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Speaker 1: Mark Simon, issues you really care about?

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Speaker 2: On sevent ten, wo.

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Speaker 1: R Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to uh

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Speaker 1: Mara in Nevada. Mara, how you doing so good?

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Speaker 3: I'm talking to you child. Vincent.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Vincent hasn't called us in a while. Where's Vincent?

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna call him later on this week. I've been

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Speaker 3: Mark today. I'm ninety sixty years old. Really, really I am.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what target demo?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but today I know will You'll be surprised. I

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Speaker 3: think there's plenty of us out there.

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Speaker 1: So are you having a birthday cake?

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Speaker 3: But the candles pross ward to take cook I'm a cookieper.

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Speaker 3: But today is also Vincent's mother's birthday. Rose her, but

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Speaker 3: she's in heaven now now, Mark, I started with Martin

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Speaker 3: Black in the Make Belief Ballroom. I was eleven years old. Wow,

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Speaker 3: I'm ninety six. I went into William B. Williams becauseianimal

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Speaker 3: bag and now it's you now, let's see you maybe it.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, no, you'll be listening to play. You'll be

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Speaker 1: listening to people for years. You got many years to go, Malmorrow,

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Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Thanks for calling. Martin Block was the very

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Speaker 1: first disc jockey ever. It was nineteen thirty four. He

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Speaker 1: was on w ande W and they were covering the

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Speaker 1: Lindbergh trial and there were long delays, sometimes an hour

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Speaker 1: two hours, so they didn't know how to fill So

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Speaker 1: Martin Block, no one had ever done this before, he

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Speaker 1: started to play records on the radio. It was unheard of,

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Speaker 1: and he would play the records and then in between

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Speaker 1: talk about the music. It was the first disc jockey ever.

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Speaker 1: The record companies got furious because they thought, well, if

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Speaker 1: he's playing them on the radio for free, nobody will

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Speaker 1: buy them. So they went to court and sued Martin

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Speaker 1: Block to get him to stop playing these records on

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Speaker 1: the radio, and the suit dragged on. And as it

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Speaker 1: dragged on, they started to notice every time tell Me

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Speaker 1: played a certain record, it became a big best seller.

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Speaker 1: They realized it was actually helping them, and they dropped

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Speaker 1: a lawsuit, and then the long relationship between the record

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Speaker 1: companies and the radio stations began. Let's go to Rob

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Speaker 1: and Boston. Rob, how you doing? Wait a minute, Rob,

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Speaker 1: I'm up.

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Speaker 3: I listened to how we cough?

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Speaker 2: And how translate for why don't you take it like this?

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Speaker 1: We will talk at the same time speeeds things up.

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Speaker 1: What'd you say?

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Speaker 2: How we card takes Steve from Manhattan's call? Why don't

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Speaker 2: you have him on as a guest from Manhattan.

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Speaker 1: Because nobody wants to hear it, Nobody, nobody except you.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know who he is or what you're

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Speaker 1: talking about. Let's go to Ernie in Northport. Ernie, how you're.

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Speaker 2: Doing, good Mark, Good morning. I was wondering you think

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Speaker 2: the Clinton's are going to get the questions before they

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Speaker 2: answered these? No, you think they're going to get them beforehand?

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Speaker 1: Well they're not. You know, each person on the committee

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Speaker 1: gets their turn to ask questions. So if you're the

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Speaker 1: Democrat on the committee, yeah, they might leak it to

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Speaker 1: the Clintons. But the Republicans have no reason to leak

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Speaker 1: it to the Clintons. Also, the other reason they're testifying

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Speaker 1: the Democrats don't like the Clintons anymore. On the committee.

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Speaker 1: The problem is, and it was going before Congress. They

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Speaker 1: didn't show up last time and they were going to

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Speaker 1: have a vote on whether to prosecute And apparently a

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Speaker 1: lot of Democrats have no regard for the Clintons anymore.

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Speaker 1: Young Democrats don't know who the hell the Clintons are,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of even the older Democrats, they just

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Speaker 1: think the Clintons are dinosaurs from the past. They have

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Speaker 1: no use for them anymore. So that's why they agreed

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Speaker 1: to testify. They were going to lose the vote because

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Speaker 1: even Democrats would vote to go after them. Let's go

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Speaker 1: to Kenny and Bayside Kenny. How you doing, oh.

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Speaker 2: High Mark, how's it going? I mean it's now in

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Speaker 2: New York City.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what's going on?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, why don't they just jumping in the

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Speaker 2: river like they used to do? Come on, let's call.

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Speaker 1: You need some management. You got to have lots and

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Speaker 1: lots and lots and lots of trucks. You have to

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Speaker 1: scoop up all the snow, put it in a big,

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Speaker 1: huge dump truck, take the river and dumb they are

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Speaker 1: doing that. You can't see him doing that, but not

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Speaker 1: on a big enough scale. But to do it on

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Speaker 1: a big scale takes management skill. The mayor happens to

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Speaker 1: be a thirty two year old guy who never had

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Speaker 1: a job in his life. So uh, and in his defense,

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Speaker 1: he was busy for three days looking for the jackets,

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Speaker 1: so he didn't have time. Let's go to Neil in Brooklyn, Neil,

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Speaker 1: how you doing well?

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Speaker 2: Thank you? Listen. I'm not ninety six years old, but

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Speaker 2: I'm old enough to know that. Johnny Closson used that

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Speaker 2: well with may Or Lindsay about springtime coming.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was an old Johnny Carson joke. When

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Speaker 1: Lindsay couldn't get the snow picked up. He said, He's

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Speaker 1: got a good plan to get rid of the snow.

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Speaker 1: It's called spring. Speaking of Johnny Carson, Uh, get that book.

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Speaker 1: There's a great new book out called Love Johnny Carson.

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Speaker 1: Mark Malcoff wrote it. Best book ever about Johnny Carson.

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Speaker 1: You can buy it right now. Let's go to Jim

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Speaker 1: in New Jersey. Jim, how you doing you?

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Speaker 2: Being a man of music? I see that Chuck Chuck

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Speaker 2: Negron died the other day. He was one of the

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Speaker 2: Three dog Nights.

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Speaker 1: And he was one of the founders of Three Dog Night.

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Speaker 1: They died at it was the eighty five or something

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Speaker 1: like that.

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Speaker 2: There's only one left now. But quick story. Mark Hoyt

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Speaker 2: Axton wrote their big song Joy to the World. The

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Speaker 2: band did not want to do this. The band did

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Speaker 2: not want to play this song. I thought it was ridiculous,

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Speaker 2: but Chuck Negron said, I'll sing it, but he's got

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Speaker 2: to change the first line. He didn't like the first line,

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Speaker 2: so they changed Jeremiah was a prophet to Jeremiah was

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Speaker 2: a bullfrog. And then Mark halfway through the song that

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Speaker 2: they thought the song was such a disaster that they

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Speaker 2: let the band sing the chorus. So halfway through the

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Speaker 2: song you see all these hear all these off key

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Speaker 2: singers singing to it. That was the band singing because

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Speaker 2: they thought it was going to be disaster, and it

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Speaker 2: turned out to the number one hit of nineteen seventy

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Speaker 2: one and so millions and millions.

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Speaker 1: That was a big hit back then. But let's be honest,

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Speaker 1: Chuck n around great great rock and roll, but this

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Speaker 1: guy was not Gershwin. I mean, if he thought Jeremiah

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Speaker 1: was a bullfrog, if he thought that's a better lyric.

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Speaker 2: Well that was That was White Acton. You also wrote,

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Speaker 2: I've never been to Spain, so everybody Harry Nelson one

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Speaker 2: for them, and uh, what's the other one? Mama told

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Speaker 2: me not to come. That was Mandy Newman. So everybody

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Speaker 2: wrote songs for them.

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Speaker 1: As you mentioned that a lot, I've never been to

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Speaker 1: Spain forgot that they did. The one Black and White

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Speaker 1: was a big.

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Speaker 2: Sim Yes, And like I said, one by One was

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Speaker 2: written by Harry Nielsen for them and that was a

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Speaker 2: big hit too. So thanks as always, Mark listening, all right.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for coming. Harry Nilson, not Nielsen. Nielsen's the rating company.

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Speaker 1: Nilsen was the singer. Yeah, all those groups, three tog Night,

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Speaker 1: you know, still going strong, Chicago, still going strong, still

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Speaker 1: touring all over the world, doing very very well. I'm trying.

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Speaker 1: There are a bunch of this group, you know. The

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Speaker 1: old problem is, you know, they don't do much anymore.

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Speaker 1: But these two have those PBS oldies shows where they'd

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Speaker 1: get these groups and they'd all they'd get introduced and

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Speaker 1: they'd come out and they all had white hair, and

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Speaker 1: they were a thousand years old, the Bcnes and Grutch.

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Speaker 1: It just it was kind of I mean, the music

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Speaker 1: was great, but it was you really didn't want to

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Speaker 1: see them looking like that. Hey, when we come back, now,

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Speaker 1: this will be very interesting. If you're you've got any

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Speaker 1: kind of sports injuries or this is the most important

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Speaker 1: part about if you're trying to exercise, you want to

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Speaker 1: get to the gym, you want to make sure you

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Speaker 1: take long walks. You want to go running, you want

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Speaker 1: to do the but you can't get motivated. All right,

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Speaker 1: there's a way to do it. We'll get to that next.

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Speaker 1: If you just can't get the motivation right, we'll get

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Speaker 1: to that in the moment. On seven to ten, wor