Frank Morano: The Other Side of Midnight
KEY MOMENTS
0:00 – Intro: NYU classmate Frank Morano of WABC
1:49 – New dads and the first smiles
4:15 – Should you have kids younger?
5:58 – Why Frank and Lou chose NYU and Gallatin
9:08 – NYU's Karl Marx celebration and $70,000 tuition
10:44 – Walking around NYU again
11:53 – Leaving New York, and whether the city is coming back
14:26 – Old New York nostalgia vs. today's costs
16:40 – Brooklyn Heights and moving out
18:10 – The Seinfeld "ASSMAN" license plate
18:59 – Their old teacher Barry Goldsmith
19:49 – Working with Joe Piscopo
23:11 – Rick Moranis, Charles Grodin, and stepping away for family
23:42 – Radio vs. podcasts
25:44 – Life on the overnight shift
28:13 – Who listens between 1 and 5 a.m.
29:45 – A Cambodian podcast chart and Pol Pot jokes
31:03 – Booking offbeat guests: a pro-Putin American in Russia
34:02 – Finding guests down the rabbit hole
35:47 – Iconoclasts, new media, and comedy careers
37:57 – Elon Musk buys Twitter
40:48 – Where to draw the line on speech
43:39 – Who decides what's misinformation?
45:02 – YouTube pulls a vaccine debate and a Roger Stone interview
47:31 – Bring back Louis Farrakhan, and wrap-up
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Frank Morano, Lou's former NYU classmate and host of WABC's The Other Side of Midnight, joins Lou to talk about being new dads, their NYU days, life on the overnight radio shift, and whether New York is coming back.
We also get into whether you should have kids younger, NYU's Karl Marx celebration and $70,000 tuition, old New York nostalgia versus today's costs, the Seinfeld "ASSMAN" license plate, working with Joe Piscopo, radio versus podcasts, who's listening between 1 and 5 a.m., Pol Pot jokes, booking a pro-Putin American in Russia, Elon Musk buying Twitter, who decides what's misinformation, and why it's time to bring back Louis Farrakhan.