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- 0:00Speaker 1: David Bischoff, who happens to be the agent over the
- 0:03Speaker 1: years for the great quarterback of the Giants, Bill Sims.
- 0:08Speaker 1: And so these kids were able to get through all
- 0:11Speaker 1: the atrocities and horror they saw with the help of music.
- 0:16Speaker 1: And ironically, you just played Guns N' Roses, Louis. Bands
- 0:20Speaker 1: like Guns N' Roses, Van Halen, Black Sabbath, those were
- 0:25Speaker 1: some of the bands that helped the kids. The film
- 0:28Speaker 1: is produced and directed by Kevin Bright, Emmy Award-winning producer,
- 0:33Speaker 1: also the director of Friends, and David Fischhoff, who I
- 0:38Speaker 1: just mentioned, and is joining me right now. David, good morning, buddy.
- 0:42Speaker 1: How are you?
- 0:44Speaker 2: Oh, Sid, I'm so excited to be here, and I
- 0:47Speaker 2: just came in from Jerusalem, where we met, where we
- 0:50Speaker 2: saw each other.
- 0:50Speaker 1: What, is that where you are right now, you said?
- 0:52Speaker 2: No, no, no, I just landed. I landed this morning,
- 0:55Speaker 2: and I'm excited about showing the film tonight at the
- 0:58Speaker 2: JCC in Manhattan.
- 1:01Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Yeah, we met in Jerusalem at the JNS.org event. Summit,
- 1:08Speaker 1: and you were there, and you said, hey, I represented
- 1:10Speaker 1: Bill Sims. You know, I'm so close to Bill Sims.
- 1:13Speaker 1: I don't do a ton of sports on the show,
- 1:15Speaker 1: but I do my fair share. I talk about it
- 1:17Speaker 1: every day. And usually when it's a big football story,
- 1:20Speaker 1: I bring on Bill. Bill's been my buddy for the better,
- 1:23Speaker 1: I don't know, 25 years. So before we get to
- 1:26Speaker 1: the film, what was it like representing the great number
- 1:29Speaker 1: 11 for the Giants?
- 1:33Speaker 2: It was amazing. I mean, throughout his entire career, I
- 1:36Speaker 2: think we spoke every morning. And, you know, being an
- 1:40Speaker 2: Orthodox Jew, he knew that he knew from the Sabbath,
- 1:44Speaker 2: you know, he would he said, enjoy your Sabbath. But
- 1:47Speaker 2: my favorite story, my favorite all time story about Phil
- 1:49Speaker 2: Simmons is I went to the Super Bowl when the
- 1:52Speaker 2: year the Giants were in it. It was just celebrated
- 1:54Speaker 2: 40 years. And I wanted to spend the week with
- 1:57Speaker 2: him because, you know, that was the week when Disney,
- 1:59Speaker 2: we were making deals for Disney and sneakers and hat deals. And,
- 2:03Speaker 2: you know, I needed to be there with him down there.
- 2:05Speaker 2: And I turned to him on Friday and I said, Phil,
- 2:07Speaker 2: I said, you know, I'm not going to be here
- 2:10Speaker 2: on Sabbath. I'm going to go up to Beverly Hills area.
- 2:12Speaker 2: I'm going to stay away from Sabbath. I'll be up there.
- 2:15Speaker 2: And Phil Sims, and you know, that whole week was,
- 2:18Speaker 2: I would say it was Elway, Elway, Elway. And, you know,
- 2:21Speaker 2: they weren't giving Phil the credit that he deserved. And
- 2:24Speaker 2: all of a sudden, Phil Simms turned to me on
- 2:26Speaker 2: Friday afternoon. He says, hey, Fishoff, don't worry about it.
- 2:28Speaker 2: Your Sabbath is more important than the Super Bowl. And
- 2:31Speaker 2: he went on that Sunday and he broke every record.
- 2:34Speaker 2: And it's just it's amazing. He's just an incredible, incredible
- 2:38Speaker 2: person and really an honor to work with him for
- 2:41Speaker 2: so many years. And he's just an incredible person.
- 2:46Speaker 1: I love him, too.
- 2:46Speaker 2: I love him. Yeah, you got it. Mr.
- 2:50Speaker 1: Moorhead stayed out of Kentucky, comes to New York, and
- 2:52Speaker 1: now he's friends and being represented by Jewish people. He
- 2:54Speaker 1: never met a Jewish person in Kentucky, trust me. Right, right.
- 2:58Speaker 2: That's what he said to me. He said, my father
- 3:01Speaker 2: told me to find a Jew to represent and they
- 3:03Speaker 2: know how to make the money.
- 3:06Speaker 1: And he was magnificent in Pasadena that Sunday and had
- 3:09Speaker 1: a great, great career. I think he's listening somewhere in
- 3:12Speaker 1: Franklin Lakes, New Jersey right now. So, Phil, we love you.
- 3:15Speaker 2: He's a legend. He is.
- 3:16Speaker 1: All right, so I saw you at that summit. You said, hey,
- 3:19Speaker 1: Sid Rosenberg and everything at Phil Simms. And I know
- 3:21Speaker 1: you're a big fighter for the Jews. And I want
- 3:24Speaker 1: to tell you about this movie. And the name of
- 3:26Speaker 1: the documentary is The Bridge. Now, I just read the
- 3:30Speaker 1: very short version, David. As you said, they're going to
- 3:33Speaker 1: show the screening today at the JCC in Manhattan. So
- 3:37Speaker 1: if you would, please tell my audience exactly what this
- 3:41Speaker 1: movie is all about. What I've read, it sounds incredible.
- 3:46Speaker 2: So for the last 30 years, I've been producing a
- 3:49Speaker 2: rock and roll fantasy camp, the camp where you can
- 3:52Speaker 2: go and jam with the guys from Kiss. You can
- 3:54Speaker 2: do jams, Alice Cooper, Flash, you name it. What? I
- 3:59Speaker 2: create these camps. I do it eight times a year.
- 4:01Speaker 2: It's a rock and roll fantasy camp. Following October 7th,
- 4:07Speaker 2: I was in Israel visiting my son who was in
- 4:09Speaker 2: the yeshiva, and I I called my dear friend, Sam Grunewald,
- 4:13Speaker 2: who's one of your biggest fans from Miami-Dade. I said, Sam,
- 4:17Speaker 2: I want to see what happened down there. Please, can
- 4:20Speaker 2: you arrange a car to get in there? Because you
- 4:21Speaker 2: couldn't get into Berry. You couldn't get into New Roads.
- 4:23Speaker 2: You couldn't get into Nova. And I went down there,
- 4:27Speaker 2: and the mayor of the area gave me a tour.
- 4:30Speaker 2: And then she turned to me and said, after three hours,
- 4:32Speaker 2: she said, David, I have to go to a funeral.
- 4:34Speaker 2: And I said, whose funeral? She said there were three
- 4:36Speaker 2: hostages that were shot by friendly fire. And I said,
- 4:41Speaker 2: which ones? She said, the drummer, the red-haired drummer. I said,
- 4:43Speaker 2: I have to go. You know, I managed Ringo Starr
- 4:46Speaker 2: 15 years. I said, I'm going to go to see
- 4:49Speaker 2: the funeral. And I go there and the funeral starts
- 4:55Speaker 2: with his brother, who is a drummer, and his father
- 4:57Speaker 2: is a drummer. They set up his drum set and
- 5:00Speaker 2: his name is Tuval Haim. And they played the drums
- 5:04Speaker 2: over 20 minutes and they threw the sticks in the grave.
- 5:07Speaker 2: At that moment, I said to myself, I want to
- 5:09Speaker 2: bring 10 of these Israelis that were victimized by COVID-7
- 5:13Speaker 2: to my rock camp. I was doing a camp with
- 5:15Speaker 2: the members of Van Halen in March, following March, and
- 5:19Speaker 2: they came and we filmed their entire experience. And, you know,
- 5:23Speaker 2: you played the Slash. I wrote the Slash. And I said,
- 5:25Speaker 2: would you come and jam with them? And he said,
- 5:27Speaker 2: you know, he was leaving town, but he wrote them.
- 5:30Speaker 2: He sent them a video and he told them, you guys,
- 5:33Speaker 2: I wish I could be there with you. I support you.
- 5:35Speaker 2: But they got to jam with Michael Anthony from Van
- 5:37Speaker 2: Halen and so many different rock stars and Tommy Aldridge.
- 5:42Speaker 2: And there were 10 victims. One was that drummer. One
- 5:45Speaker 2: was a fellow named Sagiya Rod, who saved Kibbutz Magin.
- 5:48Speaker 2: One was a girl from the Nova Festival. One was
- 5:51Speaker 2: Bar Rudolph. His father was the second to last hostage
- 5:54Speaker 2: that they returned his body. So they were traumatized. And
- 5:57Speaker 2: they came, and it was incredible. You know, I was
- 6:01Speaker 2: a little scared. I had three issues. I couldn't deal with,
- 6:03Speaker 2: I couldn't tell the press out there because what was
- 6:06Speaker 2: happening with the colleges, as you saw, and I couldn't
- 6:09Speaker 2: tell my customers. Most of them aren't even Jewish. I said,
- 6:12Speaker 2: I don't care. I didn't really care much. They didn't
- 6:14Speaker 2: want to say they could leave. But the rock stars,
- 6:17Speaker 2: I was really scared. You know, many of them would
- 6:19Speaker 2: have told me if I was told in advance. David,
- 6:22Speaker 2: I can't do this. I don't want to get involved.
- 6:24Speaker 2: You know, people are scared. Meanwhile, I told them all
- 6:27Speaker 2: and the people gave him a standing ovation and it
- 6:29Speaker 2: was incredible. And then I went to my friend, Kevin Bright,
- 6:32Speaker 2: who produced Friends 32 years ago. That shows on the air.
- 6:36Speaker 2: It's still number one in Israel, all around the world.
- 6:38Speaker 2: And I said, Kevin, I need your help with the film.
- 6:41Speaker 2: He said, I'm going to make this story. And he
- 6:43Speaker 2: made an incredible, incredible film. So I think people are
- 6:47Speaker 2: going to enjoy it. It's really uplifting. It tells you
- 6:49Speaker 2: the true story. And it really needs to be seen
- 6:52Speaker 2: by people. And it's been playing in Israel. It opened up.
- 6:56Speaker 2: And Ambassador Huckabee came. He spoke about it afterwards. And
- 7:00Speaker 2: President Herzog asked me to show it in Israel. So
- 7:04Speaker 2: I'm hoping your friend Trump, I've been in touch with
- 7:07Speaker 2: his office. I hope he can show it at the
- 7:09Speaker 2: White House, too.
- 7:10Speaker 1: He will. I will absolutely reach out to President Trump today,
- 7:13Speaker 1: reach out to him already this morning. And will this
- 7:16Speaker 1: thing eventually, this great documentary, end up on Netflix or
- 7:19Speaker 1: Hulu or one of these streaming services?
- 7:22Speaker 2: Absolutely i'm hoping you know it's very hard now they're
- 7:25Speaker 2: they're not they're not buying many israeli things but that's
- 7:28Speaker 2: the dream to build up the film and yes get
- 7:30Speaker 2: it on uh you know i'm so excited about the
- 7:32Speaker 2: new president paramount now he's israeli and he was a
- 7:36Speaker 2: former you know ceo of mattel so i'm hoping yes
- 7:39Speaker 2: someone's gonna pick it it's a great film i mean
- 7:40Speaker 2: kevin bright really deserves to win it uh win an
- 7:44Speaker 2: oscar for a documentary because he did an amazing job i.
- 7:47Speaker 1: Can't wait to see it you know you talk about
- 7:49Speaker 1: rock and roll stars they don't want to get involved
- 7:51Speaker 1: you know they don't The truth is a lot of
- 7:52Speaker 1: them don't like us. You know, I played something before
- 7:55Speaker 1: you came on. John Cougar Mellencamp, this little small town
- 7:59Speaker 1: in Indiana, like Bill Sims, he never met a Jew.
- 8:02Speaker 1: Turned out he wasn't going to work for a Jewish
- 8:04Speaker 1: guy when he was a youngster. Dated some girl, had
- 8:08Speaker 1: no money, so he stole a bottle of perfume for
- 8:11Speaker 1: his girlfriend. And the Jewish guy, the owner of the store,
- 8:14Speaker 1: called him a couple days later and said, Hey, John,
- 8:17Speaker 1: you don't got to steal from me. I'll just give
- 8:19Speaker 1: it to you. He didn't fire John Cougar Mellencamp. He
- 8:22Speaker 1: didn't scold him. He said, I'll just give it to you.
- 8:24Speaker 1: And John said, that's when I knew that the Jewish
- 8:27Speaker 1: people were very, very special people. So John's on our side.
- 8:31Speaker 1: Ringo Starr.
- 8:32Speaker 2: I was there.
- 8:32Speaker 1: Oh, you were there?
- 8:33Speaker 2: I was there.
- 8:33Speaker 1: You were there for that?
- 8:35Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 8:35Speaker 1: Okay, when he made that speech.
- 8:36Speaker 2: When he made that speech. It's an amazing organization, CCFP.
- 8:41Speaker 2: It's run by a guy named David Renzer. And he's
- 8:44Speaker 2: got all Hollywood up to protect. You know, whenever these
- 8:47Speaker 2: artists want to play Israel... you know, this, this, this
- 8:49Speaker 2: piece of crap, Roger Waters, he tries to discourage them
- 8:53Speaker 2: from going. And he, this guy went, he went up
- 8:56Speaker 2: against them and, um, they got him thrown out of BMG. Awesome. Awesome.
- 9:01Speaker 2: Really amazing guy.
- 9:02Speaker 1: Tell me about Ringo because I'm a diehard Beatles fan. And, uh,
- 9:05Speaker 1: you don't hear a lot of these types of people saying, yeah,
- 9:08Speaker 1: you're nay about the whole Israel conflict. You know, I mean,
- 9:11Speaker 1: we know Macklemore thinks he's a low life and, You
- 9:14Speaker 1: mentioned Roger Waters and there's plenty of them out there.
- 9:16Speaker 1: Does Ringo ever talk to you about this stuff?
- 9:19Speaker 2: Yeah, Ringo went to Israel. You know, he did two
- 9:21Speaker 2: shows in Israel. I spent 15 years on the road
- 9:24Speaker 2: with him. And yeah, you know, his wife, Barbara's father
- 9:30Speaker 2: was Jewish and his best friend. I remember when I
- 9:34Speaker 2: went in to try to sign him years ago, his
- 9:36Speaker 2: best friend was raised Orthodox. And, yeah, Ringo was really
- 9:41Speaker 2: always great. He was always great. So there are a lot. And, unfortunately,
- 9:47Speaker 2: there's a lot who are pro-Israel, but it's very hard
- 9:49Speaker 2: for them to come out, you know, because look at
- 9:51Speaker 2: boy George. You know, he's gone to Israel. He's sold out.
- 9:55Speaker 2: But it's very hard for them. And, you know, many
- 9:58Speaker 2: of these artists should just stay out of politics, you know.
- 10:00Speaker 2: guys like Mark Moore should just shut up. They don't
- 10:02Speaker 2: know what, you know, they should go to Gaza and
- 10:04Speaker 2: spend the week there. Let them spend the week there
- 10:05Speaker 2: and see if they'll survive.
- 10:07Speaker 1: Such idiots. You're exactly right. The queers do. The queers
- 10:10Speaker 1: for Palestine. They wouldn't last a week. They wouldn't last
- 10:14Speaker 1: a week in Gaza. Hamas would kill every one of them,
- 10:16Speaker 1: these morons. And yet.
- 10:17Speaker 2: All those college students.
- 10:19Speaker 1: Right.
- 10:20Speaker 2: Yeah, wear your bikinis there instead of going out to
- 10:23Speaker 2: Dayton Beach, you know, Daytona.
- 10:24Speaker 1: Right, right. But how disappointing is it, David? I've had
- 10:27Speaker 1: these conversations already today with Michael Rappaport and my own monologue.
- 10:32Speaker 1: But here we are this day, right? This day should be.
- 10:35Speaker 1: Put aside from everything else, okay? Maybe you don't like
- 10:37Speaker 1: what's happening in Gaza. You're an idiot. You're not smart.
- 10:39Speaker 1: You haven't done your homework. But whatever, okay? But you
- 10:42Speaker 1: would think on this day, October 7th, where there's no
- 10:45Speaker 1: question that Israelis were brutalized and murdered, unless you're some
- 10:49Speaker 1: lowlife in lower Manhattan who said the Israelis killed their
- 10:52Speaker 1: own people. They actually say that. You would think on
- 10:54Speaker 1: this day, people would stay away. And yet, David Fischhoff,
- 10:58Speaker 1: on the streets of New York today, these pro-Hamas protesters,
- 11:03Speaker 1: they're not protesters, okay? They're animals. They're going to be
- 11:05Speaker 1: celebrating rape and murder, and our mayor, he's not going
- 11:09Speaker 1: to say boo, and Jessica Tisch can't do a damn
- 11:13Speaker 1: thing about it under the perverted guise of the First Amendment.
- 11:16Speaker 1: How disappointing is that?
- 11:19Speaker 2: It's the worst. You know, all I can think of,
- 11:22Speaker 2: I woke up this morning and said to my wife,
- 11:23Speaker 2: where's Mayor Bloomberg when we really need him? I mean,
- 11:27Speaker 2: it's crazy that these people believe it. And how about
- 11:29Speaker 2: last week with the plane? What a miracle the plane was.
- 11:33Speaker 2: And if you read some of the headlines in the
- 11:37Speaker 2: Arab publications, it was Israelis tackle Arabs. No, they tackle
- 11:43Speaker 2: a pilot on Air Dubai. I mean, nothing that the
- 11:46Speaker 2: guy was trying to land it into Israel and create
- 11:49Speaker 2: another 9-11. No, it's The world is crazy now. And
- 11:53Speaker 2: thank God we have people like you who keep it
- 11:56Speaker 2: up and keep up the Jews and what's going on.
- 11:59Speaker 2: And the truth, it really, that's what I love about
- 12:01Speaker 2: this movie. The movie is the truth. These people get
- 12:03Speaker 2: interviewed and they really talk about where they were on
- 12:06Speaker 2: October 7th and what happened. And it's, it's really incredible.
- 12:10Speaker 2: I hope people come tonight and see it and really
- 12:13Speaker 2: enjoy it. It's been doing great last night. It sold
- 12:15Speaker 2: out in Toronto. It sold out in West Palm beach tonight.
- 12:18Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm looking forward to everyone coming.
- 12:21Speaker 1: So what's the easiest way for people to get tickets
- 12:23Speaker 1: for this big documentary tonight?
- 12:26Speaker 2: Please come to the JCC in Manhattan or go to
- 12:29Speaker 2: their website at seven o'clock. We'll be there. I'm going
- 12:32Speaker 2: to be there. I'm going to do a Q &
- 12:33Speaker 2: A afterwards. And I'm really excited to see everybody and
- 12:37Speaker 2: get to see the film and really see what it's about.
- 12:40Speaker 1: You got to get Rabbi Wild. Is he going to
- 12:42Speaker 1: be there?
- 12:43Speaker 2: Rabbi wild yeah he's.
- 12:45Speaker 1: I think he's also with the uh well he's somewhere
- 12:48Speaker 1: one of those manhattan places wild w-i-l-d-e-s he's terrific.
- 12:52Speaker 2: I love him you know you know his you know
- 12:54Speaker 2: his father he texted me he's teaching tonight but you
- 12:57Speaker 2: know that his father represented.
- 12:58Speaker 1: John lennon right yes that's correct.
- 13:01Speaker 2: He's amazing guy he's a wonderful film i i sent
- 13:05Speaker 2: it to him when i first did it because he's
- 13:07Speaker 2: a musician He's a musician.
- 13:09Speaker 1: He gets it. Yes, he does.
- 13:10Speaker 2: He gets it.
- 13:11Speaker 1: So give me, on the way out here, again, Guns
- 13:13Speaker 1: N' Roses, Van Halen, Black Sabbath.
- 13:17Speaker 2: Guns N' Roses. Black Sabbath, you know, and all members
- 13:21Speaker 2: of these bands are in it. And you can get
- 13:23Speaker 2: more information. They go to the website, thebridgedoc.com, thebridgedoc.com. And
- 13:29Speaker 2: a shout out to Kevin Bright from Friends, who really
- 13:31Speaker 2: came out after, you know, he's got the number one
- 13:33Speaker 2: show in 160 countries. And he said, I'm going to
- 13:35Speaker 2: make this movie. So, you know, we need more people
- 13:38Speaker 2: like him in Hollywood to come out and be pro-Israel.
- 13:42Speaker 1: David, I got to tell you, Dave, you're an amazing guy.
- 13:44Speaker 1: I enjoyed meeting you in Israel. This conversation was really unbelievable.
- 13:48Speaker 1: Once again, the name of the documentary is The Bridge.
- 13:51Speaker 1: They'll be showing it tonight at the JCC in Manhattan.
- 13:54Speaker 1: It's doing great all over the world, not just in
- 13:56Speaker 1: the United States, but all over the world. David, congratulations
- 14:00Speaker 1: on this immense and very important piece of work. And
- 14:04Speaker 1: I thank you for all the Jewish people, not just
- 14:06Speaker 1: in New York and Israel, all over the world. We
- 14:08Speaker 1: love you, pal. Thank you so much.
- 14:10Speaker 2: Thank you, Sid. Appreciate it.
- 14:11Speaker 1: God bless you. David Fischhoff right there, the amazing agent,
- 14:15Speaker 1: and he also founded Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp, which
- 14:19Speaker 1: he does, he says, about eight times a year in
- 14:21Speaker 1: selected cities all over the country. You got a chance, Lewis.
- 14:25Speaker 1: You'd love this. I'm going. To actually jam with Slash.
- 14:28Speaker 2: Crazy.
- 14:29Speaker 1: Bang the drums with Ringo.
- 14:31Speaker 2: Sure.
- 14:32Speaker 1: Come on, Lewis. Who cares if I'm out of time?
- 14:34Speaker 1: What do you care? What do I? I don't. You
- 14:36Speaker 1: used to hang out with, um... From the band, Levon.
- 14:40Speaker 2: Yeah. Right?
- 14:40Speaker 1: This is a next stepper.
- 14:42Speaker 2: Yep.
- 14:44Speaker 1: I knew a lot of great musicians through Levon. I
- 14:46Speaker 1: know you did. So this is quite a connection here,
- 14:50Speaker 1: David Fischhoff. It's crazy who he knows. I know. On
- 14:55Speaker 1: the road with Ringo. Ringo Starr.
- 14:57Speaker 2: Ringo Starr.
- 14:58Speaker 1: At the Super Bowl with Bill Sims. Really an amazing guy. Again,
- 15:01Speaker 1: the bridge at the Manhattan JCC later on tonight.
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