called from the Lower East Side and was talking about something, then said, hoa! do you hear that thunder? A woman in the Bronx who was also on the line, paused and then said, ow! Look at the lightening! You could hear the thunder claps moving up town and you got the feeling of a network of the whole city.”
Remembering the appearance of the Brooklyn Black Panthers on Radio Unnameable back in the day, Fass says, kind of like it when people come up a little hostile and suspicious and I and the audience warm them up and win them over by the end of the show.
In 1971, a man called in about 2:45 in the morning and announced that he had taken pills and was going to commit suicide. He asked Fass to promise not to call authorities, but Fass refused. “I didn want to lie to him,” Fass explained to a reporter the next day. f the last thing someone says to you is a lie, that