Buckeye broadband along with the Silicon Valley support cspan 2 as a Public Service. Sure of we have the great plee of presenting a conversation with the josh sabin josh sabin is a veteran Media Executive and author and the pasion of mc networks. He is credited with some of my great favorite jokes. Carter was building some of televisions most iconic shows. Including mad man, breaking bats, portlandia, killing a leave. Okay, listen. My husband bingewatch killing eve. I dont know, for way too long. It was like crazy. I almost got him a therapist but it was good. It was really good. He also oversaw the spinoff of amc network from cable vision to become a publicly traded company on nasdaq. Most recently, he published the third act of books that celebrates aging in all its accomplishments and grace, and tonight he is selling all these books outside. And donating the proceeds to the green space. So, after the program if youve not purchased a book then please go and get a signed copy. Hell be signing copies. And giving us this money, which we need to support journalism in media that sparks change. Ladies and gentlemen, join me in welcoming the incredible josh sabin. Thank you guys offer coming. And thanks to christina. She is you are what is up here. Its actually pretty remarkable, i think. The creation and the audacious innovation that she and her group debut is really quite remarkable. Theres nothing like it done anywhere that i know of. Kate, jennifer sandro, amber wright were together. And theyre responsible for the crazy and wild and restricted stuff that occurs here, but i think carson was nowhere else. Theres a crew from cspan here recording this for book tv. So thank you for coming down. And i thank especially for helping me put all this together. There is no presents a w and y c whose name is lafontaine oliver. He is just a spectacular human being. And he joins rather race until a and Everybody Knows that when there is a human in the house illuminates everybody it just spreads interested in motivation and in trade and the desire to do more and that is lafontaine. So thank you for being the new guy in town. Its really thrilled to have you. So, christina mentioned what we will do tonight. Were having three new yorkers who have has, i dont know if i should give this away. Who are having a real positive impact on new york city in their multiple acts. I mean i will introduce them individually if i may. And then have a conversation. So ill start with a woman named hope parly. She worked as verizon forwards activates. She was a career corporate career citizen. And she grew up in brooklyn. And likes brooklyn museum. And she did not like that the bronx was the only brother did not have a museum. So she is indefatigable and set out to open the rocks children museum. It began just with a sketch and paper and there was a touring bus. Finally she read about this big article at the times, a few months ago, the childrens presumably in the south bronx. 13,000 square feet. That really does look magnificent. She sort of willed it into existence. I just want to say this, by the way. Well, limiting. On okay. But so, i have been a talking about this book. Doing all the stuff. So, she and i were on the tv show together. We do the whole thing and go back to the green room. God, that woman is awfully good on television. You now . I work on tv, and i thought, there is a bit of a ringer. Hope, you seem extraordinarily comfortable on television. How do you get that way . When i retired from verizon i took acting classes. She and i are the executive aide so i was counting. I was putting her in her 60s. So shes doing now summer stop every summer. I went home and told us to my wife and she said, youre on the commercial heavy rotation. Its the amtrak spot. So, hopefully as a third, fourth, and fifth act and i would like to ask her to come out. Oh parlay. So on if you guys know the name of david rothenberger. Yeah. I think new york legend. This is a wild story. He would say theatrical agents. And broadway producer. And was associated with the original production of hair. And then Richard Burton and hamlet. And some 200 other plays. Pretty much acting to you. This is such a cool story. He then did a play by a man named john herberg who had been incarcerated. And wrote a play afterwards. And it was called the fortune in mans eyes. And it was about people who were previously imprisoned. And that play moved from a play, a piece of fiction, into the founding of george davis leadership. 55 years ago to the Fortune Society. If you do not know what the Fortune Society is, for some of the oldest mentioned something about. It provides a housing as range of services for many women who were previously incarcerated. It was introduced to by my friend the director who is here. Went to the castle the facility. I was blown away and then through the good officers of ashley although i began to know the queens facility and there is a man here named leonard tao. I have to say it. Im so thrilled to see him. By the, way hes in the. Book it is over there. And among a few other things that glenn does at, extraordinary work where people who are in prison with moms who have earned cars we have kids outside of prison, with theater programming in prison, it will go on too long. Dave a, what we can show and w a b, i given his written. Books david has written short stories right now. I would like to welcome david raffensperger. Joe logano played their way to go to college or Georgetown University and then went to harbor, and after graduating he worked on wall street. And corporate form and finance where we met and i came to know joe into admire his skill. And next to admire his ethics. It is hard to track his career. In many acts in Public Service. He was deputy mayor of new york. He was head of the mca. I think two times. He weighs his current work is as a vice dean. And ceo of nyu at hospitals. Not to mention that he ran for republican mares. This is an interesting amazing factoid. Which was endorsed by every daily newspaper in new york. Including new york times. I dont know if youll recognize joe but there is a documentary Rudy Giuliani that ive seen several times. When 9 11 happens, theyre on the front of the first thing we said was 9 11 is give me load up. Because joe is the man really running the city. Joe wisely quotes on the new york city subway than elevate some of the subway for hurricane sandy. And he was affectionately it goes to shows wonderful sense of humor, he embraced it, known as the rats are because he was a guy to get read a rats and new york. You cannot beat that man. Welcome, joe. I have some questions for these esteemed panelists. Im gonna start with a question for everyone. This is sort of about a third act in a little bit about new york. Thank you very much. And you know it is a question about what you do into it with your lives. When you change your lives. And what makes you want to change your life. Do something different. Each of you working private enterprise horizon theater. Wall street. And then, went to work in Public Service. Thats a bit of a big change. Its generally lower compensated. A bit. I would just like to ask, if you dont mind, consistent on my mind, what made zero make a decision to do what you did in your case with the museums . In my case it is no compensation. Because although i do a lot of work with the museums, i did as a volunteer. It was not i never held those staff divisions. I serve on the board. And i was president for a number of years. And it was not a conscious decision. I had gotten involved with the ideas of the museums, even before i left horizon because it was sparked. I got involved because it was part of my work. I was an external affairs, and i managed to the philanthropy budget, which included the bronx and its. Supporting organizations in these brocks. I was invited to a meeting about creating the Childrens Museum in the rocks. It was kind of a Work Activity and then when i got involved and when i retire, they automatically said a, now you are tired. We had to create a board to get a 501 c 3 . You will be the president. Okay. I didnt know what that meant. No ive actually paid money to do this. I really have. Reversed compensation. But a been paid 1 million tons over. Im just overwhelmed. With what we have created. They will outlive me. Wonderful. David. I have a theater office, and the play was after a performance of the play that i said, we have the nucleus of an organization. A lot of formerly incarcerated people were coming after performances. And my office was my theater office. Guys ridden times were hanging out there. As it grow, because he was so great, i often said i like drama more than i like the other. And i want to go with fortunes. I had to bet there was two pairs at once. One was paying me, and the other wasnt. And for three years, fortune to sunday was a volunteer organization. The need was so great and add a happy that we were the only game in town. You are a civilian observer . Which is not part of these are preparations. Finding yourself in the art was all fortune grammatically because the need was overwhelming. I never stopped at one point, so this is what im going to do. Can i ask, you because you can ask whatever you what. I was gonna ask you your Favorite Sports Team of alltime, was that it would hold off on that. My favorite what . Sports team of alltime. Giants, 50 wants beats the Bobby Thompson hit a home run off around i asked him that question because i dont follow baseball to 1962 and i remember Bobby Richardson was the second baseman. Get ready for, this in 1962. And he said, you may doctor Bobby Richards . I, said what are you talking about . He indicated doctor he after is a baseball player. I think it knows that. A dangerous man rutherford is a dangerous man, stay way for him. Let us ask, here because ive been to fortune now at the castle, with ashley in queens. It is no small little thing. Its huge. Its huge. I walk through that im overwhelmed. Its incredible. If i may, how you watch people reclaim their lines before your right. Theres nothing more exciting. But so, joe, you are like 15 years in corporate finance. You went to Harvard Business school that means you can make a lot of money. Private enterprise with me. So we swirled the hallways and thats where you leave money around. Suddenly you are in full of Public Service. So, josh it goes back to when i was a little kid. I was out there would be about the private sector and the Public Sector. Like him as an eightyearold, you thought private sector Public Sector . Flores that had a job another. When my father was a cop, writer my one grandfather was a firefighter, the other one was a new york city driver. It was all in the concept of Public Service or some sort or another. And in the process of it i always thought that i would be doing something to help the city of new york. So it has been my blood, and in my dna. I also believe this timelines on, as you mention i went to harvard, i went to Harvard Business school. I believe in the revolving door. A lot of people dont. Between the government in the private sector. Neither one of them understand each other. And i really believe that the more that the government understands their private sector and the more that the private sector understands how the government operates then the better off the country is going to be. Because there is a whole lot when theyre in conflict with each other and it is unnecessary. So you now, i have enjoyed the ability to able to go back and forth and yes its during a period of time making money during a period of time not making so much money. And my wife issues here, she would explain how that happened. And so, yeah i think it is important. But i do think that is all part of this American Dream where youve got to give something back. How wonderful. I cant help it, ask joe. Between deputy merrick perry and during 11 when you really were on the grounds, and a central person arguably. And the mca which seems to be quasiimpossible as a task, where have you found the greatest satisfaction in Public Service . You now, they are both quite unique. I seem to be a magnet for disaster. So whenever these things tend to happen, including pandemics like being in the hospital or happens. I think the greater satisfaction i guess it is just seeing a job done, and being done right. I think thats the storm sandy was by far, i think, the thing that was the best. In that most people tend to forget this, but you mentioned in the introduction, the subway we were able to get to the subway system out of the way of the water. He came into the Lower Manhattan. You said back there, the subways of the way the water . A couple of things. We all knew the water was coming out and we all knew that we need to protect the system as much as possible and we took the switches and Lower Manhattan hours. One of the time. But on the last train. But took the switches are basically the control mechanism. So you know where the trains are. It helps speed at sattre. But im on the last train. And then took the trains and put them on higher ground. Either put them in the bronx away from the water to be as high as possible, or in queenss highs possible. When the water came in, as you remembered see the pictures, it flooded Lower Manhattan. Once we got the water out you put the switches back in. And turned it on. Remember the most people happen on tuesday. The subway system is back up and running on thursday. The city of new york is a miracle how things operate here. But if you plan accordingly, i can work. By the way, there is one other part of that story, which i think is critically important. And it says something about how the embassy operates. The person who told me how to do that was a union worker. We had a table top exercise as to what would happen if there was Something Like sandy would happen. And they wanted to come up. Because we knew with Climate Change inevitably was going to happen. We went to a and the first one there was no union member at the table. I was only white shirt, managements there. They said basically, guys who was gonna do the work . We have labor here at the table. And management did not like that but we eventually had another table talk. And in a process of is one of these labor guys, a union member, a member of the local 100, basically shaking his head saying if we cannot take the switches out that we are not gonna get the system back up and running for the 6 to 7 months. The reality was he described to me exactly what needs to happen. If we went down to a station you showed me exactly what happened, and we followed it stepbystep. When he did what he said. And the system came back up and running. You listen to the guy. It is quite a story. Can i ask you guys because were talking 33rd of new york and protect new york. Civil orientation and civic, sorry, orientation. Im just going to ask you, because it feels of interest. What do you think ill stay this way. Do you think the parties of new york are what would be at the top of your todo list if you are mayor bud . Any of us . Reintroduce after School Programs in the schools would be my first thing it hasnt we talked about. But i think that after School Programs. A lot of the young people i mates have did not had what i had in school which was things that got you involved cares because nobody gets excited about geometry in biology. Well, not many. But if you stare at school because of some of the singing and the programs that after school and then education has a floor impact. You can go on with Affordable Housing and all that. Well i said since i now live in new jersey, although i was born and raised in brooklyn and lived in lived in my hometown. We went to tina high school. I think they won. I wasnt born yet. I was. So was i. But josh asked us this question in the back and im answering as an ex patriots, so to speak. But, coming here today we are writing down fourth avenue. I still call the west side highway. West side highway, 12th avenue. You see all these, building things have been we tear down everything old in a city we dont respect anything older historical or anything like that. And then we so invested interest here. And we put up an exit and say always something going in that corner and its as residential. And its like who is gonna live . Theyre who will afford it . It just seems to me that what makes a city a city is diversity and especially manhattan and i know brooklyn as well, is becoming everything. It is becoming unaffordable. So youre going to have rich people and nothing against being retch but we not only the nicest. Jane jacobs, who is one of our great heroes say you can keep the neighborhoods, dont lose the she said the neighborhoods, thats the heart and the post of the city. Joshua this makes this a difficult question for me. Is that you asked what you do get 25 of the vote so a little bit more than 20 . But not much more. In any event. I thought it was a pretty good question. I have the republicans were gonna. At the, time a republican. But things change. In any event. But mers have been mayors. My answer to my questions gonna be a bit longer the little bit more complicated. But they have deputy mayors and we all wondered what Intelligent Media mayer does. Heres what i would have them do. You have five deputy mayors new joint is going to need to have five different projects that they need to be working on. Some of those projects will be done in days, some will be done in the week. Some are done over six months to a year. Each one will be working on some strategy where it is either gonna be working on housing already working on jobs and creating new jobs. After School Programs. All the protect things. And not being done, people are gonna need to know about it. Reporters need to know about, it publicly to know about. You know the direction is g