About this episode

The episode discusses the controversy surrounding a college student's complaint about the cost of a burrito and the ensuing debate on food inflation and affordability within the American right.

A college student complained he couldn't afford a $20 burrito. A senior producer replied that his wife feeds a family of eight homemade burritos for less than that. Twelve million views later, the American right was at war with itself over whether the affordability crisis is real — and whether anyone on the right is allowed to say so out loud. On this Wednesday Live panel, Jeremy Boreing sits down with the three men who got the facts right and still watched the room turn on them. Joel Berry — Marine Corps veteran, former managing editor of The Babylon Bee, author of the bestselling The Postmodern Pilgrim's Progress, and senior producer of this show — wrote the post that started it. David Harsanyi, founding editor of The Federalist and senior writer at the Washington Examiner, has spent the week making the data case that food inflation has returned to something close to its historical norm. Daniel Di Martino, Venezuelan-born economist, Manhattan Institute fellow, and founder of the Dissident Project, watched socialism destroy what was once the fourth-richest country in the world — and argues the American shortage was built by government and can be unbuilt by it. The numbers set up…

People in this episode

Host: Jeremy Boreing

Guests: Joel Berry, David Harsanyi, Daniel Di Martino

Topics covered

• affordability crisis
• food inflation
• political discourse
• economic analysis
• socialism
• inflation report

Keywords

• burrito
• inflation
• affordability
• food prices
• economic crisis
• politics
• socialism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Babylon Bee, The Federalist, Washington Examiner, Manhattan Institute

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