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Sid & Friends In The Morning

Frank Morano | Councilman | 09-02-25

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Sports, News, Comedy

4.2826 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Frank Morano, Councilman of the New York City Council for the 51st district, joins Sid to discuss artificial intelligence, where both Sid Rosenberg and Morano express concerns about its addictive qualities, dangers of delusion, and real-life tragedies linked to AI misuse. Morano describes his proposed legislation to require guardrails for AI platforms, especially to protect vulnerable users. The conversation broadens to politics and media, with criticism of Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, support for Curtis Sliwa’s mayoral campaign, and skepticism toward Andrew Cuomo’s viability. Morano analyzes polling, fundraising, and voter dynamics, debating the prospects of candidates in the upcoming New York City mayoral race. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.6

This is Sid and Friends in the morning.

0:53.1

No, I get by with a little help from my friends. This is Sit in Friends in the Morning. So my mother, she's got HBO. I don't have it at home.

1:01.7

I've got every channel. My bill is like $2 million a month. I don't have HBO.

1:05.5

So I couldn't see this Billy Joel special that Lou loves. Everybody loves it.

1:09.8

So Danielle and I had a chance to watch some of it in my mom's house

1:13.9

upstate this weekend. I saw the beginning when he joined that group, the hassles. I have not gotten to the

1:20.2

obviously the Christie Brinkley part. I want to know who he wrote the song Big Shot about. I really want to know

1:27.3

that. Who was he talking about in that song Big Shot?

1:30.6

Could have been me, but I wasn't a big shot back then, but driving in your limousine with the Dom Perignon in your hand and the spoon up your nose,

1:39.3

you need to find out who he talked about in that song, but it was great whatever I saw so far.

1:44.2

And that, of course, is the Billy Joel classic Captain Jack. We start off our guest list today with six great guests. The lead-off hitter is the former host of the other side of midnight. I say this all the time. No disrespect to Lionel. Lionel's funny. He's good. He ain't Frank. I'm Miss Frank Morano. Now he's a great councilman on Staten Island. He gets so upset the program director when you say things about people who are gone and, you know, he hates that. But I did it, so suspend me. I miss Frank, and he's a great councilman. Here he is a great Frank Marano. Frankie, good morning, pal. How are you? Good morning, Sid. Thank you for having me. And not to worry, Kevin actually bleeped the

2:21.1

positive things that you said about my prior radio career. So no harm done. That's the

2:25.9

virtues of having him on the board. Did you get along with Kevin when you were here?

2:30.3

Yeah, I actually liked him very much. Of the three program directors that I worked with in my...

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