Well, normally we have a guest right now, and a guest would be on the phone. The guest today is in the studio. This is very bizarre. Michael Reedle, of course, you know from the morning show and his great books. Singular sensation. Razzle-dazzle, the two best books on Broadway. You should get them. See, this is weird. I can hear it now. this is the first time we've opened up we have

me right here with all the screens the microphone then there's all these other microphones

around the table we've never turned on any of them that's mine on yeah it's mine's up is mine's

working oh okay yeah it works what do you think of this studio something is uh yours is a little

bigger is ours is a little bigger, isn't it?

Ours is a little bigger.

You keep your lights a little dimmer than we, Natalie, our producer, she likes everything bright and sunny in the morning. Yeah. But, yeah, our studio is a little bit bigger, but our microphones, they seem to work. The one thing I find strange is, don't you think we should have clocks on both sides? so if I'm facing you, I can't tell what time it is.

I can't tell if we're run out of time because there's no clock above you.

You know, I never noticed that there's no clock on that side yeah exactly but the host is looking this way I know except in my studio I was facing with my back to the clock and then I realized it didn't know when I had to go to a break because I couldn't see the clocks. I would imagine most of the listeners right now are fascinated by this. They don't have a clock on the other side. Inside radio. So am I the first guest in the studio? Yeah, we've never had a guest ever. We don't even know any of this stuff works on that other side of the table there. There's all these, what were they thinking? they put in like 12 different mics here for i know what but how many how many guests do they think you have at once is like the old um fred allen show or uh who is who is who's who's show they're there's a lot of people listening oh fred allen no who did you do the show with he did it with oh steve allen yeah because didn't you got you had a great group around steve allen you had larry galbart would come in and okay well we also had a piano we had a band

most days oh my gosh those are the days yeah now look at us yeah one yeah go down the hall and see

the elvis duran studio oh yeah that's big it's about uh the size of a football field. It's got a stage in there

for live performances. The breakfast club, they have Thrones. Yeah, they have actual thrones.

Charlemagne and DJ NBes sit on Thrones. Yeah, they have a little stage in there too. Yeah.

It's all equipped for TV, so we don't have any, we got the this screen over here which hasn't worked

since you came into the brand new studio we have four big huge flat screens three of them

work and we should have a stage so if Len comes in the listeners can throw things out of

like tomatoes or rotting heads of lettuce as they used to throw back in the vaudeville days. Now, Michael Riedel is considered the greatest guest. You don't, you know, I haven't even asked him anything. We've already done five minutes. I didn't even ask a question yet. It's just a net. Now, how did you know you would be so good at TV or radio? You just knew.

You, because you gave me the confidence. You really helped me. When you asked me to fill in when you were away, and I had, I'd been a guest on your show a lot. Yeah, but before that, I used to hear you on Imus. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, you know, I started in TV years ago when I was, what, 23. I had the show called Theater Talk.

It was a tiny little rinky dink show on public access, Channel 69.

It was on at 3 o'clock in the morning.

Well, yeah, you were right after Robin Bird.

Exactly.

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