WEBVTT - The Karol Markowicz Show: Making the Move to Florida with John Cardillo 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:08.800 Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Marcowitz Show on iHeartRadio. 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:12.560 Have you heard of this concept of girl dinner? The 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:16.799 basic premise that if a woman is eating alone, she's 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:21.120 having something random, like a bowl of cereal or tortilla 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:24.160 chips for dinner. I just spent ten days in Michigan 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:27.360 living alone without my family, and I can tell you 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:30.680 that the image of the single life drinking martinis in 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:34.160 ball gowns at nice restaurants, I mean that's not even close. 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:39.159 I ate really badly alone on a couch. What's interesting 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:43.159 about this is it's the man who is the stabilizing 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:43.920 force here. 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:44.400 Right. 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:48.200 We always think of women as being the good societal 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:51.320 influence on a man, But here's the case of men 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:55.400 doing it for women. Something about being in a relationship 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.240 causes you to have the real meals for dinner instead 0:00:58.240 --> 0:00:59.960 of like half an apple and a bag of ches. 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:06.640 Apparently the original poster about girl dinners was eating grapes, cornishans, 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:10.959 bread and cheese, which actually all sounds amazing to me. 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:14.440 As fast as girl dinner became a trend, of course, 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:18.559 there was the inevitable backlash. It was racist. Who knows 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:23.880 why it promoted stereotypes and gender roles. Blah blah. It's 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:27.520 somehow opposed body positivity because I guess the girls are 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:28.360 eating enough. 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:29.160 I don't know. 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:33.399 The thing is obviously, men left to their own devices 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:37.399 probably don't do that great food wise either. I know 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.120 my husband loves to get taco bell with the kids 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:44.080 when I'm away, because I just wouldn't do that right. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:47.160 I've talked a lot about all the positives of being 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:49.840 in a relationship and the way it benefits you in 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:53.000 so many different ways. The way we eat is a 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.920 part of that. We all understand that girl dinners or 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.120 boy taco bell nights are not. 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:00.360 Good in the long term. 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:03.800 And yes, of course, there are plenty of single people 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:07.640 eating very healthy. I'm not taking anything away from them 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:10.280 on that. And I'm sure there are some coupled people 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.160 eating popcorn and a cucumber for dinner. But being in 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:17.320 a couple elevates you. It makes you strive to be better. 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.520 You're not eating your grilled chicken on a fork over 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:24.360 the sink, and yes, I've done that. None of us 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.600 are perfect, but we're all trying. 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:26.840 To be better. 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:30.240 Coming up next and interview with John Cardillo. Join us 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:31.040 after the break. 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:38.040 Welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio. My 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:42.359 guest today is my good friend John Cardillo, conservative commentator 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:43.960 and former NYPD. 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:47.320 Hi John, Hey, Carol, good to finally be with you. 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:49.080 So nice to have you on. 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:52.680 So a running joke in our group of friends is 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:54.160 nobody that knows what you do. 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.680 So it was great when I was like, Cas, should 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.560 I introduce you? You're like, you know, conservative commentator, whatever. 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.160 I'm a boring private equity guy these days. That's that's it. 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.320 I'm you know, and I cause trouble on Twitter. But yeah, 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:11.200 I love that. I love how you guys bust my 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:13.520 chops on that. It makes my day every time with you. 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:17.359 We were at an event one time and we were 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:21.200 going around the table and everybody was introducing themselves and 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.919 I was sitting next to Dave Rubin and so as 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:26.920 we're like going around the table and everyone's you know, 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:30.680 I'm whatever, and I this is my job. I wrote 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:32.440 to Ruben like, I can't wait to find out what 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:37.760 John cardemod remember that, And then when it got to you, 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:38.760 we still didn't really know. 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:41.760 Oh do I kept it as cryptic as possible. 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:46.640 Yeah, right, you were like you know, Yeah, it was definitely. 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.600 I would say CIA, but it's not Cia. It's something 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.400 way beyond that. It's masade, like, let's be real. 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.760 So you're also known in our group of friends as 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:00.640 like the og Floridian. A lot of us, our crew, 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.080 we moved here in the last you know, two years, 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.760 well Rubin and I last two years. Lisa Booth a 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:09.160 little bit before that, Josh Hammer, Dave Ree Boy a 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:12.040 little bit before that. But you have been here, and 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.880 Jordan Shaffille also around that same time. But you've been 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:18.159 here the longest, and you know your genius. 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.240 How did you know? How did you know to come 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.039 to Florida? What was the draw? 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:24.960 Yeah, it was it was really a combination of things. Right. 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:27.800 So February twenty third, a few weeks ago, right, was 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:29.760 my twentieth year in Florida, and I had been in 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.640 Miami in Brickll area for about eleven years and up 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:35.760 in Fort Lauderdale for about the last nine. I love 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:37.560 it up here. By the way, I'm on the east 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:39.279 side as well, which is a lot more red. Everybody 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.600 thinks Broward County so blue, and it is right mathematically, 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.600 But on the east side, when you're east of federal 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.480 it's it's pretty red. I mean, you've got Trump and 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:49.560 the Santa's flags on pretty much every boat on the 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:52.200 intra coastal over here. For me, it was a combination 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:56.040 of things, you know, after leaving the NYPD for the 0:04:56.080 --> 0:05:00.280 private sector, just wanting to leave New York after nine 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:02.640 to eleven. Candidly right, I left three years after nine 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:05.920 to eleven, And Florida was a place that I didn't 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:07.960 only come on vacation when I was a kid. My 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:12.240 dad was essentially a national sales manager for an industrial 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:16.080 company and Florida was one of his lucrative territories. And 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.560 I was down here all the time. Is A and 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:21.800 then some cousins that I was very close to, and 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:23.320 at and uncle. My aunt uncle at the time had 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:26.799 worked for Motorola, which had a big presence in South Florida. 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:28.840 They moved down and so we would come down and 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:30.560 visit them quite a bit. And I always loved it, 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.800 you know. I always had really good memories, really good 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:35.440 times in Florida as a kid. So it was a 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.919 place I would vacation and college and then as an adult. 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.760 And for me, it was just a pretty logical choice. 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.360 I was comfortable with it. I knew it. The Brickell 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:46.600 area of Miami was vertical, right, so a lot of 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:48.599 high rises. So when we got in New York City, 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:51.480 it was a really comfortable transition. Yeah, couple of friends 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.640 had made the move and so that was that was 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:57.400 my reasoning and the catalyst from you move in download interesting. 0:05:57.480 --> 0:05:59.719 So it's funny because we looked at Brickle but I 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.440 found it's just like not that walkable. And I guess 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:06.320 we have kids, so it wasn't, you know, quite as 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:08.800 the picture I had in my head. 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.400 But yeah, the vertical thing, it's true. It really does. 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.600 Remind me of New York and so much of it 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:19.120 feels very New york Ish. But so it's funny because 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.920 again you pre date the whole mad rush to Florida 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.920 that happens in the last four years. We're really at 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:32.040 the anniversary basically right now of pandemic lockdowns and it's 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:32.719 changed a lot. 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:33.880 How do you feel about that? 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:37.080 I mean, are there pluses and minuses or is it 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:37.880 one way or another? 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:39.680 Ye know, I wish some people carol at a time 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:41.240 machine to see what Brickle look like. If you go 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:44.160 to brickl now, it's a world class city. Right. I mean, 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.560 it's new, and it's hot, and it's upscale, and you've 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.680 got every shop you have in Manhattan and Midtown there. 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.159 Right when I got to Brickle in two thousand and four, 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:57.560 there were maybe three real high rises. The Four Seasons 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:02.320 Tower that we've all been new right together or separately, 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:04.760 was up in that. I believe at the time that 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:06.960 was the tallest building on the East coast of the 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.119 United States outside of New York. It's like eight hundred 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:11.440 and something feet. So there was that, and there was 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:13.360 the condo building I lived in and the one I 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:16.720 was moving into that was being built. Everything else Downtown 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.440 had a couple of tall buildings, but the skyline of 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:24.760 Miami Downtown Miami was maybe maybe six or seven notable buildings. 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:28.800 Now there are just dozens, and so they literally built 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:31.440 a city around me. I mean, one of the reasons 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:32.360 I left Brickle. 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:33.640 Was John is here, Let's do it. 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.280 Let's do it. You know. One of the reasons I 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:39.240 left was because the traffic got so insane from all 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.160 the construction, and when they started to put up that 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.440 mall in Brickall, it would take me some days, thirty 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:46.240 forty five minutes just to get the publics at the 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.800 grocery store, its way with traffic. So I was ready. 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:50.880 You know, I had grown up in a city my 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:52.840 whole life. I grew up in New York City, grew 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.000 up in Queens, than lived in Manhattan. Was now in 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.920 another city, and I was getting more into the old 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.800 Florida kind of sleepy Florida, right, and where I live 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:03.400 in Fort Lauderdale, now there's a lot, a lot of 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:04.520 boating and fishing. 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:06.600 And I think if you as like a cowboy, you're 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.600 like living the text lifestyle in Florida. 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.280 Yeah. Hey, people don't realize. You go to like the 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.800 Baby right fifteen minutes west of here, and there's rodeos. 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:17.280 It's it's horse country. 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:20.000 Right, So what about the people like, has the like 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:22.480 culture of Florida. 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:28.120 Changed or the Well, yeah, I think it's that neutral, right, 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.920 It depends what you like. When I moved down, if 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:34.520 you didn't speak Spanish in brickl in Miami really anywhere, 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:34.960 I still. 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:35.400 Feel like that. 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:37.920 Well, let me tell you it was a lot worse. 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:39.679 I mean there were days I'd walk into Walgreens where 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:41.719 there wasn't one English speaking employee. 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.760 I feel like my high school Spanish has not served 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:47.000 me well in Florida at all, Like, I have no 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.040 idea what's going on. It's not like nobody's asking me 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:51.440 the directions to the library. 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:56.559 Yeah, it was really different. So culturally that was it. 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:00.800 Now I found Miami to be a lot like New York. 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:05.280 It's not. It's a little bit transient in many respects, 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:07.719 and people keep to themselves. So I always tell a story. 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:09.439 I've told our group and our text chain of story. 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.160 You know, when I lived in Miami, I didn't even 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.000 know my neighbors. When I lived in Brickle, I had 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:14.839 a nice group of people I do happy hour with, 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.560 but we were like acquaintances more than friends. But I 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:19.880 didn't really know my neighbors when I moved to Fort 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:21.320 very hard to believe. 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:24.000 You are like the world's most social guy. 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.280 I'm a social guy, but you'd be surprised, right. So 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.920 I knew the bartenders, and I knew that the Happy Aircraft. 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.000 But when I got to Fort Lauderdale. I moved to 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:34.000 Fort Lauderdale in July of twenty fifteen, I did Thanksgiving 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:37.000 dinner with we at a restaurant with a bunch of 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.440 my neighbors that November, like a few months later. So 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.360 it's really it depends where you go. But some of 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:45.400 the nicest, friendliest people I've ever met in my life 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:46.880 I've met down here in Florida. 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:48.880 We're going to take a quick break and be right 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:50.440 back on the Carol Marcowitch Show. 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:54.880 Do you miss New York ever? 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:59.480 You know? No? No, In fact, the last time I 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:01.800 was thinking about the the other day. The last time 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.040 I was in New York was Buck's engagement party, and 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:05.240 that was. 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:07.600 Sex and I we got to mention him in our cha. 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.000 So we moved down in the last two years. 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.959 Yeah, yeah, So Buck Sexton's engagement party was the last 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:15.719 time I was in New York. With that, I was 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:17.040 in New York with you guys, or I was in 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:17.719 New York at all. 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:19.160 Wow, that's what's a while? 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:21.760 Yeah, no, no, I'm sorry. And then I popped, I'm sorry, 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.960 my mistake and wait, no, that was that was twenty two. Yeah, 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.160 and then May of last year I came in for 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:28.960 a day. My mistake. May of last year, I came 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.439 in for a day for my nephew's high school graduation. 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:33.319 But you don't miss anything about it. 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.320 No, No, that's why I've been there twice in two 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.160 years and I forgot one of them right exactly. 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:43.000 So we're recording this a few days after the funeral 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:46.200 for a fallen police officer in New York. What do 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.400 you think when you see stuff like that or the 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:52.000 way that everything happened. He was killed by somebody who 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:55.080 had been released from prison. Many times, this is not 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.280 a political show, but I feel like that is such 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:02.280 a cultural touch point, especially right now, where people don't 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:05.880 feel safe, and that's you know, that could be political, 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.920 but it's very much societal. So what do you say, 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.360 what do you think about that? Can New York come back? 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:13.960 You know, not not at the rate they're going, right, So, 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.000 you know, having been to too many police funerals, having 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.880 responded one of my first month maybe on the job 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:23.520 to the murder of a copper graduated the academy at 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:25.800 we Academy with me Sean McDonald. He was shot in 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:29.880 the head responding to an alarm burglary alarm that turned 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:33.000 out to be an actual alarm robbery. Another police officer 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:35.360 shot in our command on the Grand Concourse, shot and killed. 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.959 You know, I went to too many funerals and addressed uniform, 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:43.360 but this one of appeal. Jonathan Dillar now detective first grade. 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:45.720 Jonathan Dillar. I don't know if your viewers know this, 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:47.480 but when New York City police officers are killed in 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:50.640 the line of duty, the custom is at the funeral 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.600 they're then promoted to detective first grade, the highest rank 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:57.360 of detective, so that their families can receive a better benefit, 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.280 much much higher pension payout for the wife and in 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.079 this case, the young child. 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:02.520 Right. 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:06.120 But you know, Carol, even in those situations and every 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:10.640 depth is tragic. You didn't see the perps. The murderers 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.840 were not arrested twenty one times in release, right. I 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:18.079 don't think you can analyze that issue without being somewhat political. 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:20.800 And the problem in New York City is this, and 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:24.840 I'll try to condense it. It's when the District Attorney's office 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:28.560 won't prosecute, and they've been very clear. The das in 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:30.280 each borough have been very clear they're going to take 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:34.560 this radical, far left approach and not prosecute certain crimes. 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:38.560 Bad guys are emboldened, but worse worse for public safety, 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:43.960 the NYPD stops making arrests because they can't incur the 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.199 overtime the cops will get in trouble. The commanders will 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.520 get in trouble for incurring the overtime when they know 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:52.160 the DA's office is going to keay the case. This 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:55.240 is such a public safety crisis at which more people 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.280 were talking about this, but they're not not enough. People 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.480 are talking about the whys. They're talking about the what happened, 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:02.840 but not why it's happening. 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:07.360 What would you say is our largest cultural problem or like, 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.000 do you think that this plays into that? 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:12.120 Well, I think it's I think it's you know, there're 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.199 several right. I think we saw this with the antifen 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:19.800 in Black Lives Matter riots. There's this insanely permissive attitude 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:23.480 towards crime. It's just permissive when you see videos every 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.920 day people walking into Macy's and Walgreens and Publics and 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:29.840 every other store out there, no matter where you were 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:33.079 in the country, just loading up backpacks and garbage bags 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.200 full of merchandise and nobody's stopping them. And then you 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.319 hear the story of the employee that tried to stop them, 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:40.920 being the wire or the police officer being reprimanded for 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:43.960 using too much force to put on handcuffs. When you 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.240 start to tell bad guys that what they're doing is 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.600 not going to be punished. They're going to do more 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.559 of it. I mean, this doesn't take the greatest sociologists 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:53.839 in the history of mankind of figure out right. And 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.679 when you combine that with prosecutors, wo won't prosecute? What 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:57.880 do they think is going to happen? 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:00.880 Do you think it's solvable? Is there anything that we 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:01.280 can do? 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:03.800 Yeah, I mean I think the blueprint is there that 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:08.000 I think. You know, that's a great question, because not 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:09.760 only is it solvable, you think a guy like me 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.200 that came out of the police Academy was in the 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.480 police Academy under David Dinkins, come out under really Julian 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:18.840 Rudy Giuliani, Carol, When when we implemented broken windows, when 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:22.200 we implemented Rudy's policing strategies and Bill Bratton's at the 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:27.120 time policing strategies, we saw we noticed the difference on 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:31.280 the street in about two weeks. Really, it wasn't six months. 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:32.880 You lived in New York, you were up there, yell 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:33.400 on top of it. 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:36.440 Yeah, I was teens though, Yeah, but. 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.960 We noticed it in weeks. As cops, the bad guys 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.440 weren't as brave anymore. When we drove by, they weren't 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.440 just sitting at the cars. They weren't throwing washing machines. 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:46.360 True story. I had a washing machine and a refriguer 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:48.480 and to throw off broof tops at me. They weren't 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:51.200 doing that because now they knew that were we held accountable. 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.720 It wasn't realized it was that best used to call it. 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:56.000 We used to call it airmail. 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:00.200 It meant that. 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.480 I didn't realize you could see the change then. I 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:05.720 thought it was like a year's long process. 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:09.920 Well, statistically right, trickle down statistically took about a year. 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:12.560 But I can tell you having been on patrol at 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.000 four to twelve every night in the South Bronx, the 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:18.240 busiest times you started to see I'm not saying it 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:20.560 was a sweeping change right within a couple of weeks, 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.240 those bad guys on the corner, Yeah, they were a 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:25.280 lot less bold. You started to see it very quickly. 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:29.320 Wow, that's very interesting. I wonder you know. 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:34.000 The thing about having a strategy that worked is the 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.320 insanity that you need to be living under to not 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.120 go back to it. It's like, hey, I know you've 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:43.080 got called in the National Guard into the New York 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:43.840 City subway. 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.920 But what if what if you did. 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.520 This other thing that totally worked, you know, not that 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.600 long ago, and tried that instead, But no, they go 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:53.720 for National Guarden. 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:55.160 That's somehow the better option. 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.000 You can't do anything. Who aren't empowered or allowed to 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:01.600 do anything. And to your point, that other thing that 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:10.000 works is the incredibly radically a novel idea of forcing 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:15.240 the law and prosecuting them. There's no you know, that's 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:19.400 why all jokes aside. That's why it's so frustrating me 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:21.920 and Bernie Carrick, the former commissioner, a friend of mine, 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.680 and I talked to countless guys and girls who are 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:26.960 either still on the job or retired, and you bang 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:28.600 your head against the wall because you're like, they know 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.560 exactly what they need to do. It doesn't cost a 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:34.280 penny more than anything they're doing, and they refuse to 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:35.120 do it right. 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:37.280 But you know, for us, we get to live in 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.680 Florida and we see action. 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.120 Taken all the time. I didn't even know this was possible. 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:45.520 I didn't know things like this were possible, like the 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:48.760 recent thing that our you know, Governor DeSantis did where 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.800 there was a lot of conversation around squatters and he 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:54.920 was like, Okay, well here we go. I'm not going 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:57.560 to have squatters in the States. It's illegal. 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:01.600 Now, Like, oh, it's that simple. People could just fix problems. 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:06.120 I was unaware until this, until now, until I came 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.320 to Florida, I didn't know that people can just fix 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:12.040 problems and make bad things go away. I didn't realize 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.840 politicians and government officials can actually do that. 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:17.160 Was it always like that in Florida? 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:17.920 Or really? 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:18.600 Is he different? 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:20.840 No? I think it was because in Florida you don't 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.320 have to the degree that you have it in the 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.520 Blue states. Is even your Democrat voters down here are 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:28.440 law and order voters? You know? I would always say 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.879 when the Democrats would do defund the police, and they 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.520 would try to act like that would also creep into Florida. 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:37.240 I it wouldn't, because you take areas in West Broward 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:40.439 County and these are nice areas and you know, up scale, 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:44.080 upper middle class, staffluent areas. Yeah, maybe they vote blue, 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.040 but you know what else they vote for. They also 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:48.360 vote for their hoa dollars to pay for that off 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:51.239 duty police officer in the marked car to patrol their 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:55.240 hoa at night. So there's a much different mindset down 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.080 here with regards to law and order. I think it 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.639 also has a bit to do with I don't know 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:01.160 how much shout a bit to do with the fact 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:03.159 that this has always been a haven for a tired 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:06.280 cops from around the country. There's no state income tax 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:10.480 and all that fun stuff, and so uh, I think culturally, 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.600 what we see in places like New York and Chicago 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:16.680 and Detroit and Baltimore, you just wouldn't see here, even 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:17.720 in your blue cities. 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:21.480 Right, So what do you do on weekends? What's what's 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:22.720 a John Cardillo weekend? 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:26.080 Like? Oh, oh, you guys, not right, A clay I 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:28.600 do know, a lot of clay shooting, a lot of 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.440 regular shooting. I'm so proud that I got you guys 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:33.960 into guns. I'm one of my greatest accomplishments. 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:39.760 You really, you were such an inspiration getting us armed. 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:41.640 You you played a giant role in that. 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:44.280 You introduced us to your guy who's you know now 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:52.199 our guy? Yeah, Manny at Palm Beach Tacticals. We haven't 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.680 we haven't come to the polo with you yet. That's 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:56.560 that's something that's what. 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.480 I do on Sunday. You know what's so crazy? Everybody 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:01.200 whenever I say that, I get beat up. Oh it's 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:04.760 so pretentious. Take your horself somewhat. If I put up 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:06.679 a picture of a polo match on Twitter, right now, 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:10.120 take your horse golf somewhere else, horse scof you weren't 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:12.080