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The interview is over, but here's how it went down at 8 a.m. this morning:

Milton Street, the oft-maligned brother of the mayor, is stopping by to chat on WIP with another animated character, Angelo Cataldi. Now there's a recipe for lively conversation. Gonna try to transcribe as much as I can.

Cataldi says he's supporting Milton in the race for and "his brilliant new strategy."
Street: "We have to mobilize people to stop the crime. ... There' s more good people in the community than the bad people. .... If I become mayor of this city, we're going to start with block captains ...and we're going to give them arrest powers. ... We're not going to give these people guns, but we're going to give them power to detain. .. But more important we have to get people to go down to the courts and testify." Street continues, go after the clients and the drug dealers will leave. "When the drug pushers leave, the guns are going to leave."
Cataldi: Why haven't you gotten together with your brother?
Street: Milton says he does things his own way. Take abandoned houses. Other people tried to find the owners. Milton explains his idea: "You move people into houses, let the owners find you!"
Cataldi: "People are afraid of you because you're radical. Do you believe that?"
Street: Says he's "strong." "You have a lot of candidates out there that's using news clips and tlaking a lot of gloopedyglop and doesn't get to the meat of the issue. ..."
Cataldi asks about Milton's troubles.
Street: "I fight my fights one at a time ... I'm not going to allow the fact that I have to go down to Sixth and Market and fight that fight [to stop me] ... I'm not going to be like some big fuzzy teddy bear and go somewhere and hibernate. ... Michael Nutter can't relate to the people who need him most. ... Black people need to stop killing up each other ... Stop blaming white folks .. You're never going to take white's folks taxes ... and put 'em in the black community so black folks can stop killing each other."
Cataldi: "You are now listening to a visionary. ... Why is the media on your case like this?"
Street: Says he doesn't worry about the media ... or Nutter. "Black people vote against. They don't vote for. ... They [his enemies] want me out of the race. ... They're going to find a political judge that's going to make a ruling to get Milton Street off the ballot." He talks about a rally on Friday. Hopes thousands will turn out.
Cataldi: "Why would they do that to you in Jersey the other day? ... They waited for nine years to arrest you?"
Street: "They want to kick me out of political office ... They lie ... Representative Evans says he's going to hire 500 cops the first day he's in office. How the hell he's going to do that?"
Cataldi: "You have my endorsement. You have my vote."
Street: Wants a big turnout at the rally. Doesn't have to be 5,000. "We need to impress the courts that here's a man who's got support out there, and you all need to make a legal decision and not a political decision."
Cataldi: "God bless you, Milton."
Hugh Douglas: "That was a shame. That was a shame. I don't even know what to say after that ... You know, two crazy people on the radio shouldn't talk to each other. ... It's ridiculous. I can't believe you did that."
Cataldi: "I look out for my city. That's my man."
Douglas: "You just egged him on."
Cataldi, shouting: "DID I EGG HIM ON?"
Joe Conklin: "I want to be a block captain."

A little later, Rhea Hughes points out that Cataldi doesn't live in the city so he can't vote for Milton Street. Cataldi makes a crack about residency not stopping Street from running, so it shouldn't stop him from voting.