JUST PRESS THE START BUTTON IF YOU WANT TO HEAR THE MUSIC….

the song is “call home” by glen campbell and it is presented here in tribute to the thousands of troops in our war zones that are being ripped off by a t & t (the phone company).

****NEW YORK CITY SHOWCASE (DESIGNER LINE OF CLOTHING)….see it all at SWELL

****LATE BREAKING NEWS (updated daily)…. it is our blog which changes every day. this time you can click on TODAY but in the future, you can go to it directly each day at http://epistle.blogs.com/.

****TWO WARS ARE BETTER THAN ONE…. some people die, some people make profits with u.s. army contracts. WAR

****THE GABBY CABBY FIELD OFFICE IN IRAQ (the largest staff of any media office in the middle east)….this week's exclusive true tale is that the ability to phone home is a rare treat and when it occurs for our soldiers in iraq and afghanistan, they are forced to pay exorbitant rates by a t & t. they pay 29 cents a minute at least. if one of the other phone companies were in the war zones, the cost would be about 2 cents a minute. ask vice president cheney about who he goes quail hunting with the next time you meet him.

****OY VEY. OY VEY. KOSHER MEAT IS BULL (SHIT)….it turns out the inspectors who are supposed to make sure kosher meat plants are really run properly have not been doing their job. the plants are filthy with blood all over the place because killing kosher is just about the meanest thing you can do. federal law mandates stunning all animals before slaughter. under jewish law, an animal can not be considered kosher it if is stunned before it is killed. the federal inspectors are ignoring the law. orthodox jews in new york city claim they are exempt. like we said, that is bull (shit).

****JUST DO YOUR DUMP AND SHUT UP….new york city is considering banning the use of cell phones whilst you are sitting on the bowl in a public restroom. for a re-enactment of someone talking in such circumstances, just ask the gabby cabby. it will of course be in bad taste, but your listeners can handle it. did you ever wonder where the water from the flush comes from in our city?

****SPEAK NEW YAWK (people will wonder at your sophistication)….”farbisner” is a very sour person.

****OLD TIME RADIO (shows you might be too young to remember)….mel blanc was probably best known for the many voices he did for cartoon movies. THE PAST

****THE GENERAL CUSTER MEDAL (given to one of our current military minds, not so bright) ….lt. general david d. mckiernan who is trying to change history by saying it was right to smash ahead to baghdad without cleaning up the bad guys as the united states army moved forward. now, there are insurgents with weapons all over the place. dave worked for general tommy frankes who retired in the middle of the war and now has a web site selling all types of memorabilia crap.

****WHO AM I? (a new feature in which you have to guess who the character is.) the first email received to peter@gabby.com with the correct answer gets a genuine gabby cabby tee shirt which you just can't buy any place. a new contest each week. here is this week's: lord peter wimsey was madly in love with her. you give the character's name and the actress name.

****THE SNEAKY CAMERA (the hidden camera)….a growing collection of new yorkers are unaware that they are being watched by a certain taxi driver. new ones are added from time to time. take a peep at SNEAKY

****YENTA YACK FROM THE BACK OF THE HACK (what they are talking about in the yellow mobile conveyance lounge)….every place you look in the big apple, con edison the electric company is digging up the streets and every time they do it, it costs new york city money to put it back together. do you know what a “butt crack” is?

****QUIET PLEASE, THIS IS THE LIBRARY (get away from the din of life)…. “slavery in new york” by ira belin and leslie m. harris published by the new york historical society. new yorkers from day one had lots of blacks as slaves. its proportion of slaves to whites was higher than any southern city.

****THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY (what the media didn't tell you)....the people who demonstrated last week in front of the united states army recruiting station in harlem were whites from outside of the community.

****STAY INDOORS IF IT RAINS (keep dry)....go see “fashion in colors” a pretty nifty exhibit on the history of clothing at the cooper-hewitt national design museum on fifth avenue at 91st street. UMBRELLA TIME

****THE EARL THEATER (it used to be on 161st street in the bronx. new york city has lots of rich people, but it has many more people living in slums thanks to the inaction of the city government and crooked landlords. SLUM

(please note: when playing a movie on your computer, you should diminish the size of the frame. if you have a problem, please contact us.

**AND THAT NEAT MOVIE HOUSE ALWAYS SHOWED A DOUBLE FEATURE AND HERE WE ARE WITH A SECOND FLICK. this is a wonderful trip around new york city in the famous yellow mobile conveyance lounge. HONK HONK

****THE HEY ABBOTT AWARD (an epistle about life)....david trager, a federal judge in new york city, who is making thomas jefferson twirl in his grave. EPISTLE

****TAKE A HIKE (discovering where the famous and infamous spots are) ….benny goodman at 200 east 66th street. BENNY

****POSSIBILITIES (could it not be?)....that eventually no white mother in the big apple will raise their own children? a growing trend is to hire a black nanny while the white mom goes out to play. you can see the black nannies gathering together to chat all around the town.

****STOP THE MUSIC (do you know what tv show this theme came from?)….everyone just hoped that they too could have their own witch living in their house. this particular witch was the kind that made you drool. TV

****JASON BLAIR AWARD (for the worst journalism during the previous week)….the new york times made a big deal about an iraqi who was supposedly tortured and mistreated by the united states army. ooops. turned out the guy was never even in the slammer. the original story was a big front page item. the correction was buried under the used car classified advertisements.

****AMMA'S KITCHEN (a recipe, this is what you would find cooking in a nyc home)….eggs for a sunday morning brunch. GOOD EATS

****THE MOST WANTED TOUR IN THE BIG APPLE…. here are some happy visitors. you too can have a tour by going to TOUR INFO

**to listen to what other happy tourists had to say about the tour, just go AUDIO

**to see some additional happy tourists perform in short video productions go VIDEO

**to hear broadcast spots about some of the places where folks are taken to, listen to these commercials that were created for a "visit new york city promotion" at SPOTS

****CELEBRITY SIGHTING (media adulation)….larry david, the guy who really created and wrote the “seinfeld show.” it sure wasn’t jerry and larry has proved that with his own show. STAR

****JOKE DU JOUR (told to me by the passengers)….this week the punch line is “i did not recognize you” and you can hear it at AUDIO

****TO HEAR A RECENT GABBY CABBY BROADCAST, CLICK HERE. LISTEN

****TO SEE GABBY CABBY TV PRESENTATIONS, CLICK HERE. SEE

****LISTEN TO THE LATEST VERSION OF "NEW YORK, NEW YORK….it is written and sung by jack servello LISTEN

****AND ON THE FLIP SIDE….this is an intro promotion made by the folks at chnl in kamloops, british columbia. LISTEN

****NEW YORK CITY SHOWCASE (DESIGNER LINE OF CLOTHING)….see it all at SWELL