1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: Now the Red Beret has returned to radio. Curtis Leewall 2 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:11,039 Speaker 1: guest host the Mark Simone Show on sevent ten wor. 3 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, oh boy. All these officials must cheat from one another. 4 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:26,800 Speaker 2: You know Eric Adams swaggerman with no plan. Thank god, 5 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 2: he's gone, claiming crimers at an all time load. Now, 6 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 2: if you're in the five boroughs of the city in 7 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 2: New York, you don't know what city he's in. Well, 8 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 2: that's right. Most times he hasn't even been in our city. 9 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 2: And then I heard that broadcasts about Rosbaraka, who, like 10 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 2: his father, hates cops. Who's his father is he? I know? Look, 11 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 2: look from West Milford. What would you know? You know, 12 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 2: you don't grow up in Newark. I know more about 13 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 2: Newark than most people listening to this radio station. Spent 14 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:01,920 Speaker 2: a lot of time there. But Rosbarock because father was 15 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 2: Lee Roy Jones. We then changed his name to a 16 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 2: mirror Baraka, poet, self described communists and hater of everything white. 17 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:18,920 Speaker 2: If it was white, it wasn't right, and the lifelong 18 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 2: enemy of Tony Imperiale. We at the Northward Citizens Association 19 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 2: and kept that area along Bloomfield Avenue from burning down 20 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 2: during the riots. Unfortunately the rest of the city decimated 21 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:35,960 Speaker 2: and no has not returned since crime is high there. 22 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:39,399 Speaker 2: You want to go to Weekwake Park. You want to 23 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 2: go to broad and Market. By the way broad and 24 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 2: Market is he want you to go to Penn Station 25 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 2: in Newark. Yeah, they're all called Penn Station, Baltimore, Penn Station, 26 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 2: Phillip Penn Station, Washington Pen. I want you to go 27 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 2: to Penn Station in Newark. You take the Path train 28 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 2: there in New Jersey trans and I want you to 29 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 2: walk over the broad and Mind. You'll see the goldleaf 30 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 2: dome of City Hall there. And you need to know 31 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 2: they're back in about nineteen twenty twenty two on the 32 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 2: sixth floor of one of the biggest retailers of all time, Bamburgers. 33 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there used to be all the big stores 34 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 2: there along Broader Market, same as you had in New York. 35 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 2: Was where wor R got its license to broadcasts. And 36 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:33,960 Speaker 2: that's where I think the first of the three Gamblings 37 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 2: was broadcasting from six floor. No longer Bamburgers, obviously. And 38 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 2: to tell you how bad things are in Newark, don't 39 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:47,080 Speaker 2: listen to Rasbaraka. He hates cops. There used to be 40 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:51,080 Speaker 2: more Cadillac dealerships in Newark than any other city in 41 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 2: the nation, more than even in Detroit, where the Cadillacs 42 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 2: were coming off the assembly line. And we'll go right 43 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 2: into the some we'll go right into the showcased halls, 44 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 2: and you can get a Cadillac cheaper there than anywhere. 45 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 2: And my uncle's on the Italian American side, the Bianchino side. 46 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 2: They all love Cadillacts back then, or Italian guys. That 47 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 2: was the sign of success in El Dorado, Fleetwood, Seville, 48 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 2: you know where they went to buy the Cadillacs and 49 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 2: then trade it in every year for a new Cadillac. Newark. 50 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 2: Then the riots hit. You can't even buy or used 51 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 2: Cadillac anywhere in Newark now, So stop this nonsense. Oh no, 52 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 2: it's safer than it's ever been. New York City, safer 53 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 2: than it's ever been. Who knows more about both those 54 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 2: cities than me? Yes, truly, Curtis Sliwa, Get out of here. 55 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 2: Rose Baraka, the evil seed did not fall far from 56 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:58,320 Speaker 2: the rotten tree of leit Roy Jones aka Emira Baraka 57 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 2: a selfish describe communists. You know how that's been thrown 58 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 2: around Zoron Mondami. You know Kami Mondam. He's not a communist, 59 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 2: he's a socialists. But Leroy Jones was a communist. And 60 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 2: we'll get one guarantee. If you were white, you were 61 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 2: not right. All right, Just a little side note there. 62 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 2: I want to get back on track though, because we 63 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:27,479 Speaker 2: are doing homage, as oftentimes Mark Simone would do. Nobody 64 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 2: knows more about television, movies, radio and its history than 65 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 2: Mark Simone. But I was sitting with Tom Cuddy yesterday 66 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 2: after the show and the name of Regis Philbin popped up, 67 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:47,599 Speaker 2: and without a doubt, Regis Philbin was the hardest working 68 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,359 Speaker 2: guy in all of television. And I know for a 69 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 2: lot of people they don't even think about Regis Philbin anymore. 70 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 2: Shame shame on you. Local guy Bronx kid van Nass 71 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 2: not far from Morris par went to Cardinal Hayes Hayesman 72 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 2: by the way, like Bernard McGirk, who I'll be talking 73 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 2: about tomorrow doing my annual tribute. But I gotta tell you, 74 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 2: Regis Philman his father, Irish named him Regis because he 75 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 2: wanted him to go to Regis High School in Manhattan, 76 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 2: which is the elite Jesuit high school can't be elite 77 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:25,840 Speaker 2: if Fauci went there from Benson Hurts and he is Udscratziata, 78 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 2: he will burn in hell, if nothing more for what 79 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:34,799 Speaker 2: he did in sending beagles over to Tunisia, third world country, 80 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 2: to experiment on them at our taxpayer's expense and torture 81 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 2: them for no purpose other than he's probably a statist, 82 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:45,760 Speaker 2: but anyway, just to divert. So Regis got his name 83 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:48,599 Speaker 2: Regis because his father said, oh, you're gonna go to 84 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 2: Regis High School in Manhattan, the elite Jesuit high school. 85 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 2: And I would always say to Regis, guys, because I 86 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 2: went to Brooklyn Prep, where they kicked me out my 87 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 2: senior year, you're not a real high school because you 88 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 2: don't have a football team. And they didn't and they 89 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 2: still don't. So he grows up in the Bronx, goes 90 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 2: to Cardinal Hayes and the most in I think the 91 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 2: interesting thing is he surfaces in nineteen sixty seven with 92 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 2: a member of the rat Pack. Remember the rat Pack. 93 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 2: Oh you're all aware of that. If you didn't grow 94 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 2: up with them, you probably saw the movie Sinatra, Dean Martin, 95 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 2: Sammy Davis, Junior, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop. Joey Bishop, 96 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 2: who I think had a couple of call fee in 97 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:33,720 Speaker 2: the Bronx, was born there, but I think grew up 98 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 2: most of his life in Philadelphia. By the way, that's 99 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 2: where Dick Clark get it. Notice how the synergy here. 100 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 2: It's a stream of consciousness Dick Clark American Bandstand, which 101 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:52,719 Speaker 2: eventually led to what you just heard about, ABC's Dick 102 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:57,720 Speaker 2: Clark's New Yorkers Rocking Eve, you know with Ryan Seacress, 103 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 2: Dick Clark, Ryan, you know, Dick Clark, although he has 104 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:07,279 Speaker 2: worked radio, Ryan Seacrest, but he's milk toast. As you know, 105 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 2: I don't have time to be watching milk Toast. Regis, 106 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 2: on the other hand, was always a Wisenheimer. Will always 107 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 2: slip you with Mickey and I first remember watching him 108 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 2: on the Joey Bishop Show. I'm sure some of you did. 109 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 2: He in competition, remember with Johnny Carson, and his sidekick 110 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 2: was Ed McMahon. By the way, great actor, great actor. 111 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 2: Does anybody out there know was probably the very first 112 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 2: vigilante movie about the subways before there was Death Wish 113 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 2: with Charles Bronson. I mean, it was a classic and 114 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 2: Eddery McMahon had a great party in it. Great actor. 115 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 2: He was a barker on Atlantic City. He came up, 116 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 2: became a sidekick for Johnny Carson, you know the rest 117 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 2: of that history. And then of course you wanted him 118 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 2: to come to your door the publish clearing House. I 119 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 2: don't know if it was a battle they were elbowing 120 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 2: one another. Was it Dick Clark or was it Ed McMahon. 121 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 2: But anyway, because Ed, if you bought all the magazine subscriptions, 122 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 2: you might become a millionaire. Oh, by the way, that 123 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 2: was another show that Regis Philbin hosted later on, You 124 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 2: Want to Be a Millionaire? Who was that it came 125 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 2: to your door? Was that Dick Clark was at Ed McMahon. 126 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 2: So anyway, it was Joey Bishop and sidekick was Regis Philbin, 127 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:33,160 Speaker 2: and Regis was good. It was a good combination. And 128 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, Regis Philbin was no more, 129 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 2: you know, because those shows they come, they go, and 130 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:47,440 Speaker 2: all of a sudden, Regis Philbin showed up on a 131 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 2: TV station in Los Angeles midday. I think it was 132 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:56,319 Speaker 2: Channel thirteen or Channel nine. They have like these independent 133 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 2: stations there. They all have talk shows they do news 134 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 2: many more than we have. And you know who he replaced. 135 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,439 Speaker 2: He replaced the king of talk radio, Bob Grant, who 136 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 2: was on television at that time. Oh no, no, no, there's 137 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 2: so much more to delve into. We ooh, but this 138 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:15,959 Speaker 2: is a stream of consciousness, I said Dick Clark, if 139 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,959 Speaker 2: I remember correctly, Dick Clark was from Mount Vernon, went 140 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 2: to high school in Mount Vernon. Radio guy was up 141 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 2: there in Utica, you know, with the brewery and the 142 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 2: little mafia there. It was a mafia town. And they 143 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 2: went to Syracuse University did radio there. Then all of 144 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 2: a sudden, he goes outside of Philly. He's on a 145 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 2: radio station. They're experimenting with like an American bandstand format 146 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 2: on the radio, and the host goes on vacation, gets 147 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:49,319 Speaker 2: busted for duy drunk and driving, and guess who takes 148 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 2: over the show If you're there at the right time, 149 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 2: at the right place, Dick Clark. And they also had 150 00:09:56,320 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 2: an affiliate TV station, And that's how I'm American Bandstand 151 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 2: came about. And boy, that was the time Philly was king. 152 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:09,960 Speaker 2: Oh man was Philly King? Remember Mike Douglas Show, Mike 153 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 2: Douglas Roger Ailes was the producer. They filmed that. It 154 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:17,720 Speaker 2: was late afternoon. That was in Philadelphia. I remember watching 155 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 2: Mike Douglas I think it was nineteen seventy two for 156 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 2: a full week. You know who co hosted with Mike Douglas, 157 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 2: John Lennon and your co owner four a full week. 158 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 2: This is mid afternoons. They had forty million viewers when 159 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 2: the population was a lot less than it is now. 160 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 2: I remember there was George Carlin was on, Ralph Nader, 161 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:45,520 Speaker 2: the Black Panther Leader there, Bobby Seal I think he 162 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:49,600 Speaker 2: sells barbecue sauce. Anyway, The point was it was so 163 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:56,800 Speaker 2: good and then the fbon Jay Gilhover muscled the Mike 164 00:10:56,840 --> 00:11:00,559 Speaker 2: Douglas and said, uh hmm, you don't want to be 165 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 2: putting on television Enemies of America, especially when he heard 166 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 2: him sing that song, which I think he sang. I 167 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 2: remember as a kid, imagine nineteen seventy two. By the way, 168 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:19,200 Speaker 2: John Lennon used to listen to talk radio. That's right 169 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 2: at the Dakota. He would listen to the old talker WMCA. 170 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,880 Speaker 2: That's where our own Mark Simone got his start. So 171 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 2: let it be listened to the King of talk radio, 172 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:36,280 Speaker 2: Bob Grant and go Nuts because obviously their politics couldn't 173 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 2: be any more different. And at times he would walk over. 174 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 2: And this is when you had celebrities walking all over 175 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:46,720 Speaker 2: New York City on their own. They didn't have an entourage, 176 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:50,440 Speaker 2: no bodyguards. I saw Mickey Mantlehalff in the bag walking 177 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 2: around in the streets for that broke my heart. I 178 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 2: saw will Clyde Fraser walking around on his own. I mean, 179 00:11:57,200 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 2: you got to see so many people. And then all 180 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:02,200 Speaker 2: of a sudden, you know, when Lennon was killed that 181 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 2: era and it quick. But anyway, before that, he'd be 182 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 2: listening to wmcaight all the way down on the dial. 183 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:12,720 Speaker 2: Now it's like owned by Salem Communication where you got 184 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 2: to pay if you're a holy roller or a preacher 185 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 2: a dollar a holler or they'll take your money and 186 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 2: then they'll put you on. But anyway, that was the 187 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 2: big talk station, our Peter Strauss ellen Strauss family owned. 188 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 2: I believe that's where Mark Simone got his start. That's 189 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 2: where he met Bob Grant. They were like commonium bleached. 190 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:34,599 Speaker 2: They did not get along. But I will tell you 191 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:36,800 Speaker 2: they had some of the greatest radio of all time. 192 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 2: So all of a sudden, you have John Ranny going 193 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:46,199 Speaker 2: over and I think these studios at w ABC at 194 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,440 Speaker 2: that time was right across from Carnegie Hall. No security 195 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 2: at that time. He walk upstairs, he'd knock on the 196 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:54,560 Speaker 2: door and he go, I want to go on and 197 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 2: I want to contradict what Bob Grant said. And the 198 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:03,839 Speaker 2: board operator would look at it, Hey, John Lennon and 199 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 2: go back to the hosts, and the host nah, come on, 200 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 2: what are you half in the bag? What are you dropping? 201 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:12,440 Speaker 2: LSD very popular at that time. LSD, you know Tim Leary, 202 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 2: and he would come in and he would rant about 203 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 2: Bob Grant. 204 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 3: See that's when you could do that. No security, you 205 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 3: don't have to provide identification. Remember it was John Lennon 206 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:29,280 Speaker 3: who got in trouble when he said, you know, the 207 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 3: Beatles are more popular. 208 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 2: Than Jesus Christ. Oh they were. Radio stations wouldn't play Beatles' 209 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 2: music at that time, Remember how popular. Remember, and the 210 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 2: guy would be listening to talk radio. Do you want 211 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:50,560 Speaker 2: to be a bird? Remember that song from Easy Rider? 212 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 2: I wonder if any of you know that was the 213 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:56,920 Speaker 2: theme song to the guy at night that he would 214 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:00,400 Speaker 2: listen to, who was a radical the complete opera of 215 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 2: Bob Grant in the afternoon drive time. He was a 216 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 2: total radical who when the Sibbinese Liberation Army SINQ General 217 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:15,359 Speaker 2: General Listimo Sinceque declared war in America and either kidnapped 218 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:22,080 Speaker 2: Pathy Patty Hurst or Tanya joined them, he was praising 219 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 2: them on the air. Yeah at the old WMCA. Let's 220 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 2: see if we can sort of massage any of your 221 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 2: memories can get back to our tribute to the hardest 222 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 2: working guy ever in TV, Regis Philmin and the hardest 223 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:41,640 Speaker 2: working guy ever in radio talk radio, Bob Grant. I'll 224 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 2: conflate both of them as we do our homage to 225 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 2: the greats, the iconic figures who paved the way for 226 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:52,320 Speaker 2: all of us, and little of any tribute has ever 227 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 2: made to how important they were to this thing of ours. 228 00:14:56,640 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 2: I will never forget, I know, Mark Simon, never forget. Unfortunately, 229 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 2: there are a lot of people in our business who 230 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 2: get their paycheck and they either don't know, or if 231 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:12,640 Speaker 2: they do know, God forbid they give any credit to 232 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 2: these people. I tell you this much, Bob Grant. You 233 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:18,240 Speaker 2: know who grew up listening to Bob Grant. The rock 234 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:22,240 Speaker 2: grabbed all American conservative Voice sub region from Franklin, Long Island, 235 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 2: Sean Hannity, you said him many times, and you catch 236 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:28,720 Speaker 2: him in the afternoon drive here wor seven ten bill O'Reilly? Oh, 237 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 2: he says it many times. Mike Levin. When Bob Grant 238 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:36,960 Speaker 2: was exiled at WWDB in Philadelphia, I'll get into that 239 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:42,160 Speaker 2: coming up next. They all attribute this, Now, Howard start 240 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 2: to Bob Grant? How come now, little if any attention 241 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:53,960 Speaker 2: is paid to these folks who really paved the way, 242 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 2: took a lot of risks, got fired many times for 243 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 2: taking a principal stand, took a licking, only to come 244 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 2: back ticking our numbers one eight hundred three to two 245 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:06,760 Speaker 2: one zero seven ten. That's one eight hundred three two 246 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 2: one zero seven. 247 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 1: Ten, Street Smart, Straight Talk. Curtis leewa guest host for 248 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 1: Mark Simone on sevent TENO. 249 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 2: Wa as we don't take anything for granted, and we 250 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 2: paid tributes to no doubt hardest working guy ever in TV. 251 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 2: I had this conversation with Tom Cuddy yesterday. Regis Filman 252 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 2: father was Irish mother. I think was a combination Italian Albanian, 253 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 2: which is very similar to the makeup of Vaness and 254 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 2: Morris Park now in the Bronx, he was a Hayesman, 255 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 2: went to Cardinal Hayes. I think he was best known 256 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 2: for being on Live with Regis and Kathy Lee. That 257 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 2: was a great show. I think that went off for 258 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 2: like twelve years until the year two thousand. That was 259 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:58,680 Speaker 2: the better one compared to when he was on with 260 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 2: Kelly Uh. Nope. You know, Regis would get up and 261 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 2: do his riff. That was something you waited to hear, 262 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:09,920 Speaker 2: like with Bob Grant the opening riff of his show, 263 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 2: and there was no podcast, there was no way to 264 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:15,920 Speaker 2: recover it. It was great. And then in the interim 265 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:18,360 Speaker 2: he was doing the most watched TV program at that time, 266 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:25,159 Speaker 2: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Hard working According to 267 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 2: the Guinness World Record for the most hours spent on television, 268 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:34,160 Speaker 2: the hardest working man in TV show business Regis Philbin, 269 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 2: without a doubt. And by the way, you're going to 270 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:41,600 Speaker 2: be some of you watching the ABC's Dick Clark's New 271 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 2: Yorkers Rock and Roll Eve right with milk toast Ryan Seacressa. 272 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 2: That's his sting, you know, sub student for Dick Clark 273 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 2: when he had that stroke. That was Regis Philbin. If 274 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 2: I remember correctly two thousand and four to two thousand 275 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:02,920 Speaker 2: and five that first show was Regis Philbin. I mean, 276 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 2: the guy was all over TV, and it's almost like 277 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 2: nobody nobody mentions him. I think the only one who 278 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 2: mentions it from time to time is Letterman. But now 279 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:15,679 Speaker 2: let's switch to the hardest working guy ever in radio. 280 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:18,679 Speaker 2: We paid our homage to the father of talk radio, 281 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 2: who was right here at WR when he was spinning 282 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:27,160 Speaker 2: that first stacks of wax that turn into taking callers, 283 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:29,360 Speaker 2: and that was buried Grade nineteen forty five, right here 284 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 2: at War Bob Grant, the king of talk radio. My 285 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 2: mentor the reason that I'm in talk creadio because nobody 286 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:42,239 Speaker 2: else wanted me. He forced them on. He forced me 287 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 2: on them at WABC by saying, you gotta have Curtis. 288 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 2: He knows who all the bones are buried and who 289 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 2: buried them, and everybody knows that now, and they hesitate 290 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,919 Speaker 2: every time I talk about their names. Is he going 291 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:59,360 Speaker 2: to reveal what I thought it would take to my grave? Well, 292 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 2: you keep thinking out there, guys and gals, got one 293 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 2: more show to go on Friday. Could be opening up 294 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 2: the Pandora's box of many of those at WABC always 295 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:16,680 Speaker 2: bashing Curtis now, but no, let's get back to Bob Grant. Uh. 296 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 2: He actually was the busiest guy in all of talk radio, 297 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 2: not here but out at KABC. By the way, he 298 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:27,399 Speaker 2: gave me a call this morning, they want me to 299 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:29,960 Speaker 2: do something for them. I had done a show for 300 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:33,480 Speaker 2: Al Rentel, unfortunately had broken his hip for a year. 301 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:36,639 Speaker 2: I substituted for al Rentel from New York City, and 302 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:39,359 Speaker 2: nobody knew that I wasn't in LA because I knew 303 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 2: LA like the back of my head. So I said 304 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 2: thank you, but no thank you, but a tribute to 305 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:47,439 Speaker 2: a very iconic station. Bob Grant was on that station 306 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 2: and he had three shows, Open Line, Nightline, which eventually 307 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,919 Speaker 2: became a TV production at Ted coppol on ABC, and 308 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:02,720 Speaker 2: Sunday Line, and he was doing TV Busy, Busy, busy, 309 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 2: and he interviewed Muhammad Ali, Ronald Reagan, first interview with 310 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan, and that nut who created Kwanza, that Kwanza guy, 311 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:17,880 Speaker 2: Ron Krenge. What a story that is? Hey, he had 312 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:21,080 Speaker 2: the first interview with him. He was the go to guy, 313 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:26,960 Speaker 2: and then some executives said, you know, it's just too bad. 314 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:29,679 Speaker 2: Bob that the number one talk show hosts in America 315 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 2: doesn't want to come to the number one market in America, 316 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:35,600 Speaker 2: New York. So I'm not interested going to New York. 317 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 2: I got a house, See, I got four kids, I'm 318 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:43,679 Speaker 2: on TV, I'm on radio. But he got to go 319 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:46,920 Speaker 2: to New York. Bob and the guy named R. Peter 320 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,160 Speaker 2: Strauss reached out to him and made him an offer. 321 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 2: He couldn't refuse the money. Although Bob came out here, 322 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:55,959 Speaker 2: he didn't want to stay. He told me he'd I 323 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:58,880 Speaker 2: hated New York. I wanted to go back to La 324 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 2: so desperately, where everybody knew me embraced me back there. 325 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 2: You know, they were more conservative here. They called me 326 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:08,439 Speaker 2: a fascist. So I decided I would get on the 327 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 2: radio and be mean and it would force ar Peter 328 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:16,360 Speaker 2: Strauss to break my contract. So that's where this raging 329 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:20,480 Speaker 2: persona came from. And unfortunately for Bob at that time 330 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 2: and good for us, his rating skyrocketing. Ratings not streams. 331 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:28,119 Speaker 2: You know, at the old WABC where I was, they 332 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 2: run around say lo look, Loia, my streamers up. A 333 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:34,080 Speaker 2: million people were listening to me. I said, are you 334 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:39,359 Speaker 2: out of your mind? That's not a rating. That's the 335 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 2: Wizard of Oz. You may like what you're being told, 336 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,639 Speaker 2: but that does not give you a gauge of the audience. 337 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 2: Oh one last thing. Barry Farbara, who had been a 338 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 2: fixture here for many years, decided to run for mayor. 339 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:58,640 Speaker 2: It's nineteen seventy seven. Oh shades of Curtis Sleep. When 340 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:03,560 Speaker 2: he left w R he asked Bob Grant to substitute 341 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:08,600 Speaker 2: for him overnight. And when Bob Grant did, out of 342 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:13,480 Speaker 2: every four radios, two radios at night, we're listening to him, 343 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 2: nobody ever had those kind of ratings. And then he 344 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:19,880 Speaker 2: said something I'm trying to remember the words. Oh yeah, 345 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:25,360 Speaker 2: she passed a gynecological and pigmentation test. I forget who 346 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:27,880 Speaker 2: he was attributing that to. He got fired and exiled 347 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 2: out to WWDB, only to come back to WABC. That's 348 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:40,399 Speaker 2: my homage. Hardest working guy in talk radio, hortest working 349 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,520 Speaker 2: guy in TV reagions, Philbinton, and tomorrow, you don't want 350 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 2: to miss my annual tribute to the best thing that 351 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:52,679 Speaker 2: occurred to WABC, which was Bernard McGirk. One eight hundred 352 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 2: three to two one is zero seven ten. That's one 353 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:59,000 Speaker 2: eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten talk Radio. 354 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 1: It's street literally Curtis Slaywad joined seven to ten WR 355 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 1: to guess those for. 356 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 2: Mark samol dtists working guys and gals television and radio. 357 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 2: In his book of World records, readis filled and none other. 358 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:23,960 Speaker 2: Bronxky proud of going to Cardinal Hayes Catholic High School 359 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:29,160 Speaker 2: still open, thank god. Unfortunately nearby all hollows closing, Great 360 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 2: School Cathedral High School this year for girls. Great school closing, 361 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:39,639 Speaker 2: and Preston was on the cusp of closing in the 362 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:44,119 Speaker 2: Tremont section. Great High School all girls. You know j 363 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:49,639 Speaker 2: Low maybe got back Jenny from the block. Never contributed 364 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:51,760 Speaker 2: as far as I know, a nickel diamond penny to 365 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:54,200 Speaker 2: the alumni front and keep them open. They were kept 366 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 2: open by Bally's. I believe some arrangement was made. Who 367 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:01,600 Speaker 2: bought the Trump golf course nearby? But think about that. 368 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:06,399 Speaker 2: He was Regis Philman, who appeared three times on the 369 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:10,880 Speaker 2: Celebrity Jeopardy Again. The guy was constantly working out there. 370 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 2: He had the most appearances and in one appearance he 371 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,160 Speaker 2: won fifty thousand dollars and gave it right to Cardinal Hayes. 372 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,639 Speaker 2: That's what you should do if you're doing well, and 373 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,639 Speaker 2: you realize that these Catholic high schools, they gave so 374 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,479 Speaker 2: many an opportunity they might not have had if they 375 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,520 Speaker 2: had to go to their local neighborhood public high school. 376 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:37,879 Speaker 2: And like j Lo, hey, j Lo, you forget your roots. Anyway, 377 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 2: let's go to the phones. It's Bob who's calling from 378 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,640 Speaker 2: San Diego. Your turn to be heard here at seven 379 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:43,880 Speaker 2: to ten. 380 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 4: Woo Bob, hey, Curtis, good to hear you on the here. 381 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 4: Earlier you mentioned the first subway vigilante movie. There would, 382 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:55,840 Speaker 4: I think would be the incident with Martin Sheen and 383 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:56,840 Speaker 4: Tony Mussanti. 384 00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, And if you haven't seen it, ladies in gentlemen, 385 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 2: you must. A great period piece, black and white. All 386 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 2: these different people were getting on the number four train, 387 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,119 Speaker 2: you know, coming out of the Bronx going down to 388 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 2: Grand Central, and masonte is a complete psycho. Martin Sheen, 389 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,760 Speaker 2: I think that was like his debut. And remember the 390 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:22,399 Speaker 2: part that Ed McMahon played. 391 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,440 Speaker 4: Yes, he actually he didn't want to take a cab 392 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 4: to Flushing from the Bronx, so he took the trains 393 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,200 Speaker 4: and he played the father of a young girl. 394 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,400 Speaker 2: And he was on the car with his wife, now 395 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,360 Speaker 2: arguing with his wife. Great piece, she's going, let's take 396 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,640 Speaker 2: a cab. We got a baby with us that nah, 397 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:46,960 Speaker 2: I take that train, you know an oh boy, these 398 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,639 Speaker 2: two psycho boys were in the car. It was like 399 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:55,200 Speaker 2: cockwork Orange before his cockwork Orange. I mean, really, really 400 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 2: a great, great movie that's never really gotten it, Stue. 401 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,840 Speaker 4: It really is a great movie. Just keeps building and 402 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,879 Speaker 4: building until the climax. And by the way, you can 403 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 4: watch it free on YouTube. Just search on YouTube for 404 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 4: the incident. 405 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:15,159 Speaker 2: Yeah, please do. Especially during highliaday time, a lot of 406 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:19,119 Speaker 2: people like to watch things. You gotta watch this movie. 407 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 2: Every station, a different group gets on, or a different couple, 408 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,359 Speaker 2: and they're all all of them went on to become 409 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:31,199 Speaker 2: great stars and starletts, and they had their little cameo rolls. 410 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 2: Oh man, what a great, great movie. Let's go if 411 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:40,199 Speaker 2: we can to John, who's calling from? Is that old Japan? 412 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 5: Curtis? 413 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 6: What's up my brother? 414 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:43,200 Speaker 4: Noll? 415 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 6: I just depend on the New York side. 416 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 2: Ah, okay, Curtis. 417 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:49,840 Speaker 6: Good, I'm glad to see it down shop on the 418 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:53,760 Speaker 6: dial there, very good. I was incorrect. I thought Alex 419 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,639 Speaker 6: Bennett would have been the name you were you were 420 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:57,200 Speaker 6: looking for. 421 00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:05,400 Speaker 2: You are absolutely corre Alex Bennett. Evening show hosts wmc 422 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 2: A Bob Grant was Drive Time. You couldn't have been 423 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:10,360 Speaker 2: any more different. 424 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,159 Speaker 6: Yeah, Courtaige, listen, I'm trying. I know you're busy there. 425 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 6: If I want to ask this gum, you know why 426 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 6: I was a little bewildered. I used to be in 427 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,720 Speaker 6: Manhattan Detectives. We had a homicide in nineteen ninety two, 428 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 6: fourteenth Street in the holes on the fourth train. A 429 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 6: young man, a hard working stuff African American, Jerry Robinson, 430 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 6: on his way home at eleven o'clock at night. He 431 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:37,199 Speaker 6: gets held up in the hall at Fourteenth Street. He 432 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,920 Speaker 6: pulls out a twenty five pops two guys kills one 433 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,640 Speaker 6: of them. The third piece took off. They called him 434 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:49,199 Speaker 6: the Blackbernie gets Barry Slotnick represented him at arraiments and 435 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,440 Speaker 6: then an eighteen b attorney took it from there on. 436 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 6: He took a plea and I didn't do any time. 437 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,399 Speaker 6: It was it. It never got well. It hit the 438 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 6: paper that night they were down in raiments, but after 439 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,400 Speaker 6: never got any place. I was wondering if you knew 440 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 6: about that. 441 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:06,919 Speaker 2: No, I do, because I followed those cases. It was 442 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,560 Speaker 2: really the team that you had. Barry Slotnik was the 443 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 2: lead attorney, and I'm trying to remember Miller, I think 444 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,919 Speaker 2: was his partner. He had to go. No Baker, Baker 445 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 2: was his partner. A great team, and they made themselves 446 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:27,159 Speaker 2: available for those kind of cases. More often than not. 447 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:33,679 Speaker 2: It was black victims fighting back against black assailians. But 448 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:37,960 Speaker 2: you see, it didn't have the ammonium bleach. It didn't 449 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,280 Speaker 2: have what you needed, white versus black. I mean that 450 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:44,120 Speaker 2: got you the headlines that kept the headlines going for days. 451 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 2: It was black on black crime. Nothing a mere mention. 452 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 2: By the way, you mentioned Alex Bennett. He was the 453 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:56,000 Speaker 2: talkshow host at WMCA at night. His theme song was 454 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 2: do You Want to Be a Bird? A classic song 455 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 2: from Easy Rider, and man, he would talk about coming 456 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 2: from concerts and he would be like be doing therapy 457 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:12,160 Speaker 2: on himself before this guy did it Seagull remember a 458 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:15,000 Speaker 2: Channel seven? Oh does anybody remember Seagull? I'm just gonna 459 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,640 Speaker 2: give you a little hint there, and he would do 460 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:21,320 Speaker 2: the same thing self there. And this guy supported radical causes. 461 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:25,959 Speaker 2: Do you know who ended up taking over the apartment 462 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 2: of Alex Bennett, who went back to San Francisco where 463 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:32,640 Speaker 2: he was from, to Radio Camel where they spun stacks 464 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:36,440 Speaker 2: of wax, did a little bit of talk Bernard Getz, 465 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,640 Speaker 2: who's still in that apartment today right off of sixth 466 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 2: Avenue and fourteenth Street. Wow, the synergy is happening. Let's 467 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:50,320 Speaker 2: go if we can to Stella in close. Your turn 468 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,920 Speaker 2: to be heard here at seven ten wr Stella. 469 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:59,080 Speaker 5: Hello, listen to Curtis. I'm glad to hear you back, 470 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 5: and I'm glad to hear your voice. I'm very concerned 471 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,440 Speaker 5: and so are a lot of people in my neighborhood 472 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:10,920 Speaker 5: and queens about Mendani taking over privately owned homes. Do 473 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 5: you know anything about that? 474 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:17,960 Speaker 2: Well, it's not just Mandami, this was the city of Yes. 475 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,920 Speaker 2: I warned everybody about it. Eric Adams got windined in 476 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,640 Speaker 2: pocket lined by the developers and realtors, as did Andrew 477 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 2: Evilize Cuomo. So they now have the authority because the 478 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 2: people voted this into the law because everybody's so affordable housing, 479 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:38,640 Speaker 2: and they thought, oh wow, affordable housing. I'm for that. No, no, no, 480 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,160 Speaker 2: no no, So if you happen to live in a 481 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,320 Speaker 2: residential community and this is coming to a neighborhood near you. 482 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:50,520 Speaker 2: They call it up zoning, density housing. Kathy Holkol tried 483 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 2: that and realize that wasn't gonna work out to get 484 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 2: her elected against leez Elden, so she dropped it like 485 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,800 Speaker 2: a hot rock. But the whole idea was build high 486 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:06,240 Speaker 2: rise housing, claim it's affordable near train stations along ther 487 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:09,240 Speaker 2: Metro North, and people in residential area say, oh no, no, no, 488 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,080 Speaker 2: no no, we don't need any density housing. We don't 489 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:16,600 Speaker 2: need any up zoning. There's zoning, there's elected officials, there's 490 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:22,000 Speaker 2: a process. So Kathy Hoko recognized that was a third rail. 491 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,800 Speaker 2: But in New York City, because the issue became affordable 492 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:31,160 Speaker 2: housing costs of living, they've pushed through this mandate that 493 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:35,560 Speaker 2: gives developers and realtors the opportunity to come into your 494 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,520 Speaker 2: neighborhoods in the outer boroughs, whether you live in the Bronx, 495 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,760 Speaker 2: Staten Island, Queens of Brooklyn, and they can come into 496 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:43,920 Speaker 2: your neighborhood. They don't have to go through any zoning 497 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,680 Speaker 2: regulations any longer, they don't have to meet with the 498 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:48,960 Speaker 2: community board, they don't have to even meet with the 499 00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 2: local elected officials. If they want to put up a 500 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 2: forty story high rise by the way, with no parking 501 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,160 Speaker 2: and burden your infrastructure, they have a right to do it. 502 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,479 Speaker 2: They've been given a green light. Worse yet, they're putting 503 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:06,680 Speaker 2: up these lithium ion battery warehouses, which is a real 504 00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:10,080 Speaker 2: danger to the community. They're in residential areas. They're supposed 505 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,400 Speaker 2: to be in industrial areas, but then again, residential property is 506 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:18,600 Speaker 2: cheaper than industrial property. Thirty eight in Staten Island, twelve 507 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,480 Speaker 2: in Brooklyn, eight in Queens formed the Bronx none in 508 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:27,120 Speaker 2: Manhattan because we don't have enough electricity. And wait if 509 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 2: you think it's bad now, artificial intelligence is going to 510 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,680 Speaker 2: need double the amount of electricity and double the amount 511 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:41,480 Speaker 2: of water to run their filing centers. You haven't heard 512 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 2: much about that, have you? Of course, not talk too 513 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,400 Speaker 2: much of talk radios. Are you you see all those 514 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:51,240 Speaker 2: Somalian themes in Minnesota? Could you repeat each other anymore 515 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:55,600 Speaker 2: like parrots? How about actually talking about subject matter that 516 00:32:55,720 --> 00:33:03,480 Speaker 2: affects everybody's lives. And these AI artificial intelligence filing cell 517 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,520 Speaker 2: centers that are gonna be built in a neighborhood near you, 518 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 2: and they require twice, the amount of electricity that's available 519 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,200 Speaker 2: on the grid, twice the amount of water that you 520 00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:16,240 Speaker 2: don't even have access to. And guess who's gonna pay 521 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:16,960 Speaker 2: for all of that? 522 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:17,840 Speaker 4: You? 523 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:23,560 Speaker 2: What is anybody telling you that? Of course not? Oh 524 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,640 Speaker 2: and you don't want to miss Friday My annual tribute 525 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:30,240 Speaker 2: to Bernard McGirt. Best thing that ever happened at Turk Radio. 526 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:31,880 Speaker 2: Oh my god, the guy had to take so much 527 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:35,720 Speaker 2: abuse for from don Imus, without which don would never 528 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:40,280 Speaker 2: have been able to function. And also a plead to 529 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:42,400 Speaker 2: all of you to make sure whatever men folks can 530 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,280 Speaker 2: run across this New Year's holiday, you let them know 531 00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:48,440 Speaker 2: to get that PSA simple prick of the finger blood test. 532 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:53,040 Speaker 2: If only Bernard McGirk had done that, he would not 533 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:57,000 Speaker 2: have died a horrible death from prostate cancer. Look, I 534 00:33:57,080 --> 00:34:01,240 Speaker 2: had Stage four. I survived it. Some don't. The test 535 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,720 Speaker 2: in most instances will help eliminate it. 536 00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:06,680 Speaker 6: Do. 537 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:08,320 Speaker 2: Beret is back. 538 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:12,440 Speaker 1: Curtis slievwa guest host the Mark Simone Show on seven 539 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:14,960 Speaker 1: tenoo on. 540 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,120 Speaker 2: I'll be able to let you know my last day 541 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:21,719 Speaker 2: substituting for Mark on Friday? What went down at that 542 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:25,560 Speaker 2: block party for Zoranmandami? I haven't been invited, but I'm 543 00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,359 Speaker 2: going who's gonna stop me? You all need to know. 544 00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:32,880 Speaker 2: And then we're gonna discuss AI artificial intelligence, and Elon 545 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,920 Speaker 2: Musk is saying, don't worry about it. We're gonna create 546 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:40,399 Speaker 2: an income for all of you. You won't have to work. 547 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,560 Speaker 2: You can listen to talk radio all day. We'll take 548 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,479 Speaker 2: care of you from the cradle to the grave. Watch 549 00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:50,959 Speaker 2: your back. And then obviously cryptocurrency, blockchain, what I call 550 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:55,040 Speaker 2: crime coin, Bitcoin, the scam of our time. It's a 551 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,520 Speaker 2: Ponzi scheme. And driverers vehicles, Oh, many of you are 552 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,920 Speaker 2: driving as we speak now. Don't worry about it. The 553 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,680 Speaker 2: masters of the University of Silicon Valley, you say you 554 00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:07,839 Speaker 2: won't have to drive, and what are you supposed to 555 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:08,760 Speaker 2: do to earn a living