Will Cain Country - Election Results Breakdown: Where America Stands Now (ft. Nick Freitas & Danny Polishchuk)

Episode Date: November 5, 2025

Story 1: Last night’s sweeping Democratic victory wasn’t a surprise, but it is still worth talking about. Support for New York socialist Zohran Mamdani isn’t just a local trend anymore as it’s spreading through the Democratic Party like wildfire. Will breaks down why this wave of socialism is resonating with voters, what’s fueling it, and the defining choice America will soon face. Story 2: Host of ‘Making the Argument’ and Virginia House Delegate Nick Freitas joins Will to unpack what Mamdani’s rise really says about America. They dive into how education, culture, and decades of Democratic policies have alienated young men, while pulling young women further Left than ever before. Nick also explains why the GOP must evolve fast or risk becoming irrelevant to the next generation. Story 3: Comedian and Host of ‘The Boyscast' & ‘Low Value Mail' Danny Polishchuk sits down with Will to share his concerns about Mamdani’s victory, explaining where the quaint, simple life image of communist countries portrayed in media differs from reality. Danny and Will also discuss whether Mamdani’s victory is genuine embrace of socialism or simply a middle finger to President Trump.   Subscribe to ‘Will Cain Country’ on YouTube here: ⁠⁠⁠Watch Will Cain Country!⁠ Follow ‘Will Cain Country’ on X (⁠@willcainshow⁠), Instagram (⁠@willcainshow⁠), TikTok (⁠@willcainshow⁠), and Facebook (⁠@willcainnews⁠) Follow Will on X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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With the host of Making the Argument, Nick Freitas. Three. Zora Mamdani might outlaw eating with utensils. With the host of the boys' cast, comedian Danny Polishog. It is Will Kane Country on a Wednesday coming to you live from New York City. The city that never sleeps.

The city with a new mayor, Zoran Mamdani. After all, the conventional wisdom would tell you that I am far from the perfect candidate. I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older. I am Muslim. I am a democratic socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this. And so it begins, post-President Donald Trump on Truth Social. Abigail Spanberger, one, governor of Virginia.

Mikey Cheryl, one, governor of New Jersey. And Zohram Mamdani is your new mayor of New Jersey. New York City. Three reasons how the night was dominated by Democrats. Story number one. It was pretty much a clean sweep across the nation. Not only the Democrats win in New York, New Jersey, and Virginia, but Governor Gavin Newsom took to the victory stage last night after the passing of Prop 50, an opportunity to redistrict Republicans out of the state of California. So how How did this happen? How was this such a dominant night for Democrats? Let's start with number one. Number one, this was a home game for Democrats. Make no mistake about it. They should win

in New Jersey. They should win in California. They should win mayor of Seattle. They should win mayor of Minneapolis. And they should win mayor of New York City. Yes, this was a night of rejection for Republicans, but it was a home game for Democrats. You have a new mayor in New York City, who is a self-avowed socialist, a Democrat socialist. And in his victory speech last night, quoted the five-time candidate for president as a socialist, Eugene Debs. The sun may have set over our city this evening. But as Eugene Debs once said, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity. It won't all be a home game in 2026.

It won't all be a home field advantage for Democrats in the midterms. So to some extent, we do have to recognize this is less a statement and more an expectation. Democrats should have won. Maybe even in Virginia, where Abigail Spanberger dominated when some Earl Sears. More shockingly, Jay Jones, having fantasized about the murder of his political opponents and urinating on their grave, killing their children, has won Attorney General in Virginia. Yes, there were issues. There were issues that attracted voters. Voters like a legal immigrant in New York City who said they were voting against Donald Trump.

I always vote since I became a citizen, and that was 20 years ago, and I migrated from Kenya originally. My family is back home in Kenya, and how I see how things are going on, like with families being separated, as a human being, as a mother, separating families, especially children, from their mothers or fathers. I don't believe in that. So that made me come out and also come and vote. But what is less interesting about that particular voter in New York City is not so much her immigration status and not so much the issue that she champions there with her vote. But I think what is more interesting about that particular voter and more indicative of what happened on this night where Democrats had a home field advantage was her gender. And that takes me to the second reason it was such a dominant night for Democrats.

Rachel Janfaza points out, the story of the night, women, young women. 81% of young women voted for Zohran Mamdani in New York City. 80% of young women voted for Mikey Sherrill in New Jersey. 78% of young women voted for Abigail Spanberger in Virginia. That's according to the exit polls of NBC. Women absolutely went for Democrats. went for Jay Jones. They looked over the fact that the man was interested in fantasizing about murdering children. It struck no chord of defense or empathy for their own children, their

friends' children, or the idea of childhood. They rode the coattails of Abigail Spanberger and put into office as the top lawman in the state of New Jersey, Attorney General, a man who was inherently lawless. It was a night for socialism and the pro-murder caucus. when it comes to Democrats. Abigail Spanberger refused to pull her endorsement away from Jay Jones. She did suggest it was inappropriate, but not inappropriate enough for her to pull away her endorsement of Jay Jones. And that's a real question, I think, for women.

In this moment, how is it that you can look over so much? How is it you can so enthusiastically endorse? People like Jay Jones, or for that matter, people like Zoramam Dhani, Scott Jennings on CNN said it's because you've fallen for an Oscar winning performance. He's the greatest actor you have. He turned himself into a hood ornament for the poor and the downtrod. He's a rich kid who is a great actor. He play acts.

Yeah, I'll tell you what. I can understand why you'd be leery of an actor in politics. I'm just saying there's no other obvious Democrat. He has all the energy behind him. I wish that were the case. I wish I could agree with Scott Jennings, but I think Zoroamamandani believes what he says. I don't think he's simply just a great actor. He might be a great performer, but he's not simply a great actor. I think he believes in socialism. I think he believes in what he says. And I think that women have bought in to the idea of government being daddy. They've bought into the idea that empathy is the most important virtue, not just in politics, but in life. Set aside wisdom and set aside judgment. Set aside justice. And and embrace full-on empathy and ask the government to be your daddy. And with that, that means the biggest takeaway for the dominant night for Democrats was three. The full-on embrace of far-left socialism, even one could argue, communism.

The man of the moment online for the left is a man named Hassan Piker, the number one streamer on the left. I think he gave perfect illustration to what you just saw last night when he said, sadly, the U.S. played a role in the decline and the defeat of the USSR. What do you think it means that? This guy ran as a socialist and anti-communism didn't work to stop him. That's big.

Yeah, I think we are in the heart of the imperial core. This is the country that defeated the USSR, unfortunately. and the reality of the matter is, there's a lot of antagonism. There's no class consciousness. Poll suggests Assan Piker's not alone that his influence isn't relegated to Reddit, that he actually has a voice or reflects the voice of a lot of young people. Yesterday on the Will Kane show on the Fox News Channel, we shared with you polling that shows the decline in support of capitalism among young people

and the rise in support of socialism. Even 34% of young people had a favorable view of communists. It's a new day in a new age in America. One could argue at least it's a day in an age of honesty. It's clarifying. There are bright lines. The battle lines have been drawn. And we now know that the future of the Democrat Party is at least in part, if not in majority, socialism,

perhaps even communism. It will be interesting to see what will be the response from the right. What will be the counter argument? What will be the choice for voters? I'm not going to ignore the fact that affordability is an issue, specifically in a place like New York City. But if the young people of America think their choice, in response to affordability,

is to ask the government to be your daddy, to redistribute wealth, to scare off billionaires, to move big business to Texas, to chase Wall Street to Florida, they're going to be sadly mistaken when they ride the subways of New York City, unsafe, dirty, and shouldering a tax burden

that they cannot imagine. If Ken Griffin or Goldman Sachs, if J.P. Morgan no longer shoulder the burden of the taxes in New York City, who will pay for those subway trains that never run on time? Who will pay for the street cleaners that never quite get the job done?

No one will pay for the cops where the streets become increasingly unsafe. But everybody will show. share equally in that misery. The future of New York City, if truly Zoroamam Dhani can enact a vision that I think he truly believes, if he can be the modern day Eugene Debs, you're looking at the best case scenario, a return to the 1970s for New York City. But you're also returning to a bright line in American politics.

We now know the vision. We now know the voice. We now know the face. of the Democrat Party after Donald Trump we will have a great debate about what that alternative choice may be who is that voice, who is that face

what is that choice for America let's talk about this and most notably what happened to women what's up with white women with the host of making the argument Nick Freitas on Wilcane Country Every election, every state, going left, voting for Democrats, backed by young women.

It is Will Kane Country streaming live at the Will Kane Country YouTube channel. We hope you will subscribe and tune in every Monday through Thursday live at 12 o'clock Eastern Time. But if you just can't, if it just doesn't fit your schedule that day, make sure you follow us on Spotify or Apple. While you're over there, make sure you take sure you. check out making the argument. It's hosted by a member of the Virginia House of Delicates. It's Nick Freitas, and he joins us now in the country. What's up, Nick? Well, I've had better nights. How you do? Well, I've had better nights, but I refuse to be completely shocked. I first of all, just believe, as you heard me just suggesting, that it was a home

game for Democrats, and you can't take that much away from New York City, California, even your state of Virginia. Still, I do think there's something to be reconciled with. I think there's two big things to be reconciled with, Nick. One, the rise of socialism and two, the voting habits of women. What's up with young women? What's up with white women? Well, I think what's interesting is that if you look at kind of this fourth wave feminism that we've been experiencing and how it's inundated our society and culture, whether it's our educational systems, Hollywood, the arts and entertainment, a young man have been repeatedly told by the Democratic Party that they're not wanted and they realize that they have a problem there young women on the other hand

have been told that they're the most important people on the planet and uh and it's been this idea that men are their problem and the solution to their problem is by electing democrats because democrats will you know protect their right to abortion and uh will will take care of them and we'll make sure that um you know they can achieve the things that they want to out of life and i think it's important to understand that this isn't been just like a political argument that's made during election season, this is something that's been inundated within our educational institutions. And I think one of the most fascinating statistics that I read recently was a poll that was taken where they asked, they asked women who identified as conservative, moderate, or

liberal. And white liberal women, between the ages of 18 to 29, they asked him, you know, if they'd ever been diagnosed with the mental health issue. And it was over, I think, 52% for liberal white women between 18 and 29. It was under, I think it was around 20% for moderate women and about like 18 to 19% for conservative women. And so what's fascinating is that we are living in a time that is arguably more feminist, more directed toward specifically liberal women when it comes to their political objectives,

social objectives, economic objectives, and yet it's the very women that all of those policies are supposed to be helping and appealing to that seem to be in the most mental distress right now. And so again, I think this is a natural, consequence of when you tell women that men are the enemy and the government is their friend, that they end up voting overwhelmingly for politicians that promised them a bunch of things, regardless of whether they can actually deliver on it.

You know, I think, Nick, that's a fascinating stat that you highlight about mental health. And it leads me in a direction, perhaps, that I want to believe, but that this is less about policy and more about vibes. And I don't even want to be dismissive when I say vibes. What I mean is we know biologically that women have a prism through which they see the world that is more centered around the concept of empathy. They want to look at the world as in how can I help the downtrodden and help most often means how can I feel for them. And the opposite of that empathy is often judgment. Don't judge. Don't judge someone's situation. Don't judge someone's skin color. Don't judge someone's economic status and don't judge me and my mental health status.

And if you think about the vibes of the two parties, the two ideologies for that matter, they are centered around that divide. One is prepared for judgment, judgment being necessary for correction. We know that. On an interpersonal level or at a policy level, you first have to judge positive from negative outcomes and then wisely choose a path forward that reduces negative outcomes. but it begins with judgment. And I think that women, having arrived at most of their worldview through the lens of empathy, reject the concept of judgment as mean, as overly indicting and counterproductive in their mind. And so I think the Democrats have done the job of cloaking themselves in the party of empathy.

empathy as a vibe, empathy not as an outcome, because I think, of course, if your vibe leads to more negative outcomes, it's not truly empathetic, it's more narcissism. But I believe that that mental health part of this is part of that, that there is a great amount of narcissism and that women don't want to be judged for their mental health. No, I think if you were to ask young, I think you were to ask young men specifically on whether or not they feel that liberal women have been judging them lately, the answer would be absolutely. Because as you said, judgment's unavoidable. The moment you tell me you shouldn't judge, you've just made a judgment call about judging, right? It's unavoidable. It will take place. The question is whether or not you're

using wise judgment in order to come to good conclusions in order to help people. Again, I think this goes, I think this goes back to when you look at our educational institutions from the time our students enter into kindergarten to the time they graduate college, they have been inundated with this notion that the government is, is the one that is there that is supposed to provide services, supposed to provide equity. And insofar as not everyone has what they want or can't achieve self-actualization or whatever else, well, then clearly that's a failure of the government to utilize its force in proper and appropriate ways in order to achieve that. And I do think to the extent that women seem to be biologically more concerned about preventing harm,

that's a compelling argument, that I'm just going to elect the right person and they're going to make sure that just outcomes take place and whoever is the one that is doing the most who seems to be speaking the most on behalf of the vulnerable well then they're clearly the person has the best intentions at play and those intentions of what will eventually yield a positive results and and look and anybody this is not just women anybody can be fooled by this um but but ultimately what what we're about to see in places like new york city we're about to see in Virginia is this sort of toxic empathy, yielding horrible results, like truly egregious results for the very people that they claim to be caring about. And what's frustrating to a lot

of us, you know, I'm 46. So I remember the Berlin Wall falling. And I remember which way, which direction people ran. Yes. And yet, and yet, we live in a time and place where somebody can go from kindergarten all the way to a graduate degree and never really come face to face with that reality of what socialism, what communism, what that kind of absolute government control yields. And that's by design. Like, let's stop plain make believe right here. That is by design. Mamdani didn't win because he stole votes or whatnot.

He won because there's been an entire education and cultural push to convince people that this is what good people believe, regardless of. what history is produced time and time again. And so here we are. We're going to have to live through the history all over again, and people are going to be seriously harmed by it. And it's, look, a part of it's heartbreaking, but a part of it is also entirely predictable when you look at the conditions that's led to it. So well said, this is what good people believe, totally ignorant of history. But the embrace of socialism is almost more understandable because ignorance can be conceived. You can see ignorance. You have seen ignorance. You can understand ignorance.

It takes some sequential understanding. If this happens, then this will happen. This has happened, and then that has happened. It has to overcome the feeling, overcome the feeling that I'm a good person if I do this vibe. What might be more surprising is not then the embrace of socialism, but the embrace of Jay Jones. How does someone embrace Jay Jones? Because you don't, that doesn't require that sequential understanding. That doesn't require an understanding of history to see what he said, to see what he's texted, and to still vote for him while feeling like this is what good people do. That's hard to imagine. Well, this is where you get into the way the Democratic Party has changed over the last few decades. And it's moved from this idea that was this party that was seen

as kind of blue collar or sticking up for marginalized groups into fully embracing critical theory, right? The whole world can be divided into oppressor and oppressed. And in their minds, J. Jones was someone fighting on behalf of the oppressed and Jason Mieris is an oppressor. And so it doesn't matter what J. Jones said because he's on their team. He may have made a mistake. He may have said something he shouldn't have. But ultimately, he's on their team and that's all that really matters because there's something so much larger at stake, and that's this whole oppressor oppressed dynamic. But I think even more than that, and look, let's really piss some people off. What is the primary issue that young women have been taught is essential to their freedom,

to their career goals? It's abortion. It's seriously, it's abortion through all nine months of pregnancy. It is hard to run into a liberal woman in college that doesn't believe that this is the primary issue that they should be concerned about, that if they somehow lose this ability to abort their child through all nine months of pregnancy, they're living in The Handmaid's Tale. And so if you've elevated that, if you've elevated the destruction of innocent human life in the womb,

as the central issue, the central animating issue of your political philosophy, well, then I'm sorry, I just don't think this is that difficult to explain. Yeah, Jay Jones said something that was bad, but hey, according to him, Todd Gilbert and Jennifer, according to that worldview, they are raising little fascists. And they're probably the sort of little fascists that would deny my right to have an abortion,

which would completely end my life and render me a slave. So, yeah, they're going to vote for Jay Jones. And again, the part that blows my mind more than any of this is I will run into, you know, conservative parents that will say, gosh, I just don't know what happened. Really? 12 years in an education system with a sex ed curriculum that was approved by Planned Parenthood, where they've been constantly told critical race theory. Again, they haven't been taught it as a direct class.

It's just been the worldview. It's been the lens through which they've been taught everything to view about history. Then they go into the university system where they have a vowed Marxist teaching their classes. And you're shocked? Right. Why are you shocked? I'm shocked this isn't happening at higher levels at this point. But no, I think everything that took place here was predictable.

I think when you look at the response, when you look at the left's response, to Charlie Kirk getting murdered. Why are we surprised that they had no problem with Jay Jones saying what they were going to, what he said. Right. About a colleague's children. Because we're the bad guys. Right.

As a Democrat member of the school board in Chesterfield County put it, we used to celebrate shooting Nazis. So if that's, if that is what they have made up in their mind, we are, then what you do to us, what you do to our children. Well, that's just all in service to the greater good, right? Yes. And I think here's a great example of that, Nick, to your point. Look at this headline. It's Gen Z, love of Luigi Mangione, showing and talking about the embrace of Luigi

Mangione. So it's not just the death of Charlie Kirk. It's not just abortion. Or maybe abortion is the fountainhead. And the downstream beliefs, as you point out, is not just the murder of Charlie Kirk. But it's the full-on embrace of somebody like Luigi Mangione, who kills the CEO of United Health Care. Ricky Schlaught writes on New York Post,

the reasons behind Jensi's love of Luigi Mangione should scare everyone who cares about the future of America. No, it's, I thought, and I still do, I still hold out some hope to this. I thought that more people woke up to what this was really about not just after Charlie Kirk was murdered, but after the left's reaction to it. And I wrote something on September 10th

where I said, look, this is no longer just a civil discussion among fellow countrymen. This is a war between diametrically opposed worldviews. Now, there's a lot of people that got mad at me. Oh, you're suggesting we're at war. I'm suggesting the worldviews are in conflict with one another. Yes, because they absolutely are. Show me the world where somebody is celebrating a man getting murdered.

So me the world where somebody completely excuses. A man running for the chief law enforcement officer, the Commonwealth of Virginia, fantasizing and fetishizing about the death of his opponent's children. Right? Show me that world. And what are you going to try to tell me? I can peacefully coexist with that. Apparently I cannot. And I know what's going to happen. I know what's going to happen in Virginia now because when Democrats get this level of control, and they do. They run it all now. They control it all now. They use the government apparatus to reward their friends and punish their enemies. And I don't got to wonder if I'm their enemy. They've told me I'm their enemy. I love this whenever I point out that, you know, hey, love look, this is a conflict between diamonds. Oh, I can't believe you're treating people like enemies. Are you kidding me right now? The left has been treating us like enemies for decades.

We just stopped disagreeing with them. But the end result is, they ran everything in Virginia. And so for the next two years, minimum, for the next two years, they're going to run as hard to the left as possible. What's going to happen in New York is you're going to have a bunch of people start to flee. The people that can afford to flee New York are going to flee New York. The question is, is do they understand? why they're fleeing? Or are they just going to go to a place with better tax policy and bring

the same crap policies and conditions, which is about to turn New York City into what it's going to become? And this is the part where it's a huge source of frustration, but let's call it for what it is. All right, this whole critical theory view of the world, which the Democratic Party fully embraced. Nobody forced them to. They embraced it. They want to divide the world into oppressor oppressed. They want to offer solutions which says the government has to be in control on micromanaging the economy, your child's education, your health care, everything that's essential to actually living. They want a say in it. Why? Because it's the only way that they can make sure that the good people are rewarded and the bad people are punished. Well, guess what? You're the

bad people. I'm the bad person. My kids are the bad people. And so we're going to get punished. And for them, they've created a moral framework where this is perfectly justified. So I stop being surprised by it, is what I tell people now. Stop being, it's not like they've hit in the ball. It's just now they've got a lot of power to go with it. This is fascinating. So let's take a quick break. But continue this conversation with the host of Making the Argument.

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and use the money to fix your car. Bel Air Direct, insurance simplified. Conditions apply. What do you think, Nick, will happen to New York City and how long will it take to happen? This stuff doesn't happen overnight, and a lot of people are making the argument that Zoroamandhi is not going to be able to deliver on

the fake promises he made during this campaign, free buses, public grocery stores. He doesn't have that power. He's going to run into bureaucracy. He's about to run face first into reality. in New York City. Still, he has a lot of power. We saw it with Bloomberg. We saw it with Giuliani. So what do you think he can do? What will it look like in five years in New York? Step one, he's going to staff every single position he possibly can with the most radical people

possible, whether it's Islamist, whether it's communist, whether it's, you know, that's what he's going to staff it with. So pretty much the entire bureaucracy will far outlive Mondami personally, or Mamdani personally. The other thing that he's going to do is what socialists would communists always do. He's going to find enemies and he's going to target them. And so when a bunch of people who can afford to leave, leave, he's going to target them for leaving. He's going to say that they abandoned New York City. When it comes to trying to implement policies, he's going to turn his eye against anybody that's standing in the way in order to achieve it. But there will be a never ending stream of enemies and he will use whatever he has within the government apparatus. And he won't

be all that interested in staying within the boundaries of the law, right? But he will find enemies to pick as the source of why his wonderful, glorious policies can't be implemented. And how do I know this is going to happen? How is this all so easily predictable? Because it's happened so many times before in so many other places, different times, different places, different cultures, but always the same results. You promise things that you can't possibly deliver on. You promise to do it by taking from a select group of people, to the extent that those select group of people can actually leave, they will, to the ones that they can stay in place, fine, sooner or later you run out of their money. And now you just have to implement this based off of diminishing results and

diminishing revenues. And then what do you do? You find bad guys to punish. You find bad guys to explain to all of your supporters why you couldn't deliver on those promises. You continue to control your education system so that there's a never-ending stream of indoctrinating children into believing that the only reason why these things aren't working is because outside evil forces like Donald Trump or people in other states are the ones that preventing these policies from actually implementing real socialism's never been tried, right? It's, look, this is all just so miserably predictable. But like you said before, the biggest problem with him trying to implement this in a place like New York City is that this isn't communist Russia, this isn't the Eastern Block, this isn't Cuba. people can flee, and they're going to. And the only question will be

is will the people that are going to be impacted by these policies properly diagnose the problem? And if the answer is yes, then there's hope. And if the answer is no, watch out because it will turn violent and will turn on violent on whoever Mamdani points his finger at. I think it will, in very short order, get less safe.

He's going to go after the police department. He's going to change policies. He's made that clear. and that's one thing he actually has the power to do. I think to your point of education, the other thing he can do and his promise to do as well is he will go after the education system. He's talked about getting rid of the gifted and talented programs in New York City. I know I lived in New York.

I don't any longer, but under the previous communist lover, mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, he went after school choice, he went after charter schools. He went after everything that offered a bright ray of hope for any kid out there, black, white, Mexican, Latino, whatever. to take it away, you all have to suffer together. I'm sure that the New York City Department of Revenue will go after anyone who leaves, to your point. They'll try to claim every piece of revenue that moves to Florida or Texas or South Carolina or North Carolina. Here's the next prediction I would ask you. What happens in California? So now they've passed Prop 50. They're going

to redistrict, which offsets Texas's redistricting. They lose a redistricting war if Republicans will go to war. Every study shows that Republicans would end up with something like five to eight extra seats in the House of Representatives, but I just don't know that they'll see it. I don't know what they'll do it. In Indiana, in Missouri and all the other states, most notably Florida. Well, here's the thing that Republicans are going to have to understand. They're not fighting the Democratic Party of 30 or 40 years ago. It's a very different ideological structure. And like I said, they use government as a tool in order to reward their friends and punish their enemies. So, you know, one way this was described, I actually think James Lindsay did the best

job of describing how you have these sort of ideological takeovers. The first thing that they do when they come into a space is they require access, right? You need, we need to be involved. We need to be, so you grant them access. And then as soon as they have access, like, well, you need to change the way that you're currently doing things in order to accommodate us and to accommodate our concerns. And then as soon as you give them accommodation, now they want a seat at the table. We have to have a seat at the table because after all, the reason why we didn't have access or proper accommodation was because you don't have people like us with our voice at the table. Then they take the seats of the table.

Then they exclude you from the table. That's how this works. I'm old enough to remember when California could elect a Republican governor. That's considered absurd now. There's no way that would happen. How is that possible? How did we go from in my lifetime being able to elect several Republican governors to the idea of that ever happening being completely absurd? Well, when you had Democrats actually get in control of enough of the state legislature,

and the executive branch of government, what did they do? They staffed all of the bureaucracy with their ideological allies. They then used the budget as a tool to prop up the people that they liked and to punish the people that they don't like. You want to know a perfect example of this? California, we're going to raise the minimum wage, all except for Panera. Why? Because Panera properly donates.

Do you know what? And everyone got mad about that. Did it change anything? No. Why? Because every other business in California got the message. If I donate to Democrats, they're still going to do crazy stuff, but I will get special dispensations. And that will allow me to be able to outbid my competitors.

And so I can still stay afloat as long as I give to Democrats. And so what they do over time is they completely destroy the fundraising apparatus of their opposition. They use our tax dollars to fund their ideology through 501C3s. Somebody explained to me where all the billions went to combat homelessness in California. Right? You think those 501C3s did their job? Or do you think a lot of the people on there are well and politically connected? Tell me about all the high-speed rail, right?

Look, just understand that they will use power in order to expand their power and consolidate. If Republicans are not willing to do the same thing in the areas that they control, if they want to continue to behave like this again, this is, well, we all just, we all want to get to the same place, we just have different ways of getting there, okay, you're an idiot. You don't understand what's going on. And they are happy to let you believe that all the way up to the point where they kick you out of everything, dominate your state, and then destroy it. Because I'm starting around in Virginia, in Virginia, every single major company, donor, or industry that donated to Republicans this time around

is getting a call from their lobbyist going, you better cut a check to Speaker Don Scott's pack and Louise Lucas's pack, and you better do it quick. Because the regulations are coming, the taxes are coming. And if you want to seat at the table on what it looks like, well, then you better donate to the right places. And you better not donate to the wrong places. So this is what happens. So Republicans in the states, in the places that you can control, you can either recognize this fight for what it is and respond accordingly, or you can be a moron. But those are your only two options at this point, because they're coming for you. And they have no compunction about this.

I love to hear Democrats. My wife said it best once. She goes, the Democrats quote the Constitution, the way atheists quote the Bible, with no genuine love or affection for it. It's just a way to try to hold you to a standard that they would never, never be willing to hold themselves to. And it's like, look, just recognize it for what it is. How many times do we got to lose? How many times do you got to see? How many times do you got to watch people laugh at Charlie Kirk's death? How many times do you got to watch a Democrat Attorney General fetishize about the killing of his opponent's children?

How many times before you recognize what this fight is? I want to play for you a clip from CNN, Van Jones talking about Zorron Moll. Donnie's acceptance speech last night and I think it leads to a larger conversation that you introduced a little bit earlier about critical theory I think he missed a chance tonight to open up and bring more people into the tent I think his tone was sharp I think he was using the microphone in a way that he was almost yelling and that's not the mom thought that we've seen on TikTok and the great interviews and stuff like that so I felt like there's a little bit of a

character switch here where the the warm open embracing guy that's close to working people, was not on stage tonight, and there were some other voice on stage. The mask comes off. A little bit earlier, Nick, you said that Democrats have fully embraced critical theory. They chose to do this. They didn't have to. Something I think about is this is not a 20-year, 10-year in-the-making project. This is actually something that's been going on for well over a century. The progressive movement's embrace of critical theory, even before it was critical theory, was there in the early 19-teens. Critical theory emerges in the 1960s and 70s,

but it really helps crystallize something that was already in place with the progressive movement. Oppressor, oppressed, championing the little man, consolidation of power. The golden age of American politics, in terms of it's a nice little sunset in everyone's mind, might have been the 1980s and 1990s, when we saw everything through the lens of red and blue, Democrat and Republican. But that's truly the aberration, just like media. The aberration is that there was three voices that dominated media. That's not the history of America. That's just a little period that everybody pines for from about 1950 to 1990. I think the same is true with politics. And what the left has now done is return to the day of open embrace of

where they were in 1925. There's no more pretense that Bill Clinton is a centrist. There's no such thing as someone hiding their socialism. It's open now. And I think the real interesting thing, Nick, is what will be the response of the right? Because I don't think that the left moves forward, by the way, in a unified vision under Zoroamandani. I think they have entered the era of fracturization, of balkanization. They will have so much infighting. It's going to be impossible to keep a tally, to keep inventory.

It's not going to all be aOC. She's just going to have a very big voice in the balkanization. And the only thing keeping it together right now is the presence of Donald Trump. Just a shared mutual hatred of Donald Trump. And I could say the same, Nick, for the right. I think the right is on the verge of balkanization.

And the only thing keeping it together right now is a shared love and or fear of Donald Trump. But once he exits stage right, the right will also have to reconcile with its own balkanization. No, I think you're absolutely right. We just kicked off a podcast series on making the argument where we asked the question, what should the right want? And one of the things that we recognize on that is co-belligerents are not allies. there may be a coalition of people to want to defeat wokeism. That's fine, and I agree with that.

But there's a lot of ways you can defeat wokeism, and some of them are ways I don't necessarily want to do it, right? North Korea is not very woke. I don't necessarily want to adopt their political philosophy. So the real question is how do we navigate this? And what we use as a standard for truth is going to be really important to this entire argument. And I brought on various guests

who, again, very, very different sides of, of the spectrum on the right. You know, Oren McIntyre and James Lindsay debate a lot online. They both got some ideas. They both want to defeat woke, but they both also have different ideas of what caused this and different solutions on how we go about doing it.

And so the biggest question that I have for everyone on the right as I look at this is I want to defeat woke as well. But I also want to be fighting for something, not just against something. And there is something that I have always found that was just absolutely incredible about the United States of America

was the reason why I was willing put on the uniform and go overseas. Not because I agreed with every U.S. foreign policy decision, but because I saw something rooted in a system of government that had certain values that also recognize certain truths about objective morality, about objective truth, that, yeah, was founded in Christianity. I'm sorry if that offends people, but it's a reality. And that's something I wanted to fight for. The idea that my kids would be able to determine what their own future look like free from government oppression based off of everything from their skin color to their sex to the religion to be able to be able to own property and build something for them

and their family to be able to engage in voluntary transaction like these are all things that are worth fighting for but I think we also need to understand that these are byproducts of a virtuous society and we better start asking some real hard questions about what the source and who the author of virtue is because if we don't get that question right then none of these other things are going to sustain us. So no, I think the right is going through some real pains right now to figure out what it is it's fighting for, not just who it's fighting against. Yeah, I agree. And with respect to your thing on the left, that's very different. The left is fighting against reality itself. And they have their little coalitions and they certainly have a common enemy in us.

But the coalitions that they have, it's not some happy Sympatico family. They have contradictory objectives. And at some point, yeah, they destroy themselves. And how do we know that? Because we've seen it across space and time. And so, yeah, both sides are going to have to figure something out real quick. But again, I think it's rooted in this idea of understanding not just what you're fighting against, but what you're actually fighting for. And does it correspond with reality or not? Just excellent, excellent analysis, the type of which you can get at making the argument with Nick Freitas. I've really enjoyed this conversation. I think it was an important one today, Nick, and I would love to have future conversations with you, both on television and on

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Paramount. Everybody says Everybody says Toronto is incredible hanging out with Danny Polishuk, he's the host, by the way, of the boys' cast, along with several other shows as well. How many shows you got, Danny? I have three podcasts, too many. I do The Boyscast with Ryan Long.

It's out every Friday. And then on Monday nights, Tuesday nights, I do these little call-in shows, kind of old-school kind of radio shows. But on YouTube, it's called Low Value Mail. You can just M-A-I-L. You can check it out. I love that. Yeah.

Call-in. It's honestly, I do it. And I, because, you know, I always used to, I had a car when I used to live in Toronto. I don't have a car here. I live in New York now. And I always used to listen to, you know, talk radio. And all of my friends are like, what are you doing? It's like, this is insane.

And I'm like, I don't know. There's something about talk radio. I just like, it's good, like, white noise a little bit. You know, you can just kind of listen and not totally listen. And I like, like, coast to coast. If you ever listen to that, like, coast to coast a.m. So it's kind of something like that. I bring on interesting guests.

I used to have a radio show on ESPN, and for years, ESPN's national radio syndication, had gravitated towards just simply talking, the host, talking, not unlike what you and I are doing right now. And I had the show for three years starting in 2016 or 17. And we immediately said, I want to take calls. I want to take calls. Now, the rule in radio is, well, the truth is nobody tunes in for the caller. But the caller is about what they do to you as the host.

Do they provoke you? Do they make you laugh? Do they argue with you? And I absolutely loved it. I love taking calls. I love interacting with people. It was some of the most, for lack of a better word, visceral moments in my show. I would get legitimately angry.

I legitimately laugh. No performance. And I want that here. I wish we had calls or viewers or more interesting. No, I know somebody could babbooy you or whatever it may be, but I don't care. Yeah, well, and that's the thing, too. I don't screen calls because it's on YouTube, right? Like, I don't have to worry about any sort of rules.

So there's no call screening. I just pick up whoever calls. So you get some interesting characters. I'll say that. Danny is a big Toronto Blue Jays fan. And as you were coming into the show, you heard us talking about the World series, but also Toronto, you know, I've never been. Oh, it's a great city.

Everybody says that. That's the one, right? More than Montreal. Well, Montreal, so everybody always asks me, they're like, I want to go on a vacation to Canada, where should I go? I always say, if you want a fun time, go to Montreal, because it's kind of like a weird European thing. It's a lot more lax in terms of everything, and it's very cool.

if you like nature go to Vancouver right but like for a kind of it's kind of like Brooklyn I don't know like Toronto is a really nice city is a fun place to live it's very nice the funny thing is is that

I moved here six years ago and you know thinking New York City is obviously going to be different and Toronto basically has like a socialist mayor now so I'm just like all right I left that and now I'm just coming to this I feel right at home you callous you're hardened you're

Prep for Zoran Mabani. I don't know if people know what's going on in Toronto, but what's going on in Toronto? Buckle up. I mean, they just have like the most, it's this woman, her name's Olivia Chow. And she is like the most, it's, she's a caricature of a liberal mayor, similar to Zoran a bit, like some of the stuff she does. Like, we have like a kind of a low rent time square in Toronto. It used to be called Young and Dundas Square.

And there's like one of the longest streets in Toronto is called Dundas Street. And then like three years ago, someone found some this guy was like his name was Henry Dundas he was like some Scottish politician from like the 1800s and he basically wasn't like anti-racist enough in the 1800s right like essentially and he was like an abolitionist but he wasn't like an abolitionist enough so then they're like we need to rename we need to just like cancel this guy essentially 200 years later so then they renamed what was called young and Dundas Square to this thing called Sankofa Square, which is like some reference to Ghana, like the country in Africa.

But there's no Ghana, Ghana, Guany's population in Canada. Like, it makes no sense. You know, like, if you want to rename it, call it Wayne Gretzky Square. You know what I mean? Like, there's so many things you could call it if you want to give, like, an ode to Canada, and they spent all this money renaming it, and they were like, we're going to rename the street. And, like, you know what it would be like, you know how many people live on that street?

And you go, my address just changed? my bet was 100% going to be on some type of indigenous acknowledgement yeah yeah normally they went even further than that they're like we've done all the indigenous stuff because that's like a i just read they're doing land acknowledgments was it on airlines was that what i read they do it everywhere i mean they've been doing land acknowledgments uh probably 10 years ago i remember like i went to some a friend of mine put on like a play and they did this land acknowledgment and i was like what the hell is i mean the funniest thing about the land acknowledgment is to go we're on your land

you can't have it back though like we're not giving it back to you but we're on your land yes you go okay Canada the whitest nation on earth not so white anymore not anymore

I mean where I grew up it was like it is crazy because where I grew up a city called Burlington Ontario it's about 40 minutes from Toronto it was so white when I grew up and now it's just like you know the demographics of you know because it's a small country right it's only well it was 36 million

when I left in 2019 It was, by some accounts, $42 million last year. But that was because Trudeau basically screwed up the whole immigration system. And, you know, it actually was a real problem. Like, people are really upset about it because, you know, the hospitals are overloaded, rents across the country skyrocketing because you can't just bring in 15, like increase the population 15% in five years. Like just the infrastructure is not there, even though it is a population-wise, not that large of a country. Where are they coming from?

Take your city of Burlington. Like what did it look like now? So basically what happened, and this has been a huge scandal, and it is very interesting. Can you know how a lot of people will say Twitter's not real life? Yes. You know, they say that a lot. But like the anger about this stuff started on Twitter. Like it very much was like boiling over, and it made it to the federal government.

But what happened is they made some rule where essentially you could get permanent residency in Canada if you went to a college in Canada. so what happened is overnight they had this rule overnight all these like colleges and like strip malls started opening up like it was total scam like they're like you don't learn anything all it is is you you pay your money you go to the college you finish the college and then you're a permanent resident in Canada so it was it wasn't only indian it probably 75% from what I read something like that uh came over and then they realized you're like this is like kind of destroying the country like we don't have the infrastructure to handle this many people this quickly with no cap on it whatsoever.

And it became, like, such a big issue that now they're like, we're, they're essentially Mark Carney, the new prime minister is like shutting it down. Shutting it down. Yeah. That's so interesting. That is something that Donald Trump has toyed with. I've heard him talk about the idea that if you come to an American college, you get an immediate green card, you can stay.

I have a problem with that on several. I don't like, I'm a big sports fan. You were a big sports fan as well. Of course, yeah. I don't, and I played a non-revenue generating sport that has. it's a sport, not unlike soccer, where the rest of the world is better at it than we are in America, water polo.

Okay. And so what you would do is if you had a program that you wanted to win a national championship, you would recruit guys from Serbia, Bosnia, Hungary. This is where Water Polo's home is. In my days, in the 1990s, I was literally playing against guys that had fought in a civil war.

There were 25 years old, full chest hair smoking marlboro reds at halftime. My friend played water polo and he told me the stuff that happens below the water, are pretty aggressive. But, you know, you look at American colleges, which I happen to think should serve American citizens, and whether or not it's soccer or water polo, and there's a whole host of other sports tennis, they're recruiting people from across the world, giving them free American educations.

And if Donald Trump toys with the idea of giving them American citizenship, this is not the purpose of American college. Right. And there's one thing to say, like, you know, if you go to Harvard, like these elite institutions, and, you know, originally I remember when he was saying that, he's like, you know, if you go to Harvard, you get this amazing education, like you might be an asset to this country. The idea is the best of the best. In Canada, it was literally like you go to like a clown college and a strip mall. Like this isn't, these aren't real things. Like these are like fly-by-night

colleges that just popped up because they saw an opportunity to make money. Like it wasn't like you're like, oh, this person's so much better off. They're like, they're like, we don't, it's not even worth the paper it's printed on. It was just a legit scam. Well, having lived through what is ongoing change in Canada, having seen Toronto. You've been here for six years. We now have a new mayor. He's not yet inaugurated, but he's won the elections. Oh, Ramam Dani.

Yeah. How do you feel about New York? We'll see. I'm not the crazy domer on this, because, you know, there is some element. Like, I am worried somewhat because it seems like Kathy Hokel's, like, pretty on board with him. But, I mean, I don't know if this is elitist of me. I'm like, I don't take the bus.

So he's, like, free buses and whatever that. turns into. I'm like, maybe it makes the subway a little less congested. I mean, the fact is, the scariest thing he said last night was, uh, he's like, there's no problem too large or no problem too small. Essentially the opposite of what Reagan said. It's like, you know, we're from the government. We're here to help. Right. He's like literally like, we'll do everything. And you're like, okay, well, all that means is everybody's taxes are going up. Doesn't matter who you are. You're like, he's going to come up with so much nonsense. And he's like, it's got to get paid for somehow. So my least favorite thing is that the next three years

is just going to be him and Trump just, you know, head to head nonstop. Like that is going to be such a just mental toll in terms of just overall bandwidth, you know? Like, because it's not going to be something, it'll be a daily thing probably with them. You're going to hear a lot about Zero Mom Donnie. Oh, nonstop.

And you know he's going, like he wants to go head to head with Trump. I'm sure that he does. I think he's going to have his hands full trying to make. The most fascinating thing about this is we now have, little, not little, we have the largest experiment in America with socialism. Yeah. And if it's a failure, which I predict that it will be, how will we measure failure and how long will the results take to come in is going to be an open question. But if it's a failure that I would like to believe that sets the movement back, I've seen other countries. That's not necessarily the case.

They then have increasing debates about the extent of social. Right. We never did it the right way. Of course. We didn't go far enough. Yeah. But he has to be focused on New York. He be focused on Trump. Otherwise, you know, this whole thing is a loser. I mean, my parents, like they live in Canada and they're both grew up in Soviet Russia, so they see us. And they're like, good luck. Because, you know, anybody who grew up under any sort of communist regime, they go, this is just one step in that direction. And, you know, like my mom always tells the story when she was a kid where she's like, you know, you walk around, you're outside, and you see a line and you're just getting it. You don't know what the line's for.

Right? But you know you want whatever that line. Whatever that's for, you want to be in it. Could be potatoes. Could be shoes. And I've been to like, you know, Americans, I think it's maybe a little relaxed now, but like 15 years ago I went and had a vacation in Havana for like a week. Right. And so if you want to see like how communism works, you're 60 miles from Miami, right? And like you go to Havana. You go, this isn't good. Nobody's liking this. Nobody thinks this is great. You go to their government grocery stores. and they're mostly barren. Like, it's like almost every shelf is empty there. Really? Yes. I haven't been to Havana.

It's great. It's a very cool city. Well, reconcile that for me. Because, yeah, the image that would be painted, and this is interesting because I don't think I hang out with a lot of communists, but I think... I'm a comedian, so I do. Yeah, so you can bring not only firsthand experience,

but anecdotal experience to this as well is, but so my point is pop culture, like just the stuff that washes over you would paint it as kind of a, They're driving 1950s cars. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, all held together with bungee cords. It's a simple life, but a good life.

Trust me. In Havana. Go, you go, like, that should be, it's too bad that they have the embargo because, like, Americans can't travel there. But, you know, you see, like, the Cubans in Florida. They're like, they vote red across the board. Right, right. And there's a reason for that.

And it's because they're like, we don't want anything that even resembles what that was. Right? Because they're like, you know, you get someone like, not even Mom Donnie. you just get a like an off-the-shelf Democrat and they go that's a step closer in that direction we don't want that like at all and it's it's you know the people who are living there they're like I don't know what the average annual salaries are probably like $2,000 or something $3,000 like it's not good but but you just said it's a cool city it is cool is that is that remnants of like what do you talk about like 1950s architecture exactly the revolution it's all nothing is

maintained there like it's completely run down everything is falling apart Like, like, you go through areas, you go, like, this looks like a war zone, but it's just, uh, just not maintained. Like, their capital there, they're, you know, like where their government is, is actually a replica of, uh, in Washington. It's like the same building. And it's such a stark, uh, contrast because it's like, it's all dirty and, you know, like, they just don't, they can't afford to maintain things there. Is there, because there's an embargo for Americans, is there much tourism in Havana? Like you went because you're Canadian.

Yeah, because I'm Canadian. Yeah, a lot of Canadians go there. A lot of Canadians will go. They have like resorts and stuff. And, you know, you can go to like all inclusive resorts. And it is pretty common for Canadians to go vacation there. And, you know, like if you get to leave, it's cool. Like, you go, you know, you go there.

Like, I've been to lots of like third world countries and you go, that is great. Like, I don't want to stay here. But it's, it's eye opening and it's, you know, you get to experience how other people live. And, you know, you get to see their culture and stuff. but, I mean, if I wasn't allowed to leave, which is how it is for Cubans, you know, I wouldn't like this. Well, see, see, in my previous guest, Nick Freitas was just on, and he said, that's going to be the real test for New York City is that people get to leave. Yes, exactly. And you brought up, everybody's taxes will go up.

I think you're actually talking about, but potentially a death spiral, like a compounding problem here, because people will leave. Now, I don't believe the stats at a million New York. Well, the funny thing is they go, if a million people leave, you go, at least solves the, cost-a-living equation. Like if a million people leave, Zoroan will be like, see, look how much the rents have gone down. He might be able to make that argument, but the problem there is the million that leave

will be the taxpayers. Of course, well, the taxpayers, the business owners, that's going to be second-third order. So you'll be jobless. Taxes will go up. I don't know how else you're going to afford the free buses in the subways. Right.

But seriously, the people that leave, I don't know what the tax burden is, but I'm sure it's somewhat reflective. It's burdensome. Well, I'm saying, I'm saying I'm sure it's very much reflective of the American tax system. where the top 1% shoulder, something like 50% to 70% of the tax burden.

Yeah. You will vilify the top 1% fine. You can go into the reasons why, but there is no doubt they pay the vast majority of taxes. And the problem with the people don't leave America, can't really run from that. But you can run from New York.

And so if you lose all those dudes that are paying the taxes, your death spiral. Oh, I mean, you can go to Hoboken 10 minutes from here. Right? You're like, you're 10 minutes and you're in a different state. you go to Connecticut. I mean, it's a little further away. But yeah, I don't, I mean, my probably biggest concern with this whole thing is that

he, like, it's a short enough window where people are like, oh, that's like he's doing an okay job, the dislike for a don't, because, you know, I think a lot of this, like, blue wave that happened, granted, I heard you saying, you know, it's like a home field advantage kind of thing. But a lot of people were just, this is a middle finger to Trump. A lot of this felt like that, where they're just like, we don't like what Trump's doing. So we're voting for the guy or girl. who we just think he dislikes, essentially,

which people do that. But the concern is that people see, oh, it's like, you know, New York's not on fire. So let's try this other places. And then you get like AOC as the president in 2028. And then that's... That's the great question, Danny. Is this a middle finger to Trump?

A year removed from the nation embracing not just Trump, but Trumpism. Yeah. I mean, I'm talking about really pretty much everything that he stood for, culturally and politically. Could it flip in a year's time? And I think that's what, you know, CNN would love to have you believe.

I think that's what the left would love to have you believe while he burned up his credibility in 10 months. I'm not sure that is what happened. I don't know. When I look at Zoran's embrace, it's women, but not exclusively women. It's well-educated, college-educated. It's rich. Oh, yeah. And that's who said, I'm ready.

Those people already hated Trump. That's true. This was a middle finger to Andrew Cuomo. Yeah. This was a middle finger to centrist Democrats. This was a middle finger to status quo. Yeah, there's definitely that element where, because I mean, every woman I know, besides probably my wife, voted for Zoron, pretty much. Yeah, I can't vote.

I'm not a citizen. But, I mean, I did, but I probably wasn't supposed to. Voting the federal election, too. Please don't deport me for that. That's just a joke. But, yeah, I don't know. like there is just that worry where people see this and you know like because some of the stuff with Trump like people voted you know they didn't like there was just all these insane issues like

you know women and transgender women in sports and everybody knew that that was stupid and wrong and they go I just want to be able to say it but then I think some people are seeing some of the I think you know what the issue is I think people forgot how much attention Trump requires like when he's the president versus when Biden was the president like Biden granted he was like I don't know what was going on but you'd go a week without hearing about him like kind of you know and then now you're just like yeah it's back to this like everyday thing yeah i get all day i get that the mental bandwidth that he takes up is just so excessive and uh yeah i don't know i don't know if people forgot about that because they had four years off i don't know what but uh yeah there's probably something to

be said where the people who did vote for zoran and were just like yeah didn't like trump anyways virginia's more interesting were there actually trump voters that switched over to vote for spanberger and Jay Jones. Yeah, like you were talking about the Jay Jones thing. And, you know, you were saying, like, how does this not disqualify you, right? Essentially from, and I, there is an issue or an element at least where, you know, I think pre-20, pre-Trump the first time, like, you know,

remember how politicians used to be, like, one minor thing? And you're just like, you're out. Like, you just one slip up. And, like, the window has just shifted where there's so much more acceptable things where people just will just, you know, just be like, Like, ah, whatever, that's not that big of a deal. It's still my guy. That would be an interesting experiment.

I mean, that's pretty far. Jay Jones is like, the window's pretty wide open. Well, how else do you explain? How about this? Instead of what else could we forgive, what could we not forgive? What could we not overlook for a politician? What was the famous quote or whatever? Was this like a dead woman or a live boy?

Remember, like from the 60s or whatever? That's essentially like, that's what it used to be. And that's probably like what it is now. That's what we're back to that. You wrote last night during when the election results are coming in that Zoron, let's hope he doesn't make it

illegal to eat with utensils. Yeah. Also, hug your landlords today. Just call your landlords. You think you have to eat rice with your hands now? I hope not. I hope he doesn't ban utensils. I like eating. I mean, he's, that's the thing, is even Zoron,

like you see, I don't know if you ever seen some of the videos like before he was running for mayor where he has like eight different accents. Yes, I've seen it. It's psychotic. Like you see this and you go, this is like a psychopath. He can do, let's see, he does like some Muslim, uh, what is he, is he, is he, he's Ugandan? Well, he's Ugandan. So, but he does the Ugandan accent. So, but he's not Ugandan, but he's not, but he grew up there. So he, there's like, you know, he'll be talking in Ugandan accent. He's like, is he an Indian? Is he a Muslim Indian? I believe so. I believe, I believe believe so. So he does one of those. He does everything. He's like, he's like a man of a million

talents. Yes. He was an actor. I mean, right? He was an actor. He was like a rapper and Scott Jennings said he's like he's just a great actor. Yeah, I actually, I think he's a true believer, though. I think he is a great performer. Acting insinuates he doesn't believe it. I think he does. Yeah. I think he's a true believer. But just the, like, the amount of times he's just like speaking in a completely different accent. I go, this is insane. You tweeted, I took a shit on the subway. are right in front of two cops, and they both just nodded at me. It's a new day in New York City. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, we'll see. Well, I mean, the fire chief stepped down today, New York City fire chief stepped down, like I think like maybe an hour ago. I haven't seen that. I've been busy talking. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, so I think during your show, he stepped down because he's Jewish and basically he's like, you know, I'm a Zionist and I can't do this.

And I mean, I'm sure a lot of the police, like my wife is a therapist. And your wife is a therapist and she did not vote for Mom Donnie. Well, she voted for who I told her to vote for. She's not super tapped into politics. I'm not like some crazy guy who goes, this is who you're, she's just like, who do I vote for? I go, probably Cuomo, I guess. Not again, I'm like, I'm not pumped about that. I wasn't like, what a great option you have.

And I like Curtis Leewe. That is true. I mean, yes, but Curtis is, he's like, he's like an ever present figure in New York City, always on the ballot, always doing something. At some point, you're kind of like Curtis again. So you've got... And he's a Republican, and that's just a stain on you in this city immediately. So you got Curtis, you've got Cuomo, which is a corporate creature with all the baggage

he brings from Albany. He just, I mean, Cuomo's my, like, I don't know if you've, like, I'm sure you follow the campaign. He very much ran this. Like, I don't care. Like, obviously, this is a foregone conclusion that I'm winning this thing. I don't have to do anything, like, up until the Democratic primary, like, I would see, you know, on social media, you're like, the guy

didn't exist on social media, basically. And then he would come out with the, like, most of the stuff I saw from Cuomo on social media was just ads, right? So he's like, he's buying any attention he has, whereas Zoran had like, you know, all the charisma, like, all that stuff. He's like, everybody's actually, like,

excited about him. Cuomo just very much treated this, like, yeah, this is just like a cakewalk. There's a walk in the park. Like, why do I have to do anything? And he's a step down. He was governor, he's like, now I've got to run for mayor. How much can you be all in? Right, right. And it was like he put out this crazy, like these AI ads.

I don't know if you saw them. And they're like, they were nuts. Like, I don't know who was advising him. But, yeah, I mean, I did Jimmy Phala show with Curtis Slewa, like a couple months ago. And I got to meet him and talk to him. I like, I liked him. I like, I don't think he liked. I told the producers, I was like, who's on the show with me?

They're like, Curtis Slewa. And then I went and bought a beret. And I had it, like, under the table. And he came out and, like, the, you know, later in the show. And then I popped my beret on. And it would not pop your barrette on. He didn't like it. Was your beret red?

Yeah. But it was not quite the right color. Stolen valor, Guardian Angel. Yeah, yeah, but it was like not quite the right color. So he didn't like that. It was like a shade off and I didn't wear it the right way. He's like he didn't like it.

I wouldn't know how to put on a beret. No, I know what about it. I don't know the right way. No. But it was, I liked him. You're like, I didn't know much about him and then, you know, hanging out in the green mirror. Oh, this guy's actually pretty funny.

Yeah. He's like a funny guy. He's like, you know, he knows what's up. he just, maybe the bray heard him, to be honest. It's hard to do this. I don't think it helps. Yeah, it's hard to think it helps. But he'll have a, you know, probably going to be a need for the Guardian Angels.

Are you and your wife going to flee New York City? My wife wants it. My wife is from Tampa. So I'm not even exaggerating every other day. She's like, can we please move to Florida? She wants to move to Florida so badly. But there's no, I'm a comedian. There's no real stand-up there.

So. Yeah, that's tough for you. I've fled New York. I lived here for 15 years. Now I'm back home. I fantasize about it constantly. And I got to tell you, I wish I'd left earlier.

Yeah, look, don't get me wrong. I'm like, I moved here from Toronto. I moved here for one reason. It was because I'm a comedian and the entertainment industry in Canada is just not great. It's worse than not great. And I just moved here for comedy. And, you know, I like performing like the comedy seller.

And there's nothing like that. Now, you've got to go to L.A., I guess. Or L.A. is not even, you know, L.A. Post-COVID. Austin's not bad. Austin is actually the close. where you have potential

yeah where there's like stuff going on and and it would be like is Austin above LA on the comedy circuit now it's probably you got to be some place where there are multiple clubs

with multiple gigs that you can do on a regular basis yeah like nightly basis Austin's there yeah Austin's probably on par like the thing is the comedy store used to be like the spot

when Rogan was there he left now the comedy store is like kind of lot because you know everything's cyclical it goes in kind of waves so the comedy store has lost a bit of its luster for sure sure. New York is still by far for comedy, the best city in the world. It doesn't even compare.

But I, again, I would love to live in Florida. But my point I was saying about my wife is her training is as a social worker, right? And she's like, so what? Some lunatic is threatening to kill everybody on the subway. She shows up. And she goes, I'm going to show up. She's like, are you like? There's a shooting at 135th in Linux. Your wife's getting the call at 2 a. We need you there. A-sap. And she's like, what am I going to do? And that's her profession. And she's like, this is crazy.

That's great. I mean, really, I think Trump maybe mentioned it, but I'm like, I know that the country has soured on this idea, but maybe we need to come around on this. But they need to reopen the mental asylums. I think so. I'm not even joking. I'm not joking either. I do not say this with any jest whatsoever.

Like, I was looking it up. In the 50s, the United States had, I think it was like three. 360 beds, like asylum beds per 100,000 people in this country. Now it's like 12. Yes. Well, they're on the street. Yeah, yeah. Well, but that's what I'm saying.

Essentially, they went from like, and again, the asylums had all these problems. Like, I very much, I'm like, can you just open asylums where the people who work there don't abuse everybody? Like, is that possible where you can just, like, treat them? Yeah, stricter requirements on how you get somebody committed. Better treatment inside the asylum. Yeah, you just like don't, like, assault them and stuff and just, you know, like, is that so much to ask? Well, Zoran's pay for those people work in the asylums. I don't, I wouldn't want to

be an asylum in New York. Right. I'm sorry. I really would not. Yeah, yeah. I want to be somewhere where I can think they're actually paying them a wage that I'm getting a high quality enough person that's not going to abuse. Yeah. I mean, look, it's, it's, I, you pay them probably something similar to what you pay a corrections officer. Like I imagine it's in, in that ballpark. And you're just really moving them around at this point. Because essentially what the country did is they closed the asylums because everybody soured on them because they're like it's the treatment is poor and then they were like we need to imprison all these people and then everybody was like well that might be too harsh because some of these people are like just mentally ill and then now they're like we'll

just put them on the subway and you know like there's got to be some better way there's got to be better way all right danny polish check them out at the boys cast yeah the boys cast you can just go to my website danny comedy dot combe you can find all my links great to see in person pleasure yeah thank you all right that's going to do it for us today here at will kane country we'll be back again tomorrow live from the patriot awards out there in long Island, on Long Island. Say it right. On Long Island. On Long Island. For the Patriot Awards. Hope to see you there as well.

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