4.2 • 831 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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APRIL 9, 2019
Special guest Sharon Simon sits in for NYCCR
A former worker within the mental health system, Simon explains why she had to quit, and clues us in on what happened to the hundreds of millions of dollars wasted on Chirlane McCray's THRIVE program.
Also, we discuss a hit-and-run in Violent Brooklyn - we end up taking the side of the driver - and the Lower-East-Side "friend rape" of an Upper-West-Side woman.
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0:00.0 | From the smallest room in New York City comes a show that gives you a reason to live. |
0:04.6 | Yeah. |
0:05.0 | Then you'd be one of those people who is the funniest person in the office and you do bringers, |
0:09.1 | you know, which is fine. |
0:10.6 | I like to see people who are funny in the office and they do bringers because it's, you know, |
0:15.4 | it makes a really nice audience for the rest of us, yes. |
0:18.8 | Good morning. |
0:20.4 | It's very nice outside, and we're going to enjoy another wonderful spring day here in New York |
0:26.6 | City, April. |
0:28.2 | And what is it? |
0:29.0 | March is in like a lion out like a lamb or something, but man, it was one cold, wet, rainy |
0:34.6 | lamb. |
0:36.8 | And a special guest today with me is Sharon Simon. |
0:40.0 | Hey, Sharon. |
0:40.7 | Hi, Pat. |
0:41.2 | Comedian and former, now you worked not for the city, but for a company that was contracted by the city or something like that. |
0:47.6 | Mental health housing. |
0:48.4 | Mental health housing. |
0:50.2 | Tell me about that. |
0:51.2 | So my organization would help people who might have otherwise been homeless due to severe mental health conditions. |
0:59.0 | And we would go into their apartments and help them with whatever they needed, whether it was just someone to talk to, someone to remind them to bathe. |
1:07.5 | I know you're not kidding. |
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