Welcome dear friends to America First One On One with a very special guest. We very rarely do this with people who are in the industry.

But I know you've had this feeling once where you may not have physically met the person or spent many many nights with them or had a campfire or grown up with them.

But you instantly connect. That's not the case with my next guest. I have no idea who he is, but his name is Jersey Joe and he really is.

He's my Italian brother from another mother. Chopin's a poet. Welcome to America First One On One.

It's great to see you doctor. Yeah, we did. It's amazing. We met. We first met in the hallways of AM970. I think we just kind of kind of clicked.

You're a fun guy. I mean, you know, there's so much crazy serious news, but it's nice to see you on a great set to humor my friend.

Right. I had to do that. I was just too irresistible, but you know, I'm a regular guest on your show. I don't usually have radio hosts, fellow radio hosts for our one on one deep dies, but there's so much.

That you can share with our millions of listeners across the nation. I think we had to do this. So first things first, let's find out a little bit about this man.

I can tell you who doesn't know how to spell Jersey. He spells it with a Z. So follow him on Twitter at J.R.Z.Y. Jersey Joe Piscopo. His website is joePiscopo.us.

But you haven't always been a radio guy. So for those who are unfamiliar with your Hollywood years and then your comedic star them on SNL, will you give us a kind of encapsulated, you know, life to date. How did you get to being on AM970 in New York? And what did you do before that, Joe?

You know, when I went to college, I went to a little school in Jacksonville, I said, I couldn't get in anywhere else. I was a worse student in the state of New Jersey, you know.

So my father, God rest his soul said, look, there's a school that will accept you as a Jacksonville. Flarts, a little school called Jones College. And they had radio stations. They had four radio stations. And right then, I fell in love with radio. There was an AM. There was a 100,000 watt FM station where I did.

And this is what I was in college. I was the disjocke 6th of midnight doing beautiful music in the last 15 minutes. You've heard about to body and rain drops keep falling on my head. That was that was my.

I hang on hang on hang on you had a six hour shift, Joe.

Oh man, I tell you what, I didn't need to put us into eight hour shifts, seven hour shifts, you know. So yes, it was a six, it was six to midnight. I'd go to school all day.

And I'd hang right there in the studio and we had turntable set we had turntable. So I use what I thought to young. What is this turntable you speak of?

I got to tell you this story. I went into rap. I went into a gun store to buy a gun. And this young girl behind the counter. This is in the Commonwealth here in Virginia. She, we started talking about music. And I mentioned.

Yeah, I have that or I had that CD. Do you know what this girl said to me? She must have been about 25. She said, Oh CDs. No, no, no, no. No, I said, I had that. I said, I had that album to the owner. I said, I had that album. And this girl says 25. She says album. Do you mean those really big black CDs? I felt old.

I felt old. Hey, nothing better than vital, baby. They invite data. And I'm telling you now. And I'll tell you how we got to, you know, on AM night 70, but we do a Sunday's with Sanachio show, cross time with our friend over at W A V C in New York. And we play Frank Sinatra music. I'm telling you the 25 year olds, the Gen Zs everybody's listening to that. And now they're just just discovering by. But I was back there doing six hours shift and low story short.

I worked at every kind of radio station you could work at. And I said, I got to go home to Jersey. And I got to try this entertainment thing. So I went to the improvisation.

This was 1976 in February. Where would you go? You were six years old, right? Oh my gosh, you know what? I was 22 or something. I mean, honestly, I was just a kid out of college. I went in. I said, I heard this audition night. So I drove in from Jersey to 44th and night. This was Hell's Kitchen. This is when New York was even worse than it is now. And it was like a tough area. And I went in there on a Sunday night for audition night at drove in. I had my old movie.

I was like, I'm going to be a cutlass. I remember, you know, I'm coming down like like night day of the new and I looked at 10. There must have been 400 people lined up out the door waiting to audition.

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