 the link where we're recording now we're recording i i'm the same if we're recording or not recording i was told by your producer alex who tells me he's only 28 mm-hmm that by the way with the age i was elected mayor but it was plugging that anyway the he tells me that you won an award a writer's award for something to do with that dog triumph and that triumphant dog whom i happen to like partly because i like dogs and partly because i like cigars so when you combine a cigar smoking dog you're there and he told me he promised me your producer the the the condition of my appearing on this show was that he would send me the link and i have not received it the link to what to that show that you for for which you want an award well we don't need to talk about me right when we're done we'll talk about my am i going to get a link you'll get a link you'll get a link then we can proceed and talk go ahead thank you how are you david it's great to hear your voice sir it really is it can't be that great or you could have called me a year ago you have a telephone it's like an old girlfriend oh i was long need to hear from you pick up a phone it's true here's what i'm gonna do to my listeners because i have a lot of that's what you're gonna do to your listeners i'm gonna talk to you for a little while and then i'm gonna tell them who you are we're just gonna talk and then we're gonna peel it back a little and when they find out who you are and what your story is their their jaws are gonna drop this has been happening lately they're they're drawers or they're drawers this is an important distinction because i'm i'm out of here i'm hanging up in a minute if they're drawers i i don't think was that kind of a cover of a show really all right i'm not very i'm not going to give you the usual introduction because you haven't done the show in a while that by the way that's i wonder why that is the producer was looking down they had a spare half hour we're under the eyes jeffrey ross wasn't available but was very raw i i know how this works by the way the fact that somebody cannot be defined by a story or by what somebody did that's that's not who i am i know that i'm not the essence of the person i know now you would know that you're back in new york i you don't know that i i know that you're you've become a malibu you know you're well we'll talk about you but you're now this i am a malibu the word we have a word for it malibu i you're i call you malibu joise that's who you are we have no idea what's happening outside our borders nor do we want to i'm i'm no interest to me i always am jealous of people who've never seen the godfather because it's going to be brand new and they're fresh it's a tabla rasa as pretentious people say and i am jealous of my listeners we have new listeners and i'm jealous of the new listeners who don't know who you are and we're going to talk for a little while and then they know who you are and i don't even know who i am we're going to talk for a little while and then they're going to go oh my god then they're going to drop their drawers and i'm out of here tell me about avocado season i i have the most i have the most beautiful avocado it's maybe i've been told i what do i know i'm a jew from jersey just like you 17 18 years old and uh it takes a pause it sleeps for about a year and then for about a year and a half it produces hundreds there's a guy named steven goldstein who was the who was uh the head of the i forget gay alliance in new jersey a few years ago now he heads the am frank institute in new york foundation and steven was here and he picked a couple of avocados hang on hang on there's gotta be a hang on hang on for one second so he went from the closet to the attic well you're talking about climbing the ladder to pick avocados of the attic no i'm saying oh and frank and frank attic ah he was a very good gay alliance then he started working you know look you're you're you're doing exactly what i have to do with most of my jokes you don't have to you can't have to explain the joke oh let me let me get by the way this whole show is about me explaining a joke because nobody gets my jokes so this whole show i can relate to that David yeah he he's up there and he picks an avocado and he says he turns around and says that this is the most rural thing i have ever done steven was played by steven correll in a movie the name of which escapes me the big short about no different different movie he bruce oh my career is he god i see wait a minute you have to stop this now okay sorry the there was a movie with julianne more she played a dying lesbian police officer in new jersey and they she was denied her partner was denied all the rights uh to inherit their uh or to visit and steven correll played steven goldstein who was head of the gay alliance and who went wild and and protested and the new york times apparently i didn't read it but i was told reviewed that steven steven correll's uh portrayal of steven goldstein was too over the top and when you meet steven goldstein you'll realize he underplayed it steven goldstein is out there anyway how did you meet steven goldstein which bar will might through my no don't know uh not that there's anything wrong with it right my dear friend loretta weinberg who is either president or majority leader of the new jersey senate who's an absolutely fabulous human being uh and has been the biggest thorn in the governor christy's ample side rear end um i have a question about that didn't she remove a thorn from bill christie's foot and they became friends because he's an elephant i never i never met bill chris christ chris christy chris christy chris christy never met him i'm doing a joke about a mouse removing the thorn from the elephant's foot it was a bad joke i apologize i'm gonna show up you know there was a night live thing where i got where i forget his name but he for the hearing impaired gareth news would be yes the perfect the news would be broadcast and then he would shout it louder and that's like what you have to do with your jokes they have to tell the joke then you say then you do an interpretive period okay i apologize i'm just so excited to hear your voice i'm so excited too much coffee go ahead i'm so excited to hear your voice and it's been too long so goldstein and he was portrayed by steve correll in a movie and how did you meet mr goldstein as i just said through the red wineberg my dear friend who is the majority leader of the new jersey senate who is a a fabulous liberal who really was responsible for the uncovering of bridge gate uh and it's been she's been on 60 minutes of face the nation uh she's been for gay rights and for some some reasonable kind of of going control something where you might at least have the opportunity to buy a gun with your where you have your fingerprints uh analyzed so that only you can operate the gun might be a good idea you know if you have children in the house yeah us plus she's just been fabulous but she's also a wonderful person with a great sense of humor would she come on this show would she come on the show i i can't imagine she wouldn't and um you'll have your producer your people will talk to my people we're the same people i know and uh and and um steven goldstein uh was head of the gay alliance so she and and loretta became very close because loretta very much believes in marriage equality which he fought for her and so she had a mouth to malibu she's she's actually originally from beveley hills too much about loretta loretta can talk about herself sweet loretta sweet loretta moved from beveley hills to new jersey you moved from new jersey to malibu they were about 50 years in between yeah but loretta's daughter and grandchildren live in uh culver city which your new york listeners have no idea what that means it's where sonia's headquarter i have no idea you know so much more about california now pay attention new listeners because burt ross just mentioned new jersey and we're gonna we'll circle back to new jersey because when we'll tell the his new jersey story in a little while and when we do you're gonna say my god the david feldman show is the most fascinating most surprising podcast in the history of the medium because when they hear you realize you realize that after all the times i've been on your show i still haven't a clue what a podcast is either to my listeners and if they ever find out they're gonna listen to mark maren i heard i heard a rumor yeah that your your one of your sponsors is oval thing and i want to tell you that is great because i love chocolate milk i i used to believe that chocolate milk came from from brown cows i mean i was a little naive where are where are most of your listeners from do you have any idea is there a geographical is there a geographic analysis uh the bottom of their class that i know that's wonderful like my god you give the man a lob and he just knocks it over the neck now you're living in malibu used to live in new jersey let's brag about your daughter don't give her name don't do it but you have a a magnificent daughter don't you i shouldn't mention her name because i'm if you're ashamed of somebody if my daughter had been in prison i wouldn't use her name okay but she's a pediatrician saving children's lives again what do you want anyone i thought it's amazing okay yo did you say something did you say something about your daughter i'm sorry what does she do what does she do i'm sorry i moved i moved to california both of my children lived in l.a and now one of my son has moved back several years ago my daughter's moving back to new york i i don't know whether that says anything about their feelings towards their parents i don't know i have to go to an hour an analysis look up in the sky do you see a ton of bricks about to fall on you no i see actually was very rare in here in town is a very light rain one day i said to a woman boy that was some rain she said it didn't rain i said what do you mean it didn't rain she said that was ocean mist so how can you tell the difference between rain and ocean mist and she said when your intermittent wipers aren't enough that's rain so that's that's what happens in malibu i'm sure everybody took notes on that yes ocean mist that's a great name sounds like a doesn't that sound like a cranberry juice or something yeah or it sounds like something a female product doesn't so tell your daughter is a pediatrician yes that's exactly she actually has been working in the hospital with ucla so when a pediatrician works in a hospital why are you asking the questions i i'm gonna give you from here on in buster you did hey you got the shovel and you're digging the grave from here on in i'm going to give you one word answers see how you like that big fella we'll see you all right so your daughter's a pediatrician yes big whoop tony soprano's eyes are welling up that's what he wanted for meadow for her to that's what every father wants for his daughter that's for her pediatrician right right you are a perfect human being you you really are and and my listeners who are going way back know that but you're you really are a perfect human being and what people who are just joining this nonsense need to know is that growing up you and ralph nader were my heroes oh god and by the way i just got off i'm i i swear to god i just got off the phone with ralph nader by the way i just got off the phone with ralph nader growing up my father who said to me by the way you then if you're a correct member of the tribe after you say your father you say may he rest in peace right but he's still alive so he's taking a nap he's still alive well we haven't well he's dead but i haven't gotten around to burying burying him yet no he actually dead alive no no he passed away actually he passed away uh two decades ago this time of year yeah that's that's what you would told me i didn't yeah but so growing alive though so growing other is alive my mother's very much alive and how is how old is she well i'm not allowed to talk about her age but she looks great she really i've told i've told that when you want a vacation you go you go and be with her i spend a lot of time with my mother yes i do and i would and and you call that vacation uh let's move on you know yes i do i it's uh if you're going to you on if you're going to you on when you ask me about my daughter and i answer you're gonna you get the gloves on buddy i can handle it you go ahead you have a daughter who's a pediatrician yes i mean that that's that's you're done you're you're done just you know that's let's you go to a party there you go i got a daughter she's a pediatrician game set match what else is there to discuss apparently not much i bet that you don't get blowback from ralph like this i would never talk to ralph the way i talk to you but let me let me just introduce him with more respect if it makes you feel uncomfortable yes i do because growing up by the way it's only that you answer that yes because it makes me uncomfortable if it made me comfortable you would probably come up with a different answer i would never talk to ralph nader and show him the disrespect that i go out of my way to show burt ross because ralph nader doesn't have a sense of humor he's humorless it's it's the closest thing to eating wonder bread like he would ever eat wonder bread are you kidding no probably not growing up there were two moments that i remember vividly and this is the god's honest truth and i'm gonna say one nice thing about burt ross and i'm gonna get back to disrespecting him because by the way it drives my mother crazy that i don't show you respect and your mother is a great woman and she probably doesn't listen to your podcast no she does if she well then the mrs feldman i love you you are you are so perceptive and and you should be absolutely tell david to show some more to show not more respect but a modicum look i'm still doing things i i don't rest on the laurels i'm coming up with seek belts the fact that he says 30 million lives that that's all blues what does he come for us lately uh oh you know occupational safety and hazard administration the clean water act the epa burt ross the epa it it's pretty water clean water clean water is overrated you know when i go to a restaurant they say would you like followed what i said i'd like some dirty water fresh from the wherever okay growing up two vivid memories one is i'm eating ice cream in my parents bedroom we're watching channel five news ralph nader excuse me they allowed you to eat ice cream in the bedroom yeah mrs feldman ashanda so i'm sorry at least i hope it wasn't with me let's go on let's go on shellfish flavored ice cream from ben and jerry's so i'm watching the news and ralph nader is testifying and i go who's this guy and my father greatest generation loses it who's this guy and he stands in front of the television because that's your hero and i said what are you talking about i don't know who this guy he says if you call ralph nader this guy i'm going to take that ice cream away from you that is your hero find out who he is and he bought me unsafe at any speed i was like nine years old and i had to read unsafe at any speed and my father commanded that ralph nader be my hero at the same time like a couple years later i'm not going to tell the audience why but the bergen record used to come the newspaper every morning and burt ross burt ross and my father would say now that's a jew burt this is a jew this is if you if you had half the integrity of burt ross wait a minute one guy's a hero and one guy's a jew that's it the whole god from a killer he could go to shul and say here's a bunch of jews what kind of what is this this is very upsetting go ahead and not only that but sexy the women in my house okay the women don't tell can i say the name of your lovely wife joan joan my sister my sister sister and your mother and their friends and there were pictures of burt ross and the newspaper on the cover of new york magazine david i have one question yes did any did these women when they saw ralph nader when you were reading ice cream did your mother or your sister or their friends say what what a sexy guy answer the question please you were the the eddie fisher of my generation every jewish girl wanted burt ross i'm telling you that and no gentiles wanted me i'm telling you burt ross that just in my house but you were treated when your name was mentioned the angel sang i could hear the harps so we'll get to you in a little i have to i have to interrupt because of the short story which really i love when i was in college i looked a lot like oh marcia reef except for the space missing between the two teeth and this was after dr javago came out and so i wore the russian hat and the russian coat and women would come up to me and i was having a very nice time now we move forward 40 something years i go to a yankee game in camden yards i decided yankee stadium was too much tumult and i thought i was very creative and unique and as i'm going down to new jersey turnpike the balkamore and i stopped at a gas station everybody there is wearing the yankee hat anyway i go to camden yards and i'm with my wife and behind me is a woman probably in her late 40s and she gets all excited i figure you know on marcia reef and she said oh my god you look like you look like and she thinks and this is abe vagoda now i my mind my computer is going full speed because i know it can't be who she said it is i said you don't mean the guy who played fish she fish yeah so my mind stole the guy in the godfather yeah i don't get it and i don't see abe vagoda don't see it didn't eat in deference to abe who who departed in his mid 90s of a year ago even his mother didn't like the way he looked he wouldn't even look in the mirror i couldn't believe it i said to the woman you're very lucky they have gun control and all the more i would have just shot you sat down and it was like so you realize what happens in 40 years from all marcia reef to abe vagoda does not get worse no it doesn't shut up no that's a great story i love that so i love women are apparently no longer other than my wife and god coming on go ahead tell me about your humor column you write a weekly humor column for the malibu times it's a strange thing i write um when i first came to malibu i went to the there are a couple papers here and i and i said i would like to write a um kind of a a humor column pretty much based on uh an easterner's view of of the new country and i felt a fish out of water exactly and one of the publishers said wait a minute you've been here eight days and you want to do this i said no no you don't understand it's not a historical perspective like a lexus the toko coming to america from from france this is you know more a comedy you know a humor column so finally after two years i wrote for what's called the malibu patch and then i i started to write for the malibu times which is the major newspaper here and i was supposed to write every other every other week and i've now submitted eight or nine columns in a row and i don't think they figured out as they do it every week that it is switched to a weekly column um but they've allowed me to write almost anything i want to there's been almost no censorship it's been it's been a wonderful experience because like you it's almost like we have uh glasses that we wear and we see things through this humor filter so all day long i'm writing things down because they're i just see the humor in things which i guess helps me get through life but i really enjoy it it's um now is it is it online yes if you were to go to on it starts as a blog on monday afternoons they post the new ones and then thursday the paper comes out and then it's in in in the paper so it's a blog and online and then it's a column in the paper it's the same thing if you go online to the malibu times and you search for rush you'll see all the columns or you'll go to when you go to the malibu times online under opinion you click opinion and then below it is blogs and then you'll see all my blogs and um so the first time you and i ever talked you don't remember this yes i do i very much do you're wrong but go ahead the first time we talked was at white moral high school uh it's 10 years where but you're wrong 10 years ago and you were you're wrong but go ahead you're saying we talked before that yeah but go ahead tell tell what happened and uh you performed there were a bunch of people performed and you i thought you were terrific and i had no idea i mean here are here are guys from the class performing and you did i would say something like 10 minutes of of original you know material and it seemed to me to be a very professional level i had no idea you know who you were what your background was and i like to hang on for one second hang on for one second uh one of the isley brothers this was a benefit for joit mara high school he was very good too one of the isley brothers was there and played right the star spangled banner in a way you could only play if you're on drugs it was terrific because jimmy hendrix used to play with the isley brothers and i didn't know that yeah so in honor of jimmy hendrix one of the i can't remember the name of i don't want to do a disservice to him but he played and then he did very well but it was also a comic there was also a guy who rick overton i don't know there was a guy who started off for one of the first performers who did some comedy and it was it was horrific it was beyond i'm a amateurish uh but then we had but then we had richard louis and rick over no no no richard louis wasn't there richard louis said hello uh from that on a tape from a remote location probably here in LA okay as you recall richard louis's father bill louis may he rest in peace uh owned ambassador caterers and you could not be jewish and get by mitzvah if bill didn't do your by mitzvah then you were a christ then you were a christian and jeff ross's parents owned the number one catering house in newark new jersey i did not know that they catered the riots in 16 jeff has been doing very well yes he has i wish i was i wish i was talking to him right now instead of you i said hello i don't play as a matter of fact i i would rather be talking to jeff now it's in you jeff did something i think it was jeff so correct me if i'm wrong he did some some material where he went into it into a penitentiary yes unfortunately died out they let him out unfortunately well i taught uh when i was at college uh in in in a couple of different prisons and all i can tell you is is that his guts ball that is something you know you're a comedian and you know a tough audience and what he did was not only go in there and do his regular shtick he did he did like a dawn rickles kind of material with that audience yeah and that is um and and he pulled it off yeah i helped him i helped him with it well i'll tell you whatever you whatever was done that is uh that's courageous there's a your comedian i have to ask you a question but hey let me talk about prisons for a second hold that put a pin in that there's a great comedian named rick reynolds who tells a legendary story about me and him and a guy named jose simone playing santa rita prison i think it's called a level five i mean just like the maximum security prison for christmas i can't do it justice but if you google it just google rick reynolds prison story to me a favor there when this show is over have alex sent me alex is your 28 year old producer the link for that and the link for the dog with the cigar this is what i remember i saw i performed i had a had an anxiety attack and did you take them on like like jeff did no rick reynolds did but i'll tell you what happened to me yeah i went up and i start i go good evening ladies and oh i do that first i go oh god oh god oh and i did it by accident i just went good evening ladies and so i think there are i think that other than the correspondence dinner we're practically every single comic is bombed uh i think going into a prison and doing don rickles kind of material has got to be one of the most challenging jobs for a comedian yeah well hopefully the next one i read steve martin's autobiography and these are in the early days and he's up in san francisco and he they give him a monday night which is absolutely you know the worst night and he comes out and they're uh they tell him it's big night that we have the place is full standing room only he doesn't understand that he comes out and they're all japanese tourists and they don't speak english and i would have if i had been a comedian i would have passed out they would have had to eat and beat people doing you know helping me breathe and he starts juggling and doing all the other things he he can do and pulled it off and that to me is uh whenever i aspire to being a comedian and i look at some somebody who who can do that i realized i could i i should stay home well the advantage that i have over steve martin is my act is received exactly the same way between japanese businessmen and people who speak english i get the same reaction it's universal i can go anywhere and get the same response i remember speaking to you one time from renault i get the audience that you just had but boy you were uh you were breathing heavily did you come see me in renault no i would i wish you had once in your life told me where you're performing i you know remotely near where i live because i'd love to come in here you know i mean it's an invasion of my privacy so people who are listening people who are listening to this show if there's still any left he really is a good comedian and if you can get a chance to uh to watch him do stand up it's worth it by the way that's a plug i'm plugging that in oval thing thanks like i like you but i oval penis and milk you gotta be to drink milk without oval penis do they even make oval teen anymore i thought it was your sponsor i don't have sponsors did alec lie to me wait a second i think we may we're debating whether we've been asked to have a sponsor but we're debating uh it alienates my listeners somebody wants to run a commercial and every time i run a commercial my listeners get pissed off so i can't why am i promoting oval opinion did he lie to you and say we have a we're sponsored by oval thing i asked him are you making money with this podcast he said yes i said how do you do that he says we have sponsors okay what we don't have sponsors so how do you make money we very interesting that you would bring that up burt ross yes i mean we are in a capitalistic society we ask people to become monthly subscribers ah and for five dollars a month or more if they want to give more they can gain access to our premium content and then they can do all their amazon shopping by going to david feldman show website the david feldman show website there's an amazon banner and you click on that and you go to amazon and then if you shop and buy something i get a small percentage of everything you purchase hmm so if i don't promote amazon the stock went to a thousand it's a great company good and jeff owns not jeff ross owns the washington post jeff bezos hmm strange name what kind of name is that cuban no yeah get out of here he's a cuban yeah the one there no no but his father stepfather was cuban he could buy cuban he could buy no they don't forget the embargo you could just buy cuban there would be a part of amazon the washington post is since he took it over he has turned it into a premier newspaper one of the all-time great new right yes absolutely the other great thing is because of amazon because of jeff bezos remember what it was like to walk around small town america he'd be why oh there's a bookstore ah there's a there's a used record store because of jeff there is no retail stores anymore brick and mortar out malls will be all movies and restaurants that the garden state plaza in new jersey will end up with 340 restaurants who needs bookstores thank you for getting who needs who needs kitchens do you realize that my kids haven't cooked a meal in three years i don't even know why i they have a root they need a refrigerator in order to keep things fresh because they may not eat the entire meal but everything is either they go out to eat where they order in now the first time i spoke to you was not at dwight morrow high school when you were terrific and i went up to you okay who cares when was the first time okay so you walked up to me and i said i really this was at the dwight morrow reunion i said you were fabulous and you saw my name tag which had my name on it and you got all excited and called over your sister and went into my history when was the first time we talked i was a cub reporter for the hudson dispatch while i was going to college i spent two summers working as a police reporter at the hudson dispatch in new jersey jersey city i remember hudson dispatch they covered me yes and you were the energies are of new jersey governor bern of new jersey a democrat appointed burt ross to be the energies are of new jersey and i you remember okay yes and i called to interview you to talk about new jersey's energy policy and i think we have one well i think because of you new jersey is the only state in the union where they don't have self-service gasoline state no that is nothing nothing to do with me really uh when i when i was appointed by the governor to be the energies are of new jersey the record wrote a kind of an interesting editorial which it said that i was very uh charismatic and would probably would probably be a very good leader of uh but i i didn't know anything about energy i probably didn't even know what an ome was so i wrote a letter to the editor i said dear editor i'd thank you so much for your supportive editorial as far as my not knowing what an ome is your you are 100 correct and so i looked it up in webster's dictionary it defines an ome as a measure of electrical resistance i must confess i still don't have a clue what an ome is having graduated college in the 1960s i always thought an ome was something you hummed while meditating i got a call from the governor laughing uh my major accomplishment in that uh two-year stint was a right turn on red light and uh well that actually was a fairly significant accomplishment and but a second seriously seriously yeah is that true yes and why is that good why is that good for for our energy policy well first of all you're not stopping unnecessarily while you burn up gas and it's also environmentally positive because for the same reason and from a from the other standpoint of course is every why why would you wait it when you can make a right turn you can save a time on your trip so it's good on every level so every time people make a right yes they should think of me correct they should think of burt ross every time you make a right turn at a at a red light if if you make a left turn i don't give a right there whether you think of me or not and now as i make a right turn yeah and do you get a cut do you get a royalty every time yes i get a royalty yes so but what's funny is i go to the governor with the idea really isn't that yes and he says he well there were there were other states that were doing it and so i said governor this is this is really terrific idea and he said you know i don't think the attorney general bill highland likes it well i go to bill highland i said uh general highland uh what you're feeling says it's fine by me i go back to the governor the governor says i don't think bill highland likes i said wait a minute i spoke to him he likes it he says okay i had a push for something which is the dream of everybody in politics it is almost impossible to pass legislation or to propose legislation that 99.9 percent of the population wants it is just absolutely a gift to a politician and almost nobody opposes so finally it passed i think unanimously but it was it was a bit of a fight to get him to realize that this is a win win win nobody for the the idle lobby isn't there a lobby for people who like to idle who apparently not that was exactly it well we should call it a burt we're in new jersey you can you can pull a burt if you want to it's legal you know i'm from now on because actually my mother lives in new jersey i live in new york when i'm still living teaneck she doesn't live in teaneck but i i don't want to tell what city but um you are so famous no that people will start to paparazzi will be appearing at mrs fulburn's door it would be the mamarazzi the mamarazzi protecting you hang on i just made a joke you i made a joke mrs fulburn i made a joke i made a joke and you missed it i made a great joke it would be the mama's lobby the mamarazzi it wouldn't be the paparazzi it would be the mamarazzi i didn't hear it well i heard lobby mama you unbelieve that is funny i feel i feel embarrassed you have a good one to walk over it this is i shan'ta run me the mamarazzi wait a minute i don't know about you but i have other you know there's a busy life here in malibu haven't we talked for three hours yet it just feels like that before we tell before i don't your listeners have to do something else you know what i'm not going to tell your story but i know but hang on for one second hang on for one second before you go i talked to you about the energy crisis back then i talked to you i interviewed you about the pailey report and everybody was saying what a genius bill pailey was because he issued a report about oil reserves in the fifties and warned us that we were going to run out of oil in the seventies do you remember this no everybody celebrated bill pailey who was the founder not really but he owned cbs he didn't really found cbs that wasn't bill that that was another name no it was bill pailey bill pailey bill pailey william wait a minute wait a minute you i interviewed you about this burt i wait a minute i i don't bill pailey it just sounds do you remember the do you remember the pain le y do you remember the paleo paleo you are right you are right of course son of a of course i'm right and i talked to the energy czar of new jersey a guy named burt ross who spoke to me about the pailey report and he said that bill pailey the chairman of the board of cbs was asked by eisenhower to do a study of our oil reserves you know at times like this i'm not happy i made it to 74 it's you're the same age as the energy crisis it was 1974 and bill pailey issued this report that the world's oil reserves will be barren by 1974 and everybody said this this this program is getting barren i mean what are you are you serious and talking about the bill pailey report about oil going to be barred in 1970 who are you what is the age of your listeners so so even your mother's hanging up at this point she's saying oh my god i can't i can't believe that my son does this for a living so you were you were raving about the pailey report and how we have you're back to that yes because you were the energy czar of new jersey and i want you i have had i have had an amazing life and you are picking a part of it that i don't even remember or care to remember well i think you need to issue a retraction because the pailey report was wrong would you please do it in my name there is plenty of oil i have there are avocados to pick what's wrong with you what but you you owe me an apology because it turns out i apologize bill pailey i don't even know what you're talking about i apologize if it if it can move this interview forward bill pailey hey let me let's just then we'll move on i'll say goodbye but bill pailey was wrong he canceled the smothers brothers and put on the beaverly hill billies which wasn't so bad and he's tonight this interview is now turning on to a rant to bill pailey we're back in the 1960s the smothers but can you explain to your audience all 90 i have been i think do you realize that people 45 years old have no idea of anything we're talking about no they don't know bill pailey they don't know they don't know dr king for christ you met dr king right i have a picture of me and him where we're i'm a little taller than he is i would say better looking but he looks better than a bogota you know that you know that i have a theory about people who call martin luther king dr king that they're secretly racist they go it's it's it's they're supposed to call a martin marty i've had people who go oh dr king then it's dr cosby dr mandela dr jackie robinson dr harry it's up no no no i by the way met jackie twice kennedy jackie robinson jackie robinson was married to jfk no no no your headcruiser's father assassinated jfk no what a god jeff bassos we have things to talk about the next time jeff bassos i've had enough of this interview i think the next time we need to talk about um our president and his most recent um tweet of this morning which is the state of our union was dot dot dot kafate c o v f e f e i couldn't have said it better the state of our union was kafate this is our president can't can't beat that i hope your listeners think about that and we can all come up with a i think you should have a little like segment where people email you or tweet you or whatever to help people do today and they they come up with the definition of what they think he meant what could kafate mean wait no this morning it's in the papers he wrote at 3 30 in the morning or something i don't know some it doesn't sleep the state of our union was dot dot dot c o v f e f e kafate i'm not making this up my wife told it to me this morning i see this now yeah wow yeah so ask your readers it's a great it's a great opportunity to participate mm-hmm and have them email or tweet or whatever what they think that could possibly mean before you go i want to go but yes i know you want to go but we're not done yet things to do miles to go before i sleep robert frost thank you port did he did you know robert frost too i cannot believe i'm a freshman at harvard and there's an english basic english class i'm taking and the only time i cut class i think in four years was the english class big lecture hall i come the next day rock they said how did you like robert frost i thought he was talking about he was a special guest a surprise guest really yeah that's my story of my life mm-hmm david it's been nice talking to you nice talking to you come back and then we'll tell you're boring story of why you're my hero or we can talk about what the president meant by the state of the union was keffy because i agree third ross exactly we'll we'll talk to you soon be well david thank you stand the line for one second