August 29, 2024 • 32 mins
In this conversation, Karol interviews Joe Concha about his book 'Progressively Worse' and discusses the changes in the Democratic Party over the years. They talk about how past Democratic presidents like John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton had policies that would be considered conservative by today's standards. They also discuss the influence of the media on the Democratic Party and how it has pushed the party further to the left. They touch on topics like climate change, Kamala Harris's changing positions, and the role of social media in politics. They also talk about their concerns as parents, including the impact of technology on children. The Karol Markowicz Show is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network - new episodes debut every Monday & Thursday.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio.
People really responded to my last monologue about rude kids.
I haven't gotten that much mail about a monologue before.
I think that's kind of interesting. It's possible that the
scourge of misbehaving children in public is just really prominent
(00:25):
right now. You do see kids acting up more often,
and it seems like people are maybe reaching a breaking
point with it. Problem is, you can't really do anything
about other people's kids. One listener writes, do you have
any advice for dealing with my sister's misbehaving children? I
love my niece and nephew, but they are incredibly rude
(00:46):
and disrespectful, especially to their parents. They're ten and eight.
My sister and brother in law otherwise great, but they
don't do anything when the kids act out. You said
gentle parenting was a problem, but I haven't seen them
parent at all. They mostly just ignore it. My sister
and I were raised in a fairly strict home, so
I'm surprised to see this. Is there anything I can
(01:09):
do now? Sadly, I say no, It's extremely unlikely that
your sister and brother in law will change their parenting
style based on your comments, and far more likely it
will create a real rift between you. You don't say
whether you have kids of your own, but if you do,
I think it's more important to just make sure your
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kids understand that, yes, aunt and uncle might allow your
cousins to do things that we don't. All families are different.
This is what we do in our house, this is
how we behave. I think that's the wit really, to
make sure that your kids don't get influenced by outside
bad behavior. Sad as that is. I also heard from
another listener who is engaged and worried that he and
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his soon to be wife will have different parenting styles.
This is definitely something to discuss in advanced My husband
and I are a united front when it comes to
the kids. It's extremely rare, though it has happened when
we disagree about what should happen for bad behavior. It's
important that kids can't play parents against each other. Finally,
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a listener wrote in to say that she thinks her
husband is too soft on the kids because they are small.
She wrote, my kids are foreign too, and my husband
says that's too little to give them consequences because they
won't understand. I could not disagree more. I mean, some
of the best parenting advice I ever got was start
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with how you want to go on. I think that
was like happiest baby on the Block, maybe the only
parenting book I read, and it was you know, you
do things the way you do things for the future.
If your kid yells at a restaurant, for example, even
if they're eighteen months old, you have to set the
standard of acceptable behavior. You have to take the kid
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outside and have conversation about what is allowed and not
bring them back in until they understand that. Yes, you
may have to keep doing this at many restaurants over time.
We have very much been there. Again, I'm not offering
you this advice because my kids are perfect.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
But I think we've done a good job, a hard
job of laying down the groundwork early, and so far
we have really good, well behaved kids. Now our oldest
is fourteen. Could everything fall apart when they hit their teens. Sure,
We're going to keep applying the same high standard to
their behavior and take it from there. As always, I
(03:39):
love hearing from listeners, and I'd love to hear your
thoughts on all of this. Thanks for listening and have
a safe Labor Day weekend. Coming up next and interview
with Joe Kancha. Join us after the break.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio. My
guest today is Joe Kancha. Joe is a Fox News
contributor and author of the new best selling book Progressively Worse.
Why Today's Democrats Ain't your Daddy's Donkeys? Hi, Joell, Carol?
How are you so nice to have you on?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Absolutely? I'm so parts right now. I've ran to get
here in like surgery heat.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yeah, well I support hydration. You drink as much as
you need throughout the interview, coach, you.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Know, all right, done deal. So, yeah, it's great to
be here. I don't think we've ever done this thing before, but.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
No we have. You're very hard to get on, you know,
you're you're a.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Get like, yeah, tell it to my wife.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I will actually tell that to your wife. Thank you,
So Progressively Worse? Why Today's Democrats Ain't your Daddy's donkeys?
What has changed?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Oh so much? Right? I look at like John F. Kennedy.
Kennedy was he pulled higher than any president in polling history, right?
He was? He averaged seventy percent approval. Right, So I'm like, wow,
he's a Democrat. What made him so popular? The truth
is he would now be called an extreme Maggie Republican
(05:08):
because seriously, nineteen sixty one he takes office, he inherits
a recession. So what does he do. He doesn't do
what Kamala Harris is doing now, which is to propose
five trillion dollars in tax Sikes. He cut taxes as
aggressively as any president had in our history, and we
ended up getting something like seven percent GDP grow just
a couple of years later. So smart idea. I believe
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in a strong military. It was a war hero himself,
and most importantly, if you want to call it, most
importantly based on Carol Markowitz's world, as far as why
you moved away from New York to Florida. He didn't
believe in racial quotas. He believed in the merit based system,
and any Democrat that would utter that today, you know,
the Party of Equity, would be cast out right, So
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that was JFK. Then I looked at all, right, Carter,
he was a pretty bad president.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, he was a pretty bad president, but he was a.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Pro life Democratic president.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, I've heard of.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Now there's only one left in cong rest of the Senate.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I mean, it's remarkable that the whole forty, right or no,
he's the governor.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
It's a guy down in Texas, like in a very
conservative district, and I forget who it is, but he's
the last one. Maybe maybe it's quae Ar. Anyway, we
gonna look that up. So again, AOC said, if you're
pro life, you don't belong in this party. You know,
the porny new doorsity and of you know, a big ten. No,
not really, but then Bill Clinton's presidency, Carroll, that was
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the one that, really you go back and look at it,
the first thing you think of is the blue dress
and Monica, I get that guy enforced error ever, right,
But up until that point, I'll I readily admit this.
In nineteen ninety six, I voted for the guy because, boy,
he governed like a Republican. I'm sorry. He declared the
era of big government's over. He said that he wanted
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to pass welfare reform by working with new Gingridge, you know,
the GOP speaker at the time, and they did, and
then he passed a balanced budget amendment which is, we
don't spend what we don't have, and we ended up
having budget surpluses by the end of the nineties. We
had peace, we had prosperity, and we had an articulate
president who seemed to want to work with the other side.
So in nineteen ninety six, I was young, it was
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a first election. I were voted.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
All of must make mistakes, you know, you think it
was a mistake, though, I should say in nineteen ninety
six I cast my first presidential vote for Ross Perot.
And let me tell you that was not the Ross
Perou moment, which was nineteen ninety two. This was four
years later. So, like I said, all we all, we all,
you know, have some funny votes in our past.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Sure, but I thought it was a good one. I
would stand by it today if I had a if
I had a president that governed like Clinton did, because
you go back and look at his remarks on illegal immigration,
he makes Donald Trump sound like a wallflower. Right, these
are people coming into our country illegally. They're stealing our jobs,
they're exhausting our social services. You go back and watch
these speeches, you're like, I could like this guy. And
then the Crime Bill in nineteen ninety four, which Joe
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Biden was all for. That was the toughest you'll ever
see out of any president. So I'm sorry. I mean
that's I know, he had a D next to his name,
but he basically was a Republican. And then things were
started the ship with Barack Obama. And I think the
media is who pushed this party in the direction that
it is in now, which is like Thelma and Louise,
like going off the cliff right to the left, right,
And because you look at MSNBC, for example, Carol right
(08:14):
and back in two thousand and four. Again I'm pretty
young at the time, I appeared on that network fairly
often because they were somewhat normal. Tucker Carlson, right, Michael yeah, yeah.
Who else was there? Oh, Jesse Datura had a showc
wows pretty reasonable guy. So you know, you go down
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the line and now you look at who they are today.
They signed Roni McDaniel and she lasts one interview. She
lasted twenty four hours at the network because they could
not have a pro Trump person on that network. So
MSNBC and CNN, which used to be quite reputable back
in the nineties, exactly they they basically give Democrats their
cues now on what they think and how they should govern,
(08:57):
and all those cues obviously are you know, dead wrong
when it comes to every policy you could think of,
when it comes to raising taxes, when it comes to
all the woke stuff, integration, you go down the line.
And that's why we have Kamala Harris, this product of today,
who is proposing things that I just am shaking my
head at completely when she's not stealing ideas and policies.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
That's right, Yeah, But why do the Democrats listen? I mean,
these media outlets are you know, in decline, are pretty
openly in decline, and there's all this new media that
people follow now and listen to. Why does any Why
did the Democrats let these failing networks get away with it?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I think Democrats in general, based on these are products
of the sixties that we're seeing now, right, A lot
of the ones that are older anyway, and the education
system I think produces like an AOC And then I think, yeah, honestly,
cable news still has influenced Joe Biden. We heard over
and over that his favorite show to watch was Morning Joe,
you know, Scarborough and Prazinski. So I think in the end,
(09:58):
between that and social media, Carol, as far as we
have we talked about New Gingrit's before and how he
worked for Bill Clinton, and in the book we also
talked about Tip O'Neill, who was a House speaker Democratic House. Yeah,
worked for freakan like behind the scenes, let's have a
drink after after work and we'll hammer out compromise for
the good of the country. And they often did that.
That's a good thing. I think now you have leading Democrats,
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they only exist for likes, for retweets on Twitter and
to get invited on the Stephen Colbert. Solving problems is
like a distant twenty eighth right, and you see that
through AOC right. She hasn't passed. She hasn't even co
sponsored one piece of legislation that has got to the floor,
let alone like passing anything to make you know, her
constituents lives better. And oh yeah, she killed the Amazon
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deal that would have bought tens of thousands of jobs
to her district because she thought that that money should
go to the government instead and then the government could
fix stuff, which is not how it work. So that
I think social media and traditional media really have pushed this.
I'll put it this way. I'll leave it with this
story on this particular topic. Twenty nineteen, CNN decides they're
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going to give every Democrat who's running for president a
one hour town hall national airtime, and they all agree
to take that deal, because, of course, you one of
twenty four. You got to stand out somehow. But there's
only one topic that these town halls focused on. The
climate crisis is what.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I was going to guess It was climate change?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Do you remember that, right? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
So, actually don't remember. But if I had to guess
what would could be the one topic that CNN would
make them focus on, I would have just guessed climate.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Change, and you would have been exactly right. Yeah. And
so what if you're, like the governor of Montana was
running for the Democratic nomination at the time. It's a
pretty moderate guy when the few that are left. And
what if he wants to talk about energy or jobs,
or trade or inflation or immigration, all these things that
are top of mind for most Americans. No, if you
teach you that you got to talk about the not
even climate change, We're going to call it climate crisis.
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So you will automatically then say things like Kamala Harris
did during the climate crisis town hall. That's where she
said she was one hundred percent for banning fracking. That's
where she said she wanted to end all fossil fuels.
That's where she said she wanted to end all all
Shorge Relli because she had to play along with the theme.
And now she's your first course on all those things.
So that's just one tiny example of how our media
has pushed this Democratic Party to a place where they
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are not the party of Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy.
That is certainly for sure.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
But then, but then the media also doesn't hold her
accountable for any of those reverses. I mean, shouldn't CNN
be really angry that she lied during their town hall?
Shouldn't they want answers on what changed for her? Where
the policies you know, shifted along the way. I know
it's hilarious, but like, isn't that what should happen?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Oh? That would take integrity, right, That would actually take
caring about your brand and your product. That yeah, you know,
when she's on with Dana Bash, when she does this
interview that's coming up. If I'm Dana Maryland.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah, that's the first thing I play that is that
I play back those clips from that town hall and
I say, what's changed, Kamala? And if you are now
for cracking, what does that mean for the environment? And
then you'll watch the word salad like you've never seen
it before. It's so easy to interview Kamala Harris at
this point. And Dana Bash should be upset because Dana
Bash was the one who hosted that climate change town
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hall with Kamala Harris and say, you told me this
five years ago. Why have you changed on this now?
Why do you support a border wall, the bonder wall
that you called racist? What what has changed is exactly?
And Kamala Harris, unlike Barack Obama, I'm like, even like
a Jensaki does not have the ability to think.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
On her I called there to hold her hand, you know,
I hope not.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
You know, I call her the Ron Burgundy candidate, because
if you remember the movie Anchorman, whatever you put a teleprompter,
Burgundy read right. So if I'm Dana Bash, I hope
I get the Dana Bash that I got during the
debate between Biden and Trumpert. I actually think that Bash
and Tapper did a decent job that didn't make themselves
the story. There wasn't the usual snark, and they asked
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questions that were relevant. I hope Dana Bash does that again,
if she has any integ I guess we're going to
have to see. But I don't have a lot of
hope because it's one thing to do the questions fairly
during a debate. It's another thing when it's on your
home turf and you know your viewers don't want you
to challenge this candidate too much because they only want
her to win and for Donald Trump, and that's it.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
That's it. Yeah. I'm also I'm not holding out a
lot of hope for Dna Besh to, you know, surprise
Kamalo with some with some tough questions. But we'll see,
We'll see. She's getting the only interview, like she has
to kind of bring it. I don't think that she
can give her complete softballs just because nobody else is
getting to talk to the presidential nominee from the Democratic Party,
and so I wonder, I wonder if she's going to
(14:36):
be a little tougher than I think Republicans are expecting,
but probably less tough than we would like her to
be Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
But what's even tough, right, I mean, it's just well,
like you.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Said, just calling her on past positions would be huge.
I wonder if she could do that.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
That's what Tim Russer used to do. Again. I'm praising
all these people. I said, see it end a good
job of the debate. Now I'm praising you.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Get canceled, Joe, you know Rhino.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I know it's month to watch and listen to. But
if Carol Market has had three questions she could ask
Kamala Harris if she had the interview, what would they do?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I mean I think that why did you change on
some of the biggest issues of our time? I would
be she could take that could be the one question,
take all the time we need to get to the answer.
I guess I would want to know the explanation. But
you know why should think something like price controls could work.
It's it's something that's been like showing time time and
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again to not not only not work, but you know,
to starve large swaths of the population, Like where did
you come up with this? Who whispered this into your ear?
Stuff like that. But you know that's why we're not
going to be the ones doing the interviews and we'll
see what happens.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I would do those two and then my third would
be can a man get pregnant? And do you believe men?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
That's really good. Yeah, that would be a well placed question.
So what Yeah, sorry, when you think about like the
questions to ask ask people like Kamala Harris, do you have,
like what's your biggest cultural concern? What do you worry about?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Worry about my kids the most. I have an eight
year old. I have a ten year old. Actually, no,
I have a nine year old. Now it's my son's.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Birthday, Happy birthday, Yes.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Thank you. He's going to something called I Fly tonight.
Oh yeah, the wind thing where you're skydiving without having
to jump out of a plane. So that's I didn't
get that as a kid. That I don't know. No,
So now, yeah, he's going to third grade. My daughter's
going in the fifth grade, and I just I don't
see it in my public school system. Thank god. I'm
in New Jersey and you know it's a blue state.
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But I live in a town where we seem to
have some common sense people in charge, and the border
bed folks that have run recently the candidates have been
to the right and they have won quite easily, so
I'm not so worried about them now. But there's such
an addiction to iPads. And my daughter asked me almost
every day, can I get a phone? And I keep
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saying no, it's I'm going to lose her right once
she has the phone. I'm no longer the hero anymore.
I know, by the way, there's some really bad content
on there. Once in a while, I'll walk in. I
got on iPads, not because I'm a lazy parent. I'm
quite the opposite. You follow me on social media. I
do a lot with my kids, but sometimes I have
to work, and sometimes they find the iPad that I
got them because of COVID and we had to do
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stupid learning from home for nearly a year and a half,
and they will find sites where I'm hearing about how
I ran away from home when I was sixteen. I
got pregnant and my boyfriend to get an abortion, and
I ran across the room and I tripped over the
puppy and nearly killed myself, like trying to get that
I've made it away from her. So that's my worry
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that growing up I didn't have exposure to stuff like
that and they do now. And I can try to
control as much as I can, but we see the
bullying that goes on. We see that teenage suicide rates
are at all time high, and I think a lot
of it is because of social media, and I keep
them away from it for so long, But in the end,
I guess I just have to hope that sports. They
play a lot of.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Sports, right, yeah, that time a sports.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah, yeah, No, I think.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
That I think that's that's it. My kids they absolutely
use their iPads. You know. It's funny because I think
that I talk about this a lot lately because I
just think people are not paying attention to it. But
the problem is much less social media. Now. Kids aren't
really on social media. Your kids are not on Facebook
or Twitter or Instagram, right, No, they're they're scrolling TikTok.
(18:26):
While my kids, I don't let them have TikTok, But
my kids are strolling the same thing. On YouTube. They're
they're looking at YouTube shorts or on Instagram reels. They're
all addicted to these like short videos that they take
everywhere with them. And I just think the inability of
kids to entertain themselves. Is it's sort of the bigger
factor right now, much more so than we used to
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be concerned about bullying on social media. But again, I
don't I don't see kids on social media anymore. They're
on something else entirely, like they carry little TVs around
with them. Basically, they're they're like I refer to is
like when we were when we were kids, we'd watch
Saturday morning cartoons, but then when we went to play outside,
we didn't take time and jerry with us, And they
do take it with them now. So that's sort of
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my tangential concern about kids and screens. I think that
we're focusing on the wrong problems.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
You're right about that way. And you know what, parents
are a little more rigid these days. And by that,
I mean it used to be, let's say it snowed
out and you got a snow day, I would go
running out nine o'clock in the morning with my sled.
I didn't even have to You couldn't even you didn't
even have to call your friends. They're already out there,
right we went over their house, you said, can in
my case, Jeff and Greg, these two twins that lived
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across the street, from me, Like, can jeffre Greg go
sleigh running? Sure, no problem, we all go out. Parents
can come with us. You know, we'd go find the
biggest hill. It could be a mile away from my house.
It didn't matter, and you know they would just be
My parents would just be like, just be back by dinner,
you know.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yeah, right, That's how I treat my kids. I don't
know that we still live that life from Florida that
I don't know. When they come home from school, they
go play outside. I have four teen, eleven and eight.
Even the eight year old, like I don't know where
he is. He's out there somewhere, you.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Know you are. It doesn't work that way here. It's
just I'm not like in a pretentious town. A lot
of the moms work, which we like. You know, there's
some towns in Jersey where it's like it really is
like a Real Housewives type of situation. But my wife's
a doctor, and she likes talking to other women that
work as well, just because I don't know. She doesn't
against any anybody who obviously doesn't work. Good for that.
(20:26):
But it's it's I'm not I'm not saying we're in
a working class town. WI like off New Jersey. Martha
McCollum grew up here, for example, Peter Doocy growup here.
For example, Steve Doocy lives about three.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Blocks very Fown.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
It's completely it's amazing how many people have come out
of this town. It's not all that big, but no figure.
But it's the type of town though, where the parents
are a bit too protective, I would say, And anytime
we want to get my son, for example, he's a
camp today and when he gets home at like three o'clock,
he'll chill out for a little bit because he's been
out in the heat for six hours. But then he'll
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be like, oh, can I get a playdate with X
or why? And then I got to like text the
mom and the we have to range the time and
when it's ending. It's like, this isn't how it should be.
It should be just natural, go out and find somebody.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Okay, we have We do have pleadates occasionally, but no,
it's a lot of go play outside here again, you
are welcome to join us in the Free State of
Florida whenever you are ready.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
So I met the table, Okay, I met the Santas
for the first time. The governor, great governor down there,
and uh, you know, I don't like talking politics with
any of these folks. So when I was in Milwaukee,
I wouldn't believe, like how many people you can meet
because the green room is so small. Yeah, you're just
you're forced to have conversations with people. So getnis Quaid
(21:41):
was awesome. I accidentally called him Randy. That was bad.
I just watched Independence Day of my kid like the
night before, so like I had Randy in my head
and he goes, don't worry, my mom does it all
the time. He's yeah, hul Cogan came up from behind.
Uh when when I was about to go on the air,
I feel this this bone, my bones crushing him, Like,
who is that? And he knows. I love your work, brother,
I watch you all the time. Oh, thunder lifts Rocky three.
(22:04):
I grew up amazing, It's amazing. But the Santus was
the most interesting conversation because I know he played baseball
in college and I played for about five minutes as well,
and I said, so is your son playing at baseball?
And he goes, oh, yes, absolutely, I go and he's
not that he's not my son's age. He goes, yeah,
he's turning seven. I said, oh, so what's he doing.
He's like, is he going to camp or anything? He goes, oh, yeah,
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he's going to Florida State's baseball camp. I go, he's
going to Florida States. Yeah, he's a switch hitter. I go, yeah,
he's a switch hitter at seven.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I mean, oh, no, crazy, Yeah no, this is I mean,
I've coming from New York. I had no idea people
took the children's sports this seriously. But like, if your
kid's not in a sport by like eight, like they might,
it might be too late. Like my eleven and fourteen
year old are still trying to find their sport, and
it's it's probably.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Over for them. What's their best sport if you.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Had, probably tennis?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yeahnis, that's good down in Florida, but they're not good.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Like there's so many really good tennis players here, So
it's you know, unless they started at birth. It's it's
a very tough sport to get.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
It's hard. I got my kid into golf, and golf's great,
but yeah, cheap. A week of lessons at a golf
camp and you know, hopefully in a neuro post will
approved and writing a couple more stories for him because
I gotta pay for this somehow.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
That's it. Yeah, you got to count that.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
But Carol, I mean my daughter nine years old. Last summer,
we had three tournaments, one in San Diego, one in Philadelphia,
one in Washington, d C. She's nine San Diego for
five days, I mean, no soccer, soccer, okay, so the
team's to good. They got to travel, you know, three
thousand miles. Team let me just sleep. They own and
(23:43):
be cone with it not happening.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
They stink.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I know, right, it's it's tough. And now I have
a puppy because we tried to bribe my daughter into
scoring ten goals this season, and she plays goalie a lot,
so we kind of did the math and figured out
that it would be impossible for her to get to
that number given that they play a lot of other
good teams and the scores are always two one and
three two, So she's never getting a ten because she's
mostly in goal anyway. So she has like three goals
(24:09):
and there's like maybe four games left in the season,
so it's almost impossible for her to get to ten.
Except we played the one bad team on her schedule
and the coach puts her on offense. Oh boy, she
scores once, twice, three times. Stop the coach said, stop scoring.
R up seven to nothing. You know, let's not embarrass him.
Scores again, scores again, right, and she's whoofing after every goal, whoof, woof,
(24:33):
whoof because she knows she's flirted and apparent from the
other team in my face afterwards, just like, you know
that is so class as you raised your daughter to
be that way. I'm like, I got nothing to do
with this. You think I want to spend four thousand
dollars for a puppy. So it was funny. And then
the final game she got that tenth goal, and now
we have a golden dudle. You have any dogs, No, no,
I'm allergic.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
But also like I understand people who have like a
bunch of kids, but once you have a bunch of
kids and a dog like that, that's just too much
for me.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
I don't know it's so much. But here's the here's
the irony. My daughter is allergic to dogs. Oh wow,
if you get one, that's.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
First, no hypoogenic. Everybody has a hypoergenic dog. Now I
still die.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I don't know still. Okay, Well, you just saved yourself
thousands of dollars and a lot of walks and cold.
I'm not cold by you.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
South Florida between like you know, near Miami.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Okay is the vague is the vague answer? I get.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Well, you let me know. You let me know when
you're in South Florida. I would love to meet the conscious.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I'm uh, We're going there in November Fort Lauderdale. We're
taking a cruise. This is like a great perk at
the job. The Media Research Center, like NewsBusters, basically, they
have a cruise every year and they're like, would you
like to go on this? I'm just like, I don't know.
Guys like, oh, we'll pay for all. We'll pay for
you and your family.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Yeah I'll go.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Yeah. You're like, I mean send those my way, Joe
next time.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Yeah, they do what every year? You'd be greatome you
just have dinner with different people every night. That's basically.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
I love meeting strangers, which I know is not not
a common thing, but I love talking to people. I
love talking to strangers. I love meeting people. I love
hearing their stories. I'm all about it.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
You get stopped a lot I.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Do in Florida, which is funny because I'm a New
York Post columnist. But in Florida a lot, it's like.
And we moved here and my kids were like, are
you famous?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
What I would do? This event at the Breakers? You
know tom Beach. Yeah, well famous hotel. And I let's
put it this way. I went to Nantucket a couple
of years ago, and one person stopped me right right.
And look, I don't host a show. I'm d list.
I get it completely, and I trust me. I don't
want to be stopped. I'm not I'm under that.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I'm like list.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
But but then I go to the Breakers in Florida,
or I go to spring Lake, New Jersey, for example,
it's called the Irish Riviera. You can't go like more
than like five ten minutes if you're in public without
somebody stopping. They want to sell fie all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
And I just find it just so funny that, yeah,
those are your people.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yeah, Juliana's friend. We have an inviitual friend, Julianeah like celebrity.
It's just so funny. Like people kept from my book
signing on Friday in Point Pleasants. Each new Jersey on
a Friday night in the summer, and you're going to
a bookstore to see me.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
It's just great. We're going to take a quick break
and be right back on the Carol Marcowitch Show. This
says very nicely to a question that I ask all
of my guests, do you feel like you've made it?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
You know, the ruthless guys ask me that they put
they put it differently, but it's basically the same premise.
The answer is, if this is an NFL game, I'm
tied and I'm on halftime, I'm not winning, I'm not losing.
I have time to win, but I don't feel I've
totally made it. In others, the goal is, and I
(27:44):
tell you know, my bosses at Fox this every time
I meet with them, is I want to show, you know,
I think I could do a decent job. I'd love
to be apparently Mary Catherine Ham or a Carol Markowitz
or some somebody who has like a good sense of
humor and like is authentic. That would be kind of cool,
but like a show, he think, so, yeah, right, km JC,
this couldn't work. But you know, until I get the show,
(28:07):
I don't think I've made it. I've you know, I'm
writing books that are you know, best sellers, and.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
I'm doing speak This is your second best seller, right,
that's right?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Yeah, yeah, come on, amazing, Yeah, my terrible, horrible, nogad
very bad presidency. Yeah that even that did quite well,
which I was shocked at. But you can promote it
on Fox, so that that helps. So yeah, I think
I'm seventy percent there, right because I speak just about
to sign a new contract with Fox, which is awesome.
I again, I'm doing speeches, I'm going on cruises. I
guest host radio shows like Sean Hannity is, for example,
(28:39):
six hundred and fifty radio stations. But something feels very incomplete,
and I have a feeling though if you ask me
that question after I get a show. Let's put it
this way. Larry Bird wins the NBA Championship in nineteen
eighty four, and afterwards all his teammates go out and
they go to celebrate party. They go to like a
bar in Boston type of thing, or they went somewhere
and one reporter for out like his recorder back in
(29:02):
the arena, and he goes in and Bird shooting baskets.
He's like what are you doing here? Should you be
celebrating with his team? So I was thinking about next year.
So I have a feeling I'm gonna be that kind
of guy, like I'm never gonna be satisfied. And I
don't know that is good.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
I like that, that's a really unique answer. Keep shooting
those baskets no matter.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
How much you in basketball. I had to quit after
my freshman year. Here's a funny story. I was five
nine and seventh grade, which is tall for seventh grade. Yeah,
so I played center on the basketball team, and I
was a tight end in football. Like those are kind
of like you gotta be tallish kind of positions, like
think like Travis Kelsey. Right, So but I stopped. I
stopped at seventh grade. And my dad six ' three
(29:38):
and my mom was five seven. I'm like, what is
going on? I should be tall. I go to my mother.
I'm like, I don't get it. Like it's my sophomore
year this morn. I had to quit the basketball team
because the point guard was taller than me and I'm
the center. So I just had to concentrate on football
and baseball at that point, and I go, what happened?
She goes, well, I may have smoked when when ignant
with you, I got what those horrible winstons? Oh oh,
(29:59):
why did you that you knew it was wrong? She goes, not,
at the time, they didn't really say there was a
problem with the don't say they did know. Yeah, I
love that story.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
That was awesome.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Nobody spoke. It's amazing. Ye was in our backyard and
one guy like had to go like to the side
of the house and you could like smell it all
the way from the backyard. He might write, what is that?
I'm like, yeah, it's he's a holdover, right.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
My kids in Europe is like, are like, what is
going on? Why is everybody smoking? Like, yeah, thing they
do over here?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Yeah they do, and they're all thin, so maybe they're
onto something.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
They really are. I feel like, second, look at smoking cigarettes.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Let's do it. I think I saw you. You put
out a tweet one time You're like, yeah, I maybe
smoke like a pack a year.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Yeah right, that was when I was like, you know,
young and cooler. I don't I can't even do a
pack a year anymore. But yeah, you know, I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
It was a good little sometimes you know, it was
a thing.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
I just can't believe. We all went to bars, and
even if you didn't, it was all over you.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I was like the one guy. I got home and
I showered like a two because I'm like, I smell myself.
This is horrible time.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Anyway, Sorry, I have loved this conversation, Joe, you are
so awesome, and here with your best tip for my
listeners on how they can improve their lives.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Oh, how they can improve their lives. Don't go to
bed with your cell phone. That's a start, because you
end up probably reading something on social media is really
going to pish you off, so upset you. Yeah, and
then you wake up. First thing, you're roll over, Okay,
let me see what's going on in the world. Ah,
this all sucks. This is not good. So I think
that's a good thing. I think also reading. I know
(31:37):
this is like boring tips, but no, find a book,
turn off the TV, shut down your phone, go find
a quiet place, particularly like if you're in a place
like Florida or somewhere warm, go outside, find a bench
and just read and you'll your stress level will go
down like one hundred percent. So those are the two things.
Get off the phone and just do the things that
we used to do, which is just read and just
(31:57):
let your imagination take you to another place where the world.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I love all of that. He is Joe Concha. His
book is amazing. It's called Progressively Worse, Why Today's Democrats
ain't your Daddy's Donkeys. Buy it anywhere you get your books.
Thanks so much, Joe.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Carol always a pleasure. See in Florida soon.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Thanks so much for joining us on the Carol Marko
which show. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio.
People really responded to my last monologue about rude kids.
I haven't gotten that much mail about a monologue before.
I think that's kind of interesting. It's possible that the
scourge of misbehaving children in public is just really prominent
(00:25):
right now. You do see kids acting up more often,
and it seems like people are maybe reaching a breaking
point with it. Problem is, you can't really do anything
about other people's kids. One listener writes, do you have
any advice for dealing with my sister's misbehaving children? I
love my niece and nephew, but they are incredibly rude
(00:46):
and disrespectful, especially to their parents. They're ten and eight.
My sister and brother in law otherwise great, but they
don't do anything when the kids act out. You said
gentle parenting was a problem, but I haven't seen them
parent at all. They mostly just ignore it. My sister
and I were raised in a fairly strict home, so
I'm surprised to see this. Is there anything I can
(01:09):
do now? Sadly, I say no, It's extremely unlikely that
your sister and brother in law will change their parenting
style based on your comments, and far more likely it
will create a real rift between you. You don't say
whether you have kids of your own, but if you do,
I think it's more important to just make sure your
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kids understand that, yes, aunt and uncle might allow your
cousins to do things that we don't. All families are different.
This is what we do in our house, this is
how we behave. I think that's the wit really, to
make sure that your kids don't get influenced by outside
bad behavior. Sad as that is. I also heard from
another listener who is engaged and worried that he and
(01:54):
his soon to be wife will have different parenting styles.
This is definitely something to discuss in advanced My husband
and I are a united front when it comes to
the kids. It's extremely rare, though it has happened when
we disagree about what should happen for bad behavior. It's
important that kids can't play parents against each other. Finally,
(02:16):
a listener wrote in to say that she thinks her
husband is too soft on the kids because they are small.
She wrote, my kids are foreign too, and my husband
says that's too little to give them consequences because they
won't understand. I could not disagree more. I mean, some
of the best parenting advice I ever got was start
(02:38):
with how you want to go on. I think that
was like happiest baby on the Block, maybe the only
parenting book I read, and it was you know, you
do things the way you do things for the future.
If your kid yells at a restaurant, for example, even
if they're eighteen months old, you have to set the
standard of acceptable behavior. You have to take the kid
(02:58):
outside and have conversation about what is allowed and not
bring them back in until they understand that. Yes, you
may have to keep doing this at many restaurants over time.
We have very much been there. Again, I'm not offering
you this advice because my kids are perfect.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
But I think we've done a good job, a hard
job of laying down the groundwork early, and so far
we have really good, well behaved kids. Now our oldest
is fourteen. Could everything fall apart when they hit their teens. Sure,
We're going to keep applying the same high standard to
their behavior and take it from there. As always, I
(03:39):
love hearing from listeners, and I'd love to hear your
thoughts on all of this. Thanks for listening and have
a safe Labor Day weekend. Coming up next and interview
with Joe Kancha. Join us after the break.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio. My
guest today is Joe Kancha. Joe is a Fox News
contributor and author of the new best selling book Progressively Worse.
Why Today's Democrats Ain't your Daddy's Donkeys? Hi, Joell, Carol?
How are you so nice to have you on?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Absolutely? I'm so parts right now. I've ran to get
here in like surgery heat.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yeah, well I support hydration. You drink as much as
you need throughout the interview, coach, you.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Know, all right, done deal. So, yeah, it's great to
be here. I don't think we've ever done this thing before, but.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
No we have. You're very hard to get on, you know,
you're you're a.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Get like, yeah, tell it to my wife.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I will actually tell that to your wife. Thank you,
So Progressively Worse? Why Today's Democrats Ain't your Daddy's donkeys?
What has changed?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Oh so much? Right? I look at like John F. Kennedy.
Kennedy was he pulled higher than any president in polling history, right?
He was? He averaged seventy percent approval. Right, So I'm like, wow,
he's a Democrat. What made him so popular? The truth
is he would now be called an extreme Maggie Republican
(05:08):
because seriously, nineteen sixty one he takes office, he inherits
a recession. So what does he do. He doesn't do
what Kamala Harris is doing now, which is to propose
five trillion dollars in tax Sikes. He cut taxes as
aggressively as any president had in our history, and we
ended up getting something like seven percent GDP grow just
a couple of years later. So smart idea. I believe
(05:28):
in a strong military. It was a war hero himself,
and most importantly, if you want to call it, most
importantly based on Carol Markowitz's world, as far as why
you moved away from New York to Florida. He didn't
believe in racial quotas. He believed in the merit based system,
and any Democrat that would utter that today, you know,
the Party of Equity, would be cast out right, So
(05:48):
that was JFK. Then I looked at all, right, Carter,
he was a pretty bad president.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, he was a pretty bad president, but he was a.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Pro life Democratic president.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, I've heard of.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Now there's only one left in cong rest of the Senate.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I mean, it's remarkable that the whole forty, right or no,
he's the governor.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
It's a guy down in Texas, like in a very
conservative district, and I forget who it is, but he's
the last one. Maybe maybe it's quae Ar. Anyway, we
gonna look that up. So again, AOC said, if you're
pro life, you don't belong in this party. You know,
the porny new doorsity and of you know, a big ten. No,
not really, but then Bill Clinton's presidency, Carroll, that was
(06:26):
the one that, really you go back and look at it,
the first thing you think of is the blue dress
and Monica, I get that guy enforced error ever, right,
But up until that point, I'll I readily admit this.
In nineteen ninety six, I voted for the guy because, boy,
he governed like a Republican. I'm sorry. He declared the
era of big government's over. He said that he wanted
(06:47):
to pass welfare reform by working with new Gingridge, you know,
the GOP speaker at the time, and they did, and
then he passed a balanced budget amendment which is, we
don't spend what we don't have, and we ended up
having budget surpluses by the end of the nineties. We
had peace, we had prosperity, and we had an articulate
president who seemed to want to work with the other side.
So in nineteen ninety six, I was young, it was
(07:08):
a first election. I were voted.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
All of must make mistakes, you know, you think it
was a mistake, though, I should say in nineteen ninety
six I cast my first presidential vote for Ross Perot.
And let me tell you that was not the Ross
Perou moment, which was nineteen ninety two. This was four
years later. So, like I said, all we all, we all,
you know, have some funny votes in our past.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Sure, but I thought it was a good one. I
would stand by it today if I had a if
I had a president that governed like Clinton did, because
you go back and look at his remarks on illegal immigration,
he makes Donald Trump sound like a wallflower. Right, these
are people coming into our country illegally. They're stealing our jobs,
they're exhausting our social services. You go back and watch
these speeches, you're like, I could like this guy. And
then the Crime Bill in nineteen ninety four, which Joe
(07:50):
Biden was all for. That was the toughest you'll ever
see out of any president. So I'm sorry. I mean
that's I know, he had a D next to his name,
but he basically was a Republican. And then things were
started the ship with Barack Obama. And I think the
media is who pushed this party in the direction that
it is in now, which is like Thelma and Louise,
like going off the cliff right to the left, right,
And because you look at MSNBC, for example, Carol right
(08:14):
and back in two thousand and four. Again I'm pretty
young at the time, I appeared on that network fairly
often because they were somewhat normal. Tucker Carlson, right, Michael yeah, yeah.
Who else was there? Oh, Jesse Datura had a showc
wows pretty reasonable guy. So you know, you go down
(08:35):
the line and now you look at who they are today.
They signed Roni McDaniel and she lasts one interview. She
lasted twenty four hours at the network because they could
not have a pro Trump person on that network. So
MSNBC and CNN, which used to be quite reputable back
in the nineties, exactly they they basically give Democrats their
cues now on what they think and how they should govern,
(08:57):
and all those cues obviously are you know, dead wrong
when it comes to every policy you could think of,
when it comes to raising taxes, when it comes to
all the woke stuff, integration, you go down the line.
And that's why we have Kamala Harris, this product of today,
who is proposing things that I just am shaking my
head at completely when she's not stealing ideas and policies.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
That's right, Yeah, But why do the Democrats listen? I mean,
these media outlets are you know, in decline, are pretty
openly in decline, and there's all this new media that
people follow now and listen to. Why does any Why
did the Democrats let these failing networks get away with it?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I think Democrats in general, based on these are products
of the sixties that we're seeing now, right, A lot
of the ones that are older anyway, and the education
system I think produces like an AOC And then I think, yeah, honestly,
cable news still has influenced Joe Biden. We heard over
and over that his favorite show to watch was Morning Joe,
you know, Scarborough and Prazinski. So I think in the end,
(09:58):
between that and social media, Carol, as far as we
have we talked about New Gingrit's before and how he
worked for Bill Clinton, and in the book we also
talked about Tip O'Neill, who was a House speaker Democratic House. Yeah,
worked for freakan like behind the scenes, let's have a
drink after after work and we'll hammer out compromise for
the good of the country. And they often did that.
That's a good thing. I think now you have leading Democrats,
(10:22):
they only exist for likes, for retweets on Twitter and
to get invited on the Stephen Colbert. Solving problems is
like a distant twenty eighth right, and you see that
through AOC right. She hasn't passed. She hasn't even co
sponsored one piece of legislation that has got to the floor,
let alone like passing anything to make you know, her
constituents lives better. And oh yeah, she killed the Amazon
(10:43):
deal that would have bought tens of thousands of jobs
to her district because she thought that that money should
go to the government instead and then the government could
fix stuff, which is not how it work. So that
I think social media and traditional media really have pushed this.
I'll put it this way. I'll leave it with this
story on this particular topic. Twenty nineteen, CNN decides they're
(11:04):
going to give every Democrat who's running for president a
one hour town hall national airtime, and they all agree
to take that deal, because, of course, you one of
twenty four. You got to stand out somehow. But there's
only one topic that these town halls focused on. The
climate crisis is what.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I was going to guess It was climate change?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Do you remember that, right? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
So, actually don't remember. But if I had to guess
what would could be the one topic that CNN would
make them focus on, I would have just guessed climate.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Change, and you would have been exactly right. Yeah. And
so what if you're, like the governor of Montana was
running for the Democratic nomination at the time. It's a
pretty moderate guy when the few that are left. And
what if he wants to talk about energy or jobs,
or trade or inflation or immigration, all these things that
are top of mind for most Americans. No, if you
teach you that you got to talk about the not
even climate change, We're going to call it climate crisis.
(11:53):
So you will automatically then say things like Kamala Harris
did during the climate crisis town hall. That's where she
said she was one hundred percent for banning fracking. That's
where she said she wanted to end all fossil fuels.
That's where she said she wanted to end all all
Shorge Relli because she had to play along with the theme.
And now she's your first course on all those things.
So that's just one tiny example of how our media
has pushed this Democratic Party to a place where they
(12:14):
are not the party of Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy.
That is certainly for sure.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
But then, but then the media also doesn't hold her
accountable for any of those reverses. I mean, shouldn't CNN
be really angry that she lied during their town hall?
Shouldn't they want answers on what changed for her? Where
the policies you know, shifted along the way. I know
it's hilarious, but like, isn't that what should happen?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Oh? That would take integrity, right, That would actually take
caring about your brand and your product. That yeah, you know,
when she's on with Dana Bash, when she does this
interview that's coming up. If I'm Dana Maryland.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah, that's the first thing I play that is that
I play back those clips from that town hall and
I say, what's changed, Kamala? And if you are now
for cracking, what does that mean for the environment? And
then you'll watch the word salad like you've never seen
it before. It's so easy to interview Kamala Harris at
this point. And Dana Bash should be upset because Dana
Bash was the one who hosted that climate change town
(13:12):
hall with Kamala Harris and say, you told me this
five years ago. Why have you changed on this now?
Why do you support a border wall, the bonder wall
that you called racist? What what has changed is exactly?
And Kamala Harris, unlike Barack Obama, I'm like, even like
a Jensaki does not have the ability to think.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
On her I called there to hold her hand, you know,
I hope not.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
You know, I call her the Ron Burgundy candidate, because
if you remember the movie Anchorman, whatever you put a teleprompter,
Burgundy read right. So if I'm Dana Bash, I hope
I get the Dana Bash that I got during the
debate between Biden and Trumpert. I actually think that Bash
and Tapper did a decent job that didn't make themselves
the story. There wasn't the usual snark, and they asked
(13:56):
questions that were relevant. I hope Dana Bash does that again,
if she has any integ I guess we're going to
have to see. But I don't have a lot of
hope because it's one thing to do the questions fairly
during a debate. It's another thing when it's on your
home turf and you know your viewers don't want you
to challenge this candidate too much because they only want
her to win and for Donald Trump, and that's it.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
That's it. Yeah. I'm also I'm not holding out a
lot of hope for Dna Besh to, you know, surprise
Kamalo with some with some tough questions. But we'll see,
We'll see. She's getting the only interview, like she has
to kind of bring it. I don't think that she
can give her complete softballs just because nobody else is
getting to talk to the presidential nominee from the Democratic Party,
and so I wonder, I wonder if she's going to
(14:36):
be a little tougher than I think Republicans are expecting,
but probably less tough than we would like her to
be Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
But what's even tough, right, I mean, it's just well,
like you.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Said, just calling her on past positions would be huge.
I wonder if she could do that.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
That's what Tim Russer used to do. Again. I'm praising
all these people. I said, see it end a good
job of the debate. Now I'm praising you.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Get canceled, Joe, you know Rhino.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I know it's month to watch and listen to. But
if Carol Market has had three questions she could ask
Kamala Harris if she had the interview, what would they do?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I mean I think that why did you change on
some of the biggest issues of our time? I would
be she could take that could be the one question,
take all the time we need to get to the answer.
I guess I would want to know the explanation. But
you know why should think something like price controls could work.
It's it's something that's been like showing time time and
(15:29):
again to not not only not work, but you know,
to starve large swaths of the population, Like where did
you come up with this? Who whispered this into your ear?
Stuff like that. But you know that's why we're not
going to be the ones doing the interviews and we'll
see what happens.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I would do those two and then my third would
be can a man get pregnant? And do you believe men?
Speaker 3 (15:50):
That's really good. Yeah, that would be a well placed question.
So what Yeah, sorry, when you think about like the
questions to ask ask people like Kamala Harris, do you have,
like what's your biggest cultural concern? What do you worry about?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Worry about my kids the most. I have an eight
year old. I have a ten year old. Actually, no,
I have a nine year old. Now it's my son's.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Birthday, Happy birthday, Yes.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Thank you. He's going to something called I Fly tonight.
Oh yeah, the wind thing where you're skydiving without having
to jump out of a plane. So that's I didn't
get that as a kid. That I don't know. No,
So now, yeah, he's going to third grade. My daughter's
going in the fifth grade, and I just I don't
see it in my public school system. Thank god. I'm
in New Jersey and you know it's a blue state.
(16:37):
But I live in a town where we seem to
have some common sense people in charge, and the border
bed folks that have run recently the candidates have been
to the right and they have won quite easily, so
I'm not so worried about them now. But there's such
an addiction to iPads. And my daughter asked me almost
every day, can I get a phone? And I keep
(16:58):
saying no, it's I'm going to lose her right once
she has the phone. I'm no longer the hero anymore.
I know, by the way, there's some really bad content
on there. Once in a while, I'll walk in. I
got on iPads, not because I'm a lazy parent. I'm
quite the opposite. You follow me on social media. I
do a lot with my kids, but sometimes I have
to work, and sometimes they find the iPad that I
got them because of COVID and we had to do
(17:19):
stupid learning from home for nearly a year and a half,
and they will find sites where I'm hearing about how
I ran away from home when I was sixteen. I
got pregnant and my boyfriend to get an abortion, and
I ran across the room and I tripped over the
puppy and nearly killed myself, like trying to get that
I've made it away from her. So that's my worry
(17:40):
that growing up I didn't have exposure to stuff like
that and they do now. And I can try to
control as much as I can, but we see the
bullying that goes on. We see that teenage suicide rates
are at all time high, and I think a lot
of it is because of social media, and I keep
them away from it for so long, But in the end,
I guess I just have to hope that sports. They
play a lot of.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Sports, right, yeah, that time a sports.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah, yeah, No, I think.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
That I think that's that's it. My kids they absolutely
use their iPads. You know. It's funny because I think
that I talk about this a lot lately because I
just think people are not paying attention to it. But
the problem is much less social media. Now. Kids aren't
really on social media. Your kids are not on Facebook
or Twitter or Instagram, right, No, they're they're scrolling TikTok.
(18:26):
While my kids, I don't let them have TikTok, But
my kids are strolling the same thing. On YouTube. They're
they're looking at YouTube shorts or on Instagram reels. They're
all addicted to these like short videos that they take
everywhere with them. And I just think the inability of
kids to entertain themselves. Is it's sort of the bigger
factor right now, much more so than we used to
(18:48):
be concerned about bullying on social media. But again, I
don't I don't see kids on social media anymore. They're
on something else entirely, like they carry little TVs around
with them. Basically, they're they're like I refer to is
like when we were when we were kids, we'd watch
Saturday morning cartoons, but then when we went to play outside,
we didn't take time and jerry with us, And they
do take it with them now. So that's sort of
(19:09):
my tangential concern about kids and screens. I think that
we're focusing on the wrong problems.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
You're right about that way. And you know what, parents
are a little more rigid these days. And by that,
I mean it used to be, let's say it snowed
out and you got a snow day, I would go
running out nine o'clock in the morning with my sled.
I didn't even have to You couldn't even you didn't
even have to call your friends. They're already out there,
right we went over their house, you said, can in
my case, Jeff and Greg, these two twins that lived
(19:36):
across the street, from me, Like, can jeffre Greg go
sleigh running? Sure, no problem, we all go out. Parents
can come with us. You know, we'd go find the
biggest hill. It could be a mile away from my house.
It didn't matter, and you know they would just be
My parents would just be like, just be back by dinner,
you know.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Yeah, right, That's how I treat my kids. I don't
know that we still live that life from Florida that
I don't know. When they come home from school, they
go play outside. I have four teen, eleven and eight.
Even the eight year old, like I don't know where
he is. He's out there somewhere, you.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Know you are. It doesn't work that way here. It's
just I'm not like in a pretentious town. A lot
of the moms work, which we like. You know, there's
some towns in Jersey where it's like it really is
like a Real Housewives type of situation. But my wife's
a doctor, and she likes talking to other women that
work as well, just because I don't know. She doesn't
against any anybody who obviously doesn't work. Good for that.
(20:26):
But it's it's I'm not I'm not saying we're in
a working class town. WI like off New Jersey. Martha
McCollum grew up here, for example, Peter Doocy growup here.
For example, Steve Doocy lives about three.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Blocks very Fown.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
It's completely it's amazing how many people have come out
of this town. It's not all that big, but no figure.
But it's the type of town though, where the parents
are a bit too protective, I would say, And anytime
we want to get my son, for example, he's a
camp today and when he gets home at like three o'clock,
he'll chill out for a little bit because he's been
out in the heat for six hours. But then he'll
(20:58):
be like, oh, can I get a playdate with X
or why? And then I got to like text the
mom and the we have to range the time and
when it's ending. It's like, this isn't how it should be.
It should be just natural, go out and find somebody.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Okay, we have We do have pleadates occasionally, but no,
it's a lot of go play outside here again, you
are welcome to join us in the Free State of
Florida whenever you are ready.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
So I met the table, Okay, I met the Santas
for the first time. The governor, great governor down there,
and uh, you know, I don't like talking politics with
any of these folks. So when I was in Milwaukee,
I wouldn't believe, like how many people you can meet
because the green room is so small. Yeah, you're just
you're forced to have conversations with people. So getnis Quaid
(21:41):
was awesome. I accidentally called him Randy. That was bad.
I just watched Independence Day of my kid like the
night before, so like I had Randy in my head
and he goes, don't worry, my mom does it all
the time. He's yeah, hul Cogan came up from behind.
Uh when when I was about to go on the air,
I feel this this bone, my bones crushing him, Like,
who is that? And he knows. I love your work, brother,
I watch you all the time. Oh, thunder lifts Rocky three.
(22:04):
I grew up amazing, It's amazing. But the Santus was
the most interesting conversation because I know he played baseball
in college and I played for about five minutes as well,
and I said, so is your son playing at baseball?
And he goes, oh, yes, absolutely, I go and he's
not that he's not my son's age. He goes, yeah,
he's turning seven. I said, oh, so what's he doing.
He's like, is he going to camp or anything? He goes, oh, yeah,
(22:26):
he's going to Florida State's baseball camp. I go, he's
going to Florida States. Yeah, he's a switch hitter. I go, yeah,
he's a switch hitter at seven.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I mean, oh, no, crazy, Yeah no, this is I mean,
I've coming from New York. I had no idea people
took the children's sports this seriously. But like, if your
kid's not in a sport by like eight, like they might,
it might be too late. Like my eleven and fourteen
year old are still trying to find their sport, and
it's it's probably.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Over for them. What's their best sport if you.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Had, probably tennis?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yeahnis, that's good down in Florida, but they're not good.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Like there's so many really good tennis players here, So
it's you know, unless they started at birth. It's it's
a very tough sport to get.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
It's hard. I got my kid into golf, and golf's great,
but yeah, cheap. A week of lessons at a golf
camp and you know, hopefully in a neuro post will
approved and writing a couple more stories for him because
I gotta pay for this somehow.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
That's it. Yeah, you got to count that.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
But Carol, I mean my daughter nine years old. Last summer,
we had three tournaments, one in San Diego, one in Philadelphia,
one in Washington, d C. She's nine San Diego for
five days, I mean, no soccer, soccer, okay, so the
team's to good. They got to travel, you know, three
thousand miles. Team let me just sleep. They own and
(23:43):
be cone with it not happening.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
They stink.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I know, right, it's it's tough. And now I have
a puppy because we tried to bribe my daughter into
scoring ten goals this season, and she plays goalie a lot,
so we kind of did the math and figured out
that it would be impossible for her to get to
that number given that they play a lot of other
good teams and the scores are always two one and
three two, So she's never getting a ten because she's
mostly in goal anyway. So she has like three goals
(24:09):
and there's like maybe four games left in the season,
so it's almost impossible for her to get to ten.
Except we played the one bad team on her schedule
and the coach puts her on offense. Oh boy, she
scores once, twice, three times. Stop the coach said, stop scoring.
R up seven to nothing. You know, let's not embarrass him.
Scores again, scores again, right, and she's whoofing after every goal, whoof, woof,
(24:33):
whoof because she knows she's flirted and apparent from the
other team in my face afterwards, just like, you know
that is so class as you raised your daughter to
be that way. I'm like, I got nothing to do
with this. You think I want to spend four thousand
dollars for a puppy. So it was funny. And then
the final game she got that tenth goal, and now
we have a golden dudle. You have any dogs, No, no,
I'm allergic.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
But also like I understand people who have like a
bunch of kids, but once you have a bunch of
kids and a dog like that, that's just too much
for me.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
I don't know it's so much. But here's the here's
the irony. My daughter is allergic to dogs. Oh wow,
if you get one, that's.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
First, no hypoogenic. Everybody has a hypoergenic dog. Now I
still die.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I don't know still. Okay, Well, you just saved yourself
thousands of dollars and a lot of walks and cold.
I'm not cold by you.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
South Florida between like you know, near Miami.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Okay is the vague is the vague answer? I get.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Well, you let me know. You let me know when
you're in South Florida. I would love to meet the conscious.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I'm uh, We're going there in November Fort Lauderdale. We're
taking a cruise. This is like a great perk at
the job. The Media Research Center, like NewsBusters, basically, they
have a cruise every year and they're like, would you
like to go on this? I'm just like, I don't know.
Guys like, oh, we'll pay for all. We'll pay for
you and your family.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Yeah I'll go.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Yeah. You're like, I mean send those my way, Joe
next time.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Yeah, they do what every year? You'd be greatome you
just have dinner with different people every night. That's basically.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
I love meeting strangers, which I know is not not
a common thing, but I love talking to people. I
love talking to strangers. I love meeting people. I love
hearing their stories. I'm all about it.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
You get stopped a lot I.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Do in Florida, which is funny because I'm a New
York Post columnist. But in Florida a lot, it's like.
And we moved here and my kids were like, are
you famous?
Speaker 2 (26:16):
What I would do? This event at the Breakers? You
know tom Beach. Yeah, well famous hotel. And I let's
put it this way. I went to Nantucket a couple
of years ago, and one person stopped me right right.
And look, I don't host a show. I'm d list.
I get it completely, and I trust me. I don't
want to be stopped. I'm not I'm under that.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I'm like list.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
But but then I go to the Breakers in Florida,
or I go to spring Lake, New Jersey, for example,
it's called the Irish Riviera. You can't go like more
than like five ten minutes if you're in public without
somebody stopping. They want to sell fie all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
And I just find it just so funny that, yeah,
those are your people.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yeah, Juliana's friend. We have an inviitual friend, Julianeah like celebrity.
It's just so funny. Like people kept from my book
signing on Friday in Point Pleasants. Each new Jersey on
a Friday night in the summer, and you're going to
a bookstore to see me.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
It's just great. We're going to take a quick break
and be right back on the Carol Marcowitch Show. This
says very nicely to a question that I ask all
of my guests, do you feel like you've made it?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
You know, the ruthless guys ask me that they put
they put it differently, but it's basically the same premise.
The answer is, if this is an NFL game, I'm
tied and I'm on halftime, I'm not winning, I'm not losing.
I have time to win, but I don't feel I've
totally made it. In others, the goal is, and I
(27:44):
tell you know, my bosses at Fox this every time
I meet with them, is I want to show, you know,
I think I could do a decent job. I'd love
to be apparently Mary Catherine Ham or a Carol Markowitz
or some somebody who has like a good sense of
humor and like is authentic. That would be kind of cool,
but like a show, he think, so, yeah, right, km JC,
this couldn't work. But you know, until I get the show,
(28:07):
I don't think I've made it. I've you know, I'm
writing books that are you know, best sellers, and.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
I'm doing speak This is your second best seller, right,
that's right?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Yeah, yeah, come on, amazing, Yeah, my terrible, horrible, nogad
very bad presidency. Yeah that even that did quite well,
which I was shocked at. But you can promote it
on Fox, so that that helps. So yeah, I think
I'm seventy percent there, right because I speak just about
to sign a new contract with Fox, which is awesome.
I again, I'm doing speeches, I'm going on cruises. I
guest host radio shows like Sean Hannity is, for example,
(28:39):
six hundred and fifty radio stations. But something feels very incomplete,
and I have a feeling though if you ask me
that question after I get a show. Let's put it
this way. Larry Bird wins the NBA Championship in nineteen
eighty four, and afterwards all his teammates go out and
they go to celebrate party. They go to like a
bar in Boston type of thing, or they went somewhere
and one reporter for out like his recorder back in
(29:02):
the arena, and he goes in and Bird shooting baskets.
He's like what are you doing here? Should you be
celebrating with his team? So I was thinking about next year.
So I have a feeling I'm gonna be that kind
of guy, like I'm never gonna be satisfied. And I
don't know that is good.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
I like that, that's a really unique answer. Keep shooting
those baskets no matter.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
How much you in basketball. I had to quit after
my freshman year. Here's a funny story. I was five
nine and seventh grade, which is tall for seventh grade. Yeah,
so I played center on the basketball team, and I
was a tight end in football. Like those are kind
of like you gotta be tallish kind of positions, like
think like Travis Kelsey. Right, So but I stopped. I
stopped at seventh grade. And my dad six ' three
(29:38):
and my mom was five seven. I'm like, what is
going on? I should be tall. I go to my mother.
I'm like, I don't get it. Like it's my sophomore
year this morn. I had to quit the basketball team
because the point guard was taller than me and I'm
the center. So I just had to concentrate on football
and baseball at that point, and I go, what happened?
She goes, well, I may have smoked when when ignant
with you, I got what those horrible winstons? Oh oh,
(29:59):
why did you that you knew it was wrong? She goes, not,
at the time, they didn't really say there was a
problem with the don't say they did know. Yeah, I
love that story.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
That was awesome.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Nobody spoke. It's amazing. Ye was in our backyard and
one guy like had to go like to the side
of the house and you could like smell it all
the way from the backyard. He might write, what is that?
I'm like, yeah, it's he's a holdover, right.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
My kids in Europe is like, are like, what is
going on? Why is everybody smoking? Like, yeah, thing they
do over here?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Yeah they do, and they're all thin, so maybe they're
onto something.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
They really are. I feel like, second, look at smoking cigarettes.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Let's do it. I think I saw you. You put
out a tweet one time You're like, yeah, I maybe
smoke like a pack a year.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Yeah right, that was when I was like, you know,
young and cooler. I don't I can't even do a
pack a year anymore. But yeah, you know, I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
It was a good little sometimes you know, it was
a thing.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
I just can't believe. We all went to bars, and
even if you didn't, it was all over you.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I was like the one guy. I got home and
I showered like a two because I'm like, I smell myself.
This is horrible time.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Anyway, Sorry, I have loved this conversation, Joe, you are
so awesome, and here with your best tip for my
listeners on how they can improve their lives.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Oh, how they can improve their lives. Don't go to
bed with your cell phone. That's a start, because you
end up probably reading something on social media is really
going to pish you off, so upset you. Yeah, and
then you wake up. First thing, you're roll over, Okay,
let me see what's going on in the world. Ah,
this all sucks. This is not good. So I think
that's a good thing. I think also reading. I know
(31:37):
this is like boring tips, but no, find a book,
turn off the TV, shut down your phone, go find
a quiet place, particularly like if you're in a place
like Florida or somewhere warm, go outside, find a bench
and just read and you'll your stress level will go
down like one hundred percent. So those are the two things.
Get off the phone and just do the things that
we used to do, which is just read and just
(31:57):
let your imagination take you to another place where the world.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I love all of that. He is Joe Concha. His
book is amazing. It's called Progressively Worse, Why Today's Democrats
ain't your Daddy's Donkeys. Buy it anywhere you get your books.
Thanks so much, Joe.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Carol always a pleasure. See in Florida soon.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Thanks so much for joining us on the Carol Marko
which show. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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Karol Markowicz
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