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Speaker 1: What's up?

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Speaker 2: His way up with angela, Ye, I'm here, my guy,

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Speaker 2: Maino's here, okay, And as promised, Mayor Eric Adams is

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Speaker 2: back in the building.

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Speaker 3: I feel like it's my birthday with Mayno's.

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Speaker 4: Good to see you.

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Speaker 3: And let me let me tell you. You know, this

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Speaker 5: We we there was an issue around drill rappers where

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Speaker 5: the music is not wasn't the issue.

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Speaker 3: It was the the fighting online that was turning into

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Speaker 3: loss of lives.

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Speaker 1: I remember them, you were saying the video.

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Speaker 5: Exactly, you know, and Mayo hit me and he says, Eric, listen,

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Speaker 5: I want to bring drill rappers to City Hall.

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Speaker 3: And we met that night, you know, brought a whole

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Speaker 3: crew and brothers that and that rolled up in there.

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Speaker 3: Security was like, wait, what was going on? I got

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Speaker 3: to fall back. No. I wanted.

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Speaker 6: I wanted them to have an opportunity to talk to

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Speaker 6: to have a conversation, a real conversation about drill rap,

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Speaker 6: then it needed to be with real.

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Speaker 4: Drill rap artists, right so that we can hear both sides.

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Speaker 1: So everybody can see what the other.

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Speaker 6: Is, what it comes from, what the what the energy is,

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Speaker 6: what the feeling, what the loss and the pain is.

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Speaker 4: So you know, we set it up and we had

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Speaker 5: It was and you know what it was is that

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Speaker 5: the media was making it appear as though that here

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Speaker 5: it is you have a mayor that listened to rap

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Speaker 5: is attacking drill rappers.

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Speaker 3: But when Mayo brought us everybody in the room, they

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Speaker 5: Wait a minute, that's not what was rewarded, right, And

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Speaker 5: that is what's happening to us. Man.

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Speaker 3: People are like in the middle of our family.

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Speaker 5: Conversations and we kind of do that catch like you

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Speaker 5: that has that street credibility, and you say, I can

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Speaker 5: pick up I can hit Eric anytime you need to.

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Speaker 5: I know that's a lot to drop on your shoulders,

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Speaker 5: but we need brothers like you to like say, let's

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Speaker 3: We could. We should be heading on our business and

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Speaker 3: not other people. We should.

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Speaker 4: We should. I believe that we should.

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Speaker 6: We should be able to get in the room, do

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: And you know what I would say, because you'll get

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Speaker 2: the flip side of that.

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Speaker 1: I always tell people, at least you can hit up

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Speaker 1: the mayor.

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Speaker 2: Running to him, stop and talk to him every want

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Speaker 6: He's still gonna accessibility that we didn't have before.

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Speaker 3: Right that I like, right right?

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Speaker 5: And even the way you use you know, your shows

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Speaker 5: do the juice bar just being on the ground. So

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Speaker 5: with folks, people don't realize being the mayor of what

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Speaker 5: my goal is and people think that's just like one goal.

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Speaker 3: No, it's not one goal. You know.

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Speaker 5: I need I'm an urban mayor and I I need

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Speaker 5: people to know that you can be your authentic self.

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Speaker 5: I don't have to all of a sudden walk around

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Speaker 3: I can't hang.

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Speaker 5: Out on Fulton Street, you know, because I'm the man now,

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Speaker 5: you know. No, I'm trying to break these models. Now,

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Speaker 5: if I just broke those models and didn't produce, then

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Speaker 5: people will say, well, you can't produce.

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Speaker 3: No. I inherit the city that employment was through.

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Speaker 5: The Black unemployment was four times the level of white unemployment.

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Speaker 5: Crime was soaring. No jobs wanted to come here. Independent

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Speaker 5: financial experts did not want to invest in our city.

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Speaker 5: Our children wasn't learning. Two years later, more jobs we

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Speaker 5: unemployment has been cut in half for the first time

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Speaker 3: Eight percent.

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Speaker 5: We're out pacing the state and reading and writing with

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Speaker 5: The independent financial experts at cities and say you're invest

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Speaker 3: You the hell. You know.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting all of those things because when you inherited

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Speaker 2: this city, it was COVID and so people they were like, no,

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Speaker 2: They couldn't see what was going to happen. But even

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Speaker 2: in the midst of all that, for some reason, it's

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Speaker 2: not connecting in some situations, right, Like they'll talk about

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Speaker 2: But then when you can look at the numbers, like

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Speaker 2: you know, small businesses getting the support that they haven't gotten.

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Speaker 3: It was an opportunity fund.

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Speaker 2: I was just at Gracie Mansion. Mayor Eric Adams actually

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Speaker 2: had an event that was there. What was that event calls?

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Speaker 2: It was spotted by your MWBE.

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Speaker 5: Right right right, Michael Gardner. We're putting billions of dollars

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Speaker 5: in MWBE. We certified nineteen hundred businesses and I just

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Speaker 5: opened Gracie.

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Speaker 3: To young, black and brown serge viewers so they can't

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Speaker 3: connect with everyone.

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Speaker 1: It was a party. I didn't expect that, you know

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Speaker 5: And the energy was just like unbelievable, and we're gon

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Speaker 5: we're gonna do more of them. But the move is

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Speaker 5: people played because people were angry. Man, when you got

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Speaker 5: one hundred and ninety four thousand migrs in asylum, see,

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Speaker 5: because that came into the city.

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Speaker 3: You know, folks was like saying, what about us? You

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Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. So people all that anger came

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Speaker 5: But people didn't realize that. Listen, brother, I can't stop

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Speaker 5: these busses from coming in. Man, that the federal law

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Speaker 5: the opportunity that deser group. And so if you don't

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Speaker 5: you know, he's giving everything, the whole city away.

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Speaker 2: It's like, man, what's wrong with you?

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Speaker 6: That's what that's That's some of the sentiment where people

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Speaker 6: feeling like, oh, man, the migrants come in and get

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Speaker 3: We are, right, you know, so what? What? How?

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Speaker 4: How do you how do you address that?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 5: First, you know, I'll never forget that when the first

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Speaker 5: I took a bus one night over to when we

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Speaker 5: and there's a homeless shelter there. And the brother stopped me.

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Speaker 5: He's like, you know, man, you're giving these microses everything.

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Speaker 5: Give him that tent. You know what, I'm here in this,

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Speaker 3: He's like, yo, I'm going back into my slide. You

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Speaker 5: So people bought the headlines and not realizing they they

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Speaker 5: sold them a bill of goods man and they you

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Speaker 5: go back Maino and you look at Okay, he hangs

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Speaker 5: out all the time, he dresses too fancy. He can't

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Speaker 5: manage your system. Not Eric Adams, David Dinkins. That's the

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Speaker 5: same thing they said about David.

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Speaker 1: Dinkins, right, our first black mayor.

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Speaker 3: Right. Read what they did to David, and then now

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Speaker 3: look at it's the same.

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Speaker 4: To try to apply the same.

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Speaker 3: They want to.

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Speaker 5: Make it seem like we can't manage complex cities. I'm

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Speaker 5: managing the hell out of the city.

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Speaker 6: One of the things that you said that that was

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Speaker 6: interesting because I hear some of these things.

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Speaker 4: It was that you inherited the city right there.

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Speaker 6: Do you feel like people are giving you more flat

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Speaker 6: for the things that you already inherited?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 4: Like some of the problems that was already here.

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Speaker 5: You know, what's the interesting That's a great question when

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Speaker 5: I came in and I said we're gonna turn the

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Speaker 5: we did in two years. Two years. You know, you're

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Speaker 5: doing analysis of what I did and the most complex,

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Speaker 5: eight point three million, eight point three million people.

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Speaker 3: People didn't think I can do it.

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Speaker 5: They didn't think this urban, cuny, dyslexic mayor was going

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Speaker 5: they didn't understand is that we've come from hard time.

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Speaker 5: MAMMI worked three jobs, you know, so hard rock means

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Speaker 5: nothing to me. Man. Mammy worked in the day, she

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Speaker 5: late night shit. So working hard means nothing to me,

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Speaker 5: you know. And I knew if you just come in

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Speaker 2: You know, it's going to be interesting because even later

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Speaker 2: and so we don't know who at that point or

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Speaker 2: how long it's going to take, but we do know

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of developments that are in progress right now.

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Speaker 2: When it does come to affordable housing, and then when

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Speaker 2: it does come to building up the Marine in Brooklyn,

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Speaker 2: which is going to be really exciting for people in Redhuk.

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Speaker 2: My brother lives right there. And what you've been doing

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Speaker 2: in Hunt's Point, what you've.

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Speaker 1: Been doing in Willett's Point.

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Speaker 2: In Queen's is going to be a soccer stadium, the

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Speaker 2: first stadium that's dedicated just for soccer, but alongside housing

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Speaker 2: as well. So there's a lot of different projects that

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Speaker 2: are in the works, and I want to make sure

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Speaker 2: we discuss that today because sometimes people want to see

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Speaker 2: things immediately and not recognizing, look, we're starting this, it's

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Speaker 2: a long negotiation period and then after that you have

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Speaker 2: to develop these things. So let's talk about what we

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Speaker 2: do have in the works. That's some solutions of.

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Speaker 5: That and what we like to call ourselves the finishes.

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Speaker 5: We've had major projects that continue to die. New York

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Speaker 5: City had become the graveyard where good ideas died and

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Speaker 5: we came in and we said, listen, man, we're going

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Speaker 5: to move these projects forward. They've been trying to develop

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Speaker 5: William's Point since I was a kid watching the Mets.

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Speaker 3: We're finally gonna develop that whole area.

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Speaker 5: People said, listen, this man has been on Staten Island

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Speaker 5: It's turning around, turning around, you know, turning around. You're

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Speaker 5: but you gotta have the systems in place to identify

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Speaker 3: Number one.

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Speaker 5: Number two, we gotta start recruiting some of these young brothers. Man,

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Speaker 5: they're smart, they're intelligent. They you know, you see some

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Speaker 5: they are not only doing the policing and they're off hours,

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Speaker 5: they're volunteering, they're starting organization. They're doing prom dresses, giveaway

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Speaker 6: Abusive should be community policing, Yes, yes, yes, way more.

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Speaker 2: Even when you go to marches and you see the

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Speaker 1: It's take a Montissouri police academy, right, and what.

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Speaker 5: It is, you know, it was a brilliant idea on

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Speaker 3: Is no good correction, it's no good no.

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Speaker 5: It was all public safety and all needs to be

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Speaker 3: He gave me the idea and we're gonna move forward.

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Speaker 5: Said well said, and here's the issue. This is what happened,

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Speaker 5: Advocates advocated to close psychiatric wards. This was years ago

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Speaker 3: And they can't take care of themselves.

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Speaker 5: Now you have them in the streets and we see

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Speaker 3: Right, then what's the committed crime? What do we do?

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Speaker 5: Fifty four percent of the people that riker is out

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Speaker 3: So we close the psych wards.

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Speaker 4: But what do we do and then keep the jails open?

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Speaker 6: Right, you put everybody there, right, so we should be

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Speaker 5: Right, we should well, this city should do And this

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Speaker 3: Council to understand it.

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Speaker 5: We should open a state of the art quality psychiatric facility.

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Speaker 5: One will you do aroma therapy? Will you give people meditation?

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Speaker 5: Will you get people to eat?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 5: Will you identify? You know, building community? But we could

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Speaker 3: Let's find that medium.

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Speaker 2: Let's sits invest in some healthcare professionals, that's what they do,

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Speaker 2: and we have facilities that are available that treat them

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Speaker 1: So you're not sending people back.

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Speaker 5: And you know how many you know how many people

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Speaker 4: A set of people, like an agency that you can call.

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Speaker 6: Cops, because the cops are not trained to deal with

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Speaker 5: Right, they watch their train but believe it or not,

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Speaker 5: that uniform could trigger it off. You know that people

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Speaker 3: That's why you want a civilian population to do this.

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Speaker 5: But you need a facility. Some people need long term care.

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Speaker 5: It can't be something that you're in for a day.

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Speaker 3: We have to close Rikers Island.

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Speaker 5: The law said by twenty two seven and build four

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Speaker 5: It's when you close the riichers, the population that to

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Speaker 3: And when I'm.

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Speaker 5: Asking the city council to consider, let's take one of

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Speaker 5: those jails and instead of building another jail, let's build

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Speaker 2: Facility, because proportionately so many people do need help.

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Speaker 4: Said, this is what I'm saying, actually mental mental.

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Speaker 4: The best you know, home situations.

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Speaker 6: You know, father might be dead or locked up, mother

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Speaker 5: We have been having these conversations with young people. We

445
00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:06,760
Speaker 5: pull more more money into our summarizing program and get

446
00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:07,960
Speaker 5: year round program.

447
00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:12,000
Speaker 3: We've been really leaning into Force the Care children. Uh.

448
00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:14,640
Speaker 5: We know sixty seven hundred of them age out every year.

449
00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,360
Speaker 5: We know the problem that they have. With our support,

450
00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:19,840
Speaker 5: we're paying college tuition now for all ab out Force

451
00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:22,920
Speaker 5: to Care children desire and giving them a stiphen and

452
00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:26,159
Speaker 5: they're enrolling into college at a higher level. We're also

453
00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:29,760
Speaker 5: doing justice involved young people just as involved. We're putting

454
00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:32,320
Speaker 5: them on an employment path because if we don't go

455
00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:35,880
Speaker 5: after them, as you said, if we don't start early, got.

456
00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:39,240
Speaker 6: Early, because they need outlets. Because I was that like

457
00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:42,200
Speaker 6: I was, I was, you know, my mother, my father

458
00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:44,480
Speaker 6: was on drugs. My mother was trying to figure it out.

459
00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:47,919
Speaker 6: You know, we was delving into crime very early. So

460
00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:52,119
Speaker 6: it's always about what can you do Early's right.

461
00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:58,000
Speaker 2: I think the programs and all investing in programs that

462
00:21:58,040 --> 00:21:59,520
Speaker 2: already now who are.

463
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Speaker 3: Already got to be effective. You gotta be we gotta

464
00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:02,560
Speaker 3: be effective.

465
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Speaker 5: What has been happened happening is that poverty has become

466
00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:13,680
Speaker 5: too profitable for people, and we've been just pouring money

467
00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,440
Speaker 5: into programs and people just saying they have a program,

468
00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:20,639
Speaker 5: like what's your effective turnaround? This brother on Rykas Island,

469
00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:22,720
Speaker 5: when I got baptized on right a Island with your

470
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:26,120
Speaker 5: inmates a couple of months ago, is through this. There's

471
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Speaker 5: a brother there. His organization is called uh Fatherless No More?

472
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:39,320
Speaker 5: Or my girl, Uh what's her name? Camella's wife, She's

473
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:47,240
Speaker 5: gonna kill me Caamella Anthony's sorry, La, but Lalla has

474
00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:48,879
Speaker 5: been doing this program on Right Island. A lot of

475
00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:49,520
Speaker 5: people don't even.

476
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Speaker 3: Know about that.

477
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Speaker 6: We've had we talked about that, but that's nothing I'm doing.

478
00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:57,520
Speaker 6: I just went up there because I was there. I

479
00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,480
Speaker 6: spent so much time there, and so we're trying to

480
00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:02,960
Speaker 6: figure out what more I could be doing. Because my

481
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,720
Speaker 6: voice is different because I was really there. I really

482
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,679
Speaker 6: turned eighteen there. I was really a private kid. I

483
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:11,919
Speaker 6: was really getting in trouble, I was really catching new

484
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:12,640
Speaker 6: charges there.

485
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:15,400
Speaker 4: I was really I really went up no off from there.

486
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:17,520
Speaker 6: So you know, I'm trying to figure out what more

487
00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:20,000
Speaker 6: I can do in that area to kind of give

488
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:24,119
Speaker 6: them some incentive, some motivation, you know, because these kids,

489
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,879
Speaker 6: that's every one of them is not going up north

490
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:28,280
Speaker 6: for fifteen to twenty years.

491
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Speaker 4: Some of them are coming out.

492
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Speaker 6: Right And what are you going to do when you

493
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:33,520
Speaker 6: get out, because you got a whole another shot to

494
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Speaker 6: change the trajectory of your life.

495
00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:38,479
Speaker 3: So what we need.

496
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:43,719
Speaker 5: We don't need folks that don't have that narrative to

497
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,119
Speaker 5: be talking about how you're going to be saving people

498
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 5: who are there. I need folks like you and LiLine

499
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:52,399
Speaker 5: and brother from father fatherless no more to say, here's

500
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 5: the program, because we're spending millions of dollars. Man, we

501
00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 5: were spending like thirteen million dollars. We spend millions of dollars.

502
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:02,000
Speaker 5: You going up there, just use your sweat equity. But no,

503
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,440
Speaker 5: why aren't we allocated resources to a program that you're

504
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,359
Speaker 5: aware of when you could train young soldiers to go

505
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,239
Speaker 5: in that have gone through the system, can go in

506
00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:13,440
Speaker 5: and help these brothers. Don't continue to go through the

507
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,680
Speaker 5: system because brothers don't want to keep going through this system.

508
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:18,919
Speaker 1: And even coming home, not being able to find work, not.

509
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:24,399
Speaker 6: Knowing what to do right, not having out it's the outlets,

510
00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 6: it's the information. It's not knowing what to do with themselves.

511
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:29,960
Speaker 6: It's trying to figure it out, you know. So we

512
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:32,600
Speaker 6: always caught up in this world when and what we

513
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:34,760
Speaker 6: should do and what we need to do because we're.

514
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Speaker 3: Hungry, that's right.

515
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,120
Speaker 5: And you know what, listen, man, people gotta eat. That's

516
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:39,600
Speaker 5: the fact they're gonna do that.

517
00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 6: And they always come back to that, right, I gotta

518
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:46,440
Speaker 6: do what I gotta do it, you know what, You

519
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 6: know what.

520
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,399
Speaker 2: Else who else got to do what they gotta do

521
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:54,879
Speaker 2: to eat rats? And I want to talk about and

522
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 2: I want to talk about this rat summit that you're doing.

523
00:24:58,160 --> 00:24:59,960
Speaker 2: This is the first time something like this has happened.

524
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,119
Speaker 2: So is this like a party in convention for rats?

525
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 1: What is this?

526
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 3: Listen? I hate rats.

527
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:11,240
Speaker 2: We all do all kinds of them.

528
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:15,919
Speaker 5: Yeah, but the move is we identify. I got Catherine Karate,

529
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 5: who's my rats? Are we identified? Probably right? But we

530
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 5: we have a decreased city wide and rat complaints. We

531
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 5: have a decrease in rat mitigation areas. We have large

532
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:33,159
Speaker 5: rat issues. We knew that the problem is containerizeding our

533
00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 5: garbage as long as you have those stupid ass plastic

534
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:40,160
Speaker 5: bags on the street because they're supposed to.

535
00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:42,359
Speaker 3: That's candy to rats.

536
00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:48,400
Speaker 5: So we're first to containerized all of our food service businesses.

537
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 5: Then we went to containerize our chain stores. Now we

538
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 5: can containerize one to nine apartments.

539
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 3: Uh.

540
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 5: In the next few months, we're gonna have complete containerization

541
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Speaker 5: in the city.

542
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:01,960
Speaker 3: The people say it's gonna take five years. I say, like,

543
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 3: hell it is.

544
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,680
Speaker 5: We're gonna do it about two years and six seven months.

545
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 3: But we're going to be other cities.

546
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 5: I was just in Rome and they're like, plastic bags,

547
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:14,919
Speaker 5: what's wrong with you?

548
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 1: It does feel crazy.

549
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 4: Nobody else got rat pos like we do something.

550
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 2: One reason I love the fact that I am no

551
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,920
Speaker 2: longer doing morning radio is because in the morning them

552
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,080
Speaker 2: rats room free when it's darker.

553
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,120
Speaker 4: Trust coming out the studio five in the morning, it's

554
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:30,400
Speaker 4: like I.

555
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:31,960
Speaker 2: Make a lot of noise when I come at because

556
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 2: I'm like I need them to scatter here.

557
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,879
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know it was deep, like people were saying,

558
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 5: you know, well, why do you why do you focus

559
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 5: on this right issue?

560
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:43,160
Speaker 3: Nothing could traumatize your life?

561
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 5: And imagine early in the morning, you live with your

562
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,160
Speaker 5: toilet seat and you see Ben popping out.

563
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 3: You were never.

564
00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 6: Not the same way. You're never going back in there

565
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:02,159
Speaker 6: the same way. Every like on in the house is

566
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 6: coming on before you go to that bath. You're making noise,

567
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 6: you got your room playing music like everything like.

568
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:14,440
Speaker 3: That's not zero, it's.

569
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:20,119
Speaker 5: League and you know you want to enjoy your community

570
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,400
Speaker 5: and where we're really getting there?

571
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 3: Man, is it working though, Like it's it's less rats,

572
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 3: the complaints down.

573
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,640
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it as bad.

574
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 2: I don't know what it's gonna be like in the summer,

575
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,879
Speaker 2: but it's it's definitely something that I appreciate that.

576
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 1: I am not mad at it at all.

577
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 6: I was saying that I'll be in lower east Side

578
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,919
Speaker 6: on Clinton Street, and I'm talking they had they got

579
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 6: a real rat problem downtown. I must have seen seventy

580
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,879
Speaker 6: five rats under this this ben one day. But lately

581
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:51,639
Speaker 6: I'm like, man, I.

582
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:56,199
Speaker 3: Ain't been seeing that many. Ye might be speaking to.

583
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:01,200
Speaker 5: You know, controlled on me and say, you know, a

584
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 5: rap to have right to what you're doing. You know

585
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 5: they have a right to live.

586
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 4: Nobody said, I don't believe somebody said that.

587
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 3: Google, How do you see that's the thing. How do

588
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 3: you deal with that?

589
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 6: Everybody has a perspective, everybody has an argument. Everybody feels

590
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:20,920
Speaker 6: like here, wade to do this.

591
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,440
Speaker 1: That's why we have I think you have to know

592
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:24,440
Speaker 1: that comes with the job.

593
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:26,159
Speaker 4: Yeah, how you managed that?

594
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 3: How you manage that day? They point three million people,

595
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 3: thirty five million opinions?

596
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:32,639
Speaker 1: Is it what you expected? Let me ask you this, like,

597
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:34,440
Speaker 1: that's a great question.

598
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 2: This is what you thought it would be like becoming

599
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 2: mayor because you were in Brooklyn Borough president and you know,

600
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 2: police department starts and all of that, But then becoming

601
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 2: the mayor is a whole different.

602
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 3: Beating the most important city on the globe. Yeah, you know,

603
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 3: we need to really yes, yes, And let.

604
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 5: Me tell you something. You know, Mommy said to me

605
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 5: when she was alive. She said, baby, you spent thirty

606
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 5: five years to do what you're about to do. Don't

607
00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 5: get to the top of the mountain and complain about

608
00:28:59,640 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 5: the view.

609
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 3: That's right.

610
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 5: You know, no matter what happens, the City of New

611
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 5: York could never say the number one ten without saying

612
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 5: Eric was the mayor. You know, And there are days

613
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 5: when you know, it's challenging, but I know a billion

614
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:18,719
Speaker 5: people would love to change to ee places.

615
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 3: To me, I'm able to impact the lives of people.

616
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 5: You know, this city has abandoned people in general, but

617
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:28,479
Speaker 5: specifically black and brown people, and I can make these changes.

618
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 5: I'm not going to change everything in my time as mayor,

619
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 5: but you're going to see a different city. And knowing

620
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 5: that the stuff I'm putting in the pipeline and the

621
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 5: stuff I'm dressing now that is going to impact us.

622
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 5: And so folks like my mom that had to do

623
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 5: those three jobs, that their lives are going to be different.

624
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 3: You know.

625
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 5: So every day I wake up and you know, and

626
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 5: I wake up, I meditate, I pray, you know, do

627
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 5: my breathing exercises. I thank God, you know, God allowed me.

628
00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 5: You know, think about brothers. This is all gravy right now.

629
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 5: You know about where you.

630
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 3: Were, you've been. You are right now.

631
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 6: Man. Every when you when you when you look at

632
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 6: it like that, it looks all easier. It's right, right,

633
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 6: because we're gonna have days, that's man. But at the

634
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 6: end of the day, we know what we've been through,

635
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 6: right and right, and and it gives us the setting

636
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 6: to keep pushing without.

637
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 1: Then you know, other leaders also have the same problems.

638
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 2: Now when you went to Rome, because you brought that

639
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 2: up earlier, and so there were certain things that they're

640
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 2: doing when they're handling like what's happening with migrants there,

641
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 2: and you were praising some of the systems that they

642
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 2: have in place.

643
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 1: So what were some things that you bring back?

644
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 3: Biggest thing?

645
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,959
Speaker 5: Biggest thing was that you come coming from all over

646
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 5: the continent and particular a lot of brothers are coming

647
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 5: from Africa, West Africa and other parts that in two

648
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 5: months they're teaching you Italian and they're putting you on

649
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 5: a plant pathway for employment. You know here you could

650
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 5: be waiting for two years. It's unfathomable to me. That

651
00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 5: people are saying that it's realistic for someone to wait

652
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 5: a year, two years to rank.

653
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 3: That's just that makes any sense. Now.

654
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 5: I tell people all the time that you know, people

655
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 5: talk about people from South America, Central America, from West Africa.

656
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 5: We have a Ukrainian population that's also microsine the simum secrets.

657
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 5: We don't even hear about that because able to write.

658
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 5: So if you could work from Ukraine, why can't you

659
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 5: work from Ecuador?

660
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: Color that they had the biggest issue with.

661
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 2: I always say that too, because we that's not the

662
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 2: only people that are here that are trying to get citizenship,

663
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 2: and they're from all over And you know what else

664
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 2: I wanted to ask you about.

665
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 1: We got to clear this up.

666
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 2: The swimming situation. So Mayo said he's a great swimmer,

667
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Speaker 2: He's willing to be.

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Speaker 1: A lifeguard if necessary.

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Speaker 3: I don't.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we don't get some lessons though.

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Speaker 2: But I want to clarify that because that was a

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Speaker 2: bigger statement that was at a press conference, and that

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Speaker 2: kind of goes along with the lines of what you're

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Speaker 2: talking about right now, but it became a huge headline

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Speaker 2: that people ask knew this question, like what did you

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Speaker 2: mean when you said.

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Speaker 1: You know, they said it was racist.

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Speaker 5: But I want you now to first of all, I

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Speaker 5: ignore all that noise in the in the sentence police

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Speaker 5: they you know, the bottom line is there's a body

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Speaker 5: of people who sit out there every day. They're in

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Speaker 5: the Eric Hades cheering session that no section, no matter

683
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Speaker 5: what I say, they're gonna try to blow it up.

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Speaker 5: Look when I haven't made making it clear over and

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Speaker 5: over again that there are jobs that are open. And

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Speaker 5: if you look at the whole comment I made, I said,

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Speaker 5: we have people who are minus in Simon seekers who

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Speaker 5: are healthcare professional nurses. We need nurses. We have people

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Speaker 5: who are food service workers. We need food service workers.

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Speaker 5: We have a shortage in lifeguards. We have those who

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Speaker 5: know how to swim. When I go to my hurts, like.

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Speaker 3: When we hold people, and because I'm saying to myself

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Speaker 3: what jobs we out of there here? How many of

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Speaker 3: you are swimmings? Hands go out. I need lifeguards. We

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Speaker 3: don't have beaches, hoturis are being short. We have life guard.

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Speaker 5: So we have people who are capable of swimming, and

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Speaker 5: we don't even want to hire them because they can't work.

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Speaker 5: Now people say, well, you know you talk about South

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Speaker 5: Americans are automatically swimming, no food.

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Speaker 3: We got people from West Africa? What's wrong with you?

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. They wanted to turn their

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Speaker 3: little minds turn it into oh, you're talking.

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Speaker 5: About South America. No, I got populations coming from West Africa.

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Speaker 5: I got populations coming from Ecuador. Now what's interesting everyone

705
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Speaker 5: is complaining about it? Have they been to the Dairien Gap?

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Speaker 3: I have? Have they been to Ecuador to see what

707
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Speaker 3: people are going through? Have they been to Columbia?

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Speaker 5: I have? So get off the sidelines and stop playing

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Speaker 5: the road police and get your ass.

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Speaker 3: Down here and solve these problems.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 5: So if I get caught up on everyone that say, well,

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Speaker 5: you know what, we don't like the way Eric said

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Speaker 5: the centus, I'm won't get an done. I'm an authentic

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Speaker 5: urban mayor and there's never gonna be another mayor that's

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Speaker 5: going to be afraid to be authentic again.

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Speaker 3: And because they saw how successful I have.

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Speaker 2: You know what I wanted to ask you to a

719
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Speaker 2: couple of years ago, we were talking about cryptocurrency and

720
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Speaker 2: that was such a big deal and it hasn't been

721
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Speaker 2: in a conversation so much lately, but we see how

722
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Speaker 2: bitcoin has rebounded and the future of that after people

723
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Speaker 2: were very nervous about it. And I remember at one

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Speaker 2: point you were going to take your salary for a

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Speaker 2: month or however long it was in crypto currency.

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Speaker 1: So what do you think about New York City and

727
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Speaker 1: the future of crypto?

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know who shiit the song, but how

729
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Speaker 3: you like me? Now?

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Speaker 5: You know took my first three pay chests in crypto.

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Speaker 5: People were laughing at me. Oh yeah, where's your money?

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Speaker 6: Now?

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Speaker 3: Let's see it'll come back right now. Look at how

734
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Speaker 3: it has recovered.

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Speaker 5: I think the scandal around some of these crypto incidents

736
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Speaker 5: caused people to get some interrepidation, but there's bounced back.

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Speaker 3: My investment looks.

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Speaker 5: Very well and I think that people like it or not, Crypto,

739
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Speaker 5: blockchain and others is going to be part of our society. Listen,

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Speaker 5: we transitioned through the years. At one time we were

741
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Speaker 5: just trading one cow to your cow. Then we went

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Speaker 5: to another form of currency. Then we went to the

743
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Speaker 5: gold bars. You know, currency has transformed. It's not going

744
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Speaker 5: to always stay here. You're gonna people are going to

745
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Speaker 5: go to cyber Wallace in some part of Central America.

746
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Speaker 5: Figure right, they use points systems. People, there's going to

747
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Speaker 5: be different forms of payment, and it's not it's not

748
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Speaker 5: comfortable for a lot of people, but it's the reality.

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Speaker 5: But my investment in crypto turned out to be a

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Speaker 5: w And.

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Speaker 2: You know what's speaking of money casinos, you know, there's

752
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Speaker 2: been talk about different locations for casinos in New York

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Speaker 2: and can't let you get out of here without discussing,

754
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Speaker 2: like what's going on with these talks. I know, of

755
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Speaker 2: course with you know, with local communities, some people don't

756
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Speaker 2: want that, that don't like that, and then some people

757
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Speaker 2: are all for it, obviously, So there's I believe there

758
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Speaker 2: were three different places locations in Manhattan that they were

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Speaker 2: talking about actually through in the in the city.

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Speaker 5: There's a place in the broad Uh Valley's there's a

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Speaker 5: place in Mintown, Manhattan Square, there's a couple of different

762
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Speaker 5: locations Queens. There's another location for this point. So now

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Speaker 5: they're going through the process of deciding where. You know,

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Speaker 5: many people don't know. I was a chair of Racing

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Speaker 5: and Gamement for the State of New York. I was

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Speaker 5: the first black chair of Racing and Racing and Game

767
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Speaker 5: year and casinos bring jobs of tourism. It's a real

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Speaker 5: economic boost. Anyone that's familiar with with their doing out

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Speaker 5: in queens at U a g Spot, Genten spot, they

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Speaker 5: have a whole lot of jobs. They change, they're ready

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Speaker 5: to build housing or that on Aqua dot Acua dot

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Speaker 5: was almost a wasteful you know. And so wherever it goes,

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Speaker 5: it's going to be economic boosts. I just wanted in

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Speaker 5: one place in New York. Uh, we get to in

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Speaker 5: New York. I'm happy for it.

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Speaker 3: It's going to go through the process locally involvement, but

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Speaker 3: we need to get it done.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well that's a lot, and I know you're

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Speaker 2: gonna be bad because every day there's a new I

781
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 2: was saying up here before you got here, I was like,

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Speaker 2: Mayor Eric Adams is the most talked about mayor nationally.

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Speaker 6: Outside you know what, you won't see him on the

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Speaker 6: news and you won't see him outside.

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Speaker 1: Last people need to know his son is a rapper,

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Speaker 1: yeah j He goes under.

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Speaker 5: The name j O and he's bringing like his own creativity.

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Speaker 5: He's doing a movie with wrap inside the movie.

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Speaker 3: You know. Yeah, you know. I asked him.

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Speaker 5: I asked him the other day, I said, you know,

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Speaker 5: I said, listen, Jordan, you know you can hold when

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Speaker 5: you get married?

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Speaker 3: He said, after you can?

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 3: I like that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, we all here, we're all trying to figure

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Speaker 6: it out.

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Speaker 4: We're trying to figure it.

799
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Speaker 3: Out for real.

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Speaker 4: Man, are you the one?

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Speaker 1: You never know?

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Speaker 6: Man?

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Speaker 1: Well, we could do a reality shout.

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Speaker 6: I'm not doing that one no more. I'm doing this

805
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 6: almost every day with her. And I got another one

806
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Speaker 6: that I'm working on. It's called back talk. Back of

807
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Speaker 6: the back back talk we did.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, yeah that you good.

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Speaker 3: Times.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I went down to Florida.

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Speaker 4: Drink drink chances. I saw that Norm actually hit me too.

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Speaker 6: I was in l A and I was supposed to

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Speaker 6: film myself asking you a question, but I was running

815
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Speaker 6: around and get a chance.

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Speaker 1: Jersey. It's not the same.

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Speaker 4: But you gotta stop.

818
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Speaker 3: This ain't got nothing to do with La and Miami.

819
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Speaker 3: You gotta stop.

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Speaker 4: I'm Brooklyn. I'm Brooklyn all day.

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Speaker 3: Baby.

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Speaker 4: You just got back there.

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Speaker 3: You just got it. Yeah, you just got back there. Baby,

824
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Speaker 3: stopped playing with me saying you always love you, love you,

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Speaker 3: love you.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you.

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Speaker 3: Definitely wo