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Speaker 1: He is drinks chants, motherfucking podcast man.

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Speaker 2: He's a legendary queens rapper. He ain't agreed as your

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Speaker 2: boy in O R E. He's a Miami hip hop pioneer.

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Speaker 2: What up it's dj E f N. Together they drink

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Speaker 2: it up with some of the biggest players you know,

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Speaker 2: me and the most.

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Speaker 3: Professional unprofessional podcast and your number one source for drunk

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Speaker 3: drinks chans.

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Speaker 2: Mother Poscavery day is New Year's c that's it's time

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Speaker 2: for drink champs. Drink up, motherfucker mother. But it good

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Speaker 2: hobody for your boy in O R E.

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Speaker 3: What Up?

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Speaker 1: It's dj E f N and this is drink chaps

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Speaker 1: Happy Hour, make some.

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Speaker 2: Today.

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Speaker 1: If you ask me in nineteen ninety six, when I

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Speaker 1: started my career, would I'll be sitting here interviewing anybody,

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Speaker 1: let alone interviewing a person who runs my city. Literally, Uh,

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Speaker 1: who's the mayor of our city? Who looks like us,

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Speaker 1: dresses like us, acts like us. It's like, he's what

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Speaker 1: is it? We got to call him the food board mayas.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Dopacality called him the night

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Speaker 1: life mayor. And it's crazy because I met him at night.

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Speaker 1: Oh you know, legalized bud. From what I know from

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Speaker 1: my city, I got arrested so many times.

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Speaker 2: I stopped.

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Speaker 1: I stopped smoking, but outside I was And now you

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Speaker 1: go to the But this man is great. He's great

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Speaker 1: for us. I wanted to salute him. We want to

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Speaker 1: give him his flowers. We got mister Eric Adams, the

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Speaker 1: motherfucker mayor of New York. The old time I saw

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Speaker 1: your Reps club interview. We're not going to go that

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Speaker 1: politically like that. We're gonna ask you.

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Speaker 2: Some question that was crazy.

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Speaker 1: I was like, holy mo, you you was trapped.

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Speaker 2: But let's talk about your music history.

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, but but go back for a moment. We

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Speaker 4: need to really, like lad some groundwork.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 4: People see the interview say, you know you were set up.

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Speaker 4: I could never be set up because I'm authentic and

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Speaker 4: I'm good in any setting, you know, because I'm true.

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Speaker 5: I'm not new to this. I'm true to this, and

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Speaker 5: you know.

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Speaker 4: We need to really connect where I am and the

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Speaker 4: role that cats like you played. You know, Uh, this

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Speaker 4: is fifty years of hip hop fifty years and you know,

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Speaker 4: and you know, people say I'm the hip hop mayor,

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Speaker 4: hip hop mayor. I grew up listening to hip hop

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Speaker 4: and it inspired me throughout you know, it inspired me

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Speaker 4: when I was going through some hard times, I was

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Speaker 4: who were part of that that music genre should not

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Speaker 4: allow themselves to be relegated to saying that you were

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Speaker 4: just the music folks. Now, if you're do an analysis

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Speaker 4: in Congress is how King Jeffries hip hop Jersey and

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Speaker 4: no he's in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 2: Hip hop.

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Speaker 4: Tisia James, the most important attorney general in the country,

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Speaker 4: grew up in hip hop. Jamoni Williams hip hop, Eric

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Speaker 4: Adams hip hop, Adrian Adams, the leader of the Speaker

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Speaker 4: hip hop. Four of the black mayors that's running the

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Speaker 4: all hip hop.

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Speaker 2: And that's where the migrants are coming to.

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Speaker 4: Exactly exactly we're gon. We're gonna dig into that. But

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Speaker 4: what I want to show is that we all grew

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Speaker 4: the fruits of our harvest right now, you know, I'm

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Speaker 4: the am the most important mayor on the globe, on

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Speaker 4: the glow, and so you guys should be celebrating. You know,

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Speaker 4: this is who we made. This is all of this

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Speaker 4: leadership you see right now. It is what you guys,

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Speaker 4: together of all of that power, finally getting together. But

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Speaker 4: We got to be willing to use this power correctly.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I lived in New York City my whole life, born

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Speaker 1: and like I better at nas party. Like I was like,

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Speaker 1: Like like like how do you how do you balance

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Speaker 4: when you do an analysis, you know, I'm perfectly imperfect. Brother,

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Speaker 4: I used to walk in the classroom. They used to

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Speaker 4: Wasn't until I stumbled into college that I learned that

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Speaker 4: And you're dislected right. I'm a virgo too. You virgo right,

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Speaker 4: Say wait a minute, my mail went through this. I

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Speaker 4: I got baptized rebaptized on Rykers a couple of weeks

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Speaker 2: Listen, man, y'all need to know. I'm you.

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Speaker 4: I've been here with you, and we take in funnel like,

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Speaker 4: You've taken your street skills, because that's that's education.

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Speaker 5: That's academics too.

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Speaker 4: People think academics is just because you're in college. No,

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Speaker 4: What kind of nickel bags when you have.

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Speaker 8: But I don't we might do them block They were joints.

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Speaker 4: And that is transferable, you know when you look at

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Speaker 4: Those those are great economists. But you can transfer it

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Speaker 4: into the empowered that you want.

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Speaker 2: It's true.

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Speaker 1: It's like a lot of hustlers can make great managers

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Speaker 1: in the music business. Definitely, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: because of the gift of gas. But hold on, So

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Speaker 1: this is what I want to ask you. Right, I

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Speaker 1: go worldwide, right, and if a person is from New

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: So I want to play game with you. What do

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Speaker 1: you think you're more Queens? Because I've read that you're

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Speaker 1: So what do you what do you claim more Queens

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Speaker 1: or New York Brooklyn? Brooklyn? Okay, now we're gonna battle, right,

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Speaker 1: so you're gonna name people, So you're gonna name people

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, we're gonna play. This is myself. You

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Speaker 2: got a best co host. You just go to New York. Shit. Now,

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Speaker 2: I was I was throwing off. I thought he was

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Speaker 1: So you're gonna run the time that Okay, how much

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Speaker 2: You want to tire yourself?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I means be Jumanji this mother. So yeah, three

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Speaker 1: Okay, just a bron right, just Brooklyn, and I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm outside, I'm to drink,

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Speaker 2: Damn.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have some fun today. Okay, there's whe's the

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Speaker 2: Gonna start it off. When you start, I start the timer.

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Speaker 1: Okay, remember people from the Bronx, people from Brooklyn, Yes,

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Speaker 1: and anybody, you can.

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Speaker 2: Help me out. If I forget, you can help anybody.

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Speaker 2: Gotta throw the ship out.

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Speaker 1: There's okay, yo, we got mister Lee Wright in Schools

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Speaker 1: of New York Stree. We're gonna show you how the

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Speaker 1: scooses of the New York City is. Right now, everybody

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Speaker 1: give it.

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Speaker 2: To give it to the girl. Give me. I'm I'm

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Speaker 2: not convince him write it. He don't speak right. You're ready?

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Speaker 2: You ready, you guys, let me see if we need

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Speaker 2: to see the board. Yeah, yeah, okay, this would be interesting.

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Speaker 2: You a guest. We won't let you go first. Brooklyn.

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Speaker 1: Name somebody famous, jay Z jay Z. That's a good one.

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Speaker 1: Mail Melly mail fifty. We're notard King Fad Joe.

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Speaker 2: Tony yea yea. Lets my folks from uh oh, come on,

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Speaker 2: biggy than okay, cast one.

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Speaker 1: Marb duh, Mop yes, Mop, I got.

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Speaker 2: Cool her court Mega give me another word?

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Speaker 1: Come on, yeah, okay, the basket's pool remmy okay, uh.

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump, nobody want to claim.

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Speaker 5: Dude, I'm asked to say, Bill Clayton, isn't he from Brooklyn?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 2: No, no, yes, Big Daddy, Big Teddy k.

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Speaker 1: More babies made of his music k Flex, he said,

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Speaker 1: Kenny Anderson.

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Speaker 5: Steph Steph, Steph Marberry.

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Speaker 2: Jaylo who Jaylo j Lo? They went Russell Simmons.

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Speaker 4: From Mike Tyson, Big Mike, Mike Tyson, Mike.

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Speaker 2: Cardi B. Run dmn C Cardi B, he said, Cardi B.

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Speaker 5: Then run d m C.

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Speaker 2: Come on, d J, d J show that. I take that.

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Speaker 7: That's ahead, ran master cast, Yeah, Nicki Minaj, what's my

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Speaker 1: And then recently Juvenile called me. I was like, do

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Speaker 2: I had no defense.

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Speaker 1: What do I do to defend myself against juvenile because

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Speaker 2: No, no, but that's.

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Speaker 4: But but what we what we what we did? What

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Speaker 2: Little cats?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 4: And so we we zeroed in on it, and now

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Speaker 4: Everybody's told us it was going to take five years.

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Speaker 4: call him back and tell him how we like me now.

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Speaker 2: Because you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: Man, we're not.

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Speaker 4: We're not We're not surviving, We're thriving. You know a

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Speaker 4: number occasions when we came into the city, no one

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Speaker 4: show what it is because there's a feeling that, you know,

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Speaker 5: But we managed the hell out of the city.

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Speaker 4: There's independent reviewers who look at the city and determine,

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Speaker 5: They raised my bond raided.

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Speaker 4: They say, this cat has taken one hundred and eighty

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Speaker 2: You know that, you know, we got to talk about, right, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I was as I was moving, I'm seeing you know,

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Speaker 5: They're like, you know what you're doing, man, you're giving

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Speaker 4: Mayas can't stop buses from coming in the city, right,

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Speaker 4: That's against law. It's against the law for me to

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Speaker 4: They say, listen, we want to work, man, we don't

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Speaker 1: Free from you, because it doesn't that push them to criminality,

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Speaker 1: But you can't kind of be racist in living Queens

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Speaker 5: No, No, that's that's a great question.

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Speaker 4: And the reason I'm saying that is because when I

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Speaker 5: You saw a schizophrenic.

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Speaker 5: So I told the team, yo, we're not living it

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Speaker 4: And we were able to remove all those encampments off

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Speaker 5: People is living on the subway system.

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Speaker 4: You know, you still see remnants of that, But there's

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Speaker 2: California, right right. I heard you said you went and

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Speaker 4: Right, we went and saw what was happening in La

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Speaker 4: We saw what was happening in many of the other cities,

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Speaker 3: So I want to just first of all, I just

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Speaker 2: Because it's political.

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Speaker 3: So I want you to state that for this yow

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Speaker 4: They focused on for the most part, for cities Chicago, Chicago,

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Speaker 2: What are those four cities? Those are four cities with.

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Speaker 4: Black mayors, all Democrats, all Democrats, And so what happened

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Speaker 4: Governor Abbot started busting them to these four cities, destabilized

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Speaker 4: So when you do that, you enrolled, and then you

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Speaker 4: They want to deepest destabilize your base. Because when I

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Speaker 5: Those areas, those parts of the city.

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Speaker 2: I did. I lost all of that.

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Speaker 4: You know, I won from straight folks from the community

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Speaker 1: One of the Let me cut you off for one second,

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Speaker 1: because let me the difference is, like, you know, all

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Speaker 2: If he was or he wasn't.

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Speaker 1: What is the difference between us being on welfare and

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Speaker 5: A yeah, that's a great question.

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Speaker 2: That's a great question. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So so migrants in asylum seeks are not allowed to get.

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Speaker 1: I just aboutside. You know, my name is Victor, a

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Speaker 4: So the food stamps wick a snap, all of those

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Speaker 4: Requires what we were doing is buying the food from

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Speaker 2: Told you they didn't want, right, and ten percent of.

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Speaker 4: The food they were not eating wasting, being discarded. So

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Speaker 2: Put the money back in there.

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Speaker 4: You put the money back into the into the community

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Speaker 2: But people wanted to blow.

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Speaker 4: It up and say, hey, you're giving them a credit card.

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Speaker 5: They knew that wasn't what. That was all bullshit, you

443
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Speaker 5: know what I'm saying.

444
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Speaker 4: So that's how the management skills, that the team, what

445
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 4: we have been doing, and so what the governor did.

446
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,280
Speaker 5: He wanted to destabilize our city.

447
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Speaker 4: But we managed it better than anyone can even thought

448
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,119
Speaker 4: we was gonna manage one hundred and eighty thousand people

449
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:19,160
Speaker 4: showing up at your doorstep, can't work, can't provide for themselves.

450
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Speaker 4: Thirty thousand children had to put in our educational system

451
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Speaker 4: doing it without a problem. That one child of family

452
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Speaker 4: sleeping on which the governor governed. The governor of Texas,

453
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Speaker 4: Governor Abvid you know.

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Speaker 1: That's a syent them there, right, would you say it's

455
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Speaker 1: it's it's racially motivated versus partisan motivated.

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Speaker 4: Great question, Great. I think it's a combination. It's a combination.

457
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Speaker 4: I think that he wanted to send his signal to

458
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Speaker 4: the national government because they need to fix the problem.

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Speaker 5: Let me be clear on that they need to fix

460
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Speaker 5: the problem.

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Speaker 4: But there was a hell of a lot of other

462
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Speaker 4: cities he could.

463
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Speaker 2: Have sent them to.

464
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Speaker 4: While you're picking cities, they didn't even send them to

465
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Speaker 4: Los Angeles, right, They didn't even send them to Los

466
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 4: Angeles until Mayor Bass became mayor. They didn't even send

467
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Speaker 4: them to Philadelphia until the sister became the mayor. The

468
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 4: day she swore in, a plane landed with MICA's Asilum Seekerts.

469
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Speaker 4: So he wanted to send a message, But the message

470
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Speaker 4: you wanted to send was on the back of black

471
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Speaker 4: and brown mayors.

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Speaker 3: That's heavy. And I've been saying that from the beginning.

473
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Speaker 3: You know, I've been saying that this is politics, and

474
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Speaker 3: they supposed to do that. You know, they want certain

475
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Speaker 3: laws to be passed, they want to change immigration policies,

476
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Speaker 3: and why not focus on you know, the other party

477
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Speaker 3: but when you said the racial part, I didn't even

478
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Speaker 3: I didn't even add that part, right, So for me,

479
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Speaker 3: like I understand that you get so much scoutiny, like

480
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Speaker 3: being a black man, being unapologetically hip hop, being you know,

481
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Speaker 3: coming into our communities building with the hip hop community

482
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Speaker 3: being outside as we say a lot, and I never

483
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Speaker 3: want to add to that. I think for me, you know,

484
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Speaker 3: when we voted and we've seen you come into office,

485
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Speaker 3: that's what we.

486
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Speaker 2: Said to ourselves. One of us.

487
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Speaker 3: It's like you know that the has got the building

488
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Speaker 3: that you know what I'm saying. So that was the

489
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Speaker 3: mind state, And I think for me, I wanted to

490
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Speaker 3: see a radical shift, right.

491
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Speaker 2: I wanted to see things changed.

492
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Speaker 3: I wanted you to take chances and say, okay, we

493
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Speaker 3: need to change this now. Like unfortunately people say a

494
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:28,639
Speaker 3: lot about Trump, but Trump don't give a damn but

495
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Speaker 3: what you going in there and he going his base

496
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Speaker 3: said this is what we want. That's what your wealth man,

497
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Speaker 3: this man to whatever it takes to get that and

498
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Speaker 3: that and that's what people respect.

499
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Speaker 2: That's what.

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Speaker 3: So when I look at New York, right and I say,

501
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Speaker 3: there is there has been nine billion dollars in the

502
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Speaker 3: police and every other education housing is being cut. You know,

503
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Speaker 3: I say to myself, that's not what I thought radical change.

504
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Speaker 2: Right, I thought.

505
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Speaker 3: When we said that we were going to give more

506
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 3: resources to the communities, We're gonna give the kids better opportunities,

507
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 3: We're gonna have programs. When we're taking away the after

508
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Speaker 3: school programs and were taking away the early education programs,

509
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 3: when we're taking away those things that are needed for

510
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Speaker 3: our kids to flourish and stay out of prisons. Right,

511
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Speaker 3: you know, what are we really saying? And so I

512
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:26,399
Speaker 3: think that's what it is for me. They say, when

513
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:28,880
Speaker 3: you want to know what someone is invested in, see

514
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Speaker 3: where they spend them.

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Speaker 5: Without a doubt, without doubt.

516
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Speaker 4: This is so important because you have to you have

517
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Speaker 4: to peel back the distortion and the radical change you

518
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Speaker 4: were talking about.

519
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Speaker 5: That's what we're doing.

520
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Speaker 4: Okay, we have We have invested more build more affordable

521
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,639
Speaker 4: housing in one year than the history of the city.

522
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 4: Our young people have been crying for years for summer

523
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Speaker 4: youth employment. We had put in place one hundred thousand,

524
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Speaker 4: seveer youth employment more than the history of the city.

525
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 4: We put in place something cause some arise at all

526
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Speaker 4: school long for our young people because there was a

527
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Speaker 4: real loss after COVID. We put more people in those

528
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:11,640
Speaker 4: programs and the history of the city. So the radical

529
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,159
Speaker 4: change the money that we invested the mwbe's billions of

530
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Speaker 4: dollars in black and brown own.

531
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Speaker 5: Business, they were only get two percent.

532
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Speaker 4: We came in and put in place my Chief Diversity

533
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Speaker 4: Officer of Mike Gardner, and we're putting money back into

534
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 4: black and brown business and entrepreneurs with our procurement approachases.

535
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Speaker 4: So the radical changes are right there. Like even Forcetercare children,

536
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 4: we knew our Forceycare children aged out at eighteen, and

537
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 4: we knew that they were either homeless, in jail, victim

538
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 4: of a crime, mental health issues. We're now allowing our

539
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 4: force Tocare children to have life coaches into their twenty

540
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Speaker 4: one paying that college tuition with the stiphing, and we

541
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Speaker 4: have the highest number of Forcetercare children that enrolled in

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Speaker 4: college because of what we're doing in the history of

543
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Speaker 4: the city. There's a whole lot of radical changes coming about,

544
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 4: but you're not going to read it if you. All

545
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 4: they try to put out is that we saw Eric

546
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 4: last night at the club.

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Speaker 2: But I don't think I don't think for me is

548
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 2: reading it.

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00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 3: It's just me being in the community doing the work

550
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 3: that I do on the ground. I know that the

551
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 3: community centers are closed. I know that the after school

552
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 3: programs are closed. I know that those things have been

553
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 3: taken up. I literally see that. I know these kids

554
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 3: are on the corners that want to be able to

555
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 3: go to play basketball, to want to be able to

556
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 3: go to the shop class. We want to be able

557
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 3: to go to a music program after school, and those

558
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 3: those programs have been closed. Because I'm in the schools

559
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 3: every day and I'm talking to the teachers and they say,

560
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Speaker 3: we don't have the budget for those things.

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Speaker 2: Those things betther day get in that.

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Speaker 4: Let me let me share this with you because this

563
00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 4: is why this is so crucial. With the former mayor.

564
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 4: Did he put in place a lot of permanent programs

565
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 4: using COVID stimulus dollars that sunset it twenty four, some

566
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 4: subset it in twenty three, then subset it in twenty four.

567
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Speaker 4: So what we had to do is he knew that

568
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna be here, and I know these dollars

569
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 4: are going to sunset. We had to find money to

570
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Speaker 4: keep those programs going.

571
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 2: We kept three k and pre k.

572
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Speaker 4: Although the dollars went away, we kept selling them summarizing.

573
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Speaker 4: Although the dollars run away, we kept them Midnight on

574
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Speaker 4: Basketball are going on. We put money back into those

575
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 4: programs with a four billion dollar price sagg that came

576
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Speaker 4: from the micros and the Signum secrets that money. I

577
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 4: got to balance my buddy, my budget by the law.

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00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,719
Speaker 3: But the money has been cut. The budget has literally

579
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Speaker 3: been cut. You're telling me that you put more money

580
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 3: into it, but the budget has been cut. This is

581
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Speaker 3: the numbers are saying that the budgets are cut for school,

582
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 3: for after school programs, the budget, the money is not there.

583
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 3: So when we're having this conversation, I hear what you're saying,

584
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 3: but it's not funneling into the hoods that we come from.

585
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 3: When you're saying that we're gonna put more police on

586
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 3: the grounds, but we're taking away resources that these kids

587
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 3: actually need so they don't go to jail, then what

588
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 3: are we saying and we investing in were investing in

589
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Speaker 3: them to go to jail or were trying to stop

590
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Speaker 3: them from going down? If we don't have the resources

591
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Speaker 3: to stop from going to I heard you talking about

592
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 3: the prisons that you took the programs out of prisons.

593
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 3: I'm formally incarcerated. I know how a lot of those

594
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 3: programs helped us. I know how to look a lot

595
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 3: of those programs kept us out of trouble inside the prison.

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00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 3: I know how a lot of those those programs prepared

597
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 3: us to come home from prison.

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Speaker 2: Actually, those programs should be outside.

599
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 3: They should they should morph into programs that we have

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Speaker 3: extend without the programs that were side.

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Speaker 2: So when we're taking away those.

602
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Speaker 3: Programs and you're saying that people are making money or

603
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 3: trying to get rich off of the poverty and community,

604
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 3: but we're putting more police. Aren't the police making money

605
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 3: off of it? If we're putting more police into the

606
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 3: train station, were putting more police in our communities. And

607
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 3: a lot of these police are not even community based officers.

608
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 3: They're not culturally confident to being our communities.

609
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Speaker 4: Well go back, go back for our mom, brother, because

610
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 4: I think that it's so important. And what you what

611
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 4: we should do. You should come in and see what

612
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 4: we're doing with my dyc D, you know, because.

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Speaker 3: Shaping each other's That night, so me and me and

614
00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 3: me and the men were supposed to have a meeting

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00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 3: months ago, probably last year, and it never happened. But

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00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 3: you know, I know you're busy going through a lot

617
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Speaker 3: of snuff.

618
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 2: Busy.

619
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Speaker 4: I'm busy on steroids. I'm always over for me because

620
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 4: I'm busy on steroid's brother.

621
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Speaker 2: Who would have.

622
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Speaker 4: Thought when I got in office January twenty twenty two,

623
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 4: I was gonna have one hundred thousand people showing up.

624
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 4: Imagine having imagine having seventy people come to your house

625
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 4: and all of a sudden, say you got to take

626
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 4: care of me. You got to take care of my food,

627
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 4: my clothing, my medical needs. Man, this was dropped into

628
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 4: my lap. And with dropping that into my lap, it

629
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 4: came with a four billion dollar price tag.

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Speaker 2: I get it.

631
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 3: But that's still our young kids are dying and going

632
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 3: to jail the higher rate, especially young black So that's

633
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 3: what I'm saying, as a black man, that's supposed to

634
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 3: be a priority to me. I don't care what position,

635
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 3: get life anywhere. This is why I do boycott black murder.

636
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 3: This is why I focus on young black males because

637
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 3: I understand that we are dropping out of schools at

638
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 3: the highest rates, we're dying at the highest rates, and

639
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 3: we're being incarcerated at the highest rates. So if we're

640
00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 3: not if we're not truly focusing on how do we

641
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 3: redirect Because if we're saying that we're putting more money

642
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 3: into prisons and we got more police officers on the community,

643
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 3: and the police officers that come in the community h

644
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 3: sometimes agitating because most of them don't come in and

645
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Speaker 3: stop this.

646
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 4: They got it, got it. But it has to be,

647
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 4: it has to be. It has to be multi fascting

648
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 4: has to be multi faceted. I like to say, it

649
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 4: has to be intervention and prevention.

650
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 2: That's the fact you're aware.

651
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 4: We put more money in our crisis management team with

652
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 4: at Mitchell Man s o S. We put more money

653
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 4: into that than anyone has had done before going on

654
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 4: the ground and meeting these young people where it is

655
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Speaker 4: and look at the numbers in Brownsville.

656
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Speaker 5: No one was able to turn around.

657
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Speaker 3: Eight is my brother. So you know, I work with

658
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 3: eighteen on a daily basis. But what I'm trying to say,

659
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 3: there's no functionable plan for prevention in our community. There's

660
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Speaker 3: no like shut out, let me let me just I

661
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Speaker 3: don't want to do you don't shout out to ross state.

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Speaker 3: Barock In the Newark like he has a model for

663
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 3: violence that he's a black.

664
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:09,760
Speaker 2: Man and that's.

665
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 5: Ros Baraka.

666
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 4: His dad was Ros Barock also and Ros is my

667
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 4: dude and still going through some issues in Newark.

668
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:21,399
Speaker 2: Also all of these citizen but they are.

669
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,919
Speaker 3: But I'm trying to say there's an intentional he has

670
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,400
Speaker 3: funded the community. Like we don't want to say everybody

671
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 3: hates to say to defund the police, because that doesn't.

672
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 2: The verbiage doesn't sound right.

673
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 3: But we want to refund the community right because their community.

674
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 3: There are community people who if you invest the dollars

675
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:39,359
Speaker 3: in the community, then you see the change. And I've

676
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:42,879
Speaker 3: been working in Newark with Rodd Jate Barock on those things,

677
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 3: so I know what can happen. I just think that

678
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 3: when we when you know, there's been a lot of instances,

679
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 3: a few instances.

680
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:51,879
Speaker 2: Where you.

681
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 3: Stand by police that I think there should be some

682
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 3: level of that's not okay.

683
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 4: So I know I say it by public safety. That's

684
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:04,760
Speaker 4: that's the difference between saying it by police and standing

685
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:05,720
Speaker 4: by public safety.

686
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 2: You go when you go into our.

687
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 4: Communities when I'm when I do a bunch of town

688
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 4: halls in our community, you know, when I speak in

689
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 4: my communities, those communities that you're talking about, Harlem and

690
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:20,320
Speaker 4: what have you. They tell me their needs. I respond

691
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 4: to the needs. It's not what I want to respond to.

692
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 4: What are the needs you want in your community? And

693
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 4: so when you say that's not a master plan, I think,

694
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,800
Speaker 4: first we should sit down and look at my plan.

695
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 4: Look at what we're doing with forced to care children.

696
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 4: Look at what we're doing the summer youth employment. Look

697
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 4: at what we're doing. Thirty to forty percent of the

698
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 4: inmates at Rykers Island or dyslexic. I have a dyslexic screening.

699
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,880
Speaker 4: We have to be prevention and not just intervention. And

700
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,760
Speaker 4: so I think that before we say okay, there's no plan,

701
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 4: look at my plan, because you're not gonna learn my

702
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 4: plan by hearing what people are saying.

703
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 5: You're gonna learn my plan.

704
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 2: And look at exactly what we're doing some of the

705
00:35:57,600 --> 00:35:58,399
Speaker 2: simple ass we.

706
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 4: Drop the course of childcare for parents. That's what's we're

707
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 4: preventing our mother from going back to work. We dropped

708
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 4: it from fifty five dollars a week to less than

709
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 4: five dollars of five dollars a week. We're leaning into

710
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 4: maternal mobility. No one has focused as this. Black women

711
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 4: are dying at a rate that's just proportionate through maternal mobidity.

712
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 4: Funding those crises management team and so I don't think

713
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 4: there's a full analysis of that. You know our full plan,

714
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:27,319
Speaker 4: so we you should sit down with the team and

715
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 4: look at them.

716
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:29,840
Speaker 3: I don't know your full plan, but I work with

717
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 3: the crisis management people on a daily basis, and I

718
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:34,839
Speaker 3: know a lot of them still are underfunded. I know

719
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 3: a lot of in a lot of resources they don't have.

720
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 3: You know, in a lot of communities they're not even

721
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 3: able to fund certain situations. When we look at Rykers Island,

722
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 3: over twenty some people have died and whatever the reason is,

723
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 3: you know, the police officer, the correction officers are care

724
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:50,360
Speaker 3: custody and control.

725
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:52,800
Speaker 2: So that means that somebody failed at.

726
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 3: Something right, And I haven't heard I've never heard the

727
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 3: man say, you know what, somebody in there may be responsible.

728
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,839
Speaker 4: That's not that's not Let's dig into Rykers for more,

729
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 4: because because I love how people talk about right, rykis

730
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:11,799
Speaker 4: what happened many years ago, we closed a lot of

731
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 4: our psychiatric facilities.

732
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 5: We close all over. There was a big move the

733
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:17,439
Speaker 5: advocatests called the close them down.

734
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:21,359
Speaker 1: What's the one that's after You get the creed more

735
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 1: creed more than others.

736
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 4: And so what they did they did not give people

737
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 4: the services they needed. Seventy of folks on rykis Island

738
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 4: have mental health illness. Eighteen percent have severillent mental health

739
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 4: illness because they come to the street, they don't get

740
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:40,879
Speaker 4: the care, and then they just cycle back into into

741
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 4: into Reiki's Island. We're up there having focused group with

742
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 4: our inmates and officers because remember eighty percent of the

743
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 4: offices are black and brown. Over eighty five percent of

744
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 4: the inmates are black and brown. Forty percent of them

745
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 4: are women. So they what has happened historically. They just

746
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 4: threw black and brown correction offices, black and brown inmates

747
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 4: into the facilities and say, listen, you guys fight among

748
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 4: each other.

749
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:05,399
Speaker 2: I don't care.

750
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:08,680
Speaker 4: I went up there and we did when my brother

751
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 4: father listened, no more program, A real program, not just

752
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 4: some zymbolic program where somebody's making fourteen million dollars a year.

753
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 4: This brother's up there, and I'm up there with him,

754
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 4: sitting down with those young men, talking with those those

755
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 4: young men. No matter how busy my day is I'm

756
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 4: on Rikers Island because I know I can't have these

757
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 4: brothers come out and go back in.

758
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 2: Bill de Blaser didn't go on Rikers Island.

759
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 5: Bloomberg didn't go on Rikers Island. You know, look at

760
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 5: where these mayors are.

761
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 4: I'm on the ground with these brothers talking to them,

762
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,880
Speaker 4: and they're seeing me saying, this mayor is willing to

763
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,759
Speaker 4: take his time out and go spend time to come

764
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 4: and find out what do you brothers need here?

765
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 2: That system was broken for years, brother, and it broke.

766
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 2: And that's what I'm trying to say.

767
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 3: And I think for me is that that's why I

768
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,240
Speaker 3: know you have the ability to do what I'm saying,

769
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:55,839
Speaker 3: because you on the ground. You're going there and having

770
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,399
Speaker 3: those conversations if you know what's going on the right becers.

771
00:38:58,560 --> 00:38:59,840
Speaker 2: There are documentaries about right.

772
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,359
Speaker 3: I was on Records Islands for seven seven to eight

773
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,919
Speaker 3: months more I know a bunch of people. Records Island

774
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 3: is not run. It's not run with kid custody and control.

775
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 3: It's ran like it's ran like a ganghouse, you know

776
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 3: what I'm saying. And a lot of the officers are

777
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 3: responsible for the officers say that, I will say they're

778
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 3: bringing drugs in bringing a lot of the times the

779
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:24,799
Speaker 3: officers are gang a gang members. So the reality, these

780
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,879
Speaker 3: are realities that we're dealing with. So when when when

781
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:30,800
Speaker 3: the answer seems to be that we put more officers

782
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 3: and we pay more the budget to the police when

783
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 3: a lot of them are the problem. You know, I've

784
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 3: seen you stay an officer went to arrest somebody. So

785
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 3: this is this is what a lot of things that

786
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 3: I don't understand. Officers make arrest right. The officer has

787
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:50,360
Speaker 3: a responsibility. Officers trained, he's paid, right, he has a

788
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 3: responsibility to de escalate if I if I, if I'm

789
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 3: an officer and I and I come to arrest a

790
00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 3: citizen or even engage you to so.

791
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,240
Speaker 2: I know they might be right, they might be drinking,

792
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:03,359
Speaker 2: they might have mental health.

793
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 3: My job is to try to de escalate the situation

794
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 3: right before escalates. If a lady is angry at me

795
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 3: and she does something in my hand, I'm not supposed

796
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 3: to punch it in the faith right. So what I'm

797
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:19,759
Speaker 3: saying is you say, without a doubt you agree, but

798
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:23,879
Speaker 3: that exact situation happened, and you said that she wasn't

799
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,879
Speaker 3: supposed to engage the officer, and he punched.

800
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 2: The lady in the face.

801
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:29,240
Speaker 5: Do you remember that circumstance.

802
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 2: I remember the circumstance. I spoke to the family and

803
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 2: a circumstance.

804
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, there was like a circumstance I don't understand.

805
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,359
Speaker 3: So what happened when there was a guy he had

806
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 3: drugs on him, He was trying to run, and he

807
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 3: was trying to he came out of a building.

808
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:44,320
Speaker 2: He was trying to stash something.

809
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 4: I think you're trying to was the circumstance was God

810
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 4: was wanted for murder, had a gun on him. They

811
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 4: were arresting him for having a gun on him. The

812
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 4: sister went in the middle of the melee as they

813
00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 4: taken the gun off of him.

814
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:01,799
Speaker 2: That's not what happened, sister, maybe talking.

815
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 3: My different sister was standing there and the officer pushed her.

816
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 3: The officer grabbed her and through we may be too much,

817
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 3: I remember the same exact situation, all right. And then

818
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 3: after he pushed her, she pushed him back and he

819
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 3: punched her in the face with a closed fist. Now,

820
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 3: regardless of what you're saying that those situations when you

821
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 3: engage villions in that manner, then you can't expect them

822
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,239
Speaker 3: to have any level of respect for thorough.

823
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 4: And that's the point that you're raising, if I'm understanding

824
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:33,399
Speaker 4: you correctly, is that if somebody, first of all, there's

825
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:34,880
Speaker 4: no one in this room going to sit here and

826
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 4: say they didn't have negative event and counsels with police.

827
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,239
Speaker 4: Let's be let's be clear that I'm not here to listen,

828
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 4: I got arrested, I was kicked in my groin as

829
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:44,839
Speaker 4: a fifteen year old by a white cop that stood

830
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 4: over me.

831
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 5: Kicking my brother and I in the going.

832
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 4: That's why you became right, right, right, So I'm not

833
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 4: here to defend the horrific actions of policing.

834
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 2: That's not so.

835
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 4: I don't want all of a sudden walk away with

836
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 4: folks saying, okay, you the postal child for what's great

837
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 4: about policing. No, I'm not what you What you're saying

838
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 4: is that we have to have the right people because

839
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 4: you do need police. Don't let's not get out you

840
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. If you if you're telling me

841
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 4: you don't need police, that's not what these grandmothers are

842
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 4: telling all. Here's what I'm saying to you and This

843
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 4: is difficult for a lot of people to understand. I've

844
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 4: been mayor two years in four months. Brother, this sis,

845
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 4: this city has been fucked up for decades. Brother comes

846
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:30,800
Speaker 4: in two years, four months with all of this mess

847
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 4: coming down on him, and they all, Okay, brother.

848
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 2: Why are you in the park to see you?

849
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 4: But what what I gotta I have?

850
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:42,359
Speaker 5: When you look at the role of being mayor, sir,

851
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:44,879
Speaker 5: you know, being mayor.

852
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 4: Of the most important city on the globe, eight point

853
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 4: three million people. Everything from rats to stick up cats,

854
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 4: you know, to a broken correction of facility. You said

855
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:56,240
Speaker 4: you were in rykers.

856
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 2: It was. It was fucked up when you were there.

857
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 2: So why would people.

858
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 4: Think that, Eric, you get in office, You inherited COVID,

859
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 4: you heerded the financial mess, You inherited thousands of guns

860
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 4: in your streets, inherited a broken riking system for generations.

861
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 4: Now you're here for two years and four months. Eric,

862
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 4: why don't we see this turnaround on the right?

863
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 6: Come on?

864
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 2: Come on?

865
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:25,360
Speaker 6: Is it a broken political system? Is it bureaucracy? Is

866
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:27,720
Speaker 6: it money miss mismanagement? Is it corruption?

867
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 2: All of that? All of that.

868
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:32,239
Speaker 4: So the first thing you have to do, anyone who

869
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:35,440
Speaker 4: has who takes over a business, the first thing you

870
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:37,839
Speaker 4: have to do is get in there and analyze what

871
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 4: the hell do I have here? This stuff was a

872
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:44,319
Speaker 4: mess when we got here, So unlike other folks, I

873
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:47,880
Speaker 4: went in and brought my own team. I'm the first

874
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 4: man in history that you see authentic on the ground

875
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 4: black and brown folks running my administration. And we turned

876
00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 4: this city around in two years. In two years is

877
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 4: we turned the city around?

878
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 2: They said.

879
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 4: Everybody said's gonna take five years. So I know we're

880
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 4: not where we all we ought to be. Brother, I'm

881
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:08,040
Speaker 4: with that. We're not where we ought to be, but

882
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 4: we're moving where we ought to be. When you do

883
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 4: an analysis what I have been doing for black and

884
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:19,320
Speaker 4: brown people in the city, from procurement billions of dollars

885
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 4: into my nonprofits, investing in our in our children, managing

886
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:27,880
Speaker 4: the financial crises that we had. No one thought we

887
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 4: can do this with taking you took four billion dollars

888
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:33,800
Speaker 4: out of your budget, not four million, four billion dollars

889
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 4: out of your budget, and still had.

890
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 5: To manage the manage this this this city.

891
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 4: And so I know the mess that I inherited, and

892
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 4: I know we're not there where we ought to be.

893
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 5: But you know what I do know, I know my heart.

894
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:48,319
Speaker 5: I know my heart.

895
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 4: The city abandoned and betrayed my mother, raised the six children,

896
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 4: robbed my sister of her childhood because Mom had to

897
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:57,640
Speaker 4: do those three goddamn jobs and sign you had to

898
00:44:57,640 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 4: stay home and take us.

899
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:03,399
Speaker 2: So I'm from what I saw growing up.

900
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:07,799
Speaker 4: And so my fight against police brutality, it did not

901
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 4: come because I saw when I was a cop. It

902
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 4: came because I know what they did to us, my brother. Still,

903
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 4: it's not okay over this. But I just and I

904
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:16,839
Speaker 4: hear you.

905
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 3: I just don't hear that stated when the situation's happened. Man,

906
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:23,840
Speaker 3: I just don't hear when they are direct situations. A

907
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 3: young boy what's his name? When who was just killed

908
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:30,400
Speaker 3: two weeks ago, I haven't. I haven't heard that level

909
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 3: of understanding that a mentally ill person who calls for

910
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:38,359
Speaker 3: somebody to come help him is killed in his home.

911
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 2: I just don't. I haven't heard that.

912
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,360
Speaker 3: I heard you speak about when something happened to the

913
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 3: police officer and you went to the proved funeral, and

914
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:46,399
Speaker 3: you said that you still had to stand by fan

915
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 3: and you should. But I think that mother who lost

916
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:52,160
Speaker 3: her child should have the same enthusiasm. Should have you

917
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 3: seen that. I'm sorry for what happened to your child.

918
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 3: I'm sorry that your child lost his life because that

919
00:45:58,320 --> 00:45:58,799
Speaker 3: went mental.

920
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 4: And I agree, but I don't see it. But I

921
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 4: shouldn't have no, no, no, no, no no. I said

922
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,360
Speaker 4: you should call I said, I called the mother. Okay,

923
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 4: I called the mother. I called the pastor and said,

924
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 4: when you when she's ready to see me, I would

925
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:13,600
Speaker 4: like to come and see her.

926
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:15,359
Speaker 2: But when you're the mayor of.

927
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 3: This, why would you not publicly state that? Because I did,

928
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:19,239
Speaker 3: I never heard it.

929
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:22,400
Speaker 4: You never could hear anything good, I say, brother, because

930
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 4: the people, the people who are writing my see people

931
00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 4: like that.

932
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 2: That's why it's called history.

933
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 4: My story is not being told, brother, you know because

934
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 4: based on what they want to pay me on. Because

935
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 4: this is the same game they did with thinkings. They

936
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:38,360
Speaker 4: want to create the image to rolle my base. I

937
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,479
Speaker 4: didn't get elected by them, and so they said, let's

938
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:45,399
Speaker 4: keep eroding his base and have his base turned against him.

939
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:47,240
Speaker 5: Go back and look at they did with thinkings.

940
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 2: Brother. That's why I'm trying to tell you.

941
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:52,920
Speaker 3: I'm so aware and if I wasn't seeing these things

942
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:55,879
Speaker 3: and I don't listen to half the things the news say.

943
00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:58,400
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, I have like you know,

944
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:00,839
Speaker 3: I'm tuned in with the people when there inside your

945
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:04,799
Speaker 3: So I'm coming at you as a black man that

946
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,400
Speaker 3: wants to see you be successful. But I think in

947
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 3: order for us, for me, because I'm in these communities

948
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:12,839
Speaker 3: trying to taking guns out of these kids' hands every day,

949
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:14,840
Speaker 3: I'm in the communities telling them that they need to

950
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 3: change their ways. And when there's a posture taken that

951
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:20,880
Speaker 3: the police can do whatever they want in the communities,

952
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:23,800
Speaker 3: when they see what they believe that's what's being seen

953
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 3: by the top cop in the city, and watching officers

954
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:30,399
Speaker 3: just do what they want, then it becomes this like, well, fuck,

955
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 3: that's me against them because they become a gang. The

956
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:35,799
Speaker 3: police inside New York City have become a gang. There

957
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:40,279
Speaker 3: are certain pockets of police that have gang mentality and activities.

958
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:44,320
Speaker 2: So if we understand that and my job is in

959
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:45,239
Speaker 2: my job.

960
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 3: Is because I'm trying to save these babies' lives and

961
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 3: keep them on the streets and redirect them, then we

962
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 3: have to be intentional like me, and you have to

963
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:53,759
Speaker 3: we have to sit down and show.

964
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:56,279
Speaker 2: That we intend. That's what I said that roswel Rock

965
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 2: is doing. He has the.

966
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:00,359
Speaker 3: Police, he sits down and shows them this is how

967
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:03,360
Speaker 3: we're gonna do this. Police are not gonna respond to

968
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 3: every situation. We got mental health officers that go. If

969
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 3: the mental health officer had went, Win would still be alive,

970
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 3: right if community based organizations had went when he called

971
00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:14,319
Speaker 3: and an officer said, look, I'm not really trained to

972
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 3: do that, that's not really my fullte Let me send

973
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:17,760
Speaker 3: out some mental health officers.

974
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:19,280
Speaker 2: Let me call the community.

975
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:20,799
Speaker 3: Based organizations to go over there and see what they

976
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 3: can do, because I'm gonna take a pair of scissors

977
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 3: out of a young boy's arms before I'm gonna.

978
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:26,000
Speaker 2: Try to kill them.

979
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,840
Speaker 4: But I don't disagree with you, but I think that

980
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 4: that's why it's so important to dig into these cases.

981
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:34,279
Speaker 4: The case was not a mental health job. And I

982
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:37,399
Speaker 4: can't go into the details of these cases because now

983
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:41,720
Speaker 4: it's in a legal arena. But in the real urural

984
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 4: of policing, you have to create that, and we have

985
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 4: created that. We have created to have mental health professionals

986
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:49,959
Speaker 4: go when those jobs come over.

987
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 5: We created that because that's the combination that you need.

988
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:56,520
Speaker 4: You don't need just sometimes the police can aggravate someone

989
00:48:56,560 --> 00:49:00,680
Speaker 4: sees that uniform, They can aggravate it in a real way.

990
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 4: But if I were to come to you've been You've

991
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:04,719
Speaker 4: been doing this for a while, and you gotta and

992
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 4: you gotta. You have an authentic, good approach to what

993
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:10,360
Speaker 4: you're doing in Harlem. And I remember we were rapping

994
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:13,920
Speaker 4: about after somebody was shot in the community. But if

995
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 4: I were to come to you and say that with

996
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 4: all the work you have been doing, they're still shooting

997
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 4: is in Harlem and it's your fault.

998
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:23,560
Speaker 2: That makes no sense.

999
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 4: You out there, you're on the ground ground, committed your

1000
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:30,840
Speaker 4: life to this world, and you're doing more than enough.

1001
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 4: So when we look at what is happening in cities,

1002
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 4: what's going on with Chicago. We see what my brother

1003
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 4: Johnson is going through in Chicago, what's happening in Los Angeles.

1004
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 4: When we look at these black mayors that inherited these

1005
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 4: systems that were destructive, and all of a sudden they say, listen, man,

1006
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:50,960
Speaker 4: you guys have been there for two years. This is

1007
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:53,360
Speaker 4: why you gotta fix it now. That's like me is

1008
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,319
Speaker 4: going to you and say, brother, you've been doing this

1009
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:56,839
Speaker 4: work for some years. While we not have any more

1010
00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:59,839
Speaker 4: homicide in Harlem, that's not what we should be doing

1011
00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 4: it each other. We should be coming together and say,

1012
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:07,440
Speaker 4: it's this person authentic about this work. There's never been

1013
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:10,360
Speaker 4: a mayor in this city that's been more authentic about

1014
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 4: this work the way I am, and the results are

1015
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:16,399
Speaker 4: there when you sit down and look, I have my team.

1016
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 4: The other day, say listen, we gotta put together a

1017
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:22,960
Speaker 4: wins list because people don't know how we have changed

1018
00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 4: this game. People gonna look back later and they're gonna say,

1019
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:29,319
Speaker 4: we can't believe his brother did this. You know, but

1020
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:33,759
Speaker 4: they have played us to the point that, you know what,

1021
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:38,080
Speaker 4: we're gonna keep. There's a mission in the city. This

1022
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:41,600
Speaker 4: cat never could be made again. He can't be reelected.

1023
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:43,319
Speaker 2: You know who.

1024
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 4: We think He's coming in and gonna now take these

1025
00:50:45,719 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 4: billions of dollars that we've been eating off for years.

1026
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:51,080
Speaker 4: Because I'm not fighting against the people who running against me, brother,

1027
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:54,719
Speaker 4: I'm fighting against the people who have been eaten off

1028
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 4: of us for years. Poverty is profitable. People have been

1029
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:01,759
Speaker 4: hustling us. If you don't give a young person this

1030
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 4: lex your screening, he ends up in Rykers Island and

1031
00:51:04,239 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 4: you got all these programs in Rikers Island, and then

1032
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 4: do analysis who are running these programs. They don't look

1033
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:13,239
Speaker 4: like us, they don't they people have, people have played us.

1034
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:14,399
Speaker 2: Man was so.

1035
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 3: Long, and I think that's what the issue is for me.

1036
00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:20,160
Speaker 3: You understand that poverty is violence. Yes, right, we understand

1037
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:22,839
Speaker 3: that we don't give these kids every opportunity.

1038
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:23,879
Speaker 2: I remember, you.

1039
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:27,240
Speaker 3: Know, before I got incarcerated, the reason why I didn't

1040
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:29,440
Speaker 3: go to jails because I had to have the school programs.

1041
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 3: I went and played basketball and we went on these trips.

1042
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:35,440
Speaker 3: And these kids don't have that. They literally, they literally

1043
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:37,640
Speaker 3: do not. I'm just I'm telling you they don't. I

1044
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:43,240
Speaker 3: work in schools I have, I'm creating curriculums, I'm creating

1045
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 3: after schools with it are none of those things.

1046
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:50,319
Speaker 2: So I know what I have to.

1047
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 3: I want you to come see what I'm dealing with.

1048
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:54,480
Speaker 3: I'm dealing with this on a daily basis. Like there

1049
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 3: should be way more community centers, you know, like the

1050
00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:59,840
Speaker 3: brother At has in Brooklyn, those type of centers.

1051
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:02,440
Speaker 2: It should be completely sentenced to.

1052
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:06,400
Speaker 4: It's my analysis to that, and I want to I

1053
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:09,120
Speaker 4: want to make a point in a minute also about

1054
00:52:09,239 --> 00:52:10,960
Speaker 4: you know what wet me a drake man.

1055
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:13,120
Speaker 2: You gotta come in.

1056
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 3: This is black, this is a blacks and I respect

1057
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,239
Speaker 3: and I know that's hard, is in the right place,

1058
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:23,080
Speaker 3: but I it's just I need you to you to

1059
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 3: say this is what I said. My problem with the

1060
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:27,800
Speaker 3: Democratic Party. You don't say it with your chest because

1061
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 3: they saying it with they chest. Governor ever is saying

1062
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:31,880
Speaker 3: I'm gonna send all of these over there, and I

1063
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:34,040
Speaker 3: don't give a fuck what y'all say. Trump says I'm

1064
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:35,880
Speaker 3: gonna do this because that's when my base went. And

1065
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:37,920
Speaker 3: I don't give a fuck with your saying. Y'all trying

1066
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 3: to let me let me, let me say what ain't

1067
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:41,840
Speaker 3: gonna me.

1068
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 1: I'm the most simplistic person here. I'm dyslexic to the fullest.

1069
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:48,960
Speaker 1: I see cat, I see car like, I love oh

1070
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:52,720
Speaker 1: ships like make it, make sense of it, that's right, right,

1071
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 1: So I look at things in the most simplistic form.

1072
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:00,319
Speaker 1: I don't like buying because he doesn't wear a present than.

1073
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:05,799
Speaker 2: To Rolex, how do you president? And you gotta fucking dangerous?

1074
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:10,600
Speaker 2: What doesn't make sense? You President?

1075
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:18,480
Speaker 1: I'm simplessed the thing about Trump, and I'm gonna say

1076
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 1: something right, He plays on that to us. He went

1077
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 1: to Chick fil A. Now, anybody that's gotten, if you've

1078
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:27,560
Speaker 1: got a little bit of black and you you know,

1079
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:31,839
Speaker 1: Chicken fil A, that's like got our heart, like even

1080
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 1: though that's why they close on a Sunday because they

1081
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:36,600
Speaker 1: know that's where we want to go at the church.

1082
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 2: He went to a fucking Chick fil A. And I'm looking.

1083
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.

1084
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 1: I look at Biden and I'm like, damn, I ain't

1085
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:52,080
Speaker 1: see him at Bory Rogers.

1086
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 2: The church's tried. He go to Charlie's in Harlem Man.

1087
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 2: He ain't go to the Juice one ross like he

1088
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 2: don't have a he don't have a hipp And you're right,

1089
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:08,600
Speaker 2: but see, but see what you're saying.

1090
00:54:08,600 --> 00:54:13,480
Speaker 5: Two things to to observation too, observation to observation that

1091
00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:14,560
Speaker 5: I think is important.

1092
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 4: Number One, we're having the same we're having the same

1093
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 4: conversation that we had on the breakfast club.

1094
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:25,279
Speaker 2: But you're seeing we're compensating. That's right.

1095
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:28,560
Speaker 4: His mission wasn't you know what. I just want to

1096
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:30,520
Speaker 4: come in and just be disruptive. I want to talk

1097
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:34,400
Speaker 4: over you. I want to just listen. People know black

1098
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:38,399
Speaker 4: folks know how to dislike each other. But let's show

1099
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:39,480
Speaker 4: how we love each other.

1100
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:44,160
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, and so what what you're doing.

1101
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 4: It's like, listen, I disagree, but I'm gonna hear you.

1102
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 4: Then I'm gonna hear you. That's what I'm saying, because

1103
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:54,640
Speaker 4: nothing people like more. Then you know what, We're gonna

1104
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:57,919
Speaker 4: always show that they can't get along, but showing how

1105
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:00,600
Speaker 4: we get along. Then the brothers on the street are

1106
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:02,600
Speaker 4: going to say, here's a brother that's on the street.

1107
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:03,200
Speaker 2: He's a man of the.

1108
00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:05,000
Speaker 5: City of New York. They sitting in the same room

1109
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:06,520
Speaker 5: and they learning from each other.

1110
00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:15,960
Speaker 2: That's the key, because I don't know whatever, we need

1111
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:16,360
Speaker 2: to listen.

1112
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:18,400
Speaker 1: This is the most beautifult thing about this.

1113
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:19,480
Speaker 2: You got some tequila.

1114
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:22,080
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna be honest. Hold on, hold on, because

1115
00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 1: to get serious, you.

1116
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:26,640
Speaker 2: Hear us say something good though this. I always judge

1117
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:29,960
Speaker 2: people by what they drink. Steven A.

1118
00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:32,200
Speaker 1: Smith came in here drinking Hennessy and Coke Colon.

1119
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 2: I knew I was going to knew his love. He's

1120
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 2: the leaders. Money is success. He's still way sorry. I

1121
00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:43,280
Speaker 2: can't tell you.

1122
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:45,440
Speaker 3: What I'm saying is because because the mission and the

1123
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:47,560
Speaker 3: goal is for us to win. That's you know what

1124
00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:50,560
Speaker 3: I'm saying. I'm not here, You're not my adversary. Not

1125
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:53,439
Speaker 3: see a black man in position. I want to see

1126
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 3: him win, you know. And so when I'm when I'm looking,

1127
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:58,879
Speaker 3: I'm not just looking from my lens, I'm looking at Okay,

1128
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 3: what are they seeing? What is the community seeing? How

1129
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:04,040
Speaker 3: are they able to play us against each other? How

1130
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:07,840
Speaker 3: they able to get your base to go against you

1131
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:09,799
Speaker 3: or to start saying he's not doing this and this

1132
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:12,440
Speaker 3: is a strategy they've always used against right, Right, So

1133
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:14,799
Speaker 3: when I'm seeing it and I'm having a conversation with you,

1134
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:18,080
Speaker 3: I'm giving you the perspective from somebody that's from the

1135
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:21,439
Speaker 3: outside looking and saying, if you really which I really

1136
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:24,120
Speaker 3: believe that you want to change, that you want to be,

1137
00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:27,719
Speaker 3: you know that have that radical change, then you have

1138
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:31,400
Speaker 3: to be very intentional, right because a lot of people,

1139
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:36,080
Speaker 3: you know the news and sound bites, they gonna sound

1140
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:38,239
Speaker 3: bite you to death. So what you have to do

1141
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:41,680
Speaker 3: is be intentional about saying and doing certain things and

1142
00:56:41,719 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 3: being able to say this is what it is like

1143
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:46,279
Speaker 3: I've been It's crazy to me that every time I'm

1144
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 3: in close proximity to you, I hear the message that

1145
00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:52,200
Speaker 3: I want to hear. When we did the one hundred

1146
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:54,880
Speaker 3: Black Men's meeting you're speaking, I was like, that's what

1147
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:55,400
Speaker 3: I want to hear.

1148
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:58,200
Speaker 2: Why I can't get that no else? Right? And so

1149
00:56:58,280 --> 00:56:58,719
Speaker 2: I don't know.

1150
00:56:58,719 --> 00:57:01,359
Speaker 6: Everybody sees all politicians, you say, say what they what

1151
00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:02,960
Speaker 6: you want to hear, but then it doesn't so.

1152
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:03,600
Speaker 2: That's what they say.

1153
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:07,200
Speaker 3: So I don't know if it's intentional, which I do

1154
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:12,080
Speaker 3: know is intentional for most some some venues and avenues

1155
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:14,840
Speaker 3: and narrators that they're trying to paint. But I also

1156
00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 3: know that somehow Trump's message gets to everybody, right, the

1157
00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:22,840
Speaker 3: people that he don't like and the people he do like.

1158
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:25,120
Speaker 2: His fan base is always.

1159
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:26,920
Speaker 3: Going to say Trump said exactly what the fuck we

1160
00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:27,520
Speaker 3: wanted to hear.

1161
00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:29,440
Speaker 2: So I think that.

1162
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:32,440
Speaker 3: We have to be intentional about that, you know, like

1163
00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:35,480
Speaker 3: that we have to be intentional about saying, Look, I

1164
00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:38,440
Speaker 3: understand who my base is, I understand what I'm trying

1165
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:40,680
Speaker 3: to do, and I normally get a little pushback here

1166
00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:42,480
Speaker 3: and there from the other people.

1167
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:43,600
Speaker 2: That don't exactly agree.

1168
00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 3: But I have to be intentioned on saying, look, these communities,

1169
00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:49,800
Speaker 3: these black communities, we have to start funding these communities more.

1170
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:51,640
Speaker 3: We have to make sure we got to go and

1171
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:54,800
Speaker 3: talk to Raheem and James on the corner and see

1172
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:57,360
Speaker 3: exactly what it is. We got resources, my little nigg

1173
00:57:57,440 --> 00:58:02,240
Speaker 3: right resources and because for me to take guns out

1174
00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 3: their hands when there's no.

1175
00:58:03,160 --> 00:58:06,800
Speaker 4: Resourced percent and and when I'm what I am saying,

1176
00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:11,520
Speaker 4: which is interested in is that when you're do an analysis,

1177
00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:14,280
Speaker 4: exactly what you're saying we should be doing is what

1178
00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:15,080
Speaker 4: we are doing.

1179
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 2: We have shifted.

1180
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:21,520
Speaker 4: The the whole funding stream to those who are in need.

1181
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:23,040
Speaker 4: And that's what you were talking about. That's what I

1182
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 4: was explaining on the Breakfast Club. You have these organizations

1183
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 4: that were going to rikers, providing services, getting paid, but

1184
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:33,800
Speaker 4: no one was in them. And so what I what

1185
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:36,640
Speaker 4: I said to them, show me Now we're bringing some

1186
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 4: new cats in.

1187
00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:40,400
Speaker 5: That's gonna have folks like an a team mitche.

1188
00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:42,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll run out a bunch of programs. I worked

1189
00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:44,600
Speaker 3: with at I worked with and I've been I've been

1190
00:58:44,640 --> 00:58:47,080
Speaker 3: on Rightkers Island. We had a we had good programs

1191
00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:48,720
Speaker 3: that they stopped funding and it was just like, why

1192
00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:51,280
Speaker 3: would you stop funding? I worked with the bartenders with

1193
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:53,000
Speaker 3: you know where we went into.

1194
00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:55,680
Speaker 2: Giant and good style, and.

1195
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:58,040
Speaker 3: These were we was Bobby's murder was in there, and

1196
00:58:58,080 --> 00:59:00,120
Speaker 3: we was going to his house every day and and

1197
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:02,280
Speaker 3: working with his mind, and he and he came home

1198
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:03,320
Speaker 3: and instead.

1199
00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:05,080
Speaker 4: You could you could first of all, you don't have

1200
00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:07,720
Speaker 4: to do time. You could do something with the time.

1201
00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 4: There's no reason. What I'm saying is instead of having

1202
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 4: them sit down, we got a whole green economy that

1203
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 4: we're rolling out. I should be treating, no teaching those

1204
00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:19,600
Speaker 4: brothers right now how to do battery installation, how to

1205
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:23,480
Speaker 4: install solar panel. If the cats get that real job skill,

1206
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:26,840
Speaker 4: then they come home and they don't have to go back,

1207
00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:28,920
Speaker 4: go back to that life. You know what's deep when

1208
00:59:28,920 --> 00:59:31,120
Speaker 4: I sit down with my with you know, with those

1209
00:59:31,160 --> 00:59:33,520
Speaker 4: who I talk on the regular, that's involved, that's out

1210
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:37,440
Speaker 4: there hustling and slinging. I said, how many you I DYSLEXI,

1211
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 4: how many have a learning disability? It's overwhelming. Brother, those

1212
00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:45,360
Speaker 4: brothers were no different than me. Laughed at bullied out.

1213
00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:47,440
Speaker 4: Throw now and say why am I sitting in here?

1214
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 4: You know I'm not learning? And that's what we have

1215
00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:54,320
Speaker 4: to go down to the foundation of this. And brother,

1216
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:58,400
Speaker 4: I'm telling you when you do an analysis of what

1217
00:59:58,880 --> 01:00:02,320
Speaker 4: we have been doing, you're gonna walk away with.

1218
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:04,360
Speaker 5: Saying this is an authentic cat.

1219
01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:06,400
Speaker 3: But I want to be able to do that analysis,

1220
01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:07,800
Speaker 3: and I want to be able to sit down and

1221
01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:10,520
Speaker 3: see that and be able to go outside and say

1222
01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:12,920
Speaker 3: that right because I want to because I want to

1223
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:13,840
Speaker 3: be armed with the.

1224
01:00:13,760 --> 01:00:15,960
Speaker 2: Facts to be able to say no that what you're

1225
01:00:16,040 --> 01:00:19,360
Speaker 2: saying is, well, you know what Kanye said when he

1226
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:19,920
Speaker 2: was on here.

1227
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:23,120
Speaker 1: He said a while said, but this is this is

1228
01:00:23,120 --> 01:00:25,840
Speaker 1: something that was very very deep. He said, he went

1229
01:00:25,880 --> 01:00:28,560
Speaker 1: to visit a prison and he all he saw was

1230
01:00:30,080 --> 01:00:33,080
Speaker 1: the wrong made decisions of Riza. Like he said, he

1231
01:00:33,120 --> 01:00:35,479
Speaker 1: seen a person that could have been but he made

1232
01:00:35,560 --> 01:00:40,960
Speaker 1: one decision. He said, he met like the Nazis, the

1233
01:00:40,960 --> 01:00:44,080
Speaker 1: the Drakes, the Jacobles or whoever. He was, like, yo,

1234
01:00:44,160 --> 01:00:45,880
Speaker 1: he was meeting him. He was like, this was the

1235
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:51,840
Speaker 1: same person with one bad decision. So what you're talking about,

1236
01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:53,120
Speaker 1: like almost, that's.

1237
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:55,800
Speaker 2: Exactly what we need and we need and we need.

1238
01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:59,040
Speaker 4: What we need is like when I when I when

1239
01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:00,400
Speaker 4: when when when I ran.

1240
01:01:00,360 --> 01:01:02,200
Speaker 5: My brother and I got her rest. You know, we

1241
01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 5: had these fake goal changes.

1242
01:01:03,320 --> 01:01:05,080
Speaker 4: We used to go down the canal street and sell

1243
01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:09,040
Speaker 4: these fake goal change to tourists and this was one

1244
01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:22,520
Speaker 4: of them. And and and and my counselor. I'll never forget, man.

1245
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:24,720
Speaker 4: We had to go over to forty Projects to see

1246
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:28,280
Speaker 4: this counselor and we walked in and after she did

1247
01:01:28,280 --> 01:01:30,400
Speaker 4: our first session, she told my brother, listen, I want

1248
01:01:30,440 --> 01:01:31,560
Speaker 4: you to come back next week.

1249
01:01:32,160 --> 01:01:34,680
Speaker 5: And she says, Eric, you don't have to bother coming back.

1250
01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:38,520
Speaker 4: In her mind, you know, you're just so fucked up, man,

1251
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:41,680
Speaker 4: this is a waste of my time sitting.

1252
01:01:41,400 --> 01:01:42,400
Speaker 5: Here talking to you.

1253
01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:45,240
Speaker 2: And she was like, you know, don't even bother coming back.

1254
01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:48,640
Speaker 4: And I remember walking down the block down Guy or

1255
01:01:48,720 --> 01:01:50,000
Speaker 4: brew A Boulevard.

1256
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:50,360
Speaker 2: It was cool.

1257
01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:52,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it was called New York Boulevard at the time.

1258
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:54,520
Speaker 4: I was walking down the block and I was like,

1259
01:01:54,680 --> 01:01:59,320
Speaker 4: you know, like, what's what, what's that's all about? And

1260
01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 4: so think Pedro, who was who arrested, who had to

1261
01:02:04,360 --> 01:02:08,040
Speaker 4: speak with me to get us out. He showed me

1262
01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:10,280
Speaker 4: that gold chain and he was like, I best I

1263
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:11,720
Speaker 4: could get you to buy this gold chain.

1264
01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:13,160
Speaker 5: I was like, man, what fuck.

1265
01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:14,240
Speaker 2: You talking about? The shit to say?

1266
01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:16,960
Speaker 4: And he pulled out this book called State of Black America,

1267
01:02:17,840 --> 01:02:18,600
Speaker 4: The Urban League.

1268
01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:19,919
Speaker 5: I think used to put it out at the time.

1269
01:02:20,240 --> 01:02:23,240
Speaker 4: It showed how many, how many by the time you

1270
01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:25,840
Speaker 4: get eighteen, how many people, how many black youth would

1271
01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:31,200
Speaker 4: be arrested? I was arrested. How many will have children?

1272
01:02:31,600 --> 01:02:35,080
Speaker 4: My young girlfriend already aborted a child. How many will

1273
01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 4: be dropping out of school? So all that stuff that

1274
01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:40,160
Speaker 4: they said, they predicted that was gonna happen to us.

1275
01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:43,440
Speaker 4: I was like, right in there, so someone else defined

1276
01:02:43,600 --> 01:02:46,800
Speaker 4: my life, and I pissed me the hell off, man,

1277
01:02:47,280 --> 01:02:49,600
Speaker 4: you know. And that was like the turning point for

1278
01:02:49,760 --> 01:02:52,040
Speaker 4: me that I said, you know what I'm not. This

1279
01:02:52,120 --> 01:02:54,320
Speaker 4: is not the life I'm going to have someone predict

1280
01:02:54,400 --> 01:02:59,280
Speaker 4: for me. And so we need you and me. Is

1281
01:02:59,320 --> 01:03:02,040
Speaker 4: what the rest is for us, not only in New

1282
01:03:02,120 --> 01:03:06,479
Speaker 4: York right right, because what we're going through in New York,

1283
01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:11,080
Speaker 4: go look at Chicago, Go look at Los Angeles, Go

1284
01:03:11,120 --> 01:03:14,760
Speaker 4: look at San Francisco, you know, go go look at Miami.

1285
01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:19,440
Speaker 4: The record that was in the sixties, brother's going to

1286
01:03:19,480 --> 01:03:22,640
Speaker 4: work it out. We gotta nobody's gonna do this for us.

1287
01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:27,280
Speaker 4: We're catching hell across the globe black man universally, it's

1288
01:03:27,360 --> 01:03:29,439
Speaker 4: catching hell across the glow. When I'm on to count

1289
01:03:29,560 --> 01:03:32,000
Speaker 4: North Africa. Me and my brother's over there, same type

1290
01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:35,760
Speaker 4: of exploitation. No matter where we are, black men are

1291
01:03:35,800 --> 01:03:37,840
Speaker 4: catching hell across the globe.

1292
01:03:38,080 --> 01:03:39,120
Speaker 2: We gotta do this.

1293
01:03:39,560 --> 01:03:43,160
Speaker 4: We gotta sit down together and say, okay, here's Eric

1294
01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:43,680
Speaker 4: where I think you.

1295
01:03:43,680 --> 01:03:45,320
Speaker 5: Can prove on his whatnot.

1296
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:46,840
Speaker 4: And then we got to push back on the street.

1297
01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:49,280
Speaker 4: When people are talking about madness on the street. You

1298
01:03:49,320 --> 01:03:51,680
Speaker 4: know they did it to Dinkers. And who do we

1299
01:03:51,760 --> 01:03:53,440
Speaker 4: get Julianne.

1300
01:03:53,760 --> 01:03:55,960
Speaker 2: Oh no, we don't like Juliane. You know what I'm saying.

1301
01:03:57,040 --> 01:04:00,640
Speaker 4: We gotta push back because people are heard, people are

1302
01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:01,720
Speaker 4: hurting on the street.

1303
01:04:01,960 --> 01:04:04,320
Speaker 5: And when you're hurting on the street, you even look

1304
01:04:04,400 --> 01:04:05,560
Speaker 5: at those who.

1305
01:04:05,520 --> 01:04:07,440
Speaker 4: Are giving you that life wrap and taking you to

1306
01:04:07,520 --> 01:04:10,680
Speaker 4: the next level, you beginning to even despise, despise them.

1307
01:04:10,800 --> 01:04:12,960
Speaker 4: There's never been a mayor like me, brother in the city.

1308
01:04:13,520 --> 01:04:16,040
Speaker 4: Never been a mayor like me. There's never been a

1309
01:04:16,080 --> 01:04:20,120
Speaker 4: mayor that will go when that barbershop closes on Fulton

1310
01:04:20,200 --> 01:04:22,680
Speaker 4: Street at one am in the morning to sit down

1311
01:04:22,720 --> 01:04:24,440
Speaker 4: with them and say, what's going on in the ground.

1312
01:04:24,560 --> 01:04:25,560
Speaker 2: How do we have drug dealers?

1313
01:04:25,600 --> 01:04:32,040
Speaker 4: A burger king right right right? That's that's the important story.

1314
01:04:32,120 --> 01:04:35,680
Speaker 4: Let me tell you about that that Burke was right

1315
01:04:36,120 --> 01:04:36,880
Speaker 4: right here.

1316
01:04:36,920 --> 01:04:37,640
Speaker 2: We here we are.

1317
01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:39,560
Speaker 4: I pick up the paper and I read the paper

1318
01:04:39,600 --> 01:04:41,560
Speaker 4: and they say that, you know what, drug dealers are

1319
01:04:41,560 --> 01:04:45,280
Speaker 4: hanging out in front of Burger King And we were

1320
01:04:45,320 --> 01:04:49,720
Speaker 4: Borrow in Manhattan, Row, Manhattan, right by Wall Street. I

1321
01:04:49,840 --> 01:04:51,640
Speaker 4: call up the commanding office over there and I said,

1322
01:04:51,680 --> 01:04:52,680
Speaker 4: what's going on over there?

1323
01:04:52,840 --> 01:04:53,080
Speaker 2: You know?

1324
01:04:53,480 --> 01:04:55,240
Speaker 5: And he says, Eric, these are not drug dealers.

1325
01:04:55,520 --> 01:04:59,960
Speaker 4: These are homeless guys and they just, you know, they

1326
01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:02,960
Speaker 4: feeling is just a place they can go. Sunday after

1327
01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:05,439
Speaker 4: church service. I go down there and I meet them.

1328
01:05:05,640 --> 01:05:07,320
Speaker 4: I said, brother, that's how y'all do it? You know,

1329
01:05:08,560 --> 01:05:10,120
Speaker 4: I just want to know what's going on and how

1330
01:05:10,120 --> 01:05:12,040
Speaker 4: could I help you. We sat down inside the Burger

1331
01:05:12,120 --> 01:05:15,280
Speaker 4: King and had a conversation and these are intelligent brothers, man,

1332
01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:18,960
Speaker 4: that just they just went through some hard times and

1333
01:05:19,120 --> 01:05:22,080
Speaker 4: we then provided services, pathways with.

1334
01:05:22,080 --> 01:05:24,760
Speaker 5: Them, things that they were able to get.

1335
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:25,880
Speaker 2: But they did.

1336
01:05:25,760 --> 01:05:27,960
Speaker 5: Not know how to navigate this system.

1337
01:05:28,160 --> 01:05:30,760
Speaker 3: And that's what I'm saying, that those can be isolated

1338
01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:33,120
Speaker 3: situations and not brother, those are you big that you

1339
01:05:33,160 --> 01:05:35,480
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. I'm saying, but that has to

1340
01:05:35,520 --> 01:05:38,800
Speaker 3: be those type of resources have to be available in

1341
01:05:38,880 --> 01:05:41,360
Speaker 3: all communities, yes, right, because there are a lot of

1342
01:05:41,360 --> 01:05:43,400
Speaker 3: people just outside that don't know where to go. They

1343
01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:46,160
Speaker 3: don't definitely, and it's not really there's nothing that says, hey,

1344
01:05:46,160 --> 01:05:47,520
Speaker 3: you could go here to get a job, you can

1345
01:05:47,600 --> 01:05:49,960
Speaker 3: learn this, you can do this. There's nothing that we

1346
01:05:50,120 --> 01:05:51,880
Speaker 3: have in our communities that do a lot of these

1347
01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:54,280
Speaker 3: kids don't want to be outside without a job. They

1348
01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:56,760
Speaker 3: don't want to down the streets like hustling. Ain't even

1349
01:05:56,760 --> 01:06:04,720
Speaker 3: really making no money no more. Yes, they listen, but

1350
01:06:04,960 --> 01:06:07,240
Speaker 3: they don't want to Nobody on the streets is really dead.

1351
01:06:07,280 --> 01:06:09,320
Speaker 2: They want to be they want to go home. So

1352
01:06:09,600 --> 01:06:11,400
Speaker 2: we have to be able to provide that.

1353
01:06:11,600 --> 01:06:13,200
Speaker 5: And this is out with this out. We're doing it

1354
01:06:13,240 --> 01:06:13,840
Speaker 5: because you're right.

1355
01:06:14,400 --> 01:06:17,360
Speaker 4: When when when I'm out sitting this side, because my

1356
01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:23,920
Speaker 4: best ideas come from clothes, beauty salons and barbershops. At

1357
01:06:23,960 --> 01:06:28,240
Speaker 4: the end of the night, when I'm working on with right,

1358
01:06:28,400 --> 01:06:30,680
Speaker 4: you know, I'm in. I go in the back after

1359
01:06:30,840 --> 01:06:33,920
Speaker 4: we sit down and we chat. What brothers were saying

1360
01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:36,840
Speaker 4: to me is what you say, I don't even know

1361
01:06:36,880 --> 01:06:39,160
Speaker 4: the starting point of trying to find a job. I

1362
01:06:39,200 --> 01:06:41,880
Speaker 4: don't even know, like how do I begin, you know, like,

1363
01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:43,160
Speaker 4: what is this thing about resume?

1364
01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:43,959
Speaker 2: What is all that?

1365
01:06:44,360 --> 01:06:47,560
Speaker 4: So what we did we created something called hiring halls.

1366
01:06:47,600 --> 01:06:50,200
Speaker 4: With Henry Garrito, the head of the d C thirty seventh,

1367
01:06:50,520 --> 01:06:53,400
Speaker 4: we said, why do why do why do folks have

1368
01:06:53,440 --> 01:06:56,640
Speaker 4: to come to us? Why aren't we going to them?

1369
01:06:57,080 --> 01:07:00,440
Speaker 4: We now go into the community, bring all the jobs

1370
01:07:00,440 --> 01:07:03,160
Speaker 4: out are available, and we have people come in and

1371
01:07:03,200 --> 01:07:05,720
Speaker 4: we walked them through the process and you see, you

1372
01:07:05,800 --> 01:07:09,520
Speaker 4: got like eight hundred right, it's even better than the

1373
01:07:09,640 --> 01:07:12,479
Speaker 4: job there because we're finding out everything that you need,

1374
01:07:12,560 --> 01:07:16,360
Speaker 4: like what's going on with exactly you know? And because

1375
01:07:16,400 --> 01:07:20,360
Speaker 4: you're right, we would The old model was if you

1376
01:07:20,400 --> 01:07:21,040
Speaker 4: don't come down.

1377
01:07:20,960 --> 01:07:22,400
Speaker 5: And feel like this job application.

1378
01:07:22,480 --> 01:07:25,400
Speaker 4: I was like asking people, like, you know, y're paying

1379
01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:29,160
Speaker 4: all these recruiters, why aren't they people coming in? So

1380
01:07:29,200 --> 01:07:31,160
Speaker 4: we had to go to folks. Man, you got to

1381
01:07:31,160 --> 01:07:33,479
Speaker 4: meet people where they are. You can't meet people where

1382
01:07:33,520 --> 01:07:36,480
Speaker 4: you are, you know, you got to meet people where

1383
01:07:36,520 --> 01:07:38,080
Speaker 4: they are. And so I went down to the job

1384
01:07:38,120 --> 01:07:39,760
Speaker 4: fair that was in HALLMN the other day and there

1385
01:07:39,760 --> 01:07:43,680
Speaker 4: was about a bunch of brothers standing outside talking and

1386
01:07:43,680 --> 01:07:46,560
Speaker 4: they were afraid to walk inside the building. I'm telling

1387
01:07:46,560 --> 01:07:50,040
Speaker 4: you black men are beat down so much. Brother, They

1388
01:07:50,080 --> 01:07:52,520
Speaker 4: were so afraid to walk inside the building. So when

1389
01:07:52,560 --> 01:07:54,360
Speaker 4: I was going back to my car, I caught them

1390
01:07:54,400 --> 01:07:57,760
Speaker 4: in in the corner of my eye and I told

1391
01:07:57,880 --> 01:07:59,520
Speaker 4: my crew, so hold on for one moment, and I

1392
01:07:59,520 --> 01:08:01,919
Speaker 4: went over to to talk to the brothers. I said,

1393
01:08:01,960 --> 01:08:03,520
Speaker 4: you know what's happening. They said, well, we you know,

1394
01:08:03,600 --> 01:08:05,760
Speaker 4: we we you know, we know they're doing jobs in there.

1395
01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:07,680
Speaker 4: But I don't think we could go in. I've had

1396
01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:09,560
Speaker 4: some problem in my life. I said, no, it's not. Man,

1397
01:08:09,600 --> 01:08:11,720
Speaker 4: come on, we walking here together. You're gonna walk in

1398
01:08:11,880 --> 01:08:15,320
Speaker 4: with me and folks gonna give you the services that

1399
01:08:15,320 --> 01:08:20,479
Speaker 4: that you want. I gotta be substantive, but I gotta

1400
01:08:20,520 --> 01:08:26,080
Speaker 4: be symbolic. People need to believe again. They no longer believe,

1401
01:08:26,360 --> 01:08:29,200
Speaker 4: you know, they need to believe this. This ball headed,

1402
01:08:29,439 --> 01:08:33,640
Speaker 4: air ring wearing dyslexic arrested, rejected.

1403
01:08:34,200 --> 01:08:36,040
Speaker 5: He's now elected to be all mayor.

1404
01:08:36,120 --> 01:08:36,360
Speaker 2: Man.

1405
01:08:36,840 --> 01:08:45,680
Speaker 5: I mean that means the man God is good man.

1406
01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:47,400
Speaker 2: That's the hardest job. I'mna be honest.

1407
01:08:47,800 --> 01:08:51,760
Speaker 4: But but but if I do it right, it elevates us.

1408
01:08:52,880 --> 01:08:56,560
Speaker 4: It elevates us. If I do this right, it elevates

1409
01:08:56,640 --> 01:08:59,559
Speaker 4: us because nobody thought. Listen, God could have made me

1410
01:08:59,640 --> 01:09:02,000
Speaker 4: the mayor have some small town somewhere. He made me

1411
01:09:02,080 --> 01:09:06,040
Speaker 4: the mayor of the most important city on the globe.

1412
01:09:07,760 --> 01:09:08,080
Speaker 5: Country.

1413
01:09:08,760 --> 01:09:11,640
Speaker 2: You know, there's a country smaller than you.

1414
01:09:12,720 --> 01:09:16,680
Speaker 4: Aut like you doing this show man, you know your

1415
01:09:16,760 --> 01:09:19,840
Speaker 4: life you're talking about not only not only are you

1416
01:09:20,160 --> 01:09:23,680
Speaker 4: mentally sound, but you you talk health, You take care

1417
01:09:23,680 --> 01:09:24,320
Speaker 4: of your body.

1418
01:09:24,920 --> 01:09:28,160
Speaker 2: You you you're on the street, you're articulating issue.

1419
01:09:28,200 --> 01:09:31,240
Speaker 4: You doing this show here, Listen, all of us are

1420
01:09:31,240 --> 01:09:31,879
Speaker 4: gonna stumble.

1421
01:09:32,080 --> 01:09:35,280
Speaker 5: You can't be a black man and not stumbled in America.

1422
01:09:35,320 --> 01:09:35,519
Speaker 2: You know.

1423
01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:41,559
Speaker 4: But if we come together and and and and show

1424
01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:45,160
Speaker 4: how Because as you said, Democrat is trying to be

1425
01:09:45,200 --> 01:09:47,880
Speaker 4: so politically correct. They're trying to say everything right. You

1426
01:09:47,880 --> 01:09:51,960
Speaker 4: know that nobody believes in them anymore, and we need

1427
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:54,040
Speaker 4: to just be authentic.

1428
01:09:53,720 --> 01:09:54,960
Speaker 2: Take the partisan out of it.

1429
01:09:55,000 --> 01:09:57,880
Speaker 6: I think that's a problem as well, because that's almost

1430
01:09:57,920 --> 01:09:59,680
Speaker 6: that's gay, that's a bloods and crips, you know what

1431
01:09:59,680 --> 01:10:02,360
Speaker 6: I'm saying mentality as well, Like we just all need

1432
01:10:02,360 --> 01:10:04,920
Speaker 6: to work for the parties of the politicians, to work

1433
01:10:04,960 --> 01:10:07,280
Speaker 6: for the people, all people, not whether it's blue or

1434
01:10:07,320 --> 01:10:07,960
Speaker 6: red or whatever.

1435
01:10:08,240 --> 01:10:08,920
Speaker 2: I think it's hard.

1436
01:10:08,960 --> 01:10:14,400
Speaker 3: I think what you're saying is more more theoretical than actual,

1437
01:10:14,760 --> 01:10:17,360
Speaker 3: because you got to get a base in order for

1438
01:10:17,400 --> 01:10:19,840
Speaker 3: everybody has to have their base of people to get

1439
01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:23,760
Speaker 3: fundamentally exactly fundamental. So what I'm saying is appeal to

1440
01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:24,200
Speaker 3: the people.

1441
01:10:24,640 --> 01:10:25,120
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

1442
01:10:25,120 --> 01:10:26,599
Speaker 3: A long as you appeal to the people, I don't

1443
01:10:26,600 --> 01:10:28,759
Speaker 3: care what color you because I'm I don't care about

1444
01:10:28,760 --> 01:10:29,439
Speaker 3: the partisan ship.

1445
01:10:29,520 --> 01:10:31,240
Speaker 2: No more like that shit is old for me. I'm

1446
01:10:31,280 --> 01:10:31,960
Speaker 2: not saying that.

1447
01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:35,720
Speaker 3: Listen, if you talking about the issues, if you are

1448
01:10:35,760 --> 01:10:38,320
Speaker 3: ready to promise me and guarantee that you're going to

1449
01:10:38,360 --> 01:10:41,360
Speaker 3: do everything possible to address the issues and the needs

1450
01:10:41,360 --> 01:10:44,479
Speaker 3: of the communities that I come from directly, then that's

1451
01:10:44,479 --> 01:10:46,280
Speaker 3: the person for me. Other than that, then I don't

1452
01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:47,920
Speaker 3: see I don't see the need for that.

1453
01:10:49,600 --> 01:10:51,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna change the subject of lighten it up a little.

1454
01:10:51,880 --> 01:10:57,640
Speaker 4: That first of all, brother, what the message of the

1455
01:10:57,720 --> 01:11:00,960
Speaker 4: success must get to the people. That's right, we have

1456
01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:04,920
Speaker 4: some good stuff and when people do when people my

1457
01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:06,920
Speaker 4: son said the other day, or we were talking about this,

1458
01:11:07,479 --> 01:11:10,080
Speaker 4: the biggest thing that my team here, I didn't know

1459
01:11:10,120 --> 01:11:14,479
Speaker 4: that people don't know how much we're doing and that's

1460
01:11:14,479 --> 01:11:16,840
Speaker 4: a coordinative effort of not getting that down.

1461
01:11:17,160 --> 01:11:19,000
Speaker 5: And so we need to sit down with you and.

1462
01:11:18,960 --> 01:11:21,200
Speaker 4: Others and figure out how do we know people the

1463
01:11:21,240 --> 01:11:24,080
Speaker 4: accessibility like our hiring halls. We need to get on

1464
01:11:24,160 --> 01:11:26,320
Speaker 4: the street because I'm out handing our pamphlets to people.

1465
01:11:27,320 --> 01:11:32,080
Speaker 4: I'm walking through Nicha, walking through the community. But if

1466
01:11:32,120 --> 01:11:37,240
Speaker 4: they're better, better methods like this that you say, Eric, here, look,

1467
01:11:37,320 --> 01:11:38,280
Speaker 4: this is a good method.

1468
01:11:38,320 --> 01:11:39,800
Speaker 2: So we could get this down. We can walk the

1469
01:11:39,800 --> 01:11:40,479
Speaker 2: streets together.

1470
01:11:40,920 --> 01:11:42,240
Speaker 3: That's to me and I wanted to have with you

1471
01:11:42,400 --> 01:11:51,599
Speaker 3: because because murder, for me is everything else is incentive used,

1472
01:11:52,000 --> 01:11:56,360
Speaker 3: publicized and marketing like murder to our community as who's

1473
01:11:56,360 --> 01:12:00,400
Speaker 3: marketing the positivity, who's showing the quote unquote real gangsters

1474
01:12:00,439 --> 01:12:02,759
Speaker 3: that's stopping the violence in the Community's showing the people

1475
01:12:02,760 --> 01:12:05,040
Speaker 3: that's putting us on the right path. Right, So if

1476
01:12:05,040 --> 01:12:06,920
Speaker 3: we do, if we don't put the same amount of

1477
01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:08,840
Speaker 3: money that they or not, because we know that they're

1478
01:12:08,840 --> 01:12:10,479
Speaker 3: gonna put way more money. But if we don't, we

1479
01:12:10,520 --> 01:12:13,240
Speaker 3: don't got billboards showing the leaders in our community that's

1480
01:12:13,280 --> 01:12:15,360
Speaker 3: doing this, and we ain't on the radio stations showing

1481
01:12:15,400 --> 01:12:16,519
Speaker 3: leaders that's doing positive.

1482
01:12:16,520 --> 01:12:17,880
Speaker 2: But we ain't got the leaders in.

1483
01:12:17,920 --> 01:12:20,360
Speaker 3: Our communities doing positive stuff at Summer Jam and all

1484
01:12:20,360 --> 01:12:23,400
Speaker 3: of those those places, then our kids gonna think the

1485
01:12:23,439 --> 01:12:26,160
Speaker 3: only way to win is to do negative doing some

1486
01:12:26,240 --> 01:12:26,679
Speaker 3: drill ship.

1487
01:12:28,280 --> 01:12:32,800
Speaker 2: D's know. That's what it's about. We got to market more,

1488
01:12:32,880 --> 01:12:34,200
Speaker 2: light up the situation a little bit.

1489
01:12:34,720 --> 01:12:39,360
Speaker 1: But this is like conversation.

1490
01:12:40,840 --> 01:12:43,799
Speaker 4: And look, let me tell yourself that matth I enjoy

1491
01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:47,400
Speaker 4: so much to be able to and and and and

1492
01:12:47,600 --> 01:12:51,880
Speaker 4: just be among us us and have real conversations. You

1493
01:12:51,880 --> 01:12:54,599
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, Bill Deblosio would not have flown

1494
01:12:54,640 --> 01:12:56,519
Speaker 4: in Miami and sit here and you.

1495
01:12:56,479 --> 01:12:58,400
Speaker 5: Know, having a drink. It's just junking.

1496
01:12:58,760 --> 01:13:01,840
Speaker 4: This is this is an oppertunity we need to capitalize on.

1497
01:13:01,920 --> 01:13:02,840
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

1498
01:13:02,960 --> 01:13:06,800
Speaker 4: We be able to have real, authentic talk with each other.

1499
01:13:07,080 --> 01:13:09,600
Speaker 4: So this is this is what we're doing the barbershops.

1500
01:13:09,600 --> 01:13:12,400
Speaker 1: Man, it's beautiful. So we and drink chance. We have

1501
01:13:12,439 --> 01:13:20,559
Speaker 1: a famous story. Yes, our director, his name is Rosta

1502
01:13:21,439 --> 01:13:27,360
Speaker 1: from the Caribbe. My friend Sunny D came to his

1503
01:13:27,520 --> 01:13:31,320
Speaker 1: room one night. He's a vegan. He came to his

1504
01:13:31,400 --> 01:13:39,680
Speaker 1: room one night. He caught it with a shrimp pizza.

1505
01:13:40,960 --> 01:13:56,519
Speaker 2: Listen listen, you're not wrong. We heard you be fifth

1506
01:13:56,560 --> 01:13:59,280
Speaker 2: feet if street.

1507
01:13:59,320 --> 01:14:04,400
Speaker 1: I forgive you my brother because I fish tree sandwich.

1508
01:14:06,600 --> 01:14:07,800
Speaker 1: He had some type of ship.

1509
01:14:09,400 --> 01:14:09,840
Speaker 2: You know what I'm.

1510
01:14:11,800 --> 01:14:13,280
Speaker 1: So when they said they caught the mail with a

1511
01:14:13,320 --> 01:14:18,720
Speaker 1: fish salence and said you gotta forgive them, depended on what.

1512
01:14:20,640 --> 01:14:22,519
Speaker 2: Do we forgive Roster for having a strip?

1513
01:14:22,960 --> 01:14:25,760
Speaker 4: You know, first of all, it's not what he does.

1514
01:14:27,160 --> 01:14:30,400
Speaker 4: It's not what he does but a day. It's what

1515
01:14:30,520 --> 01:14:33,320
Speaker 4: he does every day, every day. Let me tell you something.

1516
01:14:33,360 --> 01:14:35,680
Speaker 5: I woke up. I don't know what year that was.

1517
01:14:35,840 --> 01:14:37,920
Speaker 5: DJ I woke up.

1518
01:14:38,560 --> 01:14:42,479
Speaker 4: I couldn't see the alarm clock and uh, I thought

1519
01:14:42,520 --> 01:14:44,439
Speaker 4: it was sleeping my eyes. I kept blinking it. It

1520
01:14:44,479 --> 01:14:48,240
Speaker 4: wouldn't go away. Uh. I decide, you know, black man, man,

1521
01:14:48,280 --> 01:14:50,400
Speaker 4: you got a dragons to the doctor. I was having

1522
01:14:50,439 --> 01:14:52,760
Speaker 4: a pain in my stomach. I thought it was I

1523
01:14:52,920 --> 01:14:56,240
Speaker 4: had colon cancer because it wouldn't move. It wasn't like

1524
01:14:56,360 --> 01:14:58,760
Speaker 4: gas moving around. I said, let me get my ass

1525
01:14:58,840 --> 01:15:01,120
Speaker 4: to the doctor. I get to the doctor. He does

1526
01:15:01,240 --> 01:15:04,599
Speaker 4: a he checks my colon, checked my stomach. I came

1527
01:15:04,640 --> 01:15:08,000
Speaker 4: out of sedation. He says, Eric, you have an altar,

1528
01:15:09,040 --> 01:15:11,160
Speaker 4: he said, but your real issues, your diabetes. You're gonna

1529
01:15:11,160 --> 01:15:13,559
Speaker 4: lose your sight in the year damn. And he says,

1530
01:15:13,560 --> 01:15:15,920
Speaker 4: you're gonna lose My fingers and toes were tingling all

1531
01:15:15,960 --> 01:15:18,160
Speaker 4: the time. He said, you know that's permanent nerve damage.

1532
01:15:18,160 --> 01:15:21,040
Speaker 4: You're gonna lose some fingers and toes. And he says

1533
01:15:21,080 --> 01:15:23,400
Speaker 4: that you know, it's not much you could we could do.

1534
01:15:24,400 --> 01:15:28,080
Speaker 4: And I went, that's how it was. You Then it

1535
01:15:28,240 --> 01:15:31,400
Speaker 4: was about six seven years ago, well six seven years ago,

1536
01:15:32,040 --> 01:15:34,320
Speaker 4: and I decided, Man, I went home, you know, God

1537
01:15:34,479 --> 01:15:37,599
Speaker 4: is you know the ancestors speak to us. And they

1538
01:15:37,640 --> 01:15:40,200
Speaker 4: gave me these pamphlets said living with diabetes. I had

1539
01:15:40,240 --> 01:15:45,040
Speaker 4: advanced stage diabetes. Your A one C should be five

1540
01:15:45,160 --> 01:15:51,919
Speaker 4: point six eight is you know COMA level. I was thirteen,

1541
01:15:53,320 --> 01:15:55,600
Speaker 4: you know, and the doctor told me that.

1542
01:15:56,439 --> 01:15:56,800
Speaker 2: I went on.

1543
01:15:56,880 --> 01:15:59,360
Speaker 4: They gave me these pamphlets and said living with diabetes,

1544
01:16:00,360 --> 01:16:06,160
Speaker 4: and I changed one word, one word reversing diabetes instead

1545
01:16:06,160 --> 01:16:08,839
Speaker 4: of living with diabetes. I said, I typed in reversing

1546
01:16:08,920 --> 01:16:12,200
Speaker 4: diabetes Google. All this stuff came up, and that's how

1547
01:16:12,240 --> 01:16:15,240
Speaker 4: I got on this journey. Your plant based it came

1548
01:16:15,360 --> 01:16:18,120
Speaker 4: up to show you know, it's not our DNA, man,

1549
01:16:18,160 --> 01:16:21,400
Speaker 4: it's our dinner man, we don't. You don't inherit these

1550
01:16:21,479 --> 01:16:23,920
Speaker 4: diseases because your parents had it.

1551
01:16:24,240 --> 01:16:28,679
Speaker 2: You inherit these diseases because the same ship a seat,

1552
01:16:29,080 --> 01:16:34,200
Speaker 2: you know, like everybody on the blockhead does, because you love.

1553
01:16:34,880 --> 01:16:41,000
Speaker 4: I loved so when I go back to my brother.

1554
01:16:41,920 --> 01:16:46,760
Speaker 4: And so it's not about being perfect. This is about saying,

1555
01:16:46,760 --> 01:16:49,360
Speaker 4: wait a minute, you know what, let me just monify

1556
01:16:49,520 --> 01:16:51,280
Speaker 4: some stuff. Let me make sure I eat at least,

1557
01:16:51,360 --> 01:16:53,280
Speaker 4: let me get a nice salad in at least, let

1558
01:16:53,320 --> 01:16:54,679
Speaker 4: me make sure I get that water.

1559
01:16:55,400 --> 01:16:55,760
Speaker 2: At least.

1560
01:16:55,800 --> 01:16:57,240
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna eat steak every night.

1561
01:16:57,560 --> 01:16:57,720
Speaker 6: You know.

1562
01:16:57,920 --> 01:17:01,640
Speaker 4: It's about let me modify my stuff based on what

1563
01:17:01,880 --> 01:17:03,559
Speaker 4: health issue I'm going through.

1564
01:17:03,840 --> 01:17:07,120
Speaker 2: And that's that modification. I went plant based.

1565
01:17:07,160 --> 01:17:11,920
Speaker 4: Three weeks later my vision came back, you know, six

1566
01:17:12,080 --> 01:17:14,519
Speaker 4: seven months later, all the nerve damage went away. I

1567
01:17:14,560 --> 01:17:17,639
Speaker 4: don't even when elsa. I don't even feel the ulsa anymore,

1568
01:17:17,880 --> 01:17:21,920
Speaker 4: no medicine, you know. So you know, if I feel like,

1569
01:17:22,040 --> 01:17:24,160
Speaker 4: you know what, I want a pizza with shrimps on it,

1570
01:17:24,200 --> 01:17:25,320
Speaker 4: you damn night, I'm gonna eat.

1571
01:17:25,200 --> 01:17:40,080
Speaker 1: It all right, listen, but listen also a yeah a

1572
01:17:40,120 --> 01:17:46,559
Speaker 1: while too. You know he's a prescantarier, right, there.

1573
01:17:48,960 --> 01:17:50,040
Speaker 2: With the glasses.

1574
01:17:52,280 --> 01:17:55,840
Speaker 1: But I've also heard that one night they ate ham

1575
01:17:55,920 --> 01:17:56,519
Speaker 1: one pizza.

1576
01:18:01,760 --> 01:18:02,240
Speaker 2: You told me.

1577
01:18:11,320 --> 01:18:28,920
Speaker 9: You around and said he went back, he went back,

1578
01:18:31,400 --> 01:18:35,720
Speaker 9: and you apposted you to like, hey man, be holding down.

1579
01:18:37,080 --> 01:18:39,080
Speaker 2: I'm just saying I'm doing it out there. That it's

1580
01:18:39,120 --> 01:18:40,759
Speaker 2: a lot of y'all you got. We have some flowers.

1581
01:18:40,920 --> 01:18:41,679
Speaker 2: We got some flowers.

1582
01:18:43,600 --> 01:18:43,840
Speaker 6: Listen.

1583
01:18:45,800 --> 01:18:48,640
Speaker 1: Our show was about giving people the flowers. I have

1584
01:18:48,920 --> 01:18:51,639
Speaker 1: never I am born and raised from New York City.

1585
01:18:52,439 --> 01:18:55,800
Speaker 1: I if you take me right now. You told me

1586
01:18:55,880 --> 01:18:57,920
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, you told me in anywhere else and

1587
01:18:58,000 --> 01:18:59,920
Speaker 1: say that this is where you're gonna be born from,

1588
01:19:00,320 --> 01:19:05,320
Speaker 1: I'm going to refuse it. I mean anywhere, not just

1589
01:19:05,720 --> 01:19:08,240
Speaker 1: because I said little and you laughed, and I know

1590
01:19:08,320 --> 01:19:09,240
Speaker 1: how this ship goes.

1591
01:19:11,680 --> 01:19:16,080
Speaker 2: Over there. My dad me, I'm born and raised from

1592
01:19:16,080 --> 01:19:16,639
Speaker 2: New York City.

1593
01:19:17,280 --> 01:19:17,400
Speaker 9: Uh.

1594
01:19:18,320 --> 01:19:21,599
Speaker 1: John Singleton was my friend before you know, passed away.

1595
01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:24,240
Speaker 1: And I sat down with John Singleton and I said, Yo,

1596
01:19:24,520 --> 01:19:26,400
Speaker 1: can you put me in snowfall? He looked at me

1597
01:19:26,479 --> 01:19:29,599
Speaker 1: and said you will never be in snowfall? And I said, damn,

1598
01:19:29,920 --> 01:19:32,320
Speaker 1: Like I thought we were friends. Like he's like your

1599
01:19:32,479 --> 01:19:37,640
Speaker 1: New York accents makes you limited to wherever you go,

1600
01:19:38,160 --> 01:19:40,000
Speaker 1: and I was like fuck, And I didn't know that

1601
01:19:40,720 --> 01:19:42,320
Speaker 1: at the time. He kept it real with me, and

1602
01:19:42,400 --> 01:19:44,360
Speaker 1: I was just like, fuck, it doesn't matter if I

1603
01:19:44,479 --> 01:19:51,000
Speaker 1: moved to Saudi Arabia, to Dubai to Monico. I keep flustering,

1604
01:19:51,080 --> 01:19:55,960
Speaker 1: rightbut because speaking, you know what, they're going to tell me.

1605
01:19:56,200 --> 01:19:59,800
Speaker 1: You're a New York person. And I will die being

1606
01:19:59,840 --> 01:20:01,960
Speaker 1: an New York person. And I will live my life,

1607
01:20:02,479 --> 01:20:05,639
Speaker 1: loving life knowing I'm a New York person. A jog

1608
01:20:05,880 --> 01:20:07,640
Speaker 1: and people see me and they look at me and

1609
01:20:07,680 --> 01:20:09,960
Speaker 1: they say, you're from New York because the way I

1610
01:20:10,200 --> 01:20:13,679
Speaker 1: job is from New York, the way I walk around

1611
01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:16,320
Speaker 1: in the barbershop, they know I'm from New York. The

1612
01:20:16,400 --> 01:20:19,200
Speaker 1: way I motherfucking tied my sneakers. They know I'm from

1613
01:20:19,240 --> 01:20:21,200
Speaker 1: New York. And I would be with miss what something

1614
01:20:21,240 --> 01:20:21,479
Speaker 1: on me?

1615
01:20:21,520 --> 01:20:24,760
Speaker 2: As something? My haircut? Yeah, my haircut is from New York.

1616
01:20:24,880 --> 01:20:25,439
Speaker 9: My dog.

1617
01:20:26,880 --> 01:20:34,280
Speaker 2: Twenty five years Listen, listen. I was one of the

1618
01:20:34,320 --> 01:20:37,360
Speaker 2: ball community and I left the ball community. They don't

1619
01:20:37,439 --> 01:20:39,680
Speaker 2: like it. As me and looking at all these ball

1620
01:20:39,760 --> 01:20:43,720
Speaker 2: motherfucker they don't like it. They don't like it.

1621
01:20:44,240 --> 01:20:46,479
Speaker 1: They're like, yo, wait a minute. And then and they

1622
01:20:46,479 --> 01:20:48,080
Speaker 1: didn't even realize I wasn't ball.

1623
01:20:48,520 --> 01:20:50,640
Speaker 2: I just liked my head low. My wife made me

1624
01:20:50,800 --> 01:20:51,360
Speaker 2: grow my air.

1625
01:20:51,479 --> 01:20:52,120
Speaker 1: She's over there.

1626
01:20:52,479 --> 01:20:53,360
Speaker 2: It's very true.

1627
01:20:54,160 --> 01:20:59,600
Speaker 1: But sir, but sir, you are not only mayor of

1628
01:20:59,760 --> 01:21:01,200
Speaker 1: the most important city.

1629
01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:04,519
Speaker 2: You are mayor of the city.

1630
01:21:05,720 --> 01:21:08,959
Speaker 1: When they defied any city in the world, they defied

1631
01:21:09,439 --> 01:21:13,880
Speaker 1: based upon New York. And we would be remorse to

1632
01:21:14,080 --> 01:21:36,959
Speaker 1: not give you. Miss Listen, I'm a dyslexic. Okay, Flowers,

1633
01:21:38,479 --> 01:21:42,960
Speaker 1: And yes, yes, yes, it's better than the Grammy because

1634
01:21:42,960 --> 01:21:48,519
Speaker 1: it's come for and you know we invited my my

1635
01:21:48,600 --> 01:21:51,439
Speaker 1: son is our brother. He and listen, Boycott murder is

1636
01:21:51,479 --> 01:21:54,360
Speaker 1: one of the greatest things I can ever see. So

1637
01:21:54,600 --> 01:21:58,000
Speaker 1: you know, we have never gave a guest host Flowers,

1638
01:21:58,240 --> 01:21:59,680
Speaker 1: but we want to give my song his.

1639
01:22:08,040 --> 01:22:14,320
Speaker 2: And this whole thing is about us coming together, you know.

1640
01:22:14,920 --> 01:22:16,800
Speaker 1: And if and you, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna

1641
01:22:16,880 --> 01:22:22,400
Speaker 1: let you be an honorary New Yorker tonight. Let me

1642
01:22:22,520 --> 01:22:25,040
Speaker 1: be an honorary Miamian every night.

1643
01:22:25,080 --> 01:22:25,800
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you be.

1644
01:22:25,800 --> 01:22:28,000
Speaker 1: An honorary New Yorker this night, even though you should,

1645
01:22:28,000 --> 01:22:32,479
Speaker 1: we want your time. Come on, look look at my

1646
01:22:32,600 --> 01:22:34,280
Speaker 1: song being you know, you got some great man.

1647
01:22:36,160 --> 01:22:37,920
Speaker 2: We wanted you to talk. But let me just tell

1648
01:22:37,920 --> 01:22:38,320
Speaker 2: you something.

1649
01:22:39,920 --> 01:22:43,200
Speaker 1: I think the dialogue, what we've been speaking about is

1650
01:22:43,320 --> 01:22:48,920
Speaker 1: making our city greater. And being from the Bronx, being

1651
01:22:49,000 --> 01:22:52,800
Speaker 1: from Brooklyn, moving to Queens, me being you know, from

1652
01:22:52,920 --> 01:22:56,800
Speaker 1: Queens with a lot of relations to the Bronx, none

1653
01:22:56,840 --> 01:23:00,960
Speaker 1: of them. I feel like the Bronx is coming up

1654
01:23:01,040 --> 01:23:07,200
Speaker 1: now man and everything now jee daniss yo, I'm like,

1655
01:23:07,439 --> 01:23:08,120
Speaker 1: I can get a cheese.

1656
01:23:08,200 --> 01:23:13,280
Speaker 2: Dat we got is real.

1657
01:23:13,600 --> 01:23:16,720
Speaker 4: We gotta be careful that it doesn't come up and

1658
01:23:16,840 --> 01:23:18,439
Speaker 4: we lose the people who were there.

1659
01:23:18,520 --> 01:23:21,800
Speaker 1: The gentrification, right, we talked aboutification, Yes, yes, we got

1660
01:23:21,960 --> 01:23:23,960
Speaker 1: You don't get gentification is good sometimes I do.

1661
01:23:24,200 --> 01:23:28,400
Speaker 4: No, No, it's what Diversity is good. Displacement is not,

1662
01:23:29,640 --> 01:23:32,479
Speaker 4: you know. And so there, folks, the Bronx we got,

1663
01:23:32,680 --> 01:23:35,040
Speaker 4: we got it wrong in other boroughs. We got to

1664
01:23:35,080 --> 01:23:37,639
Speaker 4: get it right in the Bronx and other process. It's

1665
01:23:37,680 --> 01:23:39,719
Speaker 4: South to make a Queens shops, to make a Queens

1666
01:23:39,760 --> 01:23:41,400
Speaker 4: there's a lot of building going on there.

1667
01:23:42,000 --> 01:23:44,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna be honest. I'm being honest indual for

1668
01:23:44,920 --> 01:23:49,600
Speaker 1: one second. I went to Brooklyn in the nineties and

1669
01:23:49,680 --> 01:23:52,040
Speaker 1: I'll go to soho house in Brooklyn, I get a

1670
01:23:52,040 --> 01:23:52,519
Speaker 1: little better.

1671
01:23:53,920 --> 01:23:57,040
Speaker 2: I like the people that live there in Brooklyn before

1672
01:23:58,760 --> 01:24:00,880
Speaker 2: talking about people in Fort Green.

1673
01:24:01,160 --> 01:24:02,920
Speaker 1: I can't relate to the people that was already in

1674
01:24:03,000 --> 01:24:06,120
Speaker 1: Williamsburg that I didn't know prior to that anyway, So

1675
01:24:06,600 --> 01:24:08,680
Speaker 1: is that a difference, because I mean, I don't know.

1676
01:24:08,760 --> 01:24:09,760
Speaker 1: Did that sound a little crazy?

1677
01:24:09,840 --> 01:24:09,880
Speaker 6: No?

1678
01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:11,320
Speaker 2: No, no, no, you know what I'm saying. Is I

1679
01:24:11,479 --> 01:24:12,760
Speaker 2: related to the people in Fort Green.

1680
01:24:12,880 --> 01:24:16,360
Speaker 1: I related to the people in a farragant, but I

1681
01:24:16,400 --> 01:24:19,000
Speaker 1: didn't relate to the people that was across from there

1682
01:24:19,560 --> 01:24:22,000
Speaker 1: that they digied as well, right right, right?

1683
01:24:22,080 --> 01:24:25,680
Speaker 5: So no, So here's the movement. This is what we're

1684
01:24:25,800 --> 01:24:27,840
Speaker 5: doing when we're building now.

1685
01:24:28,760 --> 01:24:31,120
Speaker 4: Is that you if you are like we did a

1686
01:24:31,160 --> 01:24:35,760
Speaker 4: project Willi's point, you know, we're changing Willi's point. We're

1687
01:24:35,760 --> 01:24:39,400
Speaker 4: building twenty five hundred units of affordable housing, one hundred

1688
01:24:39,400 --> 01:24:42,560
Speaker 4: percent of affordable housing, union jobs, a new school of

1689
01:24:43,439 --> 01:24:46,800
Speaker 4: open space. You remember how Willis's point was, you know,

1690
01:24:47,000 --> 01:24:50,559
Speaker 4: for all those years. So as we're building now, we're said, listen,

1691
01:24:50,640 --> 01:24:52,400
Speaker 4: we got to make sure that people who are building

1692
01:24:52,640 --> 01:24:55,160
Speaker 4: can afford to stay in the city, you know, because

1693
01:24:55,200 --> 01:24:58,920
Speaker 4: we were imaging black and brown people from the city

1694
01:24:58,960 --> 01:25:01,040
Speaker 4: of New York. We're saying, listen, folks got to stay

1695
01:25:01,120 --> 01:25:04,519
Speaker 4: in the city so it could be you could develop

1696
01:25:04,840 --> 01:25:05,840
Speaker 4: without displacing.

1697
01:25:07,120 --> 01:25:11,280
Speaker 3: I want to say one question. The young kids in Colombia,

1698
01:25:13,680 --> 01:25:21,280
Speaker 3: Columbia Columbia College right now, bring up they've actually been

1699
01:25:21,360 --> 01:25:24,800
Speaker 3: protesting against the war in Gaza, and I seem like

1700
01:25:24,840 --> 01:25:28,280
Speaker 3: one hundred and eight of them were arrested in right, Like,

1701
01:25:28,800 --> 01:25:31,080
Speaker 3: do we think that's okay that the kids are being arrested?

1702
01:25:31,680 --> 01:25:36,120
Speaker 4: You know, I don't think where is where this whole

1703
01:25:36,280 --> 01:25:40,360
Speaker 4: issue we can't for people want to forget what happened

1704
01:25:41,520 --> 01:25:44,120
Speaker 4: October seventh was real and a lot of people I

1705
01:25:44,200 --> 01:25:47,439
Speaker 4: think with the big mistake that people are not doing

1706
01:25:47,520 --> 01:25:49,960
Speaker 4: is showing what really happened there. We're reading about it,

1707
01:25:50,040 --> 01:25:53,720
Speaker 4: that's one thing, but if you see the actual what

1708
01:25:53,960 --> 01:25:57,439
Speaker 4: happened there to innocent people. Those are people who had

1709
01:25:57,479 --> 01:26:02,000
Speaker 4: a that was a peace concert that was saying we

1710
01:26:02,120 --> 01:26:04,080
Speaker 4: want to fight to tear down the wall so the

1711
01:26:04,240 --> 01:26:09,120
Speaker 4: Palestinians and Israelis can give together. I mean, to go

1712
01:26:09,360 --> 01:26:12,439
Speaker 4: there and cut off someone's breasts and use it as

1713
01:26:12,479 --> 01:26:15,720
Speaker 4: a football to rape and to I mean, I mean,

1714
01:26:15,800 --> 01:26:19,440
Speaker 4: it was so inhumane when you look at a documentary

1715
01:26:19,439 --> 01:26:21,320
Speaker 4: they didn't even want to show people because of.

1716
01:26:22,640 --> 01:26:25,040
Speaker 3: I want to just give a little pushback. There has

1717
01:26:25,160 --> 01:26:27,759
Speaker 3: never been any confirmed rapes. I know that the murders

1718
01:26:27,800 --> 01:26:31,479
Speaker 3: have happened, but there has not been any yet confirmed rape.

1719
01:26:31,520 --> 01:26:33,640
Speaker 3: So I'm just saying that right there, there's never been

1720
01:26:33,680 --> 01:26:36,360
Speaker 3: any footage or any documentation of that.

1721
01:26:37,640 --> 01:26:38,759
Speaker 2: Even let me just finish.

1722
01:26:39,240 --> 01:26:42,280
Speaker 3: Even if President stepped back and said, I haven't actually

1723
01:26:42,360 --> 01:26:44,439
Speaker 3: seen these things and I'm talking all right, So he

1724
01:26:44,520 --> 01:26:47,040
Speaker 3: said that, So for what I'm saying, we're at the

1725
01:26:47,080 --> 01:26:52,320
Speaker 3: stage now where almost forty thousand people have been so

1726
01:26:52,680 --> 01:26:56,200
Speaker 3: that's pretty much that's called collective punishment, right, and the

1727
01:26:56,320 --> 01:26:57,880
Speaker 3: majority of them are babies and women.

1728
01:26:58,600 --> 01:26:58,720
Speaker 2: Right.

1729
01:26:59,320 --> 01:27:02,000
Speaker 3: So if we having a conversation because I've heard you

1730
01:27:02,080 --> 01:27:04,040
Speaker 3: say that, I heard you somebody say, hey, you want

1731
01:27:04,040 --> 01:27:05,880
Speaker 3: to end the genesis of this that you said give

1732
01:27:06,000 --> 01:27:08,639
Speaker 3: back the hostages, and I thought that was I didn't

1733
01:27:08,680 --> 01:27:10,840
Speaker 3: think that was the statement to make, knowing that you

1734
01:27:10,960 --> 01:27:15,200
Speaker 3: have constituents who are Palestinians, right, you have constituents.

1735
01:27:14,880 --> 01:27:17,840
Speaker 4: Disagree, but didn't look at the history view. Let's let's

1736
01:27:17,920 --> 01:27:21,240
Speaker 4: view a person from their totality. Two thousand and one

1737
01:27:22,200 --> 01:27:27,480
Speaker 4: nine eleven happens. They started rounding up young Muslims and Palestinians.

1738
01:27:28,360 --> 01:27:31,320
Speaker 4: I went to Palestinians, Muslims and others and say this

1739
01:27:31,439 --> 01:27:33,000
Speaker 4: is wrong what they doing to these young men. I

1740
01:27:33,080 --> 01:27:35,200
Speaker 4: went to thirty first Street and Third Avenue and had

1741
01:27:35,240 --> 01:27:37,160
Speaker 4: a press conference. I couldn't get one Muslim to.

1742
01:27:37,160 --> 01:27:37,760
Speaker 2: Stand with me.

1743
01:27:37,840 --> 01:27:41,000
Speaker 4: I was by myself women with being attacked for wearing

1744
01:27:41,080 --> 01:27:44,080
Speaker 4: he jobs in the city. I rounded up and say

1745
01:27:44,720 --> 01:27:46,960
Speaker 4: we need to stop these women from being attacked. I

1746
01:27:47,040 --> 01:27:49,439
Speaker 4: went to march with them to do so. I couldn't

1747
01:27:49,479 --> 01:27:52,040
Speaker 4: get Muslim leaders to march with me to do so.

1748
01:27:52,439 --> 01:27:56,200
Speaker 4: At the largest protest, when Donald Trump said the Muslim

1749
01:27:56,280 --> 01:27:59,840
Speaker 4: band at brooklyn Borough Hall with the Jiminese community to

1750
01:28:00,720 --> 01:28:04,200
Speaker 4: push you back against it, these Muslims leaders say, listen,

1751
01:28:04,280 --> 01:28:06,559
Speaker 4: y'all can say which I want. This guy has been

1752
01:28:06,680 --> 01:28:11,679
Speaker 4: with us since two thousand and one. I'm consistent across

1753
01:28:12,040 --> 01:28:16,200
Speaker 4: across the board. When people things happen to people, I'm

1754
01:28:16,280 --> 01:28:19,519
Speaker 4: going to speak out against it. It's not about anti

1755
01:28:19,680 --> 01:28:21,320
Speaker 4: Palestinian pro but I.

1756
01:28:21,400 --> 01:28:24,519
Speaker 3: Just don't I think the Palestinian community doesn't believe that

1757
01:28:24,680 --> 01:28:29,120
Speaker 3: you you speak up or against to collective punishment and

1758
01:28:29,240 --> 01:28:31,360
Speaker 3: murder of baby and children in Palestine right now.

1759
01:28:31,479 --> 01:28:33,040
Speaker 2: Because I disagree with you. I've heard you.

1760
01:28:33,520 --> 01:28:36,519
Speaker 3: I heard you Vietmaly say what happened on October seventh

1761
01:28:36,720 --> 01:28:38,800
Speaker 3: was an issue. I heard you say for sending home

1762
01:28:38,880 --> 01:28:41,840
Speaker 3: to hostages, but I have yet to hear you say, hey,

1763
01:28:42,200 --> 01:28:43,160
Speaker 3: we need to stop this war.

1764
01:28:43,280 --> 01:28:46,920
Speaker 2: These kids are being killed senselessly, these women are being killed.

1765
01:28:47,040 --> 01:28:51,280
Speaker 4: I'm more than ones brother that no, no, no child

1766
01:28:51,640 --> 01:28:54,240
Speaker 4: should be dying because of the action as a man.

1767
01:28:54,640 --> 01:28:58,920
Speaker 5: But let's be let's be consistent about this right now.

1768
01:28:59,120 --> 01:29:04,960
Speaker 4: And Yemen, Muslims are killing babies against each other. And Yemen,

1769
01:29:05,080 --> 01:29:06,800
Speaker 4: and I've been calling for years we need to stop

1770
01:29:06,840 --> 01:29:11,880
Speaker 4: this wall Yemen and Lebanon, husband Lah is bombing and

1771
01:29:12,040 --> 01:29:16,519
Speaker 4: killing innocent people in Husbilan in Nigeria, a group of

1772
01:29:17,400 --> 01:29:22,200
Speaker 4: Muslim terrorists kidnapped over one hundred black girls, took them

1773
01:29:22,240 --> 01:29:24,840
Speaker 4: from their families, and I stood up at Borough Hall

1774
01:29:24,880 --> 01:29:27,120
Speaker 4: and said, listen, we shouldn't be doing this to these girls.

1775
01:29:27,439 --> 01:29:29,880
Speaker 4: So we can't all of a sudden find this energy

1776
01:29:30,200 --> 01:29:33,360
Speaker 4: to talk about one act. I'm saying globally, we should

1777
01:29:33,439 --> 01:29:36,320
Speaker 4: not be doing this. And so I haven't heard these

1778
01:29:36,360 --> 01:29:38,960
Speaker 4: groups who are now running on the streets. Now we're

1779
01:29:39,040 --> 01:29:42,519
Speaker 4: with them. When those Nigerian girls were kidnapped, they weren't.

1780
01:29:42,280 --> 01:29:42,800
Speaker 2: Staying with me.

1781
01:29:43,000 --> 01:29:44,640
Speaker 3: Well, a lot of them probably didn't know, like a

1782
01:29:44,680 --> 01:29:46,880
Speaker 3: lot of there's a lot of information, Like I didn't

1783
01:29:46,880 --> 01:29:49,000
Speaker 3: even know what's going on in Congo too recently, right

1784
01:29:49,160 --> 01:29:51,960
Speaker 3: as a black man. So when you start realizing what's

1785
01:29:52,000 --> 01:29:54,080
Speaker 3: going on in the Congo and you start realizing what

1786
01:29:54,200 --> 01:29:56,799
Speaker 3: happened in Haiti, all of these things, then you're focused

1787
01:29:56,800 --> 01:29:58,400
Speaker 3: on them. But I'm just saying right now, when we

1788
01:29:59,080 --> 01:30:02,360
Speaker 3: when we're looking at videos of babies just being blown up,

1789
01:30:02,400 --> 01:30:06,200
Speaker 3: playing games, playing hopscotch right like this, these are things

1790
01:30:06,240 --> 01:30:08,800
Speaker 3: that literally happen. This is not like something we think of.

1791
01:30:09,920 --> 01:30:13,960
Speaker 3: So I think just the humane part of us to say, hey,

1792
01:30:14,560 --> 01:30:15,400
Speaker 3: that needs to stop.

1793
01:30:15,680 --> 01:30:19,519
Speaker 4: And Bro said that more than ones and stop. The

1794
01:30:19,640 --> 01:30:23,479
Speaker 4: fastest way to stop that Hamas is a terrorist. Or

1795
01:30:24,320 --> 01:30:27,240
Speaker 4: if you were in Israel when they did that, brother,

1796
01:30:27,600 --> 01:30:28,519
Speaker 4: they would have killed.

1797
01:30:28,360 --> 01:30:29,760
Speaker 2: You, And I understand that.

1798
01:30:29,840 --> 01:30:33,120
Speaker 3: But my thing is this, if they would have killed me,

1799
01:30:33,439 --> 01:30:35,599
Speaker 3: it doesn't that has nothing to do with those babies

1800
01:30:35,640 --> 01:30:38,559
Speaker 3: and a woman. So that's what I'm trying to say. Okay,

1801
01:30:38,600 --> 01:30:41,519
Speaker 3: So that's the issue that everybody's having. No one is

1802
01:30:41,600 --> 01:30:42,519
Speaker 3: denying what happened on.

1803
01:30:42,520 --> 01:30:44,679
Speaker 2: October seventh was a horrific situation.

1804
01:30:44,960 --> 01:30:47,599
Speaker 3: No one in the world is going to say anything

1805
01:30:47,680 --> 01:30:49,880
Speaker 3: else except for the people who probably did it.

1806
01:30:50,200 --> 01:30:51,519
Speaker 2: But everyone else is saying.

1807
01:30:51,560 --> 01:30:55,799
Speaker 3: At this point, almost forty thousand people, mainly women and children,

1808
01:30:55,840 --> 01:30:59,960
Speaker 3: are dying that if the humanity and our leaders can't say, Okay,

1809
01:31:00,360 --> 01:31:02,920
Speaker 3: we need to stop this. If you're trying to get

1810
01:31:02,960 --> 01:31:05,120
Speaker 3: Hamas and you need to figure out a strategy that

1811
01:31:05,240 --> 01:31:06,800
Speaker 3: you go in and get the people who did what

1812
01:31:06,840 --> 01:31:09,479
Speaker 3: they're supposed to do, but killing babies and women every day,

1813
01:31:09,479 --> 01:31:10,479
Speaker 3: it's just not It.

1814
01:31:10,439 --> 01:31:13,360
Speaker 2: Would only perpetuate it for situation. And I don't I

1815
01:31:13,360 --> 01:31:14,600
Speaker 2: don't listen. I don't disagree with you.

1816
01:31:14,720 --> 01:31:17,720
Speaker 4: But but first of all, I'm very delicate about using

1817
01:31:17,760 --> 01:31:21,479
Speaker 4: the term everybody, because there's no such thing as everybody.

1818
01:31:21,640 --> 01:31:25,400
Speaker 4: There is everybody, there's not a monolithic view on everything.

1819
01:31:25,720 --> 01:31:27,200
Speaker 2: I agree with that, you know.

1820
01:31:27,479 --> 01:31:29,880
Speaker 4: So you know, you had a group of people that

1821
01:31:30,040 --> 01:31:33,040
Speaker 4: was on the training of the day chanting Harmas is

1822
01:31:33,080 --> 01:31:34,840
Speaker 4: our hero, Harmas is our hero.

1823
01:31:34,880 --> 01:31:38,599
Speaker 3: In New York City, New York City. That's a terrible thing.

1824
01:31:38,680 --> 01:31:41,600
Speaker 3: But you don't you don't see how that's being created. No,

1825
01:31:42,200 --> 01:31:44,320
Speaker 3: you don't see how the narrative is being created, right,

1826
01:31:44,439 --> 01:31:46,960
Speaker 3: because what happens is it's like anything else when you

1827
01:31:47,080 --> 01:31:50,160
Speaker 3: start seeing people or get something these people are it's

1828
01:31:50,240 --> 01:31:51,799
Speaker 3: meant is a mental illness.

1829
01:31:52,000 --> 01:31:55,160
Speaker 2: At some point, I agree that was a mental illness,

1830
01:31:55,240 --> 01:31:56,040
Speaker 2: and I agree.

1831
01:31:55,960 --> 01:31:58,280
Speaker 3: This is this is how what what was happening right

1832
01:31:58,320 --> 01:32:03,160
Speaker 3: now is this isuation is creating terrorists, people that didn't

1833
01:32:03,200 --> 01:32:06,320
Speaker 3: know anything. I'm watching. There's levels of anger that people

1834
01:32:06,320 --> 01:32:15,680
Speaker 3: are like damn on both sides. Basic we as as leadership, right, well,

1835
01:32:15,720 --> 01:32:17,000
Speaker 3: we have to be able to say is like this

1836
01:32:17,080 --> 01:32:18,160
Speaker 3: ship needs to stop.

1837
01:32:18,640 --> 01:32:22,880
Speaker 4: And we don't disagree. Brother, everyone everyone right. And I've

1838
01:32:22,920 --> 01:32:26,480
Speaker 4: been I think everyone and listened. I've been in Palestine.

1839
01:32:26,880 --> 01:32:29,599
Speaker 4: I sat down with Palistine and leaders. I've been in Israel.

1840
01:32:29,880 --> 01:32:33,599
Speaker 4: I sat down with Israeli elitist And if we believe

1841
01:32:34,280 --> 01:32:37,360
Speaker 4: this battle that has been going on, I mean since

1842
01:32:37,400 --> 01:32:42,680
Speaker 4: the days of Solomon and Gomarra, you know, if we

1843
01:32:42,840 --> 01:32:44,720
Speaker 4: believe the mayor of the City of New York is

1844
01:32:44,800 --> 01:32:50,599
Speaker 4: going to resolve that. Yeah, So I'm saying no innocent

1845
01:32:50,720 --> 01:32:53,439
Speaker 4: child should die. But I'm also not in support of

1846
01:32:53,640 --> 01:32:59,160
Speaker 4: someone the the First of all, hostages who have been

1847
01:32:59,200 --> 01:33:03,600
Speaker 4: released talked about being raped. But if something like that

1848
01:33:03,840 --> 01:33:07,880
Speaker 4: happens on October seventh and people are on the street

1849
01:33:08,280 --> 01:33:10,600
Speaker 4: cheering and celebrating on October.

1850
01:33:10,240 --> 01:33:13,599
Speaker 2: Eighth, that's in humane. It isn't human. That's in humane.

1851
01:33:13,920 --> 01:33:18,040
Speaker 4: That's you can talk about your battle of free and

1852
01:33:18,240 --> 01:33:22,519
Speaker 4: Palestine and Gaza without looking at someone that's in the

1853
01:33:22,640 --> 01:33:26,200
Speaker 4: pain of devastation in the morning and celebrate that. That's

1854
01:33:26,479 --> 01:33:29,479
Speaker 4: that's not healthy. And that is what I denounced. I

1855
01:33:29,640 --> 01:33:31,800
Speaker 4: denounced innocent children dying.

1856
01:33:32,080 --> 01:33:32,559
Speaker 2: And there's a.

1857
01:33:32,640 --> 01:33:36,759
Speaker 4: Record from my entire life of talking about what's playing

1858
01:33:36,840 --> 01:33:37,880
Speaker 4: out across the globe.

1859
01:33:37,960 --> 01:33:40,679
Speaker 3: Doesn't it doesn't come across that way. When somebody says

1860
01:33:40,760 --> 01:33:43,639
Speaker 3: the innocent kish and dying, you say free to hostages.

1861
01:33:44,840 --> 01:33:48,400
Speaker 4: That wasn't That wasn't That was my I'm very consistent.

1862
01:33:48,960 --> 01:33:50,439
Speaker 4: There's one thing people people can say.

1863
01:33:50,520 --> 01:33:52,439
Speaker 3: That's a video that I've seen online that God was like,

1864
01:33:52,520 --> 01:33:54,400
Speaker 3: stop the genesize stuff, and you walked up to him

1865
01:33:54,400 --> 01:33:56,320
Speaker 3: and said free to hostages and walked off.

1866
01:33:56,320 --> 01:33:59,439
Speaker 5: Right they listen. I'm very consistent in my message.

1867
01:33:59,640 --> 01:34:03,599
Speaker 4: I said on October seventh, destroy Hermas and free the hostages.

1868
01:34:04,320 --> 01:34:08,280
Speaker 5: I said on October thirtieth, January February. I'm the same.

1869
01:34:08,840 --> 01:34:10,800
Speaker 4: I'm the same. Now, one can say, Wellever, I don't

1870
01:34:10,800 --> 01:34:13,880
Speaker 4: agree with you. You have that right my post.

1871
01:34:13,920 --> 01:34:15,360
Speaker 2: I don't. It's not that I don't. I don't talk

1872
01:34:15,400 --> 01:34:18,080
Speaker 2: about you, and I don't agree with that statement.

1873
01:34:18,360 --> 01:34:21,280
Speaker 3: When someone is saying stop genisized, stop killing innocent baby

1874
01:34:21,320 --> 01:34:24,280
Speaker 3: this and your response to that is free to hostages,

1875
01:34:24,760 --> 01:34:27,400
Speaker 3: You're you're making it seem that is justified. As long

1876
01:34:27,439 --> 01:34:29,519
Speaker 3: as the hostages are there, we can kill as many

1877
01:34:29,560 --> 01:34:31,479
Speaker 3: people possible as long as you have hostage. That's not

1878
01:34:31,479 --> 01:34:33,400
Speaker 3: what I'm saying, but that's what it said. First, you say,

1879
01:34:33,479 --> 01:34:34,519
Speaker 3: first of all, make that.

1880
01:34:35,120 --> 01:34:39,800
Speaker 4: If someone if someone, if someone takes a clip and

1881
01:34:39,920 --> 01:34:42,640
Speaker 4: they omit what they've been saying, No.

1882
01:34:42,720 --> 01:34:44,559
Speaker 2: They didn't omit. It was a full clip. There wasn't

1883
01:34:44,680 --> 01:34:45,479
Speaker 2: there wasn't no sound.

1884
01:34:47,040 --> 01:34:49,200
Speaker 4: First of all, the people are saying, we want you

1885
01:34:49,400 --> 01:34:53,640
Speaker 4: to say this specifically, but they're doing that to every day,

1886
01:34:53,720 --> 01:34:55,599
Speaker 4: doing it on both sides though. That's not and that's

1887
01:34:55,600 --> 01:34:58,080
Speaker 4: why I don't play that. Okay, So listen, First of all,

1888
01:34:58,120 --> 01:34:59,960
Speaker 4: this is I'm a big believer, and when I think

1889
01:35:00,120 --> 01:35:03,479
Speaker 4: this would answer it altogether, I was angry as hell

1890
01:35:03,840 --> 01:35:06,360
Speaker 4: when I couldn't get Muslim leaders to stand with me

1891
01:35:06,439 --> 01:35:08,200
Speaker 4: in two thousand and one when these young men were

1892
01:35:08,240 --> 01:35:10,559
Speaker 4: being rounded up. I was angry when I couldn't get

1893
01:35:10,880 --> 01:35:13,479
Speaker 4: them to stand with me. When women were being attacked

1894
01:35:13,520 --> 01:35:16,000
Speaker 4: for wearing the he job. I was angry over and

1895
01:35:16,080 --> 01:35:18,800
Speaker 4: over again. But I said to myself in my time

1896
01:35:18,880 --> 01:35:21,639
Speaker 4: of reflection, Eric, you don't have the right to judge people.

1897
01:35:21,760 --> 01:35:22,439
Speaker 5: God judges.

1898
01:35:23,200 --> 01:35:25,439
Speaker 4: Anyone that's in that street right now that think they're

1899
01:35:25,439 --> 01:35:27,960
Speaker 4: going to judge me, then they don't believe in the

1900
01:35:28,000 --> 01:35:30,320
Speaker 4: religion they say they believe in my anger?

1901
01:35:30,439 --> 01:35:33,320
Speaker 2: Can I judge you? God judges, I don't judge you.

1902
01:35:33,520 --> 01:35:34,719
Speaker 2: I got to live my life.

1903
01:35:35,000 --> 01:35:36,960
Speaker 4: And so if people saying whatever, do you just say

1904
01:35:37,000 --> 01:35:39,639
Speaker 4: this sentence the way you want, that's your problem.

1905
01:35:39,680 --> 01:35:41,639
Speaker 5: That's not my problem. I'm judged by God.

1906
01:35:42,040 --> 01:35:45,080
Speaker 3: I just say that you have constituents, brother Helstonians and

1907
01:35:45,200 --> 01:35:45,680
Speaker 3: Muslim I do.

1908
01:35:46,000 --> 01:35:47,519
Speaker 2: And I think that the same way.

1909
01:35:47,880 --> 01:35:50,320
Speaker 3: You've been very vocal, because I've heard you very vocal

1910
01:35:50,400 --> 01:35:53,200
Speaker 3: say what happened on October seventh. I've heard you seen

1911
01:35:53,280 --> 01:35:57,519
Speaker 3: you in situations denouncing those situations all the time, and

1912
01:35:57,640 --> 01:36:00,320
Speaker 3: I've never heard you be vocal about the else and

1913
01:36:00,400 --> 01:36:01,599
Speaker 3: that babies and kids who dying.

1914
01:36:01,640 --> 01:36:04,760
Speaker 2: That's not true. I just haven't seen it right now.

1915
01:36:07,920 --> 01:36:12,839
Speaker 4: Keep in mind, Palestinian, the loudest is not the majority.

1916
01:36:13,120 --> 01:36:17,640
Speaker 4: Palestinian leaders support me, Muslims leaders support me, Ayrabs support me.

1917
01:36:18,439 --> 01:36:21,600
Speaker 4: So just because the loudest is saying something that's not

1918
01:36:21,720 --> 01:36:24,360
Speaker 4: the majority and so booing to me, yelling at me,

1919
01:36:24,600 --> 01:36:26,599
Speaker 4: cursing at me, I just told you have to beginning

1920
01:36:26,640 --> 01:36:28,680
Speaker 4: of this program, I walked in the classroom and I

1921
01:36:28,840 --> 01:36:30,840
Speaker 4: was yelled boo, tease, Listen.

1922
01:36:31,080 --> 01:36:31,800
Speaker 2: Is that all they got?

1923
01:36:32,920 --> 01:36:35,360
Speaker 4: You know, you gotta come to me more than calling

1924
01:36:35,439 --> 01:36:37,880
Speaker 4: me names and booing me and calling me this and that.

1925
01:36:38,600 --> 01:36:42,320
Speaker 4: I'm gonna live my life based on the principles that

1926
01:36:42,400 --> 01:36:45,920
Speaker 4: I've always had. I believe I'm authentic and I'm going

1927
01:36:46,000 --> 01:36:48,520
Speaker 4: to live my life the way my mother wanted.

1928
01:36:48,320 --> 01:36:50,479
Speaker 2: Me to live, and not everybody's gonna agree with that.

1929
01:36:51,360 --> 01:36:52,519
Speaker 2: You think everybody agree with you?

1930
01:36:52,760 --> 01:36:56,200
Speaker 3: No, like you said, I'm fine with it, and I

1931
01:36:56,320 --> 01:36:59,600
Speaker 3: staying ten toes down to anything I said, low with it.

1932
01:37:00,240 --> 01:37:01,280
Speaker 5: So why would I be like you?

1933
01:37:01,800 --> 01:37:02,200
Speaker 2: You should?

1934
01:37:02,240 --> 01:37:08,559
Speaker 3: But I'm always going to ask a question, especially right

1935
01:37:08,840 --> 01:37:11,240
Speaker 3: when something goes against my moral compass, and I feel

1936
01:37:11,280 --> 01:37:14,120
Speaker 3: like it's not okay, like as a human being, and

1937
01:37:14,200 --> 01:37:16,320
Speaker 3: certain things that I'm okay, I was, I wasn't okay

1938
01:37:16,400 --> 01:37:19,920
Speaker 3: what happened on October seventh. I don't condone any of that, right,

1939
01:37:20,040 --> 01:37:23,080
Speaker 3: but just watch constantly, watching babies and kids die every day.

1940
01:37:23,080 --> 01:37:25,519
Speaker 3: It's just not okay with me, and I think that everyone.

1941
01:37:25,600 --> 01:37:27,800
Speaker 3: It shouldn't be okay with everyone. And I'm gonna say

1942
01:37:27,800 --> 01:37:30,519
Speaker 3: that absolute. There's no there's no human being of good

1943
01:37:30,600 --> 01:37:33,400
Speaker 3: moral compass that should be okay watching babies and kids

1944
01:37:33,479 --> 01:37:34,080
Speaker 3: die every day.

1945
01:37:34,600 --> 01:37:36,960
Speaker 2: And somebody say, I don't care, We're just gonna keep

1946
01:37:37,000 --> 01:37:37,960
Speaker 2: killing them. It's just nobody.

1947
01:37:38,520 --> 01:37:40,719
Speaker 4: I don't agree with that. I don't think we should

1948
01:37:40,800 --> 01:37:45,160
Speaker 4: kill children and babies. I'm with you, I'm with you,

1949
01:37:45,400 --> 01:37:50,040
Speaker 4: But I also don't support those who are saying Hamas.

1950
01:37:49,760 --> 01:37:52,560
Speaker 2: Is a hero. Oh you should. I get that.

1951
01:37:53,120 --> 01:37:55,559
Speaker 4: And there's a whole body those same people who are

1952
01:37:55,600 --> 01:37:59,479
Speaker 4: sticking the mic in my face and saying we want

1953
01:37:59,520 --> 01:38:02,200
Speaker 4: you to say this the exact that way, are saying

1954
01:38:02,560 --> 01:38:03,559
Speaker 4: Hamas is the hero.

1955
01:38:03,880 --> 01:38:04,240
Speaker 2: Those are not.

1956
01:38:04,640 --> 01:38:06,760
Speaker 5: First of all, I don't even respect them. I don't

1957
01:38:06,800 --> 01:38:07,360
Speaker 5: respect them.

1958
01:38:07,640 --> 01:38:11,040
Speaker 4: And what you'll find is that what I say in

1959
01:38:11,160 --> 01:38:14,320
Speaker 4: one setting in the boardroom is what I say sitting

1960
01:38:14,360 --> 01:38:14,880
Speaker 4: on the block.

1961
01:38:15,320 --> 01:38:17,000
Speaker 2: I'm consistent in what I say.

1962
01:38:17,840 --> 01:38:19,840
Speaker 4: You go over my you go over my life, and

1963
01:38:19,920 --> 01:38:22,280
Speaker 4: you're going to see someone did a whole story on

1964
01:38:22,439 --> 01:38:24,880
Speaker 4: me and they said, this guy's been saying the same

1965
01:38:25,320 --> 01:38:29,080
Speaker 4: belief You know, he has not waived off his beliefs.

1966
01:38:29,120 --> 01:38:29,439
Speaker 2: So I don't.

1967
01:38:29,560 --> 01:38:32,200
Speaker 4: I don't have a political comment that I'm gonna say

1968
01:38:32,680 --> 01:38:34,760
Speaker 4: if I'm around a bunch of white folks, or if

1969
01:38:34,800 --> 01:38:37,280
Speaker 4: I'm around a bunch of black folks, or around the

1970
01:38:37,360 --> 01:38:38,320
Speaker 4: Muslims of Christians.

1971
01:38:38,360 --> 01:38:39,519
Speaker 2: I'm the same person. Brother.

1972
01:38:40,080 --> 01:38:43,519
Speaker 4: You take speech after speech, comment after comment, and you're

1973
01:38:43,560 --> 01:38:45,920
Speaker 4: going to say what he said in his private room

1974
01:38:46,479 --> 01:38:47,759
Speaker 4: is what he said in public.

1975
01:38:48,720 --> 01:38:51,679
Speaker 2: Because I gotta live in myself. I mean, I said,

1976
01:38:51,800 --> 01:38:54,280
Speaker 2: I'm lost. I'm like kem Pill.

1977
01:38:55,400 --> 01:38:57,280
Speaker 1: When I see certain people, I gast certain people with

1978
01:38:57,360 --> 01:39:05,160
Speaker 1: certain files. People get to God five turn, people get done.

1979
01:39:09,760 --> 01:39:11,320
Speaker 2: You know you told me to take it back when

1980
01:39:11,320 --> 01:39:17,880
Speaker 2: he told me we gotta shot out Underdog. I'm going

1981
01:39:17,960 --> 01:39:19,719
Speaker 2: to make sure everybody downloads under.

1982
01:39:21,680 --> 01:39:24,960
Speaker 6: What we got Underdog Fantasy app use the code drink

1983
01:39:25,080 --> 01:39:28,040
Speaker 6: Champs or drink or Champs Drink or champ and get

1984
01:39:28,120 --> 01:39:30,559
Speaker 6: massive to one hundred dollars on the damn let's.

1985
01:39:30,400 --> 01:39:34,040
Speaker 2: Go under dog shouts under the dog. Fans following me

1986
01:39:34,160 --> 01:39:36,760
Speaker 2: under the Dog. I'm gonna be honest. You should just

1987
01:39:36,800 --> 01:39:37,280
Speaker 2: stick with me.

1988
01:40:07,560 --> 01:40:09,519
Speaker 7: Drink chands, Army Underdog Fantasy ad.

1989
01:40:09,680 --> 01:40:15,320
Speaker 1: Underdoor Fantasy Fantasy, get your one hundred dollars, go drinks

1990
01:40:15,479 --> 01:40:17,160
Speaker 1: or chance put in one hundred dollars will match you

1991
01:40:17,200 --> 01:40:17,800
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars.

1992
01:40:17,840 --> 01:40:20,000
Speaker 2: We mentioned come ahead for this.

1993
01:40:23,160 --> 01:40:25,240
Speaker 1: Listen, we go plake Kirk Thomas Lime, Well, we're still

1994
01:40:25,280 --> 01:40:29,200
Speaker 1: doing that. Kick Thomas Lin listen because you are the

1995
01:40:29,439 --> 01:40:34,559
Speaker 1: first political, fully political individual constituent that we ever had

1996
01:40:34,600 --> 01:40:38,040
Speaker 1: on here. So if we don't play Kreek Thomas, everybody's.

1997
01:40:37,640 --> 01:40:39,439
Speaker 2: Gonna be like you took a light in a man.

1998
01:40:39,960 --> 01:40:42,559
Speaker 2: So we can't. We can't do that. But you don't

1999
01:40:42,600 --> 01:40:45,080
Speaker 2: have to drink. You're gonna have somebody you can sit

2000
01:40:45,320 --> 01:40:46,519
Speaker 2: drink a.

2001
01:40:46,560 --> 01:40:48,599
Speaker 1: Drink, or you could pick somebody else around here.

2002
01:40:48,920 --> 01:40:51,240
Speaker 2: Mike, so on, you're gonna drink with us too. I'm

2003
01:40:51,240 --> 01:40:51,920
Speaker 2: gonna drink with you.

2004
01:40:52,240 --> 01:40:55,760
Speaker 1: You got your shots shot glasses, okay, so hold on,

2005
01:40:55,840 --> 01:40:57,720
Speaker 1: you want to start it off, so finally know in

2006
01:40:57,800 --> 01:41:00,240
Speaker 1: New York City mayor Jesus.

2007
01:41:00,080 --> 01:41:05,360
Speaker 6: This, We're gonna give you two choices. If you pick one,

2008
01:41:06,360 --> 01:41:09,600
Speaker 6: nobody drinks. Nobody drinks at the table. But if you

2009
01:41:09,680 --> 01:41:12,479
Speaker 6: say both or neither, which would be the politically correct

2010
01:41:12,520 --> 01:41:14,479
Speaker 6: answer because you don't want to pick one of them,

2011
01:41:14,760 --> 01:41:15,960
Speaker 6: then we all take a shot.

2012
01:41:16,160 --> 01:41:21,240
Speaker 3: Every single person. You have to fine, cool, We're gonna

2013
01:41:21,280 --> 01:41:25,599
Speaker 3: have to drink inside before see some point you should

2014
01:41:25,600 --> 01:41:27,960
Speaker 3: have your yeah. Yeah, I'm going to killa too.

2015
01:41:28,280 --> 01:41:30,920
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, so we're just gonna go ahead and

2016
01:41:31,080 --> 01:41:39,360
Speaker 2: then you drink if we have to. Biden or Trump? Okay, okay, and.

2017
01:41:39,400 --> 01:41:42,120
Speaker 6: Any stories you have with anybody we mentioned, please by

2018
01:41:42,160 --> 01:41:42,720
Speaker 6: all chance, but.

2019
01:41:42,760 --> 01:41:44,800
Speaker 2: You know bid, they gotta start running the presidential I'm

2020
01:41:44,840 --> 01:41:45,320
Speaker 2: throwing it off.

2021
01:41:46,479 --> 01:41:48,840
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want me to some what be

2022
01:41:48,920 --> 01:41:53,720
Speaker 1: a Democrat like play the party every president besides you

2023
01:41:53,920 --> 01:41:54,280
Speaker 1: had that.

2024
01:41:54,880 --> 01:42:00,000
Speaker 2: You go with with the downgrade of it. I'm very simple.

2025
01:42:00,360 --> 01:42:05,120
Speaker 2: I'm sorry judging them for the wrong thing. I'm a

2026
01:42:05,280 --> 01:42:07,600
Speaker 2: very indicator. I'm just.

2027
01:42:10,000 --> 01:42:13,800
Speaker 5: Where are you going, TUPAC or d m X. I'm

2028
01:42:13,840 --> 01:42:14,720
Speaker 5: a Tupac guy.

2029
01:42:15,680 --> 01:42:18,040
Speaker 2: Okay, where does that come from? Like, what's the history

2030
01:42:18,080 --> 01:42:19,320
Speaker 2: of you're listening to? Pot?

2031
01:42:20,800 --> 01:42:23,439
Speaker 4: I was part of an organization called the National Black

2032
01:42:23,560 --> 01:42:27,519
Speaker 4: United Front. Reverend Herbert Daughtry and others in Tupac's mom

2033
01:42:28,560 --> 01:42:32,880
Speaker 4: were affiliated with it, and his music is just real.

2034
01:42:34,320 --> 01:42:38,200
Speaker 2: I respect that you got it. I got this one.

2035
01:42:41,400 --> 01:42:47,960
Speaker 2: I'm kind of scared. Jay Z or notas Jays. I

2036
01:42:48,000 --> 01:42:51,719
Speaker 2: gotta go with Jay jay D. I thought he would

2037
01:42:51,760 --> 01:42:54,400
Speaker 2: have been New York. I said both. You should have.

2038
01:42:54,360 --> 01:43:07,160
Speaker 1: Said, Damn can I can I come down? This is

2039
01:43:07,280 --> 01:43:09,800
Speaker 1: this is going to fuck up the internet. So I'll

2040
01:43:09,840 --> 01:43:14,679
Speaker 1: be honest. You gotta answer this. No, it's no correct answer.

2041
01:43:15,880 --> 01:43:17,559
Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar or Drake.

2042
01:43:19,800 --> 01:43:20,919
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say both.

2043
01:43:28,240 --> 01:43:33,559
Speaker 2: Politically correct. That is a political correct answer. Ja Cole

2044
01:43:33,720 --> 01:43:40,519
Speaker 2: or Kanye West Ja Cole. Okay, no, nobody drinks. He

2045
01:43:40,640 --> 01:43:42,600
Speaker 2: picked it. Podcast radio.

2046
01:43:44,640 --> 01:43:48,679
Speaker 5: Podcasts, long version. You know able to really dig into

2047
01:43:48,760 --> 01:43:49,440
Speaker 5: a podcast?

2048
01:43:49,960 --> 01:43:50,080
Speaker 9: Right?

2049
01:43:50,960 --> 01:43:51,120
Speaker 6: God?

2050
01:43:51,240 --> 01:43:54,040
Speaker 2: Damn Chris Rock or Dave Chappelle.

2051
01:43:58,560 --> 01:43:59,840
Speaker 5: I gotta go with Dave Man.

2052
01:44:00,560 --> 01:44:01,160
Speaker 2: I respect that.

2053
01:44:03,800 --> 01:44:07,160
Speaker 1: Malcolm Mex and Martin Luther King gotta go both.

2054
01:44:07,240 --> 01:44:07,840
Speaker 2: They both did.

2055
01:44:09,720 --> 01:44:23,400
Speaker 1: He's trying to kill us. Okay, I want this one.

2056
01:44:23,479 --> 01:44:26,200
Speaker 1: Go go Michael Jackson or Prince.

2057
01:44:28,720 --> 01:44:34,960
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. I'm gonna go with Michael. The only reason why.

2058
01:44:37,560 --> 01:44:42,760
Speaker 4: He's when you think about it, Michael really started the

2059
01:44:42,800 --> 01:44:43,840
Speaker 4: whole video stuff.

2060
01:44:45,000 --> 01:44:45,400
Speaker 2: You know that.

2061
01:44:45,720 --> 01:44:46,080
Speaker 5: Michael.

2062
01:44:46,080 --> 01:44:48,479
Speaker 4: I remember reading the first story and he was talking

2063
01:44:48,479 --> 01:44:51,360
Speaker 4: about he's gonna do his music and turn it into

2064
01:44:51,439 --> 01:44:53,200
Speaker 4: this visual and now look at it.

2065
01:44:53,400 --> 01:44:58,200
Speaker 2: He made movies movie. It wasn't it wasn't.

2066
01:45:00,439 --> 01:45:04,680
Speaker 5: All right, Tyson or Ali Ali?

2067
01:45:06,240 --> 01:45:08,719
Speaker 2: Okay, you're trying to get in there, all of them drinks?

2068
01:45:09,960 --> 01:45:13,760
Speaker 2: What you past them down here? M O P or

2069
01:45:13,880 --> 01:45:19,320
Speaker 2: morb d MA D Okay, we gotta we gotta keep

2070
01:45:19,320 --> 01:45:31,160
Speaker 2: going a couple more. That's all right, Jesus, because I'm thinking.

2071
01:45:31,000 --> 01:45:38,280
Speaker 1: Of Brooklyn or Queens, Brooklyn, Queens, New York City or Miami.

2072
01:45:42,600 --> 01:45:50,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wanted. I wanted to say, everybody here from

2073
01:45:50,520 --> 01:45:57,280
Speaker 2: New York. That's right, Miami is New York Barrow.

2074
01:45:57,400 --> 01:46:01,000
Speaker 1: I'm being honest, it's the five barrows in this long island,

2075
01:46:01,920 --> 01:46:04,360
Speaker 1: and New Jersey makes the sixth Borough and then the

2076
01:46:04,400 --> 01:46:10,200
Speaker 1: seventh Borough. Only people from New York because y'all be

2077
01:46:10,280 --> 01:46:18,680
Speaker 1: claiming us too from bro Come on, you know we

2078
01:46:18,680 --> 01:46:19,920
Speaker 1: be the coolest people on the planet.

2079
01:46:20,280 --> 01:46:20,519
Speaker 2: Come on.

2080
01:46:20,680 --> 01:46:25,120
Speaker 1: But by the way, right before we finished the quick

2081
01:46:25,160 --> 01:46:28,759
Speaker 1: time of Slope Brom New York.

2082
01:46:30,080 --> 01:46:32,800
Speaker 2: For anybody that's not from New York. I apologize for

2083
01:46:32,880 --> 01:46:35,760
Speaker 2: the segment, but.

2084
01:46:35,800 --> 01:46:37,400
Speaker 1: When they say if you can make it here, you

2085
01:46:37,479 --> 01:46:42,080
Speaker 1: can make it anywhere, they're not lying.

2086
01:46:42,920 --> 01:46:44,080
Speaker 2: I think everybody could agree with that.

2087
01:46:44,320 --> 01:46:47,479
Speaker 1: New York is, Bobby one of the roughest, toughest, richest

2088
01:46:48,479 --> 01:46:49,600
Speaker 1: bous Wazi.

2089
01:46:50,840 --> 01:46:51,759
Speaker 2: Cities in the world.

2090
01:46:52,880 --> 01:46:57,320
Speaker 1: You can get robbed on one block and turn around

2091
01:46:57,400 --> 01:46:59,799
Speaker 1: and have an elegant fuck wall.

2092
01:46:59,720 --> 01:47:03,479
Speaker 2: Mill with the cavia on the next.

2093
01:47:04,760 --> 01:47:09,240
Speaker 1: And guess what you feel beautiful about it to get

2094
01:47:09,320 --> 01:47:13,000
Speaker 1: the right part, I'm not on that part, sir. I'm

2095
01:47:13,040 --> 01:47:23,120
Speaker 1: saying that didn't happen. But New York City is one

2096
01:47:23,120 --> 01:47:25,360
Speaker 1: of the is the greatest city on the planet. I'm

2097
01:47:25,400 --> 01:47:28,599
Speaker 1: sorry for people who are probably going to tune into

2098
01:47:28,640 --> 01:47:30,000
Speaker 1: this and that they wanted me to say one of

2099
01:47:30,040 --> 01:47:32,680
Speaker 1: the greatest cities, And no, I don't want to say

2100
01:47:32,680 --> 01:47:34,519
Speaker 1: that claim.

2101
01:47:34,640 --> 01:47:38,320
Speaker 2: I want to say the truth. It is the greatest

2102
01:47:38,360 --> 01:47:41,360
Speaker 2: city on the planet. It is the biggest city on

2103
01:47:41,479 --> 01:47:44,080
Speaker 2: the planet. I've been to.

2104
01:47:44,200 --> 01:47:49,960
Speaker 1: Tokyo, cool, I've been to all these other places.

2105
01:47:51,560 --> 01:47:51,840
Speaker 2: Cool.

2106
01:47:53,040 --> 01:47:55,360
Speaker 1: There's no place like New York City. I don't give

2107
01:47:55,400 --> 01:47:55,800
Speaker 1: a fuck.

2108
01:47:57,400 --> 01:47:58,519
Speaker 2: Don't that.

2109
01:48:00,200 --> 01:48:05,800
Speaker 1: From I don't care where you go Miamis.

2110
01:48:07,600 --> 01:48:13,559
Speaker 2: Yes, it's very close. But just like there's a distinctive.

2111
01:48:13,640 --> 01:48:17,360
Speaker 1: Experience when you come to Miami and it's pretty much

2112
01:48:17,400 --> 01:48:22,160
Speaker 1: horny people. Right, What's it's like if you love Miami

2113
01:48:22,360 --> 01:48:25,000
Speaker 1: kind of like a horny guy? Right, you was on

2114
01:48:25,120 --> 01:48:27,360
Speaker 1: the New York and love New York and not be horny.

2115
01:48:27,920 --> 01:48:30,439
Speaker 1: It's true, like you would just be on the you

2116
01:48:30,439 --> 01:48:31,280
Speaker 1: would just love it.

2117
01:48:31,760 --> 01:48:37,559
Speaker 2: It's horny people love Miami. Just be honest description you want.

2118
01:48:37,680 --> 01:48:41,519
Speaker 1: I told you my citizen, my citizens, I'm just like

2119
01:48:42,320 --> 01:48:49,840
Speaker 1: Resource Room Virgo very well New York City. I'm gonna

2120
01:48:49,840 --> 01:48:54,760
Speaker 1: be honest with you. It was a record label. My

2121
01:48:54,960 --> 01:48:56,880
Speaker 1: song is signed to the same way as I'm signed to.

2122
01:48:57,240 --> 01:49:00,000
Speaker 1: It was called Violated. It was on one sixty Barick Street.

2123
01:49:00,280 --> 01:49:04,679
Speaker 1: So Chris Lighty was alive Classic and we were talking

2124
01:49:04,680 --> 01:49:08,479
Speaker 1: about programs earlier and he was, yeah, I was back

2125
01:49:08,520 --> 01:49:10,639
Speaker 1: and forth a by the programs earlier. And I'm gonna

2126
01:49:10,640 --> 01:49:13,040
Speaker 1: tell you what programs were I would like to invest in.

2127
01:49:14,320 --> 01:49:16,600
Speaker 1: I would like to invest in whatever program that my

2128
01:49:16,760 --> 01:49:22,559
Speaker 1: song has or whatever program that Patpoos has, right, yeh, yep,

2129
01:49:23,240 --> 01:49:26,080
Speaker 1: Because I'm gonna tell you one thing. The program that

2130
01:49:26,160 --> 01:49:29,920
Speaker 1: we didn't realize that saved us, that helped save me

2131
01:49:30,040 --> 01:49:34,120
Speaker 1: and you was record labels. Was us hanging out in

2132
01:49:34,120 --> 01:49:37,880
Speaker 1: the record labels they replaced the parks We went and

2133
01:49:38,000 --> 01:49:42,080
Speaker 1: we understood that we were collecting sixty thousand dollars by

2134
01:49:42,160 --> 01:49:43,439
Speaker 1: hanging out on the record label.

2135
01:49:43,840 --> 01:49:46,800
Speaker 2: And the thing was, we didn't.

2136
01:49:46,600 --> 01:49:51,080
Speaker 1: Realize it was our savior was because a lot of

2137
01:49:51,160 --> 01:49:54,200
Speaker 1: these people were still under the.

2138
01:49:56,120 --> 01:49:58,680
Speaker 2: What was it called the three sixty mentality.

2139
01:49:59,160 --> 01:50:01,760
Speaker 1: But imagine like, that's what I love what Pat Post

2140
01:50:01,880 --> 01:50:04,840
Speaker 1: is doing, and that's what I love what we're doing

2141
01:50:04,880 --> 01:50:08,800
Speaker 1: with drink chaps. Our model is what yeah, and we

2142
01:50:08,880 --> 01:50:11,040
Speaker 1: don't own nobody who signs the drink chap.

2143
01:50:11,400 --> 01:50:15,960
Speaker 2: If you signed chat, this is this is your We

2144
01:50:16,000 --> 01:50:16,880
Speaker 2: don't own. We don't.

2145
01:50:16,920 --> 01:50:18,439
Speaker 1: We don't want to be a black and brown people

2146
01:50:19,200 --> 01:50:22,960
Speaker 1: coming to our that turn into our parents that we despised.

2147
01:50:22,479 --> 01:50:24,160
Speaker 2: And will set you up and if you got to

2148
01:50:24,240 --> 01:50:25,400
Speaker 2: go afterwards, because we said, we.

2149
01:50:25,439 --> 01:50:27,599
Speaker 1: Get you a one year deal, we get you all

2150
01:50:27,600 --> 01:50:30,400
Speaker 1: your publishing, we do everything, and we just tell you

2151
01:50:30,920 --> 01:50:34,880
Speaker 1: go ahead. So that's the programs that we were talking

2152
01:50:34,920 --> 01:50:38,080
Speaker 1: about earlier. This is the program that but me and

2153
01:50:38,160 --> 01:50:42,320
Speaker 1: you know that one sixty arrack when Chris Lighty would

2154
01:50:42,320 --> 01:50:46,840
Speaker 1: come meet with you and he would that because guess

2155
01:50:46,880 --> 01:50:51,040
Speaker 1: what and Q tip was there, Buster was guess you

2156
01:50:51,120 --> 01:50:56,519
Speaker 1: didn't come by yourself, You came six other indiviews. Guess

2157
01:50:56,560 --> 01:50:59,280
Speaker 1: what he did those six other not only you? Was

2158
01:50:59,320 --> 01:51:01,840
Speaker 1: this fight with six on the individual. It was went

2159
01:51:01,960 --> 01:51:03,920
Speaker 1: back to the bronx L was in. I remember the

2160
01:51:03,960 --> 01:51:06,080
Speaker 1: first time I freestyle for L L and off. He

2161
01:51:06,240 --> 01:51:08,000
Speaker 1: just walked into me and I'm like, this is L

2162
01:51:08,880 --> 01:51:12,600
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm rapping just like listen to him, and hey,

2163
01:51:12,760 --> 01:51:13,519
Speaker 1: you know what's crazy?

2164
01:51:15,000 --> 01:51:18,120
Speaker 3: Like probably probably five or six years ago. He remembered

2165
01:51:18,479 --> 01:51:22,439
Speaker 3: a bar set from that run. Now, I never when

2166
01:51:22,439 --> 01:51:24,479
Speaker 3: he said that. He said, you said something about Chuck Steak.

2167
01:51:24,760 --> 01:51:27,080
Speaker 3: I'm cooking up steak. I'm cooking up beef for these

2168
01:51:27,160 --> 01:51:31,479
Speaker 3: Chuck Steak niggas, remember, And I was like, Dan, that

2169
01:51:31,600 --> 01:51:33,719
Speaker 3: was twenty plus years ago, and you really remember?

2170
01:51:33,840 --> 01:51:35,880
Speaker 2: And that shit inspired me. Like I used to walk

2171
01:51:35,920 --> 01:51:36,559
Speaker 2: in that office.

2172
01:51:36,720 --> 01:51:39,040
Speaker 3: I remember I had battles with Gilly and jay Z

2173
01:51:39,200 --> 01:51:41,360
Speaker 3: and and and Dame Dash was just walking by and

2174
01:51:41,439 --> 01:51:41,680
Speaker 3: it was.

2175
01:51:41,720 --> 01:51:42,800
Speaker 2: Like, we need you to judge it.

2176
01:51:42,880 --> 01:51:44,920
Speaker 3: Come in, you know what I'm saying Like that that

2177
01:51:45,120 --> 01:51:47,160
Speaker 3: was that was an energy, man, I think we need

2178
01:51:47,240 --> 01:51:47,640
Speaker 3: to have.

2179
01:51:47,760 --> 01:51:50,360
Speaker 1: It so both of you brothers was both political and

2180
01:51:50,520 --> 01:51:52,320
Speaker 1: by the way, I shut the fuck up when y'all

2181
01:51:52,360 --> 01:51:55,120
Speaker 1: was talking, because you know, sometimes if you don't know

2182
01:51:55,560 --> 01:51:57,920
Speaker 1: the fucking talking about so good, some of the.

2183
01:51:57,960 --> 01:52:00,400
Speaker 2: Best things to do is shut the fuck up. So

2184
01:52:00,520 --> 01:52:02,800
Speaker 2: I let you. But that's one of the programs that

2185
01:52:04,000 --> 01:52:05,400
Speaker 2: you know. I see Steve Stout.

2186
01:52:07,520 --> 01:52:07,640
Speaker 4: Uh.

2187
01:52:10,120 --> 01:52:11,040
Speaker 2: Let me say this very.

2188
01:52:12,520 --> 01:52:17,680
Speaker 1: We didn't see out of eye. But who he is

2189
01:52:17,880 --> 01:52:21,200
Speaker 1: now and who I became to be is one of

2190
01:52:21,280 --> 01:52:30,240
Speaker 1: the people honor. He's in Africa saying, fellas, I'm opening

2191
01:52:30,320 --> 01:52:35,560
Speaker 1: a record label, I want us to own our own masters.

2192
01:52:35,800 --> 01:52:39,720
Speaker 2: Let's Puerto Rican. I'm sorry, I know I'm fucking.

2193
01:52:39,520 --> 01:52:42,800
Speaker 1: African proverb up with Spanish properb but it's the same

2194
01:52:42,880 --> 01:52:49,040
Speaker 1: proverb he's in Africa telling, because you know, what's the

2195
01:52:49,120 --> 01:52:51,160
Speaker 1: most popular music there is right now?

2196
01:52:52,760 --> 01:52:58,080
Speaker 2: For a fucking beat. IM sorry, I'm coming out of me.

2197
01:52:58,960 --> 01:52:59,960
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's dirty red.

2198
01:53:01,520 --> 01:53:05,160
Speaker 1: He's in Africa telling people I love that we need

2199
01:53:05,320 --> 01:53:06,960
Speaker 1: to own our own masters.

2200
01:53:07,120 --> 01:53:10,000
Speaker 2: Our masters don't need to own us. What does that

2201
01:53:10,120 --> 01:53:15,040
Speaker 2: remind you of artists who are hot to them?

2202
01:53:15,160 --> 01:53:15,479
Speaker 1: Right now?

2203
01:53:15,600 --> 01:53:17,240
Speaker 3: And that's right, and they can see them in the

2204
01:53:17,320 --> 01:53:20,120
Speaker 3: offices and see them and be inspired.

2205
01:53:19,720 --> 01:53:22,160
Speaker 2: And most that's what I think is the solution. No

2206
01:53:22,640 --> 01:53:26,120
Speaker 2: one of the things that's no, no, no, no. I

2207
01:53:26,200 --> 01:53:28,680
Speaker 2: felt that, And you know, we need to.

2208
01:53:30,200 --> 01:53:35,000
Speaker 4: Really make that connection back to the continent because our

2209
01:53:35,080 --> 01:53:38,320
Speaker 4: brothers and sisters on the continent, they're really doing something.

2210
01:53:38,360 --> 01:53:42,880
Speaker 4: They're yeah, they're regaining control. You know, they're looking at

2211
01:53:42,920 --> 01:53:46,440
Speaker 4: their natural resources. They're not allowing themselves to be exploited.

2212
01:53:46,680 --> 01:53:48,960
Speaker 4: When I was in synagogue, this brother is taking over

2213
01:53:49,200 --> 01:53:52,720
Speaker 4: all that cocoa that is shipped to Switzerland and other

2214
01:53:52,760 --> 01:53:53,839
Speaker 4: places that make chocolate.

2215
01:53:54,160 --> 01:53:55,240
Speaker 2: He says, No, we need to.

2216
01:53:55,280 --> 01:53:58,680
Speaker 5: Do this right here. You know, all those natural resources.

2217
01:53:58,840 --> 01:54:00,759
Speaker 5: We need to make that break you getting.

2218
01:54:01,240 --> 01:54:05,160
Speaker 2: You know, yes, man, I'm being honest.

2219
01:54:05,240 --> 01:54:08,000
Speaker 3: Man, you want to say no, no, I'm just I'm

2220
01:54:08,040 --> 01:54:09,720
Speaker 3: feeling about I'm so hotted.

2221
01:54:09,600 --> 01:54:12,559
Speaker 1: Man, because you know what, that's a hip hop bro.

2222
01:54:17,040 --> 01:54:19,479
Speaker 1: The person that you know, I'm forty six years old,

2223
01:54:19,560 --> 01:54:22,080
Speaker 1: hip hop is fifty. So that means that I was

2224
01:54:22,120 --> 01:54:23,479
Speaker 1: listening to hip hop and my stroller.

2225
01:54:24,240 --> 01:54:28,120
Speaker 2: So I don't remember. I mean, did I say something

2226
01:54:28,200 --> 01:54:32,120
Speaker 2: smart stroller?

2227
01:54:32,680 --> 01:54:34,520
Speaker 1: I mean I mean that I have a rhyme, I said,

2228
01:54:34,800 --> 01:54:36,800
Speaker 1: I said, I said, roller hip hop is older than me.

2229
01:54:36,840 --> 01:54:38,880
Speaker 1: I listened to it in my stroller. It didn't make sense,

2230
01:54:39,000 --> 01:54:39,760
Speaker 1: never until now.

2231
01:54:40,240 --> 01:54:44,360
Speaker 2: But it's true. You being a hip hop.

2232
01:54:44,280 --> 01:54:47,800
Speaker 1: Man the night like man when I when I'm schooling,

2233
01:54:47,800 --> 01:54:50,280
Speaker 1: You're going through it. It's like Friday and Saturday night.

2234
01:54:50,360 --> 01:54:58,440
Speaker 2: He lit this more this doll. But Chris, let me.

2235
01:54:58,520 --> 01:54:59,040
Speaker 1: Let me let me.

2236
01:55:03,160 --> 01:55:05,720
Speaker 2: Because I know how hard it is for your job. Right.

2237
01:55:08,800 --> 01:55:11,720
Speaker 1: So many people look at the person that runs the

2238
01:55:11,800 --> 01:55:15,560
Speaker 1: marathon at the end they say, all right, cool.

2239
01:55:15,640 --> 01:55:16,000
Speaker 2: I like that.

2240
01:55:18,840 --> 01:55:24,520
Speaker 1: Nobody understands the marathon at the beginning. And then, especially

2241
01:55:24,560 --> 01:55:27,520
Speaker 1: in New York marathon, you got to run through each borough.

2242
01:55:27,840 --> 01:55:27,960
Speaker 9: Right.

2243
01:55:29,200 --> 01:55:31,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm born and raised

2244
01:55:31,200 --> 01:55:33,720
Speaker 1: in New York. There's certain barrels I just won't go to.

2245
01:55:35,120 --> 01:55:36,320
Speaker 1: You have to go through them all.

2246
01:55:39,080 --> 01:55:42,840
Speaker 4: How do you balance that and just, you know, be

2247
01:55:43,000 --> 01:55:46,520
Speaker 4: the same person in Brownsville that you're going to be

2248
01:55:46,800 --> 01:55:47,800
Speaker 4: on the Upper east Side.

2249
01:55:48,840 --> 01:55:51,560
Speaker 1: Let me critique you just a little bit. Yes, there's

2250
01:55:51,680 --> 01:55:53,800
Speaker 1: no way you can be the same way in Brownsville

2251
01:55:54,160 --> 01:55:59,640
Speaker 1: that you can be in Howard Beach. Yes you can, brother,

2252
01:56:00,760 --> 01:56:03,760
Speaker 1: explain that you please like I used to shout without us.

2253
01:56:04,960 --> 01:56:10,240
Speaker 1: Come on, okay, you can be the same person in

2254
01:56:10,320 --> 01:56:13,720
Speaker 1: Brownsville and Howard Beach by the way, about twelve minutes away,

2255
01:56:14,040 --> 01:56:14,720
Speaker 1: maybe fifteen.

2256
01:56:14,800 --> 01:56:19,640
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, the Howard Beach, the Pelham Park,

2257
01:56:20,040 --> 01:56:23,120
Speaker 4: all those communities parkway right, all those communities that we

2258
01:56:23,280 --> 01:56:27,160
Speaker 4: once knew, they're not anymore. Really, yeah, the little it Lees,

2259
01:56:27,920 --> 01:56:33,040
Speaker 4: the all these areas. When we grew up, they were

2260
01:56:33,080 --> 01:56:36,120
Speaker 4: certain areas. You couldn't go to Benston Hurts, you know,

2261
01:56:36,320 --> 01:56:39,960
Speaker 4: you couldn't go to Babridge. These areas have now become one,

2262
01:56:40,960 --> 01:56:44,960
Speaker 4: right right, you just okay back. And so if you

2263
01:56:45,160 --> 01:56:47,920
Speaker 4: come with the same things, and we all want the

2264
01:56:48,000 --> 01:56:51,240
Speaker 4: same things. I want to be able to raise our families,

2265
01:56:51,600 --> 01:56:54,880
Speaker 4: educate our children, live in a safe, safe community, and

2266
01:56:55,040 --> 01:56:56,320
Speaker 4: be gainfully employed.

2267
01:56:57,120 --> 01:56:58,680
Speaker 2: That's the same across the board.

2268
01:56:58,760 --> 01:57:01,000
Speaker 4: And as I sit in these different communities, they all

2269
01:57:01,080 --> 01:57:06,680
Speaker 4: want the same communities have been denied the same I have.

2270
01:57:07,080 --> 01:57:11,040
Speaker 4: When I go to a Howard Beach which I won

2271
01:57:11,600 --> 01:57:15,000
Speaker 4: when I ran, just as I want, I want our communities,

2272
01:57:15,160 --> 01:57:18,320
Speaker 4: I'm saying the same message. We have to make sure

2273
01:57:18,760 --> 01:57:21,480
Speaker 4: if we don't give the opportunities to all these children,

2274
01:57:21,720 --> 01:57:25,040
Speaker 4: then these then the children that they're raising, they're not

2275
01:57:25,160 --> 01:57:27,520
Speaker 4: going to have the opportunities. And that's what we have

2276
01:57:27,680 --> 01:57:30,320
Speaker 4: to make sure that we're doing it. And that's our message.

2277
01:57:30,360 --> 01:57:33,880
Speaker 4: My message is the same and it's consistent, and it

2278
01:57:34,080 --> 01:57:35,920
Speaker 4: is what I'm going to I'm going to stand by

2279
01:57:35,960 --> 01:57:36,760
Speaker 4: and I'm gonna give them all.

2280
01:57:37,200 --> 01:57:40,120
Speaker 5: You know, we I know what we're doing. You know,

2281
01:57:41,160 --> 01:57:42,280
Speaker 5: we're down here now.

2282
01:57:42,960 --> 01:57:44,560
Speaker 2: Telling one of the things we're doing.

2283
01:57:44,600 --> 01:57:46,840
Speaker 4: While we're down here, we're going to be talking to

2284
01:57:46,960 --> 01:57:51,000
Speaker 4: the international community. People are looking at us internationally and

2285
01:57:51,160 --> 01:57:54,760
Speaker 4: saying that the way you are handling these crises that

2286
01:57:54,840 --> 01:57:55,959
Speaker 4: people need to duplicate.

2287
01:57:56,520 --> 01:57:56,640
Speaker 6: Oh.

2288
01:57:56,720 --> 01:57:59,600
Speaker 2: I want to give you a gift. This is for

2289
01:57:59,760 --> 01:58:00,360
Speaker 2: my friend.

2290
01:58:01,400 --> 01:58:07,120
Speaker 1: He's from Queensbridge. From Queensbridge, his name is Jay rock Uh.

2291
01:58:07,880 --> 01:58:10,800
Speaker 1: He did time in prison, just like my son came home.

2292
01:58:11,280 --> 01:58:14,480
Speaker 1: He flipped and he's a construction worker now part of

2293
01:58:14,560 --> 01:58:17,040
Speaker 1: the union. He didn't ask me to do this at all.

2294
01:58:17,160 --> 01:58:21,000
Speaker 1: He might be embarrassed. He bought this personally. So this

2295
01:58:21,120 --> 01:58:22,680
Speaker 1: is the book that I bought from him personally, and

2296
01:58:22,720 --> 01:58:24,480
Speaker 1: I want to give it to you. It's called Life

2297
01:58:24,520 --> 01:58:25,240
Speaker 1: in Queensbridge.

2298
01:58:25,240 --> 01:58:32,240
Speaker 2: But my brother love it. I can't even tell you

2299
01:58:32,280 --> 01:58:36,440
Speaker 2: how much time he did in prison locked up. I

2300
01:58:36,520 --> 01:58:39,960
Speaker 2: was eleven. But this, this is this is a message

2301
01:58:40,120 --> 01:58:42,360
Speaker 2: that he asked question, I.

2302
01:58:42,360 --> 01:58:45,680
Speaker 4: Will ask you how to import his union labor and

2303
01:58:45,760 --> 01:58:48,320
Speaker 4: the unions to his administration in New York City.

2304
01:58:50,560 --> 01:58:53,000
Speaker 5: That said, listen when you look at the fact.

2305
01:58:53,040 --> 01:58:56,200
Speaker 4: First of all, I think I'm the first union member

2306
01:58:57,000 --> 01:58:58,640
Speaker 4: that has ever been the mayor of the City of

2307
01:58:58,720 --> 01:58:59,120
Speaker 4: New York.

2308
01:59:00,400 --> 01:59:04,640
Speaker 5: What I did when I became mayor settled all the union.

2309
01:59:04,440 --> 01:59:07,320
Speaker 4: Contract Ninety four percent of our union contracts are settled.

2310
01:59:07,720 --> 01:59:11,280
Speaker 4: And when you make a deal with the union leaders,

2311
01:59:11,320 --> 01:59:14,040
Speaker 4: you have to go and let the members vote. We're

2312
01:59:14,040 --> 01:59:17,920
Speaker 4: getting ninety eight percent ratification rates all these union back

2313
01:59:18,080 --> 01:59:20,520
Speaker 4: I have over three hundred thousand employees in the City

2314
01:59:20,560 --> 01:59:22,920
Speaker 4: of New York, and they're all saying that no one

2315
01:59:23,080 --> 01:59:25,200
Speaker 4: has given us what you have given us.

2316
01:59:25,320 --> 01:59:26,920
Speaker 5: Finally given us the pay scale.

2317
01:59:27,320 --> 01:59:31,160
Speaker 4: The human service workers, which are overwhelming women and women

2318
01:59:31,240 --> 01:59:33,840
Speaker 4: of color, they have been denied for years. On the

2319
01:59:33,920 --> 01:59:36,880
Speaker 4: campaign trails, I'm gonna make you hold when I become mayor,

2320
01:59:36,920 --> 01:59:38,680
Speaker 4: We're going to give you the salary you deserve.

2321
01:59:39,520 --> 01:59:42,480
Speaker 5: We just gave them the salary increase they deserve.

2322
01:59:42,600 --> 01:59:44,880
Speaker 4: These are the folks who are doing all those human services,

2323
01:59:45,240 --> 01:59:46,760
Speaker 4: you know, childcare, daycare.

2324
01:59:47,960 --> 01:59:50,960
Speaker 5: So when you look at the union members and you

2325
01:59:51,040 --> 01:59:52,840
Speaker 5: see I was just in Florida for I was just in.

2326
01:59:55,080 --> 01:59:58,640
Speaker 4: Hollywood, Florida, I think a month and a half ago

2327
01:59:59,000 --> 02:00:02,840
Speaker 4: with all of my construction. My trade were getting ready

2328
02:00:02,840 --> 02:00:05,320
Speaker 4: to make a deal to build the housing using union

2329
02:00:05,360 --> 02:00:06,640
Speaker 4: pension funds with the city.

2330
02:00:07,040 --> 02:00:07,280
Speaker 2: And so.

2331
02:00:10,520 --> 02:00:13,400
Speaker 4: When he talks to his membership, here tell you you

2332
02:00:13,480 --> 02:00:15,920
Speaker 4: got a blue collar mayor, a union member, and I'm

2333
02:00:15,920 --> 02:00:17,920
Speaker 4: always going to be a union member. I got a

2334
02:00:18,040 --> 02:00:20,800
Speaker 4: union pension, and I know how important it is. And

2335
02:00:20,920 --> 02:00:23,440
Speaker 4: we have stood up for our unions. Man, they'll tell

2336
02:00:23,480 --> 02:00:25,440
Speaker 4: you in a minute. I had all these major unions

2337
02:00:25,560 --> 02:00:29,680
Speaker 4: endorsement DC thirty seven, thirty two, VJ t WU. You

2338
02:00:29,800 --> 02:00:32,080
Speaker 4: go down on the list. You know they've been with

2339
02:00:32,280 --> 02:00:34,760
Speaker 4: me from the beginning. And so I hear him, you know,

2340
02:00:35,400 --> 02:00:36,960
Speaker 4: good union paying job.

2341
02:00:37,320 --> 02:00:44,040
Speaker 2: God damn you. You went to John J. College.

2342
02:00:44,120 --> 02:00:46,680
Speaker 5: Yes, I went to Louise, I went to John Jay.

2343
02:00:47,120 --> 02:00:51,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, right, John, This is difference. What's going on.

2344
02:00:54,200 --> 02:00:55,840
Speaker 3: I went to Martin Luther King, which is right down

2345
02:00:55,880 --> 02:00:57,720
Speaker 3: the block, and then went to John Interesting.

2346
02:00:58,720 --> 02:01:02,440
Speaker 2: John J had more girls. But you know what, nobody

2347
02:01:02,520 --> 02:01:05,000
Speaker 2: had girls right next door tomorrow.

2348
02:01:07,640 --> 02:01:13,440
Speaker 3: Us a little bit took it.

2349
02:01:13,480 --> 02:01:15,960
Speaker 4: Took me for it took me fourteen years, man to

2350
02:01:16,280 --> 02:01:20,280
Speaker 4: get my degree, fourteen years, one class at a time.

2351
02:01:21,560 --> 02:01:23,480
Speaker 4: Just I'm never gonna beat you with brilliance. I'm gonna

2352
02:01:23,480 --> 02:01:26,000
Speaker 4: beat you with endurance. I'm gonna wear you down, man like.

2353
02:01:30,720 --> 02:01:33,440
Speaker 2: Let me never say you be taking my ship. You

2354
02:01:33,520 --> 02:01:35,640
Speaker 2: know what I say, what I say, I say, I say.

2355
02:01:36,120 --> 02:01:39,320
Speaker 1: I said everyone else might have had best, better product

2356
02:01:39,400 --> 02:01:41,800
Speaker 1: than me. They're not gonna stay outside as long as me.

2357
02:01:42,200 --> 02:01:43,480
Speaker 1: That's pretty much the same ship.

2358
02:01:43,560 --> 02:01:48,160
Speaker 2: It is dyslexic, it is. You know what I'm saying.

2359
02:01:52,920 --> 02:01:53,960
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be honest, man.

2360
02:01:58,880 --> 02:02:04,680
Speaker 1: I invited my song because my song really loves our community. Really,

2361
02:02:06,160 --> 02:02:11,520
Speaker 1: the guy that is something you know happens, he's there.

2362
02:02:11,880 --> 02:02:14,120
Speaker 1: So I didn't ask as agenda. I just asked him

2363
02:02:14,160 --> 02:02:17,320
Speaker 1: to be here. And I loved it that because he's genuine.

2364
02:02:17,720 --> 02:02:20,520
Speaker 1: So I didn't I didn't want to, but whatever, we

2365
02:02:20,640 --> 02:02:23,440
Speaker 1: all have the same goal. They want our city to

2366
02:02:23,520 --> 02:02:23,880
Speaker 1: be better.

2367
02:02:24,600 --> 02:02:25,040
Speaker 2: I want to.

2368
02:02:25,120 --> 02:02:25,640
Speaker 1: I want to.

2369
02:02:27,000 --> 02:02:28,400
Speaker 2: I want to. I want to move back.

2370
02:02:29,760 --> 02:02:30,600
Speaker 5: You're a smart man.

2371
02:02:31,520 --> 02:02:36,200
Speaker 2: I want to move back, but I need something not

2372
02:02:36,480 --> 02:02:40,480
Speaker 2: from you, Not from you neither. You just need something

2373
02:02:41,040 --> 02:02:41,560
Speaker 2: maybe from you.

2374
02:02:44,080 --> 02:02:47,560
Speaker 1: But you know, what do you say to these residents

2375
02:02:48,600 --> 02:02:50,880
Speaker 1: that come, They say, man, New York is too expensive.

2376
02:02:51,720 --> 02:02:54,400
Speaker 1: Then when I get there, I see, you know, certain

2377
02:02:54,480 --> 02:02:57,120
Speaker 1: bombs outside my my house. Then when I get there,

2378
02:02:57,120 --> 02:02:59,800
Speaker 1: I see there's rats outside my house. When I get there,

2379
02:02:59,840 --> 02:03:03,200
Speaker 1: that see everyone's smoking weed. By the way, Amsterdam is

2380
02:03:03,240 --> 02:03:05,400
Speaker 1: the one of the best places I've ever been in

2381
02:03:05,560 --> 02:03:11,000
Speaker 1: my life. And drugs is legal everywhere. It not just weed, right,

2382
02:03:11,600 --> 02:03:14,520
Speaker 1: This motherfucker's sluting heroin right there like happy as hell.

2383
02:03:14,600 --> 02:03:16,400
Speaker 2: What's up? I'm sorry.

2384
02:03:16,480 --> 02:03:19,840
Speaker 1: I know this is not politically but there's people in

2385
02:03:19,960 --> 02:03:21,840
Speaker 1: Amsterdam and there's no crime.

2386
02:03:23,720 --> 02:03:29,640
Speaker 2: There's no crime, Like holy is that the next thing?

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Speaker 1: Let's make heroin I legal.

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Speaker 2: They tried importantly because I was giving out free needle

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Speaker 2: because we.

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Speaker 5: Found this a needle injection site.

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Speaker 4: We found that if you create the environment and people

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Speaker 4: are gonna use, create an environment where they could do

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Speaker 4: it safely and they could get the counseling that they deserve.

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Speaker 5: Doctor Fassan, who's in.

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Speaker 2: Charge of the wireless You ever seen the wire YEA,

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Speaker 2: yeah like that? Okay, I mean that's what it sounds like.

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Speaker 2: You know, that's the story.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Wait what drug free zone?

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Speaker 2: That's what they're doing.

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Speaker 5: And back in Baltimore, you know, track legs.

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Speaker 2: Crack legs, Legs is the best whole crab. But you

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Speaker 2: should come back. The city is back. No, I'm back,

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Speaker 2: but I leave. I ain't gonna lie. I come.

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Speaker 1: I'll be like, I love it when my kids, my kids.

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Speaker 2: Don't want to leave.

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Speaker 5: They're smart, you know, kids don't want to leave.

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Speaker 2: My kids.

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Speaker 1: They love the hood. They want to go play basketball.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, we live on the beach. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it don't work too hard.

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Speaker 4: We got we got listen, man, we got to do

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Speaker 4: another few stops and you know, but really, really good man,

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Speaker 4: let's catch up when we get back.

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Speaker 5: We got a lot to do, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: But let me let me just say this the right

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Speaker 2: way it. I thank you.

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Speaker 1: I know you get scrutinized. I know you get chastised,

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Speaker 1: but you're the first. I was the first to do

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Speaker 1: reggae doon. I was the first to work with Swiss

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Speaker 1: to Beast. I was the first to work with Scott Stors.

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Speaker 1: I was the first to work with Neptunes. I was

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Speaker 1: the first to do reggae dong. They laughed at me.

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Speaker 1: I made it to my destination, but when I popped

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Speaker 1: in my GPS, that shit didn't come up.

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Speaker 2: I killed that. I was like, I like the way

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Speaker 2: I killed that.

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Speaker 1: But when I popped in to the places I wanted

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Speaker 1: to be, GPS navigation wasn't even invented. So when I

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Speaker 1: told you when I complained about traffic and great eventures

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Speaker 1: and I didn't leave van Wick, I knew this is

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Speaker 1: what life is meaning. People want to people want to

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Speaker 1: hurt you before you get to your destination. I heard

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Speaker 1: you say that my greatness will not be recognized out

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Speaker 1: of office, and guess what, I respect that. But I

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Speaker 1: want to take a little bit before we get up

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Speaker 1: out of here and tell you being a renegade is

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Speaker 1: also the same thing.

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Speaker 2: But Barack Obama.

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Speaker 1: Didn't legalize marijuana throughout the whole fifty states because he

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Speaker 1: didn't want to be the black person to legalize.

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Speaker 9: Right.

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Speaker 2: But I'm going to tell you something.

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Speaker 1: Trump will do the exact opposite to be the exact opposite.

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Speaker 1: So I want to give you that little bit of advice.

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Speaker 1: And I can't give you no political inviting at all.

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Speaker 1: Listen to me, I told you I'm dyslexic, resource rooms,

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02:06:56,440 --> 02:06:59,840
Speaker 1: personal education, everything, put it all together, add all.

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Speaker 2: But the advice I can give you is fuck it.

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Speaker 2: That's it. Listen and pull hold ho hold on hok

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Speaker 2: because this is it's two works, right, fuck it.

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Speaker 1: I'm giving it to you because you can do it.

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02:07:18,680 --> 02:07:21,040
Speaker 1: And that's that's what he was saying intelligently. And I

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Speaker 1: told you I'm simplestic, right. Eric Adams Brooklyn Queen's guy

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Speaker 1: who I know knows NAS albums just as much as me,

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Speaker 1: those biggie albums just as much as me. Just think

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Speaker 1: about it one time, right the same way prompt says

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Speaker 1: fuck it sometimes. That's my only advice.

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Speaker 9: And I and.

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Speaker 4: We said that January first, twenty twenty two, became elected.

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Speaker 4: And trust me when I tell you, we're still saying it.

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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna be I'm gonna just move to New

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Speaker 1: York just to vote for you again, and then I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna get the fun about it. Guess who my quiet

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Speaker 1: advice list of my quiet advice is.

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, we got a first I forgot.

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Speaker 5: We have a special guest.

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Speaker 2: us a certificate.

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Speaker 10: mayor of mom Dade counter and the commissions of Mama

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