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Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis

We’ll Do It LIVE! — Sid Rosenberg

Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis

Bill O'Reilly

Politics, News, News Commentary

3.712K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Bill O’Reilly interviews WABC radio’s Sid Rosenberg in one of his deepest interviews yet.  Sid talks about his controversy with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, getting kicked out of President Biden’s State of the Union address, and his support of President Trump. They also examine his radio career, working with Don Imus, the death of his co-host Bernard McGuirk, and hitting rock bottom with addiction. 0:00 — Intro 1:05 — Imus and radio prominence at WFAN 5:29 — Drugs, drinking, gambling, addiction and rock bottom 22:40 — Return to New York City and replacing Imus with Bernard McGuirk at WABC 28:48 — Supporting Donald Trump 33:40 — Trump and Israel 34:13 — Getting kicked out of the Biden State of the Union 41:18 — Battling NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

So here we are on Do It Live, all right, again.

0:10.0

And I got a very special guest, Sid Rosenberg.

0:14.0

Now, for those of you who don't live in the New York area,

0:17.0

and remember, 16 million people do, okay. Rosenberg is the top talk guy on radio for everybody.

0:27.0

He just wipes them out month after month after month. But here's the kicker on Rosenberg.

0:32.8

He should be dead. All right. He shouldn't be the top anything. He should be in the ground and somehow survived madness and then climbed to a very, very difficult

0:46.9

position.

0:47.6

I mean, there be number one nation's largest market is a very, very steep accomplishment.

0:54.4

So, all right, Rosenberg, I've been nice to you.

0:56.7

That's going to end right now.

1:00.3

The national audience may know you from crazy Imus.

1:05.2

That's right.

1:05.9

That's where I want to start.

1:07.2

So Imus selects you as his sports guy, right? Not really. How it worked was,

1:15.8

was Imus had a boss, and his name was Mark Chernoff. Well, I'm assuming he have a boss,

1:20.4

but Mark Chernop was the boss at WFAN. And I had just done a year at a station called W-1E-W in New York in the year 2000

1:29.9

doing a sport show, my first year coming out of Florida, and it was awful.

1:34.8

The ratings were terrible.

1:36.2

Quite frankly, I was terrible, but I guess I did enough to impress the powers that be at WFAN.

1:43.0

So after W-1E-W in 2001 decided not to bring me back,

1:47.3

I was heading back to Florida.

1:49.0

But I was told by somebody at the fan,

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