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Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people give a lot of bad advice

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Speaker 2: on the internet, but I've noticed a particular trend recently

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Speaker 2: that I think is just really prevalent and it's spreading, so.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to address it. It's what gets told to

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Speaker 1: women who yearn to get married and have a family,

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Speaker 1: and it's just some of the worst advice around. In

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Speaker 1: the British newspaper The Independent, a woman wrote in saying

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Speaker 1: the following quote. I'm thirty one and have been with

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Speaker 1: my boyfriend for twelve years. He is my favorite person

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Speaker 1: in the world, but I have spent the past year

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Speaker 1: devastated by the realization that he is never going to

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Speaker 1: ask me.

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Speaker 3: To marry him.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't agree with marriage and hates the idea of

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Speaker 1: a day full of attention. All my girlfriends are married,

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Speaker 1: and although I'm so happy in my relationship, I can't

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Speaker 1: help but compare and despair every time I go to

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Speaker 1: a wedding. I lost my dad when I was very young,

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Speaker 1: and also feel sad and unreasonably bitter at the fact

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Speaker 1: that most of my friends get it all. A dad

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Speaker 1: and a husband, a father of the bride speech a

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Speaker 1: perfect white wedding. I know I want to grow old

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Speaker 1: and gray with my boyfriend, and we both.

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Speaker 3: Want children soon.

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Speaker 1: But I still feel sad about the wedding that we're

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Speaker 1: not having and the memories that we're not making with

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Speaker 1: friends and family.

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Speaker 3: Please help me. End quote.

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Speaker 1: The column is called Dear Dolly, and Dolly responds with

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Speaker 1: just about the worst answer I can imagine. She starts

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Speaker 1: out talking about how romantic weddings are and how even

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Speaker 1: she Dolly, has gotten caught up in that, despite the

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Speaker 1: fact that she herself does not want to get married.

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Speaker 1: Dolly writes quote, I'm sorry it's causing you such distress.

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Speaker 1: I know of other women who have been put in

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Speaker 1: your position, and they too were surprised at how much

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Speaker 1: it bothered them. I admire how clear eyed you are

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Speaker 1: about what it is. You want a big, traditional wedding

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Speaker 1: where you and your partner's relationship is celebrated. And it

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Speaker 1: seems obvious to me that because of his personality type,

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Speaker 1: this is not something he would find enjoyable. This doesn't

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Speaker 1: seem to be about his commit meant to you. End quote. Uh, yeah, sure.

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Speaker 1: The Brits have this thing where you can bet on

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Speaker 1: just about anything, what color the princess will be wearing,

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Speaker 1: what celebrity will die this year, and so on. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'd placed the bet that if this couple broke up tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: he'd likely marry the next person he dates. It's a

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Speaker 1: well worn path that many people have taken before him.

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Speaker 1: Dolly goes on, quote in your longer letter, you mentioned

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Speaker 1: that he says he doesn't want to get married because

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Speaker 1: it is a patriarchal institution. End quote. I mean, lol, Honestly,

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Speaker 1: he won't marry her because of the patriarchy.

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Speaker 3: What a good guy. There was a time where.

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Speaker 1: Men said they wouldn't marry their girlfriends until their gay

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Speaker 1: friends could marry. Lena had Dune him, the actress's longtime boyfriend,

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Speaker 1: famously said this, and then gay marriage became legal and

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Speaker 1: they still didn't get married. Fight the patriarchy, right, Do

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Speaker 1: whatever your boyfriend wants to do, and don't make him

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Speaker 1: have to consider your feelings. Girl power. Dolly gives her

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Speaker 1: some tips on talking to her boyfriend about maybe having

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Speaker 1: a non traditional wedding, and then says, quote, another thing

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Speaker 1: you may want to consider is a big birthday. A

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Speaker 1: wedding is not something I dream of, But a big

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Speaker 1: birthday has become a shining day in my calendar year.

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Speaker 1: For my thirty fifth I wore a Vivian Westwood dress

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Speaker 1: black not white, and took some friends for dinner on

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Speaker 1: a canal boat. My best friend made a beautiful speech.

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Speaker 1: Everyone got up to no good. It was wonderful. Why

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Speaker 1: not redirect your wedding longing into a big birthday party?

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Speaker 1: Be utterly shameless about it. Ask your boyfriend to make

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Speaker 1: a toast by yourself a ridiculous outfit. Tell your best

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Speaker 1: friend your favorite flavor of cake. Let yourself enjoy the

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Speaker 1: celebration and attention you long for. Let yourself be showered

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Speaker 1: in the love and silliness and fuss that you deserve.

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Speaker 1: Do it completely on your own terms. You may wake

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Speaker 1: up the next day to find an itch.

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Speaker 3: Has been scratched.

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Speaker 1: End quote. And that's just completely misreading what this woman wants.

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Speaker 1: She wants the traditional picture of the wedding and the marriage,

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Speaker 1: a big birthday party, be serious. She says specifically that

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Speaker 1: she's jealous her friends get to have it all, dad

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Speaker 1: and a husband. She wants what women have wanted for

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Speaker 1: hundreds and maybe thousands of years. The questioner is not the.

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Speaker 3: Weird one here.

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Speaker 1: The people gaslighting her into believing she shouldn't want this

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Speaker 1: because of the patriarchy or whatever. Are the ones rewriting

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Speaker 1: something basic and obvious. People want to tie themselves to

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Speaker 1: each other in front of their friends and family. They

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Speaker 1: want the wedding, yes, but they want the marriage. They

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Speaker 1: want what has worked and not the latest thing that

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Speaker 1: probably won't. Coming up next, an interview with New York

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Speaker 1: City Councilman Joe Borelli. Join us after the break. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio. My guest

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Speaker 1: today is Republican leader of the New York City City

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Speaker 1: Council and generally decent human Joe Borelli.

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Speaker 4: Hi, Joe, how are you? Great to see you?

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Speaker 3: So nice to have you on counselman anytime.

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Speaker 4: I just I wish I was where you are right Noway.

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Speaker 1: I wish you were where I was also, But somebody

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Speaker 1: has to hold it down in New York City, and

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Speaker 1: you know that's.

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Speaker 3: Been you for many years. Now. How's it going?

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Speaker 4: I mean, we're still floating. Things are okay. Things are

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Speaker 4: not as bad as I think they were maybe a

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Speaker 4: year ago, and you know, six months ago even so,

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Speaker 4: there's some positive news. Crime is ticking down just slightly.

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Speaker 4: The migrant crisis is abetting itself ever so slightly. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 4: now we're seeing the convergence of the crime and migrant

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Speaker 4: crisis in the form of some high profile incident instead

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Speaker 4: of occurred. But other than that, the city financially is

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Speaker 4: doing okay, and we'll still be here I think in

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Speaker 4: a decade or so.

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Speaker 3: So how is the migrant crisis a betting itself?

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Speaker 1: I mean, just from the news, it seems to not

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Speaker 1: be a betting itself.

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Speaker 4: Well, the number of people in our care not only

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Speaker 4: stayed at about hundred seventy thousand people, but it trickled

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Speaker 4: down ever so slightly. So we've been molemented a sixty

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Speaker 4: day eviction process, which has seen some results. We've also

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Speaker 4: stopped leasing new hotels. More people have gone into tents.

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Speaker 4: It turns out people don't like to stay intense for

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Speaker 4: too long, so eventually it works out where they work out.

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Speaker 3: Interesting, Okay, I get that.

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Speaker 1: So one thing that I asked everybody on this show,

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Speaker 1: and I feel like asking a New York City council

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Speaker 1: and you might have extensive answer, But what would you say,

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Speaker 1: is our largest societal problem and is it solvable?

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Speaker 4: You know. So I saw your question when you emailed

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Speaker 4: me this, and I wanted to say something entirely predictable,

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Speaker 4: but I'm going to not do that. I'm going to

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Speaker 4: say something that I think is the case. And it's

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Speaker 4: kind of a deep, dark secret that maybe I think

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Speaker 4: this way. I actually think it's our sense of entitlement,

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Speaker 4: because that is, it's a broad disease that infects every race, color,

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Speaker 4: and creed, and especially younger people. But I think it's

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Speaker 4: this sense of entitlement as to what people are owed

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Speaker 4: when they wake up in the morning that is going

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Speaker 4: to make the US long term less competitive than anywhere else.

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Speaker 4: And I just never understood it, and I've seen it

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Speaker 4: in my you know, twenty years as a professional person

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Speaker 4: with a job where you know, when I started in politics.

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Speaker 4: In fact, when I started in politics, my first job

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Speaker 4: was an intern, and then after college, my first job

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Speaker 4: just you know, literally taking a stack of heavy posters

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Speaker 4: rolled up and walking from business to business and introducing

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Speaker 4: myself and giving a pitch for this candidate I was

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Speaker 4: working for at the time, and like that was that

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Speaker 4: was how you started. Now, I mean people won't even

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Speaker 4: volunteer for a campaign, and I put air quotes in

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Speaker 4: volunteer unless they're paid, and they're paid well and they're

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Speaker 4: getting a minimum wage. We just had a unionizing effort

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Speaker 4: by the staff of the City Council where now legislative

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Speaker 4: staff is unionized. And again I'm not opposed to you unions,

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Speaker 4: but these are fundamentally at will employees. These are people

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Speaker 4: gets elected. Yeah, we're in charge of hiring people that

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Speaker 4: But now they're unionized and there's an entitlement that they

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Speaker 4: get at regular raises. Not to mention just what people's

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Speaker 4: expectations are coming out of college, what people's expectations are

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Speaker 4: in terms of government support. Look at the migrant crisis.

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Speaker 4: We've always had migrants, right, New York City has always

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Speaker 4: had immigrants, migrants, legal, illegal. Ever you kind of wear

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Speaker 4: in between over the past, you know, four hundred years

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Speaker 4: of our city sixteen twenty five, almost five hunred years.

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Speaker 4: So we're not used to we're not not used to

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Speaker 4: having people come here. We're just not used to having

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Speaker 4: of life being accounted for. So I think, if you

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Speaker 4: biggest problem in our culture going forward? I think it's entitlement.

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Speaker 3: So what do we do? How do we solve this?

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Speaker 4: Well, I can tell you how I'm I'm doing with

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Speaker 4: kids work for things, you know, every you know, everything

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Speaker 4: just be you know, because you're breathing, you are entitled

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Speaker 4: to some other series of benefits. I think letting people,

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Speaker 4: where there's you know, compulsive military service, right, And I'm

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Speaker 4: And look at the products downstream of that, where you

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Speaker 4: earn some respect, earn some self worth, earn learn about

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Speaker 4: what you're able to do and how you can.

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Speaker 1: Produce interesting How do we translate that here without compulsory

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Speaker 1: you know, military service. How do we teach this new generation,

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Speaker 1: next generation that they can't just expect things that they

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Speaker 1: don't get out of college and make six figures. And

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Speaker 1: who's lying to them, I guess is the better question.

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Speaker 1: Who is telling them to have these expectations.

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Speaker 4: I mean that answer comes from this expectation that college

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Speaker 4: is for everyone, that there's a government loan for you

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Speaker 4: to go to college and you're not going to actually

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Speaker 4: pay for it. I mean, I have college loans, but

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Speaker 4: I chose to go to a college that gave me

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Speaker 4: the biggest scholarship. You know, I wanted to go to

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Speaker 4: amount of debt possible. Yeah, look, I saw my own parents.

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Speaker 4: My dad was an MTA worker, my my mother, did

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Speaker 1: So you're only the second politician I've had on this show,

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Speaker 4: Politicians I find interesting are people who write, So everyone

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Speaker 1: Right, I'm gonna have to look up who you're talking

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Speaker 1: you feel like you've made it? I mean being on

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Speaker 4: So? I feel good about it because I accomplished one

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Speaker 4: I mean, people watch Fox, Fox Business News, Maxine. They

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Speaker 4: Post Barn and I get to publish with them, you know,

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Speaker 4: And those things aren't mutually exclusive, but finding the one

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Speaker 1: You know, it's funny because when I think of you.

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Speaker 4: Seed to Table? Shake, See to Table.

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Speaker 4: I live down the block. I need you to be

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Speaker 4: You know, if something I don't I don't root against

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Speaker 4: You know what the city needs to do is really

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Speaker 4: implement non partisan, open, open elections basically, you know, because

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Speaker 4: I mean Chicago has this in Chicago's the only really

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Speaker 4: bad example because they're corrupt and crazy. But again, the Chicago,

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Speaker 4: the mayoralty came down to a razor thin race between

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Speaker 4: a guy who was rational and reasonable, a Democrat. I

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Speaker 4: think it was against Paul Fallis and the that crazy

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Speaker 4: guy who is now the mayor who wants to get

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Speaker 4: rid of the shot podder technology literally the audio radar

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Speaker 4: thing that the texts gun fire and sends the police

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Speaker 4: he wants to get rid of anyway, Wait, why.

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Speaker 3: Does he want to get rid of it? He probably raised.

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Speaker 4: He is so woke, he's like asleep like that. He

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Speaker 4: thinks that that because you know, it's a similar scenario

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Speaker 4: where it's hyper low turnout and the craziest person wins.

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Speaker 4: New York could be like most other major cities in

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Speaker 4: America where it's nonpartisan open elections, where yes, the person

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Speaker 4: who's running is endorsed by the Democratic Party. They tout

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Speaker 4: themselves as Democrats. Yes, the person who wins in most

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Speaker 4: urban cities and many big cities are our Democrats. More

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Speaker 4: often than not, they're of the same race, color, and

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Speaker 4: creed of the people who live in that city. We're

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Speaker 4: not trying to change that, but having that open primary

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Speaker 4: opens the voter turnout to more moderate, rational people, and

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Speaker 4: the net effect on the city councils and the mayorships

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Speaker 4: and whatever elected official they have is a positive thing.

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Speaker 4: That's why New York City Council is always in the news.

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Speaker 4: It's not just because we are the biggest city in

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Speaker 4: the country. It's because we do some dumb things in

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Speaker 4: sas the guy wanted to ban the ice cream truck

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Speaker 4: last year, that was his big proposal.

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Speaker 1: My kids heard about that in Florida. They were like

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Speaker 1: the ice cream shop ban in New York City, like

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Speaker 1: made national news.

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Speaker 4: Now we're gonna ban tide pods and stuff. But they're delicious.

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Speaker 3: Why would you ban them?

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Speaker 4: Did for that? Not even for that actual good reason,

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Speaker 4: like they're killing the environment or something. I don't even

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Speaker 4: know why. But like, we can't have we can't have

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Speaker 4: nice things.

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Speaker 3: In me, can't have nice things.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, which is why again, you know, I feel like

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Speaker 1: the future Joe BURRELLI lives in Florida because we get

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Speaker 1: to have nice things here and it's you know, it

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Speaker 1: would be nice to share those nice things with you.

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Speaker 4: So I got an email from my county commissioner a

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Speaker 4: few weeks a few months ago. Maybe his name is

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Speaker 4: Chris Hall. If you live in Callier County, and I'm

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Speaker 4: in Chris Chris Hall's district. I don't know the guy

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Speaker 4: from Adam, but I sent him an email because I

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Speaker 4: got his like, you know, quarterly update, and it said, hey,

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Speaker 4: you know, just please to announce we were able to

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Speaker 4: lower I think at the rate, we were able to

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Speaker 4: lower the tax rate like the tiniest little hair and

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Speaker 4: most people that means nothing, but to someone in government,

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Speaker 4: I'm like, you were able to lower the taxes. I

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Speaker 4: wrote him the most effusively praiseworthy email. You are you

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Speaker 4: are a champion, sir, you are a champion.

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Speaker 3: That's amazing.

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Speaker 4: He did respond. He seemed like a very nice guy,

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Speaker 4: but like I was just so impressed with and Byron Donalds.

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Speaker 4: Byron Donalds is my congressman down to Florida. I mean,

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Speaker 4: this is a guy who who is genuinely in office

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Speaker 4: for the right reasons. I mean his wife, what she's

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Speaker 4: doing with with charter schools and stuff like that. I mean,

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Speaker 4: these are people who we can all get behind and

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Speaker 4: cheer for. And again one of he's one of those

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Speaker 4: people that that fled Brooklyn, uh and settled in the

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Speaker 4: west coast of Florida. So you know, he might have

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Speaker 4: the playbook for me. I don't know. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 4: never gonna run for Congress. I'm gonna run for the border.

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Speaker 4: If not, if I don't run North Naples.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean, you know your New York's last

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Speaker 1: great hope, So so if I see you in Florida,

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Speaker 1: I'll know New York is done.

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Speaker 4: It's a good barometer.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So I love talking to you, Joe.

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Speaker 1: I think we should do it again over beers, but

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Speaker 1: end here with your best tip for my listeners on

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Speaker 1: how they can improve their lives.

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Speaker 4: Go back to what I said earlier. Figure out whether

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Speaker 4: you figure out what makes you happy, whether it's satisfying

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Speaker 4: your ego and your sense of accomplishment, meeting goals and challenges,

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Speaker 4: or you're motivated by money. And I don't think those

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Speaker 4: two things are equally are mutually exclusive, But I think

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Speaker 4: you'll find happiness if you just acknowledge who you are

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Speaker 4: as a person and what motivates you and what makes

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Speaker 4: you happy, because then you'll be able to take a

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Speaker 4: step back and figure out the best path for you

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Speaker 4: that achieves some goals and makes you at least financially

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Speaker 4: stable enough to live a comfortable.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, New York City Councilman Joe BURRELLI

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Speaker 1: loved having you on, See you soon. Thank you so much,

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining us on The Carol Markowitz Show.

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