where new york comes for common sense mark simone on seven 10 w o r well hey a little technical difficulty

but we're on everything sounds good yep i can hear myself uh we got a lot to get to this hour also we have a

special guest in the studio it's irv right oh right? Oh, wait, turn the mic on.

Try it again. Hi, it's Irv, Goldfarb. Irv Goldfarb. Now, you might be saying, who's Irv Goldfarb?

Well, every year we do this big event for charity where we raise money for, what is the World Hunger

Feeding America? I'm not sure we're feeding America.

And one of the prizes is you can bid.

You have to bid a lot of money, but you can win a visit to the studio to come sit here.

And, Irv, I seem to know you.

I won the same auction in 2022, actually, and spent a fun hour here with you at that time.

Well, I think you're the first auction winner ever to come back again and do it twice. But the last time you did a couple of years ago, were we in the other studio? Oh, my God, it was impossible to find that, but the cab driver had no idea what I was talking about. This one was a lot easier. Yeah, well, our old studios were in Tribeca. Right. We've left Tribeca. We're now in Midtown Manhattan, right here on 55th, and a big beautiful skyscraper. Much better here. Did you get a chance to look around? I did, yeah, walked around some of the studios, yeah. You got Charlemagne over in that studio over there, Elvis Duran down the hall, Jim Kerr that way. And Irv's going to just sit and, is this exciting to sit and watch this for an hour? Well, I mean, last time I was here I was able to participate a little bit. Yeah, and of course, you want to plug anything mentioning that's part of the deal? Do you want to... I do actually. I actually started writing a blog about a year ago.

Oh, God. Oh, no. I was in radio for 20 years. Oh. And I worked at ESPN. So like you, I met a lot of famous personages. And I had some interesting stories. So I sent it to 75 of my closest friends. And I got good feedback. So now I'm uploading those blogs onto Substack.

And where do people go? They can go to Substack. It's called Irvine's Subststack, Irvine, Bostrifice, S. Irvin's Substack. Unfortunately, I found out last night there are two Irvins Substack. Mine is Irv Goldfarb. You see my name and you can read stories about me chauffering Bruce Springsteen around back when he was a human being.

I worked for Harvey Weinstein one night. Had a lot of interesting stories. And people like them. Not crazy about the name. Irvin's? Well, my name is Irvin. So I just put my name in and it just popped up as Irvin's substack. So I just kept it. I like Goldfarb's substack. Goldfarb sounds like something, like a German candy bar or something.

I will go back and change it and so i won't confuse with the other irvin i'll make a gold farm substacks well as long as it's doing well that's important uh where'd you drive bruce springsteen to uh a record store in rchester i met him at the pool he asked if there was a record store around i knew there was a record record store. He said, thank you. I said, you want a ride, Bruce? He said, yeah, man, I'll take a ride. Put him in the car, drove him to the record store. People recognized him after a while, chased us down the escalator. And we sat in the car and talked for a while afterwards. It was an unforgettable experience. All right. Well, you can read these stories on Irvin's substack. Irvin's substack. And what did you do at ESPN? I was, mostly, I did stats, baseball stats, hockey stats. I put the graphics up on the scene on the screen. Oh, very good. Numbers guy. Excellent. So, and paid a lot of money to be our uh auction winner money goes to charity

to feed the hungry and uh again first time anybody's ever done this twice so should i do it again

next year or should i back off yeah if you want as long as you keep winning we have a uh high roller

audience and they do spend a lot of money on charity i would have thought

yeah that was a lot of people would be into this yeah so uh anyway where irv will be with us

throughout the hour we'll get back to irv and uh so jump in if you want uh hey rosy o'donnell

snuck back into the country you remember she's leaving she's leaving the country, never going to set foot in America while Trump is president. She did sneak back, apparently, about two weeks ago. She said she wanted to see her family. She missed her family. You ever see her family? I don't think anybody would want to see them again. But she did come and she also said being insane she said she wanted

to make sure it was safe she wanted to make sure she could get in and out of america now i don't

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