It's ludicrous, really, is that?

I mean, the whole idea that democracy looks like two women taking a selfie together.

Does not.

From the smallest room in New York City comes a show that gives you a reason to leave.

Well, they pick the wrong spot for a kid, this group of bumbling drugs who were busted,

allegedly forcing a victim into a car, holding him for a ransom,

and they were just feet away from the NYPD Training Center.

There would-be abductors allegedly turned, lured the 19-year-old victim to New Old Trek Avenue

and 72nd Street in Benson Hoist.

That's in Violent, Brooklyn, at 10 p.m. Wednesday after agreeing to buy his car on Facebook Marketplace.

Yes, you must be careful meeting people in the middle of the night in bad neighborhoods or questionable neighborhoods when selling a car.

He arrived. Six brutes allegedly pushed him into a vehicle.

As one of them flash a fake gun, then they blindsided him, demanded 10 grand from his cousin over the phone for his safe return.

Join me now, the author of The Last Days of New York, Seth Barron. Hey, Seth. Hey, Pat, how are you?

I'm doing very well. How's the book doing?

The book is doing great.

Love to hear it.

And it's about the last few years that have been happening in New York City.

The book is kind of a potted history of the last eight years, the year, the De Blasio years, the one I call them.

The era.

The progressive ascendancy, as I call it.

Mm-hmm.

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