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Tom Joyner Comments on Current Happenings

Aired July 29, 2002 - 06:46   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: We turn now to talk -- yes, just talk. What's going on around the coffee maker in your office?
Joining us for that is Tom Joyner, the fly jock and one of the hardest working people in radio. He's in his Dallas studio where he hosts the nationally broadcast "Tom Joyner Morning Show."

Good morning -- Tom.

TOM JOYNER, "TOM JOYNER MORNING SHOW": Yes, how you doing?

COSTELLO: Hey, I couldn't be better. Why do they call you the fly jock anyway?

JOYNER: Oh because for eight years I used to fly back and forth every day doing two shows daily, a morning show in Dallas and an afternoon show in Chicago. And I would commute. I'd do the morning show, catch a plane,...

COSTELLO: Oh that's just...

JOYNER: ... go to Chicago and...

COSTELLO: You're crazy.

JOYNER: Yes, that's why I am the fly jock. But now I'm syndicated in more than 120 cities around the country and...

COSTELLO: And you're comfy in your studio. So what are people talking about in your world?

JOYNER: Well they're talking about -- one thing that they're talking about in our world here on the "Tom Joyner Morning Show" is the videotaping of Reverend Al Sharpton that appeared on HBO's "Real Sports" over the -- well last week for the undercover FBI officer posing as a drug dealer. And this videotape was shot back in 1983, almost 20 years ago, and Reverend Al Sharpton is now suing HBO for a billion dollars saying that they have damaged him. Al Sharpton says that it's because he's running for president. This whole story doesn't really pass the smell test. It's -- there's a lot of stuff here...

COSTELLO: What do you mean it doesn't pass the smell test, he was on the tape?

JOYNER: Well, OK, why was this story on HBO's "Real Sports?" This isn't a sports story. I mean it could have been on "LOU DOBBS MONEYLINE" or the Food Channel.

COSTELLO: I don't know, you've got to ask Bryant Gumbel about that.

JOYNER: Yes, and I would like to. I would like to. And if there is -- and Al Sharpton says there's a second tape. There's a second tape that HBO did not show.

COSTELLO: So what's on that tape?

JOYNER: Where is that tape?

COSTELLO: Well what's on that tape?

JOYNER: Well Al Sharpton -- Al Sharpton says that that tape clears him up. So where is that tape and why hasn't HBO shown it? So there's some things here that I...

COSTELLO: Well wait a minute, Tom.

JOYNER: ... just don't smell right to me.

COSTELLO: Wait a minute, Tom. On the first tape it doesn't really show Al Sharpton doing anything bad, right?

JOYNER: It implies that he's doing a drug deal. And the sports -- the sports story was supposed to be about a mobster who used to fix Major League Baseball games now a Little League Baseball coach.

COSTELLO: Well you...

JOYNER: Then it went to Al Sharpton and a whole expose.

COSTELLO: Yes, but you act like Al Sharpton doesn't have any controversy swirling about him at all. This man is like his middle name is controversy.

JOYNER: And the story isn't new. And why now? It's just -- it's just, you know, to expose this story now just doesn't smell right to me.

COSTELLO: A billion dollar...

JOYNER: It just doesn't smell right.

COSTELLO: ... lawsuit, though? A billion dollars?

JOYNER: Well to clear it all up, yes.

COSTELLO: OK let's talk about -- let's talk about something fun. Did you see Austin Powers and Beyonce Knowles?

JOYNER: Loved it. Loved it.

COSTELLO: Oh yes.

JOYNER: I think I'm here to declare right now Beyonce is the next Halle Berry.

COSTELLO: You think so?

JOYNER: The next. Yes.

COSTELLO: You think...

JOYNER: Tell Halle move over.

COSTELLO: Well she certainly looks fabulous in the movie.

JOYNER: Beyonce.

COSTELLO: And she's a fabulous singer so...

JOYNER: She...

COSTELLO: Go ahead -- Tom.

JOYNER: Yes, I think -- I think -- I think that destiny -- her -- she's not a -- her destiny right now is more movies. That's what I...

COSTELLO: Yes, and hopefully -- and hopefully...

JOYNER: You heard it -- your heard it first.

COSTELLO: And hopefully the "Tom Joyner Show."

Hey, Tom Joyner, fly jock man, thanks for joining us this morning. We'll catch you next week.

JOYNER: Thanks, Carol.

COSTELLO: Bye.

JOYNER: OK, bye-bye.

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