Mayor Eric Adams: How are you doing, man?
Raud: I’m doing good.
Mayor Adams: Good good coming to New York City, [inaudible].
Raud: I got to. It’s nice to meet you.
Mayor Adams: The pleasure is mine.
Raud: I got to appreciate you for taking some time out today to talk to us, so we got the stream right here.
[Crosstalk.]
Raud: You like dogs?
Mayor Adams: Oh, I love dogs.
Raud: You like all pets or just dogs?
Mayor Adams: Dogs mainly, cats, no cats, you know, check on their feet.
Raud: Okay.
Mayor Adams: But, you know, I love, love, love dogs.
Raud: Okay.
Mayor Adams: I had a childhood dog named Speedy and Speedy was, he always would tell our emotions and moods.
Raud: Dogs really can do that?
Mayor Adams: Yeah, yeah.
Raud: That’s good to know. How was your day today? What did you do today?
Mayor Adams: A couple things, I was out in Brooklyn starting off, had a powerful pastor that was then allocated to become a bishop. I knew his dad. And by this time you’ve been showing us about doing something weird, you know. And then I stopped out at the stage in New York.
Raud: Yeah, I’m thinking about moving down here. Here? Yeah, just for like a year because I’m in Atlanta right now. I’m from Philly though.
Mayor Adams: Okay.
Raud: Dogs really can do that?
Mayor Adams: How did you start your work?
Raud: We started blowing up a little bit. It started getting a little dangerous, so we had to get somewhere to stay.
Mayor Adams: My family’s from Alabama.
Raud: From Alabama? You’re from Alabama?
Mayor Adams: Yes, that’s my mom and dad. You know what’s interesting? Before my grandmother and my father’s side transitioned, I was a state senator. I was going to be borough president. I said, before I become borough president, I wanted to see her. And I was driving down to get to her, and I was talking to all my cousins, to get direction.
You know, in the South, it’s like, you know, go look for that bomb, go look for me. And I was on the highway, and I was like, you know, Tony, I can’t find his place. My phone rings. My grandmother picks up, and she said, pull up at that next exit, and didn’t make a left and she didn’t direct me, so I got to the house and she’s like, where my mommy gone? I said, where is she? She said, I killed all my grandkids.
Raud: What? No fact? That’s good.
Mayor Adams: That’s the power, the power we don’t tap into. We don’t tap into that enough.
Raud: What power is that though? How do we tap into that? The thing about this phone number,
Mayor Adams: Well think about this for a moment. And I was just saying this at [inaudible] funeral. When Mommy died, my mother died while I was running for office. And you just passed away. All I know that we did… All I know that we did was energy, energy, energy. Stop, stop. And what I read was that energy could never be created.
It was destroyed. Created or destroyed. And then I look at what we are, what we’ve written, what we’re going to do. What we’re going to do is we’re going to make that story transform. And you won’t feel it or see it unless you acknowledge the transformation. So if I burn a piece of paper and it transforms from a physical piece of paper to a story, right. If you’re still looking for an innocent creature in the state, it’s a great thing because they’re missing.
And so, my mommy is still there. And the only way I can acknowledge that is as [inaudible] says, to acknowledge, to see something and then acknowledge the existence of it. So many of us don’t feel the energy of our loved ones that transform because we don’t acknowledge the existence of this thing.
Raud: In the original form, so now we can’t find them. [], so you missed it, if you’re looking for
them.
Mayor Adams: There you are. So, when I’m in my state, I’m feeling mommy every day. Okay. I’m hungry.
Raud: I probably got to tap into that. My mom passed away in 2020. Yeah, so I probably got to tap into that.
Mayor Adams: And just, you know, sit down sometimes and just request. We’re so busy running on the extreme. And we’ve been tied up in so much, that when I sit down, and I just think of mommy, I can feel, you know, I can smell some of the perfume, I can feel the thing [inaudible].
We need it in the lives that we live, that we’re in today. And so, your mom is still here.
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Raud: Let’s give him a nickname. Chat, what’s a nickname for him? Let me get you a dog, bro. When do you think you’ll have time for a dog?
Mayor Adams: Dogs are [inaudible.] When you think about [inaudible]. They’re never bad, they don’t care if you pass the bone or don’t.
Raud: It’s genuine love.
Mayor Adams: It is, it really is.
Raud: Genuine. Not like the human love, it’s better than that. So, when do you have time to be present, as the mayor?
Mayor Adams: You know, it’s hard [inaudible] it’s an interesting city where people have– how are you?
Raud: [] Only in New York. Who’s our mayor? I ain’t got time to know our mayor, bro. I still don’t got a couch set. Real fast, I’m trying to figure out how to get a couch set.
Mayor Adams: New Yorkers have five fingers, they love the middle one the most. They are very opinionated.
Raud: I saw when y’all won, you at Knicks fan?
Mayor Adams: Yes.
Raud: You were watching that game then?
Mayor Adams: Yes, I was catching it in blurbs. I wanted to sit down in the garden, but I had so much going on. Maybe I’ll go to the finals.
Raud: If y’all go to the finals, you going to the game?
Mayor Adams: Yeah, I’m going to attend. I’m going to attend one or two.
Raud: Oh one or two. Well, you might do two. That’s a good thing. I’m a Warriors fan. We just got eliminated.
Mayor Adams: Yeah, I know the owner of that team.
Raud: What, the Warriors?
Mayor Adams: No, the Timberwolves. Good guy, a New Yorker.
Raud: Slight flex, don’t bop that on me.
Mayor Adams: I don’t know what happened to you guys used to kick [].
Raud: No, no, no. Curry, he caught a hamstring and it was over after that.
Mayor Adams: Made a big difference.
Raud: Oh, for sure. We could have never won after that. He was there for game one.
Mayor Adams: Yeah, I saw that he was sitting on the bench and it was killing him.
Raud: Yeah, it was killing him. That’s so you saw that face. So, as far as, like, just Philly, you been to Philly before?
Mayor Adams: Yes.
