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