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43rd mayor of Miami. Served two terms
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since 2017 and his tenure is going to
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end in September because he's term
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limited. Although I hear these days
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that's flexible. Please welcome Francis
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Suarez. We're ranked the happiest city
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in America, the healthiest city in
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America. The formula for success is
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simple. Keep taxes low. Keep people
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safe. Lean into innovation.
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How are things going in Miami?
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Obviously, you know, we talked to you a
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couple years ago when we had our first
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all-in summit here and uh you had a
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nonsense approach that you thought was
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going to work with the homeless
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challenges that we're seeing. I think
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candidly we discussed a large portion of
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the homeless problem in these major
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cities is an addiction problem and you
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know giving a junkie a home doesn't
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exactly get them off the street. It just
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doesn't work. And you've you were one of
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the first people to say that plainly.
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How are you dealing with it? Has it
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gotten worse? Is it an intractable
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problem? Yeah. Take us through it. So,
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in homeless specifically, we are at an
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11-year low. Uh we did our census, we do
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two census a year. We do one in uh
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January, one in in the summer. And our
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our January census had us at an 11-year
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low. We had 546 homeless, unsheltered
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homeless in the entire city of Miami. Um
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we have a couple thousand sheltered. And
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uh I actually raised money on an annual
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basis uh as a mayor's ball. I I did my
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mayor's ball last year and this year
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I'll be doing it in May 31st to end
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homeless. We want to be the first major
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American city to have zero homeless and
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we think we can get there. We call it
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functional
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zero and and and and frankly the the
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strategy is not that complicated. You
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know, obviously there's a macroeconomic
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strategy. We have the lowest
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unemployment in America. We have the
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highest median wage growth in America.
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We I lower taxes to the lowest level in
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history. And we've seen 140% growth in 9
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years. So, the economy is robust. We
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were ranked the happiest city in
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America, the healthiest city in America.
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Frankly, if you're happy, you're healthy
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and you're working, you're probably not
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homeless. And then, of course, we've
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done innovative things in the homeless
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space. We've worked with um charitable
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organizations that uh help people
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reunify families if they live in other
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parts of the country. And also, we rent
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homes so that we can get around the
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building process and give all the same
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wraparound services, but we we sort of
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hack through that process. Those 500
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individuals um who are categorized as
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homeless. Yeah. How many of them are
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suffering from mental illness andor
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self-medicating slashaddicted to drugs?
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A very high percentage. Um I would say
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80% plus, right? And that's sort of
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anecdotal. Um but when I and I've been
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out to the streets, I'll I'll I'll be
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out there before my my homeless ball now
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on May 31st. I'm actually going to spend
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a night out on the street. Um and when
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you talk to them, when you engage in
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them, a vast majority of them are
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unfortunately. Okay, so let me double
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click on that. this problem wasn't as
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acute before the super drugs meth like
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the the serious meth um well the really
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serious ones they're making now and
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fentinyl right these this combination
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seems to be you know we had people
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addicted to heroin like Miles Davis and
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like Philip Seymour Hoffman who produced
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incredible art and were addicts for 30
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years and they and they went in and out
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of it but this drug is pernicious
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different deadly super addicting how
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much of the problem are those two drugs
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specifically if you double clicked on
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it. A big part of the problem heroin or
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opioids. He's asking for a friend by the
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way. Just not I'm asking if you have a
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hookup. Clearly. No, but I'm I'm being
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deadly serious because we we had these
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homeless individuals in New York, you
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know, back in the day in the 70s ' 80s.
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They were kind of like um hobos and
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vagabons, not seriously addicted, you
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know, suffering where they're folding
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over and curled up in a ball from
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fentinel. Well, well, to your point, I
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mean, meth and and and uh the opioids
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are incredibly addictive and they're
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very hard to to to beat, right? I mean,
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even people who are are wealthy and get
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addicted to these drugs have a very hard
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time um the recidivism rate is very high
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and so uh you know, you just had Antonio
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on here a minute ago and he was talking
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about, you know, immigration and the
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border and one of the big problems with
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the border is the tens of thousands of
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people that die annually because of
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fentinel that gets imported through
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China and through our border. And so uh
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there's a tie-in, right, between federal
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policy and and local policy. But for us,
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um again, uh in 1980 during the the
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cocaine era, right, different drug, uh
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we had 220 homicides. So you had drugs
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hurting people, but you had the business
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of drugs very much hurting people,
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right? Last So we started recording
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homicides in 1946 in Miami. 1946, we had
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32 homicides. From 1946 to today, the
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lowest number we ever had was 24. Last
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year we had 27. Wow. Okay. We had 220 in
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1980. This year we're trending below the
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24. So we may this may be the safest
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year in the history recorded history of
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Miami. Can you connect those dots there?
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Like I think I think when people think
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about social policy, everybody confuses
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the correlation and causation. Yeah. But
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you've been in the seat now for a long
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time. Yeah. So you've seen what hasn't
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worked, what has worked, what maybe has
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been correlated, but if you had to sort
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of like lay out the road map for other
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cities, but frankly for other states,
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the rest of the country, what's the road
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map? The Francis Suarez road map. The
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formula for success is simple. Keep
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taxes low, keep people safe, lean into
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innovation,
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right? Can we just double click into
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those? Of course. I can double click on
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each one of them. Let's take the other
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side of these things just to help the
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conversation because I believe in them
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but let's try to steal man the other
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side. Sure. Keep taxes low. What people
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say if you look at California and if you
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look at New York what they would say is
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we have a duty to invest in the social
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services and the infrastructure to
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support everybody that isn't necessarily
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as well or didn't get the right side of
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luck and we need to raise taxes in order
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to generate the revenues to fund that.
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My my counterargument would be
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government is not a good purveyor of
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those services. It's not an efficient
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purveyor of those services. So, so ju
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just to double click, right? I lowered
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taxes to the lowest level in history and
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I and I took the city in 2009 as a
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councilman in out of bankruptcy. So, I
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got it in bankruptcy. We decided this is
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sort of the Doge before Doge. We decided
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not to raise taxes. We cut cost. We we
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cut, you know, we didn't we didn't let
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anyone go, but we had tiered salary
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cuts, pension reform, and we balanced
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our budget, and we had 10 years of
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prosperity. And that prosperity led to a
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tripling of the size of our government.
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So we went from a $500 million
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government to a billion half dollar
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government while lowering taxes. So we
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we grew 200%. Right? So the the the
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resources that we had to dedicate to
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these actually went up even though taxes
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went down. And then uh you know uh when
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you have a place where there's
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prosperity and where people are
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investing and where people are employed,
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they're obviously not there's not as
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many social problems. So they're not out
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there killing people. um they're not out
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out there hurting people. So the 1980s
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we had you know we were one of the mur
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murder capitals of America and we're now
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one of the safest big cities in America.
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And then I think you know the the how
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can I help moment that you guys are all
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familiar with was this juxtiposition
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with what American cities were doing
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right famously New York competes for and
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wins the Amazon HQ2 prize right and then
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rejects it. Rejects it. Yeah. And and
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and also famously in California, you had
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a I guess it was a legislator that said,
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"F Elon Musk." Yeah. Elena Gonzalez.
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Exactly. And she and he replied,
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"Message received." And he left. And
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then she went to run a union, right? Is
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that where she ended up? Yeah. I think
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she went to work for a union. She's the
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CEO of one of the big unions now. But
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the issue is what I tell people is look,
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it's it's bad enough to kick out a
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trillion dollar company from your city
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or the richest person arguably in the
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world from your city. But think about
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the the signal. The signal to me is much
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much greater, right? The signal is if
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you want to bring another headquarters
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or if you want to be another company, we
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just got FC Barcelona two days ago. We
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announced that FC Barcelona moved their
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headquarters from New York to Miami,
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right? Every single day um we announced,
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you know, 900 million dollars of loans
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in two projects in the last two days in
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two buildings, you know, our stadium,
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our Inter Miami stadium. We have the
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FIFA World Cup headquarters for 2026 in
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the in the world, right? So, I mean,
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this formula for success, it seems
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simple, other cities are getting it
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wrong completely backwards, right? their
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taxes are high, it's not safe, and
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they're not leaning into they're
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rejecting innovation. Are there are
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there downsides to growing this fast?
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Like are there things that have to keep
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up that are harder to change like
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building code, housing density, you
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know, those sort of cost of living
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things like have those have you guys
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been able to drive reform there or is
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that is that not where you wanted to be?
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So Ken Griffin recently was interviewed
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in a fireside chat like this and said,
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"I'd rather have the problems of success
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than the problems of failure." And so
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there's no doubt that there are problems
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that stem from success, right? And
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housing prices, you had a tremendous
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amount of inflation in the last
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administration and you you you sort of
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couple that with hyper demand here in
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Miami and you get hyperinflation, right?
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So housing costs have certainly gone up
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significantly. And we do everything we
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can to leverage public dollars and
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public assets like land to try to build
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projects at a 15 to1 or 20 to1 leverage
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rate. So for $100 million invested,
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we'll get $2 billion worth of projects.
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Um, there's a 5 million h, you know, 5
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million housing shortage across the
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country and Miami has its fair share
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just like any any other major city.
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Traffic, I know none of you guys have
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experienced any bad traffic this last
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few days, right? I was in the car two
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two hours and 40 minutes going over to
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that. I'm not going to I'm not going to
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tell you how far along we are with the
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Boring Company on trying to find
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underground boring systems or with some
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of the EV toe companies that we're
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working with. But I do think that
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transportation generally has to sort of
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turn the page from, you know, last
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generation's archaic um solutions to
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next. How did you get that train that
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what do you call it? The sunshine line
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or something. Bright line. Yeah. The
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Bright Line. Yeah. How did you get that
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done so quick? And everybody says it's
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the greatest thing ever. That's a
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private sector project uh that was done
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by company. Um we had a piece of it
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which was we did a piece from with Tri
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Rail to bring it into the station. And
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when we did that piece, we made it free
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for inner city residents to be able to
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use. So it was something that I was very
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proud of was part of my legacy. So a
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private company built it, correct? You
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gave them the right of way. They bought
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the right of way. So it was totally
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private. So look, we have microobility
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options that are private like scooters.
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So all you did was just not get in the
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way. Exactly. Shocking. By the way, what
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an idea. Let me Yeah. Let me let me ask
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you
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h how how can It's like the hypocratic
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oath. Do no harm. Do no harm. How can
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mayors address they they come into
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office with a reform motivation and
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they're elected on, hey, we've got to we
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don't have what what Miami has. We got
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to fix this. We got to get get the city
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working again. We got to attract
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business. We got to track growth. And
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they inherit this regulatory morass,
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this massive infrastructure. Like San
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Francisco recently, I I I got all caught
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up in the fact that you can't put these
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phone booths in your office. You know, a
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lot of startups, I don't know if any of
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you guys have these, these these phone
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booths, you got to have someone go in
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and make a call. You put the phone booth
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in. And all my startups, all the
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companies I've been involved in, you
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can't put one in San Francisco. So, you
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you put these phone booths in and then
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you can go in and make calls. So, when
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everyone's in an open desk
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configuration, but you got to do a
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private call, you hop them in. Everyone
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loads up their offices with these phone
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booths. In San Francisco, they're
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illegal. Turns out that you need to run
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you and there's a piece of paper, which
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I was actually going to tweet because
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it's insane. It's like three pages long.
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All the things you need to know about
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the phone booths that you want to put in
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your office. You got to get an architect
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review, an engineering review, a design
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review. You got to get sign off from the
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engineer. You got to submit the
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permitting fees. It gets reviewed by the
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city inspector's office. You got to
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design fire sprinklers that have to go
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into the phone booth. That's nuts. In
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case there's a fire in the phone booth,
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someone needs to put out the fire in the
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That's hilarious. So, I was talking I
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was talking to some folks about like
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what are you going to do about this? But
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the mayor's kind of like, I don't know
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if there's enough action that I can take
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because it's it's it's in law that
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there's all this kind of regulatory
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stuff. How do you advise mayors that are
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stuck with this sort of an environment?
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And this is not just San Francisco.
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There's a lot of big cities in this
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country that have books and books of
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this stuff. And we can talk about
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philosophically why this has happened,
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sociologically why this has happened.
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Books and books of this stuff where the
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city can't get out of the way. What do
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the mayors do? when you guys get
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together like is there any advice or are
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we stuck like what's the what's the
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solution? We're not stuck. I I I think
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it it's cultural right at some level you
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have to inculcate a culture where you
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empower your employees to innovate and
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and to to uh you know deconlict. I think
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uh when people come to me with a problem
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I say look first first issue is if
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there's something that's blocking it
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that doesn't make any sense why don't we
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just change it? We're legislators.
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That's what we do. We legislate so we
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can fix it. uh maybe it happened maybe
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it made sense 20 years ago maybe it made
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sense 50 years ago doesn't make sense
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today let's just change it I think
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regulation is the is the other side of
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the coin from innovation right so
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regulation is telling you what you often
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times what you can't do or or how to do
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something innovation is to protect loss
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it's sort of a first principles thinking
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we're going to we want to do this right
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we we want to make this work and I think
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uh I always not always but I regularly
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fall on the side of innovation and I
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think you you you as a public official
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frankly who's elected by the people
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really are the one that has to push the
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bureaucrats, the bureaucrat class,
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right? The bureaucrat class, they get
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very accustomed to saying no. They're
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riskaverse. Um, you know, they're not
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incentivized often times, right? There's
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no incentive structure that says, "Hey,
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if you innovate, you're going to get X
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or Y or Z." And then I think the third
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piece of it is artificial intelligence.
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I really feel that there's a
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breakthrough that's going to come and
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it's not just in transportation. We're
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talking about EV tools and and
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underground boring and all that, but I
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think in
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in zoning codes and and all that, it's
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it's going to be computer to computer,
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right? So the codes are all
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straightforward, right? We have the same
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code for 15 years, right? Probably 97 or
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8% of all known decisions have already
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been made under this code, right? So all
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they have to do is be replicated going
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forward, right? Unless the code changes
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and then you just change the coding and
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you make the decisions all over again.
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So it's not that complicated. You should
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be able to submit something. The
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computer should be able to spit it out
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immediately. If it needs changes, it
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should tell you what the changes are. A
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computer could look at that, make the
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changes, and spit it back in. Right? And
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if you were to do that, you know, it
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takes to get a permit on a on a home in
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most places in America or on a building
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in most places in America, you know, 6
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months, 9 months, a year, a year and a
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half. I mean, it's insane. It should be
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done instantly. And it could literally
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be done instantly with a technology that
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we already have available to us today.
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Hundred billion dollar business, by the
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way, in case anybody's a great idea.
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It's a killer idea. I think some
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startups have worked on it too. Um I
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know multiple that are working. Yeah,
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they work on the other side of it.
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Building on Freeberg's point, the two
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best proposals I heard about regulations
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and I'm curious if you could steal me on
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them or you know just how practical you
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think they are. Putting um a time limit
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on regulations. So if you fought for
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some regulations around these phone
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boots back when foam boots, you know,
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Superman changed his costume in them
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from the 60s and 70s, like back from
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that era, maybe it lasts for 20 years
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and then it expires or you want to add
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two regulations to office space
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regulations. You got to take one off the
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books, you know, and and those were the
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two proposals I've heard. Some way of
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timing these out or um if you want to
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add, you got to take you got to find
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something to take off. Are either of
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those practical? I kind of like the
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first one better than the second one
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because the second one I mean this sort
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of one for one I mean there's got to be
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a reason to do one or the other. Right.
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Okay. I I like the first one better. Um
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actually what we normally do in
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government is the opposite. What we do
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is we do what we call pilots, right? So
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you'll do something that goes away very
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quickly, right? In other words, you
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imple implement a piece of legislation
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say, "Oh, we're going to do it for a
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year. Let's test it out." Right? And
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it's a pilot and then it goes away. Um,
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I I like what you're saying in terms of,
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you know, a big part of regulatory
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culture can probably be phased out over
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a 15 20 year period as being
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anacronistic, right? It just doesn't a
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year get reviewed and you you're the
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government's responsible for reviewing
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5% a year for 20 years and they reertify
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it or right and and then you have the
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ability to reimplement it if you think
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it makes sense. But I think what happens
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is you go back down to zero. you were
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asking Antonio and I was I was listening
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to the conversation because we did we
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did it like I said we had to cut our
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budget by 20% in one year and uh and
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part of the problem is budgeting is like
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layering right it all layers on top of
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each other same as regulation it layers
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on top of each other so if you were to
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be able to strip it down in a mechanical
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way right in an instantaneous way as
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opposed to having to fight the the the
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structures in our case we were very
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lucky there was a state statutory
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vehicle that allowed us to implement the
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cuts otherwise we'd have to bargain for
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them in a in a union process and
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obviously no one would ever bargain to
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cut their salaries. There would no never
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bargain to cut. It would nothing would
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have happened. We would have come we
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would have been bankrupt and then a
00:16:49
court would have taken us over. We would
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have looked like a joke and instead we
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we cut costs and we and we survived and
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we thrived right going forward. And by
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the way, my employees now love me. They
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were not happy the first couple years
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when we did it. But now they they they
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um I mean I don't even have to go to a
00:17:04
union interview when I when I run for
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office. They just support me right away.
00:17:06
Do you want to be governor? I don't
00:17:08
think it's quite that simple. I want to
00:17:10
dunk. I want to dunk. Yeah, I want to be
00:17:13
able to dunk, too. Uh, look, I think
00:17:15
that I'm a Republican for those of you
00:17:17
who don't know, and uh, you know, the
00:17:19
president's already weighed in the
00:17:20
Republican primary. I respect the
00:17:21
president's uh, perspective. I have a
00:17:23
good relationship with Congressman
00:17:25
Donald's. So, I I think politics is very
00:17:28
circumstantial. Um, we've talked about
00:17:29
that a lot in the past. So, you know,
00:17:32
things sometimes conspire in your in
00:17:33
your favor. Sometimes sometimes things
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don't, right? And I do think it is
00:17:38
circumstantial. So, I think you have to
00:17:40
weigh the circumstances. You know, I ran
00:17:42
for president because I had a had a
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thesis. The thesis was urban voters,
00:17:46
Hispanics, and young voters, if they
00:17:48
went Republican, would favor the
00:17:51
Republican candidate or Republican
00:17:52
candidate win. And it they did. It just
00:17:53
wasn't me, right? It was a different
00:17:55
candidate. But, you know, the president
00:17:57
did a great job on podcasts, right?
00:17:59
Going on all these podcasts that, you
00:18:01
know, the vice president didn't do. Um,
00:18:03
and he got young voters and he got urban
00:18:05
voters. Uh, look, a Republican's never
00:18:07
going to win Philadelphia, right? Trump
00:18:09
lost Philadelphia to Biden by 85%. But
00:18:12
he lost Philadelphia to Kamla by 75%.
00:18:16
And and that delta, the 75, 85, that 10%
00:18:19
delta gave him Pennsylvania. Yeah,
00:18:21
that's the election, which was such a
00:18:23
crucial state, right? Like arguably the
00:18:25
the winning state. So you you know,
00:18:27
Republicans are never going to
00:18:28
necessarily win urban votes or the urban
00:18:31
population centers throughout America.
00:18:33
But you're also seeing and and I think
00:18:35
it's important to note you're seeing
00:18:37
Democratic mayors lose across America.
00:18:39
London Breed lost in San Francisco.
00:18:41
Yeah. Tashara Jones lost in St. Louis.
00:18:43
The mayor of of Chicago, Lori Lightoot
00:18:45
lost. On that point, you were the or
00:18:47
still are the head of No, I was I was a
00:18:49
president US Conference of Yeah. for a
00:18:50
year and a half. Okay. If if if we had
00:18:52
to ask you, you can't live in Miami.
00:18:55
Yeah. You met all those mayors. Who
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where are two places that you think are
00:18:59
actually well-run that aspire, you know,
00:19:02
to do something great and have their
00:19:03
[Â __Â ] together?
00:19:05
Cities. Take your time. I don't jump to
00:19:08
an answer. I I'll say this. I I'll tell
00:19:10
you a mayor that I like. How about that?
00:19:11
Okay. Justin Bib. Justin Bib is a mayor
00:19:14
of Cleveland. We got a couple Cleveland
00:19:17
people here apparently. There we go.
00:19:19
Justin is a good friend. Uh I have a lot
00:19:21
of friends that are mayors. I'm a mayor.
00:19:23
You know, I love all my mayors because I
00:19:24
was a president of that institution. But
00:19:26
I think Justin is a young, dynamic guy
00:19:30
who's smart, not super partisan, cares
00:19:33
tremendously about his city, and and we
00:19:35
talk a lot about it because obviously
00:19:36
Miami and Cleveland are a little
00:19:37
different, right? On the margins, that's
00:19:40
fair. Uh and and we joke about it. He
00:19:42
says, you know, I wish I had the kind of
00:19:43
problems you have. To go back to sort of
00:19:44
the Ken Griffin quote, you know, they
00:19:46
they don't struggle with affordable
00:19:48
housing. They got plenty of affordable
00:19:49
housing cuz people don't necessarily
00:19:51
want to live there. Um
00:19:53
uh sorry Jay sorry Jay I love you bro.
00:19:56
Uh but but it's true right? It's kind of
00:19:59
true. So so he's dealing with economic
00:20:02
uh development. He's dealing with he
00:20:04
wants to he wants to be the Miami of
00:20:06
Ohio in terms of getting investment
00:20:08
getting the tech community there getting
00:20:10
people special people to move into his
00:20:12
community and believe in his vision. And
00:20:15
uh I think look company building is hard
00:20:18
as you guys know you guys have built
00:20:19
some incredible companies. Ecosystem
00:20:21
building is even harder, right? It's
00:20:23
it's it's a thousandx harder than
00:20:24
building a big company. I mean,
00:20:26
companies take years into decades and
00:20:29
ecosystems take decades into centuries.
00:20:31
Yeah. It's too different. Yeah. Is there
00:20:33
something
00:20:34
that inside of the next gubernatorial
00:20:37
campaign, let's say you don't run for
00:20:39
governor, that's a high impact job at
00:20:41
the state level? Not really. I get to
00:20:43
practice and I have a private sector
00:20:45
life. Uh I have a 11-year-old and a
00:20:46
seven-year-old. So, I mean, if the
00:20:48
president called me and said, you know,
00:20:50
I want you to be the US ambassador to,
00:20:53
you know, a country that I have a
00:20:54
passion to help, you know, in terms of
00:20:56
the United States, in terms of their
00:20:58
relationship and world peace and things
00:21:00
of that nature. Um, which I think
00:21:02
are high ROIs for for the time
00:21:05
investment and the financial sacrifice
00:21:07
that you have to make. I would strongly
00:21:09
consider it. But other than that, I
00:21:10
mean, I'm I live a very blessed life,
00:21:12
you know. I I I'm the mayor of the best
00:21:14
city on the planet, you know. Yeah.
00:21:18
And I have incredible, incredible,
00:21:19
incredible bosses. These are my bosses.
00:21:22
I have the best bosses in the world.
00:21:23
Yeah. And they're constantly encouraging
00:21:25
me. They're constantly cheering me on.
00:21:27
And and and I live and breathe for them.
00:21:29
I wake up early in the morning. I go to
00:21:30
bed late. And I carry their problems,
00:21:32
their hopes, and their dreams in my
00:21:34
soul. All right. Give it up for Francis
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of besties are gone.
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