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Speaker 1: thank you so much. Welcome to the show, everybody. We've
Speaker 1: got a great one feat tonight. Take a seat. Let's
Speaker 1: get into it. The January six Committee dropped bombshells today.
Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani is lucky to be alive. And our guest
Speaker 1: tonight is the Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna be joining us on the show. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask him if he'll finally let me drive
Speaker 1: a subway car. Yeah, so let's do these people. Let's
Speaker 1: come straight into today's headlines. All right. You know, there
Speaker 1: are a lot of depressing things going on in America
Speaker 1: right now, so we decided let's start off today's show
Speaker 1: with some good news. And I'm talking about what happened
Speaker 1: to Rudy Giuliani, former New York City mayor and America's
Speaker 1: most illegal lawyer. You see, he was in a supermarket
Speaker 1: on Staten Island Sunday campaigning for his son, Andrew Giuliani,
Speaker 1: who's trying to make history as New York's first caveman governor.
Speaker 1: And thankfully, Rudy is now doing okay after just barely
Speaker 1: surviving a heinous drive by on his upper back on
Speaker 1: Staten Island. Grocery store workers facing assault it's accused of
Speaker 1: slapping former New York City mayor Rooted Giuliani. This surveillance
Speaker 1: video shows the encounter inside a shop right store. The
Speaker 1: worker appears to hit Julianni on the back, prompting a
Speaker 1: reaction from the former mayor. In mp has said that
Speaker 1: this man was a thirty nine year olds back to approach.
Speaker 1: Giuliani slapped him in the back and said, what's up, scumbag.
Speaker 1: Giuliani refused medical attention at the scene, and the thirty
Speaker 1: nine year old was taken into custody, with the MPD
Speaker 1: recommending charges of second degree assault. Don't you enough? Don't
Speaker 1: you get en off? This is second degree assault. That's
Speaker 1: how tough New York's laws are. Third degree is if
Speaker 1: you lightly blow on someone's ear, and first degree is
Speaker 1: if you book them on the nose. I've been hit.
Speaker 1: I've been hit, pleaseplease, don't get me wrong. Don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong. I don't think it is right for anyone
Speaker 1: to be putting their hands on politicians or anyone for
Speaker 1: that matter, without their consent. Right, I'm not saying that.
Speaker 1: But no, in hell is that second degree assault? But
Speaker 1: By tells that's not second If that's assault, then what
Speaker 1: I guess? Will Smith murdered Chris Rock That's what happened there.
Speaker 1: And now I'm in the gray and the gray, and
Speaker 1: and I love how I love how they say Rudy
Speaker 1: declined medical attention? Medical attention for what? For what? That's
Speaker 1: the kind of injury where the only thing you could
Speaker 1: do is kiss it and make it feel better. That's it.
Speaker 1: Is it better, Rudy? Is it better? In fact, if
Speaker 1: anyone needs medical attention here, it's the guy who touched
Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani. Yeah, dude's hand probably looks like dumbledores after
Speaker 1: he bare handed the Hall Crocks. And yes, I will admit,
Speaker 1: I will admit this guy did sound aggressive. But you've
Speaker 1: got to understand what's up, scumbag. It's just how people
Speaker 1: say hello on Staten Island. You know, that's a normal conversation.
Speaker 1: What's up, scumbag? Nothing much for your mother, all right, well,
Speaker 1: not to see your grandma, but to me, To me,
Speaker 1: the best part of this story is that the more
Speaker 1: Rudy told it, the more the slap seemed to hurt.
Speaker 1: He hit me hard enough to knock me forward about
Speaker 1: like you know, elderly people die mostly from falls. This
Speaker 1: guy could kill me. I got hit on the bag
Speaker 1: as if a boulder hit me. Uh, you knocked me
Speaker 1: forward Steppard two. All of a sudden, I feel a
Speaker 1: shot on my back, like somebody shot me. You know
Speaker 1: that that was That was the woman who was rubbing
Speaker 1: my back. The guy hit me so hard that she
Speaker 1: herself almost fell from the reverberation of yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: He slapped her so hard my eyeballs fell out and
Speaker 1: I have to pick them up and put them back.
Speaker 1: And you all saw that he slapped me so hard
Speaker 1: I shipped out the side of my face two years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's how hard it was. He saw it. Everybody. I
Speaker 1: felt that. I felt that, you know, I thought that
Speaker 1: Rudy was lying about the election being stolen because he
Speaker 1: was a Trump sicker fanse It turns out he just
Speaker 1: lives in another world. This is just his brain. And
Speaker 1: I will say, in his defense, in his defense, he
Speaker 1: was already in a weakened states. You know, you have
Speaker 1: to acknowledge that he was out during the day in
Speaker 1: a store that sells garlic. I mean, you know, it
Speaker 1: was hard for him. It was hard. Let's move on
Speaker 1: from an attack that Rudy will always remember to one
Speaker 1: that he always conveniently seems to forget. January six, the
Speaker 1: day Trump supporters tried to play capture the Flag with
Speaker 1: Mike Pence's head. Yesterday, the January six Committee announced that
Speaker 1: they would be holding a surprise hearing with a surprise witness.
Speaker 1: And you know, whatever Congress says something like, oh this
Speaker 1: is a must watch, You're like, that's what they said
Speaker 1: about Morbius. But let me tell you people, so he's
Speaker 1: hearing was insane. I'm talking like proper insane. So let's
Speaker 1: catch up on all the latest January six updates. So
Speaker 1: it turns out the surprise witness today was Cassidy Hutchinson,
Speaker 1: a top aide to Donald Trump's chief of staff, which
Speaker 1: means she was often in the room where it happened,
Speaker 1: the room where it happens that it was overthrowing democracy. Now,
Speaker 1: Hutchinson had a lot of firsthand knowledge of what Trump
Speaker 1: was doing, from the moment that he lost the election
Speaker 1: all the way through January six. And one of the
Speaker 1: stories she told was how Trump lost his ship when
Speaker 1: he found out his Attorney general wasn't going along with
Speaker 1: his lies about the election. I remember hearing noise coming
Speaker 1: from down the hallway. I left the office and went
Speaker 1: down to the dining room, and I noticed that the
Speaker 1: door has cropped open in the valley. Was inside the
Speaker 1: dining room changing the tablecloth off of the dining room
Speaker 1: team a bowl. He motioned for me to come in
Speaker 1: and then pointed towards the front of the room, near
Speaker 1: the fireplace, mantel and the TV, where I first noticed
Speaker 1: there was catch up dripping down the wall, and there's
Speaker 1: a shattered porcelain plate on the floor. The valet had
Speaker 1: articulated that the President was extremely angry at the Attorney
Speaker 1: general's ap interview and had thrown his lunch against the wall.
Speaker 1: And Miss Hutchinson, was this the only instance that you
Speaker 1: are aware of where the president through dishes. It's not.
Speaker 1: And are there other instances in the dining room that
Speaker 1: you would call where he expressed his anger? There were.
Speaker 1: There were several times throughout my tenure with the Chief
Speaker 1: of Sack that I was aware of him either throwing
Speaker 1: dishes or flipping the tablecloth um to let all the
Speaker 1: contents at the table go onto the floor. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: I too, are shocked to hear that Trump threw any
Speaker 1: of his food away, because I mean, let's be honest,
Speaker 1: this guy has taken more selfies with food than he
Speaker 1: has with some of his kids. Right, probably the reason
Speaker 1: Eric dresses up as a hot dog just to get
Speaker 1: a hug. Do you love me now, Dad? Do you
Speaker 1: love me? You're the sun I always wanted, Oscar Meyer
Speaker 1: always wanted. And you heard what she said. This wasn't
Speaker 1: a one time thing. Trump was constantly throwing food tantrums.
Speaker 1: But what's interesting is she didn't say flipping the table.
Speaker 1: She said flipping the table cloth. So either Trump was
Speaker 1: an amateur magician. Oh, he wasn't strong enough to flip
Speaker 1: a table, so he just did the table cloth, he said.
Speaker 1: He was like, ah, And you know, if this happened regularly,
Speaker 1: it must have sucked for all the people who work
Speaker 1: in the White House, you know, all the staff who
Speaker 1: have to clean up after him, the people who made
Speaker 1: the food and the dishes. Can you imagine how traumatizing
Speaker 1: this must have been for the dishes? Everybody wilcome to
Speaker 1: the White House be our guest. O. Yeah, you just kid,
Speaker 1: miss spots chick. Don't look now your mother, n pieces
Speaker 1: kiss mother. Oh my god, this man is worth them
Speaker 1: tip bees. We should look back at didn't quite to
Speaker 1: have sex with the facta dust all straight to DVD. Now.
Speaker 1: It turns out it turns out that wasn't the only
Speaker 1: Trump tantrum that Hutchinson testified about, because she also said
Speaker 1: that on January six, as the Trump mob was marching
Speaker 1: towards the capital, Trump wanted to lead them to the
Speaker 1: capital himself, right, But when Secret Service Agent Bobby Angle
Speaker 1: refused the President's request for safety, this happened. The President
Speaker 1: says something to the effect of I'm the fving President.
Speaker 1: Take me up to the capital now, to which Bobby responded, sir,
Speaker 1: we have to go back to the west wing. The
Speaker 1: President reached up towards the front of the vehicle to
Speaker 1: grab at the steering wheel. Mr Angle grabbed his arm said, sir,
Speaker 1: you need to take your hand off the steering wheel.
Speaker 1: We're going back to the West Wing. We're not going
Speaker 1: to the Capital. Mr Trump then used his free hand
Speaker 1: to lunge towards Bobby Angle and Mr. When Mr Ronado
Speaker 1: had recounted this story to me, he had motioned towards
Speaker 1: his classicals. God damn, that is insane. Trump fighting to
Speaker 1: take control of the President's car like he's a bad
Speaker 1: guy in an action movie, only he's the president and
Speaker 1: this is real. I mean, you gotta admit though, fighting
Speaker 1: your own secret serviceation is kind of genius on Trump's pot, right,
Speaker 1: because he's hitting the one person who can't hit back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, they can punch back, but then they've got
Speaker 1: to jump in front of their own punch, you know,
Speaker 1: just like take Latin. Oh did you feel that one, Rudy,
Speaker 1: because you know, you know, this whole thing shows you
Speaker 1: how lazy Trump is. The Capital it's like two miles away.
Speaker 1: Everyone else walked there, but Trump was like, okay, I
Speaker 1: could walk there. I could walk or I could try
Speaker 1: steal a car from the Secret Service, which you are,
Speaker 1: is it? And not to victim blame but but this
Speaker 1: is on the Secret Service, right. You had four years
Speaker 1: to Trump proof that vehicle. You knew who you were
Speaker 1: dealing with. This should have been a toy steering wheel
Speaker 1: in the passenger seat the whole time. Just let him
Speaker 1: think he's driving and go back, go back to the
Speaker 1: west wing. Anyways, and you know, beyond Trump, this story
Speaker 1: just proves once and for all that's sitting in the
Speaker 1: back seat is always a position of weakness. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what the real power dynamics are. No one in
Speaker 1: the back seat gets their way because I mean, he's
Speaker 1: lunging at them like I'm the president, and they're like,
Speaker 1: you're in the back seat, bit shut up. He's like, law, well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put my window down. So there were many
Speaker 1: funny and disturbing moments in today's testimony, but the most
Speaker 1: damning part of today was when Hutchinson revealed that when
Speaker 1: President Trump was told that some of the mob had weapons,
Speaker 1: he instructed security to take down metal detectives and let
Speaker 1: the mob in. I was in the vicinity of a
Speaker 1: conversation where I overheard the President say something to the
Speaker 1: effect of, you know, I don't even care that they
Speaker 1: have weapons. They're not here to hurt me. Take the
Speaker 1: effing bags away. Let my people in. They can march
Speaker 1: the capital from here. Let the people in take the
Speaker 1: acting bags away. Yeah. Apparently Trump wanted the metal detectives
Speaker 1: removed so that his supporters with guns could march to
Speaker 1: the capitol. Yeah, so I guess he didn't necessarily want
Speaker 1: to hang my pens. He wanted to also give him
Speaker 1: the option of the firing squad. So he's pro choice.
Speaker 1: This is good to know. It's good to know. All right,
Speaker 1: that's it for the headlines. But before we go take
Speaker 1: a break, let's check in on the stuff market without
Speaker 1: finance expert Michael cost to everybody pocket it is a crazy,
Speaker 1: crazy time in the markets. Man, what's going on in
Speaker 1: the market today? Well, I am crushing the market. I
Speaker 1: mean I just keep keep crushing. So what you're saying,
Speaker 1: I keep making so much money. I have a hot
Speaker 1: tip for you, and a hot tip for you how
Speaker 1: you can crush it in the market as well. Else.
Speaker 1: So um, first, though, Rudy Giuliani, you know I feel
Speaker 1: bad for him. I do because look, if you haven't
Speaker 1: been touched in a long time, just the littlest contact,
Speaker 1: it feels like your whole world has moved, you know.
Speaker 1: And look, I've had some epic dry spells in my life.
Speaker 1: I mean I remember there were years where do you
Speaker 1: want we get to the charts real quick? Okay, so look,
Speaker 1: let's get let's get let's get to the mortgage, right.
Speaker 1: I think I'm sorry I kind of trailed off there. Look,
Speaker 1: the interest in mortgage is going way up. Okay, And
Speaker 1: if you're looking to buy a house right now, this
Speaker 1: is really scaring you. And people are asking why why
Speaker 1: did they start so low and they're going high? Now, Well,
Speaker 1: I'm an expert. Let me break it down for you.
Speaker 1: That's why you invite me here. Yeah, definitely right. So
Speaker 1: look in January, interest on mortgage it was low. It's
Speaker 1: gold right, we have he's an old depression. We don't
Speaker 1: have any money left from the holidays. I mean I
Speaker 1: even tried to call my realtor, but the mittens I
Speaker 1: was wearing were so big I couldn't even you know,
Speaker 1: get her phone number. Right. So, look, now the sun
Speaker 1: comes out, right, seasons change. Hey, I'm kind of interested
Speaker 1: in having a backyard. I'm kind of interested in having
Speaker 1: a pool. I'm kind of interested in having an open
Speaker 1: concept outdoor kitchen. Right now, I can flip burgers while
Speaker 1: I'm talking to my friends as they're swimming in the pool.
Speaker 1: That's why, Trevor, right now, end of June, interest is
Speaker 1: at its highest, Uh, Mike Michael, I know, I don't
Speaker 1: think that that's correct. Look, here's the long and short
Speaker 1: of it. Okay, these are the three numbers you want
Speaker 1: to pay attention to. This right here is the thirty
Speaker 1: year fixed rate mortgage. Thirty years. Who's planning that far ahead?
Speaker 1: Thirty years? I don't even know if I have cleaned
Speaker 1: underwear to wear tomorrow. Okay, I certainly didn't have it today,
Speaker 1: and I now I'm supposed to plan thirty years from now.
Speaker 1: It's a long time. Fifteen years, you know, it's not
Speaker 1: much better. This is the one you want, Trevor. Okay.
Speaker 1: This is the adjustable rate mortgage. This is one you want.
Speaker 1: But it's competitive and it's tough, and here's how you
Speaker 1: get it. Okay. You have to pool your money with
Speaker 1: five one year olds. Okay. Now, who even knows one
Speaker 1: one year old? Right? And even if you secure a meeting,
Speaker 1: how do you communicate with that one year old? So
Speaker 1: that's a tough one to get but you can do it.
Speaker 1: Hot tip. I promised you a hot tip. Okay, Look,
Speaker 1: if you're closing on a house anytime soon and you
Speaker 1: are unhappy with your mortgage rate, every piece of paper
Speaker 1: you sign, all you gotta do is just dated back here.
Speaker 1: The bank has to honor it. That's your hot tip.
Speaker 1: It's funning the wonder about your Actually, she's Michael cost
Speaker 1: and everybody all right, don't go away. So when we
Speaker 1: come back, when we're talking to New York City, Eric Adams,
Speaker 1: you don't want to miss it. Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Day Show. My guest to Mike is the mayor of
Speaker 1: New York City. He's joining me to discuss his first
Speaker 1: six months in office and how he's tackling some of
Speaker 1: the city's most pressing issues. Please welcome Mayor Eric Adams.
Speaker 1: You don't realize it, but you just assaulted me with
Speaker 1: that noise. I'll try and be a little more gentle
Speaker 1: next time. I'll be a little more gentle. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the show. Thank you, because you know you doing that.
Speaker 1: You could be inside for twenty four hours, you know,
Speaker 1: let's talk about that before we move on. Like I
Speaker 1: heard what you said about Juliana. You said that he
Speaker 1: should actually be investigated for reporting a false crime because
Speaker 1: if it wasn't for that video footage, that person who
Speaker 1: tapped him on the back, which again I don't condone,
Speaker 1: but that wasn't assault. No, it was not. And and
Speaker 1: you know we we we are joking about it. But
Speaker 1: think about this for a moment. There was a woman
Speaker 1: called We called the Karen uh brother told her to
Speaker 1: put a dog on her lease. Yes, yes, yes, she
Speaker 1: said to the d A. Listen, that's the false she
Speaker 1: forced to reported the crime. She needs to be arrested.
Speaker 1: He falcibly reported a crime and the district attorney should
Speaker 1: take that seriously. That person that he falsely reported spent
Speaker 1: twenty four hours in jail. That's not acceptable. It's not acceptable.
Speaker 1: And so I'm going to call the d A. We
Speaker 1: must be consistent all of that. Theatrics that he did,
Speaker 1: that's not acceptable. If that tape wasn't there, imagining what
Speaker 1: would have happened to that man, Yeah, can't happen, can't happy, Right,
Speaker 1: he's the man you can make those polls. And you
Speaker 1: know what's interesting. What's interesting is that when you sort
Speaker 1: the testimony in Washington, he has some other things he
Speaker 1: has to deal with as well. We definitely saw that.
Speaker 1: But let's let's talk about you man. We don't give
Speaker 1: it all to him. Um you you you have now
Speaker 1: been in office for was it six months now officially?
Speaker 1: To believe you know, when you're the mayor of the
Speaker 1: New York is like a dog day every day. It
Speaker 1: is one of the hardest jobs in the world. It's
Speaker 1: also one of the most thankless jobs in the world.
Speaker 1: You've had your ups, you've had your downs. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about some of the things people have commended you on.
Speaker 1: Many New Yorkers have really been impressed by your the
Speaker 1: attitude you've taken to education. You know, you've come and
Speaker 1: you've revamped the system. You you're you're creating a world
Speaker 1: where you know, your your your staff is really focusing
Speaker 1: on getting New York City's education up to where it
Speaker 1: needs to be. Two parts of the question, number one,
Speaker 1: what do you still think needs to be achieved in
Speaker 1: terms of education New York? And number two, how do
Speaker 1: you how do you remove or fights against all of
Speaker 1: the segregation that happens in New York City schools because
Speaker 1: you have a city where everyone mixes, and yet in
Speaker 1: the schools it seems like the city is still in
Speaker 1: Jim Crow. You know a couple of things. Number one, uh,
Speaker 1: I learned a lot when I was in South Africa.
Speaker 1: I drove from Cape Town to put Elizabeth to joe
Speaker 1: Burg and I smoked to a lot of people there.
Speaker 1: When people talk about segregation, they don't look at the
Speaker 1: hidden segregation we have in America. Our school system is dysfunctional,
Speaker 1: and we have acknowledged that dysfunctionality because black and brown
Speaker 1: and poorer students are the impact of that. Sixty percent
Speaker 1: of black and brown children never reached proficiency in our
Speaker 1: New York City school system and we've normalized that. And
Speaker 1: So what I did. I looked at my journey. I
Speaker 1: was dyslexic. I'm dyslexic. From K through twelve. I used
Speaker 1: to walk in the school building. They used to put
Speaker 1: dumb suited on a chair. I was bullied. And then
Speaker 1: not until I got into high school did I discovered
Speaker 1: I was dyslexic. There was nothing wrong with met the
Speaker 1: prisoners that I am Riker's Alley dyslexic. So what am
Speaker 1: I doing as mayor? I'm taking my journey and now
Speaker 1: helping other children we have dyslexia. Screening for every child now,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to riks and screen the prisoners with
Speaker 1: dyslexia so they could get the services they leave. You've
Speaker 1: also you've also been commended on your views on gentrification.
Speaker 1: You know, one thing that makes New York one of
Speaker 1: the greatest cities in the world is how many people
Speaker 1: are in it. It's a melting pot. Unfortunately, looks like
Speaker 1: you know, certain colors are melting out of that part
Speaker 1: right now and being priced out of their neighborhoods. On Juneteenth,
Speaker 1: you you gave a really impassioned speech where you said,
Speaker 1: in some ways gentrification feels to you like a legacy
Speaker 1: of slavery. How how do you fight gentrification? How do
Speaker 1: you create a world where people can move, can sell
Speaker 1: their places, but the city doesn't doesn't create an environment
Speaker 1: where poor and brown and black people are kicked out
Speaker 1: of their neighborhoods. And I love that. I love that
Speaker 1: question because people really miss when you start engaging in gentrification,
Speaker 1: people start to close up and start to get angry.
Speaker 1: Now we divide their lines. You know, when you go
Speaker 1: back when I was a sergeant in the police department,
Speaker 1: a black woman moved into a place called Garrison beach
Speaker 1: and they tore up her house. They destroyed house. I
Speaker 1: went out there with a group of one hundred blacks
Speaker 1: in law enforcement, black police officers, and said, we're gonna
Speaker 1: sleep in this house, and we dare you to come
Speaker 1: and try to throw us out. Why do I say that,
Speaker 1: because gentrification is not an ethnicity. It's a mindset. When
Speaker 1: you move into a community and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you let your dog crap on somebody's yard and won't
Speaker 1: pick it up, and you ignore the people, You won't
Speaker 1: go into the stories that are there already. You want
Speaker 1: to arrest someone for playing dominoes, or hey, somebody double
Speaker 1: parks in front of this block and we hear loud noises.
Speaker 1: Come Now, that's a church, and that church was there
Speaker 1: before you got there. So instead of treating community, says
Speaker 1: though you they're not there. You did disco discovered Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: you did discover Harlem. Come be a part of the communities.
Speaker 1: They bring your flair, bring your character. That's how mostly
Speaker 1: uguru on on a on the ground. Though, how do
Speaker 1: you make that happen? Because it's a complicated issue in
Speaker 1: that there are many homeowners in Harlem, in Brooklyn, etcetera.
Speaker 1: Where I feel like they're trapped in a in a
Speaker 1: in a loop that where they're they're destined to fail.
Speaker 1: Their people own their homes, the homes aren't given the
Speaker 1: valuations that they deserve because their black families living in
Speaker 1: a quote unquote black neighborhood, or because you know it's
Speaker 1: Latino families living in a quote unquote Latino neighborhood, and
Speaker 1: they don't get the valuations, they don't get the services.
Speaker 1: People say, your home isn't worth much. Somebody comes in
Speaker 1: with a lot of money, they buy the place for
Speaker 1: pennies on the dollar. The more people do that, the
Speaker 1: more the values go up, the more the services go up.
Speaker 1: And now they've made a windfall on that. So how
Speaker 1: do you how do you actually affect that on the
Speaker 1: ground beyond are saying to the people don't move here,
Speaker 1: and and and and you know eras who's here. How
Speaker 1: how do you help people with actual policy? Well, number one,
Speaker 1: we have to get back in the business of home ownership,
Speaker 1: and we've moved away from that. We used to have
Speaker 1: something called Mitchell alarmas. We used to have I brought
Speaker 1: my first home and befistivs and some people like they
Speaker 1: think I live in Jersey, but I live in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: You know. I brought my first home in Bestid and
Speaker 1: it was through a program, a federal program. It was
Speaker 1: they had a program called Officer and Teacher next to
Speaker 1: a program because they felt as though if you brought
Speaker 1: professionals into communities, you will help that entire block. I
Speaker 1: started a block patrol my first coop. I bought it
Speaker 1: in on Prospect Heights. No I wanted to live there.
Speaker 1: When I got there, I started a patrol of the block.
Speaker 1: We started programs with the people there. So black and
Speaker 1: brown communities they want the same things, no matter the
Speaker 1: Latino community, they want the same things whatever community. What
Speaker 1: we have done in this city and in this country,
Speaker 1: we wait into communities are gentrified before we bring the
Speaker 1: services into the community. And I say no to that.
Speaker 1: You know, because you are the person that drives the limousine.
Speaker 1: You want the same thing as the person assist in
Speaker 1: the back of the limousine, and you deserve the same thing.
Speaker 1: And that's what we have to do. I'm gonna chat
Speaker 1: you a little bit more after the break. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be chatting about police. We're gonna be chatting about rents
Speaker 1: in the city, and we'll be chatting about why some
Speaker 1: people think you're the quirkiest, most interesting man in America.
Speaker 1: Don't go away, We'll be right back with more from
Speaker 1: may Welcome back to the Day Show, where we are
Speaker 1: joined by New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Um Mayor Adams,
Speaker 1: Let's jump into two of some of those pressing issues
Speaker 1: in the city. Number one police, which touches on crime,
Speaker 1: but you know it's almost two separate issues at the
Speaker 1: same time. One of the things you ran on coming
Speaker 1: into officers, I'm going to bring down crime in New
Speaker 1: York City. Since you've come into office, crime has skyrocketed.
Speaker 1: You know, it's only been five six months, but I'm
Speaker 1: sure many people would love to know from your perspective,
Speaker 1: how long do you think that promise will take to
Speaker 1: achieve and and how do you actually bring crime down?
Speaker 1: Because every mayor has a different solution for actually achieving that. Well,
Speaker 1: it's it's a unique moment. You know, people that know
Speaker 1: my history, I was arrested at fifteen, I was beat
Speaker 1: badly by police officers. They assaulted my brother and nine
Speaker 1: and one or third priescent I returned back to that
Speaker 1: policint when I became the mayor afford against stopped the abusive,
Speaker 1: stopping frist. I've testified in federal court and the judge
Speaker 1: mentioned my testimony when she ruled against the police department.
Speaker 1: I can't go backwards. We can't go back to the
Speaker 1: days when every black and brown child that walked the
Speaker 1: streets was treated unfairly. And so we have to have
Speaker 1: that balance. I like to say intervention and prevention. Intervention
Speaker 1: is right now. We took three thousand guns of street
Speaker 1: shoot is dropped by, homicide, dropped by We're moving in
Speaker 1: the right way. But I'm not going to allow us
Speaker 1: to be abusive in the process prevention. Let's do the
Speaker 1: long term things. Let's leaning to force to care children
Speaker 1: so they have the opportunities and not age out without
Speaker 1: the support. Let's see the dyslexia screaming. Let's go into
Speaker 1: how we educate our children, because if you don't educate,
Speaker 1: you will inconcentrate. And we're feeding the criminal justice system
Speaker 1: and no one cares. Archbishop Desmond to To from South
Speaker 1: Africa said, we spend a lifetime pulling people out of
Speaker 1: the river. No one goes upstream and prevent them from
Speaker 1: falling in in the first place, we're pushing people into
Speaker 1: the river, and when you look downstream, you know you're
Speaker 1: pulling out. You're pulling out the Eric Adams that are dyslexic.
Speaker 1: You're pulling out to force to children. Black and brown
Speaker 1: children are falling in the river every day, and you
Speaker 1: have a mayor that has been in that river, and
Speaker 1: now I'm going upstream and prevent them from falling into river.
Speaker 1: You also have to battance s thats with how people
Speaker 1: feel in the six One of the hardest things about
Speaker 1: being mayor, I can only assume is that you you're
Speaker 1: dealing with the reality and you're dealing with the feeling.
Speaker 1: You know. I remember one of the first things that
Speaker 1: shocking when I moved to New York was how much
Speaker 1: the local news terrifies you every night, to be like,
Speaker 1: watch out, someone's punching people in the streets. And it
Speaker 1: makes it seem like everything's happening everywhere. And yes, there
Speaker 1: are real crimes being committed, but it's not as panicked
Speaker 1: as people make it, and I'm loving it. Three last week,
Speaker 1: we had about three point five million people that wrote
Speaker 1: through train in a day. We have about six crimes
Speaker 1: on the subway per day, about six per day those
Speaker 1: three point five. So I have to deal with what
Speaker 1: you felt and then moved to what you are feeling
Speaker 1: and not take some time before what you're what you
Speaker 1: felt and what you're feeling. What does that look like?
Speaker 1: When we started out our homeless encampment on the subway
Speaker 1: system my first month in office, I went and visited
Speaker 1: people that lived in camps and ten on the street
Speaker 1: so human ways drug power. From there, I said, people
Speaker 1: can't live like this, and so we did a program
Speaker 1: in our subway system. The first week, twenty two people
Speaker 1: took us up on an offer to go into our
Speaker 1: shelter system. Right now, seventeen hundred are no longer living
Speaker 1: on the subway system and they're getting the services they deserve.
Speaker 1: But how do you how do you how do you
Speaker 1: deal with a situation where you know it's sensitive and
Speaker 1: what I what I don't like. Sometimes in America's people
Speaker 1: make it seem like these issues are easy. There's there's
Speaker 1: no denying that in New York the homeless issue cannot
Speaker 1: be separated from mental health issues without it. If you so,
Speaker 1: how do you find a humane way to deal with
Speaker 1: people who quote unquote maybe want to live on the streets,
Speaker 1: but clearly cannot survive on the streets. And then you're
Speaker 1: the mayor who's taking the people off the streets and
Speaker 1: saying I think this is better for them, and they're saying, no,
Speaker 1: this is, this isn't. How do you find that balance, right?
Speaker 1: And so when I went into those tents and those
Speaker 1: cardboard boxes late at night during the winter month, and
Speaker 1: I spoke to your homeless and I realized that, hey,
Speaker 1: this person is bipolar. There are people living on the
Speaker 1: street that can't make the decisions for themselves. And so
Speaker 1: everyone is advocating and said they should have the decency
Speaker 1: to live on the street. There's nothing decent about that.
Speaker 1: And I'm a Christian. If Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
Speaker 1: was around right now, they'd be with me in the
Speaker 1: streets helping homeless people and not being removed or distanced
Speaker 1: from that. My programs are on the ground. I'm not
Speaker 1: afraid to be on the ground. I'm not afraid to
Speaker 1: make the mistake. Man, I'm perfectly imperfect. You know, you
Speaker 1: know I'm doing my job of turning around is city
Speaker 1: that has denied people for so long. I know that denial.
Speaker 1: I lived there. I watched Mimi work three jobs to
Speaker 1: take care of six children, and then they gave a
Speaker 1: food that cause that I have heart disease, diabetes. I was,
Speaker 1: I was diabetic. I woke up one morning I couldn't see.
Speaker 1: The doctor said, every gonna be blind in the year.
Speaker 1: You're gonna lose some fingers and toes. I went to
Speaker 1: see doctors that told me it's your food. It's not
Speaker 1: your DNA, it's your dinner. When I changed my diet,
Speaker 1: within three weeks, my sight came back, My nerve damage
Speaker 1: went away. My boy, I little thirty five pounds, thirty
Speaker 1: five pound. You look at you, look at what you're so,
Speaker 1: what you're saying, you find the same correct as you're
Speaker 1: trying to find the balance in a world where it's
Speaker 1: really difficult. Like, so, do you have do you have
Speaker 1: teams that are specifically tasked with helping homeless people who
Speaker 1: are struggling? Unbelievable combination. My team that I put together
Speaker 1: is extremely impressive, and we are on the ground talking
Speaker 1: to people and bringing them to a place where they
Speaker 1: ought to be. I can't meet people where I am.
Speaker 1: I have to go where they are and take them
Speaker 1: where they ought to be and You're gonna look over
Speaker 1: this journey and people see the unorthodox way that I move.
Speaker 1: I don't fit the model. You know, this boy head
Speaker 1: cat with an irene. You know, you know you're want
Speaker 1: to hang out a zero bond or as some other club. Listen,
Speaker 1: I'm New York and New York has this energy and
Speaker 1: spirit to it. This is your unique place. It's not
Speaker 1: on Empire State Building, it's not the Statue of Liberty.
Speaker 1: We all who we are because as Apples soft daring
Speaker 1: owners said, we're made about the best stuff on earth
Speaker 1: where New Yorker is. Let me ask you this noting
Speaker 1: about New York. This city has always has always been
Speaker 1: an interesting place where the police unions and the mayors
Speaker 1: have often had a fraught relationship. You're a really unique mayor,
Speaker 1: and that you were police. You come from police, and
Speaker 1: yet you've experienced police, and you've tried to change police,
Speaker 1: and and yet at the same time you go you
Speaker 1: have to encourage the police. So obviously you have critics
Speaker 1: and fans that inhabit both spaces. But I'd love to
Speaker 1: know this because I know a lot of New Yorkers
Speaker 1: have this as a question. When crime is down in
Speaker 1: the city, mayors will say, well, that means the police
Speaker 1: are doing their job. We need to give them more money,
Speaker 1: more funding to the police force, which oftentimes means less
Speaker 1: funding for the schools, the other services, etcetera, etcetera. But
Speaker 1: then when crime is up in the city, mayors will say, oh,
Speaker 1: that means we need to give the police more money
Speaker 1: because they need more help bring the crime down. So
Speaker 1: what I'd like to understand is why is it that
Speaker 1: in that job, whether things are going well or not
Speaker 1: going well, the money always increases. It doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: it matches what's happening in the city. And how do
Speaker 1: you address that as mayor whilst also acknowledging these are people,
Speaker 1: these are the people in the city trying to keep
Speaker 1: everybody safe, etcetera. From a mayor's perspective, understandard, how do
Speaker 1: you how do you how do you find that good question? Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, the prerequisitive prosperities, public safety and justice,
Speaker 1: they go together. Historically people will say you could only
Speaker 1: have justice, you can only have public safety, and I
Speaker 1: say no to that. It's not a trade off. We
Speaker 1: could have both. We could be safe and we could
Speaker 1: have justice. Justice That accountability is going to be in place.
Speaker 1: But let's not kid ourselves. We have been producing an
Speaker 1: inferior product all across the city. You we spent thirty
Speaker 1: eight billion dollars a year on education. Black and brown
Speaker 1: children never reach education. They've been playing us, we beginting
Speaker 1: played for so long. So the problem is not that
Speaker 1: people dislike me. They said they know just like me.
Speaker 1: People have who have been eating off of us, all
Speaker 1: of those people who make contracts from pulling people downstream.
Speaker 1: You know, much money is made when the child is
Speaker 1: dyslexic and is not educated and he's inconseerrated. You have counselors,
Speaker 1: you have therapists. You know, you have people who feed
Speaker 1: them prescription and drugs. People have been playing us, brother
Speaker 1: for a long time, and now I come along and say,
Speaker 1: listen to the game. The gig is up. You know
Speaker 1: that's interesting. So you have you found that you're getting
Speaker 1: a lot of resistance from people. Have you found that
Speaker 1: you've been getting a lot of resistance from people who
Speaker 1: feel like you're shaking things up a little too much?
Speaker 1: Because that's something any New Yorker knows, you know, especially
Speaker 1: if you're born here, but when you live here after
Speaker 1: a while, you realize everything feels like somebody's running something,
Speaker 1: whether it's the mt A or you know, when you're
Speaker 1: driving across the bridge, you can feel power, dynamic shift,
Speaker 1: et cetera. How do you then find that balance without
Speaker 1: being sabotaged them? Well, you you you have to be
Speaker 1: first of all, you have to ignore the noise. We
Speaker 1: have eight point eight million New Yorkers and thirty three
Speaker 1: different opinions. There's only one man that's gonna make the
Speaker 1: decisions right now. I'm the mayor, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: make the decisions for the next four years to move
Speaker 1: this city in the right direction. So there's so much
Speaker 1: noise out there. And when you go after that institutional
Speaker 1: dollars that have been feeding and eating up this system.
Speaker 1: While you think I'm an attack all the time, why
Speaker 1: do you think they make right all these stories about
Speaker 1: Eric Adams, Because Eric Adams is going at the heart.
Speaker 1: Eric has taking the city upstream and we're not spending
Speaker 1: all that money downstream, and that is you are going.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm going after the foundation of people who have
Speaker 1: been eating off of the dysfunctionality of our communities for years.
Speaker 1: So just in case I missed it, though, I don't
Speaker 1: think I did. But how do you then grade whether
Speaker 1: the police are doing well or not in your city combination?
Speaker 1: Because it's not If you can't would never be able
Speaker 1: to deal with this crime. Part problem with just police,
Speaker 1: You can't. We can't police our way out of this
Speaker 1: when you have forced to care children and age out
Speaker 1: of one and you know every year six or seven
Speaker 1: hundred of them are only five percent graduate from high school.
Speaker 1: Only two percent graduate graduate from high school, five percent
Speaker 1: from college. They're more likely to be homeless, mental health, unemployed,
Speaker 1: victims of crying participate in crime. So what I'm saying, no,
Speaker 1: let's let's let them get support until they had twenty
Speaker 1: six graduate from high school. Let's open up our trade
Speaker 1: schools like I did after Brooklyn Steam Center and give
Speaker 1: these children certifications. Let them going to some of these jobs.
Speaker 1: Google is here, Facebook is here. Why not have these
Speaker 1: children fed right into employment, be part of the growth
Speaker 1: of this city. So if you employ, then you won't
Speaker 1: have to worry about the criminality that you're seeing. By
Speaker 1: the time a child picks up a gun, we already failed.
Speaker 1: We failed already, So then, but then, why do you
Speaker 1: care so much about some of the smaller things, you know,
Speaker 1: like like, for instance, why does the city needs to
Speaker 1: spend so much money on police monitoring? Who jumps a
Speaker 1: fan who doesn't like? What what is the percentage of
Speaker 1: money that cities like unfair jump like that, like that
Speaker 1: jail for like, come on, people are gonna pay and
Speaker 1: the people who don't pay, like, what is that percentage?
Speaker 1: That's that's a great question. Here's what we can't do.
Speaker 1: We cannot send the message that any and everything goes
Speaker 1: in our city because it starts with okay, so someone
Speaker 1: jumps the fair and when their systems we have a
Speaker 1: reduced fair metro card program. What if you can't pay enough,
Speaker 1: We're gonna give you the metro card and there's ways
Speaker 1: to get on the system if you can't pay. So
Speaker 1: you can't walk into Dwayne read and say, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take what about want off the shelf and
Speaker 1: I'm going to walk out because now Dwayne Reid is
Speaker 1: gonna close down and that that low wage employee who's
Speaker 1: going to school at night to try to make a
Speaker 1: living is gonna lose his job because you decided you
Speaker 1: don't want to pay. So we can't have a city
Speaker 1: where you can do whatever you want. No, we're gonna
Speaker 1: be a city. We're not going to criminalize poor, but
Speaker 1: we're not going to allow someone to state that the
Speaker 1: economic status is going to allow them to disrespect what
Speaker 1: it is to live in the city like New York.
Speaker 1: I know what it is that people are. Brother. We
Speaker 1: used to go to school every day with a garbage
Speaker 1: bag full of clothing because mommy said, we're gonna be
Speaker 1: thrown now and we want to have clean clothing so
Speaker 1: you won't be embarrassed when you go to school. But
Speaker 1: Mommy made sure we're gonna always uplift ourselves, fight hard,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna be respectful in the process. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to allow people to believe because of where they
Speaker 1: are is who they are, we're so much better. So
Speaker 1: let's talk about one of the parts of the city
Speaker 1: that everyone agrees needs to become better, and that is affordability. Yes,
Speaker 1: as you said, New York City is not made by
Speaker 1: the Empire state building. It's not made by the Statue
Speaker 1: of Liberty. It's made by the people. The people feel
Speaker 1: like they can't remain in New York because they can't
Speaker 1: afford to live here, and you're seeing the spread. It's
Speaker 1: going out to Brooklyn and spreading into Harlem. Many parts,
Speaker 1: I mean, the main part of the island is almost
Speaker 1: unaffordable for most people, for people who don't live in
Speaker 1: rent control departments, where there where there's no recourse. I've
Speaker 1: heard people's rents jump by. It can just do whatever
Speaker 1: and you're out. Your life has changed. It becomes unaffordable.
Speaker 1: Half the places in Midtown of owned by people who
Speaker 1: don't even live in the city, never mind the country.
Speaker 1: What do you do, as mayor to to prevent that
Speaker 1: from happening? How do you make it so that the
Speaker 1: people actually want to live in the city. Because I've
Speaker 1: seen you say, by the way, people need to come
Speaker 1: back to the office. I've seen you say we need
Speaker 1: to get back in office. People need to get you know,
Speaker 1: the New York City back to life and understand why.
Speaker 1: But I can also see why people say, well, Mayor Adams,
Speaker 1: why should I come back to the city when I
Speaker 1: can go and live, you know, forty minutes away, fifty
Speaker 1: minutes away in Connecticut on a train and not have
Speaker 1: to pay these rents anymore? How do you prevent these
Speaker 1: people from turning this into a ghost town? It's a
Speaker 1: good question. First of all, charity begins at home. I
Speaker 1: have a small three uh three family house. My tenants
Speaker 1: when they moved in, uh several years ago, fifteen sixteen
Speaker 1: years ago, I had them sign at least that is
Speaker 1: long as you live in my apartments, you'll never have
Speaker 1: your rent increased at all. And they've been there and
Speaker 1: they've never had a rent increase, never, never, never, from
Speaker 1: the time that they moved in. They the audience is saying,
Speaker 1: what do you live so I can move in? You know,
Speaker 1: but because there's so much for human needs, there's just
Speaker 1: not a lot for human greeds. Gandhi said that, but
Speaker 1: how do you what do you do? So what I
Speaker 1: must do as the mayor is now create affordable housing.
Speaker 1: What we're doing, and which is very interesting, you have
Speaker 1: some of the people who are advocating for affordable housing
Speaker 1: and I say, okay, great, we're gonna build it on
Speaker 1: your block. Wha, well not on my block. You know,
Speaker 1: you want to up zone on my block. See, we
Speaker 1: have to stop the hypocrisy of people, those who are
Speaker 1: advocating for something, but when it's time to produce it
Speaker 1: in their space inconvenience them. Now they have a whole
Speaker 1: another conversation. We want to build safe haveing beds. Show
Speaker 1: me the community that's gonna allow me to build a
Speaker 1: safe have in that havens to get wrap around services.
Speaker 1: So we must get in the business of affordable housing.
Speaker 1: But once we build it, we have to put people
Speaker 1: in the units. We've had almost two units that were
Speaker 1: empty because we didn't have a system in place. That
Speaker 1: is the dysfunctionality, and we were just counting how many
Speaker 1: units we have, but how many people that you put
Speaker 1: in those units? We're moving in another direction. Then we
Speaker 1: do a night youer, we got Niger land Trust. Every
Speaker 1: everybody tried to do what we're doing. Our Nighter land
Speaker 1: trusts almost four d tho people that were living in
Speaker 1: substandard conditions. Now we have a land trust where they
Speaker 1: going to be able to pick the contractors. They're gonna
Speaker 1: have a voice in picking the contractors. They're gonna have
Speaker 1: a voice in voting on the land trust. We're gonna
Speaker 1: change the game of Niger, which you know what Nighter
Speaker 1: residents have been going through for years and now we're
Speaker 1: moving in another direction. So the affordability is cruc Shoot,
Speaker 1: do you think you can find the balance because as
Speaker 1: a mayor, you're always responding to business some of the
Speaker 1: richest people in the it you know you you're you're
Speaker 1: responding to the people who are annoyed by poor people.
Speaker 1: As you said, the nimbies, not in my backyard. They
Speaker 1: want to change, but not in their backyard. And you're
Speaker 1: responding to the majority of the eight million people. What
Speaker 1: do you think you're gonna be able to do in
Speaker 1: the in the short term. I understand the ideas behind it,
Speaker 1: but what's a concrete thing you can say in New
Speaker 1: York as we go, like, Hey, this is what I'm
Speaker 1: actually going to do for you in the short term.
Speaker 1: And we're doing that right now. First of all, the
Speaker 1: effluent New Yorkers, do you know fifty two percent about
Speaker 1: taxes are paid by two percent of New Yorkers. I
Speaker 1: can believe that if we lose those two percent, we
Speaker 1: lose our teachers, our firefighters, our cops. So for me
Speaker 1: not to engage those high income earners, that's that's a
Speaker 1: foolish as a mayor, and I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 1: I want them to pay their taxes, I want them
Speaker 1: to volunteer. I want them to contribute to my museums,
Speaker 1: to my nonprofits. They need to be a part of that.
Speaker 1: And so when you look at what we're doing right
Speaker 1: right away child care vouchers UM for the families in
Speaker 1: the city. You know, people were paying fifty dollars a week.
Speaker 1: We were able to get them down to ten dollars
Speaker 1: a week. We're hope with so many new seats of
Speaker 1: in childcare, what we're doing with dyslexia screening, what we're
Speaker 1: doing with college fund filed children. When you when you
Speaker 1: start out of college fund for a child, there four
Speaker 1: times more likely to go to college by having that
Speaker 1: of childcare child this college fund UM. When you when
Speaker 1: you look at what we're doing, what's called the crisis
Speaker 1: management team and how they deal on crisis on the ground,
Speaker 1: uh for pre prevention of what we're doing with earn
Speaker 1: Income tax credit. Brother we send back billions of dollars
Speaker 1: because people don't know how to fill out the films
Speaker 1: to get the resources that they deserve. So we're making
Speaker 1: it that easier in streamlining of the Earned income Tax Credit.
Speaker 1: So we're doing things that are going to put money
Speaker 1: back in the pack pockets of New Yorker is. Then
Speaker 1: we're going to empower them on how our readiness how
Speaker 1: to be part of this city as it builds up,
Speaker 1: cities that are built up, and futures of people going down.
Speaker 1: It's unacceptable in this administration. And you're going to see
Speaker 1: visible results in this city. So before I let you go,
Speaker 1: I'm just to know real quick, what would you grade
Speaker 1: yourself as as a mayor? Right now? What great would
Speaker 1: you give yourself? And and I know it's a tough one,
Speaker 1: you know. I told you when we spoke, girl, that
Speaker 1: there's no tough questions for me because I'm I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be me. You are you? Definitely I'll say that about you.
Speaker 1: What would you grade yourself as as a mayor? I
Speaker 1: I'm incomplete. I'm I'm incomple, that's amcste I'm incomplete, all right.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm incomplete as a mayor. I'm incomplete as a man,
Speaker 1: I'm incomplete as a father. I'm incomplete complete in my
Speaker 1: personal life. I get up every morning, I meditate, exercise,
Speaker 1: I pray, I say the pleasure of allegiance, and I
Speaker 1: give myself every day every day, every day. I mean,
Speaker 1: the last one has a been weird, you have to admit,
Speaker 1: but it's not. It's not when you mean surely the
Speaker 1: flag knows by now that you I mean, yeah, well
Speaker 1: you know we you know this country is this this
Speaker 1: this country has a lot of issues. But I've been
Speaker 1: all over the globe and this is the only country
Speaker 1: with dream is attached to our name. It's not a
Speaker 1: German dream, of French dream or the French dream is,
Speaker 1: but it's a very different kind of dream. Let's let's
Speaker 1: talk about you as a human being for a moment.
Speaker 1: Something that has really intrigued people about you is who
Speaker 1: you are as you say, you know, the earring wearing,
Speaker 1: you know, vegetarian but fish eating um, late night going out.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen pictures of you with rappers, with models,
Speaker 1: you know, partying, having a good time, still getting out.
Speaker 1: You don't seem afraid to be who you are and
Speaker 1: do what you're doing and not have that negatively impact
Speaker 1: the idea of your job as a mayor. Are you
Speaker 1: worried at all about image or do you think it's
Speaker 1: all just going to be about what you actually do
Speaker 1: on the ground. Listen, listen. I'm a I'm a real
Speaker 1: believer that I believe in quantum physics. I believe you
Speaker 1: create your reality. I put in the universe almost thirty
Speaker 1: years ago that in two I was going to be mayor,
Speaker 1: and every place I traveled to I told people I'm
Speaker 1: going to be mayor. People look back over the records
Speaker 1: and me speaking back when I was a captain, when
Speaker 1: I was a state senator, when I was a borough president.
Speaker 1: They hurt me, said, I mnna be mayoro. People don't
Speaker 1: reach their reality because they don't believe in the power
Speaker 1: of what they say. And so the universe knows I'm
Speaker 1: contributing to the university. Universe is going to make sure
Speaker 1: that I'm all right. I'm going to be all right.
Speaker 1: How people judge me, that's up to them. I like Eric,
Speaker 1: and I had an amazing, amazing mother that told me.
Speaker 1: When I and I went on the stage to speak
Speaker 1: as a child and I was nervous, Mommy leaned over
Speaker 1: and whispered, in my ear baby, you got this. And
Speaker 1: she transitioned last year. But every time I'm out here,
Speaker 1: I still hear Mommy whisper in my ear baby, you
Speaker 1: got this. And I'm saying to New York, is we
Speaker 1: got this, New York, don't you worry about it? Episode
Speaker 1: much for joining me. I appreciate the time I know
Speaker 1: you're a busy man. I want to have you back.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about this every few years. We're gonna take
Speaker 1: a quick right while we're right back. After that, we'll
Speaker 1: talk up for tonight. But before we go, if you
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