 Do the right thing is Ben's style.

Speaker 5 Bet style, Bets stop.

Speaker 10 You got to really start watching your film.

Speaker 15 I love your stuff so much, man. I love you so much.

Speaker 3 I want you to know, me and him are tight.

Speaker 36 We're tight. We go back.

Speaker 36 We go back.

Speaker 36 We go back.

Speaker 14 Are we going to have ourselves a year?

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Speaker 21 Telling them, no, sweetie, we can't afford it.

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