"Sopranos" Actor Steve Schirripa: Bill de Blasio is Worst Person on Earth

What is New York like right now? You know, I've been here a month now. I have a place down in Orange County and New York was all fucked up and it's all boarded up and my daughter's there. I live downtown, way downtown and I was going out like an hour a day. That's it. I would take a walk and the streets are empty. Streets are empty at night. Now after the looting, they destroyed Soho. It's just destroyed and the cops are very timid and it's all fucked up. It's all fucked up. I don't know what happens there. I don't know. I don't know how it happened. Seeing the cops just standing around while they were looting the art galleries in Soho while they were smashing Fifth Avenue. I was like, what the fuck is this? I don't know. It's like the end of the world. Yeah, it's so scary and depressing. De Blasio's the worst fucking, I'm not a political guy at all Joe, like not at all, but he's the worst fucking human that maybe walks the face of the earth. I kid you not. I owned an apartment in Manhattan for like nine years and when he became the mayor, within a year you saw, even six months, right? You saw like these fucking changes. I'm going, I'm out. I'm selling my fucking place and I sold my place. What changes? All kinds of shit. The cops, basically they have one hand tied behind their back. He changed all these laws, stopping frizz, etc. Some needed to be changed, some not. Just the homeless is everywhere all of a sudden. The trains are impossible. There's all kinds of shit going on and I have to blame the mayor. Where I live downtown, listen, I'm compassionate to the homeless. I don't know the answer, which is why I'm not the fucking mayor, but they're everywhere. Same thing here. Our governor was the mayor of San Francisco, which is the craziest fucking place you've ever seen in your life when it comes to homelessness. It's crazy. And now, after COVID, it's like ramped up 40%. The homeless situation there is, it doesn't even make sense. Like you're seeing these beautiful homes and there's campsites in front of them. And these people have to come out of their houses and tip toe around needles and broken bottles and people's shit. This might get worse though, right? After COVID with the economy collapsing as it did. Yeah. Well, that's what was happening with the COVID too in New York because, listen, these guys standing on the corner there panhandling, there was no one to get money from. I mean, there was no one to panhandle. The streets were completely empty. Broadway, downtown, you could shoot a cannon to it, not a car. Yeah. Mark Norman, you know in the comic, Mark Norman, hilarious guy, filmed a bunch of shit with him just running around New York City with empty streets. Nobody around. How weird it looked. Wall Street is empty. All these places that are packed were empty. I don't know the answer. And with the cops, I don't know. I mean, I just don't know. It's all so bizarre and I think so many people are either going to resign from the forest, but definitely not join the forest. There's a lot of guys that are thinking about joining the forest. That's a tough job, man, for very little pay and you're putting your life at stake. And just public opinion of the forest is down so low. I don't get it. And I know, if God forbid I had trouble, I call a cop. I'm pro cop. I'm pro cop as well. I play a cop now. I've been on Blue Bloods for five years. I play a detective. I'm pro cop. You play cops. You're just for playing a detective. I played a homicide detective. We went from wise guys to detectives. It's a fine line. Is there a fine line there? But I agree. New York, my daughter had just gone back and it's really depressing, man. You haven't been, right? No, I've been in California since March 1st. I was in New York before that. So yeah, I couldn't go back really, but I live here and there both places. It was a little easier here up in the Santa Barbara area. I love it up there. Yeah, a lot easier to be quarantined there because you go outside and backyard and stuff like that. Santa Barbara is the perfect size. But I mean, I was in New York. They shut us down March 13th with two and a half episodes to go. We just got shut down and then you couldn't even go out of the house two days later. I wasn't aware of anything. The trains were packed. I was taking the train and shit. I went to a concert a few days before at the Beacon. Dave Matthews and Jackson Brown. It was a fucking concert, but nobody said anything. Jackson Brown got sick. Yeah, he got sick. He got COVID. Maybe at that concert. Maybe. But then it was just, I was there for two months and it was gloom and I'm in a building. So you got to watch the elevator, the fucking door man, the thing, order food in. It makes you crazy. Wipe off the package. Don't wipe off the package. Wear gloves. Don't wear gloves. What the fuck? Nobody knows. It's a very, very confusing time. Yeah, nobody knows what the fuck is going on.