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Speaker 10 Miami Beach Mayor Stephen Minor doesn't want to talk to us.

Speaker 10 The mayor is having to deal with allegations in what appears to be a current investigation into his conduct, alleged unwanted sexual advances made by Miner to co-workers.

Speaker 9 Just a look at his face is enough to make you nauseous.

Speaker 9 Little Schmendrick, who hates freedom of speech.

Speaker 12 Please terminate the mic.

Speaker 14 You're close to being removed from this meeting, actually.

Speaker 9 He's a lecterous sex fiend lurking around the office.

Speaker 14 I'm very hands-on.

Speaker 9 Allegedly.

Speaker 9 And we made him the mayor of Miami Beach.

Speaker 14 Mayor of Even Minor.

Speaker 9 Minor wants to overload the time. Father with his eyes.
Such a creepy guy.

Speaker 9 His smile is so goofish. Every time makes the entrance run and hide.

Speaker 9 And that's why he resigned.

Speaker 15 Mayor, why did you resign from the SEC?

Speaker 9 Sir, don't

Speaker 9 worry.

Speaker 9 The epitome of slime.

Speaker 9 He's a devious nude nick, repugnant, and pathetic. Good evening, Miami Beach.

Speaker 9 More embarrassing every time he speaks.

Speaker 14 Known as the Lauren Order Mayor,

Speaker 14 that's a great honor.

Speaker 9 And he claims his accusers are all anti-Semitic.

Speaker 9 Is it true

Speaker 9 those allegations that I'm

Speaker 9 not sure? Just by virtue of calling out this freak.

Speaker 9 And Stephen Miner's pants are way too tight. Lots of balls in sight, needs invisible.

Speaker 9 He wants an apartment on the site for an intern cock you find.

Speaker 9 Minor wants to algo all the time. Follow with his eyes, such a creepy guy.

Speaker 9 Sexual

Speaker 9 harassing tripletite makes the interns run and hide.

Speaker 9 It's time he should resign.

Speaker 9 Yo,

Speaker 14 Mr. Mayor, can we talk to you really quickly?

Speaker 9 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, who please don't talk to me.

Speaker 11 Miami Beach Mayor and accused serial sex pest Stephen Miner is running for re-election.

Speaker 9 Hashtag.

Speaker 11 Because Miami. Beach.
In fact, voting is underway. Absentee ballots or the vote by mail ballots have already arrived.
And

Speaker 11 that election day, for now, that election day is Tuesday, November 4th.

Speaker 11 You will find out more than you really ever wanted to know about Stephen Minor and the horrendous allegations against him later on in the show.

Speaker 11 But first, that election day, it's not just in Miami Beach, it's also in the great free city of because Miami. And as you know, the mayor's race is now a complete clown car.
It is full.

Speaker 11 13 people, 13 candidates have qualified to run because, of course, Miami Mayor Francis Juarez

Speaker 11 is regrettably term-limited. If you put garbage in, you're going to get garbage out.
And now we have to elect. a new mayor and some new commissioners in the city of Miami.

Speaker 11 This was, of course, the election that was nearly canceled until Miami mayoral candidate and former city manager Emilio Gonzalez sued the city and got the election reinstated.

Speaker 11 Now, Roy, there has been these mayoral forums, debates, whatever you want to call them. And dude, they have been outright cockfights.
I mean,

Speaker 11 absolutely

Speaker 11 just absolutely classic.

Speaker 11 And we put some highlights together so everybody can live vicariously through the experience that is a third world

Speaker 11 election here in South Florida. One of the funny things is that, so some of these guys are like right out of the antique shop here in Miami.

Speaker 11 I mean, you've got Xavier Suarez, who was the first Cuban mayor

Speaker 11 ever elected to the city of Miami in 1985. And of course, he is the father of Miami Mayor Francis Suarez.

Speaker 11 And so you have Joe Carrollo, who you know and love.

Speaker 9 Yeah, I don't know about love.

Speaker 11 As well as Alex Diaz-Laportilla, the former commissioner who was removed from office by Mayor Ron DeSantis after he was arrested for money laundering and bribery, among other charges, charges that were dropped 14 months later, and he was exonerated.

Speaker 11 And, of course, you have former city commissioner Ken Russell, who we've had on the program.

Speaker 11 And what was incredible about this is that when we first started this show years ago, Ken Russell was the chairman.

Speaker 11 of the Miami City Commission, and he would sit there between Joe Corollo to his right, Alex Diaz-Laportilla to his left, and these two guys would kick the shit out of Ken Russell for just hours on end.

Speaker 11 It was absolutely hilarious and pathetic to watch, and we got that all over again at this last Miami mayoral debate.

Speaker 11 Something called candidate forums. It was a debate.
It was a cockfight.

Speaker 11 And I want to give you a little taste of what it was like hearing from Ken Russell, Alex Diaz-Laportilla, who seemed like, he was high on life. He seemed buzzed.

Speaker 11 And then Joe Carrollo, it was like weekend at Bernie's with Joe Carrollo. We'll talk about that later.
He had no life. But you have to just experience Sabado Night at the cock fights.

Speaker 9 Sabado Night at the cock fights.

Speaker 9 Good evening and welcome to the city of Miami mayoral debate.

Speaker 5 Absentee ballot fraud, pay-for-play, abuse of power. This isn't theoretical corruption.
This is the resume of the people on this stage. And I know it because I've testified.

Speaker 5 against more than one of them.

Speaker 9 Including me.

Speaker 9 When you have a feckless commissioner like Commissioner Russell, for example, who wasn't able to stop anything, all he does is complain about why things happened this way or happened that way.

Speaker 9 You didn't do anything about it because you were never able to get a majority of the vote in the commission. You weren't able to convince your colleagues to vote a certain way.

Speaker 9 So everything you complain about, you allowed to happen. You weren't able to stop it.

Speaker 9 How are you going to do anything as mayor if you can't stop something from happening?

Speaker 5 When I was in office, the solution presented by these two gentlemen was to arrest the homeless and send them to Virginia Key.

Speaker 9 That's that, man. That's that.
So we never said arrest.

Speaker 9 The other stuff that he said is hogwash. You were a commissioner and you ran for three different offices while you were a commissioner.
You left early.

Speaker 9 You had a little hissy fit your last commission meeting because you didn't get your way. You're not a leader of the commission.
You never wore it for eight years. You never led in the commission.

Speaker 9 You never passed anything. You ran out of the last commission meeting when you were running for Senate or Congress.
I forget what it was.

Speaker 9 So you are not going to be the leader of anything or the adult in the room. You were the child from the beginning.

Speaker 5 I did leave 10 months early on an eight-year term, but I didn't leave in handcuffs like that.

Speaker 5 No, I was cleared of everything.

Speaker 9 I was cleared of everything. All the charges were dropped.
You were one of the co-conspirators. You perjured yourself.
That's why you're part of the lawsuit that I'm filing.

Speaker 11 You were a liar.

Speaker 5 I remember that lawsuit very well on Watson Island because you voted together with me on it.

Speaker 9 I was not in the commission. Excuse me.
I was not in the commission then, sir. You were.
And you were

Speaker 9 not in the commission then.

Speaker 9 You said in our state meeting that you have to be held accountable.

Speaker 5 The department was enabling their malfeasance.

Speaker 9 Elliot, no, she made a reference to me. Xavier Sures.

Speaker 4 I need to return to the corner. I never said anyone by name.
Thank you very much.

Speaker 9 Oh, come on. Bye-bye, bye bye.

Speaker 9 No, but Xavier,

Speaker 9 she made a reference to me. Xavier Swarzza.
I did not.

Speaker 13 Because if you say the word corruption, he gets a rebuttal.

Speaker 9 No, no, no.

Speaker 9 You throw out buzzwords like corruption and transparency, and this is is a corruption guy, anti-corruption, anti-transparency. You know what happens? Those are buzzwords.

Speaker 9 Prove one thing that's corrupt about me. Do you have any evidence?

Speaker 11 What a show, dude. What a show.
DLP was in rare form. I will admit, Ken Russell, I think he kind of, if you had to score the debate, I think he won it.
He had to. He had no choice.

Speaker 9 You won on the card.

Speaker 11 He gave a very good performance.

Speaker 11 That montage isn't necessarily indicative of it, but he did have two of the best lines of the night that you heard there, you know, which were, yes, I left early, but I didn't leave in handcuffs like you did.

Speaker 11 And the second one was, every time someone mentions corruption, he gets a rebuttal.

Speaker 11 It was very, very funny and fun in the room, as you heard from the reaction of the audience, of the peanut gallery there. And Diaz Laportea came up to me.

Speaker 11 in the lobby and said he wants to come on the podcast. I've been inviting him.

Speaker 9 Oh, shit.

Speaker 11 I've been inviting him on this show for years. And he walked up to me unsolicited and says he wants to come on the show.
I've tried to reach out to him and get in touch, but I haven't heard back yet.

Speaker 11 I would love to have him on the show here. The man is, he's a regular Nelson Mandela.

Speaker 11 The man was unfair.

Speaker 9 He was unfairly arrested.

Speaker 11 What was that?

Speaker 9 He's free at last.

Speaker 11 Free at last. Thank God Almighty DLP is not at last.

Speaker 9 What are you doing?

Speaker 11 The man was falsely arrested for bribery and money laundering. I mean, like, we have to have this conversation.
This is an interesting conversation.

Speaker 11 And also interesting, DLP was hilarious on this issue.

Speaker 11 Someone brought up an issue that I bring up regularly, which is the political, like dynastic crime families in this community and about how we don't recycle our garbage in Miami, we re-elect it and generationally too.

Speaker 11 And here's what he had to say about the dynasty argument.

Speaker 5 This ridiculous display is exactly why we need reform. Yes.

Speaker 5 It's not about the personalities on this stage. It's about the system of government that we have that encourages the dynasties to come back over and over again and control Miami.

Speaker 9 I don't agree with the whole dynasty argument. It's a complete bull argument, by the way.
People go and people vote.

Speaker 9 They pick Alex Diaz-Lappertia, Joe Carroll, or Frank Carroll, or Miguel Diaz-LaBertia. That's fine.
That's their choice. That's not a dynasty.
That's not a dynasty. That's an election.

Speaker 9 It's a democracy. That's what's beautiful about it.
I'm not sure what you would call a situation where a son leaves office and then his father runs for the same seat. Inverse dynasty?

Speaker 11 That last voice you heard was Xavier Suarez, the father of Francis Suarez, wondering what a reverse dynasty looks like when the son is elected after the father and the father is elected after the son.

Speaker 11 But you have a situation right now where Frank Carollo, the brother of Joe Carollo, who was in

Speaker 11 the District 3 City of Miami Commission seat for eight years, two four-year terms consecutively, he leaves office, term limited. Joe Carrollo comes in for eight years, two consecutive four-year terms.

Speaker 11 And now who's running running for Joe's seat? Frank Carrollo. Of course.

Speaker 9 See?

Speaker 11 So this idea that there's no dynasties, you have Diaz-La Portilla, you have three Diaz-laportilla brothers, you have multiple Diaz-Billart brothers, you have multiple Suarez's, multi-generational, you have multiple regolados, multiple Hardemans, multiple.

Speaker 11 I mean, like, come on. But he denies that he's like, oh, no, no, we have elections.
We have elections where you elect the same. family and the same last name over and over and over again.

Speaker 11 But that's not a dynasty. That's a democracy.
Horseshit. Because they get a stranglehold.
That's what happens here. And Joe Carrollo, I mean, come on, man.
Come on, man. This guy.

Speaker 11 And this guy's out here picking fights with everybody, including Emilio Gonzalez. And he has the audacity to go after Emilio Gonzalez for how he's paying his attorney's fees.

Speaker 11 Can you imagine Joe Carrollo decides that the hill he wants to fight on and the moral authority he wants is who's paying for his attorney's fees when the taxpayers of Miami have spent over $20 million and counting on his personal attorney's fees in these corruption cases.

Speaker 11 But listen to this.

Speaker 9 But for me, we wouldn't be in this room because I had to sue the city of Miami to have the election that we're all competing in.

Speaker 9 We have a problem with corruption. Massive.
It isn't even individual corruption. It's now a cultural corruption.

Speaker 9 We should have transparency since that's the other cliché word that's used so much in this campaign.

Speaker 9 Where did the hundreds of thousands of dollars to have the attorneys to file this lawsuit come from?

Speaker 9 Did it come from the half million in Mission Miami PAC

Speaker 9 that comes from a New York investment firm? First of all, Joe, I haven't paid my legal fees yet. Secondly, I received a donation from a company that actually has no business.
It's my firm.

Speaker 9 They do no business in Miami. They do no business in the state of Florida.
And they believe in me. Unlike you, you've been shaking people down for 40 years.

Speaker 9 Okay?

Speaker 9 You have a pack. You have a pact.
You have a pack with millions of dollars. And I guarantee you,

Speaker 9 people aren't giving you money because they agree with your Judeo-Christian values. Time's up.
And now I have to give Joe Carrollo a rebuttal. Go ahead.

Speaker 9 Let him show one person that he claims to have shook down for a penny. He knows it's a lie because he was manager there.
If he knew that, he could have reported it.

Speaker 9 We live in legal problems. We are the self-licking ice cream cone for the legal community in the city of Miami.
You can't pick up a newspaper or go on TV. There's a settlement.
There's a lawsuit.

Speaker 9 I mean, it's just on and on and on. And it's never ending.
It is never ending. We are a laughing stock because of this.
We deserve better. We're serious people.
You know what?

Speaker 9 Nobody else thinks we're serious people. Travel the world.
They look at you and say, you live in Miami? Oh,

Speaker 9 no. Come on.
Nobody says that. And this is an embarrassment.
There is a reputational cost to the dysfunction that exists in the city of Miami today, and it's got to stop.

Speaker 11 Here, here, that was Emilio Gonzalez that you heard at the end going head to head with Joe Carollio, who his wife must have brought a defibrillator on stage because he was comatose for much of the evening.

Speaker 11 Poor Joe.

Speaker 11 Poor Joe. Poor Joe.

Speaker 9 Crooked ass jacket they did.

Speaker 11 Poor sito, little Joe.

Speaker 9 Little Billy Corbin.

Speaker 11 So, and his crooked ass jacket, everything about him is crooked, dude, including that jacket. But Xavier Suarez, dude, Xavier Suarez arrived to this debate in a DeLorean with a flux capacitor, okay?

Speaker 11 Directly from 1985. Listen to this.

Speaker 9 When I was elected mayor in 1985, in 1992, the whole thing started in 2002. I I was mayor 40 years ago.
There's a new sheriff in town, and it's the same as the old sheriff.

Speaker 11 I mean, he talked about every year except 2025. It was in 1985, 1992, 2002.
Of course, he doesn't want to talk about his son Francis Suarez's record. Mr.
Mayor, you're brilliant. You were super smart.

Speaker 11 Because everybody knows he's a... Underhanded man-child fails, son.

Speaker 16 If you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it.

Speaker 11 And speaking of learning from history, only in Miami do you have candidates who was the mayor like, you know, 40 years ago saying shit like this.

Speaker 9 As soon as I left office, after eight years of not a single criminal indictment against anybody on the commission,

Speaker 9 despite a few that may have come a little close.

Speaker 12 You've got three commissioners that are under indictment. You've got...
No, wait a minute. Only one city of Miami commissioner.
The other ones are taking...

Speaker 12 I'm sorry.

Speaker 12 One commissioner, the city manager, and the chief financial officer.

Speaker 9 Right?

Speaker 12 The city manager and the chief financial officer, yes. And those were all from prior administrations.

Speaker 9 As soon as I left office, okay, all the hanky-panky began again, and there were, I don't know how many people ended up in the big house, but

Speaker 9 a city manager, commissioner, etc.

Speaker 9 I was the sheriff.

Speaker 12 But that certainly doesn't sound like the mayor's closest political ally, City Commissioner Umberto Hernandez. Now, Commissioner Hernandez has a legal problem which predates his public service.

Speaker 12 How would you describe his legal problem?

Speaker 12 I have learned over the years not to describe legal problems of one of my fellow government officials. You can describe it however you want.

Speaker 12 He's under federal indictment for bank fraud and money laundering. Well, you say money laundering, you're making it sound like it has to do with drugs.
It has nothing to do with drugs.

Speaker 12 It's a different kind of situation.

Speaker 12 Different kind of money laundering.

Speaker 9 Yes.

Speaker 16 Boy, Hanky-Panky in in the big house. That is an old man.

Speaker 11 So what you just heard there was intercutting between the 2025 Miami mayoral debate and a 1998 Steve Croft 60 Minutes, a classic piece called Welcome to Miami, which is just brilliant.

Speaker 11 If you can find it online, Carl Hyacin is in it. It's just, it's a classic.
And it's so many of the last names that we still recognize and regrettably talk about today.

Speaker 11 But what happened, and I could go on about Umberto Hernandez, but I'm going to put a pin in that for the moment because he's still a character that's around in the city of Miami somehow after all of his legal travails.

Speaker 11 But what happened in 1997 is Xavier Suarez won an election for mayor against Joe Carrollo.

Speaker 11 And then in 1998, a judge found rampant absentee ballot fraud, found that not only did felons vote and signatures of witness ballots were perhaps forged, but found that dead people voted in that election.

Speaker 11 And they were super voters. These were people who died and voted in every election since their death here in Miami.

Speaker 11 And so a lot of the mythology and the demagoguery about election fraud that Donald Trump talks about, for example, is born out of the 97 Miami mayoral election.

Speaker 11 And in 1998, the courts null and voided all of those absentee ballots, 400 of them, I believe, they ultimately found to have been fraudulent.

Speaker 11 And as a result, they said the only thing that will stand are the actual in-person votes that were cast in Miami?

Speaker 11 And that meant that Joe Carollo, who would come in second place to Xavier Suarez, was appointed the mayor by the courts. God damn it.

Speaker 11 So they removed Xavier Suarez as mayor for absentee ballot fraud and installed. Now, mind you, they never said that Xavier Suarez was aware of the absentee ballot fraud, but he had benefited from it.

Speaker 11 And so they removed him and installed Joe Carollo, who ultimately, of course, got arrested because.

Speaker 11 And that's how we got mayor joe carollo in 1998 it's a fascinating story and so joe tried his best to explain these similar controversies listen to this the fbi the u.s attorney met with me to tell me that

Speaker 9 your city manager finance director commissioner lobbyist were going to be arrested i knew it already i told them

Speaker 9 I know. They were surprised.
Well, I let them know who was the one that was spreading it out so they know who from inside was saying it.

Speaker 11 Does anybody have any idea what the hell he was just saying? No. You know what it reminds me, part of it, Roy, reminded me? Joe Corrollo, like out there, it was so pathetic.

Speaker 11 He just was just babbling on incoherently. He kept going, Elliot Rodriguez from CBS Miami.
He was the moderator, and I thought he did a good job because it's like, how do you...

Speaker 11 referee a cock fight without putting those gloves on and grabbing the roosters by the neck, you know, and separating them.

Speaker 11 I thought he did a very good job, but Joe would just keep talking and Elliot had to keep like, was forced to like

Speaker 11 jump in and stop and go, time, like, we're on a time. There's like six candidates up here.
Everybody needs to talk. You know what it reminded me of?

Speaker 11 It reminded me of when Jeff Lauria and David Sampson carted out Muhammad Ali to sort of kind of not really throw out the first pitch, the actual opening day of opening day of Marlins Park, which I think is probably one of the most notorious and saddest days in the history of professional sports.

Speaker 11 I mean, like, literally carted him out there. That's what it reminded me of with Joe Corrollo, but not quite as sad.

Speaker 9 No child left behind, tutoring for children.

Speaker 9 Time, Joe.

Speaker 9 Reinvested in more

Speaker 9 buildings that we built so people could have their own and own their own houses.

Speaker 9 Paying for that also. Thank you, Joe.
One officer in December when nobody goes out. So what did we accomplish? Joe, your time's up.
And the effect that it's had on them. Okay, Joe.

Speaker 9 They don't want to leave the streets. Wouldn't he have any sewer? Which was a lie.

Speaker 9 He was right next door, besides being mayor.

Speaker 9 And if he weren't mayor, they won't hire him for that. Joe.
Secondly of all.

Speaker 9 Secondly of all. Joe, Joe, I need to show or not.
Okay, time's up. Thank you.
Such needs for affordable housing community and other needs. Bay from Parkham.
Thank you, Commissioner.

Speaker 9 That's going to require tens of millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars.

Speaker 9 Time's up. I see 30 seconds, though.
That was 30 seconds. 30 over.
Okay. The governor at the time

Speaker 9 came out and stated that

Speaker 9 history will show that Joe Carolyo served with integrity and principle.

Speaker 11 Okay.

Speaker 14 Thank you very much.

Speaker 11 The question again, please.

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Speaker 10 The mayor is having to deal with allegations and what appears to be a current investigation into his conduct.

Speaker 15 Mayor, why did you resign from the SEC?

Speaker 11 Meet Miami Beach Mayor Stephen Minor. As a politician, he campaigns on family values, ethics, and being tough on crime.

Speaker 11 In real life, he's an accused serial sex pest, reportedly under investigation for sexual harassment. For 17 years, Miner had a great job as an enforcement attorney at the U.S.

Speaker 11 Securities and Exchange Commission, working in the Miami office since 2007, making nearly a quarter of a million dollars a year. Suddenly, last year, in 2024, he just quit.

Speaker 11 Abandoning a $235,000 salary, all of his benefits, and sources say a lifetime pension that would have vested in just three years.

Speaker 11 Even stranger, his resignation form is like like the Epstein files, completely redacted by the federal government, as if leaving the SEC is some kind of national security secret.

Speaker 11 Turns out, according to former colleagues, Miner wasn't just enforcing securities law, he was forcing himself on young ladies in the office.

Speaker 11 Three women, two interns and an attorney, say Miner was not a coworker, but a creep who repeatedly and relentlessly sexually harassed them.

Speaker 11 In 2012, a college intern said Miner, who was married, invited her to dinner in Brickell after work, where he tried to kiss her twice.

Speaker 11 Both times she said no, no, and the next day told a colleague she was repulsed and had to push him back. Another intern who was in law school claims Miner wouldn't take no for an answer.

Speaker 11 She says he made inappropriate comments, asked her out repeatedly, and sent flirtatious text messages. Even after she reminded him he had a wife and kids and she was in a serious relationship.

Speaker 11 The messages became more frequent and suggestive even after her internship ended until her boyfriend got so frustrated he texted Miner himself to stop bothering her. It was the sheer persistence.

Speaker 11 It was me politely declining way too many times. In 2016, a junior SEC attorney said Miner's sexual harassment changed the course of my life.

Speaker 11 Miner would come into her office and stand on her side of the desk. He told her he wanted a second apartment, not for work or family, but to carry on an affair with her.

Speaker 5 She said he looked at my legs at least three times.

Speaker 11 When she told him to leave, he lingered, calling her one of his closest friends. She later wrote in a memo that she was shaking after the encounter.

Speaker 11 Records show she reported it to her superiors right away in 2016. Then she resigned from the agency two months later, blaming Miner's predatory behavior on the SEC's failure to address it.

Speaker 11 The woman told me he was an equal opportunity harasser. He even tried to kiss coworkers during work hours and on coffee runs to Starbucks.

Speaker 9 So there's no truth to any of those allegations at all.

Speaker 11 Last year, the SEC finally launched an HR investigation into the sexual harassment allegations against Miner, according to the Miami Herald.

Speaker 11 But months later, Miner was able to kill the investigation by resigning.

Speaker 14 It's false, by the way. There is no

Speaker 11 The mayor landed on his feet, though, immediately scoring a private sector job as senior executive at the Farkas Group, run by the founder of Blink Charging, a company who, just months before hiring Minor, got his vote for a city contract.

Speaker 11 Miner's tenure as mayor has been marked by crime

Speaker 11 and a lack of accountability.

Speaker 9 I have tried to text, call, and email you, and you won't answer. Don't touch me.

Speaker 11 Roy, have you been watching Chad Powers on the Hulu Machine?

Speaker 16 I haven't yet. I really want to watch that because they got somebody from Ted Lasso's doing the show.

Speaker 11 So, dude, sounds good. It's like Ted Lasso

Speaker 11 half empty. I love it.
I like Ted Lasso, but it's like it's a little too chipper for me. Right.
You know, I like the cynicism and I like

Speaker 9 the realism.

Speaker 11 I like the realism of Chad Powers, and I think it's hilarious.

Speaker 11 But speaking of realism, I'll say this right now: I believe it is the best, most accurate, exciting, realistic portrayal of not just college football, but probably football that I've ever seen on film or on a TV show.

Speaker 11 It's like spectacularly realistic. And I understand they have done some shooting during halftime of certain games.

Speaker 11 I mean, when you have the Manning brothers as your executive producers, and of course, it's inspired by that Eli Manning skit that he did going undercover, like, who is that guy? Who is this guy?

Speaker 11 I mean, that's like what the whole, when you hear that they're going to do a show that's kind of inspired by like that Eli Manning sketch and Mrs. Doubtfire, you're kind of like, how what? How what?

Speaker 11 And I don't know. I think it works.
The cast is great. The writing is great.
It's really funny. My one regret is that it's six episodes.
So we're like halfway through.

Speaker 11 We're halfway through the season now. And I don't know that they're going to do a second one.
I guess it depends on how Running Man does. Glenn Powell.

Speaker 9 Oh, fuck.

Speaker 11 I don't know. I want to see Running Man.

Speaker 16 I don't. No, no.
I mean, mean,

Speaker 16 the Naked Gun is one thing. Yeah.
That's great. All right.
Yeah. I can't wait to look for that one.
But The Running Man?

Speaker 11 Yeah. The classic?

Speaker 16 You just.

Speaker 16 No.

Speaker 11 Dude, how is it okay to remake or reboot Naked Gun, but not The Running Man, of all things?

Speaker 11 It's a Stephen King.

Speaker 16 Yeah, but The Naked Gun is a parody, though. I can deal with that being redone.

Speaker 9 But The Running Man? Yes.

Speaker 9 With Jim Brown?

Speaker 11 What a great story to read.

Speaker 11 Yes, Yes, with Jim Brown. That's correct.

Speaker 9 And Arnold. With Friday Dawson? Yes.

Speaker 11 I don't know. I'm...

Speaker 11 Listen, give me a throwback to the 80s and the 90s, and

Speaker 11 I'm there. I'll give it a story.

Speaker 16 That's all we're doing now is rebooting old stuff.

Speaker 11 And that's all we're doing because we're the only people consuming content.

Speaker 16 Unless we're stealing from England.

Speaker 11 Yes, formats. We'll do formats too.
But I just feel like we're the only people who are consuming legacy media content, people of a particular generation.

Speaker 11 New generations don't necessarily have those relationships outside of maybe Disney classics that we then kind of dragged our kids into. But other than that, this is what people want.

Speaker 11 More of the same, more a connection to your childhood and your past.

Speaker 9 Like the redoing of the Lion King.

Speaker 11 The world burns around you. Did anybody go see? That was a bummer.
Did you see?

Speaker 16 I mean, you can't see the emotion on the lion's face on this reboot.

Speaker 11 I find that uncanny valley on like the CG animals talking, that creeps me out a bit. Yeah.
I can't do that. I can't.
And also, it's just another animated movie.

Speaker 11 It's not a live action remake of the lion. It's just another cartoon of the Lion King.

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 11 I don't really get it. It creeps me out a little bit.
I do want to do some updates, though, because believe it or not, we do cover some important shit here on the program. And it comes around again.

Speaker 11 I don't know if you remember we interviewed Marvin Dunn about the Donald Trump Presidential Library right next door here. Yeah.
By the way, something that I'm, we're a tourism town.

Speaker 11 And if you want to open a tourist attraction here, I don't really care what it is. I'm fine with a Trump library, presidential library, hotel, casino, whatever the hell it is being built over here.

Speaker 11 The problem is, is the real estate hustle. The problem is that they gifted him this upwards of $350 million piece of land owned by this public university, this public college.

Speaker 11 Turns out, I'm not alone in that feeling. A poll by Ben Dixon Amondi and reported here in Florida Politics shows that a whopping 74%

Speaker 11 of Miami-Dade respondents say that this 2.6 acre parcel targeted for this Trump facility should instead stay with the college for possible expansion.

Speaker 11 Just 14% said the state should take the land and gift it. to Trump.

Speaker 11 Naturally, Republicans are warmer to the idea with 59% supporting a Trump library on the state-acquired Miami-Dade College land compared to 29% who oppose it, whereas you have 94% of Democrats against the plan.

Speaker 11 But here's the thing, 69%

Speaker 11 of third-party and no-party voters feel the same. This is not a winning issue.
It's barely even a winning issue amongst Republicans in Miami-Dade County.

Speaker 11 That was a very surprising poll to see, honestly.

Speaker 16 None of this feels legal.

Speaker 11 Well, it certainly doesn't feel kosher.

Speaker 11 Like, I don't know if it's legal or not, and there's certainly going to be legal challenges that are working their way through the courts now.

Speaker 11 But it's just like, if you want to sell them the property, sell them the property at fair market value or put it on the market and find out what that value is.

Speaker 11 But when you're kind of staking the future of this very important, it's one of the largest colleges, I think, by student body. in the entire country.

Speaker 11 So this is a very important institution to the country, to this community, and they don't have a lot of room for growth.

Speaker 11 And to give away a piece of property like this, I just think is, again, sell it. That's fine.

Speaker 11 Build the endowment of the school, pack some money into the institution that you could help to grow it and help support the students and the faculty.

Speaker 11 But to give it away, you know, and that's the thing too. Like, I like the fact that it would share a lot with the Freedom Tower.

Speaker 11 Again, I don't have a problem fundamentally with any of that. To me, it's just the fact that everything in Miami is a real estate hustle.

Speaker 16 The other thing is symbolically, that sharing the lot with the Freedom Tower just is...

Speaker 11 Symbolically, I think it's hilarious.

Speaker 11 I just think it's hilarious. Why not? I mean, like, it's the Ellis Island of the South, and you're going to, like, the view of it is going to be a celebration of the deporter-in-chief.

Speaker 11 I mean, that's going to be his legacy. That's what he chose his legacy to be.
I think so be it. This county voted for him.

Speaker 11 This county went red for the first time in decades for a presidential election. And this is what we wanted.
We wanted him to deport people.

Speaker 11 To be clear, the poll was not, do you want a Trump presidential library here or not? It's not really going to be a presidential library. It's really going to be a casino and hotel.
Well, I mean,

Speaker 11 a casino wouldn't arguably be legal, but if anybody could make it happen, I believe that Trump could make it happen.

Speaker 11 But it's going to be, you know, a major duty condo tower and retail mecca and everything. And it's going to basically put the Freedom Tower in its shadow is what it's going to be.

Speaker 11 And again, I think that's hilarious.

Speaker 11 I can bathe in the irony of that all day long.

Speaker 11 I just don't think we should be giving away a piece of property that could be worth $350 million owned by this public university or public college for free.

Speaker 11 I just don't think that's something we should do.

Speaker 11 And again, neither do 74% of my friends and neighbors in Miami-Dade County who don't, 74% of this county doesn't agree on anything, which is like absolutely crazy.

Speaker 11 I also have to love that actually, you know, sort of my people, third party and NPAs, are 69% against it. That's 69.

Speaker 16 Yes, yes. I understand the connotation of number 69.

Speaker 16 Well, look at it this way. At least it's not in Broward.

Speaker 11 Hang on. I have a cart for that.
Broward! So also an update. Remember the Hope Florida story? We had Republican state rep Alex Andrade on the story.

Speaker 11 He actually uncovered during last year's or earlier this year's legislative session that there was something

Speaker 11 also unkosher going on.

Speaker 19 We have,

Speaker 19 at this point,

Speaker 19 information that tends to show that our attorney general committed money laundering and wire fraud.

Speaker 20 State lawmakers asking tough questions about how $10 million was funneled into a nonprofit called Hope Florida and not into a state bank account.

Speaker 21 A charity was spearheaded by First Lady Casey DeSantis.

Speaker 17 That cash quickly went out the door to two nonprofits for $5 million grants and promises that the money would be used to further Hope Florida's mission, not politics.

Speaker 8 But those nonprofits later gave millions to a political committee fighting and defeating last year's recreational wheat amendment, Keep Florida Clean, a group chaired by former DeSantis chief of staff, turned Attorney General James Uthmeier.

Speaker 19 James Uthmeier knew it was a tax-deductible donation to a charity when it went to the charity, and then he knew that the second these two dark money groups would receive the money, they would send it to him and his PAC.

Speaker 9 It's shocking to me that the state's attorney general couldn't even cover his tracks better.

Speaker 11 The guy can't even crime right. I mean, like, you'd hope that the attorney general would be able to cover up his criming a little bit more efficiently.
So that's how it started.

Speaker 11 And this is how it's going this week.

Speaker 17 Prosecutors at the Leon County Courthouse are taking their Hope Florida investigation behind closed doors, reportedly convening a grand jury this week.

Speaker 17 At issue, whether anyone broke the law after $10 million from a Medicaid settlement moved through the Hope Florida Foundation, Democrats like the House Minority Leader call the probe long overdue.

Speaker 22 This is a sort of swamp-like behavior that people hate.

Speaker 22 And this is the sort of thing that make make people really cynical about politics and make them feel like their government is not listening to them.

Speaker 22 So if we can root out this corruption, then we need to do it.

Speaker 11 So now prosecutors in Leon County and Tallahassee have taken it before a secret criminal grand jury to see if any laws were violated. So progress, I suppose.

Speaker 9 Well, unless there's an obstacle.

Speaker 11 You mean like truth, justice? Yeah. The American way.
That's the American way. Like what happened to poor Alex Diaz La Portilla, the Nelson Mandela of Miami.

Speaker 9 How do you dare do that again?

Speaker 9 How dare you, sir?

Speaker 9 Oh boy.

Speaker 11 To leave you today, our Miami moment is actually the intro from that legendary Steve Croft 60 Minutes story, Welcome to Miami, from back in 1998.

Speaker 11 And sometimes it's comforting to see that some things never change. Cocaines.

Speaker 12 It's safe to say that all American cities have some level of political corruption, but few display it with the verve or panache of Miami.

Speaker 12 In fact, it's difficult to imagine a city with more scandals running simultaneously than Miami has running right now.

Speaker 12 This week, a Florida judge is expected to decide whether or not to throw out the results of the last mayoral election because of fraud.

Speaker 12 The city has been teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, and the governor is overseeing the city finances. Three city officials are in jail or on their way to jail for soliciting bribes.
The U.S.

Speaker 12 attorney was forced to resign over an incident in a topless bar, and the head of the city commission is under federal indictment for bank fraud.

Speaker 11 And you don't know the half of it.

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