at are the odds that that one is real? You know what I mean? So I'm not going to go give full conspiracy theory on that. I'm just saying if all the other big stories look suspicious, and they do, would that be the one that was true? Maybe. Can't rule it out, but maybe.

Anyway, Charlie Kirk and probably some others are now trying to encourage mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa to drop out. So he's running as a Republican and would of course get all the Republican votes because there aren't that many Republicans voting in New York City. But if he stays in, he would make it harder for Eric Adams to win running as an independent. And it might guarantee that Zohran Mamdani, the creepy smiling communist, gets elected.

So what do you think about that? Should Curtis Sliwa step down just so that they can make sure that Mamdani doesn't get elected? I don't know. It's worth considering. So I don't know if Curtis Sliwa is enough of a team player that he would go for that, but he does seem to have a lifetime of service. I mean, he's a Guardian Angels founder, right? So he has a lifetime of service to the city. And if he's more service-oriented than politically oriented, and he might be, it would be one hell of a service. So New York City would be forever in his debt if he kept that Republican nomination sort of in his control and then threw all his votes to, let's say, Eric Adams. So maybe.

But you may have heard that the New York Times is getting some backlash because they did a story about Mamdani's college application to Columbia in which, let's see if I can get this right, when he filled out his application to college, Columbia in particular, he checked the box that said he was Asian and African, but he also checked the boxes for Asian but also Black or African-American. So some people say, well, you despicable liar. You lied and said you were Black so that you could get into Columbia.

Now I have a few observations about this. Number one observation, it pains me to say this like it hurts me at my chest, but I have to be consistent with what I've said in the past because I don't like opinions that are just completely inconsistent. So you may remember that I've said in the past that we should not hold against any adult mistakes they made in college. Anybody remember me saying that? I've said it publicly a number of times. It's just too far back. I mean before the age of 25 your brain isn't even done. And I would not want to be blamed for anything I did in college. And I don't know anybody who would. You're not exactly the same person as you were when you were college age. And remember this is when he was applying. So when he was applying I don't even know if he was 18 yet. I mean I don't know the details but was he 17 when he checked those boxes? Probably. He was certainly in that under-25 range.

So separately I've also said we should have a 20-year rule. I don't know if he's 20 years out from it, but it might be that both apply. I don't blame people for t