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Mayor Ras Baraka Interview · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: We are the Breakfast Club. We got some special guests
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Speaker 1: in the building with us this morning. Yes. JD Williams, actor, Yo,
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Speaker 1: what's up ros Bacca Morning morning. You know. So she
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Speaker 1: produced said you are the reason that she started dating
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Speaker 1: lights king thugs. Yeah, well that on the wire. No,
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Speaker 1: she told me that story. She said she thought I
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Speaker 1: was a thug at the time. She dated a blood
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Speaker 1: and she said she fixed She said she fixed them up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: She said she was watching me on oys when I
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Speaker 1: was younger. You know, I played a crazy character and
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Speaker 1: she says she was looking for a boyfriend. She found them. Dude,
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Speaker 1: he ended up being a blood and then all types
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Speaker 1: of craziness. But she said she fixed them up. She
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Speaker 1: got to turn his life around everything. So see, something
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Speaker 1: good came out in jail after seeing you. Man, that's
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Speaker 1: what she did. Hey man, that wasn't me. That wasn't me,
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Speaker 1: but you know, you know, something positive came out of
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Speaker 1: it at the end. So that's that's good. She's working
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Speaker 1: with y'all. Now, you know what I'm sade it. She
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Speaker 1: was in jail. She's part of all charity outreach program
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Speaker 1: that we also have. The mayor of Newark, New Jersey.
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Speaker 1: I haven't had the call him yet because I told
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Speaker 1: him I will call them if I had to, and
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Speaker 1: I haven't. At the point I've been already new good, good,
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Speaker 1: good good. Now what have we got going on? You
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Speaker 1: got a new program that we're doing now, yeah, let's
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Speaker 1: talk about This is from Youth one Stop. So we
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Speaker 1: have a Department of Labor workforce dollars that usually use
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Speaker 1: for training people to find jobs in the city of Newark. UM.
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Speaker 1: So we have one that's called the one Stop for adults.
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Speaker 1: Then we have a Youth one Stop for younger kids.
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Speaker 1: And uh we have JD and a few others Rod
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Speaker 1: Digger that are teaching classes to young people acting, music industry, photography,
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Speaker 1: teaching them the ins and outs of the business, which
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Speaker 1: I think is great. And there's a lot of young
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Speaker 1: people who are excited by the one to being a program.
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Speaker 1: We have to find a way to expand it because
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Speaker 1: there's so many people that are interested in being a
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Speaker 1: part of it. Then once they finished that, they're going
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Speaker 1: to some kind of vocational Uh, training after that, so
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Speaker 1: we're trying to get him on the right path and
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Speaker 1: not just jump into it and say I want to
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Speaker 1: be a rapper, I want to be an actor and
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Speaker 1: just out there. So they need to have some kind
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Speaker 1: of skills behind it. And these guys are doing a
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Speaker 1: great job and they're give them back to the city
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Speaker 1: and we love them for It's dope, man, because I
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Speaker 1: don't mind it the devil's playground, and these kids, especially
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Speaker 1: in New York, needs something else. You don't know, yo,
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Speaker 1: I mean, well, it was funny a little. I started.
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Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I was on audition. I
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Speaker 1: ran into Charlemagne sometime last year and I was telling
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Speaker 1: him I was starting an acting class, but that was
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Speaker 1: geared at adults. And once the city got winned, I
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Speaker 1: was looking for someplace to hold it. You know, I'm
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Speaker 1: met up with some people. They talked to me. We
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Speaker 1: look hooked up with ros and Middy his brother, and
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Speaker 1: they were like, look, you know, we can get this
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Speaker 1: towards the kids because they kind of needed more. And
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Speaker 1: you know, right now, there's no extracurriculus. There's no where.
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Speaker 1: Like he said, it's the Devil's playground. When I don't
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Speaker 1: have anything to do, you know, so we're like, yo,
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Speaker 1: let's give him something to do. Let's give him something
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Speaker 1: to focus on. And I'm glad, Like I said, first off,
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Speaker 1: let me say, I'm glad to be sitting here with
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Speaker 1: this man right here, the mayor a New Jersey, rosm Rocca.
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Speaker 1: Ever since I was a kid, we always been waiting
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Speaker 1: for him to be the mayor. So yeah, so I'm glad.
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Speaker 1: I'm I mean through his father, you know, Amry b
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Speaker 1: Rocca up to him, like, I'm very proud that this
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Speaker 1: man has made it, you know, to the position that
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Speaker 1: he is in the city. I know he's gonna fight
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Speaker 1: for us. So just for us to be all, you know,
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Speaker 1: coming together and working together and getting this done, it's
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Speaker 1: like amazing, And I just want to make sure that
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Speaker 1: something you know, positive comes out comes out of it.
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Speaker 1: I know we're gonna get a couple of more stars
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Speaker 1: out of it. You know, Nork were always generating somebody,
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Speaker 1: whether it's Tavi, Mike be Joy and myself, whatever, somebody
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Speaker 1: always coming out of there. You know. The one thing
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Speaker 1: about York. We joke about New York a lot about
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Speaker 1: it it being it's crime, but you cleaned up New
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Speaker 1: York a lot, you know, and how difficult was it
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Speaker 1: to clean up? It's getting in of work to do.
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Speaker 1: But you know now, you know, I eating York. Now,
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Speaker 1: my kids played basketball in NewYork and the AAU team,
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Speaker 1: so I do a lot of parties in New York.
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Speaker 1: Is cleaning It's way better than it was. Well, we're
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Speaker 1: doing we can, man, you know, we're trying to. Programs
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Speaker 1: like this help us out a lot. We put more
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Speaker 1: police on the street, but but more importantly, the things
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Speaker 1: that happened that that are not dealing with long enforcement
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Speaker 1: is what helps us move. Creating jobs for people, opportunities
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Speaker 1: for them to go to training, to meet people like
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Speaker 1: JD to talk to the young people, to give them
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Speaker 1: opportunities to do something different than just being the streets
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Speaker 1: all day. I mean, that's what we have to do.
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Speaker 1: The more programs that we have like this, targeting towards
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Speaker 1: high school kids, elementary school kids, out of school, kids
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Speaker 1: who dropped out, who need places to go to be
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Speaker 1: re engaged in society, all those programs help us to
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Speaker 1: reduce crime and make the environment better. You don't look
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Speaker 1: stressed down at all, man, I know, it's only you know,
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Speaker 1: it's stressful, but I'm not stressed up. And it's another
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Speaker 1: thing as far as people always stay he's trying to
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Speaker 1: stunt on Nook like it's a lot of money coming
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Speaker 1: through Nook right now corporate wise. Just all of that
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Speaker 1: is going on, and you know, I think, what was
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Speaker 1: it three summers ago was the sum of the Death? Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: just three summers ago before he got an office, we
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Speaker 1: had what we called the Sum of the Death where
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Speaker 1: it was just crazy over there. I'm talking about every modify,
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Speaker 1: handguns and all types of craziness. So just for us
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Speaker 1: to come from there to him, like you said, you
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Speaker 1: got it to the point where it's like tolerable where
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Speaker 1: you're like, yo, I could I could have my kids
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Speaker 1: go through it. I know how to manu through New York.
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Speaker 1: Now my kids played through, but kids playing in New
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Speaker 1: York and it's and I feel comfortable at it. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So Weak the beautiful Community Center one of the best
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Speaker 1: I've ever seen in this area. I mean they have
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Speaker 1: everything from rock climbing, their basketball. Oh you must be
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Speaker 1: talking about Grafting. Yeah, that's that's where I'm from. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's where I'm from. That's where I'm from. But yeah, man,
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Speaker 1: and it's like I said, we come in a long
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Speaker 1: way and it's slowly but surely it's picking up. But
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Speaker 1: it's definitely not like it was, you know, so that
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Speaker 1: that's got to get I think also the og you know,
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Speaker 1: gang gang members out there are realizing that wasn't the way,
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Speaker 1: and they're teaching the kids like yo, y'all can't be
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Speaker 1: out here just killing each other. Like they've got a
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Speaker 1: different mindset, some of them. But for the mayor, for
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Speaker 1: rasping Racket, didn't you sit down with some of the
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Speaker 1: gang members and set up a meeting. I remember reading
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Speaker 1: about that many times. But when I as the mayor,
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Speaker 1: we did it, and I think that's effective. And we
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Speaker 1: have a program called nvr R New York Violence Production
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Speaker 1: Initiative where we talk of the paroles and people uh
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Speaker 1: violent offenders, trying to get them social services and other programs,
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Speaker 1: but also talk to them about what's happening in the
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Speaker 1: community and where we're trying to go. Where we're take
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Speaker 1: in Newark, and you guys are like an obstacle to it.
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Speaker 1: We can't do the development we need, We can't create
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Speaker 1: the opportunities and jobs for children, for your families. If
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Speaker 1: you're gonna continue to shoot the neighborhood up. Nobody wants
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Speaker 1: to come and be a part of the city. So
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Speaker 1: we have those kind of frank, open conversations that they
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Speaker 1: probably never even had in their life before, you know,
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Speaker 1: especially not with the mayor president saying listen, you know,
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Speaker 1: we're trying to build a community center here. You can't
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Speaker 1: be hanging out here shooting people like this. Can't. It's
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Speaker 1: not gonna work. Either gonna help us or you're gonna
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Speaker 1: go to jail, like one or the other. But you
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Speaker 1: have to be a part of this community, and we
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Speaker 1: want you to be a part of the community in
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Speaker 1: a positive way where the program offer any any other
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Speaker 1: alternatives other than just athletics and like entertainment. Oh yeah.
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Speaker 1: We have a lot of workforce development programs in the
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Speaker 1: city for in the summertime. We're doing coding, the coding
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Speaker 1: program for young people within j I T. We're doing
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Speaker 1: urban design kind of a program for about eight hundred
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Speaker 1: kids that we're organizing now. So we're trying to increase
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Speaker 1: the summer youth employment this summer and get more kids
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Speaker 1: involved in these kind of training programs specifically targeted again
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Speaker 1: out of kids who more than likely may not finish
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Speaker 1: high school in a traditional way, trying to grab them
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Speaker 1: before they decide that they want to make crime a career,
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Speaker 1: because that's what a career criminal means. You're making crime
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Speaker 1: a career, that we have to give you another career
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Speaker 1: besides crime. And uh so we we're we're looking for money.
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Speaker 1: The financial institutions have been involved, the banks have been involved,
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Speaker 1: uh to other you know, nonprofits and all of the
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Speaker 1: philanthropic organizations have been involved. Trying to raise the revenue.
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Speaker 1: We need to put these kids to work in the
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Speaker 1: summertime and get them to kind of work for us
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Speaker 1: training that they need. Performing Arts school. Yeah, I went
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Speaker 1: to Arts High School. Yep, right there on Martin Luther
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Speaker 1: King Downtown Nook or you know, Like, like I said,
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Speaker 1: a lot of us came, but what made you decide
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Speaker 1: to go? Now? Actually like it, it was just a
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Speaker 1: blessing that I ended up there because I actually was
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Speaker 1: going to go to week Back then, we had science,
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Speaker 1: how we had university, how we had Arts High and
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Speaker 1: I was more into science, you know. I mean I
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Speaker 1: was always acting in schools that I was in, but
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Speaker 1: I figured that I wanted to be a science scientist.
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Speaker 1: So I tried to get into science and university. Things
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Speaker 1: was wrong with my application, like where I was living
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Speaker 1: and all types of craziness, and I ended up going
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Speaker 1: in the arts and it was like, you know, I
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Speaker 1: got accepted right away and then I got there and
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Speaker 1: I just ended up so involved in what it was
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Speaker 1: I was doing and being a drama major that everything
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Speaker 1: just kind of took off from this. So when you think,
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Speaker 1: because you know, you from New York, like when when
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Speaker 1: did it go up? Because I remember when I was young,
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Speaker 1: we used to go walk around downtown New York, you know,
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Speaker 1: coming from South Carolina, and the one somebody was like, no,
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Speaker 1: we can't go to New York no more. Yeah, um,
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Speaker 1: well it was I say it was after the ninety
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Speaker 1: eight was like remember ninety eight, that was pretty good
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Speaker 1: year for all of us. You know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: It kind of blew up. So I say somewhere around
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Speaker 1: two thousand, maybe you know, people started having I don't know,
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Speaker 1: less care or less respect about whatever was going on.
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Speaker 1: But then there's that disparity between having a father figure
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Speaker 1: or role models or mentors, you know, male mentors. And
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Speaker 1: so once that, once that happened, where like we used
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Speaker 1: to listen to our old heads, you know what I'm saying. Like,
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Speaker 1: but once that that age group of kids came up
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Speaker 1: past ten to about twelve, and they wasn't listening to
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Speaker 1: us anymore, or we wasn't talking to him anymore. How
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Speaker 1: it went, That's when everything kind of went, you know, left.
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Speaker 1: So I say, somewhere between two thousand two thousand and five,
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Speaker 1: stuff started getting like kind of rough. But it's a cycle,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. You learn, you know, they learned,
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Speaker 1: they grow up because now they're grown up and they
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Speaker 1: in a position where they got to try to force
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Speaker 1: the little heads to listen to them. So, you know,
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Speaker 1: you guys have had a lot of events there recently,
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Speaker 1: Black Girls Rock was there last week, Will Smith, Jada,
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Speaker 1: that's beautiful, Jill, everybody was out there this Yeah, it was.
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Speaker 1: It was incredible too. Now, No, Newark also has a
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Speaker 1: lot of prim real estates right by the by the water. Now,
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Speaker 1: are you scared of losing that to to big investors
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Speaker 1: and people are not necessarily from the community, No, not
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Speaker 1: at all. I mean, first of all, Newark is not
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Speaker 1: like these other cities where it is really the population
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Speaker 1: is so condensed and heavy that you have to put
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Speaker 1: people out in order for other people to come in.
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Speaker 1: So we can stand another one hundred two hundred thousand
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Speaker 1: residents in the comfortably uh you know, New York. At
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Speaker 1: one point, I had almost a half a million people
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Speaker 1: in it, you know, right now, and we're about three
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Speaker 1: hundred thousand. So we have opportunity for more business, more investment.
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Speaker 1: We're trying to bring more manufacturers, big box industries to
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Speaker 1: the city of New York. We are a prim location
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Speaker 1: for manufacturing. You know, we have the third largest seaport
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Speaker 1: in the nation. There mostly all the goods and services
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Speaker 1: that come through this trosted area come through the New
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Speaker 1: York Seaport. We have an international airport. The transportation in
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Speaker 1: the city is you know, next to none. So the
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Speaker 1: kind of manufacturing we're trying to uh, you know, create
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Speaker 1: in the city is where is the type that has
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Speaker 1: the trucking, that puts out people to work, that uses
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Speaker 1: the seaport, uses the transportation, uses the airport, and we
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Speaker 1: want them to come. So and they are coming almost
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Speaker 1: twenty dollars pew, they got shot. Well, you know, people
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Speaker 1: start leaving, you know, people people leave the city. You know,
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Speaker 1: there was a trend where people began leaving cities right
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Speaker 1: so after the New York Rebellion in sixty seven, and
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Speaker 1: many people started moving to the suburbs. Now there's trending
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Speaker 1: in the the way all over the country. Everybody wants
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Speaker 1: to live in a city. The millennials, they want to
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Speaker 1: have conveniance. They want to live next to the train station,
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Speaker 1: they want to walk, you know, they want to have
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Speaker 1: all of the amenities around their house where they don't
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Speaker 1: have to get public catch the train all the time,
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Speaker 1: or drive, you know. So they're coming back to these cities.
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Speaker 1: And so New York is a part of that. And
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Speaker 1: New York is expensive, for Bogan is expensive. These city
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Speaker 1: is expensive. So people are looking for opportunities to have
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Speaker 1: decent housing in safe environments where the amenities are right there.
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at I'm looking at downtown Nook crazy because,
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Speaker 1: like I mean, I've seen it change a whole bunch
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Speaker 1: of different ways. But what it's turning into right now,
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Speaker 1: as far as it's having a Prudential Center down there
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Speaker 1: and and Jay Pack down there, and then all these
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Speaker 1: people will be coming through for these hockey games, and
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Speaker 1: I mean they don't just go there for the game,
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Speaker 1: maybe walking around downtown and I'm like, wow, Like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: they don't know, but but that's good for us, you know,
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Speaker 1: because we get to see them, they get to see us,
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Speaker 1: you know. And they're fixing up downtown. We got all
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Speaker 1: of the a new type of strip mall coming up downtown.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, Whole Foods is coming in. But that's nice.
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Speaker 1: We have three more hotels coming downtown. Yep, yep, yep,
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Speaker 1: it is. It's about to happen. That's what the programs do.
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Speaker 1: You all encourage industries like all these new like hotels
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Speaker 1: and stuff that are you know, coming up. You' all
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Speaker 1: encouraging them. The higher kids that absolutely absolutely. Endigo hire
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Speaker 1: ninety percent of new workers. Wow. And what happened was
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Speaker 1: when we found out the hotel was coming, they partnered
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Speaker 1: with the city to create a hospitality program, hotel motor
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Speaker 1: management program that we did in the city and we
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Speaker 1: trained the residents so they'll be able to get those jobs.
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Speaker 1: And so the beautiful thing about it is we did
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Speaker 1: that just for the Endigo, not knowing that three other
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Speaker 1: hotels will come in. And so we've been working and
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Speaker 1: working and working, and so now we have three other hotels,
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Speaker 1: So that program is going to live past the hotel Indigo,
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Speaker 1: so we get more people through the program and higher
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Speaker 1: the other hotels that are coming to the city. Do
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Speaker 1: you give owners breaks for hiring Newark residents, because that
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Speaker 1: would be something now I'm sure a lot of people
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Speaker 1: are coming. I opened up a business, you know, hire
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Speaker 1: Newark residence, a discounting taxes or discounting in or discounting
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Speaker 1: that is that possible? Well, right as possible. But right
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Speaker 1: now when people get when you get a tax abatement
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Speaker 1: or subsidies from the city, there's requirements. So most developers
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Speaker 1: don't most of them don't use all of their money
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Speaker 1: or none of their money at all as a matter
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Speaker 1: of fact, and they get a lot of state and
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Speaker 1: city subsidies when that happens, or they get a tax
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Speaker 1: abatement from us, which means they don't pay full taxes.
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Speaker 1: They pay a pilot or a payment in leewer taxes.
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Speaker 1: And if they if we grant them that, then in
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Speaker 1: turn they have to hire a certain percentage of new
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Speaker 1: Rakers and that's usually like forty percent. But what we're
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Speaker 1: doing now is we're working above that forty percent, telling
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Speaker 1: folks that the jobs that you want, let us know
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Speaker 1: in advance, and you will use our work for US
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Speaker 1: dollars and training people so they will have those jobs
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Speaker 1: and become available. Yes, what about people who want to
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Speaker 1: get into nursing in medical field, we have a robust
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Speaker 1: allied health work training program that we do with Essas
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Speaker 1: County College right now and with Rutgers University. As a
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Speaker 1: matter of fact, in a couple of days, we're going
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Speaker 1: to do a press conference with beth Israel Essas County
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Speaker 1: College in the city. We're doing a pharmacology program where
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Speaker 1: you could go and take courses at Essas County College
14:00
Speaker 1: or I worked Force training place and get a job
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Speaker 1: right in bethis Hospital at the end of it. So
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Speaker 1: all of our training programs have jobs at the end.
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Speaker 1: That's because there's a lot of people in Nowork who
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Speaker 1: know how to treat bullet wounds. Yet universal go yeah, no,
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Speaker 1: he gotta keep it breakfast club, because I'm looking like
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Speaker 1: this ain't the breakfast club right now. I can't even
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Speaker 1: listen to y'all in the morning. I'm taking my daughter
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Speaker 1: to school. Y'all talking about oral sex and seven thirty
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Speaker 1: in the morning, I'm like click, oh, baby, don't worrybody,
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Speaker 1: of course, but I'm talking about it. What's next, what's
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Speaker 1: next that could benefit the city. And now that y'all
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Speaker 1: doing other than the programs, well, uh, well my program
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Speaker 1: when we're doing with the acting, we also off a
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Speaker 1: photography like set building, um, and a whole bunch of
14:44
Speaker 1: a host of other things. Like I said that we're
14:45
Speaker 1: all trying to put under one hub and that's just
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Speaker 1: based on that thing. Uh. He just did his State
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Speaker 1: of the City address last week. It was crazy, Like
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Speaker 1: I mean, I felt the energy. He had me yelling
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Speaker 1: at the end of it, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: And right now he he rebranded Nook and instead of
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Speaker 1: brick City, we're going towards nor three point zero now.
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Speaker 1: So I'm trying to get that wrapped around my head
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Speaker 1: right now. So y'all gonna start seeing a lot of
15:06
Speaker 1: Nork three point Oh. But you know, I know he
15:08
Speaker 1: can tell you point oh. Well, it's it's what we
15:12
Speaker 1: talked about. The millennials, the the young youngsters that out
15:15
Speaker 1: here that use the iPad, the internet, that that want amenities,
15:19
Speaker 1: that want space, and you know, we're creating an opportunity
15:22
Speaker 1: using the infrastructure that we have under the ground the
15:25
Speaker 1: fiber optic cables to create Wi Fi in the city,
15:28
Speaker 1: free Wi Fi in public places. It's taking the city
15:31
Speaker 1: to the to the next level, right, So creating more
15:34
Speaker 1: jobs for people using the manufacturing that we talked about,
15:37
Speaker 1: building quality housing to turn Newark into a place, uh
15:41
Speaker 1: that you would want to live at, you know, a
15:42
Speaker 1: destination city that people want to come to, uh and
15:46
Speaker 1: keeping the same people in it at the same time,
15:47
Speaker 1: so not throwing people out, training them to be a
15:50
Speaker 1: part of a new Newark, a newer three point zero.
15:52
Speaker 1: Like you know, you get a new video video games,
15:54
Speaker 1: it's the new video game. It's better than the old ones.
15:57
Speaker 1: So the whole concept of newer three point oh is
15:59
Speaker 1: this is Newark at the next level, in the next century, bigger, better, brighter,
16:03
Speaker 1: batter You think it's a negative connotation with the brick
16:06
Speaker 1: city term, I do. I mean, well, I think it's
16:08
Speaker 1: outlived as usefulness. Really, you know, at the end, when
16:12
Speaker 1: I was a kid, I was brick city all the way.
16:13
Speaker 1: You know, you know, it made you feel rugged, tough,
16:15
Speaker 1: you know, I'm from NewYork. That's what's up. And it's
16:18
Speaker 1: really more about because we had so many projects in
16:21
Speaker 1: the city more per capita than any city in America,
16:24
Speaker 1: you know, as a matter of fact. That's why we
16:25
Speaker 1: were the brick city, and everybody felt gritty and grimy
16:28
Speaker 1: about that. So we're not that anymore. We moved on.
16:30
Speaker 1: A lot of those projects are torn down. We moved
16:32
Speaker 1: into the next, next generation, next opportunities. Well not really.
16:37
Speaker 1: So we're trying to advance the city without getting rid
16:40
Speaker 1: of the people. What I said, we don't want to
16:42
Speaker 1: get rid of new Ark because we love the people,
16:43
Speaker 1: their families. We like JD and Rod Digger and all
16:47
Speaker 1: those folks. They from Newark, you know, Mike Jordan, they
16:49
Speaker 1: went to the same high school. New York has a
16:51
Speaker 1: lot of great people. You know, we don't highlight them,
16:53
Speaker 1: and we're trying to highlight them now so the kids
16:55
Speaker 1: can see we got great people that came from lived
16:57
Speaker 1: on your same block, living in Rafton the Avenue. Now
16:59
Speaker 1: and they start it's doing all kinds of things. You well,
17:03
Speaker 1: but yeah, but she heard her. You know yet Irvington,
17:09
Speaker 1: all of those East Irvington and Nook, they all we
17:11
Speaker 1: all consider that one s you know pretty much. So
17:14
Speaker 1: now besides being man, is there a bigger run that
17:17
Speaker 1: you after you finish your New York duties that you
17:19
Speaker 1: might be jumping into. Nah, man, I'm home, Man, I'm home.
17:26
Speaker 1: I feel good and in the seat driving a bus
17:29
Speaker 1: in New York, you know it. It feels good for me.
17:31
Speaker 1: It's the city of my birth, I was born and raised.
17:33
Speaker 1: You know, it's nothing. There's no better job in the
17:35
Speaker 1: world than I have right now. We appreciate you guys
17:38
Speaker 1: for joining us. Yeah, let us know if you need
17:39
Speaker 1: us for the program. Absolutely, Oh yeah, Oh well look,
17:42
Speaker 1: sometimes I'm definitely I'm gonna reach out, like I said, sometimes,
17:46
Speaker 1: you know, I can't be there every time, you know,
17:48
Speaker 1: we're doing the program, So sometimes I do reach out to,
17:51
Speaker 1: you know, professionals that's already end like whether it's do
17:54
Speaker 1: it Off from Lords of the Underground, you know, or
17:57
Speaker 1: whoever it is that I have their number, you know,
17:58
Speaker 1: Al Thompson, I'll say, Yo, could you come and fill in?
18:01
Speaker 1: You know, Because it's also like I said, it's also
18:03
Speaker 1: good for these people to see other people. Like if
18:05
Speaker 1: you go to Atlanta, they see Ludacris, they see Gez,
18:08
Speaker 1: they see all of those people all the time. You
18:09
Speaker 1: go to la they see those people all the time.
18:11
Speaker 1: So to them, it's not that far away to be
18:13
Speaker 1: in the industry in their head. But where we're from,
18:15
Speaker 1: y'all be right here. But we don't. You know, we
18:18
Speaker 1: don't get to see y'all because y'all droving body car.
18:20
Speaker 1: You know, you know better than to be hanging out
18:22
Speaker 1: the light, you know what I'm saying. So they don't
18:25
Speaker 1: get to see y'all. You know, but the kids don't
18:32
Speaker 1: get to see y'all, so they don't feel like it's
18:34
Speaker 1: it's closer. When they do see you see how big
18:36
Speaker 1: their odds get like oh snap, that's and then they
18:38
Speaker 1: acting crazy like yo, bro, let me get this. You know,
18:40
Speaker 1: arm all around you, somebody out of jail see there
18:44
Speaker 1: from New York. But you gotta we gotta make it
18:49
Speaker 1: more accessible to the kids, you know, we definitely gotta
18:51
Speaker 1: make it more accessible to the kids. And that's why,
18:53
Speaker 1: like these programs are going on. I got these shout
18:54
Speaker 1: out real quick, mac Millius Meta. You know, we got
18:57
Speaker 1: the I Arts we call it I Arts Media School,
19:00
Speaker 1: so you know, we gotta keep it going. Yeah, yeah, well,
19:03
Speaker 1: J D. Williams, Robs Barrocco, we appreciate you, right, y'a
19:07
Speaker 1: don't want to know what I'm doing. What are you doing?
19:09
Speaker 1: I'm saying, like, what you just I just quick teach,
19:16
Speaker 1: I just hain't out with the man. Take my daughter
19:18
Speaker 1: to school in the morning. That if you're gonna afford it. Yeah,
19:25
Speaker 1: that b season two. I'm on this right now. That's
19:28
Speaker 1: a Hulu show that comes out for twenty He could
19:30
Speaker 1: binge watch all of the episodes of that. I don't
19:32
Speaker 1: think I'm supposed to tell y'all who the guest star is,
19:35
Speaker 1: but I'll say he was in the interview. I just
19:36
Speaker 1: leave it at that. I never seen season one of Beats. No,
19:39
Speaker 1: it's out right now. I never watched the whole season myself.
19:42
Speaker 1: But yeah, season two come out on A four twenty. Um. Um.
19:45
Speaker 1: I just did another HBO series called Crime as Mini
19:47
Speaker 1: Series with John turo That's gonna be dope. And just
19:50
Speaker 1: keep teting the wire. He was on the street, was
19:53
Speaker 1: in jail. Well, you know, I see, but check it out.
19:56
Speaker 1: Though I'm moving up. I'm moving up. My next thing.
19:58
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be the garbage man. What I'm saying. No,
20:02
Speaker 1: but but y'all can catch me on you can catch
20:04
Speaker 1: me on A Good Wife too. I got an ark
20:06
Speaker 1: on a good Wife. So I'll be wearing suits and
20:07
Speaker 1: doing all craziness on a good Wife. And I got
20:09
Speaker 1: an ark on that right now. And it's a couple
20:11
Speaker 1: of other things, a bunch of films and stuff I'm producing.
20:14
Speaker 1: Nah man, I'm gonna play Craig Robinson's brother. Yeah, you know,
20:19
Speaker 1: like it was cool though. It seemed like it was
20:21
Speaker 1: a cool show though, but you know, we'll see how
20:22
Speaker 1: it comes up. But uh yeah, but right now, I'm
20:25
Speaker 1: just staying busy, so just watch for me. Congratulations, And
20:28
Speaker 1: you really influence a lot of girls to go and
20:29
Speaker 1: get a nice little light skin thug. You gotta work
20:32
Speaker 1: for that. Though. Crime, no crime, crime, I'm not a criminal.
20:38
Speaker 1: What it is is, uh, I'm actually I don't want
20:40
Speaker 1: to say I'm a racist, but but no, no, it's
20:45
Speaker 1: not even white people. It's like he's long story short,
20:48
Speaker 1: is that I witness a crime and now the d ain't.
20:51
Speaker 1: Everybody's trying to get me to get on the stand
20:53
Speaker 1: and I'm just giving him a hard time about it.
20:56
Speaker 1: It's not even snitch and he just don't care to
20:58
Speaker 1: talk about it, like he's like I told y'all, I
21:00
Speaker 1: told y'all he was gonna kill a girl and he
21:03
Speaker 1: killed a girl and now y'all bothering me about it.
21:05
Speaker 1: So but but give it a shot. It was a
21:06
Speaker 1: British show first and that they're really good in Britain
21:08
Speaker 1: and they redoing it with in America. So yeah, but
21:11
Speaker 1: it's gonna turn out to no. I think Crime would
21:15
Speaker 1: come out in the summertime because we just wrapped it
21:16
Speaker 1: last week, so it should come out in the summer. Okay,
21:20
Speaker 1: it's the Breakfast Club Mayor Rove and Jerry Williams. It's
21:23
Speaker 1: hurt