try to channel through the soft parts first. i m going to start crying. all right. i m going in. good god. women: yes or no? anthony: it s delicious, but woman: it s a little much, right? anthony: there s no way this thing is holding together until the last bite. women: all right. i can t even get the whole thing. that s ridiculous. anthony: this is open until 4:00 a.m. so there s definitely a time of day when that seems like a perfectly reasonable idea. women: if you drink too much, this will pretty much take care of everything that ever ailed you. anthony: long a refuge for people from all over the caribbean basin and latin america, miami was also an
the sun comes up in a hazy tropical orange orb, and you re not working. you re not on a schedule. and you have no meetings, but you have somebody fun to spend the time with. and then you would go to the beach when the sun isn t right 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.
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 klein 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 beach for the simple reason that people were stationed here, and they saw a world that they didn t believe. anthony: 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. matt: they told their parents about us and their parents came down, sons came down, they opened their businesses here, and they were basically jewish at the time and
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. i don t see any birds at all here today. it s so quiet. anthony: is this the reward phase of your life, or is it just dumb luck?
iggy: it s been mostly i think a reward phase for stuff i did up until the age 30. stuff you had to do on instinct and not on intelligence. anthony: see, i think you deserve it. but when i look at my own life, you know, i m actually i m ambivalent. i mean, i m still not so sure. you know? iggy: i m still curious. you seem like a curious person. anthony: it s my only virtue. iggy: there you go. all right. curious is a good thing to be. it seems to pay some unexpected dividends. i am a passenger and i ride and ride i ride through the city i see the stars come out of the sky so let s ride and ride and ride and ride anthony: i guess that s what it comes down to. all of it. led here. i write a book, i get a tv show, i live my dreams, i meet my hero.