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I'll treat it nicely. Welcome to the Niktipalo show on a Thursday from the great state of Georgia. How are you folks? Good to be with you. Got a great show today. My guest today. Big fan of this guy.

I used to see him on a Tucker Carlson all the time in many other places. He's a conservative radio talk show host in Seattle. That has to be fun. I got a taste of that in New York.

And he's got a great new book I'll call what's killing America inside the radical left's tragic destruction of our cities.

Jason Rantz. Welcome to the show. How are you sir? I'm doing well. Thank you so much for having me. That's that's the best picture we've ever had. This guy knows what he's doing. This is unbelievable. I trust for the occasion. Yeah, you look good man.

Let me ask you a question, Jay. First of all, what's it like to be? Do you get a lot of crank calls when you're doing a radio show? I mean, you're a conservative in Seattle. I know you got to obviously your own fan base. But every once in a while, does the radical douchebag sneaking?

Well, they definitely text and see I have a large ego. So I don't take phone calls. I monologue and do interviews for three or four hours a day. So get to avoid the cranks. Although I do get weird looks when I'm walking down the street every so often.

See that yeah, that's like I don't even I when I was on radio, I wouldn't I can't I don't even even know I don't look at my social media. I get, you know, for a comedian, I get pretty thin skin. So that's what I should have done interviews. That's a sign of a real good radio guy. I use my first time on the radio. I was taking calls like I was, you know, 911 dispatcher in Oklahoma.

People it can be a crutch for some folks, but you got to get comfortable. Then you can monologue all day. And that's what I did. I for the first period. And, you know, because I'm a comedian, I play on people.

Anyways, I digress. So is this book? It's out already, right? Yeah, came out last Tuesday. It already had Amazon best seller list. We want to keep it there. Let me ask you a question. Will it be on the New York Times best sellers?

Even if you have the numbers, right? They'll probably ignore me. I mean, even if I had the numbers, it's not going to get there. You know, we like to make it hard for them to get around putting us there. So we always encourage people to go ahead and purchase the hardcover book.

Right. The fact of the matter is when you are a conservative author, it is very, very, very difficult to get any kind of press. So I go on Fox News. Of course, I'm doing talk radio. Right.

But CNN is never going to cover me. New York Times, Washington Post, they're never going to reach out unless it's a hit piece. So we really need, you know, conservatives and libertarians and moderate Democrats and life might be people to actually go on and buy the book.

So mature on the left. Not they? Those people of tolerance. It's beyond that now. I, it's getting it. I don't even know how to describe it. That's why the books out, I guess. But you're talking about specifically the cities falling apart.

And I witnessed, I mean, I actually experienced a little this when I was in New York. When I first moved to New York, real quick. And this was back in the early 90s.

Denkins was still mayor. And there was garbage everywhere. There was garbage piled a mile high. There was crime. I go out to LA. I think I'm going to make it for about a year. I come back.

Giuliani had already been elected. I came back about a year and a half later. I couldn't even recognize the city. I couldn't find any squeegee guys. The trash was completely, it was a different city. And I'm like, oh, maybe government can make a difference.

If you bring in the right guys, but Giuliani today, they look at him like he's the devil compared to, you know, these left wing mayors, right? I mean, how is that possible?

Well, I mean, it turns out when you actually enforce the law and you take pride in your city, you can actually clean it up and make sure that it's safe.

You know, we're always going to have some level of crime and homelessness and litter, right? That's just when you have a whole bunch of people, that's what ends up happening.

But when you have policies that make it so much easier to commit the crime and to become homeless and stay homeless and shoot up or smoke on street corners, people are going to take advantage of that.

And it just gets more of the same action. And so I do things. If I can point to a policy that I think is responsible, that means it's avoidable.

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