WEBVTT - The Karol Markowicz Show: Can New York City Make a Comeback? 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:06.160 Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio. 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:09.400 A lot of people give a lot of bad advice 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:13.400 on the internet, but I've noticed a particular trend recently 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:18.360 that I think is just really prevalent and it's spreading, so. 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:21.200 I'm going to address it. It's what gets told to 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:24.680 women who yearn to get married and have a family, 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:28.280 and it's just some of the worst advice around. In 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:31.720 the British newspaper The Independent, a woman wrote in saying 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:35.199 the following quote. I'm thirty one and have been with 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.400 my boyfriend for twelve years. He is my favorite person 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:40.480 in the world, but I have spent the past year 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:43.360 devastated by the realization that he is never going to 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:43.920 ask me. 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:44.440 To marry him. 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:46.760 He doesn't agree with marriage and hates the idea of 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:49.519 a day full of attention. All my girlfriends are married, 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:52.440 and although I'm so happy in my relationship, I can't 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.040 help but compare and despair every time I go to 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:57.600 a wedding. I lost my dad when I was very young, 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:00.720 and also feel sad and unreasonably bitter at the fact 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:03.400 that most of my friends get it all. A dad 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:05.800 and a husband, a father of the bride speech a 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:08.160 perfect white wedding. I know I want to grow old 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:10.400 and gray with my boyfriend, and we both. 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:11.240 Want children soon. 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:13.680 But I still feel sad about the wedding that we're 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:15.840 not having and the memories that we're not making with 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:16.720 friends and family. 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:18.440 Please help me. End quote. 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:22.200 The column is called Dear Dolly, and Dolly responds with 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:25.479 just about the worst answer I can imagine. She starts 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:28.800 out talking about how romantic weddings are and how even 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:32.320 she Dolly, has gotten caught up in that, despite the 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:35.080 fact that she herself does not want to get married. 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:39.120 Dolly writes quote, I'm sorry it's causing you such distress. 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:41.280 I know of other women who have been put in 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:43.760 your position, and they too were surprised at how much 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:46.679 it bothered them. I admire how clear eyed you are 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:49.480 about what it is. You want a big, traditional wedding 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:52.760 where you and your partner's relationship is celebrated. And it 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:56.000 seems obvious to me that because of his personality type, 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:58.920 this is not something he would find enjoyable. This doesn't 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:03.440 seem to be about his commit meant to you. End quote. Uh, yeah, sure. 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.640 The Brits have this thing where you can bet on 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:09.560 just about anything, what color the princess will be wearing, 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:12.520 what celebrity will die this year, and so on. Well, 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:16.080 I'd placed the bet that if this couple broke up tomorrow, 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.160 he'd likely marry the next person he dates. It's a 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:22.880 well worn path that many people have taken before him. 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:26.560 Dolly goes on, quote in your longer letter, you mentioned 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:28.800 that he says he doesn't want to get married because 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:33.960 it is a patriarchal institution. End quote. I mean, lol, Honestly, 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:36.639 he won't marry her because of the patriarchy. 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.480 What a good guy. There was a time where. 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:41.880 Men said they wouldn't marry their girlfriends until their gay 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:46.160 friends could marry. Lena had Dune him, the actress's longtime boyfriend, 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:49.560 famously said this, and then gay marriage became legal and 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.160 they still didn't get married. Fight the patriarchy, right, Do 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:55.320 whatever your boyfriend wants to do, and don't make him 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.720 have to consider your feelings. Girl power. Dolly gives her 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.640 some tips on talking to her boyfriend about maybe having 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:05.240 a non traditional wedding, and then says, quote, another thing 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:07.520 you may want to consider is a big birthday. A 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:09.720 wedding is not something I dream of, But a big 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:12.280 birthday has become a shining day in my calendar year. 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.440 For my thirty fifth I wore a Vivian Westwood dress 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.160 black not white, and took some friends for dinner on 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:20.840 a canal boat. My best friend made a beautiful speech. 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.120 Everyone got up to no good. It was wonderful. Why 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.040 not redirect your wedding longing into a big birthday party? 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:29.840 Be utterly shameless about it. Ask your boyfriend to make 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.440 a toast by yourself a ridiculous outfit. Tell your best 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.320 friend your favorite flavor of cake. Let yourself enjoy the 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:38.440 celebration and attention you long for. Let yourself be showered 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.560 in the love and silliness and fuss that you deserve. 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:42.880 Do it completely on your own terms. You may wake 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:44.680 up the next day to find an itch. 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:45.360 Has been scratched. 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:49.080 End quote. And that's just completely misreading what this woman wants. 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:53.360 She wants the traditional picture of the wedding and the marriage, 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:57.600 a big birthday party, be serious. She says specifically that 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:00.400 she's jealous her friends get to have it all, dad 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:03.200 and a husband. She wants what women have wanted for 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:07.120 hundreds and maybe thousands of years. The questioner is not the. 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:07.839 Weird one here. 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:11.720 The people gaslighting her into believing she shouldn't want this 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:15.120 because of the patriarchy or whatever. Are the ones rewriting 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:19.000 something basic and obvious. People want to tie themselves to 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.320 each other in front of their friends and family. They 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.720 want the wedding, yes, but they want the marriage. They 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:28.480 want what has worked and not the latest thing that 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:31.760 probably won't. Coming up next, an interview with New York 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:38.120 City Councilman Joe Borelli. Join us after the break. Welcome 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:41.719 back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio. My guest 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.799 today is Republican leader of the New York City City 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:48.200 Council and generally decent human Joe Borelli. 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.599 Hi, Joe, how are you? Great to see you? 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:54.280 So nice to have you on counselman anytime. 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:59.000 I just I wish I was where you are right Noway. 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:01.159 I wish you were where I was also, But somebody 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:02.960 has to hold it down in New York City, and 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:04.880 you know that's. 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:07.560 Been you for many years. Now. How's it going? 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:12.000 I mean, we're still floating. Things are okay. Things are 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:13.840 not as bad as I think they were maybe a 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.760 year ago, and you know, six months ago even so, 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:21.720 there's some positive news. Crime is ticking down just slightly. 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:27.720 The migrant crisis is abetting itself ever so slightly. Unfortunately, 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:29.960 now we're seeing the convergence of the crime and migrant 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.559 crisis in the form of some high profile incident instead 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.680 of occurred. But other than that, the city financially is 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.880 doing okay, and we'll still be here I think in 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:43.600 a decade or so. 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:45.880 So how is the migrant crisis a betting itself? 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.159 I mean, just from the news, it seems to not 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:49.640 be a betting itself. 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.560 Well, the number of people in our care not only 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:57.640 stayed at about hundred seventy thousand people, but it trickled 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.920 down ever so slightly. So we've been molemented a sixty 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:05.080 day eviction process, which has seen some results. We've also 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:08.679 stopped leasing new hotels. More people have gone into tents. 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:11.640 It turns out people don't like to stay intense for 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:15.320 too long, so eventually it works out where they work out. 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:17.800 Interesting, Okay, I get that. 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.440 So one thing that I asked everybody on this show, 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:23.640 and I feel like asking a New York City council 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:27.200 and you might have extensive answer, But what would you say, 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:31.159 is our largest societal problem and is it solvable? 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.000 You know. So I saw your question when you emailed 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:37.400 me this, and I wanted to say something entirely predictable, 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.720 but I'm going to not do that. I'm going to 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:44.520 say something that I think is the case. And it's 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:46.520 kind of a deep, dark secret that maybe I think 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:49.400 this way. I actually think it's our sense of entitlement, 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:55.640 because that is, it's a broad disease that infects every race, color, 0:06:55.680 --> 0:07:00.520 and creed, and especially younger people. But I think it's 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.479 this sense of entitlement as to what people are owed 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.560 when they wake up in the morning that is going 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:10.920 to make the US long term less competitive than anywhere else. 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.400 And I just never understood it, and I've seen it 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.280 in my you know, twenty years as a professional person 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:20.640 with a job where you know, when I started in politics. 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.040 In fact, when I started in politics, my first job 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.240 was an intern, and then after college, my first job 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:29.720 in politics was to hang posters around town. I mean 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.840 just you know, literally taking a stack of heavy posters 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.360 rolled up and walking from business to business and introducing 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:38.240 myself and giving a pitch for this candidate I was 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.840 working for at the time, and like that was that 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:44.320 was how you started. Now, I mean people won't even 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.760 volunteer for a campaign, and I put air quotes in 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.800 volunteer unless they're paid, and they're paid well and they're 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:53.520 getting a minimum wage. We just had a unionizing effort 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:57.360 by the staff of the City Council where now legislative 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:00.400 staff is unionized. And again I'm not opposed to you unions, 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.880 but these are fundamentally at will employees. These are people 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.520 who are you know, I get elected glect where we 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:09.200 gets elected. Yeah, we're in charge of hiring people that 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.880 are part of their team, and they're at will employees. 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.280 But now they're unionized and there's an entitlement that they 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:18.880 get at regular raises. Not to mention just what people's 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:22.600 expectations are coming out of college, what people's expectations are 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:26.000 in terms of government support. Look at the migrant crisis. 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:29.160 We've always had migrants, right, New York City has always 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:33.920 had immigrants, migrants, legal, illegal. Ever you kind of wear 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.959 in between over the past, you know, four hundred years 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.000 of our city sixteen twenty five, almost five hunred years. 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.320 So we're not used to we're not not used to 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.160 having people come here. We're just not used to having 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:49.080 people come here with everything paid for, with every aspect 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.840 of life being accounted for. So I think, if you 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:53.800 had to ask me what you did, what is the 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:57.200 biggest problem in our culture going forward? I think it's entitlement. 0:08:57.920 --> 0:08:59.880 So what do we do? How do we solve this? 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:03.280 Well, I can tell you how I'm I'm doing with 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:05.360 my own kids. You know, I'm trying to make my 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.679 kids work for things, you know, every you know, everything 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:11.480 from privileges to their own little freedoms and ability to 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:13.079 go out with their friends. I mean, so, I mean, 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.360 that's that's what we're doing in the Barelli household. How 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:20.200 society implements that, I'm not really sure, but it can't 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:23.360 just be you know, because you're breathing, you are entitled 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:25.760 to X, Y and z. Because you think you've got 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.760 a degree from a fancy institution, you should be entitled 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:33.400 to some other series of benefits. I think letting people, 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.400 you know, you look at a country like Israel, for example, 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:41.000 where there's you know, compulsive military service, right, And I'm 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:42.760 not saying the military is for everyone, but but but 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:46.160 when you have a compulsive military service, you know you 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:48.520 have to do without for a period of your life. 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.560 And look at the products downstream of that, where you 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.600 have one of the most innovative societies on Earth, one 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:57.840 of the most entrepreneurial societies on Earth. And that's that's 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:01.920 one credited to the fact that they make every kid 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.600 when you're a kid, when you're eighteen, go out and 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:08.520 earn some respect, earn some self worth, earn learn about 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:10.080 what you're able to do and how you can. 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:15.640 Produce interesting How do we translate that here without compulsory 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:20.800 you know, military service. How do we teach this new generation, 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:24.760 next generation that they can't just expect things that they 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.200 don't get out of college and make six figures. And 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.320 who's lying to them, I guess is the better question. 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:34.160 Who is telling them to have these expectations. 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.880 I mean that answer comes from this expectation that college 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.280 is for everyone, that there's a government loan for you 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.600 to go to college and you're not going to actually 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.480 pay for it. I mean, I have college loans, but 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:47.679 I chose to go to a college that gave me 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:49.599 the biggest scholarship. You know, I wanted to go to 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:51.080 a good school. Right, No one wants to go to 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.040 bed school. And when you can make good schools, you 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:54.719 want to go there when I went to the best 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.080 school that I could in order to have the least 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:00.000 amount of debt possible. Yeah, look, I saw my own parents. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:03.240 My dad was an MTA worker, my my mother, did 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.160 you know, various jobs over the years, no sort of career. 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:08.400 But like I, we didn't have a lot of money. 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:10.599 We didn't. We didn't go sit court side at the 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:11.880 next I've never even been to a next game. 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.280 Now, think about it, you've never been to a next game. 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.360 No, I don't think I've ever been to you a fan. No, 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:18.800 I hate basketball. 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:20.640 I hate basketball too, but I still have to go 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:21.640 to games sometimes. 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.679 No, never, never. I mean, we just didn't do those things. 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.080 We just we were always comfortable. We were middle class. 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:28.559 We never had luxuries. 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:33.160 But but I just wanted the headline after this interview 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:37.640 to be like New York City councilman hates basketball hates. 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:41.079 The end which could if that's the headline, I wish 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.480 that was the headline. I don't mean, I'm sure fat 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.480 and white. So like, basketball was never never really an 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:49.800 option for me. In fact, I could remember in like 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:53.000 the third grade just playing into mural rec league at 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:55.319 the parish gym, and I would get the ball, and 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:57.560 I'd get so scared I'd crunch up into a ball 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.320 and then I throw it over my head and hope. 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.480 This guy named Joan man Ferana, he's a he's a 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.120 big guy man. He used to play pretty well. 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:05.679 Did you generally catch it? 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:07.920 Generally caught it and made a basket, and like we 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:09.080 went on to great things. 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:09.760 Nice. 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.760 So you're only the second politician I've had on this show, 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:16.280 because I generally don't find politicians that interesting. But you 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.280 and Ted Cruz are you know, the two exceptions to that. 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:20.520 He's interesting. 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:22.080 Who do you like? 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:22.160 Like? 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.319 Who are the politicians you find interesting? 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:26.400 Who else should I have on the Carol Mark Wood Show. 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:29.960 Politicians I find interesting are people who write, So everyone 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:34.400 from Benjamin Disraeli to Boris Johnson to Steve israel I 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:37.119 think I think when you're a writer, anybody in America 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:44.000 or a long time ago. So I like people who 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.959 can frame thoughts in like written written works. So that's 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:51.400 who I find interesting. Other just general politicians I find interesting. 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:56.240 Some of my colleagues I actually find that they are 0:12:56.280 --> 0:13:00.000 interesting people. Some of the diverse backgrounds, you know, genuinely 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:04.640 have me interested in their life experience, There's one guy, 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.640 you know, Kevin Riley. He he is a black man 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:14.520 South Bronx has a fatherhood based nonprofit where he is 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:18.400 just always talking about fatherhood and being a role model 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:20.160 as a as a as a man, as a dad 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:23.400 in the community. I find his whole thing just so 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.400 really interesting. He'd be an interesting person to have on 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:30.320 a show like this. National politics is so boring. I 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:34.079 mean I liked they threw him out of Congress, you 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.120 know what I mean, Like, like that was bizarre. He 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:38.920 was like he's nuts. I know him, he's a nut job, 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:42.360 but he was interesting. Right, It's not a it's not 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:47.160 a it really is not a profession that rewards a 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:52.800 centrism and originalism. Although you know, we've had Donald Trump, 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:55.880 we have Javier Malay, we have these these exceptions to 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:58.600 my rule. But as a general rule of thumb, Man 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:02.080 politicians are so boring, Like even the ones that know 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:03.640 how to tweet a little bit or like I think 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.079 they're they're wild, but like they wouldn't they wouldn't be 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.280 getting you know, any followers as content creators had they 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:12.480 not been the US Senator from Oklahoma or something. 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.200 Right, I'm gonna have to look up who you're talking 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:16.480 about after this show. 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:20.960 Cotton Center. I mean, like he's just he's got a 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.880 good interesting guy. But like if he was just a 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.680 host on CNBC, I wouldn't be watching him. 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:30.240 I understand that we're going to take a quick break 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:35.720 and be right back on the Carol Marcowitch Show. Do 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:37.560 you feel like you've made it? I mean being on 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.760 the New York City City Council and you were one 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:44.440 of the few Republicans for so long, Like, do you 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:45.440 feel good about it? 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:46.640 Do you feel like you've made it? 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.560 So? I feel good about it because I accomplished one 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.920 minor goal. So there was a school for handicapped kids 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.320 that I ran for office too built. I wanted to 0:14:56.360 --> 0:15:00.160 knock down this. It was like an old temporary building, 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.320 like one of those QUANTT huts, like Vietnam era QUANTCET 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:06.000 hut to make people think about what the building was. 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:09.160 And this is where we were sending handicapped kids or 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:13.040 physically and developmentally disabled, and it was just it was 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.520 an appalling thing. And I set out to do it 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:17.880 and we got, you know, sixty million dollars or so 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.760 we built them a brand new, massive school and it's wonderful. 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.640 So like I'm one of those people where like everything 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.120 after that is cake. Right, That's that's a little thing 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:28.360 that I could rest my head and say, you know what, 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.320 I did something good for people. By the way, now 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:32.600 we have the school. Now the PTA chirps in my 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:34.520 ear every day for this and that there's problems all 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.840 over the place. It's still better than having the floor 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:41.400 rotting out from this quantt hunt. But like bigger picture, 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:43.360 have I made it? And what am I going to 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:46.040 do next? Or kind of like interestwine, right, I think 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:50.120 everyone has to figure out whether they're a person who's 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:55.280 motivated by money or they're motivated by ego. And like 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:59.360 so like I've met my ego threshold where like I 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.640 have become a certain degree of famous, like not you know, 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:08.200 big fish in a small pond, right, I you know, 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:10.600 I get to be on TV on a regular base. 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:14.320 I mean, people watch Fox, Fox Business News, Maxine. They 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:17.240 watch this stuff religiously, and I'm just so blessed to 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.400 be able to go on these shows. People read the 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.400 New York It's like the biggest circulating paper in the country, 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:24.280 and you get to write a lot the best. 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:27.080 Best newspaper in the country. Left the humans words here 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:27.760 in New York. 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:31.080 Post Barn and I get to publish with them, you know, 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.720 every couple of weeks I submit something and they're They've 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:37.320 been great to me. So, like being a Republican on 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:39.160 the city council, the best you can hope for is 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.880 to influence political thought in New York City. And again, 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:45.600 New York City bigger in terms of population and budget 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:50.000 than Switzerland. It's not it's not just a regular municipality. Yeah, 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:53.280 so I guess I've made it. Other people will say like, well, 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:54.680 what's it all worth? Like, like, what am I going 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:55.200 to do next? 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:55.360 It? 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:59.040 Do I do I continue this path where I want 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.440 to keep running for off or keep doing things that 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:06.240 that sort of meet my my own personal vision of accomplishment, 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:09.960 like really like my ego and stuff. Or do I 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:11.720 say like, Okay, now I'm going to work in the 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:13.679 private sector and can I earn more money? 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:14.200 Yeah? 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:17.000 And those things aren't mutually exclusive, but finding the one 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.720 that that checks both boxes is tough. Even if you're 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.560 a house painter, for example, you know you want to 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:24.920 make the most money painting houses, but you also don't 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:26.720 want to be the worst house painter in the town 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.040 you live in. Right, So, like there's like a professional 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:31.560 accomplishment that you want to be, whether you're painting houses 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:36.280 or or you know, the next remote And even if 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:38.000 you're not motivated by money, you still want to have 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:40.160 enough to be comfortable. So I don't know. I guess 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:44.800 for me, it's finding that right balance. And and so 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:46.040 the answer is no, I don't think I have that 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:46.840 right balance yet. 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.080 Well that's just no, yeah, all right. I mean, you know, 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:50.639 it's funny. 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.000 You know, it's funny because when I think of you. 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.320 So I saw you in December on the West coast 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.800 of Florida. It was my first time on the West coast. 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:01.840 We had, you know, a super great time. Wait, what's 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:02.680 that place called again? 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.119 Seed to Table? Shake, See to Table. 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:06.639 I'm sorry, yeah, see to Table. 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:10.639 I live down the block. I need you to be 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:11.280 my best friend. 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:15.119 Yeah, Seed to Table. It was unreal, incredible. We had 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:19.560 the best time, and you seem so comfortable and natural 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:23.560 and happy in Florida. And I'm obviously a Florida evangelist. 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:24.359 I want you here. 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:26.600 But then I have this thing where I just think 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:31.200 you're like the only shot New York has, Like I think, 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.680 without you, I don't know what happens to New York 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:35.640 without Joe Borelli. 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:37.720 So I kind of want you. 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.639 Here so we could go have beers at Seed to Table. 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:45.040 But I also want you to fix the city. 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:47.400 That I love, and you know, maybe I. 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:49.720 Don't know, run for mayor or you know, something like 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:54.399 that and really really turn that place around. 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:57.960 You know, if something I don't I don't root against 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:01.359 people at all. I don't don't move against Bill a 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:04.359 Blasio person. I don't root against you know, Kathy Hochel. 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:07.359 I rooted against Andrew Cuomo because he's a bad human being, 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:11.360 like human being, genuinely bad person. I just think Bill 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:14.120 de Blasio is dopey and had bad ideas. Kathy Hochel's 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:16.680 kind of ineffectual, you know, but like a nice I 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:18.960 had lunchurder in the past, and she's a nice person, right. 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:23.560 I'm not a fan, but okay, bad bad person. Yeah, 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:25.800 I agree with you about Bill de Blasio. I think 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:29.680 he was just, you know, has terrible ideas. 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:32.400 I texted him Bill, the die job looks great because 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:35.720 he died. Like I'm kind of nice, but it's like 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:38.920 it sounds sarcastic and kind of I don't know, being 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:41.680 nice or not anyway. I'm Staten Island for I'm not 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:43.760 New York first. I am a Staten Island through and through. 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:46.600 If Staten Island succeeded, I would run for mayor and 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:48.920 about Eric Adams. If Eric Adams against jams up and 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:51.720