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From YouTube: CityTalk with John McIntire: John McIntire
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On this season-three premiere of CityTalk with John McIntire, there's a special host and an even more special guest.
A
Welcome
to
this
special
edition
of
City
talk
with
John
McIntyre
I
am
NOT
John
McIntyre,
my
name's
David
finer
I'm,
the
communication
technology
manager
in
the
city
of
Pittsburgh's
Department
of
innovation
and
performance,
but
my
special
guest
today
is
none
other
than
John
McIntyre.
How
you
doing
John,
not.
B
A
B
John
where'd,
you
grow
up
Kankakee
Illinois
Kankakee
its
Native
American.
For
please
God.
Don't
let
me
die
here
really!
No
is
that
official?
Actually,
no,
but
it
isn't
it's
I,
don't
know
what
it
means.
It
is
a
Native
American
and
where
is
it
in
Illinois
it's
about
50
miles
south
of
Chicago,
okay.
So.
A
B
Did
think
I
wanted
to
be
a
broadcaster
I
would
go
down
to
the
corner,
grocery
store
and
interview
people
with
my
little
tape
recorder
and
then
go
back
and
listen
to
it
and
I
also
remember
having
the
John
McIntyre
show
with
a
neighborhood
guide,
Dave
tzemre
as
my
sidekick
he
and
I
recorded
it.
He
and
I
were
the
only
ones
to
ever.
Listen
to
it,
but
I
did
have
my
own
show
at
like
age,
10,
nice.
B
B
What's
your
major
radio
TV,
that's
literally
the
name
of
the
major
so
both
of
them
at
once,
I
used
to
tell
people
broadcast
journalism
because
it
sounded.
You
know
classier
and
more
substantive.
But
it's
radio,
TV
okay
and
got
a
got
a
degree
worked
at
the
local
commercial
radio
station.
While
I
was
there
and
I
was
a
disc
jockey.
B
B
It
is
John
McIntyre,
they
wanted
me
to
be
John
Williams,
the
news
guy,
but
one
morning,
I
screwed
it
up
and
said:
I'm
sorry,
you
know
75
degrees
at
so-and-so
time.
This
is
John
Mackey,
John
Williams,
and
then
they
said.
Don't
do
that
anymore?
You
sound
like
an
idiot,
oh,
but
it
was
their
idea.
My
understanding.
A
B
B
Exactly
the
city
of
five
smells
Orlando
Florida,
Providence,
Rhode,
Island,
Tulsa,
Oklahoma
and
then
I
could
have
possibly
gone
to
either
Salt
Lake
City
or
Hartford
Connecticut.
But
I
came
here
because
it
was
an
opportunity
to
do
a
talk.
Show
instead
of
a
news
show.
Although
it
was
a
news,
talk
show
when.
B
B
The
Pittsburgh
cable
news
channel,
which
is
a
subsidiary
of
WPXI,
the
NBC
affiliate
they
wanted
me
to
do
a
news
talk,
show
they
said.
I
could
be
irreverent.
I
tried
to
interview
everybody,
no
one
would
come
on
the
show
dr.
Cyril
Wecht,
who
will
show
up
at
the
opening
of
an
envelope.
Thank
God
actually
agreed
to
come
on
the
show
a
few
times,
and
once
people
saw
that
I
wasn't
horrible
or
wasn't
dangerous.
At
any
rate,
they
started
to
come
on
slowly,
but
surely
so.
A
B
Because
I
found
the
cast
of
characters,
hysterical
from
dr.
Wecht
to
somebody
who
doesn't
have
that
much
personality,
but
I
thought
was
a
really
smart
guy.
The
mayor,
Tom
Murphy
who's,
the
first
one
to
say
it
may
seem
like
a
rather
large
city
or
at
least
a
mid-sized
city.
But
it's
actually
a
small
town,
and
everybody
knows
everybody
Sophie
masloff,
who
was
one
of
my
early
interviews
that
I
found
hysterical
and
the
more
politicians
would
come
on
and
then
they'd
backstab
each
other,
and
we
had
big
debates
between
the
mayoral
candidates.
Bob
O'connor
vs.
B
Tom
Murphy
people
calling
in
challenging
Murphy
to
tell
him
the
number
of
Roberto
Clemente,
because,
even
though
he
was
the
mayor
of
Pittsburgh,
he
knew
diddly
about
sports
and
it
just
I
just
found
it
fascinating
and
hysterical,
and
the
fact
that
the
city's
grown
so
much
and,
in
my
opinion,
gotten
so
much
better,
even
though
there's
still
so
much
wrong
with
it.
That
needs
to
be
fixed.
So
how.
B
B
B
B
It's
very
different
I'm,
probably
just
sound
like
I'm,
sucking
up
but
I'm
amazed
at
how
many
dedicated
hard-working
intelligent
people
there
are,
or
actually
trying
their
hardest
to
serve
the
taxpayer.
Well,
not
that
I
expected
everybody
to
be
a
lazy
bureaucrat,
but
I
guess
I,
just
expected
more
of
the
stereotype
of
them
being
a
particularly
productive
to
be
true
and
I
found
the
opposite.
What.
A
B
How
many
different
things
they
do?
Just
the
Department
of
innovation
and
performance
that
you
and
I
are
both
a
part
of
there's
gold
belt
program
to
try
to
have
process
improvement
where
they
take
a
look
at
what
you're
doing
study
it.
Maybe
you
could
do
it
better
here,
some
ways
to
do
it
better,
all
the
complex
situations
involving
the
computers
that
they
fix,
the
fact
that
they
have
to
maintain
the
city's
computer
system
and
we
have
intense
security
and
have
to
make
sure
nobody
comes
in
and
taxes.
B
Parks
and
Rec
Tamilians,
where
I
spent
my
first
year,
the
millions
of
not
millions
literally
but
dozens
of
programs
that
they
run
and
the
13
senior
centers,
which,
if
you're
older
and
you
don't
really
have
that
many
friends
or
anyplace
to
go.
You
can
go
build
a
community
in
your
neighborhood
and
have
a
place
to
go
and
a
fun
thing
to
do,
and
it
really
serves
a
useful
purpose.
I
guess
I'm
finding
that
the
taxpayers
money,
at
least
in
many
cases,
is
actually
well
spent.
Surprisingly
enough,
who
knew
right
so.
B
That's
tough
to
say,
I
liked
Ross,
who
is
the
director
of
Parks
and
Recreation,
because
he's
such
a
sincere
guy
and
and
has
such
a
overwhelming
responsibility.
I
like
councilman
Coghill,
Anthony
Coghill.
He
was
our
first
interview
because
he's
such
a
character,
because
he's
got
a
lot
of
personality
and
he's
funny.
I
do
enjoy
the
people
who
are
willing
to.
B
You
know,
relax
and
joke
around
I'm
surprised
by
how
many
people
don't
want
to
do
the
show,
as
in
most
people,
don't
want
to
do
the
show
if
I
there's
people
a
GIS
team,
I,
don't
even
know
what
that
means.
I
saw
him
the
other
day
of
three
or
more
standing
I'm,
like
any
guys
want
to
do.
A
talk,
show
they're
all
like
in
unison,
I'm,
like
okay,
thanks
for
your
time
like
what
I
mean
people
are
camera
shy
and
or
they
just
don't
want
anybody
to
know
what
they're
doing
that
gets
like
that.
B
Would
love
to
have
the
people
who
hand
out
the
parking
tickets
they
work
not
directly
for
the
mayor,
but
for
an
adjunct
subsidiary?
If
you
will-
and
they
said
no
to
me
and
I
whined
to
the
mayor,
then
won't.
Let
me
you
interview
them.
Can
you
help
he's
like?
No,
you
have
to
build
your
own
relationships
and
you
have
to
get
them
to
trust
you
in
order
to
let
them
because
I
guess
they
don't.
You
know
not.
A
lot
of
people
are
not
a
lot
of
people
like
the
people
who
hand
out
the
parking
tickets.
B
So
maybe
that's
why
they
don't
want
to
be
interviewed
but
and
I
like
here
to
be
some
of
the
crossing
guards.
You
know
like
some
of
the
people
on
the
front
lines,
if
you
will,
that
would
be
fun,
although
I
still
enjoy
interviewing.
You
know,
council
folk
in
the
muckety-mucks
I
have
yet
to
interview
the
mayor
or
the
chief
of
staff.
Looking.
B
I
wish
I
would
have
known,
I
was
gonna,
do
this
right
before
we
came
on
or
I
might
have
been
able
to
think
of
something.
I
mean
I,
remember
being
embarrassed
by
George
HW
Bush
as
a
in
radio.
He
came
into
a
small
little
booth
and
I'd
read
Time
magazine,
and
it
said
that
when
he
was
the
CIA
director,
he
was
responsible
for
killing
foreign
leaders
and
I
told
he's
like
no.
B
No,
no,
that's
not,
and
he
just
dressed
me
up
and
down
and
made
me
feel
like
an
idiot
I'm
like
yeah,
yeah
and
there's
I,
don't
know
if
they're,
worse,
Coons
or
what
they
were,
but
his
handlers
just
rolling
their
eyes,
and
so
that
was
my
favorite
humiliating
moment.
Probably
I
really
enjoyed
interviewing
karl
malden
came
through
town
interesting
for
the
night.
B
Talk
show
also
Captain
Kangaroo,
also
interesting,
but
the
one
I'll
always
regret
and
I
thought
when
Captain
Kangaroo
was
on,
then
I
could
get
Fred
Rogers,
but
no
he
refused
to
do
the
show
for
a
number
of
years.
Mr.
McFeely
came
out
said
Oh
speedy
delivery
and
he
gave
me
a
little
trolley
car
signed
by
Fred
misspelled,
my
name,
but
obviously
mr.
Rogers
had
seen
the
show
and
wisely
decided
not
to
do.