Mark Simone.

The issues you really care about.

On 710 W-O-R.

Hey, let's take some calls.

Let's go to Mara in Nevada.

Mara, how you doing?

So good, I'm talking to you.

Chow Vincent.

Hey, Vincent hasn't called us in a while.

Where's Vincent?

I'm going to call him later on this week. Mark, today I'm 96 years old. Really? Really? I am. And you know what? Target demo. Yeah, but today, I know, but you'll be surprised. I think there's plenty of us out there so are you having a birthday cake boy the the candles

who cost more than the cake i'm a cookie but today is also vincent's mother's birthday rose but she's

in heaven now now mark i started with um martin block in the make-believe board room i was 11 years old

wow i'm 96 i went then to William B. Williams, Goliatham Obey Gileadima, and now it's you. Now, let's see. You may be it, Mark. Oh, no, no, you'll be listening to people for years. You've got many years to go. Mara. Happy birthday. Thanks for calling. Martin Block was the very first disc jockey ever.

It was 1934.

He was on W&EW.

And they were covering the Lindberg trial.

And there were long delays, sometimes an hour, two hours, so they didn't know how to fill.

So Martin Block, no one had ever done this before, he started to play records on the radio.

It was unheard of, and he would play the records, and then in between, talk about the music.

It was the first disc jockey ever.

The record companies got furious because they thought,

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