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Inviting place for americans who just wanted to get off the grid, own rules. youll remember travis mcgee, the mystery solving boat bum who lived on a houseboat in miami. the busted flush. people used to live like that. less and less today. >> travis: when my wife passed away a few years ago, i was living in a condo and didnt want to do that anymore. now im on this piece of iron. >> anthony: bob, aka captain bob, is still here and still living on his boat in the miami river. >> bob: we sit out he...

Another country, do we care? trickle down boys, trickle down. >> billy: it has propped up miami once again with another inflated bubble, and the question is how long will it last? >> anthony: theres history and theres the more immediate needs of the present. i need food presently and perhaps some fine bourbon and when i need good food in a city not my own, more and more these days i call somebody if they werent good at enough things already, has become something of an expert on good food around ...

Records had organ in theirs. but i do consider the sound of miami, the beginning of really great dance music. >> anthony: whats called 77 elvis pancakes? chocolate chip pancakes, bourbon maple syrup, banana compote and peanut butter. even if youre not the king, youll want to die on the toilet like her did after this carbo load. >> anthony: if were doing the elvis experience right, i should elvis experience right, i should be eating a fist full of -- >> anthony: yard birds signature fried chicken...

In all actuality, were an island town. miami was made of bahamians that built the city of miami. so now you have a lot of different cultures. >> anthony: caribbean, southern american. very, very different. >> luther: yeah. >> anthony: how was that mix? how has that impacted music? >> luther: its everything in the music. when people think about me, this guy makes bootie shaking music. everybodys dancing. everybody is dancing in a sexual way. the girls are standing up on you. the girls stand up on...

>> alfred: federal reserve branch in miami had a $5 billion cash surplus. mostly 50s and 100 dollar bills all of which had trace elements of cocaine on them. >> billy: and the guys who were in cocaine trafficking in the 70s and 80s got busted and went to prison got out and are now big medicare fraudsters. >> alfred: were whispering because theyre probably here. >> anthony: so wheres the money now? hows business in general in miami and where is that business coming from? >> billy: oh remarkably, ...

City in america. the drug industry brought in an estimated $7 to $12 billion a year and thats 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. >>anthony: so things were in decline. cocaine sort of saved the city? >>alfred: wed say so. am i going to get in trouble for it? yes. >> billy: by 1981, you had a murder rate. 635 homicides...

♪ ♪ >> anthony: theres one place i keep coming back to. its a place where if you look deep enough, ask the right questions, you can get a whole history of miami from one man. this man, matt klein. >> matt: youre going to have to remember youre speaking to 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 im 60, ill be happy. >> matt: you know the amazing thing about being 100 is? a year ago i was 9...

>> michelle: the real places give you the milk first, then the coffee. >> anthony: what do they call this? >> michelle: its a big cup with little cups. >> anthony: it is basically like the coffee version, the caffeine version of a one-hitter. id have one of those. at the next place, id have another. i basically get increasingly jangly as i head towards work. >> michelle: i grew up on the colada. at 4 i think i had my first colada. we all give our babies coffee. they put their finger in it to tas...

Close, a cousin. like a cubano it has roast pork, ham, swiss cheese, pickles, a little mustard and like a cubano, it is pressed until it is hot and runny inside. >> michelle: you see the bread? its darker and its sweeter. so you have a real contrast with the salty pickles and the pork and the bread. you see how juicy that is? thats the telling of the cuban sandwich. >> anthony: you know what pisses me off? people try to improve on this. >> michelle: a lot of people try to improve upon it. you ca...

Godfather of punk. i get wild and crazy with some roast pork. a little white wine, our only tilt toward the debauches of previous lives. >> anthony: i well remember the first stooges album coming out, the context of the time. this was, what, 69? >> iggy: 69, august. >> anthony: in a lot of ways as far as looking after my health, your music early on was a negative example. >> iggy: i hear you. >> anthony: and looking at my own life and career, im pretty much known for traveling around the world a...