{"id":147691,"date":"2026-02-27T20:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/147691\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T20:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:09:10","slug":"listen-the-other-guy-was-no-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/147691\/","title":{"rendered":"LISTEN: The Other Guy Was No Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Flaherty was a dock worker and high school dropout on the wrong side of 30 when he found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestacksreader.com\/category\/joe-flaherty\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an unexpected writer\u2019s life<\/a> beginning as a columnist for the Village Voice. A couple years later, he was running the 51st State campaign of Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin as two of the city\u2019s most famous writers made their bid to run it on a 51st State platform built around the idea of giving New Yorkers more control of their own neighborhoods and slogans including \u201cNo More Bullshit\u201d and \u201cThe Other Guys Are The Joke.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/mailer_breslin_campaign-3.jpg\" alt=\"Liam Flaherty poses for a portrait in the FAQ NYC podcast room.\" class=\"wp-image-74478\"  \/>Liam Flaherty is the son of Mailer-Breslin \u201969bcampaign manager Joe Flaherty. Credit: Harry Siegel\/THE CITY<\/p>\n<p>Joe\u2019s son Liam joins the podcast to talk about the very different Park Slope he grew up in, what his father accomplished in his short life before succumbing to prostate cancer at just 47 years old, what his dad would make of Mamdani\u2019s new era, and much more.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"687\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/9NcaFOZ.webp.jpeg\" alt=\"A Mailer-Breslin campaign poster\" class=\"wp-image-74560\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Flaherty was a dock worker and high school dropout on the wrong side of 30 when he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-147691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}