a 100-year-old man. anthony: i know. you look good. matt: raise your voice a little bit. anthony: you look good. if i look that good when i m 60, i ll be happy. matt: you know the amazing thing about being 100 is? a year ago i was 99. nobody paid attention to me. didn t care. i became 100, my god. anthony: matt klein, the owner, proprietor and regular bartender at max club deuce turned 100 years old this year. yes, 100. he s still here. the cigarette smoke and dark dank atmosphere pretty good for a guy that s seen it all. matt: that s 73 years ago. fort bening, georgia. i was in the second army division. anthony: matt came to miami in 1945 from new york s lower east side by way of the battle of normandy. matt: i came here because i was wounded and the warm weather was much better for me. anthony: but there was a lot of g.i.s during the war here, right? matt: the war made miami
luther: it s everything. when people think about me, this guy makes bootie shaking music. everybody s dancing. everybody is dancing in a sexual way. the girls are standing up on you. i m pretty sure you know about that, the girls stand up on you and put their butt on you. anthony: i ve seen this on television. luther: it s no different than a lap dance. anthony: among your other accomplishments, you ran for office. luther: yeah. anthony: about 70% residents of miami speak spanish at home. luther: uh-huh. anthony: enormous african-american, caribbean community. how come this state keeps electing conservative white guys? luther: conservative white guys, they re paying them popular pastor. don t say nothing, don t energize you re people. you have a whole quiet community. you didn t get them excited about voting.
fresh dill and trout roll will be so over next year, but right now i want like ten more. delicious. fried green tomatoes with pork belly. this is the perfect thing for a guy looking to squeeze into a size 28 speedo tomorrow and hit the beach. anthony: how often are you in miami? questlove: three to five times a year. questlove: what makes the miami sound different from the detroit sound, the philadelphia sound, the new york sound, whatever? questlove: you can t say something specific like philadelphia had orchestral strings in their arrangement whereas stats records had organ in theirs. but i do consider the sound of miami, the beginning of really great dance music. anthony: what s called 77 elvis pancakes? chocolate chip pancakes, bourbon maple syrup and peanut butter. even if you re not the king, you ll want to die on the toilet
overhead yet because the beach faces east, the sun sparkles on the water. and the sparkle is very nice. so positive. anthony: you re the template for the rock star, meaning other rock stars sort of look to you to figure out how should i behave? along with that, look, even at its even if you re broke, you re a guy at various points in life has pretty much been one way or the other have been able to have a lot of things ordinary people would never have. you ve had many, many adventures. iggy: i know anthony: given that, what thrills you? iggy: the nicest stuff right now, this is very embarrassing, but it s really being loved. and actually appreciating the people that are giving that to me.
bahamians figured heavily in the early development of south florida, which began in earnest with the construction of railroads in the late 19th and 20th centuries by this guy. henry morrison flagger, the tycoon largely credited with big the father of modern florida. his dream was the florida east coast railway, which would run from jacksonville to key west connecting the ports of miami to along its route new towns, new cities, new edens where america s rising middle class could frolic and play. he also agreed to lay a foundation for the city on both sides of the miami river. as more and more whites moved in, segregation took hold and much of the bahamian community was forced into the black neighborhoods like overtown and liberty city. if you re looking for old miami,