1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:05,440 Speaker 1: Now the guardian Angel of talk radio is here. Curtis 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:09,319 Speaker 1: Leewah guest host the Mark Simone Show on seven to ten. 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:20,480 Speaker 2: Woo oh yeah. 4 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 3: My responsibility as being on Mark Simone's turf, the best 5 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 3: talk radio host in our region bar none. And I'm 6 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 3: sure Greg Kelly was listening over there at WABC doing 7 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:38,280 Speaker 3: his show prep as he always did by listening to 8 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 3: Mark Simone. Hey, why not? He had good stuff and 9 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:46,200 Speaker 3: always says good stuff. He'll be back on the fifth 10 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 3: on Monday, but I'll be back on Friday. And the 11 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 3: kind of talk radio I do is different than most 12 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 3: because I believe that we have this opportunity to speak 13 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 3: to all of you now because of the technology, not 14 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 3: just throughout the Try State area, throughout the United States, 15 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 3: but all over the world, because any radio station can 16 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:14,440 Speaker 3: be picked up virtually anywhere. And I've heard from a 17 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 3: lot of people listening to me on wor my place 18 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 3: to be seven to ten. Never again at WABC, which 19 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:25,320 Speaker 3: the acronym stands for always blaming Curtis, for Zara Mandami 20 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:30,960 Speaker 3: being the mayor and always bashing Curtis even to this day. 21 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 3: You think they would give it up, right, Ain't coming 22 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 3: back there? Never I'd rather live in a homeless shelter. 23 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 3: I'd rather be stuck on the number four train and 24 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 3: going round than round. They're outd is he? You think 25 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:46,080 Speaker 3: people understand that? And this is a much better station 26 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 3: in a lot of different ways. But this thing of ours, 27 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 3: talk radio, it requires that you pay homage to it. Now, 28 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 3: Mark Simone does because nobody knows more about radio and 29 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 3: television then March some mom and he talks about it regularly. 30 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 3: I listened to his show, and as you know now 31 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 3: you have the benefit doesn't have to be appointment radio. 32 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 3: You can always get it on the podcast. But I 33 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:15,920 Speaker 3: want to touch on a few things before I do 34 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 3: my homage in these last two days, for the reason 35 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 3: that many of us have the opportunity to speak to 36 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:29,120 Speaker 3: all of you, whether in live form or if you 37 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 3: wanted to listen to three four days, a month later, 38 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 3: a year later on these podcasts. First off from Nancy 39 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 3: and yours, truly, we have a special message. New Year's 40 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 3: message will be posting to all of you, the many 41 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 3: hundreds of thousands who have now become followers all over 42 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:55,360 Speaker 3: the world on all the platforms. So whether it's TikTok 43 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 3: that most of you know nothing about Oh you gotta 44 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:00,359 Speaker 3: be on tik talk did you see so on? He 45 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 3: trust me, he didn't get elected because he was on TikTok. 46 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 3: Two years ago. President Donald Trump is saying this is 47 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:11,360 Speaker 3: a red Chinese stripe to take over America, and then 48 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 3: all of a sudden he discovered, hey, maybe I can 49 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:15,519 Speaker 3: get a few votes with this, and then all of 50 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:19,119 Speaker 3: a sudden, yeah, we love TikTok. TikTok does not get 51 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 3: you elected to anything. So whether it's TikTok, Instagram or Facebook, 52 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:29,520 Speaker 3: where you're you're putting on there what you had for 53 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:33,399 Speaker 3: beakfast this morning at the local diner. Do I need 54 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 3: to see you having eggs and pancakes, you know with toast? Yeah? Yeah, 55 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 3: you post what you had for lunch and then a 56 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 3: mad on am your life must be so miserable? Is 57 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 3: that all you compose? And of course Ellen Musk x, 58 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 3: Twitter so many different ways to get you a message out, 59 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 3: But our message to everybody listening right now and they'll 60 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 3: be posted later on at Curtisley whichever you can get 61 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 3: that social network? Is that all Nancy and I want 62 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 3: for this New Year's is for all stray and shelter 63 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 3: animals to have a loving home. And I know for 64 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 3: some of you we're like, oh here it goes with 65 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 3: the animal welfare stuff. Yeah. And again as we welcome 66 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 3: in a new year, it doesn't get any better than 67 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:28,280 Speaker 3: Mahatma Gandhi again a victim of an assassination because of 68 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 3: his beliefs, but a man who's said, is society that 69 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 3: does not take care of its animals does not take 70 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 3: care of its people. And on my way here to 71 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:42,120 Speaker 3: Wor seven ten to do this broadcast to all of you, 72 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:47,479 Speaker 3: I had to pass the homeless people and emotionally disturbed 73 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:51,840 Speaker 3: persons in the subway because the hawk is talking out 74 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 3: there it's cold, and talk with them, many of them 75 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 3: that I know, And see all the flots and jets. 76 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:03,720 Speaker 3: As I came up top to the street, I was 77 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 3: picking up the garbage. It was flying all over and 78 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 3: people are looking at me. You pick up garbage too, 79 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 3: and so what is it? That's where I was raised 80 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 3: by my grandfather, Fidela Bianngino from body Italy. On my 81 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 3: mother's side, Francesca side. He said, one young which means 82 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,920 Speaker 3: young man, young boy. You see garbage? Yeah, like you 83 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:28,040 Speaker 3: heard Eric Adams say, we're gonna talk about him a 84 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:31,720 Speaker 3: second at Mama Luke. But anyway, you see something, you 85 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 3: see something. Hey. Long before they ever quantified that statement, 86 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 3: my grandfather would tell me, Hey, you see garbage, you 87 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 3: pick it up. If you can't find a can and 88 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 3: put it in, you put it in your pocket until 89 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 3: you can find a can. That's where I was brought up, 90 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:53,720 Speaker 3: and many of you listening now were brought up. And 91 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 3: it used to be the sanitation department. After they pick 92 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 3: up the garbage, it had brooms on the truck. Remember 93 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:01,600 Speaker 3: when they would have broom were the brooms now? Huh? 94 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 3: They pick up the garbage and that's it, not my job. 95 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 3: Then we have these business improvement districts. They hire mostly 96 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 3: mental women who have been down on their luck, and 97 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,720 Speaker 3: they go out there and they change the trash can 98 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 3: bags and they do a little sweeping and that's all good. 99 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 3: We never needed that. Years ago, everybody picked up the garbage. 100 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 3: So people were looking at me this morning on my 101 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 3: way here to wo Oh, like I believe, like I 102 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:35,840 Speaker 3: belong in the Museum of Natural History, Like here is 103 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:39,600 Speaker 3: a species from a different era that actually believes if 104 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 3: you see something garbage on the ground, you pick it up. 105 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 3: The problem is that the police Commissioner, Jessicatsh who you 106 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 3: all fall and over. When she was sanitation commissioner, she 107 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 3: took half the baskets off the streets. Well, if there 108 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:01,040 Speaker 3: are less baskets, there'll be less garbage. Ugh, past the 109 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 3: great poupon jescatage, Maybe Jeeves or a limo driver on 110 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 3: Park Avenue can get you to one police plaza. That 111 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 3: was a disastrous program. Some of the folks in the 112 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 3: MTA money taking agency, you know, they were having the 113 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 3: press conference. Yet it's the end of the metro card 114 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 3: and now all of a sudden you're gonna have to 115 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 3: tap and go the omni card, debit card, credit card. 116 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 3: There'll be nothing left the beginning of the year on 117 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 3: your debit or credit card. So good luck. And I'm 118 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 3: saying to myself, are these people delusional? One third of 119 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 3: the people don't even pay their subway for their to 120 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 3: begin with, and that's gonna increase with zor on Mondamique. 121 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 3: One half don't even pay the city bus fare. They 122 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 3: don't do a tap in go, they don't have a 123 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 3: metro card, and if you say anything to them, they 124 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 3: give you the finger. They're defiant. So they're all mourning 125 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 3: the loss of the Metro card. What are you talking about? 126 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 3: Half the people didn't even use a Metro card to 127 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 3: get in on a bus, one third on the subway. Oh, 128 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 3: because of the crime that never gets dealt with. It's 129 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 3: called fair evasion. That's a crime. Let's face it. Let's 130 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 3: not make any arrests. Let's not make people pay the 131 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:18,760 Speaker 3: fair even though they are all kind of programs. If 132 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 3: you're down on your luck, half fair, one third fare, 133 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 3: but you gotta go out and get that right. We're 134 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 3: not gonna bring you to eat. So that's my first observation. 135 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:35,600 Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden, I'm on the subway 136 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 3: platform and I'm trying to give tourist directions because naturally 137 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 3: the token booth clerks who do nothing. Now it's like 138 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:45,559 Speaker 3: a feather bettered job. They should be out of the 139 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:50,679 Speaker 3: booth giving instructions to people at the machines to be 140 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 3: able to pay their fare because he's getting scammed by 141 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 3: every hustler in the world. But they should also be 142 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:58,680 Speaker 3: telling people how to get around town. So I'm helping 143 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 3: tourists and many of them already know me. Hey, Curtis, 144 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:04,040 Speaker 3: I'm trying to get down to where else? The World 145 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:06,439 Speaker 3: Trade Center, that's where they want to go. See the battery, 146 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 3: want to see the Statue of Liberty, all the places 147 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 3: that we folks, we don't go because we know that's 148 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:15,880 Speaker 3: where all the tourists go. Like, if any of you 149 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 3: are schmucks or puttses and you're gonna go down to 150 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:22,079 Speaker 3: Times Square to watch the ball drop, did you not 151 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 3: hear Jessica Tish say, Oh, they're gonna be double screenings. 152 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 3: They took all the garbage cans away. There's no porter sands, 153 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 3: there's none of that. They cattle cars. And you're gonna 154 00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 3: start mooing at three o'clock. That's when they're gonna start 155 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:41,680 Speaker 3: letting you in. And once you're in, you don't get out. 156 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:46,199 Speaker 3: You get out, you don't come back. So imagine you've 157 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 3: already been drinking a few. It's three o'clock. The ball 158 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:54,679 Speaker 3: doesn't drop until, uh, until all of a sudden the 159 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:57,839 Speaker 3: new year comes in. Right, say, let me, I'm not 160 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 3: too good at nine hours? Right, nine hours? You think 161 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,679 Speaker 3: you could hold it in nine hours? Have you been 162 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 3: drinking a few? Hoisting a few? That's why on my 163 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 3: way over here, I stopped at a few Dwayne Reid's 164 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 3: and CVS's wiped out of depends wiped out because people 165 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:19,080 Speaker 3: live their whole life to come to watch the ball 166 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 3: drop on Times Square, and they come from Monta, Mexico City, 167 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 3: and they come from ky Town, South Africa. They come 168 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 3: from everywhere because they want that experience. But if you 169 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:33,319 Speaker 3: happen to be living in this Tri state area and 170 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:36,599 Speaker 3: you're stupid enough to show up because you want to 171 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 3: be able to talk about it, don't waste your time. 172 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 3: But make sure you have depends on. Yeah, because remember, 173 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 3: we come into this world with diapers at some point, 174 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 3: and most of us when we go out of this world, 175 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 3: we'll be wearing diapers. So get ready. And here's Jessicati saying, yeah, 176 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 3: there'll be two screenings. Okay, Jessica, you keep talking and 177 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 3: then of course, uh, there's a boss. But thank god, 178 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 3: just the final day that Mama Luke, what a cry baby. 179 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 3: Eric Adams the most corrupt mayor in the history of 180 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 3: New York City, and that is saying a lot. The 181 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:21,559 Speaker 3: swaggerman with no plan and the nightlife mayor. All he 182 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 3: ever did was hang out in clubs till they break 183 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:26,439 Speaker 3: of dawn and a man who just waited to be 184 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 3: wind eying them pocket lined, and if my sources are correct, 185 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:34,839 Speaker 3: decided to drop out a running for mayor when the 186 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:40,840 Speaker 3: price was right. Uh you remember that show the price 187 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 3: was right? I think I think he settled on twenty mil. 188 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 3: I think time will tell, because then he was like, well, 189 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 3: should I go to the inauguration at city? Should ain't 190 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 3: not go? 191 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 4: I wouldn't have made asked me to go in and 192 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 4: tell your peepsys An Easterns. Don't yell at me, don't 193 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:03,719 Speaker 4: shout at what a mama, luke, what a baby? And 194 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:05,960 Speaker 4: so I guess the mayor had a conversation with him, 195 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:07,440 Speaker 4: the incoming mayor, Yeah, yeah. 196 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 3: You should be there. Oh I'm gonna be there, Like wow, wow, 197 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 3: Eric Adams, He's the reason this is sore. Had Mandami, 198 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 3: had he done anywhere of a decent job, halfway job, 199 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:25,800 Speaker 3: he would have been the Democratic incumbent mayor running for reelection. 200 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 3: I would have been the Republican candidate. And hey, it 201 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 3: would have been tough. It's tough for a Republican to 202 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:37,319 Speaker 3: begin with. He failed, and then they resurrected that political 203 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 3: some be Cuomo. By the way, is anybody seeing Cuomo 204 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:42,959 Speaker 3: Will he be at the inauguration, of course not. Is 205 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 3: he anywhere other than hanging out with his billionaire friends 206 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 3: as he's slithered under his rock in the Hampton's where 207 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:51,680 Speaker 3: he loves to be. Maybe he can launch it after 208 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:55,720 Speaker 3: the run for mayor of Southampton. So here was Eric Adams. 209 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 3: You were told I'm gonna write a book. I got 210 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 3: the title ready. I didn't do nothing wrong. He's gonna 211 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:07,199 Speaker 3: get involved in cryptocurrency, which is bitcoin crime coin, and 212 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:09,839 Speaker 3: he wants to teach a new generation of how to 213 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:15,839 Speaker 3: become criminals, because that's what blockchain cryptocurrency is. It's a scam. 214 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:18,640 Speaker 3: We'll talk about that on Friday, my last day here. 215 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:21,320 Speaker 3: We're gonna talk about AI. Oh my god, what a headache. 216 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 3: And also robotics because the masters of the universe are 217 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 3: all telling you to worry about it. We're gonna take 218 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 3: your jobs, but we're gonna give you a universal high 219 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 3: income of about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. 220 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 3: You're not gonna have to do nothing. You just sit 221 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 3: at home, scratch your belly button. We're going to take 222 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 3: care of you. You trust any of them, We'll get 223 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:48,800 Speaker 3: into all of that. These are subjects, many of which 224 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:54,200 Speaker 3: don't get discussed and talk radio. And then of course 225 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:59,040 Speaker 3: there is Eric Adams on his way out, who has 226 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 3: decided that, hey, you know, there is things I'm going 227 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:08,200 Speaker 3: to do to try to make amends. He said, signing 228 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 3: an executive order today. I always had breaking news, right, Hey, 229 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 3: this is Mark Simon's turf. It's not my turf. I 230 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 3: had breaking news. He's using an executive order in the 231 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 3: waning moments of his horrible mayoralty to have charter revision. 232 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 3: Now what that is, ladies and gentlemen. He's going to 233 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 3: assign people to actually put on the ballot this coming year, 234 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 3: the gubernatory year, the midterm elections on the back of 235 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 3: your ballot, things that you as citizens can vote on. 236 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 3: I think the chairman is I gotta check my sources 237 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 3: on this, but got it on pretty good authority. My 238 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 3: husband and lawd David Pattison, the former governor, a man 239 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 3: who needs adderall. In this last mayoral election. First, he 240 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 3: was Ferriick Adams, and he was for and he was 241 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 3: for Eric Adams and he was for Como. He gave 242 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 3: me vertigo and I said, do me a favor and 243 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 3: don't endorse me. It's a kiss her death and it was, 244 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 3: so give him some adderall he'll be on the charity commission. 245 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 3: I guess the Mayor's going to have some others. And 246 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:18,560 Speaker 3: there should be the question of sanctuary city up there, 247 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:21,600 Speaker 3: which I talked about during the campaign. Let the people vote. 248 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:24,720 Speaker 3: Let the people, boy, A lot of people will come 249 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 3: out to vote in an election on that issue. Whether 250 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 3: you're for it or against it. You can have town 251 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 3: hall meetings, you can have spirited debate. You will have 252 00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 3: a lot of people coming out to vote in nothing 253 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 3: more because of that issue. Let's see what Eric Adams 254 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 3: is going to do. And how about putting on the 255 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 3: initiative and referendum for twenty twenty six, once and for all, 256 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 3: voting on the horse joint carriage issue. Let the people decide. 257 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 3: And on that note, it's gonna lead us into a 258 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 3: homage coming up to the man who was considered the 259 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 3: father of talk radio, and he started right here on WOR. Yeah, Yeah, 260 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:17,560 Speaker 3: our new favorite station here in the sleeper household. Nancy, 261 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 3: yours truly and yet our six cats we listen to 262 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 3: seven ten WOR and so shit, all of you our 263 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 3: numbers one, eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten. 264 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 3: That's one eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten. 265 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 3: The Pulse of. 266 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 1: New York Now on the Voice of New York, Curtis 267 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 1: Sleewall guest host marks them all on sevent ten wor. 268 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 3: Oh you're not gonna want to miss Friday one, I'm back. 269 00:16:56,840 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 3: We talk about artificial intelligence, like that Stephen King novel 270 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 3: What was that that collection of his works? Like em 271 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 3: You remember that song? 272 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:11,800 Speaker 2: Is? 273 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 3: He certainly doesn't remember that. That wasn't his play? Less 274 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 3: the End of the World as we know it? 275 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 5: Right? 276 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:25,200 Speaker 3: We'll discuss that because it affects everybody, everybody, and it's 277 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:29,919 Speaker 3: moving too fast and too many of you may end 278 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 3: up losing your jobs unfortunately as a result of what 279 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 3: they call artificial intelligence. But let's talk about the homage 280 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:42,960 Speaker 3: to talk radio, of which many of you loved. You 281 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:45,840 Speaker 3: grew up with it as I did, and the father 282 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 3: of talk radio is rarely, if ever recognized now and 283 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:52,560 Speaker 3: it started all here at war seven ten. Who is 284 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 3: a guy? Barry Gray? Barry Gray was from Mike Believe 285 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 3: it was Red and Lion New Jersey got a job? 286 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:04,440 Speaker 3: Is disc jockey bat then spinning stacks of wax I 287 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:06,920 Speaker 3: think he was playing a Woody Herman song, and then 288 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:11,960 Speaker 3: Woody Herman called up. And then right after Woody Herman 289 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:18,240 Speaker 3: hung up, instead of going back to playing records, Harry 290 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:23,160 Speaker 3: Gray crushed over that maginal line and started to take 291 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 3: people that were calling up on the request line and 292 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 3: having conversations with them. So the suits at w R 293 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:34,880 Speaker 3: some of them were saying, wait, wait, you're just supposed 294 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:37,680 Speaker 3: to be playing stacks of wax occasionally, you know, you 295 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:41,119 Speaker 3: talk to Benny Goodman or Woody Herman. You don't be 296 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 3: taking calls. And others said, no, that was so fascinating. 297 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:49,920 Speaker 3: That's how talk radio was invented, because talk radio is 298 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 3: really about the conversation that we have with all of you. 299 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:57,160 Speaker 3: It's not so much guest oriented, it's you. The call 300 00:18:57,280 --> 00:19:00,119 Speaker 3: is your turn to be hurt, so to get give 301 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:03,960 Speaker 3: you an idea in the golden age of radio. He 302 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:07,400 Speaker 3: then is hosting an overnight show at the Copa Cabana. 303 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:09,440 Speaker 3: I mean that was the place you wanted to be. 304 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:12,680 Speaker 3: I know you recognize that is the Barry Manilo the 305 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 3: song Copa Cabana, East sixtieth Street, right off of Fifth Avenue. 306 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 3: Everybody wanted to go there. Couldn't go mob controlled by 307 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 3: Frank Costello, and he had like the first interview with 308 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:30,359 Speaker 3: Dean Martin who was from Stubenville, Ohio, and the teen 309 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,359 Speaker 3: that was put together Jerry Lewis, so as Martin Lewis. 310 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:37,199 Speaker 3: Jerry Lewis was from the Newert And boy, if you're 311 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:40,840 Speaker 3: gonna watch one movie, you gonna watch one movie over 312 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:43,639 Speaker 3: this weekend. You gotta see one of my favorites, The 313 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 3: King of Comedy with Jerry Lewis and Robert de Niro. 314 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 3: It is absolutely outstanding. Never gets the credit that it's due. 315 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 3: But Barry Gway was such a listen to radio broadcast 316 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:03,480 Speaker 3: again the father a talk radio, doing live talk radio 317 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 3: out of the most popular nightclub in America, the Corporate Cabanam. 318 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 3: And it was Walter Winshew who was despising him. Walter 319 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:16,960 Speaker 3: Winshew who was the columnist at that time. Ed Sullivan 320 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 3: was a columnist and they would do battle with one another. 321 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 3: But the one guy Walter Winshew hated the most was 322 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:33,480 Speaker 3: Barry Gray. And apparently when Walter Winshell died penniless, he 323 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 3: was out there on Hollywood Boulevard. He was mimeographing what 324 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:42,679 Speaker 3: would have been his column for the day because nobody 325 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:46,280 Speaker 3: wanted to syndicate him any longer, nobody wanted to print 326 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:48,240 Speaker 3: it in the newspaper. He'd hand it on the corner. 327 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:53,199 Speaker 3: Died penniless. But apparently when they cleaned out his office 328 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:56,119 Speaker 3: after he passed away, I think only his daughter and 329 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:58,720 Speaker 3: maybe two or three people attended his way, the most 330 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:04,679 Speaker 3: powerful on Sunday nights walk to Winchhill. Uh you ever 331 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:09,200 Speaker 3: see the replays of The Untouchables with Robert Stacked after 332 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:12,720 Speaker 3: that's the voice? Well, it all so many anyway, So 333 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 3: they're cleaning out his office and apparently he had up 334 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:22,280 Speaker 3: pinned to the wall a photo of a bloodied Barry 335 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:28,400 Speaker 3: Gray who was beaten up by mobsters on his way 336 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:33,200 Speaker 3: out of the Copacabana after hosting overnight radio, the most 337 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 3: listened to in the nation. And that just shows you 338 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:45,600 Speaker 3: the intensity of this thing of ours. Now, why shouldn't we, 339 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:48,880 Speaker 3: I know, Mark Simond does. Why shouldn't we all pay 340 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 3: tribute to these men and women who paved the way 341 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:55,280 Speaker 3: and made it so that we could talk to all 342 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:57,400 Speaker 3: of you all over the world like we're doing right 343 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:00,720 Speaker 3: now on our new favorite station. And it should be 344 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 3: yours seven ten WOR, but it is your turn to 345 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:10,440 Speaker 3: be heard up next the format created by Barry Gray 346 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:16,440 Speaker 3: unexpectedly right here at seven ten WR our number is 347 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:19,359 Speaker 3: one eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten. 348 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 3: That's one eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. 349 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 3: And then in a stream of consciousness, I had a 350 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:29,840 Speaker 3: conversation with Tom Cuddy, our program director, who knows so 351 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 3: much and has dealt with so many people. And the 352 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:35,920 Speaker 3: next home, we're going to talk about the hardest working 353 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:40,240 Speaker 3: guy ever in radio and the hardest working guy ever 354 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:46,480 Speaker 3: in TV. And they have a lot in common, and 355 00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 3: they had a lot of impact on all of you 356 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:54,280 Speaker 3: right here in the Tri State area. And yeah, one 357 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 3: of them worked right here at seven ten WOR. 358 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:03,520 Speaker 1: The voice that fights for New York literally Curtis Leewad 359 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:06,560 Speaker 1: guest hose for Mark Simone on sevent ten. 360 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 3: Woo Artificial Intelligence, AI busy, You're gone. If I remained 361 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 3: at talk radio show hosts, I'll be gone. There won't 362 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 3: be jobs for anybody, because let's leave it to the 363 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 3: masters of the universe. Elon Musk any other billionaires, trillionaires 364 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 3: who said, don't worry, we'll have universal high income, We'll 365 00:23:36,359 --> 00:23:38,399 Speaker 3: take care of all of you from the cradle to 366 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:40,880 Speaker 3: the grave. You're on one hundred and fifty five thousand 367 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 3: dollars a year and you can play with your belly 368 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:47,880 Speaker 3: button lint at home. Yeah, well, you're gonna trust any 369 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:53,719 Speaker 3: of them before we go to the phones. I went 370 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 3: through Times Square earlier this week and they have what 371 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:00,760 Speaker 3: they call their wishing wall. It's mostly for tour who 372 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 3: are dumb enough to show up and want to wait 373 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:07,000 Speaker 3: for the ball to drop. Remember today, the rules are 374 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:09,159 Speaker 3: three o'clock. That's when you got to get into your 375 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:14,720 Speaker 3: cattle pens. All the depends have been cleaned off the 376 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 3: racks at CBS and Dwayne Reid because you met you 377 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 3: met a double bundle yourself. Imagine you got to be 378 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:25,199 Speaker 3: there from three to twelve when the ball drops nine hours. 379 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,640 Speaker 3: You've been drinking a little bit, right, you know you're 380 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 3: gonna have to go and you can't squeeze your legs forever. 381 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:38,000 Speaker 3: But if you leave the cattle pen, you can't come back. Now, 382 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 3: why would anybody in their right mind who lives in 383 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:44,440 Speaker 3: the Tri State area want to venture into that? Normally 384 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 3: they'd start loading up the cattle pens at six or 385 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,200 Speaker 3: Jessica Tis, she wants everybody search twice. It's like taking 386 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:56,680 Speaker 3: the list and then checking it twice. Ridiculous. But then again, 387 00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:59,159 Speaker 3: you gotta be ridiculous to be there. That's why you 388 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 3: notice it's But anyway, so they're putting up these pasties 389 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,879 Speaker 3: on this wishing wall. I got about two hundred thousand. 390 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:10,439 Speaker 3: They'll be shredded up, put with the confetti that drops 391 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 3: with the release of the ball to welcome in twenty 392 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:18,200 Speaker 3: twenty six. And there's one paste it stood out to me. 393 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 3: It said, no more AI. Oh, we're gonna get into 394 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:27,200 Speaker 3: that on Friday, and we're gonna talk about bitcoin, crime, 395 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:31,399 Speaker 3: coin and driverless vehicles. A lot of you driving right now, 396 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:35,160 Speaker 3: not gonna need you if you're doing this for a profession. 397 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 3: The masters of the universe don't want to have to 398 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 3: pay any of you. They're gonna they're gonna take care 399 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:44,400 Speaker 3: of you from the cradle to the grave. Yeah, yeah, right, 400 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,880 Speaker 3: don't trust them. Let's go if we can to Bill, 401 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,680 Speaker 3: who's calling? Your turn to be heard here at seven 402 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 3: to ten wor. 403 00:25:53,680 --> 00:26:00,960 Speaker 6: Billy Good Morning. Curtis comment on Walter Winstel's radio shows, 404 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:05,119 Speaker 6: he had there was a major plumbing league in the 405 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 6: White House between nineteen thirty three and nineteen forty five, 406 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 6: and that leak went right to Walter Winch's radio show. 407 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 6: The League was the president himself Fdr Right. Everyone had 408 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 6: been because of that League. He my god, he had. 409 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 6: Walter Winschell had more enemies after forty five Truman. Truman 410 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 6: hated Winschell, so after forty five his radio net just 411 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:30,920 Speaker 6: collapsed on him. 412 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:32,879 Speaker 3: Well, let me tell you one thing. When I was 413 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:36,440 Speaker 3: over at WABC, no longer my place to be, we 414 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 3: had a crown jewel in broadcasting on Sunday Night who 415 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,879 Speaker 3: just wanted to be like his mentor, Walter Winchell. His 416 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:47,119 Speaker 3: name was Matt Trudge. The guy loved talk radio. I 417 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 3: know because when I met him in LA for the 418 00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:52,920 Speaker 3: first time, he was behind the seven and eleven serving 419 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 3: not chosen slurpies. He was not the mad Trudge that 420 00:26:56,280 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 3: he became. And he would go and listen to Kiev 421 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,600 Speaker 3: George Putnam. I would be a guest there, organizing Guardian Angels, 422 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 3: and we got to know one another. And George Putman 423 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:09,920 Speaker 3: was sort of like the Bob Grant of LA and 424 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,720 Speaker 3: he would regale us with stories. He wanted to be 425 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,120 Speaker 3: just like Walter Winchell. He had to hat the whole 426 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 3: nine yards. Lynn Samuel's another great hostess and talk creative 427 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 3: and never gets recognized, was his board operator. On Sunday nights. 428 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,960 Speaker 3: They had ratings that nobody ever had. And you know 429 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 3: what happened. Bill, the program director at the time, Phil Boyce, 430 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,880 Speaker 3: goes and the network wants to syndicate you. You're doing 431 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 3: so well Monday through Friday from six to nine. And 432 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:44,040 Speaker 3: Matt Judge said, all they want to do is Sunday nights. 433 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,720 Speaker 3: Just like my mentor, Walter Winchell, I don't want to 434 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,600 Speaker 3: do radio five days a week. And then Phil just 435 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 3: kept pressing him, and you know, somed he picked up, 436 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,479 Speaker 3: he left, he went down to Miami. The rest is history. 437 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,639 Speaker 3: The person who got hired to fill that boy because 438 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,160 Speaker 3: they were so hoping that Matt Drudge would get those 439 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 3: same ratings from Monday through Friday. Uh, take a guess 440 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 3: somebody who also his mentor when he was listening on 441 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:18,920 Speaker 3: Hiatus to Bob Grant at WWB, Mark Levin, who grew 442 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:25,400 Speaker 3: up outside of Philadelphia, and that's how his radio career started. 443 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 3: If only they had left Matt Drudge alone with Lynn 444 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:37,720 Speaker 3: Samuels's board operator, both of them very eccentric, but it 445 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:39,680 Speaker 3: was some of the greatest radio of all time. And 446 00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:43,360 Speaker 3: the ratings were through the roof. The other trick they 447 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:48,600 Speaker 3: use over there at WABC, they had this thing they say, 448 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 3: look at the stream on my phone. Look at the stream, 449 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,840 Speaker 3: Look how my ratings are going up. That's not ratings. 450 00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:59,680 Speaker 3: It's like the Wizard of Ours. It's like snake oil salesman. 451 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 3: And they all buy that. You want real ratings. Boy, 452 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,680 Speaker 3: I never seen ratings like Matt Drudge got on Sunday nights, 453 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 3: imitating his mentor, Walter Winschew, who would do only one 454 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:16,600 Speaker 3: radio show a week on Sunday nights on the ABC network. 455 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:22,280 Speaker 3: Thousands of radios would be tuned to him. Thousands of 456 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 3: radio stations carried that the golden age of radio. Well, 457 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,520 Speaker 3: let's go back to the phones in honor today of 458 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:35,160 Speaker 3: the father of talk radio, Barry Gray, who really created 459 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:39,320 Speaker 3: the format of taking calls. Let's go to Maria, who's 460 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,640 Speaker 3: calling from Westchester. Your turn to be heard here at 461 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 3: seven to ten WR Hello. 462 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,840 Speaker 5: Curtis, what an honor to talk to you. Can we 463 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,600 Speaker 5: ask if Johan and Donnie will be taking his oath 464 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:56,360 Speaker 5: of office with his hand on the Constitution. Well, one 465 00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 5: of his swearing inns be based on the Constitution. Will 466 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:04,240 Speaker 5: he respect this Constitution of the United States. 467 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,080 Speaker 3: I wouldn't know because I haven't been invited. You know, 468 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 3: you show that, Mama, lou carrincattam to show up. If 469 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,680 Speaker 3: you tell you a zornista's not taboomy, oh my god. 470 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 3: I will try to find that out for you. Whether 471 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:21,760 Speaker 3: he's taking it on a Koran, a Bible, based on 472 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:26,160 Speaker 3: our United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights. I will 473 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:30,360 Speaker 3: certainly let you know by Friday, because, as I told 474 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 3: my wife Nancy, if I'm not invited, I'm going anyway, right, 475 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,000 Speaker 3: you know me, what are they gonna do? Stop me? 476 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,280 Speaker 3: I'll go there for that. What are that street party 477 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,080 Speaker 3: they're gonna have? What are they gonna do? Say you 478 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:44,920 Speaker 3: can't come here? Yeah, I'm the only real New Yorker 479 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 3: who was in this race. Hey, look, he won fair 480 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 3: and square. But he says it's a block party for 481 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 3: people in New York City. Right, it didn't just say 482 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 3: a block party for those people who voted for him. 483 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:01,680 Speaker 3: Am I correct on that? To be continued. That's why 484 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 3: you better be listening on Friday morning when I returned 485 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,360 Speaker 3: for my final program here in substitute for Mark Simon. 486 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,960 Speaker 3: Let's go to Tony, who's calling from White Plains. Your 487 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 3: turn to be heard here at seven to ten war 488 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:15,320 Speaker 3: the voice of New York Tone. 489 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:20,680 Speaker 7: Yeah, Hi, Churs, Chris. Before you mentioned Salatto over there 490 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 7: on the other station, I thought of that before you did. 491 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:28,360 Speaker 7: But you gave him the perfect name, Salato, because that's 492 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:29,240 Speaker 7: exactly what he means. 493 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,000 Speaker 3: Well, let me clarify for our listeners, Tony, I did 494 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:34,440 Speaker 3: not give him that name. It was actually another caller 495 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:40,239 Speaker 3: who say. The Salazzo at WABC is Dominic Carter, Oh, 496 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:44,960 Speaker 3: and he is, and the moo Green Greg Kelly, and 497 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:52,760 Speaker 3: the Tessio who may have been the worst is Sid Rosenberg. 498 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:54,920 Speaker 3: And you know on Friday what I do every year, 499 00:31:56,120 --> 00:32:00,920 Speaker 3: I always do a tribute to Bernard McGirk, who was 500 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,720 Speaker 3: I mean, not only the hardest working guy in radio, 501 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,800 Speaker 3: but took so much grief from don Nimus said. I 502 00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:12,600 Speaker 3: witnessed personally what a great radio guy he was. Died 503 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:15,720 Speaker 3: way too early. If you're getting together with family and friends, 504 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,600 Speaker 3: tell all the males get the PSA tests, the prick 505 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:22,320 Speaker 3: of the finger, a simple blood test. If Bernard McGirk 506 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 3: had done that, he'd be alive today, and all the 507 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:30,360 Speaker 3: nonsense that occurred against me a WABC, always bashing Curtains, 508 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:35,160 Speaker 3: always blaming Curtis, would never have occurred if Bernard McGirk 509 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:39,120 Speaker 3: were alive and well. But we'll do that tribute on Friday. 510 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:43,240 Speaker 3: This boy, he was an iconic figure in this thing 511 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:45,520 Speaker 3: of ours radio. 512 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:51,280 Speaker 1: Than now more with New York's iconic straight shooter Curtis 513 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:57,320 Speaker 1: Leewah guest hosting from Mark Simone on seven ten Woo. 514 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:00,640 Speaker 3: You know, on a Miss Friday show My Superior and 515 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:05,560 Speaker 3: see if a Mark Simon will go heavy into artificial intelligence. 516 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:10,880 Speaker 3: I'm not a supporter at all. Neither should most of you, 517 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:15,360 Speaker 3: except if you're in the medical field like we just 518 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,680 Speaker 3: brought up Bernard McGirk. Will do my annual tribute to 519 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:26,720 Speaker 3: him on Friday. But probably had AI been available to 520 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:32,800 Speaker 3: find localized cancers from medical imagery, it does a better 521 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:38,680 Speaker 3: job than humans do, he might still be alive. I'll 522 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:44,680 Speaker 3: give AI high five on that. Well, that's it, because 523 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:48,240 Speaker 3: the list of things that is ruining is long. I 524 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:53,280 Speaker 3: want to listen on Friday. But up next, my stream 525 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:56,120 Speaker 3: of consciousness based on a conversation I had with program 526 00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:58,719 Speaker 3: director Tom Cuddy, who I've known for years over at 527 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:05,320 Speaker 3: the old WPLJ. The two hardest working guys in radio 528 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:14,360 Speaker 3: and in television cross paths first in Los Angeles, but 529 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:19,040 Speaker 3: their roots and most of what they did in their 530 00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:22,600 Speaker 3: lives were before all of you in our ChRI State 531 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:28,120 Speaker 3: area and sometimes right here on sevent ten wor