You don't know that?

Let me give you all some statistics just for your viewers or your listeners that they would be shocked to know when you look at this.

Cuba has not had a free election over 70 years.

I mean, people know there have been thousands that have been killed by a firing squad there.

Two million people have attempted to flee that country.

Thousands are there as political prisoners right now.

And this is shocking right here.

All right, what else you got, Patrick? What else?

All right, go.

Oh, [laughs] okay.

Um, so when you look at the report right now, what you'll see on the back end of the report is that what they are saying is that these, they're basically saying drugs were found in these clubs, and my question to OPD would be a simple one.

What are these venues supposed to do about somebody walking into a venue with, I don't know, a little bit of a, a joint or something like that, or something to smoke in their pocket? Do you want them to completely pat them down? Is this TSA now, where we need to go into some place? If I go to McDonald's and I decide that I'm gonna go sell something illegal at McDonald's, is McDonald's fault that I decide to sign up and do that, or show up and do that?

Okay.

Well, there's two separate things.

You've got the drug violations, and you've got AMS violations.

The AMS violations are what they can suspend licenses for.

Oh.

And I said, "I don't care what happens." And Anthony goes, "What are you gonna talk about?" And I said, "I don't know.

ChatGPT it.

What's going on in the world today?" And so in the beginning if you look back, a lot of it was issues about, that we could find about sports, FIFA World Cup.

It didn't matter.

And then what happened is we did a story about downtown, and down- some of the downtown venue owners got in touch with me and said, "Hey, Pat, I know you from back in the drinking days.

We know you like to put 'em back.

Mm-hmm.

all right let's get him on every thursday we always have uh from the patrick carr show the man himself mr patrick carr i don't even know what he's gonna talk about man

today's gonna be an interesting one y'all got a little bit of a debate for you today okay All right, here's what happened.

So we have a serious thing that happened over in Polk County, as y'all are aware.

On Monday, there was that terrible school bus accident over in Polk County, okay? I want to bring to light, though, something that we discovered over here that nobody is talking about.

And this is the seatbelt laws in the state of Florida.

Get this, everyone.

So in your car, if you're driving, a seatbelt not being on a minor... can be an offense, and you can be pulled over for not having a seatbelt on.

So what would you recommend? I mean, are you about having them all belted in, which I guess they are

Mm-hmm.

And it just so happens that last week on October the 1st, she does a voluntary dissolution of this charity.

Now, this comes only two days after reports surface that that charity took in $271,000 in 2024 and has not reported on where the money went.

Let me explain how it was breaking down.

14,000 to occupancy, 19,400 to contract workers, and 214,000 to, quote, "Other expenses." Other.

Good.

But Angie Nixon will not be able to back out of her acceptance.

She said twice in writing yesterday that she would come onto the show and, quote, "debate me" if she has the receipts.

Oh, boy.

So, so we're gonna take it over to Orange County.

For people that are familiar with the area, it's Crystal Lakes.

It's southeast of downtown, and they have decided that what they are gonna do to slow down traffic is take those yellow lines down the middle of the road, and they have curved them and made them zigzag down the middle of the road.

This is, I kid you not, the pictures are actually in the Orlando Sentinel.

Yeah.

And I, I, I just, like, I go, hold on, folks.

I mean, the, when you go to these meetings and they say, "We may not have a budget.

So what are we going to talk about today? We didn't have a chance to talk before the show.

Boy, I got a great topic for y'all coming after the last segment.

Have you heard about what is going on down at UCF right now with what their students are saying? And I want to give you the quote right here, if that's all right with you all.

Yes, go ahead.

All right, here you go.

At a rally earlier this week, UCF Democrats took to actually opposing UCF PD officers.

And they say, quote, every time you see a UCF PD officer on campus, quote, like the ones you see behind me here, remember that they are willing to commit the same atrocities as ICE if given the orders.

Now, are they going to get are you going to get anybody to come on and denounce this?

What about us?" Was there anything local, or is it just the national and, and regional headlines about misuse?

I would...

Th-There is nothing local.

Uh, there is no report of misuse.

Uh, there is nothing that occurred that threw up a red flag.

It seems to be the, the national story, uh, if you will.

Uh, it, it just seems to be the next tidal wave of displeasure, uh, with government, uh, or, or what the government is doing.

You are.

such a big meaning to you and maybe took a role or a big part of why the Patrick Carr Show started?

Yeah, so I used to come here with like my buddies and drink and have a good time.

And it was like that place that I went.

like the cheers bar for me, all right? And then when it closed and I came down here, what I didn't understand was just how many people were affected.

It wasn't just me and my buddies.

It was the bartenders, barbacks.

It was the managers that worked there, the food, the cooks.

Do you get any response when you do that stuff?

Yeah.

Um, I did have one question though for you, Craig, 'cause I think a lot of people like me would want to know this.

I'm in a lot of airports, right? And you'll all see those signs when you get into the bathroom stall, you know, with different hand signals and stuff for trafficking.

From someone like you who's been trained in this, what would, what advice would you give like a layman like me? What could I look for, something that you see when you're, like, in an airport or you're, like, in a public space that catches your eye right away that maybe an average person like me, I wouldn't see and I should go, "There's something up right there," because you've been trained for it and you've seen it a lot?

Yeah.

So for those of you who don't live here, like any major paper, they get their money from the big corporations.

In Orlando, that would be somebody like your Marriotts, your hotels, your tourism organizations right there.

And that's part of the organizations that I'm looking to investigate right now.

Why is it so important for contractors to work with a company like yourself that understands the industry? What are some of the pitfalls and challenges that they face when working with an agency that maybe doesn't know the industry?

Well, I'll take that on the two-part side right there.

First, the advantage of just working with a company like ours is that we hold contractors accountable.

So if you're paying us to do the content, sometimes I say half of what you're paying us for is to hold you to actually doing what you say you're going to do.

Because every contractor in the world says, I know I should be creating more content for my business.

I know you should be branding with video.

But a small fraction of them actually go through with it.

And I always say, it depends, right? Because are you trying to grow? What are you trying to do? So how do you work with a contractor to figure out what their investment in marketing should be? Yeah,

Um, but you 100% using Orlando as an example, have nailed the political problems, starting with the city going to Orlando police, uh, And all the problems that are caused by simply not enforcing basic laws for an entire city to be able to enjoy a city, specifically downtown.

I'm sure that you all talk about it on this show, but it's that broken windows theory.

And that has happened in downtown Orlando and everybody can see it.

You walk down the streets of Orlando anywhere between 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. or you could say 10 to 2 p.m. thursday through sunday you don't want to be there with your family and because they've allowed a lot of things to slip they don't know exactly what to do to bring it back And I think that law enforcement feels like their hands are tied.

And I don't feel like they feel like they've got a leadership that's behind them right now.

And what's happened is that they're in kind of this no man's land where it's, hey, listen, I don't want to screw anything up.

I'd rather just go ahead and be over here, not screw it up, then get involved with something, even if I'm in the right and get involved with it.

How much longer do you think it has before these businesses start considering their rent versus what's going on in the city?