this is really good. back inland, another world of flavors. little haiti. just in case miami didn t have enough tasty stuff from elsewhere. the b&m market is tucked away in the back. they serve some of the dishes that make me happiest. jerk chicken, who doesn t love that? curried goat, roti, and this. cow-foot soup. flavors, textures, some next level stuff. that looks, by the way, unbelievable. that s so good. what s the best thing about miami? the mix of cultures that we ve got. what s the worst thing? you know what really pisses me off? i walk down the street and i say hi to people because that s kind of like how i am, and i don t get a hi back here. to what do you attribute this? the transient part of it. people don t feel rooted. they are from south america,
yeah. how was that mix? how has that impacted music? 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. the girls stand up on you and put their butt on you. i ve seen this on television. it s no different than a lap dance. among your other accomplishments, you ran for office. yeah. about 70% residents of miami speak spanish at home. uh-huh.
year and that s of 1981 money. that is a lot of trickle down. one of the most successful documentaries in the history of film is cocaine cowboys that tells that story. the film made by these guys, alfred spellman and billy corbin. so things were in decline. cocaine sort of saved the city? we d say so. am i going to get in trouble for it? yes. you had a murder rate. 25% of those bodies had automatic weapons bullets. right. we talk about the uncomfortable reality of where a lot of modern miami came from over something you just have to hit hard in miami when in season. stone crabs. federal reserve branch in
matt klein came from new york s lower east side by way of the battle of normandy. i came here because i was wounded and the warm weather was much better for me. but there was a lot of g.i.s during the war here, right? they saw a world that they didn t believe. during world war ii, miami saw a massive influx of military personnel. hotels, which had seen a sharp drop in business, made a deal with the government to house troops at the empty resorts. they told their parents about it. their parents came down, son came down, they opened their businesses here, and they were basically jewish at the time and that s how it started. by the fall of 1942, more than 78,000 troops were living in 300 hotels in miami and miami beach. how long have you been running the deuce? i took over in 1964.
i m going to start crying. all right. i m going in. good god. yes or no? it s delicious, but it s a little much, right? there s no way this thing is holding together until the last bite. all right. i can t even get the whole thing. that s ridiculous. this is open until 4:00 a.m. so there s definitely a time of day when that seems like a perfectly reasonable idea. if you drink too much, this will pretty much take care of everything that ever ailed you. long a refuge for people all over the caribbean basin and latin america, miami was also an inviting place for americans who just wanted to get off the grid, live differently, and make their own rules. you ll remember travis, the