Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast, this is Adam O'Neill, executive editor of The Dispatch.

Today we have on the show Pascal Emanuel Goberi to discuss the recent rioting and unrest in France.

Pascal is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, but he's also lived in France's entire life.

We hope you'll enjoy this one.

Pascal, thanks for coming on. You're in Paris right now, correct?

Yes, that's correct, as you can see behind me.

Yeah, the beautiful view of the Eiffel Tower.

Beautiful closet.

Yeah, and it's probably filled with baguettes and cigarettes or something like that, right?

Yes, that is exactly what is inside there.

But really, what we want to do is talk to you about what you've seen, how everything looks on the ground,

and also get some context for our listeners or viewers.

Now, when we were talking before about originally recording this, you said you'd been doing quite a bit of rioting.

So how many cars have you been able to light on fire in the past week?

Yeah, I'm trying to eat my personal best.

So my personal best is 12, which I achieved in 2005.

And so I'm trying to get there, but I have to take it one at a time.

So when this end, I'll let you know what the final score is.

Okay, very good, very good.

No, but really, just to prevent you from being arrested or something,

you are not a partaking in the rioting and I suspect you disapprove of a lot of the property damage and that sort of thing.

In fact, disapprove of all of it.

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