You know, I remember God knows how many years ago this was that when I'd be watching TV late at night, after a certain hour when everybody else was asleep, a show would come on called the Joe Franklin

show. And he was a very peculiar guy with a love of Hollywood and show business. And he's someone,

you find out, has interviewed Marilyn Monroe, Jane Mansfield, Bing Crosby, Bill Cosby, Eddie

Cantor, Barbara Streisand. He's written 23 books about Old Hollywood. He's been called

the King of Nostalgia. So, we had to get him on this show because he's interviewed everyone.

I think on one of his shows, he had both James Dean and Al Pacino. He's had the weirdest combinations

of major stars, some of them while they were still working as waiters.

So, ladies and gentlemen, Joe Franklin.

This is the amazing colossal podcast.

I'm Gilbert Gottfried.

My co-host is Frank Santopatra.

Hey, Gilbert.

And we're here.

Hey, stop talking when I'm trying to do a show here.

Now, we're here with the former host of a great show that all of us remember,

Joe Franklin's Memory Lane. And so we're here, of course, with Joe Franklin in the theater

community in Times Square. I got to tell, last night I was hosting, you know, I do a lot of special events, speaking engagements. I was at a nursing home and I saw a man in the front row sleeping. So I said to his wife, I said, what's this all about? She says, my husband is sleeping. I said, do me a favor. Wake him up. She said, no, you put him asleep.

You wake him up.

I didn't mean to come on. This just happened last night. It was on my mind right now, you know. But I'm very honored to be with my friend Gilbert Gottfried. I go way back and admiring Gilbert. And Frank, it's my pressure. My pleasure to meet you, and it's a lot of fun we're going to have here today, right?

Now, where did we meet? We met originally, I think, you were doing a TV pilot once. I took place in a restaurant, I think it was, and I was one of your guests, and then later on I did a TV special on Channel 9, and it was my 40th anniversary in TV, and you and I did have seen in my catacombs in my office building in the basement and the funny scene in the elevator,

and we got great, great memories, and it's nice to reminisce.

Now, where in your new office, how you were able to...

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