We’ll Do It LIVE! — Sid Rosenberg

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis

Episode: We’ll Do It LIVE! — Sid Rosenberg
Date: April 30, 2026
Host: Bill O’Reilly
Guest: Sid Rosenberg (with commentary from Danielle, Sid’s wife)

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Episode Overview

This episode of "No Spin News and Analysis" features a candid and gripping interview with Sid Rosenberg, a leading New York radio personality famous for both his on-air talent and turbulent personal life. Bill O’Reilly and Sid dive into Rosenberg’s meteoric rise in radio, battles with addiction, career self-sabotage, family, recovery, and his recent brush-ups with political controversy. The conversation is raw, humorous, and brutally honest, with Rosenberg’s wife Danielle providing poignant and illuminating side notes.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Sid Rosenberg’s Radio Beginnings and Breakthrough

• The Early Career & Getting the Imus Job
  • Sid describes his rough start in New York radio at WNEW (“It was awful. The ratings were terrible. Quite frankly, I was terrible.” - Sid, 01:19)
  • Mark Chernoff, a powerful radio executive, saw Sid’s potential and brought him to WFAN, placing him as the sports guy on Don Imus’s legendary show.
  • Imus was initially reluctant (“I don’t want him.”) but was convinced to give Sid a shot; this began a volatile yet lengthy 18-year run on the show.
• Life with Imus, Legendary Radio Host
  • Imus’s unpredictable, high-pressure, often intimidating presence is discussed.
  • “There was a rule, Bill, you could never look at Imus. Not kidding you.” – Sid (03:40)
  • The pressure cooker atmosphere contributed to Rosenberg’s on-air sharpness but also his off-air unraveling.

Addiction, Self-Destruction, and Redemption

• Battling Demons: Drugs, Gambling, and Alcohol
  • Sid recounts his “hat trick” of simultaneous addictions (drugs, gambling, drinking).
    • “I had a hat trick of depravity. Yes.” – Sid (05:37)
• Infamous Cleveland Incident & Suicidal Despair
  • Sid narrates a two-day bender in Cleveland that almost ended in suicide, only halted after he accidentally pulled out a keychain with his daughter’s photo:
    • “I could have sworn…she said to me, daddy, don't do it.” (Ava, his daughter, 08:41)
• Interventions and Rehab
  • Multiple stints in rehab (1995 & 2005) punctuate his story, each prompted by spiraling incidents.
  • “I ended up taking a whole bunch of money out of the account, which I couldn't explain...I said, Danielle, if I don't go back tomorrow, I'm going to die.” (07:12)
• Professional Collapses and Exile
  • Sid’s career is repeatedly derailed by his addictions: missed shows, public scandals, being fired from WFAN, and humiliating exits.
    • “He's as good as any of them, but he's never going to work here again. And it breaks my heart.” – Mark Chernoff to Danielle (17:46)
• Family as Lifeline
  • Both Sid and Danielle repeatedly attribute his eventual change to their relationship, children, and specific moments (such as the keychain incident or Danielle rescuing Sid after a South Florida arrest).

Recovery, Return, and Rebuilding Stardom

• Florida “Exile” and Second Acts
  • After getting fired, Sid moves his family to Florida, grappling with remorse and uncertainty but eventually landing a sports radio job at 790 The Ticket.
• Sustained Sobriety
  • Sid maintains, “Thank God. I am sober and clean for a long time. God has taken away the desire. I have no desire.” (20:36)
  • Admits recovery was nonlinear, with lingering struggles and one particularly low point involving arrest and family witnessing his humiliation.
• Return to New York & Rebuilding a Legacy
  • Despite skepticism from industry veterans (including Don Imus wishing for a different replacement), Sid gets a second chance in New York, credits his new show’s success to authenticity and a widened, lifestyle-oriented approach.

Radio Success & Unique Style

• Taking the Station to #1
  • Sid and Bernard McGurk—despite different show philosophies—return WABC's morning show to #1 in the market.
  • “You gotta work your butt off to do it. But you also have to have armor.” – Bill O’Reilly (26:31)
  • Sid's philosophy: blend serious topics with the everyday—music, kids, lifestyle—to connect with the audience.
• Authenticity as Brand
  • “New Yorkers...want authenticity...And you're, you're that. But you also are dope sometimes.” – Bill O’Reilly (27:01)

Politics, Trump, and Controversy

• Trump Relationship: Evolution from Skeptic to Ally
  • Sid explains intermittent encounters and interviews with Trump prior to politics, but didn't initially support him in 2016 (“I voted for Hillary.” – Sid, 34:30).
  • Trump appreciated Sid’s eventual conversion:
    • “How about it, Bernard? I changed him.” – Trump to Bernard & Sid, after Sid confesses he didn’t initially vote for him (35:13)
• Israel Advocacy & State of the Union Outburst
  • Sid’s identity as an outspoken supporter of Israel culminates in his ejection from the State of the Union after shouting “Says who?” when Biden cited Palestinian casualty statistics from Hamas (37:05).
    • “I stand up and I go, says, who? And it took seconds. Three guys come rushing in.” (38:07)
    • Alan Dershowitz is writing a book chapter about Sid’s outburst.
• Confrontation with New York Mayor and Fallout
  • In March 2026, Sid calls NYC Mayor Mandani a “cockroach” alongside other incendiary labels. The insult triggers public condemnation by city and state officials.
  • “Nobody mandated to me that I must apologize. …I did it on my own.” (45:53)
  • Sid sees value in apologizing but recognizes it does little to sway entrenched critics.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

On the Pressure of Imus:

• “There was a rule, Bill, you could never look at Imus. Not kidding you.” – Sid Rosenberg, 03:40

On Addiction:

• “I had a hat trick of depravity. Yes.” – Sid Rosenberg, 05:37
• “I could have sworn...she said to me, daddy, don't do it.” – Sid Rosenberg, recalling his daughter's photo during a suicide attempt, 08:41

On Recovery:

• “I will be a drug addict and an alcoholic forever. Thank God. I am sober and clean for a long time.” – Sid Rosenberg, 20:21
• “I see her crying, like, why are they taking daddy in that corner?” – Sid recalling daughter's reaction to his arrest, 24:05

On Radio Success:

• “You gotta work your butt off to do it. But you also have to have armor.” – Bill O’Reilly, 26:31
• “New Yorkers, they want authenticity...But you also are dope sometimes.” – Bill O’Reilly, 27:01

On Trump:

• “How about it, Bernard? I changed him.” – President Trump, 35:13
• “...no president in the history of our country has come even close.” – Sid Rosenberg on Trump & Israel, 35:55

On the State of the Union Incident:

• “I stand up and I go, says, who? And it took seconds. Three guys come rushing in.” – Sid Rosenberg, 38:07

On Public Apology and Criticism:

• “Nobody mandated to me that I must apologize. …I did it on my own.” – Sid Rosenberg, 45:53
• “They’ll never give you anything...So what, do we apologize? What exactly. Oh, we apologizing for. For ourselves. Right.” – Sid, 47:20

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Timestamp | Topic | |---------------|-----------| | 00:06 | Sid’s entrance; Imus origins; culture at WFAN | | 03:16 | The Imus newsroom environment & pressure | | 05:32 | Start of addiction spiral: drugs, gambling, booze | | 08:41 | Sid’s suicide attempt and keychain moment | | 10:04 | Return from rehab, ongoing turmoil | | 16:31 | Firing from WFAN; Chernoff’s difficult call | | 18:08 | “Exile” to Florida for regrouping | | 20:36 | Years of sobriety; permanent change | | 24:05 | Family impact; arrest humiliation in front of children| | 27:01 | Sid’s radio comeback & authentic persona | | 32:44 | Trump’s appreciation of Sid’s sobriety | | 34:30 | Admits voting for Hillary, Trump’s delight in conversion| | 37:05 | “Says who?” State of the Union incident | | 43:25 | Controversy over “cockroach” comment on NYC mayor | | 45:53 | Public apology: self-motivated, not coerced |

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Final Thoughts

This episode is a raw, unvarnished look at the combustible mix of talent, self-doubt, addiction, and redemption. Rosenberg’s candor—about both his failures and successes—gives the episode its emotional punch. His journey is a testament to family support, what it takes to reach the top (and fall from it), and how authenticity, especially in New York media, trumps polish every time.

For listeners, Sid’s story is both a cautionary tale and an inspiring roadmap for personal and professional resilience.

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Transcript

[Sid Rosenberg]

Foreign.

[Bill O'Reilly]

So here we are on Do It Live.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

All right.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Again.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

And I got a very special guest, Sid Rosenberg. Now, for those of you who don't live in the New York area, and remember, 16 million people do, okay, Rosenberg is a top talk guy on radio for everybody. He just wipes them out month after month after month. But here's the kicker on Rosenberg. 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

[Bill O'Reilly]

a very, very difficult position.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

I mean, to be number one in the nation's largest market is very, very steep accomplishments. So. All right, Rosenberg, I've been nice to you. That gonna end right now. The national audience may know you from Crazy Imus.

[Sid Rosenberg]

That's right.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

That's where I want to start. So Imus selects you as his sports guy, right?

[Bill O'Reilly]

Not really.

[Sid Rosenberg]

How it worked was Imus had a boss, and his name was Mark Chernoff.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

Well, I'm assuming what he have a boss.

[Sid Rosenberg]

But Mark Chernoff was the boss at wfan. And I had just done a year at a station called W1E W in New York in the year 2000 doing a sports show. My first year coming out of Florida, and it was awful. The ratings were terrible. Quite frankly, I was terrible. But I guess I did enough to impress the powers that be at WFAN. So after WNEW in 2001 decided not to bring me back, I was heading back to Florida, but I was told by somebody at the Fan, hey, before you go back, do yourself a favor. Call Lee Davis. He was the guy in charge of sales. Call Mark Chernoff. They like you. I said, they like me. This was the worst show in the history of radio.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

And no one likes you.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And no one likes me. And they liked me less back then. But long story short, Steve Cohen was his name. He ran the sports and at SiriusXM for about 20 years. Not the cone who owns the Mets.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

Right?

[Sid Rosenberg]

And he was right. They like me. So Chono is a guy who went to Imus, who at the time was using guys named Mike Breen, you may have heard of him, and Warner Wolf and John Minko.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

And he fired Warner Wolf, right?

[Sid Rosenberg]

He did fire Warner Wolf twice in favor of me, but this time in early 2001. Chernoff said, I got your sports guy. And I said, I don't want him. And Cho said, you're going to try him. He's good. So he was reluctant to bring me on. I miss. But it turned out to be a hateful loving 18 year relationship.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Okay.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

You were on that show 18 years, that's amazing. And Bernard McGurk, the late Mcard. Bernard McGurk, who I used on the O'Reilly Factor. Gutfeld and McGurk. I made Gutfeld, by the way. And I regret

[Sid Rosenberg]

was Tuesday nights. I remember that vividly.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Was great. You, you're walking into the cliche ridden lion's den because Imus was. Would you say he was schizophrenic? What? He was kind of a crazy guy. I miss. Right.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Crazy, schizophrenic, angry. I never knew. Was he mad every morning? Every morning? Every morning, Every morning. And what he would do is I was making about A$50 at the time. He was doing very well because he was getting paid by both WFAM, which was a CBS radio property, and MSNBC. He was number one in the mornings. So he was making over 10 million a year. And he'd walk into the, the newsroom with wfn. There was a rule, Bill, you could never look at Imus. Not kidding you. Who?

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Who couldn't?

[Sid Rosenberg]

None of the employees at WPN were allowed to look at him. Okay, why the newsroom employees, not Mike and the Mad Dog and the talent. But the newsroom employees were not allowed to look at him.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

So the tax and people like that.

[Sid Rosenberg]

That's right. So he'd walk into the newsroom and everybody would look.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

There it is. Explanation of why you couldn't look at Imus.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Well, he was, he wasn't handsome man. So that was part of it.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Right.

[Sid Rosenberg]

It wasn't a drawback like Medusa, you know, but he was just that intimidating that it was a kind of a non written rule.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

Don't look at him.

[Sid Rosenberg]

But he would walk over to me

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

and he would lean over, this is like 5:00 in the morning, and he'd whisper in my ear, I need you to be funny today. And he walk away.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And could you imagine? I'm 31 years old, I have all but three years of radio experience down in Florida under my belt. And here's Imus, who at the time was at the very top of his game, like Stern. And he's saying to me, he's making 11 million a year. I'm not gonna be making 75,000. He's saying to me, I need you

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

to be funny today.

[Sid Rosenberg]

So when you look back at all my issues with Imus and I was fired three times, suspended six times. I was in the papers every week, you'll understand why when you know the pressure here put on me as a young man new in this business.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

But some of it was your fault, of course. You know, you, you call people names and they made it into a much bigger deal than it should have been. But that road brought you into prominence. The. The Imus road. Then people started to know who Sid Rosenberg was in the radio world. Okay, but in parallel to that, you got in trouble with drugs and gambling. Two fur at the same time.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And drinking. All three. Really? You had three. Three.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

You had a hat trick.

[Sid Rosenberg]

I had a hat trick of depravity. Yes.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

This is a good line.

[Sid Rosenberg]

That's a great line.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Hat trick of depression.

[Sid Rosenberg]

This is not Mark Messier against the Devils. This is a hat trick of depravity

[Host of 'Do It Live']

because you have a very nice wife. I mean you. And so you are doing this high pressure show every morning and you're gambling and you're drinking and you're drugging at the same time.

[Sid Rosenberg]

That's right.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

How'd you get through that?

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I didn't. I didn't. I ended up getting fired. I ended up.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

How would they fire you for? Did they know you were alone?

[Sid Rosenberg]

They knew. You know, the. Back in 2004, for example, I went to Cleveland, a side gig. There was this early days of ufc, this cage match, it was a Cleveland State University on a snowy night during the winter and it was a big night because they were having ex NFL players fight against each other. Four round fights, you know how that works. So Michael Westbrook, he was a wide

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

receiver for the Redskins, took on Jared Bunch, he was running back for the Giants.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And Butterbean Ashford that night. Long story short, I got about $5,000, I'm in Cleveland and it was a Friday night.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

And when the fights ended, I wasn't going back to my hotel home alone. I was going down to the flats, the basement, that area, you know. And I got myself into a whole bunch of drinking trouble and never came home for two days. And when I got home.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

What does that mean, trouble? They beat you up?

[Sid Rosenberg]

No, nobody beat me up. I wasn't any trouble with the cops. I mean my own trouble.

[Bill O'Reilly]

You were intoxicated?

[Sid Rosenberg]

I was intoxicated.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I, I ended up taking a whole bunch of money out of the account, which I couldn't explain to my beautif, Danielle. I'll be married 34 years this June.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And when I got home, I had to explain to her what I had done.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

And I don't gone to rehab 10 years prior. And I said, Danielle, if I don't go back tomorrow, I'm going to Die.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

All right, so this is his second rehab.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

Second rehab, 2000.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

She had to know you're a little bit off and doing.

[Sid Rosenberg]

She knew. But, you know, she. She loved me.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

Still does. Obviously, we're still together. Thank God for her. And she just wanted to believe that I was okay.

[Sid Rosenberg]

But, you know, the signs were there.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I was struggling.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

So you knew you weren't okay?

[Sid Rosenberg]

No, I actually.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

At one point in my trip in Cleveland, which is well documented in my first book, you're wrong and you're ugly. It was two days after I started the partying on Friday night, and I hadn't told Danielle yet why I wasn't coming home. And I had a little bit of drugs left in my pocket, and I wanted to kill myself.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Did that thought actually go through your mind?

[Sid Rosenberg]

More than a thought.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I actually walked outside my hotel room. I was staying on the 14th floor. I walked to the very edge of the terrace, and I was ready to do it. I was convinced that my life was basically over. Here I am again. I'll be back in trouble, back in rehab. Lost this amazing opportunity.

[Sid Rosenberg]

More importantly, disappointed my wife. My son wasn't born yet. Beautiful Gabriel. But Eva was. And I went in my pocket to

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

take out what I thought was the end of my drugs. But I had two things in my pocket. One was the drugs. The other was a keychain to my house in Tenafly, New Jersey. And on the keychain. On the keychain was a picture of my daughter Ava, who at the time was about 18 months old. And when I reached for the drugs in my pocket, instead, I took out the keychain. I looked at the picture, and I could have sworn Bill. She said to me, daddy, don't do it. So I put the keychain back in my pocket. I called Danielle. I said, I'm coming home. And I left the next morning for New York City.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

And then after that, you went to rehab?

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I went to rehab. And WFAN and Imus, all those people were very, very supportive. They let.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Well, I'm just had his own.

[Sid Rosenberg]

He had his own bounce. At that time.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

He was probably sober about 15 years, but he was the epitome of a dry drunk.

[Sid Rosenberg]

But nevertheless, he was sober and he

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

was very nice to me. And they kept my jobs, both the midday show host and the Imus sports job, for 30 days while I went away.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And when I came back, I resumed both positions, but I wasn't well yet.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

And it didn't take me long after getting back to make a. An offensive comment or two, which eventually led to my termination in 2005. And that was the last time I worked a daily show at WFA.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And they did bring me back for nine years, till 2014, in an effort

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

to get me back because they love my talent and they, like, did you.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

This sounds like self destruction, you know that that's what it sounds like. The conduct itself, that you felt you weren't worthy of the success or where.

[Sid Rosenberg]

I'm not a psychiatrist, but sound like one.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

I know enough about life. It sounds like, you know, you had everything, which you did, but you didn't feel you deserved everything.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

You nailed it. That's exactly what all my therapists said to me and Danielle. And there was a time I was going to a lot of meetings. 12 step meetings for alcohol, 12 step meetings for drugs. Psychiatrists, psychologists.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And they all said the same thing,

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

that I had mastered the art of self sabotage, that I wanted no part of any success.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And as soon as I got to that point, because there was a time at wfan, I was doing the Giants pregame show in front of 10,000 people

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

outside of Gate D every Sunday. And they love me.

[Sid Rosenberg]

I was hosting the midday show with Joe Benigno. I was doing sports on Imus. I was in my 30s and started to become a legitimate sports star. And every time I got close, I

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

did something to make sure I never got.

[Sid Rosenberg]

You think that's what it was? I think, yeah. I think some of it was this fear of, oh my God, am I worthy of this? Can I do this? I don't know for sure, you know. Look, the truth is I didn't say

[Host of 'Do It Live']

you were raised by decent people. I know. Rosenberg.

[Bill O'Reilly]

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[Host of 'Do It Live']

You were raised by decent people, I

[Sid Rosenberg]

mean very good people. And neither one of them had drug

[Host of 'Do It Live']

problems and you weren't abused and you weren't thrown out in the street when you were 8. You're not a ghetto kid. No money in the home to, you know, develop your. Whatever you wanted to develop. So it had to be all within you was you say you relapsed, then after you came back, when you relapse, the guilt gets worse, right?

[Sid Rosenberg]

It was terrible.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

It was, you know, I had gone to Atlantic City and my wife was furious. They paid me maybe a thousand or two. It wasn't much. It was a fantasy football draft for a very popular magazine at the time called FHM magazine.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And my agent, Mark Lepselter at the

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

time said, I'll take you, I'll watch you, we'll go.

[Sid Rosenberg]

You make a couple of thousand dollars

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

and you'll come home.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And everybody was against it.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

My boss, Mark Chernoff said, you're not coming back. I said, will you stop it? I just got back from rehab. Show some faith.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Same thing with Danielle. They were vehemently against it. And I knew in the back of

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

my mind that I was probably risking it.

[Sid Rosenberg]

But that was part of the fun, right? That's part of the, part of the thrill. So I went to Atlantic City and

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I went to this party and they paid me in cash, which was a big mistake. And I said goodnight to my agent and everybody else and I headed towards the, the boardwalk and there was a gentleman who rides those, they're kind of like buggies on the boardwalk. Take it back to your hotel. And I had a couple thousand dollars cash in my pocket and I said, hey, where's the party? And the next thing you know, it's Sunday morning. I'm supposed to go back and host week one of the Giants Carolina Panthers pregame show Week One, I'm the host.

[Sid Rosenberg]

My third consecutive year.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

My dad, who will be dead six years in July. Man, do I miss him. He never missed a game. He'd be out there in his big giant sweatsuit, all proud of me. And they're all out there waiting for me. And my agent came down to my hotel room and I said, I'm not going. I had a pile of drugs in the room. I had booze in the room. And I was so ashamed and so afraid because I was really hot.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

So you didn't show.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I stayed in Atlantic City. My agent, who comes under a lot of fire in my house, I think some of it's unfair. He did the best he could. He physically tried to remove me from the room. He actually had a bit of a fist fight. I did not come home. I stayed.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Okay, so that's two you're. You're dealing with now. So finally you got yourself cleaned up from that. You went back to.

[Sid Rosenberg]

No, I didn't get.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I did not get cleaned up from that. That was a really. Just a couple of months after I went back to rehab for a second time. And I remember I took a cab home that night, was $400. And Mark Chernoff said, listen, we got to talk in the morning. And my wife woke me up very early and she said, we're going to drive to WFAN because I feel like you'll have a better chance of keeping your job if you speak to Mark Chernoff face to face. This is now 2005, and I've had two different major lapses and blow ups, right?

[Sid Rosenberg]

So we started to make our way towards Queens. I'll never forget this.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

We were on the bridge, 59th Street Bridge right there. And Choff called and Danielle picked up. And he loved Danielle. Still does. It was still very close to this day. It's like a father to me. And he said, listen, I've got some bad news. And she said, don't even say it. We're going to be there in 20 minutes. He said, don't come. And she said, but, Mark, we're almost there.

[Sid Rosenberg]

He said.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

He said, don't come. Nothing's going to change in the next 20 minutes. I love your husband. I think he is one of the most talented people. He goes, I've worked with Imus, I've

[Sid Rosenberg]

worked with Stern, Mike and the mayor dog.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

He's as good as any of them, but he's never going to work here again. And it breaks my heart. And he started to cry, and Danielle started to cry, and we Turned the car around and went home. Now, mind you, mind you, that was 2005. It did not take 14 months for Mark Chonoff to call me back and put me back on Ibis from Miami, which he did.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

You went to Florida in exile, right?

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I went to Florida in exile.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

That trip, did you clean up down there? A little bit.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I did the trip to Florida, Bill, I have to tell you, we just bought this beautiful house in Tenafly, New Jersey. My daughter was home there the first night she was born. My wife loved that house. So did I. And I knew I was about to lose it. I couldn't pay a mortgage. I didn't have a job, and I had a kind of a. It was a nice size SUV car. And I put Danielle in the car and I put my baby, little girl on the car and my dog Lucy. And I started a long trek from New Jersey down to Boca Raton where Danielle's cousin Linda and George lived. He's still there. George passed away, but Linda is still there.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And they offered to have us live

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

with them because I had no money,

[Sid Rosenberg]

no job, and I was driving and somewhere around

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

Virginia, if I remember correctly, it was by Blacksburg, where Virginia Tech plays their football games. I started to just cry uncontrollably. And Danielle woke up and she said, what's going on? And I said, I blew it. I know what I'm going to do. I'm sorry. And it was a brutal trip. Just thinking, well, Danielle slept most of the time and so did my daughter, thinking about what I'd done. And. And the scarier part was not what I had done, but what was I gonna do.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Right. You always had that balance where you might be more self destructive. Now you, you worked in Florida, right?

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I did.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Somebody hired you down there?

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

Eventually, I got a job at a. The number one sports station, 790 the ticket. Some very familiar names work there. Guys like Dan Lebatard and Bu Shambi and some big Florida names.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And I worked there. I ended up working at 3.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Were you functional here?

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

Oh, more than functional.

[Sid Rosenberg]

I was. I was never not functional. Even in New York. I never. I never drank or did.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Drug addict, though.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

Oh, sure.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Listen. You know, it's funny.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I saw Randy Grimes, he played for the Buccaneers on Fox News a couple of weeks ago. They brought him on to talk about Tiger Woods.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And Fox News puts at the bottom of the screen they go, former drug user.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

Drug addict.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Drug addict.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I'm sorry, former drug addict.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And I called Randy and I said,

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I got to tell you a great on television today. But what do you think about Fox News calling you a former drug addict?

[Sid Rosenberg]

And we Both laughed.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

Bill O'Reilly, I will be a drug addict and an alcoholic forever.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Thank God. I am sober and clean for a long time. God has taken away the desire. I have no desire.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

But when did that happen?

[Sid Rosenberg]

It probably happened about seven years ago. You know, I still had my battles with sobriety down in South Florida.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I'd be group for a long time, then I wouldn't.

[Sid Rosenberg]

I was much better than I was in New York, but I was far from perfect. I was not.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Were you still going to rehab and stuff?

[Sid Rosenberg]

No, no.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I did my two rehabs in 1995 and 2005.

[Sid Rosenberg]

That was it for the rehab, and that was it.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Did you have a personal guy or

[Sid Rosenberg]

I had a sponsor or I went to meetings, but probably not enough.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

You know, I started to feel pretty good about myself and I was becoming a big radio star again.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And, you know, I was seemingly okay, but the, the desire was lifted many years ago.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I don't, I don't think about it. I don't care.

[Sid Rosenberg]

You know, there was a time, you

[Host of 'Do It Live']

don't know why it was lifted.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I don't know why.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

A lot of people say it's the higher power.

[Sid Rosenberg]

It's, listen, I believe that's true.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I did get arrested once in South Florida. I had a another terrible night, and I was leaving a Miami Heat basketball game and had gone to a club, and I decided I had a fight with Danielle that night. I was trying to get to the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida, to sleep, find a place to sleep. And I was about two miles away from the hotel and casino.

[Sid Rosenberg]

I remember, I do remember pulling over to a residential community in front of somebody's house because I started to feel sick and I knew I wasn't going to make it. And the next thing I knew, there

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

was a cop in my face. So it turned out that I tried to exit the vehicle.

[Sid Rosenberg]

I did open the door. I ended up throwing up all over

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

myself when I passed out.

[Sid Rosenberg]

So a guy in a bicycle drove by and called the cops and said, hey, there's a dead guy. Literally, he said, there's a dead guy in his truck. Come get him.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

And the cops came.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And I wasn't nearly as popular in

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

South Florida as I am now. For example, I've, you know, I've gained some pretty good popularity as you could

[Sid Rosenberg]

appreciate, but I was pretty popular.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

And the cotton law was right away. And he, he said, you're lucky you're alive. But you're going to jail. So I called Danielle, my wife's a big time attorney, and I said, dee, I'm in trouble again.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Please come.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

And my kids were babies at the time. There was no babysitter. At 2 o' clock in the morning,

[Sid Rosenberg]

she threw the kids in the car. There were babies.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

And she arrived at the scene and she said, listen, you know my husband, and he's working really hard at trying to keep his life together. He had a bad night, no question about it.

[Sid Rosenberg]

But if you arrest him, he's going to be in the Sun Sentinel, he's going to be in the Miami Herald,

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

and he's going to be done.

[Sid Rosenberg]

For the sake of my two little

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

kids here, let me take him home. I'll take them home.

[Sid Rosenberg]

We'll get the car moved. And this cop, all he can think

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

about was, are you kidding me?

[Sid Rosenberg]

I'm going to be in the papers tomorrow. I arrested Sid Rosenberg. I'm going to be on the news.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

So he didn't pay attention to Danielle, and they arrested me.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And I remember you talk about times

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

when you start to figure out the gig is up. They place the handcuffs on me. I'm sitting in the back seat of the police car. My daughter Ava, who is now 22, graduated Wales, Cardiff University in Wales and is working with Arthur Idalla, I mean,

[Sid Rosenberg]

on some of the biggest cases in

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

the city right now.

[Sid Rosenberg]

She's an amazing kid.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

She's going to Ul Pen for her LLM in a couple of months. She was seven. And I remember turning around in the backseat, handcuffed, vomit all over myself.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Just

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

an embarrassment. And I remember seeing her crying, like, why are they taking daddy in that corner? And I'm not going to tell you that I never drank or did drugs again after that, because I'd be lying.

[Sid Rosenberg]

But I will tell you, that was

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

a pivotal moment in my life. And the amount of times that I did that after that, you can count on one hand that was the beginning, I think, the beginning of.

[Bill O'Reilly]

So he was saved your life twice?

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

He was saved my life twice.

[Sid Rosenberg]

All right.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

In my book, you're wrong and you're ugly. The first book I wrote, I actually referred to my daughter as my angel.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

So then you turn it around and you get another shot at New York City. So you come on in. But you didn't have the same demons, or did you have the same demons?

[Sid Rosenberg]

No, I wasn't going to do it again.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I just.

[Sid Rosenberg]

I still had them, I'm sure.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

Thank God.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

But you were able to conduct yourself on a day to Day, responsible, level.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I was okay. A lot of people just here and hope Bill.

[Sid Rosenberg]

A lot of people went out of

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

their way to get me back. You know, Chad Lopez, one of them. Everybody said to Chad, are you nuts?

[Sid Rosenberg]

Including Imus. He don't want me back. There was, I mean, sure, he wanted Mike Lupica. There was a big fight between who should replace Geraldo Rivera. Here were your two choices. Mike Lupica doing the show from his house in Westchester and making a lot of money or getting Sid back from Florida. Had a built in fan base, teaming him up with Bernard, keeping the image thing going. Pay them less and have them do the midday show. And a lot of folks, the majority, including Don Imus, wanted Lupica. Chad Lopez said, no, I'm bringing Sid back. He was not the only one. So here I am. I'm going to once again have my wife move back to another state, take my kids out of school. And it occurred to me that I

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

can't keep doing that and disappointing everybody.

[Sid Rosenberg]

So it wasn't going to happen again

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

here in New York.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Okay, but you're coming into a station that was last in a market west with Burl dead. Okay. And then you take it to number one in the morning.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Yes.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

And that's a pretty stunning achievement. I've done it. So I know.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Yes.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Gotta work your butt off to do it. But you also have to have armor. Armor. Because when you're on your way up, people try to drag you back down. You know how it is.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

Who knows better than you about that?

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Nobody. Nobody.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Well, maybe Trump, they didn't try to shoot you three times, but close.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

But they would have if they could have.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Right.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

But you're, you're on the ascent. Okay. And I work with you, so I know it's because you're authentic.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

Thank you.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

And New Yorkers, they want authenticity. They want people they can identify with. And you're, you're that. But you also are dope sometimes.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Yeah.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Okay. Which is okay in radio.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Of course.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Television is a little harder to be a dope.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Yes, but no, it's true.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

But anyway, you come and then you make the show and carry the station with you. Obviously, mornings are everything. Into the position of prominence. Number one. Did you know you were going to do that? You have confidence.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I did. I knew it. I.

[Sid Rosenberg]

You know the show I did in

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

Florida, I had a guy, a couple of guys, you never heard of them. Their names were Steve Z. Mack, he's my producer. And Eric l'. Engel. They're gonna love this. You guys are famous. He was my board op.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And I approached the show every morning from a late night television

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

type of philosophy. So I said, here's what we're gonna do.

[Sid Rosenberg]

We're gonna do all the stories we're

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

supposed to do, whether it's politics or sports, but we're gonna talk about music and we're gonna talk about our kids and we're gonna talk about lifestyle.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Going to the restaurant last night, going

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

to the ball game.

[Sid Rosenberg]

So I knew that if I had the opportunity in New York to take that same exact show that I did in Florida and do it in New York, I'd have huge success.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I didn't have that early on. Don't forget, we started doing middays, me and Bernard.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Imus was still there, okay, for a good couple of years. And there was a time when I misfired Warner Wolf again. And I was doing sports on Imus and the midday show with Bernard when they finally forced Imus out, when he retired and gave me and Bernard the mornings. You know, we're working for Cumulus, not John Katz, Matitis.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Right.

[Sid Rosenberg]

We had two other stations that were not doing great. WPOJ and a Nash country station that actually was doing pretty well. So there were all kinds of issues. All kinds of issues. And to be honest, I love Bernard and I miss Bernie every day. He was one of my best friends. I tell people all the time, I miss the on air Bernie less than my friend. Not because he wasn't great or talented, he was. But we had two different notions of what the show was going to be. He became this political animal, right? He was the cut up guy on Imus, always getting into trouble. Like, you called me a dope. Bernard took that to the nth degree on Imus. Then he decided, Listen, I'm 60 something years old, I'm about to have grandchildren. I gotta calm down. So he would, you know, get like 90,000 political cuts every morning and try to keep it really newsy. And I was still trying to do sports and music and fun. So when you listen to Bernie and Sid early on the morning show, it was almost as if you were listening to two different shows.

[Bill O'Reilly]

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[Host of 'Do It Live']

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[Bill O'Reilly]

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[Host of 'Do It Live']

get into the position where you're dominating, and then you take a pivot into politics. You're the ultimate Trump guy. Okay, so did you know Trump before he got into politics? Did you know him?

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I did. So I did sports and I covered boxing.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And for years, HBO have what they called Radio row at all their big fights.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

Bill.

[Sid Rosenberg]

I'm talking about Las Vegas, Dallas, Los Angeles, specifically Mike Tyson. So I think I probably did my show live from the HBO Radio row for Mike Tyson fights 20 times. Now, this is after his prison stay. So, you know, he's the back nine, but he's winning. You know, he's beating Francois Botard. He's beating all these basically tomato cans until he was into people like Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis. But I would see Trump at these events, and Trump was a big Tyson guy, and I had him on the show once or twice. In fact, when he was on, not the last time he was on the president, but the time before that, he was still campaigning. He wasn't president yet. We're going back a couple of years. And he said, you know, Sid, he

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

goes, I'm proud of you.

[Sid Rosenberg]

He said, you don't remember, Which I do said, you don't remember, but I

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

knew you when, when I was struggling.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And let me say this about President Trump. He's never had a drink.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

You know this. Maybe your audience does, maybe they don't. He's never had a drink. He loved his brother, and his brother died from alcoholism.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Right.

[Sid Rosenberg]

The fact that I've been able to maintain my sobriety and achieve what we've been talking about sober and good for all these years, if you don't think that's part of the reason why President Trump has this affection for me, not you, but you're somewhere between naive and stupid and closer to the latter.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

He absolutely loves that about me, that

[Sid Rosenberg]

I put it away.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I don't do that stuff anymore.

[Sid Rosenberg]

He's never done that. So he said to me, he goes, I remember you when I was out At super bowl parties, I would see him in different locations, and I was whacked out. So I did know him. He did do my sports shows every now and then, but certainly not the friendship that we've got today.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Okay, so in New York City, huge anti Trump movement. When you became full fledged Trump guy.

[Sid Rosenberg]

I mean, the worst. I'm the worst. I'm. Well, you love them.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Yeah, I love. Yeah, I know. Did you take a lot of heat from the Upper West Siders or. I mean, were you getting death threats and all of that?

[Sid Rosenberg]

All that. So.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

God, you ask great questions. You know, in 2015 in Florida, I was still in Florida doing sports, and I had this lady, she worked at my sister station. It was a political station. Her name is Joyce Kaufman. She's number one in news talk down in Florida.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

I know Joyce, you know.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Oh, you do? Great. So I would do her political show, she'd do my sports show, and she loved Trump. And I'd say, what, are you nuts? Listen, I like the guy, too, but the guy, he does a television show. How's he gonna run this country? We're a mess. Obama killed.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I hated Obama.

[Sid Rosenberg]

I said, but this guy can't help us. So I came to New York in 2016, and the first year of my

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

show with Bernard, the midday show, all

[Sid Rosenberg]

we did was fight. That's all we did. He loved Trump. They had a nice little relationship. And I liked Trump, but thought he was. I thought he was one of the worst candidates I've ever seen. I actually told him that. I said, I knew nothing about you. You're gonna build a wall and wear a stupid hat. That's all I saw from you. What else were you going to.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

So you weren't immediately on his team

[Sid Rosenberg]

Trump Bill, I voted for Hillary. And I told him that. He comes on with me and Bernard in 2017, and that's the first time we ever had him on. And I said, Mr. President, Bernard asked him some question. I said, Mr. President.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

Hi, Sid.

[Sid Rosenberg]

I said, I got to be honest. I've known you for years. Oh, yeah. I said, I didn't vote for you. I said, I really didn't think you can become the president that you are today. So the good news is it took me about three months to come to the realization you're the best ever. But the truth is, I didn't vote for you. I didn't. I didn't buy it. Your whole campaign, I thought was silly. So the interview goes on about over 10 minutes, and Bernard's about to wrap up the interview. And he goes back to it.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

He goes, how about it, Bernard? I changed him.

[Sid Rosenberg]

I changed him. That's all he wanted to talk about, was that, yes, he loved it. Listen, all the folks that loved him when he came down the escalator, he likes those guys, even some of the folks that hate him. But you show Trump somebody who he was able to change to the guy I am today, which is the biggest Trump supporter in the world, he loves that. That's me. Didn't like him as a president. Took me a very short amount of time to figure out, boy, this guy's good.

[Bill O'Reilly]

Okay?

[Host of 'Do It Live']

And then I know you're invested in Israel, and he's obviously an Israel supporter. President Trump is and has helped Israel. So that was a part of it, Right?

[Sid Rosenberg]

Well, when you say helped Israel, it's fair to say that no president in the history of our country has come even close.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Harry Truman, he did a lot.

[Sid Rosenberg]

He did, but not, not Abraham Accords move the. The, of course, the embassy to Jerusalem, which recognize the goal on heights. I mean, I can go over 10 things that Trump did. Harry didn't do that. Harry, terrific. No question. But no one's come close to Trump.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Okay, so then you become an activist on Trump's behalf. All right. And you go to the Biden, State of the Union, and I don't know why they let you in. I certainly wouldn't have. Just the tan alone. You wouldn't have gotten by the door and you yell out, okay, says who? That's right on. What did Biden say that rankled you there?

[Sid Rosenberg]

I'm going to tell you, by the way I yelled that out. Alan Dershowitz, who announced last week he's

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

now a Republican after 87 years. He's a brilliant attorney. I love Alan.

[Sid Rosenberg]

He's writing a new book, and he's doing a whole chapter in the book

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

on me saying, says who?

[Sid Rosenberg]

At that speech, he felt like that was a huge moment. Believe it or not, this is Alan Dershowitz. So that's surreal for me. So I'm sitting upstairs, right?

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

Because I'm not one of the House members. Anthony diasposito from your neck of the woods. He brought me to the State of the Union.

[Sid Rosenberg]

I'm sitting upstairs, and at that point,

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

we're really in the heat of the Israel war, real heat.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And they're starting to get some unfair

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

criticism from people in the United States

[Sid Rosenberg]

and all across the world. And I'm getting angrier about the anti

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

Semitism in Israel every day.

[Sid Rosenberg]

And I figure Biden's going to get to that. Literally in his speech, okay? He had hostages sitting up there with me. Hostages. Okay? 10 minutes in, nothing. 20 minutes in, I'm like, murmuring, screaming under my breath, but it wasn't under my breath. So the CNN guy in front of me, the other service, hey, sir, could you. Could you calm down? We could hear you. I said, okay.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I'm just, you know, I'm getting frustrated once again.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Talk about Israel. 40 minutes here, nothing.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

Finally, about 50 minutes into this dreadful speech. And Ben, was it dreadful? He was all jacked up on something.

[Sid Rosenberg]

I don't know. So he wasn't falling asleep.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

But it was awful. He finally gets to Israel and he goes, listen, he goes, we, you know, we're friends with Israel, but according to

[Sid Rosenberg]

the Palestinian Health Ministry, which, you know, Bill O'Reilly, the Palestinian health Ministry is run by Hamas. Bang. According to Hamas. He could have said, the Israelis have already killed 30,000 Palestinians. This is three years ago. My blood started to boil. I actually considered jumping over and just landing on top of him and pummeling him. I swear to God, you would have

[Host of 'Do It Live']

been shot to death.

[Sid Rosenberg]

I don't know. These days, you know, they couldn't shoot our guy a couple nights ago. But on a serious note, I stand up and I go, says, who? And it took seconds. Three guys come rushing in. Capitol Police, Secret Service. They grab me and they say to me, sir, you have to leave. And I said, why? Look at those ladies down there with the white shirts, The Democrats with the white shirts. They're dancing, they're singing, they've got paddles, yelling, all this stuff. I said two words. I'm not going anywhere. So the Secret Service guy, Bill, puts his hand on my wrist.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

This is when you know I'm crazy. I go, you don't want to do that.

[Sid Rosenberg]

I'm talking to the cops. This guy could arrest me. And then it occurred to me, wait a second. I can't say that to him, you know.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Right. It did occur to you.

[Sid Rosenberg]

It did occur, yes. And he said, okay, well, here's the deal. If you don't get up and leave now, we're going to arrest you. We may arrest you anyway, but at the very least, give yourself a chance. So I exited the room.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

On your own will?

[Sid Rosenberg]

On my own will.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Okay.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Jim Colmer is out there from Kentucky. Way to go. Emily Austin, one of your people from Nassau County. Way to go. You're a hero. And I'm standing there for 30 minutes because the sergeant at arms was considering whether to arrest me or not when they decided after 30 minutes. I can go home. How to get Anthony D. Esposito. He was down in the chamber to escort me out of the building. Like your daddy would do when you're eight years old at school. But needless to say, that hit the wires at NBC less than an hour later and I became that guy. Thrown out of the State of the Union. Still one of my finest moments.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Okay, do you explain it to your kids that way? Because I'm sure they were curious about their father almost being exiled to Devil's Island.

[Sid Rosenberg]

You know, my kids always assume the worst.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Like few.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Yeah, they're like, daddy, what'd you do? They love me when I've got. Thank God we're very close family. They love me. They're proud of me. They tell me every day, I love you, I'm proud of you. But they always just saw that, Daddy, what did you do? But when I explained it to them that the President United States was actually relying on Hamas instead of Israel, he said like that. Good for you, dad. Way to go. He didn't go to jail. No big deal.

[Bill O'Reilly]

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[Host of 'Do It Live']

All right then fast forward you go then.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Because there's been so Many things already. You know, you started off by saying, right. You could have been dead.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

The goal of this. We'll do it live. Is to destroy you. How am I doing? Am I doing all right?

[Sid Rosenberg]

Doing extended.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Okay, so in March of this year, you call the mayor of New York, Mr. Manzani. Yeah. A cockroach. That's right.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Okay, well, that was. Was the end of the statement. They also called him.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

Because I don't care anymore.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Anti American, anti Semite, but that's all right. Called jihadist.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Oh, that's right. But once you get insects involved, then you got, you know.

[Sid Rosenberg]

You know what's funny about that? You're right. And the insect part for me was. For me, when I wrote, was like, the least inflammatory. Like, I just hear from Brooklyn, right? We call people that, right? We call people insects. We, you know, look, there's an old slang word for homosexuals that we used in Brooklyn. Had nothing to do with sexuality. Don't say it. I'm not going to. But when you go with anti American, radical jihadist, all these things, I'm going, that's.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Cockroach is way worse.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Yes, yes, I was shocked by that.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

But then there was an outcry in the city generated by, you know, Mandani's people. Of course, they got the publicity out of it.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Same night, Bill, same night I went for. I tweeted this out. Let's say it was 4 o' clock in the afternoon, 7 o' clock that night. I'm at my local Italian restaurant with my kids and my Twitter's. I look down. Letitia James. Hey, Sid.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I've never met her in my life.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Never talked to her. He, Sid, like we're best friends. This is Islamophobic. This is racist.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

Whoa.

[Sid Rosenberg]

The Attorney General, before you know it, in the next hour, Governor Kathy Hochul, former Mayor Bill de Blasio.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

They're all on a train.

[Sid Rosenberg]

All of them. Julie Menon, the speaker of the city council, Jessica Tisch, who's my dear friend, were very, very close. Police commissioner, all of them. De Blasio, Richie Torres. One by one. And they all wrote the same exact thing. Sure. So as you said to me in a private phone call, which is now no longer private, you said clearly this was an orchestrated effort by city Hall. No doubt a thousand percent. Right.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

And you apologized.

[Sid Rosenberg]

I did. But there's a lot of erroneous reports. I read something even just yesterday, to John Katz. Matiti's, my owner of my radio station, was interviewed. He gets interviewed all the time, you know, and they always bring Me up. You got that morning guy. He's crazy and he crosses himself. And it said in the column that John Katz and Matitis even at one point, had to force me to apologize. Let me set the record straight right here on. We'll do it live. Nobody, and I mean nobody. Not John Katz, Matitis, not Chad Lopez, not my wife and daughter, who I spoke to the night before. Not the clergy people, who I spoke

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

to the night before.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Nobody mandated to me that I must apologize. I just been through this, as you've heard, through this, fired many, many times. I know how things all of a sudden take on a different life, even things that are silly. Right. So I just started on my own. There was nothing from my boss that said, do it. I did it on my own. And I will tell you that that day, I still beat the living daylights out of.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

Mom.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Donnie. I just left some of those other words out.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

But you did the right thing by apologizing because you want to. You don't want to get down in the gutter with the Jimmy Kimmels.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

Yeah.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Okay. I mean, I'm serious.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

No, you're right.

[Sid Rosenberg]

That's all.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Yeah. Because, like, there's a line that you can cross. Yeah. That leads to insanity.

[Sid Rosenberg]

You're right.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

But you don't want to be on the wrong side.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Well, it's not like I apologized.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

You aren't groveling.

[Sid Rosenberg]

No, no. But it's not like I apologize, and the Democrats appreciated it. You know, I say this all the time, and you could appreciate this. Look, part of the reason why.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

Bill O'Reilly, you're a legend. Okay. I'm. It's surreal that I'm doing this, and I. I mean that I'm honored. I can't thank you enough.

[Sid Rosenberg]

You're a legend. Part of the reason why is that a lot of people don't like you. President Trump is hated by millions, so it's not like I apologized. And now the Democrats and the folks that don't like me said, you know what that Said, he's not such a bad guy.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Right.

[Sid Rosenberg]

They'll never hate me.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

They'll never give.

[Sid Rosenberg]

They hate me. Maybe even more.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

They'll never give you anything.

[Sid Rosenberg]

Right. So what, do we apologize? What exactly. Oh, we apologizing for. For ourselves. Right.

[Danielle (Sid Rosenberg's wife)]

I felt better.

[Host of 'Do It Live']

Now. We did take a break. For our premium and concierge members. Welcome back. I have a very provocative question, not that I need it with Rosenberg, who could go four hours. Okay. But I have a provocative question for him about New York City. So for those of you who watch the. We'll do it live. Thank you very much. We hope you go and become premium and concierge members. Because then you get everything. We'll come to your house, we'll cut your lawn in the summer. We do all that. But I'll be back with Rosenberg in a moment.