1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: Now the Red Beret has returned to radio. Curtis Leewall 2 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: guest host the Mark Simone Show on sevent ten. Woor yeah, 3 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: oh boy. All these officials must cheat from one another. 4 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:26,800 Speaker 1: You know Eric Adams swaggerman with no plan. Thank god, 5 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 1: he's gone claiming crimes at an all time load. Now, 6 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 1: if you're in the five boroughs of the city in 7 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: New York, you don't know what city he's in. Well, 8 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 1: that's right. Most times he hasn't even been in our city. 9 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 1: And then I heard that broadcasts about Ros Baraka, who, 10 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: like his father, hates cops. Who's his father is he? 11 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 1: I know? Look, look from West Milford. What would you know? 12 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 1: You know, you didn't grow up in Newark. I know 13 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: more about Newark than most people listening to this radio station. 14 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 1: Spent a lot of time there. But Rosbarock because father 15 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 1: was Lee Roy Jones. We then changed his name to 16 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 1: a mirror Baraka, poet, self described communists and hater of 17 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:18,319 Speaker 1: everything white. If it was white, it wasn't right, and 18 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 1: the lifelong enemy of Tony Imperiali, who at the Northward 19 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 1: Citizens Association and kept that area along Bloomfield Avenue from 20 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 1: burning down during the riots. Unfortunately the rest of the 21 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 1: city decimated and no has not returned since crime is 22 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 1: high there. You want to go to Weekwake Park. You 23 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: want to go to broad and Market. By the way 24 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 1: broad and Market is he want you to go to 25 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 1: Penn Station in Newark. Yeah, they're all called Penn Station, Baltimore, 26 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: Penn Station, Phillip, Penn Station, Washington. I want you to 27 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: go to Penn Station in Newark. You take the Path 28 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: train there in New Jersey trans and I want you 29 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 1: to walk over the broad and Mind. You'll see the 30 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:06,520 Speaker 1: goldleaf dome of City Hall there. And you need to 31 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 1: know they're back in about nineteen twenty twenty two on 32 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 1: the sixth floor of one of the biggest retailers of 33 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 1: all time, Bamburgers. Oh yeah, there used to be all 34 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: the big stores there along Broader Market, same as you 35 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 1: had in New York. Was where w R got its 36 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 1: license to broadcasts. And that's where I think the first 37 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: of the three Gamblings was broadcasting from six floorda no 38 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: longer Bamburgers, obviously. And to tell you how bad things 39 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 1: are in Newark, don't listen to Rasbaraka. He hates cops. 40 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 1: There used to be more Cadillac dealerships in Newark than 41 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: any other city in the nation, more than even in Detroit, 42 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 1: where the Cadillacs were coming off the assembly line. And 43 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:01,640 Speaker 1: we'll go right into the some we'll go right into 44 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 1: the showcased halls, and you could get a Cadillac cheaper 45 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 1: there than anywhere. And my uncle's on the Italian American side, 46 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 1: the Bianchino side. They all love Cadillacs back then, or 47 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 1: Italian guys. That was the sign of success in El Dorado, Fleetwood, Seville, 48 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: you know where they went to buy their Cadillacs and 49 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: then trade it in every year for a new Cadillac. Newark. 50 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: Then the riots hit. You can't even buy or used 51 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 1: Cadillac anywhere in Newark now, So stop this nonsense. Oh no, 52 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: it's safer than it's ever been. New York City, safer 53 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: than it's ever been. Who knows more about both those 54 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 1: cities than me? Yes, truly, Curtis Sliwa, Get out of here. 55 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: Rose Baraka, the evil seed did not fall far from 56 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 1: the rotten tree of leit Roy Jones aka Emira Baraka 57 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: a selfish describe communists. You know how that's been thrown 58 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: around Zoron Mondami. You know Kami Mondam. He's not a communist, 59 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 1: he's a socialists. But Leroy Jones was a communist. And 60 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 1: we'll get one guarantee. If you were white, you were 61 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 1: not right. All right, Just a little side note there. 62 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: I want to get back on track though, because we 63 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:27,479 Speaker 1: are doing homage, as oftentimes Mark Simone would do. Nobody 64 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: knows more about television, movies, radio and its history than 65 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:36,799 Speaker 1: Mark Simone. But I was sitting with Tom Cuddy yesterday 66 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 1: after the show and the name of Regis Philbin popped up, 67 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:47,599 Speaker 1: and without a doubt, Regi's Philbin was the hardest working 68 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,359 Speaker 1: guy in all of television. And I know for a 69 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: lot of people, they don't even think about Regis Philbin anymore. 70 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 1: Shame shame on you. Local guy, Bronx kid van Nass 71 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 1: not far from Morris par Arc went to Cardinal Hayes, 72 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 1: a Hayesman by the way, like Bernard McGirk, who I'll 73 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: be talking about tomorrow doing my annual tribute. But I 74 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 1: got to tell you, Regis Philman his father, Irish, named 75 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 1: him Regis because he wanted him to go to Regis 76 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: High School in Manhattan, which is the elite Jesuit high 77 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:23,600 Speaker 1: school can't be elite if Fauci went there from Benson 78 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 1: Hurts and he is Udscratziata. He will burn in hell, 79 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: if nothing more for what he did in sending beagles 80 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: over to Tunisia, third world country, to experiment on them 81 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 1: at our taxpayer's expense and torture them for no purpose 82 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:43,480 Speaker 1: other than he's probably a satist, but anyway, just to divert. 83 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 1: So Regis got his name Regis because his father said, Oh, 84 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: you're gonna go to Regis High School in Manhattan, the 85 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:53,400 Speaker 1: elite Jesuit high school. And I would always say to 86 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: Regi's guys, because I went to Brooklyn Prep, where they 87 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 1: kicked me out my senior year, you're not a real 88 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:00,600 Speaker 1: high school because you don't have a football team. And 89 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:05,280 Speaker 1: they didn't and they still don't. So he grows up 90 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 1: in the Bronx, goes to Cardinal Hayes and the most 91 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 1: in I think the interesting thing is he surfaces in 92 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:18,159 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty seven with a member of the rat Pack. 93 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 1: Remember the rat Pack. Oh you're all aware of that. 94 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 1: If you didn't grow up with them, you probably saw 95 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 1: the movie Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Junior, Peter Lawford, 96 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:29,919 Speaker 1: and Joey Bishop. Joey Bishop, who I think had a 97 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,279 Speaker 1: couple of call fe in the Bronx, was born there, 98 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 1: but I think grew up most of his life in Philadelphia. 99 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 1: By the way, that's where Dick Clark get it. Notice 100 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 1: how the synergy here. It's a stream of consciousness Dick 101 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:49,599 Speaker 1: Clark American Bandstand, which eventually led to what you just 102 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:55,359 Speaker 1: heard about, ABC's Dick Clark's New Yorkers Rocking Eve. You 103 00:06:55,400 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 1: know with Ryan Seacress. Knew Dick Clark, Ryan, you know 104 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 1: Dick Clark, although he has worked radio Ryan Seacrest, but 105 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,719 Speaker 1: he's milk toast. As you know, I don't have time 106 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 1: to be watching milk Toast. Regis, on the other hand, 107 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 1: was always a Wisenheimer, will always slip you a mickey, 108 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: and I first remember watching him on the Joey Bishop Show. 109 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 1: I'm sure some of you did. He in competition, remember 110 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: with Johnny Carson, and his sidekick was Ed McMahon. By 111 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 1: the way, great actor, great actor. Does anybody out there 112 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:37,720 Speaker 1: know was probably the very first vigilante movie about the 113 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 1: subways before there was Death Wish with Charles Bronson. I 114 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:45,800 Speaker 1: mean it was a classic and Eddery McMahon had a 115 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 1: great party in it, great actor. He was a barker 116 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 1: on Atlantic City. He came up, became a sidekick for 117 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: Johnny Carson, you know the rest of that history. And 118 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 1: then of course you wanted him to come to your 119 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 1: door the public clearing house. I don't know if it 120 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: was a battle they were elbowing one another. Was it 121 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:06,559 Speaker 1: Dick Clark or was it Ed McMahon, But anyway, because 122 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 1: then if you bought all the magazine subscriptions you might 123 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:13,119 Speaker 1: become a millionaire. Oh, by the way, that was another 124 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 1: show that Regis Philbin hosted later on You Want to 125 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 1: Be a Millionaire? Who was that it came to your door? 126 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 1: Was that Dick Clark? Was at Ed McMahon. So anyway, 127 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 1: it was Joey Bishop and sidekick was Regis Philbin, and 128 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 1: Regis was good. It was a good combination. And then 129 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: all of a sudden Regis Philbin was no more, you know, 130 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:41,280 Speaker 1: because those shows they come, they go, and all of 131 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 1: a sudden, Regis Philbin showed up on a TV station 132 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:53,880 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles midday. I think it was Channel thirteen 133 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 1: or Channel nine. They have like these independent stations there 134 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 1: they all have talk shows, they do news many more 135 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:05,200 Speaker 1: than we have. And you know who he replaced. He 136 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 1: replaced the king of talk radio, Bob Grant, who was 137 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 1: on television at that time. Oh no, no, no, there's so 138 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:13,120 Speaker 1: much more to delve into. We ooh, but this is 139 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:16,080 Speaker 1: a stream of consciousness, I said Dick Clark, if I 140 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 1: remember correctly, Dick Clark was from Mount Vernon, went to 141 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: high school in Mount Vernon. Radio guy was up there 142 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,160 Speaker 1: in Utica, you know, with the brewery and the little 143 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 1: mafia there. It was a mafia town. And they went 144 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 1: to Syracuse University did radio there. Then all of a sudden, 145 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 1: he goes outside of Philly. He's on a radio station. 146 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 1: They're experimenting with like an American Bandstand format on the radio, 147 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:46,680 Speaker 1: and the host goes on vacation, gets busted for duy 148 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 1: chrunkin driving and guess who takes over the show if 149 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: you're there at the right time, in the right place. 150 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:57,840 Speaker 1: Dick Clark, and they also had an affiliate TV station, 151 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 1: and that's how I'm American Bandstand came about. And boy, 152 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,280 Speaker 1: that was the time Philly was king. Oh man was 153 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:11,240 Speaker 1: Philly King? Remember Mike Douglas Show, Mike Douglas. Roger Ailes 154 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 1: was the producer. They filmed that. It was late afternoon. 155 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:19,200 Speaker 1: That was in Philadelphia. I remember watching Mike Douglas. I 156 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 1: think it was nineteen seventy two for a full week. 157 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:25,319 Speaker 1: You know who co hosted with Mike Douglas, John Lennon 158 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:30,960 Speaker 1: and your co owner four a full week. This is 159 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:36,080 Speaker 1: mid afternoons. They had forty million viewers when the population 160 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 1: was a lot less than it is now. I remember 161 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 1: there was George Carlin was on, Ralph Nader, the Black 162 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:47,640 Speaker 1: Panther Leader there, Bobby Seal I think he sells barbecue sauce. Anyway. 163 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 1: The point was it was so good, and then the 164 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 1: FBI Jay Gil Hoover muscled the Mike Douglas and said, 165 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:02,679 Speaker 1: uh hmm, you don't want to be putting on television 166 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:07,440 Speaker 1: enemies of America, especially when he heard him sing that song, 167 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 1: which I think he sang. I remember as a kid, 168 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 1: imagine nineteen seventy two. By the way, John Lennon used 169 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:21,200 Speaker 1: to listen to talk radio. That's right ento Dakota. He 170 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:25,840 Speaker 1: would listen to the old talker WMCA. That's where our 171 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:28,719 Speaker 1: own Mark Simone got his start. So let it be 172 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 1: listened to the King of talk radio, Bob Grant and 173 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:37,200 Speaker 1: go Nuts because obviously their politics couldn't be any more different. 174 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 1: And at times he would walk over. And this is 175 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 1: when you had celebrities walking all over New York City 176 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,720 Speaker 1: on their own. They didn't have an entourage, no bodyguards. 177 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:50,840 Speaker 1: I saw Mickey mantlehalf in the bag walking around in 178 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 1: the streets. For that broke my heart. I saw will 179 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 1: Clyde Fraser walking around on his own. I mean, you 180 00:11:57,360 --> 00:11:59,439 Speaker 1: got to see so many people and then all of 181 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 1: a sudden, you know, when Lennon was killed, that era 182 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:06,080 Speaker 1: ended quick. But anyway, before that, he'd be listening to 183 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 1: WMCA all the way down on the dial. Now it's 184 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,959 Speaker 1: like owned by Salem Communication, where you got to pay 185 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:15,319 Speaker 1: if you're a holy roller or a preacher a dollar 186 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 1: a holler. Oh, they'll take your money and then they'll 187 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:21,760 Speaker 1: put you on. But anyway, that was the big talk station, 188 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 1: our Peter Strauss ellen Strauss family owned. I believe that's 189 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,440 Speaker 1: where Mark Simone got to start. That's where he met 190 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:31,960 Speaker 1: Bob Grant. They were like ammonium bleached. They did not 191 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 1: get along, but I will tell you they had some 192 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:40,559 Speaker 1: of the greatest radio of all time. So all of 193 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 1: a sudden you have John Ranny going over and I 194 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 1: think these studios at WABC at that time was right 195 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 1: across from Carnegie Hall. No security at that time. He 196 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 1: walk upstairs, he'd knock on the door and he go, 197 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 1: I want to go on and I want to contradict 198 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: what Bob Grant said. And the board operator would look 199 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:04,960 Speaker 1: at it, Hey John Lennon and go back to the hosts, 200 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 1: and the host nah, come on, what are you half 201 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 1: in the bag? What are you dropping? LSD very popular 202 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:15,959 Speaker 1: at that time. LSD, you know Tim Leary, and he 203 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: would come in and he would rant about Bob Grant. 204 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 1: See that's when you could do that. No security, you 205 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 1: don't have to provide identification. Remember it was John Lennon 206 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:29,280 Speaker 1: who got in trouble when he said, you know, the 207 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:32,280 Speaker 1: Beatles are more popular than Jesus Christ. Oh they were. 208 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:37,800 Speaker 1: Radio stations wouldn't play Beatles music at that time, Remember 209 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:43,439 Speaker 1: how popular. Remember, and the guy would be listening to 210 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: talk radio. Do you want to be a bird? Remember 211 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 1: that song from Easy Rider? I wonder if any of 212 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:54,960 Speaker 1: you know that was the theme song to the guy 213 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:58,840 Speaker 1: at night that he would listen to who was a radical, 214 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:02,320 Speaker 1: the complete op a Bob Grant in the afternoon drive time. 215 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:07,520 Speaker 1: He was a total radical who when the Simbionese Liberation 216 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:14,120 Speaker 1: Army SINQ General General Liscimo Sinque declared war in America 217 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 1: and either kidnapped Pathy Patty Hurst or Tanya joined them, 218 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:24,960 Speaker 1: he was praising them on the air. Yeah at the 219 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 1: old WMCA. Let's see if we can sort of massage 220 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: any of your memories can get back to our tribute 221 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 1: to the hardest working guy ever in TV, Regis Philmin 222 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:40,120 Speaker 1: and the hardest working guy ever in radio talk radio, 223 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: Bob Grant. I'll conflate both of them as we do 224 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 1: our homage to the greats, the iconic figures who paved 225 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 1: the way for all of us, and little of any 226 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: tribute has ever made to how important they were to 227 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 1: this thing of ours. I will never forget, I know, 228 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 1: Mark Simon, never forget. Unfortunately, there are a lot of 229 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 1: people in our business who get their paycheck and they 230 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: either don't know, or if they do know, god forbid 231 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 1: they give any credit to these people. I'll tell you 232 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,720 Speaker 1: this much, Bob Grant. You know who grew up listening 233 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 1: to Bob Grant. The rock grabbed all American Conservative voice. 234 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 1: Reason from Franklin, Long Island, Sean Hannity, you said him 235 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 1: many times, and you catch him in the afternoon drive 236 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 1: here wor seven ten Bill O'Reilly. Oh, he says it 237 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:34,120 Speaker 1: many times, Mike Levin. When Bob Grant was exiled at 238 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 1: WWDB in Philadelphia. I'll get into that coming up next. 239 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 1: They all attribute this now, how it start to Bob Grant? 240 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 1: How come now little, if any attention is paid to 241 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 1: these folks who really paved the way, took a lot 242 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 1: of risks, got fired many times for taking a principal stand, 243 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 1: took a licking, only to come back ticking on. Number 244 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: is one eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. 245 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 1: That's one eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.