Mayor Eric Adams Addresses Lifeguard Comments, Mental Health Crisis, Proposes Psych Ward Rehab +More
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
His way up with angela, Ye, I'm here, my guy,
Maino's here, okay, And as promised, Mayor Eric Adams is
back in the building.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
I feel like it's my birthday with Mayno's.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Good to see you.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
And let me let me tell you. You know, this
brother is so authentic.
Speaker 5 (00:25):
We we there was an issue around drill rappers where
the music is not wasn't the issue.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It was the the fighting online that was turning into
loss of lives.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I remember them, you were saying the video.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Exactly, you know, and Mayo hit me and he says, Eric, listen,
I want to bring drill rappers to City Hall.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
And we met that night, you know, brought a whole
crew and brothers that and that rolled up in there.
Security was like, wait, what was going on? I got
to fall back. No. I wanted.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
I wanted them to have an opportunity to talk to
the mayor, you know, because if if, if we're going
to have a conversation, a real conversation about drill rap,
then it needed to be with real.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Drill rap artists, right so that we can hear both sides.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
So everybody can see what the other.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
Is, what it comes from, what the what the energy is,
what the feeling, what the loss and the pain is.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
So you know, we set it up and we had
a good meeting.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
It was and you know what it was is that
the media was making it appear as though that here
it is you have a mayor that listened to rap
is attacking drill rappers.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
But when Mayo brought us everybody in the room, they
started to say.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Wait a minute, that's not what was rewarded, right, And
that is what's happening to us. Man.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
People are like in the middle of our family.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Conversations and we kind of do that catch like you
that has that street credibility, and you say, I can
pick up I can hit Eric anytime you need to.
I know that's a lot to drop on your shoulders,
but we need brothers like you to like say, let's
get everybody in the room.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
We could. We should be heading on our business and
not other people. We should.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
We should. I believe that we should.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
We should be able to get in the room, do
dinners and and and really talk about things in a
real way.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
And you know what I would say, because you'll get
criticism for being out and about, but I also on
the flip side of that.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I always tell people, at least you can hit up
the mayor.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Running to him, stop and talk to him every want
to say something crazy.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
He's still gonna accessibility that we didn't have before.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Right that I like, right right?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
And even the way you use you know, your shows
to and what you've always done in the community, wh
do the juice bar just being on the ground. So
with folks, people don't realize being the mayor of what
my goal is and people think that's just like one goal.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
No, it's not one goal. You know.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
I need I'm an urban mayor and I I need
people to know that you can be your authentic self.
I don't have to all of a sudden walk around
and act like, well I can't do this.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I can't hang.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Out on Fulton Street, you know, because I'm the man now,
you know. No, I'm trying to break these models. Now,
if I just broke those models and didn't produce, then
people will say, well, you can't produce.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
No. I inherit the city that employment was through.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
The Black unemployment was four times the level of white unemployment.
Crime was soaring. No jobs wanted to come here. Independent
financial experts did not want to invest in our city.
Our children wasn't learning. Two years later, more jobs we
have now brother in the history of the city. Black
unemployment has been cut in half for the first time
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since twenty nineteen is under.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Eight percent.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
We're out pacing the state and reading and writing with
our children in school. Double digit decrease in homicide shootings.
The independent financial experts at cities and say you're invest
in them, They raised my standard, my bond ratings, and
say this guy has mattered.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You the hell. You know.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
It's interesting all of those things because when you inherited
this city, it was COVID and so people they were like, no,
everyone was leaving. And I remember, real estate wise, that
would have been a great time because people were getting
the most amazing deals back then. But I always felt
like New York is always going to be a place
that people are going to come to. At that time,
maybe people felt like this is the end of the world.
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They couldn't see what was going to happen. But even
in the midst of all that, for some reason, it's
not connecting in some situations, right, Like they'll talk about
approval ratings and they'll say the approval ratings are really low.
But then when you can look at the numbers, like
you said, with crime being down the way that it is,
with unemployment being down, all of those things happening with
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you know, small businesses getting the support that they haven't gotten.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
It was an opportunity fund.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I was just at Gracie Mansion. Mayor Eric Adams actually
had an event that was there. What was that event calls?
It was spotted by your MWBE.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Right right right, Michael Gardner. We're putting billions of dollars
in MWBE. We certified nineteen hundred businesses and I just
opened Gracie.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
To young, black and brown serge viewers so they can't
connect with everyone.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
It was a party. I didn't expect that, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
And the energy was just like unbelievable, and we're gon
we're gonna do more of them. But the move is
people played because people were angry. Man, when you got
one hundred and ninety four thousand migrs in asylum, see,
because that came into the city.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
You know, folks was like saying, what about us? You
know what I'm saying. So people all that anger came
out of nowhere.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
But people didn't realize that. Listen, brother, I can't stop
these busses from coming in. Man, that the federal law
is telling me. You have no choice. You know, I
can't give people work authorization. I can't give people, you know,
the opportunity that deser group. And so if you don't
look through the weeds, you automatically say, well, Eric is
you know, he's giving everything, the whole city away.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
It's like, man, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 6 (06:07):
That's what that's That's some of the sentiment where people
feeling like, oh, man, the migrants come in and get
more than.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
We are, right, you know, so what? What? How?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
How do you how do you address that?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Well?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
First, you know, I'll never forget that when the first
we got the first flow of migros that came in,
I took a bus one night over to when we
opened a tent up on Random's eyland. I took the
bus because the only one bus goes through the randoms
and there's a homeless shelter there. And the brother stopped me.
He's like, you know, man, you're giving these microses everything.
Give him that tent. You know what, I'm here in this,
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in this, in this shelter, I said, brother, you're not
saying there. I said, come on aware, but you can
sleep in this tent, on this cot, in this outside bathroom,
in this outside shot or you know. And he walked
over his shawd.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
He's like, yo, I'm going back into my slide. You
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
So people bought the headlines and not realizing they they
sold them a bill of goods man and they you
go back Maino and you look at Okay, he hangs
out all the time, he dresses too fancy. He can't
manage your system. Not Eric Adams, David Dinkins. That's the
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same thing they said about David.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Dinkins, right, our first black mayor.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Right. Read what they did to David, and then now
look at it's the same.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
To try to apply the same.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
They want to.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Make it seem like we can't manage complex cities. I'm
managing the hell out of the city.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
One of the things that you said that that was
interesting because I hear some of these things.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
It was that you inherited the city right there.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
Do you feel like people are giving you more flat
for the things that you already inherited?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Right?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Like some of the problems that was already here.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
You know, what's the interesting That's a great question when
people don't realize we inherited a mess and we just
sit back and say, okay, you know what was us No.
I came in and I said we're gonna turn the
city around. And people said, well, you're doing in five years, brother,
we did in two years. Two years. You know, you're
doing analysis of what I did and the most complex,
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biggest city in the country, right if not the globe
eight point three million, eight point three million people.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
People didn't think I can do it.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
They didn't think this urban, cuny, dyslexic mayor was going
to be able to come in and turn around. What
they didn't understand is that we've come from hard time.
MAMMI worked three jobs, you know, so hard rock means
nothing to me. Man. Mammy worked in the day, she
then did then did afternoon, and then she did the
late night shit. So working hard means nothing to me,
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you know. And I knew if you just come in
with the right team of people that were committed, we
could turn We turned the city around.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
You know, it's going to be interesting because even later
on there's a lot of things that are in the
works now that aren't going to come to fruition for years,
and so we don't know who at that point or
how long it's going to take, but we do know
there's a lot of developments that are in progress right now.
When it does come to affordable housing, and then when
it does come to building up the Marine in Brooklyn,
which is going to be really exciting for people in Redhuk.
(09:09):
My brother lives right there. And what you've been doing
in Hunt's Point, what you've.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Been doing in Willett's Point.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
In Queen's is going to be a soccer stadium, the
first stadium that's dedicated just for soccer, but alongside housing
as well. So there's a lot of different projects that
are in the works, and I want to make sure
we discuss that today because sometimes people want to see
things immediately and not recognizing, look, we're starting this, it's
a long negotiation period and then after that you have
to develop these things. So let's talk about what we
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do have in the works. That's some solutions of.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
That and what we like to call ourselves the finishes.
We've had major projects that continue to die. New York
City had become the graveyard where good ideas died and
we came in and we said, listen, man, we're going
to move these projects forward. They've been trying to develop
William's Point since I was a kid watching the Mets.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
We're finally gonna develop that whole area.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Twenty five hundred units of affordable housing, a brand new
soccer stadium that's privately funded, one hundred percent of affordable housing, a.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
New school, parks, a hotel, a hotel of I.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Think it's in Willis Point, which say stadium is wallows banded,
abandoned cars work. They've been trying to fix that for years.
They've never been a project that size in over forty years.
And when you were just talking about the Brooklyn Marine Terminal,
we just announced yesterday with the governor, we're gonna change
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that into we're gonna still use port use, but you're
gonna build housing along the waterfront. We're gonna get to
community engaged, and these projects are gonna turn around faster
than people think.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Right then, we did the Kingsburg Armory.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Man, that place is a dream. They've been trying to
fix this for the longest. We came up right in
the Bronx, put the money involved, got Congressman s Feryard
engage UH to moving forward kIPS Bay. What we're doing
there about life sciences. So all of these projects that
people have been trying to do Governors Island, we've been
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able to land the land, the plane and get them done.
Staten Island, you know, we're developing that entire waterfront that's
their houses of thousands of using units of housing. My
sister Kamela Hanks as a counsel person. They're blown away.
People said, listen, this man has been on Staten Island
talking to people, engaging with people, not leaving any borrow
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behind the bronx the Staten Island, our community. But the
real story is what I always knew. You lift up Brownsville,
you can lift up the city.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
York.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
It's turning around, turning around, you know, turning around. You're
seeing decreasing crime, you're seeing employment. We did our first
jobs effort UH in Brownsville, rolling out in Brownfield.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
We're going into the crevices.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
You know one question that me and you talked about
it before, how are we doing with.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Police pro.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
How we're doing with the police in the hood? Man,
Like the interaction with the police in the hood. There
was a thing with it where people frisks and stuff
like that.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Where we at with that right now?
Speaker 5 (12:27):
When I fought again stopping frists, and I just I
love it when people who were not around during the
difficult times, you know, I cut my teeth on testifying
in federal court about stopping frists to judge ruled against
the police department and cited my testimony on why she ruled.
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We fought one hundred blacks and law enforcement. We were
we were seeing almost a million stops a year of
black and brown people. The numbers now are down to
like sixteen thousand because we said, you stopping everybody, everybody
that you see, you're going to have precision policing and
have a reason. So someone calls you if someone is
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in your block and you say, listen, hey, popo, so
and so is standing in front of my in front
of my door and I see a butt of the gun,
Imagine that cops saying I can't, I'm not gonna go
and cuss. Question I got you know, So we were
abusing it. Now you're using the tool and not abuse
the too. We went from almost a million stops out
to sixteen thousand. As a significant a decrease, and we
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still got to get better. We got to make sure
that we are not because they're those that are going
to abuse or to no matter what what profession you in,
but you gotta have the systems in place to identify
those who are are suitable to be cops.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Number one.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Number two, we gotta start recruiting some of these young brothers. Man,
they're smart, they're intelligent. They you know, you see some
of these young brothers and sisters coming on the force. Now,
they are not only doing the policing and they're off hours,
they're volunteering, they're starting organization. They're doing prom dresses, giveaway
like some of the stuff you've done with some of
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our cops. They're doing meetings, they're doing baby showers, you know,
to give young parents, you know, the items that they
need because they came from that.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Abusive should be community policing, Yes, yes, yes, way more.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Even when you go to marches and you see the
police there and they're just interacting in a friendly manner, Yes,
you know, those things are important. I know a lot
of the police I've done. I did ya, Angela say
that publicly, but I do try to make sure that
we have like good interactions. And the other thing I
want to talk about is the police academy because I
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saw that there's going to be a different type of
training that's happening now. So can you discuss what's happening
with the police academy Phil Banks?
Speaker 5 (14:46):
I did deputy mayor of Phil Banks Uh, he was
the former chief of department, and he told me last year,
he says, Eric, we should be training everyone on a
law enforcement campus department correction pro New York City Police Department,
instead of separating and making one group feel that better
than the other, one campus where they're all learning from
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each other. How do we collaborate together and how do
we utilize information together?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
It's take a Montissouri police academy, right, and what.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
It is, you know, it was a brilliant idea on
his part, and we're gonna, we're gonna we're going to
kick it off and it's just gonna just create a
better synergy that we're not going to have, you know,
a cast system of policing that the police's best probation.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Is no good correction, it's no good no.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
It was all public safety and all needs to be
treated accountable and hats off to him.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
He gave me the idea and we're gonna move forward.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
And then as far as mental health awareness and mental
health programming, I know that's something big that right now
we're talking about budgets for that and trying to figure
out with some transparency what's happening with that, because like
we always say, we want to make sure that people
don't end up going to jail that should be getting treatment,
and we want to do preventive of things, and that's
always important.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Said well said, and here's the issue. This is what happened,
and a lot of people don't want.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
To deal with.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Advocates advocated to close psychiatric wards. This was years ago
because of what happened in many psy psychiatric wards. The
behavior was abusive, not proper care. People were left unkept,
so they all advocated to close down the wards. People
were sent out without the support system, so they went
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in the streets. Some people are dealing with severe mental
health issues.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
And they can't take care of themselves.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Now you have them in the streets and we see
them on the street, ambulance is called. We take them
to the hospital, give them medication to day they go
back to the streets until they do something like punch
someone in the faith.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Right, then what's the committed crime? What do we do?
The rightings? Brother?
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Fifty four percent of the people that riker is out
of them have mental health issues.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
So we close the psych wards.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
But what do we do and then keep the jails open?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
We turn the psyche board into rikings.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Right, you put everybody there, right, so we should be
we should be the difference.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Right, we should well, this city should do And this
is what I'm calling for them to do, and I
want the city.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Council to understand it.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
We should open a state of the art quality psychiatric facility.
One will you do aroma therapy? Will you give people meditation?
Will you get people to eat?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Right?
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Will you identify? You know, building community? But we could
create a psychiatric ward that we don't have to go
to the extreme. But the extreme can't be abusing people.
And then the other extreme is throwing them on the
streets and put them in rankings.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Let's find that medium.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Let's sits invest in some healthcare professionals, that's what they do,
and we have facilities that are available that treat them
like human beings that can actually help with that situation.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
So you're not sending people back.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
In the street.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
And you know how many you know how many people
have loved ones and family members and their family that
are going through severe mental health issues and they will
call up and there's no real place to give them
the care.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
No one must have to call the cops for that
because you get too small.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
A set of people, like an agency that you can call.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
And they do have a lot of profits that not
just the.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Cops, because the cops are not trained to deal with
mental health.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Right, they watch their train but believe it or not,
that uniform could trigger it off. You know that people
see the police and all of a sudden they could
get agitated.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
That's why you want a civilian population to do this.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
But you need a facility. Some people need long term care.
It can't be something that you're in for a day.
Get medicine and stabilized.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
No, you got to you have nowhere where they can go.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Exactly, so everybody for a city council to say, okay,
this is the budget that we have or something like this,
is this something possible as a solution this what's going on?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
We have to close Rikers Island.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
The law said by twenty two seven and build four
more jails, one in each borough except for stand out.
It's when you close the riichers, the population that to
fill those four jails, your two thousand short, so two
thousand people you don't have a place for.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
And when I'm.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Asking the city council to consider, let's take one of
those jails and instead of building another jail, let's build
a state of the art.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Facility, because proportionately so many people do need help.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Said, this is what I'm saying, actually mental mental.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Issues, right, and so I think we could build something
we could all be proud of where if a person
it's not a crime to have a a severe mental
health issuy, right, it's a crime not to give them
what they need during that difficult time. And you know,
you know, I'm pretty sure we're all seeing it. A
lot of a lot of our young folks man coming
through COVID, man people, COVID took something out a lot
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of you know.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Because we talked about this before, like and even with
the drill wrap thing, what are we doing for the
for the for these young kids that are eleven twelve
coming from our communities and may not be coming from.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
The best you know, home situations.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
You know, father might be dead or locked up, mother
on drugs, and they looking to get into gangs.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Like what are the.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Preventative measures that we're taking, you know, to not have
them fall victim to the.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Game certain portant and you know, it's so interesting I'm
reading I'm reading fifty cents book right now. You talk
about losing his mother, you know from from you know,
his mother was was slinging and then when she got killed,
he went out And how that traumatize a lot of
our young people traumatized you know in fact, and we
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have to we have to identify that trauma. We need
to give them the sisters that they that they need
and have to off to Commissioner Howard Over at dyc D.
We have been having these conversations with young people. We
pull more more money into our summarizing program and get
year round program.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
We've been really leaning into Force the Care children. Uh.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
We know sixty seven hundred of them age out every year.
We know the problem that they have. With our support,
we're paying college tuition now for all ab out Force
to Care children desire and giving them a stiphen and
they're enrolling into college at a higher level. We're also
doing justice involved young people just as involved. We're putting
them on an employment path because if we don't go
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after them, as you said, if we don't start early, got.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Early, because they need outlets. Because I was that like
I was, I was, you know, my mother, my father
was on drugs. My mother was trying to figure it out.
You know, we was delving into crime very early. So
it's always about what can you do Early's right.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I think the programs and all investing in programs that
already now who are.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Already got to be effective. You gotta be we gotta
be effective.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
What has been happened happening is that poverty has become
too profitable for people, and we've been just pouring money
into programs and people just saying they have a program,
like what's your effective turnaround? This brother on Rykas Island,
when I got baptized on right a Island with your
inmates a couple of months ago, is through this. There's
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a brother there. His organization is called uh Fatherless No More?
Or my girl, Uh what's her name? Camella's wife, She's
gonna kill me Caamella Anthony's sorry, La, but Lalla has
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been doing this program on Right Island. A lot of
people don't even.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Know about that.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
We've had we talked about that, but that's nothing I'm doing.
I just went up there because I was there. I
spent so much time there, and so we're trying to
figure out what more I could be doing. Because my
voice is different because I was really there. I really
turned eighteen there. I was really a private kid. I
was really getting in trouble, I was really catching new
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charges there.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
I was really I really went up no off from there.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
So you know, I'm trying to figure out what more
I can do in that area to kind of give
them some incentive, some motivation, you know, because these kids,
that's every one of them is not going up north
for fifteen to twenty years.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Some of them are coming out.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Right And what are you going to do when you
get out, because you got a whole another shot to
change the trajectory of your life.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
So what we need.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
We don't need folks that don't have that narrative to
be talking about how you're going to be saving people
who are there. I need folks like you and LiLine
and brother from father fatherless no more to say, here's
the program, because we're spending millions of dollars. Man, we
were spending like thirteen million dollars. We spend millions of dollars.
You going up there, just use your sweat equity. But no,
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why aren't we allocated resources to a program that you're
aware of when you could train young soldiers to go
in that have gone through the system, can go in
and help these brothers. Don't continue to go through the
system because brothers don't want to keep going through this system.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
And even coming home, not being able to find work, not.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Knowing what to do right, not having out it's the outlets,
it's the information. It's not knowing what to do with themselves.
It's trying to figure it out, you know. So we
always caught up in this world when and what we
should do and what we need to do because we're.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Hungry, that's right.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
And you know what, listen, man, people gotta eat. That's
the fact they're gonna do that.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
And they always come back to that, right, I gotta
do what I gotta do it, you know what, You
know what.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Else who else got to do what they gotta do
to eat rats? And I want to talk about and
I want to talk about this rat summit that you're doing.
This is the first time something like this has happened.
So is this like a party in convention for rats?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
What is this?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Listen? I hate rats.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
We all do all kinds of them.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Yeah, but the move is we identify. I got Catherine Karate,
who's my rats? Are we identified? Probably right? But we
we have a decreased city wide and rat complaints. We
have a decrease in rat mitigation areas. We have large
rat issues. We knew that the problem is containerizeding our
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garbage as long as you have those stupid ass plastic
bags on the street because they're supposed to.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
That's candy to rats.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
So we're first to containerized all of our food service businesses.
Then we went to containerize our chain stores. Now we
can containerize one to nine apartments.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
In the next few months, we're gonna have complete containerization
in the city.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
The people say it's gonna take five years. I say, like,
hell it is.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
We're gonna do it about two years and six seven months.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
But we're going to be other cities.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
I was just in Rome and they're like, plastic bags,
what's wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (26:15):
It does feel crazy.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Nobody else got rat pos like we do something.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
One reason I love the fact that I am no
longer doing morning radio is because in the morning them
rats room free when it's darker.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Trust coming out the studio five in the morning, it's
like I.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Make a lot of noise when I come at because
I'm like I need them to scatter here.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
Yeah, you know it was deep, like people were saying,
you know, well, why do you why do you focus
on this right issue?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Nothing could traumatize your life?
Speaker 5 (26:45):
And imagine early in the morning, you live with your
toilet seat and you see Ben popping out.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
You were never.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Not the same way. You're never going back in there
the same way. Every like on in the house is
coming on before you go to that bath. You're making noise,
you got your room playing music like everything like.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
That's not zero, it's.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
League and you know you want to enjoy your community
and where we're really getting there?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Man, is it working though, Like it's it's less rats,
the complaints down.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I haven't seen it as bad.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I don't know what it's gonna be like in the summer,
but it's it's definitely something that I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I am not mad at it at all.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
I was saying that I'll be in lower east Side
on Clinton Street, and I'm talking they had they got
a real rat problem downtown. I must have seen seventy
five rats under this this ben one day. But lately
I'm like, man, I.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Ain't been seeing that many. Ye might be speaking to.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
You know, controlled on me and say, you know, a
rap to have right to what you're doing. You know
they have a right to live.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Nobody said, I don't believe somebody said that.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Google, How do you see that's the thing. How do
you deal with that?
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Everybody has a perspective, everybody has an argument. Everybody feels
like here, wade to do this.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
That's why we have I think you have to know
that comes with the job.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Yeah, how you managed that?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
How you manage that day? They point three million people,
thirty five million opinions?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Is it what you expected? Let me ask you this, like,
that's a great question.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
This is what you thought it would be like becoming
mayor because you were in Brooklyn Borough president and you know,
police department starts and all of that, But then becoming
the mayor is a whole different.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Beating the most important city on the globe. Yeah, you know,
we need to really yes, yes, And let.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Me tell you something. You know, Mommy said to me
when she was alive. She said, baby, you spent thirty
five years to do what you're about to do. Don't
get to the top of the mountain and complain about
the view.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
You know, no matter what happens, the City of New
York could never say the number one ten without saying
Eric was the mayor. You know, And there are days
when you know, it's challenging, but I know a billion
people would love to change to ee places.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
To me, I'm able to impact the lives of people.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
You know, this city has abandoned people in general, but
specifically black and brown people, and I can make these changes.
I'm not going to change everything in my time as mayor,
but you're going to see a different city. And knowing
that the stuff I'm putting in the pipeline and the
stuff I'm dressing now that is going to impact us.
And so folks like my mom that had to do
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those three jobs, that their lives are going to be different.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
You know.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
So every day I wake up and you know, and
I wake up, I meditate, I pray, you know, do
my breathing exercises. I thank God, you know, God allowed me.
You know, think about brothers. This is all gravy right now.
You know about where you.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Were, you've been. You are right now.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
Man. Every when you when you when you look at
it like that, it looks all easier. It's right, right,
because we're gonna have days, that's man. But at the
end of the day, we know what we've been through,
right and right, and and it gives us the setting
to keep pushing without.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Then you know, other leaders also have the same problems.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Now when you went to Rome, because you brought that
up earlier, and so there were certain things that they're
doing when they're handling like what's happening with migrants there,
and you were praising some of the systems that they
have in place.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
So what were some things that you bring back?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Biggest thing?
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Biggest thing was that you come coming from all over
the continent and particular a lot of brothers are coming
from Africa, West Africa and other parts that in two
months they're teaching you Italian and they're putting you on
a plant pathway for employment. You know here you could
be waiting for two years. It's unfathomable to me. That
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people are saying that it's realistic for someone to wait
a year, two years to rank.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
That's just that makes any sense. Now.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
I tell people all the time that you know, people
talk about people from South America, Central America, from West Africa.
We have a Ukrainian population that's also microsine the simum secrets.
We don't even hear about that because able to write.
So if you could work from Ukraine, why can't you
work from Ecuador?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Color that they had the biggest issue with.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I always say that too, because we that's not the
only people that are here that are trying to get citizenship,
and they're from all over And you know what else
I wanted to ask you about.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
We got to clear this up.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
The swimming situation. So Mayo said he's a great swimmer,
He's willing to be.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
A lifeguard if necessary.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Yeah, we don't get some lessons though.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
But I want to clarify that because that was a
bigger statement that was at a press conference, and that
kind of goes along with the lines of what you're
talking about right now, but it became a huge headline
that people ask knew this question, like what did you
mean when you said.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
You know, they said it was racist.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
But I want you now to first of all, I
ignore all that noise in the in the sentence police
they you know, the bottom line is there's a body
of people who sit out there every day. They're in
the Eric Hades cheering session that no section, no matter
what I say, they're gonna try to blow it up.
Look when I haven't made making it clear over and
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over again that there are jobs that are open. And
if you look at the whole comment I made, I said,
we have people who are minus in Simon seekers who
are healthcare professional nurses. We need nurses. We have people
who are food service workers. We need food service workers.
We have a shortage in lifeguards. We have those who
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know how to swim. When I go to my hurts, like.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
When we hold people, and because I'm saying to myself
what jobs we out of there here? How many of
you are swimmings? Hands go out. I need lifeguards. We
don't have beaches, hoturis are being short. We have life guard.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
So we have people who are capable of swimming, and
we don't even want to hire them because they can't work.
Now people say, well, you know you talk about South
Americans are automatically swimming, no food.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
We got people from West Africa? What's wrong with you?
You know what I'm saying. They wanted to turn their
little minds turn it into oh, you're talking.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
About South America. No, I got populations coming from West Africa.
I got populations coming from Ecuador. Now what's interesting everyone
is complaining about it? Have they been to the Dairien Gap?
Speaker 3 (33:32):
I have? Have they been to Ecuador to see what
people are going through? Have they been to Columbia?
Speaker 5 (33:37):
I have? So get off the sidelines and stop playing
the road police and get your ass.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Down here and solve these problems.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
You know.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
So if I get caught up on everyone that say, well,
you know what, we don't like the way Eric said
the centus, I'm won't get an done. I'm an authentic
urban mayor and there's never gonna be another mayor that's
going to be afraid to be authentic again.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
And because they saw how successful I have.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
You know what I wanted to ask you to a
couple of years ago, we were talking about cryptocurrency and
that was such a big deal and it hasn't been
in a conversation so much lately, but we see how
bitcoin has rebounded and the future of that after people
were very nervous about it. And I remember at one
point you were going to take your salary for a
month or however long it was in crypto currency.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
So what do you think about New York City and
the future of crypto?
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Well, I don't know who shiit the song, but how
you like me? Now?
Speaker 5 (34:28):
You know took my first three pay chests in crypto.
People were laughing at me. Oh yeah, where's your money?
Speaker 6 (34:35):
Now?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Let's see it'll come back right now. Look at how
it has recovered.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
I think the scandal around some of these crypto incidents
caused people to get some interrepidation, but there's bounced back.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
My investment looks.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
Very well and I think that people like it or not, Crypto,
blockchain and others is going to be part of our society. Listen,
we transitioned through the years. At one time we were
just trading one cow to your cow. Then we went
to another form of currency. Then we went to the
gold bars. You know, currency has transformed. It's not going
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to always stay here. You're gonna people are going to
go to cyber Wallace in some part of Central America.
Figure right, they use points systems. People, there's going to
be different forms of payment, and it's not it's not
comfortable for a lot of people, but it's the reality.
But my investment in crypto turned out to be a
w And.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
You know what's speaking of money casinos, you know, there's
been talk about different locations for casinos in New York
and can't let you get out of here without discussing,
like what's going on with these talks. I know, of
course with you know, with local communities, some people don't
want that, that don't like that, and then some people
are all for it, obviously, So there's I believe there
were three different places locations in Manhattan that they were
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talking about actually through in the in the city.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
There's a place in the broad Uh Valley's there's a
place in Mintown, Manhattan Square, there's a couple of different
locations Queens. There's another location for this point. So now
they're going through the process of deciding where. You know,
many people don't know. I was a chair of Racing
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and Gamement for the State of New York. I was
the first black chair of Racing and Racing and Game
year and casinos bring jobs of tourism. It's a real
economic boost. Anyone that's familiar with with their doing out
in queens at U a g Spot, Genten spot, they
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have a whole lot of jobs. They change, they're ready
to build housing or that on Aqua dot Acua dot
was almost a wasteful you know. And so wherever it goes,
it's going to be economic boosts. I just wanted in
one place in New York. Uh, we get to in
New York. I'm happy for it.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
It's going to go through the process locally involvement, but
we need to get it done.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
All right, Well that's a lot, and I know you're
gonna be bad because every day there's a new I
was saying up here before you got here, I was like,
Mayor Eric Adams is the most talked about mayor nationally.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
Outside you know what, you won't see him on the
news and you won't see him outside.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Last people need to know his son is a rapper,
yeah j He goes under.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
The name j O and he's bringing like his own creativity.
He's doing a movie with wrap inside the movie.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
You know. Yeah, you know. I asked him.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
I asked him the other day, I said, you know,
I said, listen, Jordan, you know you can hold when
you get married?
Speaker 3 (37:45):
He said, after you can?
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
I like that.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
Yeah. Yeah, we all here, we're all trying to figure
it out.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
We're trying to figure it.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Out for real.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
Man, are you the one?
Speaker 1 (38:09):
You never know?
Speaker 6 (38:11):
Man?
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Well, we could do a reality shout.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
I'm not doing that one no more. I'm doing this
almost every day with her. And I got another one
that I'm working on. It's called back talk. Back of
the back back talk we did.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
Yeah, definitely, yeah that you good.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Times.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
I went down to Florida.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Drink drink chances. I saw that Norm actually hit me too.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
I was in l A and I was supposed to
film myself asking you a question, but I was running
around and get a chance.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Jersey. It's not the same.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
But you gotta stop.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
This ain't got nothing to do with La and Miami.
You gotta stop.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
I'm Brooklyn. I'm Brooklyn all day.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Baby.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
You just got back there.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
You just got it. Yeah, you just got back there. Baby,
stopped playing with me saying you always love you, love you,
love you.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Definitely wo
What's up?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
His way up with angela, Ye, I'm here, my guy,
Maino's here, okay, And as promised, Mayor Eric Adams is
back in the building.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
I feel like it's my birthday with Mayno's.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Good to see you.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
And let me let me tell you. You know, this
brother is so authentic.
Speaker 5 (00:25):
We we there was an issue around drill rappers where
the music is not wasn't the issue.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It was the the fighting online that was turning into
loss of lives.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I remember them, you were saying the video.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Exactly, you know, and Mayo hit me and he says, Eric, listen,
I want to bring drill rappers to City Hall.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
And we met that night, you know, brought a whole
crew and brothers that and that rolled up in there.
Security was like, wait, what was going on? I got
to fall back. No. I wanted.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
I wanted them to have an opportunity to talk to
the mayor, you know, because if if, if we're going
to have a conversation, a real conversation about drill rap,
then it needed to be with real.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Drill rap artists, right so that we can hear both sides.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
So everybody can see what the other.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
Is, what it comes from, what the what the energy is,
what the feeling, what the loss and the pain is.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
So you know, we set it up and we had
a good meeting.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
It was and you know what it was is that
the media was making it appear as though that here
it is you have a mayor that listened to rap
is attacking drill rappers.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
But when Mayo brought us everybody in the room, they
started to say.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Wait a minute, that's not what was rewarded, right, And
that is what's happening to us. Man.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
People are like in the middle of our family.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Conversations and we kind of do that catch like you
that has that street credibility, and you say, I can
pick up I can hit Eric anytime you need to.
I know that's a lot to drop on your shoulders,
but we need brothers like you to like say, let's
get everybody in the room.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
We could. We should be heading on our business and
not other people. We should.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
We should. I believe that we should.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
We should be able to get in the room, do
dinners and and and really talk about things in a
real way.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
And you know what I would say, because you'll get
criticism for being out and about, but I also on
the flip side of that.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I always tell people, at least you can hit up
the mayor.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Running to him, stop and talk to him every want
to say something crazy.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
He's still gonna accessibility that we didn't have before.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Right that I like, right right?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
And even the way you use you know, your shows
to and what you've always done in the community, wh
do the juice bar just being on the ground. So
with folks, people don't realize being the mayor of what
my goal is and people think that's just like one goal.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
No, it's not one goal. You know.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
I need I'm an urban mayor and I I need
people to know that you can be your authentic self.
I don't have to all of a sudden walk around
and act like, well I can't do this.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I can't hang.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Out on Fulton Street, you know, because I'm the man now,
you know. No, I'm trying to break these models. Now,
if I just broke those models and didn't produce, then
people will say, well, you can't produce.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
No. I inherit the city that employment was through.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
The Black unemployment was four times the level of white unemployment.
Crime was soaring. No jobs wanted to come here. Independent
financial experts did not want to invest in our city.
Our children wasn't learning. Two years later, more jobs we
have now brother in the history of the city. Black
unemployment has been cut in half for the first time
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since twenty nineteen is under.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Eight percent.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
We're out pacing the state and reading and writing with
our children in school. Double digit decrease in homicide shootings.
The independent financial experts at cities and say you're invest
in them, They raised my standard, my bond ratings, and
say this guy has mattered.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
You the hell. You know.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
It's interesting all of those things because when you inherited
this city, it was COVID and so people they were like, no,
everyone was leaving. And I remember, real estate wise, that
would have been a great time because people were getting
the most amazing deals back then. But I always felt
like New York is always going to be a place
that people are going to come to. At that time,
maybe people felt like this is the end of the world.
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They couldn't see what was going to happen. But even
in the midst of all that, for some reason, it's
not connecting in some situations, right, Like they'll talk about
approval ratings and they'll say the approval ratings are really low.
But then when you can look at the numbers, like
you said, with crime being down the way that it is,
with unemployment being down, all of those things happening with
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you know, small businesses getting the support that they haven't gotten.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
It was an opportunity fund.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I was just at Gracie Mansion. Mayor Eric Adams actually
had an event that was there. What was that event calls?
It was spotted by your MWBE.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Right right right, Michael Gardner. We're putting billions of dollars
in MWBE. We certified nineteen hundred businesses and I just
opened Gracie.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
To young, black and brown serge viewers so they can't
connect with everyone.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
It was a party. I didn't expect that, you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
And the energy was just like unbelievable, and we're gon
we're gonna do more of them. But the move is
people played because people were angry. Man, when you got
one hundred and ninety four thousand migrs in asylum, see,
because that came into the city.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
You know, folks was like saying, what about us? You
know what I'm saying. So people all that anger came
out of nowhere.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
But people didn't realize that. Listen, brother, I can't stop
these busses from coming in. Man, that the federal law
is telling me. You have no choice. You know, I
can't give people work authorization. I can't give people, you know,
the opportunity that deser group. And so if you don't
look through the weeds, you automatically say, well, Eric is
you know, he's giving everything, the whole city away.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
It's like, man, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 6 (06:07):
That's what that's That's some of the sentiment where people
feeling like, oh, man, the migrants come in and get
more than.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
We are, right, you know, so what? What? How?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
How do you how do you address that?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Well?
Speaker 5 (06:18):
First, you know, I'll never forget that when the first
we got the first flow of migros that came in,
I took a bus one night over to when we
opened a tent up on Random's eyland. I took the
bus because the only one bus goes through the randoms
and there's a homeless shelter there. And the brother stopped me.
He's like, you know, man, you're giving these microses everything.
Give him that tent. You know what, I'm here in this,
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in this, in this shelter, I said, brother, you're not
saying there. I said, come on aware, but you can
sleep in this tent, on this cot, in this outside bathroom,
in this outside shot or you know. And he walked
over his shawd.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
He's like, yo, I'm going back into my slide. You
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
So people bought the headlines and not realizing they they
sold them a bill of goods man and they you
go back Maino and you look at Okay, he hangs
out all the time, he dresses too fancy. He can't
manage your system. Not Eric Adams, David Dinkins. That's the
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same thing they said about David.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Dinkins, right, our first black mayor.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Right. Read what they did to David, and then now
look at it's the same.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
To try to apply the same.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
They want to.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Make it seem like we can't manage complex cities. I'm
managing the hell out of the city.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
One of the things that you said that that was
interesting because I hear some of these things.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
It was that you inherited the city right there.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
Do you feel like people are giving you more flat
for the things that you already inherited?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Right?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Like some of the problems that was already here.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
You know, what's the interesting That's a great question when
people don't realize we inherited a mess and we just
sit back and say, okay, you know what was us No.
I came in and I said we're gonna turn the
city around. And people said, well, you're doing in five years, brother,
we did in two years. Two years. You know, you're
doing analysis of what I did and the most complex,
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biggest city in the country, right if not the globe
eight point three million, eight point three million people.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
People didn't think I can do it.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
They didn't think this urban, cuny, dyslexic mayor was going
to be able to come in and turn around. What
they didn't understand is that we've come from hard time.
MAMMI worked three jobs, you know, so hard rock means
nothing to me. Man. Mammy worked in the day, she
then did then did afternoon, and then she did the
late night shit. So working hard means nothing to me,
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you know. And I knew if you just come in
with the right team of people that were committed, we
could turn We turned the city around.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
You know, it's going to be interesting because even later
on there's a lot of things that are in the
works now that aren't going to come to fruition for years,
and so we don't know who at that point or
how long it's going to take, but we do know
there's a lot of developments that are in progress right now.
When it does come to affordable housing, and then when
it does come to building up the Marine in Brooklyn,
which is going to be really exciting for people in Redhuk.
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My brother lives right there. And what you've been doing
in Hunt's Point, what you've.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Been doing in Willett's Point.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
In Queen's is going to be a soccer stadium, the
first stadium that's dedicated just for soccer, but alongside housing
as well. So there's a lot of different projects that
are in the works, and I want to make sure
we discuss that today because sometimes people want to see
things immediately and not recognizing, look, we're starting this, it's
a long negotiation period and then after that you have
to develop these things. So let's talk about what we
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do have in the works. That's some solutions of.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
That and what we like to call ourselves the finishes.
We've had major projects that continue to die. New York
City had become the graveyard where good ideas died and
we came in and we said, listen, man, we're going
to move these projects forward. They've been trying to develop
William's Point since I was a kid watching the Mets.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
We're finally gonna develop that whole area.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Twenty five hundred units of affordable housing, a brand new
soccer stadium that's privately funded, one hundred percent of affordable housing, a.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
New school, parks, a hotel, a hotel of I.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Think it's in Willis Point, which say stadium is wallows banded,
abandoned cars work. They've been trying to fix that for years.
They've never been a project that size in over forty years.
And when you were just talking about the Brooklyn Marine Terminal,
we just announced yesterday with the governor, we're gonna change
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that into we're gonna still use port use, but you're
gonna build housing along the waterfront. We're gonna get to
community engaged, and these projects are gonna turn around faster
than people think.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Right then, we did the Kingsburg Armory.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Man, that place is a dream. They've been trying to
fix this for the longest. We came up right in
the Bronx, put the money involved, got Congressman s Feryard
engage UH to moving forward kIPS Bay. What we're doing
there about life sciences. So all of these projects that
people have been trying to do Governors Island, we've been
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able to land the land, the plane and get them done.
Staten Island, you know, we're developing that entire waterfront that's
their houses of thousands of using units of housing. My
sister Kamela Hanks as a counsel person. They're blown away.
People said, listen, this man has been on Staten Island
talking to people, engaging with people, not leaving any borrow
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behind the bronx the Staten Island, our community. But the
real story is what I always knew. You lift up Brownsville,
you can lift up the city.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
York.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
It's turning around, turning around, you know, turning around. You're
seeing decreasing crime, you're seeing employment. We did our first
jobs effort UH in Brownsville, rolling out in Brownfield.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
We're going into the crevices.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
You know one question that me and you talked about
it before, how are we doing with.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Police pro.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
How we're doing with the police in the hood? Man,
Like the interaction with the police in the hood. There
was a thing with it where people frisks and stuff
like that.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Where we at with that right now?
Speaker 5 (12:27):
When I fought again stopping frists, and I just I
love it when people who were not around during the
difficult times, you know, I cut my teeth on testifying
in federal court about stopping frists to judge ruled against
the police department and cited my testimony on why she ruled.
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We fought one hundred blacks and law enforcement. We were
we were seeing almost a million stops a year of
black and brown people. The numbers now are down to
like sixteen thousand because we said, you stopping everybody, everybody
that you see, you're going to have precision policing and
have a reason. So someone calls you if someone is
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in your block and you say, listen, hey, popo, so
and so is standing in front of my in front
of my door and I see a butt of the gun,
Imagine that cops saying I can't, I'm not gonna go
and cuss. Question I got you know, So we were
abusing it. Now you're using the tool and not abuse
the too. We went from almost a million stops out
to sixteen thousand. As a significant a decrease, and we
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still got to get better. We got to make sure
that we are not because they're those that are going
to abuse or to no matter what what profession you in,
but you gotta have the systems in place to identify
those who are are suitable to be cops.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Number one.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Number two, we gotta start recruiting some of these young brothers. Man,
they're smart, they're intelligent. They you know, you see some
of these young brothers and sisters coming on the force. Now,
they are not only doing the policing and they're off hours,
they're volunteering, they're starting organization. They're doing prom dresses, giveaway
like some of the stuff you've done with some of
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our cops. They're doing meetings, they're doing baby showers, you know,
to give young parents, you know, the items that they
need because they came from that.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Abusive should be community policing, Yes, yes, yes, way more.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Even when you go to marches and you see the
police there and they're just interacting in a friendly manner, Yes,
you know, those things are important. I know a lot
of the police I've done. I did ya, Angela say
that publicly, but I do try to make sure that
we have like good interactions. And the other thing I
want to talk about is the police academy because I
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saw that there's going to be a different type of
training that's happening now. So can you discuss what's happening
with the police academy Phil Banks?
Speaker 5 (14:46):
I did deputy mayor of Phil Banks Uh, he was
the former chief of department, and he told me last year,
he says, Eric, we should be training everyone on a
law enforcement campus department correction pro New York City Police Department,
instead of separating and making one group feel that better
than the other, one campus where they're all learning from
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each other. How do we collaborate together and how do
we utilize information together?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
It's take a Montissouri police academy, right, and what.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
It is, you know, it was a brilliant idea on
his part, and we're gonna, we're gonna we're going to
kick it off and it's just gonna just create a
better synergy that we're not going to have, you know,
a cast system of policing that the police's best probation.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Is no good correction, it's no good no.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
It was all public safety and all needs to be
treated accountable and hats off to him.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
He gave me the idea and we're gonna move forward.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
And then as far as mental health awareness and mental
health programming, I know that's something big that right now
we're talking about budgets for that and trying to figure
out with some transparency what's happening with that, because like
we always say, we want to make sure that people
don't end up going to jail that should be getting treatment,
and we want to do preventive of things, and that's
always important.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Said well said, and here's the issue. This is what happened,
and a lot of people don't want.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
To deal with.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Advocates advocated to close psychiatric wards. This was years ago
because of what happened in many psy psychiatric wards. The
behavior was abusive, not proper care. People were left unkept,
so they all advocated to close down the wards. People
were sent out without the support system, so they went
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in the streets. Some people are dealing with severe mental
health issues.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
And they can't take care of themselves.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Now you have them in the streets and we see
them on the street, ambulance is called. We take them
to the hospital, give them medication to day they go
back to the streets until they do something like punch
someone in the faith.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Right, then what's the committed crime? What do we do?
The rightings? Brother?
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Fifty four percent of the people that riker is out
of them have mental health issues.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
So we close the psych wards.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
But what do we do and then keep the jails open?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
We turn the psyche board into rikings.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Right, you put everybody there, right, so we should be
we should be the difference.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Right, we should well, this city should do And this
is what I'm calling for them to do, and I
want the city.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Council to understand it.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
We should open a state of the art quality psychiatric facility.
One will you do aroma therapy? Will you give people meditation?
Will you get people to eat?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Right?
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Will you identify? You know, building community? But we could
create a psychiatric ward that we don't have to go
to the extreme. But the extreme can't be abusing people.
And then the other extreme is throwing them on the
streets and put them in rankings.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Let's find that medium.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Let's sits invest in some healthcare professionals, that's what they do,
and we have facilities that are available that treat them
like human beings that can actually help with that situation.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
So you're not sending people back.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
In the street.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
And you know how many you know how many people
have loved ones and family members and their family that
are going through severe mental health issues and they will
call up and there's no real place to give them
the care.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
No one must have to call the cops for that
because you get too small.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
A set of people, like an agency that you can call.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
And they do have a lot of profits that not
just the.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Cops, because the cops are not trained to deal with
mental health.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Right, they watch their train but believe it or not,
that uniform could trigger it off. You know that people
see the police and all of a sudden they could
get agitated.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
That's why you want a civilian population to do this.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
But you need a facility. Some people need long term care.
It can't be something that you're in for a day.
Get medicine and stabilized.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
No, you got to you have nowhere where they can go.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Exactly, so everybody for a city council to say, okay,
this is the budget that we have or something like this,
is this something possible as a solution this what's going on?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
We have to close Rikers Island.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
The law said by twenty two seven and build four
more jails, one in each borough except for stand out.
It's when you close the riichers, the population that to
fill those four jails, your two thousand short, so two
thousand people you don't have a place for.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
And when I'm.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Asking the city council to consider, let's take one of
those jails and instead of building another jail, let's build
a state of the art.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Facility, because proportionately so many people do need help.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Said, this is what I'm saying, actually mental mental.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Issues, right, and so I think we could build something
we could all be proud of where if a person
it's not a crime to have a a severe mental
health issuy, right, it's a crime not to give them
what they need during that difficult time. And you know,
you know, I'm pretty sure we're all seeing it. A
lot of a lot of our young folks man coming
through COVID, man people, COVID took something out a lot
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of you know.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Because we talked about this before, like and even with
the drill wrap thing, what are we doing for the
for the for these young kids that are eleven twelve
coming from our communities and may not be coming from.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
The best you know, home situations.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
You know, father might be dead or locked up, mother
on drugs, and they looking to get into gangs.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Like what are the.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Preventative measures that we're taking, you know, to not have
them fall victim to the.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Game certain portant and you know, it's so interesting I'm
reading I'm reading fifty cents book right now. You talk
about losing his mother, you know from from you know,
his mother was was slinging and then when she got killed,
he went out And how that traumatize a lot of
our young people traumatized you know in fact, and we
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have to we have to identify that trauma. We need
to give them the sisters that they that they need
and have to off to Commissioner Howard Over at dyc D.
We have been having these conversations with young people. We
pull more more money into our summarizing program and get
year round program.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
We've been really leaning into Force the Care children. Uh.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
We know sixty seven hundred of them age out every year.
We know the problem that they have. With our support,
we're paying college tuition now for all ab out Force
to Care children desire and giving them a stiphen and
they're enrolling into college at a higher level. We're also
doing justice involved young people just as involved. We're putting
them on an employment path because if we don't go
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after them, as you said, if we don't start early, got.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Early, because they need outlets. Because I was that like
I was, I was, you know, my mother, my father
was on drugs. My mother was trying to figure it out.
You know, we was delving into crime very early. So
it's always about what can you do Early's right.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I think the programs and all investing in programs that
already now who are.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Already got to be effective. You gotta be we gotta
be effective.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
What has been happened happening is that poverty has become
too profitable for people, and we've been just pouring money
into programs and people just saying they have a program,
like what's your effective turnaround? This brother on Rykas Island,
when I got baptized on right a Island with your
inmates a couple of months ago, is through this. There's
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a brother there. His organization is called uh Fatherless No More?
Or my girl, Uh what's her name? Camella's wife, She's
gonna kill me Caamella Anthony's sorry, La, but Lalla has
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been doing this program on Right Island. A lot of
people don't even.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Know about that.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
We've had we talked about that, but that's nothing I'm doing.
I just went up there because I was there. I
spent so much time there, and so we're trying to
figure out what more I could be doing. Because my
voice is different because I was really there. I really
turned eighteen there. I was really a private kid. I
was really getting in trouble, I was really catching new
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charges there.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
I was really I really went up no off from there.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
So you know, I'm trying to figure out what more
I can do in that area to kind of give
them some incentive, some motivation, you know, because these kids,
that's every one of them is not going up north
for fifteen to twenty years.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Some of them are coming out.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Right And what are you going to do when you
get out, because you got a whole another shot to
change the trajectory of your life.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
So what we need.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
We don't need folks that don't have that narrative to
be talking about how you're going to be saving people
who are there. I need folks like you and LiLine
and brother from father fatherless no more to say, here's
the program, because we're spending millions of dollars. Man, we
were spending like thirteen million dollars. We spend millions of dollars.
You going up there, just use your sweat equity. But no,
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why aren't we allocated resources to a program that you're
aware of when you could train young soldiers to go
in that have gone through the system, can go in
and help these brothers. Don't continue to go through the
system because brothers don't want to keep going through this system.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
And even coming home, not being able to find work, not.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Knowing what to do right, not having out it's the outlets,
it's the information. It's not knowing what to do with themselves.
It's trying to figure it out, you know. So we
always caught up in this world when and what we
should do and what we need to do because we're.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Hungry, that's right.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
And you know what, listen, man, people gotta eat. That's
the fact they're gonna do that.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
And they always come back to that, right, I gotta
do what I gotta do it, you know what, You
know what.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Else who else got to do what they gotta do
to eat rats? And I want to talk about and
I want to talk about this rat summit that you're doing.
This is the first time something like this has happened.
So is this like a party in convention for rats?
Speaker 1 (25:03):
What is this?
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Listen? I hate rats.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
We all do all kinds of them.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Yeah, but the move is we identify. I got Catherine Karate,
who's my rats? Are we identified? Probably right? But we
we have a decreased city wide and rat complaints. We
have a decrease in rat mitigation areas. We have large
rat issues. We knew that the problem is containerizeding our
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garbage as long as you have those stupid ass plastic
bags on the street because they're supposed to.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
That's candy to rats.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
So we're first to containerized all of our food service businesses.
Then we went to containerize our chain stores. Now we
can containerize one to nine apartments.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
In the next few months, we're gonna have complete containerization
in the city.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
The people say it's gonna take five years. I say, like,
hell it is.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
We're gonna do it about two years and six seven months.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
But we're going to be other cities.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
I was just in Rome and they're like, plastic bags,
what's wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (26:15):
It does feel crazy.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Nobody else got rat pos like we do something.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
One reason I love the fact that I am no
longer doing morning radio is because in the morning them
rats room free when it's darker.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Trust coming out the studio five in the morning, it's
like I.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Make a lot of noise when I come at because
I'm like I need them to scatter here.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
Yeah, you know it was deep, like people were saying,
you know, well, why do you why do you focus
on this right issue?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Nothing could traumatize your life?
Speaker 5 (26:45):
And imagine early in the morning, you live with your
toilet seat and you see Ben popping out.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
You were never.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Not the same way. You're never going back in there
the same way. Every like on in the house is
coming on before you go to that bath. You're making noise,
you got your room playing music like everything like.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
That's not zero, it's.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
League and you know you want to enjoy your community
and where we're really getting there?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Man, is it working though, Like it's it's less rats,
the complaints down.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I haven't seen it as bad.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I don't know what it's gonna be like in the summer,
but it's it's definitely something that I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I am not mad at it at all.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
I was saying that I'll be in lower east Side
on Clinton Street, and I'm talking they had they got
a real rat problem downtown. I must have seen seventy
five rats under this this ben one day. But lately
I'm like, man, I.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Ain't been seeing that many. Ye might be speaking to.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
You know, controlled on me and say, you know, a
rap to have right to what you're doing. You know
they have a right to live.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Nobody said, I don't believe somebody said that.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Google, How do you see that's the thing. How do
you deal with that?
Speaker 6 (28:14):
Everybody has a perspective, everybody has an argument. Everybody feels
like here, wade to do this.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
That's why we have I think you have to know
that comes with the job.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Yeah, how you managed that?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
How you manage that day? They point three million people,
thirty five million opinions?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Is it what you expected? Let me ask you this, like,
that's a great question.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
This is what you thought it would be like becoming
mayor because you were in Brooklyn Borough president and you know,
police department starts and all of that, But then becoming
the mayor is a whole different.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Beating the most important city on the globe. Yeah, you know,
we need to really yes, yes, And let.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Me tell you something. You know, Mommy said to me
when she was alive. She said, baby, you spent thirty
five years to do what you're about to do. Don't
get to the top of the mountain and complain about
the view.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
You know, no matter what happens, the City of New
York could never say the number one ten without saying
Eric was the mayor. You know, And there are days
when you know, it's challenging, but I know a billion
people would love to change to ee places.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
To me, I'm able to impact the lives of people.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
You know, this city has abandoned people in general, but
specifically black and brown people, and I can make these changes.
I'm not going to change everything in my time as mayor,
but you're going to see a different city. And knowing
that the stuff I'm putting in the pipeline and the
stuff I'm dressing now that is going to impact us.
And so folks like my mom that had to do
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those three jobs, that their lives are going to be different.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
You know.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
So every day I wake up and you know, and
I wake up, I meditate, I pray, you know, do
my breathing exercises. I thank God, you know, God allowed me.
You know, think about brothers. This is all gravy right now.
You know about where you.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Were, you've been. You are right now.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
Man. Every when you when you when you look at
it like that, it looks all easier. It's right, right,
because we're gonna have days, that's man. But at the
end of the day, we know what we've been through,
right and right, and and it gives us the setting
to keep pushing without.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Then you know, other leaders also have the same problems.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Now when you went to Rome, because you brought that
up earlier, and so there were certain things that they're
doing when they're handling like what's happening with migrants there,
and you were praising some of the systems that they
have in place.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
So what were some things that you bring back?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Biggest thing?
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Biggest thing was that you come coming from all over
the continent and particular a lot of brothers are coming
from Africa, West Africa and other parts that in two
months they're teaching you Italian and they're putting you on
a plant pathway for employment. You know here you could
be waiting for two years. It's unfathomable to me. That
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people are saying that it's realistic for someone to wait
a year, two years to rank.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
That's just that makes any sense. Now.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
I tell people all the time that you know, people
talk about people from South America, Central America, from West Africa.
We have a Ukrainian population that's also microsine the simum secrets.
We don't even hear about that because able to write.
So if you could work from Ukraine, why can't you
work from Ecuador?
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Color that they had the biggest issue with.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I always say that too, because we that's not the
only people that are here that are trying to get citizenship,
and they're from all over And you know what else
I wanted to ask you about.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
We got to clear this up.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
The swimming situation. So Mayo said he's a great swimmer,
He's willing to be.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
A lifeguard if necessary.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Yeah, we don't get some lessons though.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
But I want to clarify that because that was a
bigger statement that was at a press conference, and that
kind of goes along with the lines of what you're
talking about right now, but it became a huge headline
that people ask knew this question, like what did you
mean when you said.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
You know, they said it was racist.
Speaker 5 (32:03):
But I want you now to first of all, I
ignore all that noise in the in the sentence police
they you know, the bottom line is there's a body
of people who sit out there every day. They're in
the Eric Hades cheering session that no section, no matter
what I say, they're gonna try to blow it up.
Look when I haven't made making it clear over and
(32:24):
over again that there are jobs that are open. And
if you look at the whole comment I made, I said,
we have people who are minus in Simon seekers who
are healthcare professional nurses. We need nurses. We have people
who are food service workers. We need food service workers.
We have a shortage in lifeguards. We have those who
(32:44):
know how to swim. When I go to my hurts, like.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
When we hold people, and because I'm saying to myself
what jobs we out of there here? How many of
you are swimmings? Hands go out. I need lifeguards. We
don't have beaches, hoturis are being short. We have life guard.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
So we have people who are capable of swimming, and
we don't even want to hire them because they can't work.
Now people say, well, you know you talk about South
Americans are automatically swimming, no food.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
We got people from West Africa? What's wrong with you?
You know what I'm saying. They wanted to turn their
little minds turn it into oh, you're talking.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
About South America. No, I got populations coming from West Africa.
I got populations coming from Ecuador. Now what's interesting everyone
is complaining about it? Have they been to the Dairien Gap?
Speaker 3 (33:32):
I have? Have they been to Ecuador to see what
people are going through? Have they been to Columbia?
Speaker 5 (33:37):
I have? So get off the sidelines and stop playing
the road police and get your ass.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Down here and solve these problems.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
You know.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
So if I get caught up on everyone that say, well,
you know what, we don't like the way Eric said
the centus, I'm won't get an done. I'm an authentic
urban mayor and there's never gonna be another mayor that's
going to be afraid to be authentic again.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
And because they saw how successful I have.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
You know what I wanted to ask you to a
couple of years ago, we were talking about cryptocurrency and
that was such a big deal and it hasn't been
in a conversation so much lately, but we see how
bitcoin has rebounded and the future of that after people
were very nervous about it. And I remember at one
point you were going to take your salary for a
month or however long it was in crypto currency.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
So what do you think about New York City and
the future of crypto?
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Well, I don't know who shiit the song, but how
you like me? Now?
Speaker 5 (34:28):
You know took my first three pay chests in crypto.
People were laughing at me. Oh yeah, where's your money?
Speaker 6 (34:35):
Now?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Let's see it'll come back right now. Look at how
it has recovered.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
I think the scandal around some of these crypto incidents
caused people to get some interrepidation, but there's bounced back.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
My investment looks.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
Very well and I think that people like it or not, Crypto,
blockchain and others is going to be part of our society. Listen,
we transitioned through the years. At one time we were
just trading one cow to your cow. Then we went
to another form of currency. Then we went to the
gold bars. You know, currency has transformed. It's not going
(35:14):
to always stay here. You're gonna people are going to
go to cyber Wallace in some part of Central America.
Figure right, they use points systems. People, there's going to
be different forms of payment, and it's not it's not
comfortable for a lot of people, but it's the reality.
But my investment in crypto turned out to be a
w And.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
You know what's speaking of money casinos, you know, there's
been talk about different locations for casinos in New York
and can't let you get out of here without discussing,
like what's going on with these talks. I know, of
course with you know, with local communities, some people don't
want that, that don't like that, and then some people
are all for it, obviously, So there's I believe there
were three different places locations in Manhattan that they were
(35:56):
talking about actually through in the in the city.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
There's a place in the broad Uh Valley's there's a
place in Mintown, Manhattan Square, there's a couple of different
locations Queens. There's another location for this point. So now
they're going through the process of deciding where. You know,
many people don't know. I was a chair of Racing
(36:19):
and Gamement for the State of New York. I was
the first black chair of Racing and Racing and Game
year and casinos bring jobs of tourism. It's a real
economic boost. Anyone that's familiar with with their doing out
in queens at U a g Spot, Genten spot, they
(36:41):
have a whole lot of jobs. They change, they're ready
to build housing or that on Aqua dot Acua dot
was almost a wasteful you know. And so wherever it goes,
it's going to be economic boosts. I just wanted in
one place in New York. Uh, we get to in
New York. I'm happy for it.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
It's going to go through the process locally involvement, but
we need to get it done.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
All right, Well that's a lot, and I know you're
gonna be bad because every day there's a new I
was saying up here before you got here, I was like,
Mayor Eric Adams is the most talked about mayor nationally.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
Outside you know what, you won't see him on the
news and you won't see him outside.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Last people need to know his son is a rapper,
yeah j He goes under.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
The name j O and he's bringing like his own creativity.
He's doing a movie with wrap inside the movie.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
You know. Yeah, you know. I asked him.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
I asked him the other day, I said, you know,
I said, listen, Jordan, you know you can hold when
you get married?
Speaker 3 (37:45):
He said, after you can?
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
I like that.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
Yeah. Yeah, we all here, we're all trying to figure
it out.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
We're trying to figure it.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Out for real.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
Man, are you the one?
Speaker 1 (38:09):
You never know?
Speaker 6 (38:11):
Man?
Speaker 1 (38:11):
Well, we could do a reality shout.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
I'm not doing that one no more. I'm doing this
almost every day with her. And I got another one
that I'm working on. It's called back talk. Back of
the back back talk we did.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
Yeah, definitely, yeah that you good.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Times.
Speaker 5 (38:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
I went down to Florida.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Drink drink chances. I saw that Norm actually hit me too.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
I was in l A and I was supposed to
film myself asking you a question, but I was running
around and get a chance.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Jersey. It's not the same.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
But you gotta stop.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
This ain't got nothing to do with La and Miami.
You gotta stop.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
I'm Brooklyn. I'm Brooklyn all day.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Baby.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
You just got back there.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
You just got it. Yeah, you just got back there. Baby,
stopped playing with me saying you always love you, love you,
love you.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Definitely wo
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