Les Goodstein | Former Publisher of the New York Daily News | 07-30-25

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Sports, News, Comedy

4.2 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Les Goodstein, former publisher of the New York Daily News, joins the show to talk about the newspaper's heyday when it sold millions of copies daily, sharing anecdotes about legendary colleagues. Les details the impactful contributions of these figures and recounts humorous and personal stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	To wear a beret or not to wear a beret, that is the question.
0:04.8	And I got to get a haircut right after this show, John,
0:07.5	because the first time ever, a full hour.
0:10.5	Give that one to the barber.
0:12.1	Yeah, you were from Tashkent, Uzbekistan,
0:14.8	the Buharians who voted for me the last time.
0:17.1	Make sure they don't cut the below the throat.
0:23.7	Exactly. Well, actually, Fear City,
0:31.8	if you go on Netflix, Fear City, the first scene is me with the barber who was part of a plot to actually make sure I wasn't around. And now he's friendly and he was clipping my head, a little bit of hair that I have left.
0:40.4	Anybody with a vowel name hired a barber?
0:44.6	Yeah, he had a vowel name.
0:46.1	But I believe we have on the line, am I correct, Justin Ellick?
0:49.8	Longtime newspaper guy, Les Goodstein.
0:53.5	The publisher in New York
0:55.6	Dailing News,
0:57.2	when they used to sell
0:58.2	$3 million a day.
1:01.6	Les, are you there?
1:03.2	Yeah, hey, Curtis.
1:04.4	Hey, John.
1:04.9	How are you?
1:05.6	Good.
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