Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: A lot of people give a lot of bad advice
Speaker 2: on the internet, but I've noticed a particular trend recently
Speaker 2: that I think is just really prevalent and it's spreading, so.
Speaker 1: I'm going to address it. It's what gets told to
Speaker 1: women who yearn to get married and have a family,
Speaker 1: and it's just some of the worst advice around. In
Speaker 1: the British newspaper The Independent, a woman wrote in saying
Speaker 1: the following quote. I'm thirty one and have been with
Speaker 1: my boyfriend for twelve years. He is my favorite person
Speaker 1: in the world, but I have spent the past year
Speaker 1: devastated by the realization that he is never going to
Speaker 1: ask me.
Speaker 3: To marry him.
Speaker 1: He doesn't agree with marriage and hates the idea of
Speaker 1: a day full of attention. All my girlfriends are married,
Speaker 1: and although I'm so happy in my relationship, I can't
Speaker 1: help but compare and despair every time I go to
Speaker 1: a wedding. I lost my dad when I was very young,
Speaker 1: and also feel sad and unreasonably bitter at the fact
Speaker 1: that most of my friends get it all. A dad
Speaker 1: and a husband, a father of the bride speech a
Speaker 1: perfect white wedding. I know I want to grow old
Speaker 1: and gray with my boyfriend, and we both.
Speaker 3: Want children soon.
Speaker 1: But I still feel sad about the wedding that we're
Speaker 1: not having and the memories that we're not making with
Speaker 1: friends and family.
Speaker 3: Please help me. End quote.
Speaker 1: The column is called Dear Dolly, and Dolly responds with
Speaker 1: just about the worst answer I can imagine. She starts
Speaker 1: out talking about how romantic weddings are and how even
Speaker 1: she Dolly, has gotten caught up in that, despite the
Speaker 1: fact that she herself does not want to get married.
Speaker 1: Dolly writes quote, I'm sorry it's causing you such distress.
Speaker 1: I know of other women who have been put in
Speaker 1: your position, and they too were surprised at how much
Speaker 1: it bothered them. I admire how clear eyed you are
Speaker 1: about what it is. You want a big, traditional wedding
Speaker 1: where you and your partner's relationship is celebrated. And it
Speaker 1: seems obvious to me that because of his personality type,
Speaker 1: this is not something he would find enjoyable. This doesn't
Speaker 1: seem to be about his commit meant to you. End quote. Uh, yeah, sure.
Speaker 1: The Brits have this thing where you can bet on
Speaker 1: just about anything, what color the princess will be wearing,
Speaker 1: what celebrity will die this year, and so on. Well,
Speaker 1: I'd placed the bet that if this couple broke up tomorrow,
Speaker 1: he'd likely marry the next person he dates. It's a
Speaker 1: well worn path that many people have taken before him.
Speaker 1: Dolly goes on, quote in your longer letter, you mentioned
Speaker 1: that he says he doesn't want to get married because
Speaker 1: it is a patriarchal institution. End quote. I mean, lol, Honestly,
Speaker 1: he won't marry her because of the patriarchy.
Speaker 3: What a good guy. There was a time where.
Speaker 1: Men said they wouldn't marry their girlfriends until their gay
Speaker 1: friends could marry. Lena had Dune him, the actress's longtime boyfriend,
Speaker 1: famously said this, and then gay marriage became legal and
Speaker 1: they still didn't get married. Fight the patriarchy, right, Do
Speaker 1: whatever your boyfriend wants to do, and don't make him
Speaker 1: have to consider your feelings. Girl power. Dolly gives her
Speaker 1: some tips on talking to her boyfriend about maybe having
Speaker 1: a non traditional wedding, and then says, quote, another thing
Speaker 1: you may want to consider is a big birthday. A
Speaker 1: wedding is not something I dream of, But a big
Speaker 1: birthday has become a shining day in my calendar year.
Speaker 1: For my thirty fifth I wore a Vivian Westwood dress
Speaker 1: black not white, and took some friends for dinner on
Speaker 1: a canal boat. My best friend made a beautiful speech.
Speaker 1: Everyone got up to no good. It was wonderful. Why
Speaker 1: not redirect your wedding longing into a big birthday party?
Speaker 1: Be utterly shameless about it. Ask your boyfriend to make
Speaker 1: a toast by yourself a ridiculous outfit. Tell your best
Speaker 1: friend your favorite flavor of cake. Let yourself enjoy the
Speaker 1: celebration and attention you long for. Let yourself be showered
Speaker 1: in the love and silliness and fuss that you deserve.
Speaker 1: Do it completely on your own terms. You may wake
Speaker 1: up the next day to find an itch.
Speaker 3: Has been scratched.
Speaker 1: End quote. And that's just completely misreading what this woman wants.
Speaker 1: She wants the traditional picture of the wedding and the marriage,
Speaker 1: a big birthday party, be serious. She says specifically that
Speaker 1: she's jealous her friends get to have it all, dad
Speaker 1: and a husband. She wants what women have wanted for
Speaker 1: hundreds and maybe thousands of years. The questioner is not the.
Speaker 3: Weird one here.
Speaker 1: The people gaslighting her into believing she shouldn't want this
Speaker 1: because of the patriarchy or whatever. Are the ones rewriting
Speaker 1: something basic and obvious. People want to tie themselves to
Speaker 1: each other in front of their friends and family. They
Speaker 1: want the wedding, yes, but they want the marriage. They
Speaker 1: want what has worked and not the latest thing that
Speaker 1: probably won't. Coming up next, an interview with New York
Speaker 1: City Councilman Joe Borelli. Join us after the break. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio. My guest
Speaker 1: today is Republican leader of the New York City City
Speaker 1: Council and generally decent human Joe Borelli.
Speaker 4: Hi, Joe, how are you? Great to see you?
Speaker 3: So nice to have you on counselman anytime.
Speaker 4: I just I wish I was where you are right Noway.
Speaker 1: I wish you were where I was also, But somebody
Speaker 1: has to hold it down in New York City, and
Speaker 1: you know that's.
Speaker 3: Been you for many years. Now. How's it going?
Speaker 4: I mean, we're still floating. Things are okay. Things are
Speaker 4: not as bad as I think they were maybe a
Speaker 4: year ago, and you know, six months ago even so,
Speaker 4: there's some positive news. Crime is ticking down just slightly.
Speaker 4: The migrant crisis is abetting itself ever so slightly. Unfortunately,
Speaker 4: now we're seeing the convergence of the crime and migrant
Speaker 4: crisis in the form of some high profile incident instead
Speaker 4: of occurred. But other than that, the city financially is
Speaker 4: doing okay, and we'll still be here I think in
Speaker 4: a decade or so.
Speaker 3: So how is the migrant crisis a betting itself?
Speaker 1: I mean, just from the news, it seems to not
Speaker 1: be a betting itself.
Speaker 4: Well, the number of people in our care not only
Speaker 4: stayed at about hundred seventy thousand people, but it trickled
Speaker 4: down ever so slightly. So we've been molemented a sixty
Speaker 4: day eviction process, which has seen some results. We've also
Speaker 4: stopped leasing new hotels. More people have gone into tents.
Speaker 4: It turns out people don't like to stay intense for
Speaker 4: too long, so eventually it works out where they work out.
Speaker 3: Interesting, Okay, I get that.
Speaker 1: So one thing that I asked everybody on this show,
Speaker 1: and I feel like asking a New York City council
Speaker 1: and you might have extensive answer, But what would you say,
Speaker 1: is our largest societal problem and is it solvable?
Speaker 4: You know. So I saw your question when you emailed
Speaker 4: me this, and I wanted to say something entirely predictable,
Speaker 4: but I'm going to not do that. I'm going to
Speaker 4: say something that I think is the case. And it's
Speaker 4: kind of a deep, dark secret that maybe I think
Speaker 4: this way. I actually think it's our sense of entitlement,
Speaker 4: because that is, it's a broad disease that infects every race, color,
Speaker 4: and creed, and especially younger people. But I think it's
Speaker 4: this sense of entitlement as to what people are owed
Speaker 4: when they wake up in the morning that is going
Speaker 4: to make the US long term less competitive than anywhere else.
Speaker 4: And I just never understood it, and I've seen it
Speaker 4: in my you know, twenty years as a professional person
Speaker 4: with a job where you know, when I started in politics.
Speaker 4: In fact, when I started in politics, my first job
Speaker 4: was an intern, and then after college, my first job
Speaker 4: in politics was to hang posters around town. I mean
Speaker 4: just you know, literally taking a stack of heavy posters
Speaker 4: rolled up and walking from business to business and introducing
Speaker 4: myself and giving a pitch for this candidate I was
Speaker 4: working for at the time, and like that was that
Speaker 4: was how you started. Now, I mean people won't even
Speaker 4: volunteer for a campaign, and I put air quotes in
Speaker 4: volunteer unless they're paid, and they're paid well and they're
Speaker 4: getting a minimum wage. We just had a unionizing effort
Speaker 4: by the staff of the City Council where now legislative
Speaker 4: staff is unionized. And again I'm not opposed to you unions,
Speaker 4: but these are fundamentally at will employees. These are people
Speaker 4: who are you know, I get elected glect where we
Speaker 4: gets elected. Yeah, we're in charge of hiring people that
Speaker 4: are part of their team, and they're at will employees.
Speaker 4: But now they're unionized and there's an entitlement that they
Speaker 4: get at regular raises. Not to mention just what people's
Speaker 4: expectations are coming out of college, what people's expectations are
Speaker 4: in terms of government support. Look at the migrant crisis.
Speaker 4: We've always had migrants, right, New York City has always
Speaker 4: had immigrants, migrants, legal, illegal. Ever you kind of wear
Speaker 4: in between over the past, you know, four hundred years
Speaker 4: of our city sixteen twenty five, almost five hunred years.
Speaker 4: So we're not used to we're not not used to
Speaker 4: having people come here. We're just not used to having
Speaker 4: people come here with everything paid for, with every aspect
Speaker 4: of life being accounted for. So I think, if you
Speaker 4: had to ask me what you did, what is the
Speaker 4: biggest problem in our culture going forward? I think it's entitlement.
Speaker 3: So what do we do? How do we solve this?
Speaker 4: Well, I can tell you how I'm I'm doing with
Speaker 4: my own kids. You know, I'm trying to make my
Speaker 4: kids work for things, you know, every you know, everything
Speaker 4: from privileges to their own little freedoms and ability to
Speaker 4: go out with their friends. I mean, so, I mean,
Speaker 4: that's that's what we're doing in the Barelli household. How
Speaker 4: society implements that, I'm not really sure, but it can't
Speaker 4: just be you know, because you're breathing, you are entitled
Speaker 4: to X, Y and z. Because you think you've got
Speaker 4: a degree from a fancy institution, you should be entitled
Speaker 4: to some other series of benefits. I think letting people,
Speaker 4: you know, you look at a country like Israel, for example,
Speaker 4: where there's you know, compulsive military service, right, And I'm
Speaker 4: not saying the military is for everyone, but but but
Speaker 4: when you have a compulsive military service, you know you
Speaker 4: have to do without for a period of your life.
Speaker 4: And look at the products downstream of that, where you
Speaker 4: have one of the most innovative societies on Earth, one
Speaker 4: of the most entrepreneurial societies on Earth. And that's that's
Speaker 4: one credited to the fact that they make every kid
Speaker 4: when you're a kid, when you're eighteen, go out and
Speaker 4: earn some respect, earn some self worth, earn learn about
Speaker 4: what you're able to do and how you can.
Speaker 1: Produce interesting How do we translate that here without compulsory
Speaker 1: you know, military service. How do we teach this new generation,
Speaker 1: next generation that they can't just expect things that they
Speaker 1: don't get out of college and make six figures. And
Speaker 1: who's lying to them, I guess is the better question.
Speaker 1: Who is telling them to have these expectations.
Speaker 4: I mean that answer comes from this expectation that college
Speaker 4: is for everyone, that there's a government loan for you
Speaker 4: to go to college and you're not going to actually
Speaker 4: pay for it. I mean, I have college loans, but
Speaker 4: I chose to go to a college that gave me
Speaker 4: the biggest scholarship. You know, I wanted to go to
Speaker 4: a good school. Right, No one wants to go to
Speaker 4: bed school. And when you can make good schools, you
Speaker 4: want to go there when I went to the best
Speaker 4: school that I could in order to have the least
Speaker 4: amount of debt possible. Yeah, look, I saw my own parents.
Speaker 4: My dad was an MTA worker, my my mother, did
Speaker 4: you know, various jobs over the years, no sort of career.
Speaker 4: But like I, we didn't have a lot of money.
Speaker 4: We didn't. We didn't go sit court side at the
Speaker 4: next I've never even been to a next game.
Speaker 1: Now, think about it, you've never been to a next game.
Speaker 4: No, I don't think I've ever been to you a fan. No,
Speaker 4: I hate basketball.
Speaker 1: I hate basketball too, but I still have to go
Speaker 1: to games sometimes.
Speaker 4: No, never, never. I mean, we just didn't do those things.
Speaker 4: We just we were always comfortable. We were middle class.
Speaker 4: We never had luxuries.
Speaker 1: But but I just wanted the headline after this interview
Speaker 1: to be like New York City councilman hates basketball hates.
Speaker 4: The end which could if that's the headline, I wish
Speaker 4: that was the headline. I don't mean, I'm sure fat
Speaker 4: and white. So like, basketball was never never really an
Speaker 4: option for me. In fact, I could remember in like
Speaker 4: the third grade just playing into mural rec league at
Speaker 4: the parish gym, and I would get the ball, and
Speaker 4: I'd get so scared I'd crunch up into a ball
Speaker 4: and then I throw it over my head and hope.
Speaker 4: This guy named Joan man Ferana, he's a he's a
Speaker 4: big guy man. He used to play pretty well.
Speaker 3: Did you generally catch it?
Speaker 4: Generally caught it and made a basket, and like we
Speaker 4: went on to great things.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 1: So you're only the second politician I've had on this show,
Speaker 1: because I generally don't find politicians that interesting. But you
Speaker 1: and Ted Cruz are you know, the two exceptions to that.
Speaker 4: He's interesting.
Speaker 3: Who do you like?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 3: Who are the politicians you find interesting?
Speaker 1: Who else should I have on the Carol Mark Wood Show.
Speaker 4: Politicians I find interesting are people who write, So everyone
Speaker 4: from Benjamin Disraeli to Boris Johnson to Steve israel I
Speaker 4: think I think when you're a writer, anybody in America
Speaker 4: or a long time ago. So I like people who
Speaker 4: can frame thoughts in like written written works. So that's
Speaker 4: who I find interesting. Other just general politicians I find interesting.
Speaker 4: Some of my colleagues I actually find that they are
Speaker 4: interesting people. Some of the diverse backgrounds, you know, genuinely
Speaker 4: have me interested in their life experience, There's one guy,
Speaker 4: you know, Kevin Riley. He he is a black man
Speaker 4: South Bronx has a fatherhood based nonprofit where he is
Speaker 4: just always talking about fatherhood and being a role model
Speaker 4: as a as a as a man, as a dad
Speaker 4: in the community. I find his whole thing just so
Speaker 4: really interesting. He'd be an interesting person to have on
Speaker 4: a show like this. National politics is so boring. I
Speaker 4: mean I liked they threw him out of Congress, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean, Like, like that was bizarre. He
Speaker 4: was like he's nuts. I know him, he's a nut job,
Speaker 4: but he was interesting. Right, It's not a it's not
Speaker 4: a it really is not a profession that rewards a
Speaker 4: centrism and originalism. Although you know, we've had Donald Trump,
Speaker 4: we have Javier Malay, we have these these exceptions to
Speaker 4: my rule. But as a general rule of thumb, Man
Speaker 4: politicians are so boring, Like even the ones that know
Speaker 4: how to tweet a little bit or like I think
Speaker 4: they're they're wild, but like they wouldn't they wouldn't be
Speaker 4: getting you know, any followers as content creators had they
Speaker 4: not been the US Senator from Oklahoma or something.
Speaker 1: Right, I'm gonna have to look up who you're talking
Speaker 1: about after this show.
Speaker 4: Cotton Center. I mean, like he's just he's got a
Speaker 4: good interesting guy. But like if he was just a
Speaker 4: host on CNBC, I wouldn't be watching him.
Speaker 1: I understand that we're going to take a quick break
Speaker 1: and be right back on the Carol Marcowitch Show. Do
Speaker 1: you feel like you've made it? I mean being on
Speaker 1: the New York City City Council and you were one
Speaker 1: of the few Republicans for so long, Like, do you
Speaker 1: feel good about it?
Speaker 3: Do you feel like you've made it?
Speaker 4: So? I feel good about it because I accomplished one
Speaker 4: minor goal. So there was a school for handicapped kids
Speaker 4: that I ran for office too built. I wanted to
Speaker 4: knock down this. It was like an old temporary building,
Speaker 4: like one of those QUANTT huts, like Vietnam era QUANTCET
Speaker 4: hut to make people think about what the building was.
Speaker 4: And this is where we were sending handicapped kids or
Speaker 4: physically and developmentally disabled, and it was just it was
Speaker 4: an appalling thing. And I set out to do it
Speaker 4: and we got, you know, sixty million dollars or so
Speaker 4: we built them a brand new, massive school and it's wonderful.
Speaker 4: So like I'm one of those people where like everything
Speaker 4: after that is cake. Right, That's that's a little thing
Speaker 4: that I could rest my head and say, you know what,
Speaker 4: I did something good for people. By the way, now
Speaker 4: we have the school. Now the PTA chirps in my
Speaker 4: ear every day for this and that there's problems all
Speaker 4: over the place. It's still better than having the floor
Speaker 4: rotting out from this quantt hunt. But like bigger picture,
Speaker 4: have I made it? And what am I going to
Speaker 4: do next? Or kind of like interestwine, right, I think
Speaker 4: everyone has to figure out whether they're a person who's
Speaker 4: motivated by money or they're motivated by ego. And like
Speaker 4: so like I've met my ego threshold where like I
Speaker 4: have become a certain degree of famous, like not you know,
Speaker 4: big fish in a small pond, right, I you know,
Speaker 4: I get to be on TV on a regular base.
Speaker 4: I mean, people watch Fox, Fox Business News, Maxine. They
Speaker 4: watch this stuff religiously, and I'm just so blessed to
Speaker 4: be able to go on these shows. People read the
Speaker 4: New York It's like the biggest circulating paper in the country,
Speaker 4: and you get to write a lot the best.
Speaker 3: Best newspaper in the country. Left the humans words here
Speaker 3: in New York.
Speaker 4: Post Barn and I get to publish with them, you know,
Speaker 4: every couple of weeks I submit something and they're They've
Speaker 4: been great to me. So, like being a Republican on
Speaker 4: the city council, the best you can hope for is
Speaker 4: to influence political thought in New York City. And again,
Speaker 4: New York City bigger in terms of population and budget
Speaker 4: than Switzerland. It's not it's not just a regular municipality. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so I guess I've made it. Other people will say like, well,
Speaker 4: what's it all worth? Like, like, what am I going
Speaker 4: to do next?
Speaker 2: It?
Speaker 4: Do I do I continue this path where I want
Speaker 4: to keep running for off or keep doing things that
Speaker 4: that sort of meet my my own personal vision of accomplishment,
Speaker 4: like really like my ego and stuff. Or do I
Speaker 4: say like, Okay, now I'm going to work in the
Speaker 4: private sector and can I earn more money?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: And those things aren't mutually exclusive, but finding the one
Speaker 4: that that checks both boxes is tough. Even if you're
Speaker 4: a house painter, for example, you know you want to
Speaker 4: make the most money painting houses, but you also don't
Speaker 4: want to be the worst house painter in the town
Speaker 4: you live in. Right, So, like there's like a professional
Speaker 4: accomplishment that you want to be, whether you're painting houses
Speaker 4: or or you know, the next remote And even if
Speaker 4: you're not motivated by money, you still want to have
Speaker 4: enough to be comfortable. So I don't know. I guess
Speaker 4: for me, it's finding that right balance. And and so
Speaker 4: the answer is no, I don't think I have that
Speaker 4: right balance yet.
Speaker 3: Well that's just no, yeah, all right. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: it's funny.
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny because when I think of you.
Speaker 1: So I saw you in December on the West coast
Speaker 1: of Florida. It was my first time on the West coast.
Speaker 1: We had, you know, a super great time. Wait, what's
Speaker 1: that place called again?
Speaker 4: Seed to Table? Shake, See to Table.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, yeah, see to Table.
Speaker 4: I live down the block. I need you to be
Speaker 4: my best friend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Seed to Table. It was unreal, incredible. We had
Speaker 1: the best time, and you seem so comfortable and natural
Speaker 1: and happy in Florida. And I'm obviously a Florida evangelist.
Speaker 3: I want you here.
Speaker 1: But then I have this thing where I just think
Speaker 1: you're like the only shot New York has, Like I think,
Speaker 1: without you, I don't know what happens to New York
Speaker 1: without Joe Borelli.
Speaker 3: So I kind of want you.
Speaker 1: Here so we could go have beers at Seed to Table.
Speaker 1: But I also want you to fix the city.
Speaker 3: That I love, and you know, maybe I.
Speaker 1: Don't know, run for mayor or you know, something like
Speaker 1: that and really really turn that place around.
Speaker 4: You know, if something I don't I don't root against
Speaker 4: people at all. I don't don't move against Bill a
Speaker 4: Blasio person. I don't root against you know, Kathy Hochel.
Speaker 4: I rooted against Andrew Cuomo because he's a bad human being,
Speaker 4: like human being, genuinely bad person. I just think Bill
Speaker 4: de Blasio is dopey and had bad ideas. Kathy Hochel's
Speaker 4: kind of ineffectual, you know, but like a nice I
Speaker 4: had lunchurder in the past, and she's a nice person, right.
Speaker 1: I'm not a fan, but okay, bad bad person. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with you about Bill de Blasio. I think
Speaker 1: he was just, you know, has terrible ideas.
Speaker 4: I texted him Bill, the die job looks great because
Speaker 4: he died. Like I'm kind of nice, but it's like
Speaker 4: it sounds sarcastic and kind of I don't know, being
Speaker 4: nice or not anyway. I'm Staten Island for I'm not
Speaker 4: New York first. I am a Staten Island through and through.
Speaker 4: If Staten Island succeeded, I would run for mayor and
Speaker 4: about Eric Adams. If Eric Adams against jams up and
Speaker 4: resigns and there's like a two or three month race
Speaker 4: to replace him, non partisan race, maybe I throw my
Speaker 4: hat in the mix, just just to give people alternative.
Speaker 4: So I don't think I have a chance of winning,
Speaker 4: and might not act we do it. But I am
Speaker 4: so Staten Island that every day of my life I
Speaker 4: wake up and I think, how I love like Staten
Speaker 4: Islands so unique, right, it's so unique, and it's so introverted,
Speaker 4: and we all know each other and we all work
Speaker 4: together and everyone knows everyone. It's like the it's the
Speaker 4: pinnacle of small town big city neighborhoods. When you watch
Speaker 4: a movie about Boston and like you look at Southey,
Speaker 4: like that's not real. It's real on Staten Island. That's
Speaker 4: how Staten Island is so like every day in my
Speaker 4: life it's like I don't know whether I'm gonna be
Speaker 4: living here and touting Staten Island till till the day
Speaker 4: I die. Or the most Staten Island thing ever is
Speaker 4: that I spend half my day on Zillo saying I
Speaker 4: gotta get out of this place. This is the worst thing.
Speaker 4: That is even more likely to buy a burial plot
Speaker 4: in Resurrection cemetery a quarter mile from where I'm standing
Speaker 4: than another house in Staten Island. But like it's like
Speaker 4: that is the most New York City thing ever is
Speaker 4: spend how much time on z right.
Speaker 1: And you know, you used to talk about Staten Islands
Speaker 1: the seating, and that was like the scariest thing for
Speaker 1: some you know, a conservative living in Brooklyn.
Speaker 3: Staton Islands the seating means.
Speaker 1: You know, we're going to get far left leadership for
Speaker 1: the other four boroughs. Is Daton Island's the only holding
Speaker 1: the only thing holding that place together.
Speaker 3: So but now that I'm gone, I'm like, maybe Saton
Speaker 3: Islands is the seat.
Speaker 1: Maybe Joe Burrelli's mayor of Staten Island.
Speaker 4: You know what the city needs to do is really
Speaker 4: implement non partisan, open, open elections basically, you know, because
Speaker 4: I mean Chicago has this in Chicago's the only really
Speaker 4: bad example because they're corrupt and crazy. But again, the Chicago,
Speaker 4: the mayoralty came down to a razor thin race between
Speaker 4: a guy who was rational and reasonable, a Democrat. I
Speaker 4: think it was against Paul Fallis and the that crazy
Speaker 4: guy who is now the mayor who wants to get
Speaker 4: rid of the shot podder technology literally the audio radar
Speaker 4: thing that the texts gun fire and sends the police
Speaker 4: he wants to get rid of anyway, Wait, why.
Speaker 3: Does he want to get rid of it? He probably raised.
Speaker 4: He is so woke, he's like asleep like that. He
Speaker 4: thinks that that because you know, it's a similar scenario
Speaker 4: where it's hyper low turnout and the craziest person wins.
Speaker 4: New York could be like most other major cities in
Speaker 4: America where it's nonpartisan open elections, where yes, the person
Speaker 4: who's running is endorsed by the Democratic Party. They tout
Speaker 4: themselves as Democrats. Yes, the person who wins in most
Speaker 4: urban cities and many big cities are our Democrats. More
Speaker 4: often than not, they're of the same race, color, and
Speaker 4: creed of the people who live in that city. We're
Speaker 4: not trying to change that, but having that open primary
Speaker 4: opens the voter turnout to more moderate, rational people, and
Speaker 4: the net effect on the city councils and the mayorships
Speaker 4: and whatever elected official they have is a positive thing.
Speaker 4: That's why New York City Council is always in the news.
Speaker 4: It's not just because we are the biggest city in
Speaker 4: the country. It's because we do some dumb things in
Speaker 4: sas the guy wanted to ban the ice cream truck
Speaker 4: last year, that was his big proposal.
Speaker 1: My kids heard about that in Florida. They were like
Speaker 1: the ice cream shop ban in New York City, like
Speaker 1: made national news.
Speaker 4: Now we're gonna ban tide pods and stuff. But they're delicious.
Speaker 3: Why would you ban them?
Speaker 4: Did for that? Not even for that actual good reason,
Speaker 4: like they're killing the environment or something. I don't even
Speaker 4: know why. But like, we can't have we can't have
Speaker 4: nice things.
Speaker 3: In me, can't have nice things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is why again, you know, I feel like
Speaker 1: the future Joe BURRELLI lives in Florida because we get
Speaker 1: to have nice things here and it's you know, it
Speaker 1: would be nice to share those nice things with you.
Speaker 4: So I got an email from my county commissioner a
Speaker 4: few weeks a few months ago. Maybe his name is
Speaker 4: Chris Hall. If you live in Callier County, and I'm
Speaker 4: in Chris Chris Hall's district. I don't know the guy
Speaker 4: from Adam, but I sent him an email because I
Speaker 4: got his like, you know, quarterly update, and it said, hey,
Speaker 4: you know, just please to announce we were able to
Speaker 4: lower I think at the rate, we were able to
Speaker 4: lower the tax rate like the tiniest little hair and
Speaker 4: most people that means nothing, but to someone in government,
Speaker 4: I'm like, you were able to lower the taxes. I
Speaker 4: wrote him the most effusively praiseworthy email. You are you
Speaker 4: are a champion, sir, you are a champion.
Speaker 3: That's amazing.
Speaker 4: He did respond. He seemed like a very nice guy,
Speaker 4: but like I was just so impressed with and Byron Donalds.
Speaker 4: Byron Donalds is my congressman down to Florida. I mean,
Speaker 4: this is a guy who who is genuinely in office
Speaker 4: for the right reasons. I mean his wife, what she's
Speaker 4: doing with with charter schools and stuff like that. I mean,
Speaker 4: these are people who we can all get behind and
Speaker 4: cheer for. And again one of he's one of those
Speaker 4: people that that fled Brooklyn, uh and settled in the
Speaker 4: west coast of Florida. So you know, he might have
Speaker 4: the playbook for me. I don't know. I mean, I'm
Speaker 4: never gonna run for Congress. I'm gonna run for the border.
Speaker 4: If not, if I don't run North Naples.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean, you know your New York's last
Speaker 1: great hope, So so if I see you in Florida,
Speaker 1: I'll know New York is done.
Speaker 4: It's a good barometer.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So I love talking to you, Joe.
Speaker 1: I think we should do it again over beers, but
Speaker 1: end here with your best tip for my listeners on
Speaker 1: how they can improve their lives.
Speaker 4: Go back to what I said earlier. Figure out whether
Speaker 4: you figure out what makes you happy, whether it's satisfying
Speaker 4: your ego and your sense of accomplishment, meeting goals and challenges,
Speaker 4: or you're motivated by money. And I don't think those
Speaker 4: two things are equally are mutually exclusive, But I think
Speaker 4: you'll find happiness if you just acknowledge who you are
Speaker 4: as a person and what motivates you and what makes
Speaker 4: you happy, because then you'll be able to take a
Speaker 4: step back and figure out the best path for you
Speaker 4: that achieves some goals and makes you at least financially
Speaker 4: stable enough to live a comfortable.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, New York City Councilman Joe BURRELLI
Speaker 1: loved having you on, See you soon. Thank you so much,
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining us on The Carol Markowitz Show.
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