November 20, 2023 • 27 mins
In this episode, Karol welcomes Jason Rantz to discuss the rise in crime and radical beliefs in America. Karol explores a robbery case in Brooklyn, where the victims blamed themselves, and the trend of supporting terrorists on TikTok. Rantz shares insights from his book, "What's Killing America: Inside the Radical Left Tragic Destruction of Our Cities," criticizing policies that enable drug users and the lack of pushback from local media. They also discuss the societal problem of narcissism and the importance of hard work. 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 (00:09):
Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio.
A number of years ago, back in twenty fifteen, I
wrote about a robbery that had occurred in the Ditmas
Park section of Brooklyn. A writer, Haya Babu, was at
the Lark Cafe when a man with a gun came
in to rob the place. So what was different about
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this robbery is that the gunman didn't just hit the register.
He stole the laptops of Baboo and the rest of
the writers who were meeting there. She was there for
like a writer's group thing. In a long rumination on
the incident, Baboo writes that she and her writer friends
felt angry and violated, but not in a way that
necessarily placed blame on the person who did it. Okay,
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it seems if they blame anyone, it's themselves for existing
and choosing to live in Ditmoss Park in the first place.
In the weeks following the robbery, she and her friends
worked on quote finding space to take into consideration the
broader social and economic circumstances surrounding the incident, and quote
cultivated our sense of compassion toward the robber, whom we
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imagined must have been acting out of dire needll on
the dire need of somebody robbing a bunch of laptops
from writers at a coffee shop. Baboo quotes another writer
who was robbed that night as saying, I didn't ultimately
think that person posed a threat. I didn't feel afraid
of the person. I felt more just afraid of the weapon.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I mean, welcome to.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
The bizarro world of gentrification guilt, where the man with
the gun pointed at you isn't allowed to be scary,
but a weapon with no motive of its own is.
And the kicker comes when Baboo notes that many of
us in the group agreed that in some respects, we
identified more with our robber than with the characters we
were portrayed to be in media stories about the crime.
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I took that story very personally because I grew up
in Ditmiss Park. I actually grew up there before it
was called Dit Miss Park, because that's an invention by
real estate agents to exact kind of people that had
their laptops stolen.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It was a rough area when I grew up there,
and I.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Wrote that I loved seeing the neighborhood turn around in
the last fifteen years. At that point, no one made
excuses for the criminals. When I was a kid, it
was a rough area, but it was obvious that crime
was bad, and everyone said so. When a friend's grandmother
had her handbag ripped off her arm at the subway station,
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when a friend was mugged of his jacket in the
middle of winter, or when bicycles were stolen constantly, no
one thought much about the thieves feelings. There were no gentrifiers. Then,
there were no high rises, no cool restaurants. Plenty of victims,
in other words, but none suitable to blame for their
own victimization. I was reminded of this story and how
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much it bothered me with the recent story of people
on TikTok approvingly sharing a letter purported to be by
Bin Laden. Now I don't entirely buy that Bin Laden
wrote the letter. I remember that letter being released, you know,
I think it was November two thousand and one, shortly
after the attacks, But it really didn't make a lot
of sense to me even then that he wrote it.
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It was never confirmed by any intelligence agencies. In the letter,
he's got the jew hating down and he hates gay people,
of course, but also he was mad that America pulled
out of an environmental treaty, like I just don't think so.
I'm going to have a column about this idiotic trend.
But what I want to talk about here is how
dangerous it is that self preservation is sorely missing in
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these people, Much like in the people who had their
laptop stolen. They imagine that agreeing with a terrorist and
siding against their own country will save them.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
It won't.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
History is littered with murdered peace activists and people who
hope that the terrorists they support will kill them last
they won't. You know, the word privilege is very overused,
but all of these people are so intensely privileged. They
get to have their bad ideas, but they also subject
us to their bad ideas and the repercussion of those ideas.
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I talk a lot about stating plainly your values to
your children, and now it turns out we have to add,
don't support people who will kill you, don't cover up
for people who rob you. These should be basics, but
apparently they are not. Don't support Asama bin Laden, friends,
be sure to tell your children. Coming up next and
interview with Jason Rantz join us after the break. Hi,
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and welcome back to the Carol Marcowitch Show on the
klan Buck podcast Network on iHeartRadio. My guest today is
Jason Rantz. Jason is a Fox News regular talk show
host and the author of What's Killing America Inside the
Radical Left, Tragic Destruction of Our Cities.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Hi, Jason, so nice to have you.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Thank you so much for me.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I'm reading your book right now and I love it.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Can you tell our audience a little bit about what
it's about and what you hope to achieve with it.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah, As the title suggests, it's about what I think
is destroying our American cities. As I started to do
a lot of my research for my Fox News hits
but also from my radio show, is looking at other cities,
not just Seattle, and I was noticing the same consequences
to the same in some cases, the exact same policies.
And I recognized that what people understood that something was
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wrong wherever they live, that they were aware of the
crime stories. When they take their kid to a park,
they recognize that it's overcome with homeless. The drug addiction
problem is out of controlling it. Weirdly, at the exact
same time they're spending way more money living in these cities.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
They didn't know the why. They had maybe a.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
General sense, but they didn't really know what policies were
driving this, what radical beliefs were driving this, and even
the who behind who was driving all of these different policies.
And in large part, I believe it's because there's coded
language that radicals use that make it sound when their
policies are really intentionionate and really about helping the community,
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when in fact they're just ideologically driven positions that are
meant to dismantle various systems of oppression. And so I
wanted to write this book to alert people to what's
going on behind the scenes, what's happening right in front
of them, and they don't realize it because I don't
want to happen to them.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
What's happening in San.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Francisco, which is folks woke up and they recognized that
their DA was way too far to the left, chest Aboudine,
so they recalled him. They recognized that their school board
directors were way too far to the left, so they
recalled them. And these were liberals, right, these were progressives
who did it wasn't conservatives with like twelve conservatives who.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Live in San Francisco. But unfortunately they woke up too late.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
San Francisco is not going to recover in any meaningful
way for it a decade. And I don't want someone
to wake up in their community wherever it is that
they live and say, Okay, today's the day I started
to fight back, only to realize it's too late.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So it's interesting that you say that people realize it's
happening because my experience in.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Brooklyn, and you know, I a lifelong New Yorker.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I moved to Florida almost two years ago, and it was,
you know, a big deal because I never wanted to
leave New York. I mean, I've written about it, I've
talked about it extensively. But the thing, one of the
things that made the move easier and why we knew
we had to go, was because of how hard it
was to convince people that crime was up, that standard
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of life was lower.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I grew up in New York in.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You know, the eighties, and it was much higher crime
than than you know, even now, let's say, but even
before it got to that point, it was very easy
to say to people like, this is crazy, we should
not live like this, and everybody would say, yeah, crime
is bad, but yeah, maybe they would still elect Democrats
and maybe that was, you know, obviously an error on
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their part. But the step one of facing the problem
is something I never saw in like nineteen eighties New
York that I see now summer of twenty twenty, you know,
the George Floyd riots. My neighbors in Brooklyn all pretended
that that was fine and put the defund police signs
in their windows. And then as actual regular crime went up,
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all the comment boards were like, oh, the crime has
gotten so bad. And people would say, oh, what are
you talking about. And there were so many journalists in
New York Times and they would be on Twitter and
they'd say like, oh, I ate my burrito in the
park today, and it was totally fine. There was no
Antifa here. So I wanted to ask you, I guess
what do you see people basing this reality? Or is
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this something that we're hoping because I am still hoping
New York wakes up and realizes what the problems are.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Well, I mean, it's a combination of all of what
you just said.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
So on the one hand, because crime has gotten so
bad or almost drug use, whatever it happens to be,
and certainly cost of living has risen so much you
can't really hide from it for too long, and eventually
you do experience it what I've seen here in Seattle
really the Pacific Northwest. For the folks that you're talking about,
the ones who just don't want to acknowledge the reality
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is that they go to their homes and they realize
someone broke into it, and then for them that was
the realization, oh, okay, this is happening right now. We
have a string of incidents where gangs of like four
to six teenagers are assaulting and robbing other teenagers as
they walk home from school, and all of a sudden,
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people are spending a little bit more time recognizing what's
going on, and they can't really deny it for too
much longer. You've got groups of folks, particularly in these
deeply blue areas, that on the one hand, you've got
the coldests, the ones who will never see what is
happening because they believe so truly, like it's a cult
what it is they're doing. Then you have the fok
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and in a lot of ways they're equally as dangerous.
The folks who recognize what's going on, but they justify
it because they think in the short term there's going
to be some collateral damage, there will be some pain.
But in the long term, if you only truly subscribe
to these views and you go all in, well then
we'll live in this utopian society where we don't need
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a police force, we don't need to have a prison system.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
It's of course a ludication.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Yeah, I mean, it's anyone who understands history, just even
a little bit or just frankly, it makes the data. Yeah,
I mean, it's clearly not going to happen. So I
try to dismiss those folks. They're the ones in power
right now. But there are so many other folks who
are like you and I who recognize what's going on,
or at least starting to come to that realization, that
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need to be convinced. And I just think that, especially
when we're talking about these deeply blue areas, you have
to understand how the left argues the language that they use.
The only police that they like are the word police
control of the language, and they're able to pursue different
policies by framing it in very specific ways that manipulate
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people into thinking that it's the right thing to do.
But if you explain to them what it really meant,
what they were really voting for supporting, they would say, oh, wait, no,
that doesn't sound like a great idea. And I just
think too few people recognize that. And I think conservatives
are equally guilty of this. Sometimes we fall for it,
but ultimately we're unwilling to argue from the perspective of
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a liberal to other liberals, which means we're not going
to move them anywhere because we're not talking their language.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
That's very interesting. Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I think conservatives do a terrible job a lot of
the time. And I think that you know, nobody wants
to be called a racist. Nobody wants to be called names,
which is, you know ultimately what happens when you stand
up to any of the leftist policies.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
So what do you suggest people do?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
What I suggest they do is understand the language first
and foremost, understand the way that these arguments are being made.
And I'll give you a perfect example right now. I
would blame the drug crisis in large part on something
called harm reduction. That is a strategy that is being
used in virtually every single major city, county, and the
larger states. It's adopted at the federal level as well.
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I could even go outside to my neighbors here in Woke, Seattle,
and they wouldn't really be able to define what harm
reduction is, but I'll tell you how it was pitched
to them. Would you like to address the drug crisis,
address the addicts by mitigating the threats of harm, making
sure that they survived throughout the night so that we
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can get them treatment tomorrow. That's how it was pitched.
That's not what it actually is. What it actually is
is enabling the drug user to continue to be used
by handing out clean needles, handing out ventanyl and meth pipes,
or booty bumping kits, which is my favorite because I
had to explain what this meant to three million people
on Tucker. Yeah, a booty bumping kit is a syring
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where you remove the needle, you fill it with a
mixture of water and drugs that's usually met, and you
rectily inject it. Going that way, apparently is a much
deeper and quicker high. And I found out here in
Seattle and elsewhere, taxpayer dollars are going to purchase these
pieces of equipment, the drug paraphernilia and given to people.
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They're not putting money into any kind of detox treatment
or drug treatment.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
They're not doing that.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
They're putting the money into services because they don't want
to stigmatize the drug addict. Now, armed with the new
knowledge of what harm reduction is and how it's pursued, well,
that changes the way that we're able to talk about
this and argue, because it's hard to argue against something
you don't understand is really behind the language that they're using.
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And there's so many examples of this across the board.
So number one is just understanding where they're coming from,
understanding the language that they use. And then, most importantly,
and I think conservatives can fall into this trap too,
is planning without giving an alternative to what actually works.
And you know, the good news is sometimes you don't
have to be all that innovative. That's really just going
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back to the way things were. You can maybe make
some minor tweaks here and there. In some cases it
is being innovative. And so in every single chapter of
the book is I take on each issue chapter by
chapter from crime and homelessness to immigration education. Here's what
actually works, Here's what's been done that does work. Here's
what doesn't work, Here's why it doesn't work, and here's
how to argue it.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
We're going to take a quick break and be right
back on the Carol Marco It Show.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
So what can be done to stop drug deaths?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Because I, you know, I fully agree with you. I
think that we've you know, tried some things that don't
work and people need to face reality. Look, you know,
I've had friends die of drug overdoses.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I grew up in Brooklyn and I.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Have had I've had loss in my life over you know,
through drug use. And I'd love to just click a
magic and then have them live.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Through the night and we get them help tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
That would be fantastic. But that hasn't worked, And so
what do we do?
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Yeah, So it's actually a combination of what the left
and the right team to want to do. You have
to have criminal justice as part of it. Policing one
has to be a part of this. You have to
approach it the same way frankly you would approach homelessness,
which is a carriage and stick approach. You're there you're
smoking fentanyl in the middle of a park. You're breaking
the law. So you have two options.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Here.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
An officer goes up to you and says, you have
two options. Number one, you're going to jail and you're
going to detox over the weekend and you are not
going to like that detox experience. Or number two, please
take us up on this offer. We're going to put
you in treatment. We're going to offer treatment on demand,
and if you want it right now, we will give
it to you.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
It's up to you.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
We want you to take that pathway. If you don't,
we're throwing you in jail. You'll be out the next day.
But guess what, I'll be here the next day, so
will you smoking fentanyl again?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
And I'm going to give you.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
The same options again, And We're going to do it
over and over and over again until you're willing to
get the help. That's unfortunately the only way for this
to work. While also, by the way, getting rid of
the drug legalization scam or again is legalized drugs. Washington
finally walks some of it back, but for the most
part it's still legalized in California. A lot of these
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states just allow it and you're just creating more victims
of addiction.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
So I think the argument I think people would say
is do we have the funding for this? Do we
have the resources for this? How do you answer that we.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Do have the funding? I mean, look at the amount
of money that are being spent on just subsidized housing
for homeless addicts who do not ever get the treatment
because it's not a condition of the subsidized housing.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Would we need to.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Spend as much money on them if we actually got
them the treatment so that they can get on the
right path and then ultimately be self sustainable, right, get
a job, be able to pay their own rent. So
you're cutting down the costs dramatically once you realize that
we're hanging on to people. We're paying people to stay
in home for the rest of their lives rather than
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getting them into the system, maybe for six months to
a year, maybe even two years, but you're not going
to do it for decades. That's a lot of savings,
and we're just choosing not to put the money into
the detoc services, the drug treatments, resources that desperately need
to be funded. Right.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
So your book is I mean, it sounds very middle
of the road. You're not saying like, oh, you know,
arrest all the drug addicts and you know it just
it seems very Dare I say moderate, Have you had
any success in talking to anybody on the left about
the book? CNN, had you on MSNBC, any of those.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Well, let's not go crazy there. I know, I know no,
of course CNN will never have me on it.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Theretical question there, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
It is.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
I do find it frustrating anyone who's a conservative author
realizes that the only support they get is from conservative media.
And that's an unfortunate reality. But the good news is,
especially for those of us who live in areas where
they're either ideologically diverse or we're the minorities, we are
surrounded by people who are our friends and family members
and co workers who are liberal, and I truly don't
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think that they support the extremes within their party. I mean,
the subtitle of this book is intentional. I talk about
the radical left. I'm not talking about the left. I'm
talking about the radicals within the left. And so I
do think that it's on all of us to make
sure that the information, whether it's my book or anyone else's,
get in front of these folks and get them to
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just at least give it a shot and just say, hey,
read one chapter. It's on you. If you don't like
the book, give it back. I'll give it to someone else.
But I do think that the more we do that
and spread the word and we're the ones who they trust,
they may disagree with us politically most of the time,
but at least they'll give us the respect of hearing
us out. That's why there are friends and family members.
We got to get in front of them, and when
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we get in front of them, will start to see
some more wins and ultimately that then they become an
evangelist for an idea and they connect with their own
liberal friends.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
That's very optimistic.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I mean, I'm an optimist, i am, but I you know.
I wrote co authored Stolen Youth my friend Bethany Mendel,
and it was about how wokeness and woke culture destroys children.
And yeah, I had a lot of friends and families
tell me how concerned they were about wokeness at their kids' school,
and they would send me examples about how woke nonsense.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Was taking over and all of that.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
But then they continue to vote and support all the
policies and all the people that really still continue to
push this stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
So I get it. I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I think we do move people over slowly, and we
have the conversations, we have the arguments, we have the discussions.
But do you get frustrated by them continuing to do
what they're doing which causes the problems in the first place.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Yeah, I mean my frustration is the reason why I
wrote this particular book in the way that I did.
I when I talk to people individually and I explained
to them what harm reduction is or what housing is
a restorative justice, well they start to see things a
little bit differently. But I honestly do not believe they
understand because they rely on local media, and when you
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are in a deeply blue or frankly a deeply read
state or city or county, the media is incentivized never
to push back against the party in power, because the
second that they do, they will lose access. They'll no
longer get those interviews, they'll no longer get called on
at a press conference, and then they're going to go
have to go back to their boss, their editor and say,
here's why I'm not getting called on ever, you're not
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able to do your job at that point, and so
you're not going to get the connecting of the dots.
And this is something so frustrating here in Washington State.
So we get the transactional stories of crimes, right, here's
what happened, here's where it happened, when it happened. And
we've had a surge of not just stolen vehicles, almost
seventy one a day.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
On average, king in Pierce Counties, and.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
That's actually slightly down from the month before eighty six.
But those cars are being driven into storefronts, people are
getting out, stealing what they can, then they escape in
a stolen vehicle. And I've spoken to chiefs of police
and I've spoken to sheriffs who say they think cops
just don't want to pursue these cases and don't want
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to chase these people. They don't realize that Two years ago,
Washington Democrats and the legislature changed the law banning particular
pursuits of suspects. At first, it was almost pretty much
all suspects. Then they finally change it so if it
was a violent melony, you can go ahead and chase.
But that was never the issue when the bad guys
realized that they can steal a car and not even
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have to speed away from them.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Guess what they did.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
That's precisely what they did, right, And do you think
that's told in any of the local stories. Do you
think at the bottom of the story it says and
by the way, this is a result of a policy
that was passed two years No, of course not. And
so people don't even understand that that's going on. You
and I we spend all day consuming news that our jobs, right,
we study this stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
We're aware of the where nerds will.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Watch and read somebody, Yeah, you know, we know the
policies and what yet, But the average person, they've got
their own lives, jobs, kids. It's just really hard to
keep up with all of the stuff. And so I
don't blame them. I blame the local media. And I'm
a member of the local media obviously, But I'm not
reliant on my access to some lawmaker, Like I don't
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care if I ever interview any Democrat lawmaker. That's not
what I do. I'll take the interview, but I don't
need it. So I'm able to put that stuff out
there without fear that they're going to you know, blacklist
me don't know, but others are, and that's that means
they're not getting all the information that they need. So
I take them upon me to make sure that I'm
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doing at least my part and getting that information out there.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, a question that I ask all of my guests,
and I think it. You know, you've probably answered a
lot of this already, but what do you think is
our largest culture or societal problem in America?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
And is it solvable?
Speaker 4 (23:05):
I think narcissism is the biggest problem that's facing our society.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
It is crime.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I know you did, but here's it's all connected to narcissism.
Narcissism is behind a lot of what the radicals believe,
right this this belief in themselves that they know better
than everybody else, that their viewpoint and feelings are factual,
that there's no one who can dispute anything that they say,
or do or believe. And I think that that level
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of narcissism, which has been especially potent amongst a younger generation,
and frankly, our generation, you and I think are the
same age. Our agent younger have been incredibly narcissistic and
no one has said anything to them. This entire time,
and so they've become emboldened and they ended up organizing,
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and they're the ones who are bullying people who disagree
with them, calling them name, shout their will. And when
you have those kinds of people in power, they end
up passing a bunch of policies that lead to rises
in crime, more illegal immigration, and education system that's completely
out of control. And so I would say, if we
address that narcissism problem in this country amongst a certain
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generation of folks, we would probably see a lot better results.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
So interesting, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
I really I like having an answer like that for
me to think about.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
So how's the book doing? Are we moving towards change?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
I mean, we're slowly moving towards change. Again, I'm completely
reliant on conservative media, so I especially love everyone who
allows me to talk a little bit about the book
and then really just conservative stepping up and supporting this book,
supporting your book, supporting the authors who are trying to
make a difference. And we've seen good results so far.
I'm happy with the direction that the book is going.
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But I'm always the person who wants to sell way
more and do way better than I am, so.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I always encourage people to go out and get them book.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
It's on sale right now on Amazon and Walmart dot com,
so go ahead and buy it.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Awesome. So do you feel like you've made it?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
You're you know, you're a talk show host, You're on
TV all the time, you have a great book?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Are you there?
Speaker 4 (25:13):
I never feel like I make it. I perpetually have
a chip on my shoulder, which emotionally and mentally probably
deeply unhealthy, but also is a driving force behind the
work that I do. So I'm I'm a workaholic. I'm
married to my work right now. During COVID, I sort
of stepped back and said, Okay, I'm going to just
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commit to my career. And that's when I saw all
the growth that I saw.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
I got the book deal, I'm.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
On Fox all the time, I got a successful radio
show and podcast. But I always want more, and I
never want to be last to a story or second
to a story.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
So I'm constantly pushing.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Myself to do a lot more, which makes me incredibly
difficult to be around at times.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
But that is that is the life that I've chosen
for it.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
That's right. I love that.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
So end with a tip for our listeners on how
they can improve their lives.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
You can.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
I'm going to sound like old man rants here for
a moment, specifically for the younger generation and some adults
who take this position, get your ass to the office,
get to work, actually do your job. Stop with this
work life balance where you want more of the life
part than the work part, because that's not balance at all.
We started about a decade or so ago really leaning
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into the work life balance conversation. And while I certainly
don't wish to go back for everyone, I don't want
me to go back to a place where you're working
fourteen hours a day, you're getting home, eating dinner, going
to bed, and then working in the next day. Like
that's not the position. I mean, I'm doing that, but
I don't want everybody to do it. This doesn't work
for everyone, right, But I'm so sick and tired of
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the folks who constantly demand more money, more perks, less responsibility,
less hours, always asking for or something.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Just work.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
And when you work and you're actually good at what
you do, and working get you to a place where
you're good at what you're doing, you will start to
see success. So stop complaining all the time. Put your
head down, do the work, and you'll start to see
some successes and be okay to make mistakes along the way,
because I mean, I don't make mistakes because I'm perfect,
but everybody else, you know, make mistakes. It's okay to
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make mistakes.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Thank you so much, Jason. That was perfect, Jason Rant.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
The book is called What's Killing America Inside the Radical
Lefts Tragic Destruction of our Cities. Buy it anywhere you
get your books. Thanks so much for joining us on
the Carol Markowitz Show. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio.
A number of years ago, back in twenty fifteen, I
wrote about a robbery that had occurred in the Ditmas
Park section of Brooklyn. A writer, Haya Babu, was at
the Lark Cafe when a man with a gun came
in to rob the place. So what was different about
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this robbery is that the gunman didn't just hit the register.
He stole the laptops of Baboo and the rest of
the writers who were meeting there. She was there for
like a writer's group thing. In a long rumination on
the incident, Baboo writes that she and her writer friends
felt angry and violated, but not in a way that
necessarily placed blame on the person who did it. Okay,
(00:53):
it seems if they blame anyone, it's themselves for existing
and choosing to live in Ditmoss Park in the first place.
In the weeks following the robbery, she and her friends
worked on quote finding space to take into consideration the
broader social and economic circumstances surrounding the incident, and quote
cultivated our sense of compassion toward the robber, whom we
(01:15):
imagined must have been acting out of dire needll on
the dire need of somebody robbing a bunch of laptops
from writers at a coffee shop. Baboo quotes another writer
who was robbed that night as saying, I didn't ultimately
think that person posed a threat. I didn't feel afraid
of the person. I felt more just afraid of the weapon.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I mean, welcome to.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
The bizarro world of gentrification guilt, where the man with
the gun pointed at you isn't allowed to be scary,
but a weapon with no motive of its own is.
And the kicker comes when Baboo notes that many of
us in the group agreed that in some respects, we
identified more with our robber than with the characters we
were portrayed to be in media stories about the crime.
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I took that story very personally because I grew up
in Ditmiss Park. I actually grew up there before it
was called Dit Miss Park, because that's an invention by
real estate agents to exact kind of people that had
their laptops stolen.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It was a rough area when I grew up there,
and I.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Wrote that I loved seeing the neighborhood turn around in
the last fifteen years. At that point, no one made
excuses for the criminals. When I was a kid, it
was a rough area, but it was obvious that crime
was bad, and everyone said so. When a friend's grandmother
had her handbag ripped off her arm at the subway station,
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when a friend was mugged of his jacket in the
middle of winter, or when bicycles were stolen constantly, no
one thought much about the thieves feelings. There were no gentrifiers. Then,
there were no high rises, no cool restaurants. Plenty of victims,
in other words, but none suitable to blame for their
own victimization. I was reminded of this story and how
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much it bothered me with the recent story of people
on TikTok approvingly sharing a letter purported to be by
Bin Laden. Now I don't entirely buy that Bin Laden
wrote the letter. I remember that letter being released, you know,
I think it was November two thousand and one, shortly
after the attacks, But it really didn't make a lot
of sense to me even then that he wrote it.
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It was never confirmed by any intelligence agencies. In the letter,
he's got the jew hating down and he hates gay people,
of course, but also he was mad that America pulled
out of an environmental treaty, like I just don't think so.
I'm going to have a column about this idiotic trend.
But what I want to talk about here is how
dangerous it is that self preservation is sorely missing in
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these people, Much like in the people who had their
laptop stolen. They imagine that agreeing with a terrorist and
siding against their own country will save them.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
It won't.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
History is littered with murdered peace activists and people who
hope that the terrorists they support will kill them last
they won't. You know, the word privilege is very overused,
but all of these people are so intensely privileged. They
get to have their bad ideas, but they also subject
us to their bad ideas and the repercussion of those ideas.
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I talk a lot about stating plainly your values to
your children, and now it turns out we have to add,
don't support people who will kill you, don't cover up
for people who rob you. These should be basics, but
apparently they are not. Don't support Asama bin Laden, friends,
be sure to tell your children. Coming up next and
interview with Jason Rantz join us after the break. Hi,
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and welcome back to the Carol Marcowitch Show on the
klan Buck podcast Network on iHeartRadio. My guest today is
Jason Rantz. Jason is a Fox News regular talk show
host and the author of What's Killing America Inside the
Radical Left, Tragic Destruction of Our Cities.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Hi, Jason, so nice to have you.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Thank you so much for me.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I'm reading your book right now and I love it.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Can you tell our audience a little bit about what
it's about and what you hope to achieve with it.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah, As the title suggests, it's about what I think
is destroying our American cities. As I started to do
a lot of my research for my Fox News hits
but also from my radio show, is looking at other cities,
not just Seattle, and I was noticing the same consequences
to the same in some cases, the exact same policies.
And I recognized that what people understood that something was
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wrong wherever they live, that they were aware of the
crime stories. When they take their kid to a park,
they recognize that it's overcome with homeless. The drug addiction
problem is out of controlling it. Weirdly, at the exact
same time they're spending way more money living in these cities.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
They didn't know the why. They had maybe a.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
General sense, but they didn't really know what policies were
driving this, what radical beliefs were driving this, and even
the who behind who was driving all of these different policies.
And in large part, I believe it's because there's coded
language that radicals use that make it sound when their
policies are really intentionionate and really about helping the community,
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when in fact they're just ideologically driven positions that are
meant to dismantle various systems of oppression. And so I
wanted to write this book to alert people to what's
going on behind the scenes, what's happening right in front
of them, and they don't realize it because I don't
want to happen to them.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
What's happening in San.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Francisco, which is folks woke up and they recognized that
their DA was way too far to the left, chest Aboudine,
so they recalled him. They recognized that their school board
directors were way too far to the left, so they
recalled them. And these were liberals, right, these were progressives
who did it wasn't conservatives with like twelve conservatives who.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Live in San Francisco. But unfortunately they woke up too late.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
San Francisco is not going to recover in any meaningful
way for it a decade. And I don't want someone
to wake up in their community wherever it is that
they live and say, Okay, today's the day I started
to fight back, only to realize it's too late.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So it's interesting that you say that people realize it's
happening because my experience in.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Brooklyn, and you know, I a lifelong New Yorker.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
I moved to Florida almost two years ago, and it was,
you know, a big deal because I never wanted to
leave New York. I mean, I've written about it, I've
talked about it extensively. But the thing, one of the
things that made the move easier and why we knew
we had to go, was because of how hard it
was to convince people that crime was up, that standard
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of life was lower.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I grew up in New York in.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You know, the eighties, and it was much higher crime
than than you know, even now, let's say, but even
before it got to that point, it was very easy
to say to people like, this is crazy, we should
not live like this, and everybody would say, yeah, crime
is bad, but yeah, maybe they would still elect Democrats
and maybe that was, you know, obviously an error on
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their part. But the step one of facing the problem
is something I never saw in like nineteen eighties New
York that I see now summer of twenty twenty, you know,
the George Floyd riots. My neighbors in Brooklyn all pretended
that that was fine and put the defund police signs
in their windows. And then as actual regular crime went up,
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all the comment boards were like, oh, the crime has
gotten so bad. And people would say, oh, what are
you talking about. And there were so many journalists in
New York Times and they would be on Twitter and
they'd say like, oh, I ate my burrito in the
park today, and it was totally fine. There was no
Antifa here. So I wanted to ask you, I guess
what do you see people basing this reality? Or is
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this something that we're hoping because I am still hoping
New York wakes up and realizes what the problems are.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Well, I mean, it's a combination of all of what
you just said.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
So on the one hand, because crime has gotten so
bad or almost drug use, whatever it happens to be,
and certainly cost of living has risen so much you
can't really hide from it for too long, and eventually
you do experience it what I've seen here in Seattle
really the Pacific Northwest. For the folks that you're talking about,
the ones who just don't want to acknowledge the reality
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is that they go to their homes and they realize
someone broke into it, and then for them that was
the realization, oh, okay, this is happening right now. We
have a string of incidents where gangs of like four
to six teenagers are assaulting and robbing other teenagers as
they walk home from school, and all of a sudden,
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people are spending a little bit more time recognizing what's
going on, and they can't really deny it for too
much longer. You've got groups of folks, particularly in these
deeply blue areas, that on the one hand, you've got
the coldests, the ones who will never see what is
happening because they believe so truly, like it's a cult
what it is they're doing. Then you have the fok
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and in a lot of ways they're equally as dangerous.
The folks who recognize what's going on, but they justify
it because they think in the short term there's going
to be some collateral damage, there will be some pain.
But in the long term, if you only truly subscribe
to these views and you go all in, well then
we'll live in this utopian society where we don't need
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a police force, we don't need to have a prison system.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
It's of course a ludication.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Yeah, I mean, it's anyone who understands history, just even
a little bit or just frankly, it makes the data. Yeah,
I mean, it's clearly not going to happen. So I
try to dismiss those folks. They're the ones in power
right now. But there are so many other folks who
are like you and I who recognize what's going on,
or at least starting to come to that realization, that
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need to be convinced. And I just think that, especially
when we're talking about these deeply blue areas, you have
to understand how the left argues the language that they use.
The only police that they like are the word police
control of the language, and they're able to pursue different
policies by framing it in very specific ways that manipulate
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people into thinking that it's the right thing to do.
But if you explain to them what it really meant,
what they were really voting for supporting, they would say, oh, wait, no,
that doesn't sound like a great idea. And I just
think too few people recognize that. And I think conservatives
are equally guilty of this. Sometimes we fall for it,
but ultimately we're unwilling to argue from the perspective of
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a liberal to other liberals, which means we're not going
to move them anywhere because we're not talking their language.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
That's very interesting. Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I think conservatives do a terrible job a lot of
the time. And I think that you know, nobody wants
to be called a racist. Nobody wants to be called names,
which is, you know ultimately what happens when you stand
up to any of the leftist policies.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
So what do you suggest people do?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
What I suggest they do is understand the language first
and foremost, understand the way that these arguments are being made.
And I'll give you a perfect example right now. I
would blame the drug crisis in large part on something
called harm reduction. That is a strategy that is being
used in virtually every single major city, county, and the
larger states. It's adopted at the federal level as well.
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I could even go outside to my neighbors here in Woke, Seattle,
and they wouldn't really be able to define what harm
reduction is, but I'll tell you how it was pitched
to them. Would you like to address the drug crisis,
address the addicts by mitigating the threats of harm, making
sure that they survived throughout the night so that we
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can get them treatment tomorrow. That's how it was pitched.
That's not what it actually is. What it actually is
is enabling the drug user to continue to be used
by handing out clean needles, handing out ventanyl and meth pipes,
or booty bumping kits, which is my favorite because I
had to explain what this meant to three million people
on Tucker. Yeah, a booty bumping kit is a syring
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where you remove the needle, you fill it with a
mixture of water and drugs that's usually met, and you
rectily inject it. Going that way, apparently is a much
deeper and quicker high. And I found out here in
Seattle and elsewhere, taxpayer dollars are going to purchase these
pieces of equipment, the drug paraphernilia and given to people.
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They're not putting money into any kind of detox treatment
or drug treatment.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
They're not doing that.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
They're putting the money into services because they don't want
to stigmatize the drug addict. Now, armed with the new
knowledge of what harm reduction is and how it's pursued, well,
that changes the way that we're able to talk about
this and argue, because it's hard to argue against something
you don't understand is really behind the language that they're using.
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And there's so many examples of this across the board.
So number one is just understanding where they're coming from,
understanding the language that they use. And then, most importantly,
and I think conservatives can fall into this trap too,
is planning without giving an alternative to what actually works.
And you know, the good news is sometimes you don't
have to be all that innovative. That's really just going
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back to the way things were. You can maybe make
some minor tweaks here and there. In some cases it
is being innovative. And so in every single chapter of
the book is I take on each issue chapter by
chapter from crime and homelessness to immigration education. Here's what
actually works, Here's what's been done that does work. Here's
what doesn't work, Here's why it doesn't work, and here's
how to argue it.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
We're going to take a quick break and be right
back on the Carol Marco It Show.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
So what can be done to stop drug deaths?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Because I, you know, I fully agree with you. I
think that we've you know, tried some things that don't
work and people need to face reality. Look, you know,
I've had friends die of drug overdoses.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I grew up in Brooklyn and I.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Have had I've had loss in my life over you know,
through drug use. And I'd love to just click a
magic and then have them live.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Through the night and we get them help tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
That would be fantastic. But that hasn't worked, And so
what do we do?
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Yeah, So it's actually a combination of what the left
and the right team to want to do. You have
to have criminal justice as part of it. Policing one
has to be a part of this. You have to
approach it the same way frankly you would approach homelessness,
which is a carriage and stick approach. You're there you're
smoking fentanyl in the middle of a park. You're breaking
the law. So you have two options.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Here.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
An officer goes up to you and says, you have
two options. Number one, you're going to jail and you're
going to detox over the weekend and you are not
going to like that detox experience. Or number two, please
take us up on this offer. We're going to put
you in treatment. We're going to offer treatment on demand,
and if you want it right now, we will give
it to you.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
It's up to you.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
We want you to take that pathway. If you don't,
we're throwing you in jail. You'll be out the next day.
But guess what, I'll be here the next day, so
will you smoking fentanyl again?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
And I'm going to give you.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
The same options again, And We're going to do it
over and over and over again until you're willing to
get the help. That's unfortunately the only way for this
to work. While also, by the way, getting rid of
the drug legalization scam or again is legalized drugs. Washington
finally walks some of it back, but for the most
part it's still legalized in California. A lot of these
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states just allow it and you're just creating more victims
of addiction.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
So I think the argument I think people would say
is do we have the funding for this? Do we
have the resources for this? How do you answer that we.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Do have the funding? I mean, look at the amount
of money that are being spent on just subsidized housing
for homeless addicts who do not ever get the treatment
because it's not a condition of the subsidized housing.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Would we need to.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Spend as much money on them if we actually got
them the treatment so that they can get on the
right path and then ultimately be self sustainable, right, get
a job, be able to pay their own rent. So
you're cutting down the costs dramatically once you realize that
we're hanging on to people. We're paying people to stay
in home for the rest of their lives rather than
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getting them into the system, maybe for six months to
a year, maybe even two years, but you're not going
to do it for decades. That's a lot of savings,
and we're just choosing not to put the money into
the detoc services, the drug treatments, resources that desperately need
to be funded. Right.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
So your book is I mean, it sounds very middle
of the road. You're not saying like, oh, you know,
arrest all the drug addicts and you know it just
it seems very Dare I say moderate, Have you had
any success in talking to anybody on the left about
the book? CNN, had you on MSNBC, any of those.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Well, let's not go crazy there. I know, I know no,
of course CNN will never have me on it.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Theretical question there, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
It is.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
I do find it frustrating anyone who's a conservative author
realizes that the only support they get is from conservative media.
And that's an unfortunate reality. But the good news is,
especially for those of us who live in areas where
they're either ideologically diverse or we're the minorities, we are
surrounded by people who are our friends and family members
and co workers who are liberal, and I truly don't
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think that they support the extremes within their party. I mean,
the subtitle of this book is intentional. I talk about
the radical left. I'm not talking about the left. I'm
talking about the radicals within the left. And so I
do think that it's on all of us to make
sure that the information, whether it's my book or anyone else's,
get in front of these folks and get them to
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just at least give it a shot and just say, hey,
read one chapter. It's on you. If you don't like
the book, give it back. I'll give it to someone else.
But I do think that the more we do that
and spread the word and we're the ones who they trust,
they may disagree with us politically most of the time,
but at least they'll give us the respect of hearing
us out. That's why there are friends and family members.
We got to get in front of them, and when
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we get in front of them, will start to see
some more wins and ultimately that then they become an
evangelist for an idea and they connect with their own
liberal friends.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
That's very optimistic.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I mean, I'm an optimist, i am, but I you know.
I wrote co authored Stolen Youth my friend Bethany Mendel,
and it was about how wokeness and woke culture destroys children.
And yeah, I had a lot of friends and families
tell me how concerned they were about wokeness at their kids' school,
and they would send me examples about how woke nonsense.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Was taking over and all of that.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
But then they continue to vote and support all the
policies and all the people that really still continue to
push this stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
So I get it. I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
I think we do move people over slowly, and we
have the conversations, we have the arguments, we have the discussions.
But do you get frustrated by them continuing to do
what they're doing which causes the problems in the first place.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Yeah, I mean my frustration is the reason why I
wrote this particular book in the way that I did.
I when I talk to people individually and I explained
to them what harm reduction is or what housing is
a restorative justice, well they start to see things a
little bit differently. But I honestly do not believe they
understand because they rely on local media, and when you
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are in a deeply blue or frankly a deeply read
state or city or county, the media is incentivized never
to push back against the party in power, because the
second that they do, they will lose access. They'll no
longer get those interviews, they'll no longer get called on
at a press conference, and then they're going to go
have to go back to their boss, their editor and say,
here's why I'm not getting called on ever, you're not
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able to do your job at that point, and so
you're not going to get the connecting of the dots.
And this is something so frustrating here in Washington State.
So we get the transactional stories of crimes, right, here's
what happened, here's where it happened, when it happened. And
we've had a surge of not just stolen vehicles, almost
seventy one a day.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
On average, king in Pierce Counties, and.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
That's actually slightly down from the month before eighty six.
But those cars are being driven into storefronts, people are
getting out, stealing what they can, then they escape in
a stolen vehicle. And I've spoken to chiefs of police
and I've spoken to sheriffs who say they think cops
just don't want to pursue these cases and don't want
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to chase these people. They don't realize that Two years ago,
Washington Democrats and the legislature changed the law banning particular
pursuits of suspects. At first, it was almost pretty much
all suspects. Then they finally change it so if it
was a violent melony, you can go ahead and chase.
But that was never the issue when the bad guys
realized that they can steal a car and not even
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have to speed away from them.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Guess what they did.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
That's precisely what they did, right, And do you think
that's told in any of the local stories. Do you
think at the bottom of the story it says and
by the way, this is a result of a policy
that was passed two years No, of course not. And
so people don't even understand that that's going on. You
and I we spend all day consuming news that our jobs, right,
we study this stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
We're aware of the where nerds will.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Watch and read somebody, Yeah, you know, we know the
policies and what yet, But the average person, they've got
their own lives, jobs, kids. It's just really hard to
keep up with all of the stuff. And so I
don't blame them. I blame the local media. And I'm
a member of the local media obviously, But I'm not
reliant on my access to some lawmaker, Like I don't
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care if I ever interview any Democrat lawmaker. That's not
what I do. I'll take the interview, but I don't
need it. So I'm able to put that stuff out
there without fear that they're going to you know, blacklist
me don't know, but others are, and that's that means
they're not getting all the information that they need. So
I take them upon me to make sure that I'm
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doing at least my part and getting that information out there.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, a question that I ask all of my guests,
and I think it. You know, you've probably answered a
lot of this already, but what do you think is
our largest culture or societal problem in America?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
And is it solvable?
Speaker 4 (23:05):
I think narcissism is the biggest problem that's facing our society.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
It is crime.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I know you did, but here's it's all connected to narcissism.
Narcissism is behind a lot of what the radicals believe,
right this this belief in themselves that they know better
than everybody else, that their viewpoint and feelings are factual,
that there's no one who can dispute anything that they say,
or do or believe. And I think that that level
(23:34):
of narcissism, which has been especially potent amongst a younger generation,
and frankly, our generation, you and I think are the
same age. Our agent younger have been incredibly narcissistic and
no one has said anything to them. This entire time,
and so they've become emboldened and they ended up organizing,
(23:55):
and they're the ones who are bullying people who disagree
with them, calling them name, shout their will. And when
you have those kinds of people in power, they end
up passing a bunch of policies that lead to rises
in crime, more illegal immigration, and education system that's completely
out of control. And so I would say, if we
address that narcissism problem in this country amongst a certain
(24:17):
generation of folks, we would probably see a lot better results.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
So interesting, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
I really I like having an answer like that for
me to think about.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
So how's the book doing? Are we moving towards change?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
I mean, we're slowly moving towards change. Again, I'm completely
reliant on conservative media, so I especially love everyone who
allows me to talk a little bit about the book
and then really just conservative stepping up and supporting this book,
supporting your book, supporting the authors who are trying to
make a difference. And we've seen good results so far.
I'm happy with the direction that the book is going.
(24:53):
But I'm always the person who wants to sell way
more and do way better than I am, so.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I always encourage people to go out and get them book.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
It's on sale right now on Amazon and Walmart dot com,
so go ahead and buy it.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Awesome. So do you feel like you've made it?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
You're you know, you're a talk show host, You're on
TV all the time, you have a great book?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Are you there?
Speaker 4 (25:13):
I never feel like I make it. I perpetually have
a chip on my shoulder, which emotionally and mentally probably
deeply unhealthy, but also is a driving force behind the
work that I do. So I'm I'm a workaholic. I'm
married to my work right now. During COVID, I sort
of stepped back and said, Okay, I'm going to just
(25:35):
commit to my career. And that's when I saw all
the growth that I saw.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
I got the book deal, I'm.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
On Fox all the time, I got a successful radio
show and podcast. But I always want more, and I
never want to be last to a story or second
to a story.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
So I'm constantly pushing.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
Myself to do a lot more, which makes me incredibly
difficult to be around at times.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
But that is that is the life that I've chosen
for it.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
That's right. I love that.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
So end with a tip for our listeners on how
they can improve their lives.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
You can.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
I'm going to sound like old man rants here for
a moment, specifically for the younger generation and some adults
who take this position, get your ass to the office,
get to work, actually do your job. Stop with this
work life balance where you want more of the life
part than the work part, because that's not balance at all.
We started about a decade or so ago really leaning
(26:31):
into the work life balance conversation. And while I certainly
don't wish to go back for everyone, I don't want
me to go back to a place where you're working
fourteen hours a day, you're getting home, eating dinner, going
to bed, and then working in the next day. Like
that's not the position. I mean, I'm doing that, but
I don't want everybody to do it. This doesn't work
for everyone, right, But I'm so sick and tired of
(26:51):
the folks who constantly demand more money, more perks, less responsibility,
less hours, always asking for or something.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Just work.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
And when you work and you're actually good at what
you do, and working get you to a place where
you're good at what you're doing, you will start to
see success. So stop complaining all the time. Put your
head down, do the work, and you'll start to see
some successes and be okay to make mistakes along the way,
because I mean, I don't make mistakes because I'm perfect,
but everybody else, you know, make mistakes. It's okay to
(27:24):
make mistakes.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Thank you so much, Jason. That was perfect, Jason Rant.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
The book is called What's Killing America Inside the Radical
Lefts Tragic Destruction of our Cities. Buy it anywhere you
get your books. Thanks so much for joining us on
the Carol Markowitz Show. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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