Fiorello La Guardia

I come from the academic sub-sub-sub field of game studies.

And this is like a classic thing that comes up in game studies a lot that... pinball once upon a time was like was yeah and was effectively a gambling game where you like put money in and then you get a prize if the ball goes into where you want it to go um when a lot of that started getting banned um especially in new york there's like a famous photo of mayor fiorello laguardia uh shout out to my my fellow fiorello uh like smashing pinball machines with like a baseball bat.

It's like a publicity photo.

Uh, awesome.

In fact, we're running a little over.

And just a moment ago, the High Commissioner of Baseball, Judge Kennesaw Mountlander, with that famous shock of white hair and that long, lean, gaunt form, and stocky, chubby, but popular, fusion mayor of New York City, Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, both greeted each other to an accompaniment and salvo, we might say, of applause over in the lower right field stands.

They're right alongside the dugout, standing along first base.

being photographed and probably will have some ceremony for throwing out of the first ball by either the mayor or one of the dictionaries here who may supersede him in rank, but I doubt that anybody does because the mayor seems to be very popular and his ideas have caught on in our great city.

Good morning, Rabbi.

An article popped up on your Facebook feed about the famous mayor of New York, Fiorello LaGuardia, about whom they once made a musical, by the way.

And there was a couple of interesting facts.

Would you share that with us today?

Apparently his father was in the army for a long time and he lived in Prescott, Arizona as one of the posts.

Yeah.

And that's where Fiorello LaGuardia became, of all things, an Episcopalian because his father was an atheist Catholic and his mother was a non-practicing Sephardic Jew, as you noted.

Really interesting story.

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Mayor LaGuardia famously said, New York, there's no Democratic or Republican way of picking up the trash.

Right.

And that's what local government is doing.

But then you say, well, what are you going to do about it? And this is where I think they start to fall out of sync with the voting population.

Well, it's not just that, right? I mean, New York used to have a robust reform Republican tradition, right? That goes back to Teddy Roosevelt, LaGuardia, who runs in a fusion ticket, Republican socialist ticket, right? You get Nelson Rockefeller.

Every 25 years, New York would elect a Republican mayor.

And that was as a correction to sort of being a one-party town.