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, wait, turn the mic on. Try it again. Hi, it's Irv, Goldfarb. Irv, Goldfarb. Now, you might be saying, who's Erv Goldfarb? Well, every year we do this big event for charity where we raise money for, what is the World Hunger thine hunger feeding america i'm not sure we

feeding america and one of the prizes is you can bid you have to bid a lot of money but you can

win a uh visit to the studio to come sit here and irv why do i i seem to know you you uh i won the same

auction in 2002 actually and spent a fun hour here with you at that time well yeah i think you're the first

auction winner ever to come back again and do it twice so now but the last time you did a couple

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 uh we've left tribeca we're now in midtown manhattan right here on 55th on. 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 with 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, 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 Substack, Irvine, Bostrifice, S. Irvine Substack. Unfortunately, I found out last night there are two Irvine's 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 broil 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 substack well as long as it's doing well that's important uh where'd you drive bruce springsteen to uh a record store in rochester i met him at the pool he asked if there was a record store around i knew there was 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. Well, you can read these stories on Irvin's substack. Irvin's substack. And what did you do at ESPN? I was, um, mostly, I did stats, uh, baseball stats, hockey stats. I put the graphics up on the scene, on the screen, so. Oh, very good. I'm a kind of numbers guy. Excellent. So, and, uh, 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, a lot of people would be into this.

Yeah. So anyway, Irv will be with us throughout the hour. We'll get back to Irv and

to jump in if you want.

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