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Speaker 1: Now the guardian Angel of talk radio is here. Curtis

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Speaker 1: Leewah guest host the Mark Simone Show on seven to ten.

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Speaker 2: Woo oh yeah.

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Speaker 3: My responsibility as being on Mark Simone's turf, the best

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Speaker 3: talk radio host in our region bar none. And I'm

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Speaker 3: sure Greg Kelly was listening over there at WABC doing

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Speaker 3: his show prep as he always did by listening to

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Speaker 3: Mark Simone. Hey, why not? He had good stuff and

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Speaker 3: always says good stuff. He'll be back on the fifth

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Speaker 3: on Monday, but I'll be back on Friday. And the

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Speaker 3: kind of talk radio I do is different than most

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Speaker 3: because I believe that we have this opportunity to speak

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Speaker 3: to all of you now because of the technology, not

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Speaker 3: just throughout the Try State area, throughout the United States,

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Speaker 3: but all over the world, because any radio station can

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Speaker 3: be picked up virtually anywhere. And I've heard from a

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Speaker 3: lot of people listening to me on wor my place

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Speaker 3: to be seventy ten never again at WABC, which the

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Speaker 3: acronym stands for always blaming Curtis, for Zara Mandami being

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Speaker 3: the mayor and always bashing Curtis even to this day.

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Speaker 3: You think they would give it up, right, Ain't coming back?

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Speaker 3: There never I'd rather live in a homeless shelter. I'd

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Speaker 3: rather be stuck on the number four train and going

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Speaker 3: round than round. They're out, is he? You think people

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Speaker 3: understand that. And this is a much better station in

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Speaker 3: a lot of different ways. But this thing of ours,

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Speaker 3: talk radio, it requires that you pay homage to it. Now,

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Speaker 3: Mark Simone does because nobody knows more about radio and

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Speaker 3: television then March some mom and he talks about it regularly.

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Speaker 3: I listened to his show, and as you know now

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Speaker 3: you have the benefit. Doesn't have to be appointment radio.

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Speaker 3: You can always get it on the podcast. But I

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Speaker 3: want to touch on a few things before I do

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Speaker 3: my homage in these last two days, for the reason

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Speaker 3: that many of us have the opportunity to speak to

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Speaker 3: all of you, whether in live form or if you

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Speaker 3: wanted to listen to three four days, a month later,

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Speaker 3: a year later on these podcasts. First off from Nancy

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Speaker 3: and yours, truly, we have a special message. New Year's

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Speaker 3: message will be posting to all of you, the many

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Speaker 3: hundreds of thousands who have now become followers all over

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Speaker 3: the world on all the platforms. So whether it's TikTok

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Speaker 3: be on TikTok and just trust me. He didn't get

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Speaker 3: elected because he was on TikTok. Two years ago. President

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump is saying this is a red Chinese strit

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Speaker 3: So whether it's TikTok, Instagram or Facebook, where you're putting

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Speaker 3: on there what you had for beakfast this morning at

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Speaker 3: the local diner. Do I need to see you having

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Speaker 3: eggs and pancakes, you know with toast? Yeah? Yeah, you

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Speaker 3: post what you had for lunch and then a mad

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Speaker 3: on ami. Your life must be so miserable? Is that

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Speaker 3: all you compose? And of course Ellen musk x, Twitter

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Speaker 3: so many different ways to get you a message out.

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Speaker 3: But our message to everybody listening right now and they'll

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Speaker 3: be posted later on at Curtisley, which have a way

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Speaker 3: you can get that social network. Is that? All Nancy

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Speaker 3: and I want for this New Year's is for all

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Speaker 3: it goes with the animal welfare stuff. Yeah. And again

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Speaker 3: any better than Mahatma Gandhi again a victim of an

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Speaker 3: to all of you, I had to pass the homeless

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Speaker 3: Then we have these business improvement districts. They hire mostly

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Speaker 3: the great poupon jescatage. Maybe Jeeves or a limit driver

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Speaker 3: There will be nothing left the beginning of the year

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Speaker 3: One half don't even pay the city bus fare. They

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Speaker 3: many of them already know me. Hey, Curtis, I'm trying

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Speaker 3: That's where they want to go. See the battery, want

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Speaker 3: just the final day that Mama Luke, what a cry baby.

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Speaker 3: Eric Adams the most corrupt mayor in the history of

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Speaker 4: Because then he was like, well, should I go to

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Speaker 3: Should I ain't not go?

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't have made asked me to go and tell

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Speaker 3: What a mama, lukee, what a baby? And so I

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Speaker 3: guess the mayor had a conversation with him, the incoming mayor, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: Eric Adams, He's the reason this is sore. Had Mandami,

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Speaker 3: I would have been the Republican candidate, and hey would

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Speaker 3: He failed, and then they resurrected that political Some beat Cuomo.

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Speaker 3: By the way, has anybody seeing Cuomo? Will he be

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Speaker 3: at the inauguration, of course, not is he anywhere other

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Speaker 3: of Southampton. So here was Eric Adams. You were talking.

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Speaker 3: I didn't do nothing wrong. He's gonna get involved in cryptocurrency,

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Speaker 3: which is bitcoin, crime coin, and he wants to teach

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Speaker 3: nine yards. Lynn Samuel's another great hostess and talk creator

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Speaker 3: never gets recognized, was his board operator. On Sunday nights,

428
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 3: they had ratings that nobody ever had. And you know

429
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 3: what happened. Bill, the program director at the time, Phil Boyce, goes,

430
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 3: the network wants to syndicate you. You're doing so well

431
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:41,959
Speaker 3: Monday through Friday from six to nine. And Matt Judge said,

432
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 3: all they want to do is Sunday nights. Just like

433
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,359
Speaker 3: my mentor, Walter Winschell, I don't want to do radio

434
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,680
Speaker 3: five days a week. And then Phil just kept pressing him,

435
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 3: and you know, sudden, he picked up, he left, he

436
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 3: went down to Miami. The rest is history. The person

437
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 3: who got hired to fill that boy because they were

438
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 3: so hoping that Matt Drudge would get those same ratings

439
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 3: from Monday through Friday. Uh, take a guess somebody who

440
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:15,359
Speaker 3: also his mentor when he was listening on Hiatus to

441
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:19,720
Speaker 3: Bob Grant at WWB, Mark Levin, who grew up outside

442
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 3: of Philadelphia, and that's how his radio career started. If

443
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 3: only they had left Matt Drudge alone with Lynn Samuels's

444
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 3: board operated. Both of them very eccentric, but it was

445
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 3: some of the greatest radio of all time. And the

446
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 3: ratings were through the roof. The other trick they use

447
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 3: over there at WABC, they had this thing they say,

448
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 3: look at the stream on my phone. Look at the stream,

449
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 3: Look how my ratings are going up. That's not ratings.

450
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 3: It's like the Wizard of Ours. It's like snake oil salesman.

451
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 3: And they all buy that. You want real ratings. Boy,

452
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 3: I never seen ratings like Matt Drudge got on Sunday

453
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 3: nights imitating his mentor Walter Winschew, who would do only

454
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Speaker 3: one radio show a week on Sunday nights on the

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Speaker 3: ABC network. Thousands of radios would be tuned to him.

456
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 3: Thousands of radio stations carried that the golden age of radio. Well,

457
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 3: let's go back to the phones in honor today of

458
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Speaker 3: the father of talk radio, Barry Gray, who really created

459
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Speaker 3: the format of taking calls. Let's go to Maria, who's

460
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Speaker 3: calling from Westchester. Your turn to be heard here at

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Speaker 3: seven to ten WR Hello, Curtis.

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Speaker 7: What an honor to talk to you. Can we ask

463
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 7: if Johan and Donnie will be taking his oath of

464
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Speaker 7: office with his hand on the Constitution.

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Speaker 8: Well, one of his.

466
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Speaker 7: Swearing inns be based on the Constitution. Will he respect

467
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Speaker 7: this Constitution of the United States.

468
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 3: I wouldn't know because I haven't been invited. You know,

469
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 3: you saw them. I'm Alu carricatam to show up. If

470
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 3: you tell you a Zornista's not taboomy, oh my god.

471
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 3: I will try to find that out for you. Whether

472
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 3: he's taking it on a Koran, a Bible, based on

473
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Speaker 3: our United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights. I will

474
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 3: certainly let you know by Friday, because, as I told

475
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Speaker 3: my wife Nancy, if I'm not invited, I'm going anyway, right,

476
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 3: you know me, what are they gonna do? Stop me?

477
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 3: I'll go there for that. What are that street party

478
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 3: they're gonna have? What are they gonna do? Say you

479
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 3: can't come here? Yeah, I'm the only real New Yorker

480
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 3: who was in this race. Hey, look, he won fair

481
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Speaker 3: and square. But he says it's a block party for

482
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Speaker 3: people in New York City. Right, It didn't just say

483
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Speaker 3: a block party for those people who voted for him.

484
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Speaker 3: Am I correct on that? To be continued. That's why

485
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 3: you better be listening. On Friday morning, when I returned

486
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Speaker 3: for my final program here in substitute for Mark Simon.

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Speaker 3: Let's go to Tony, who's calling from White Plains. Your

488
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 3: turn to be heard here at seven to ten war

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Speaker 3: the voice of New York Tone.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, Hi, Churs, Chris. Before you mentioned Salatto over there

491
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 9: on the other station, I thought of that before you did.

492
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Speaker 9: But you gave him the perfect name, Salato, because that's

493
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Speaker 9: exactly what he means.

494
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 3: Well, let me clarify for our listeners, Tony, I did

495
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 3: not give him that name. It was actually another caller,

496
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 3: who'll say. The Salazzo at WABC is Dominic Carter, Oh,

497
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 3: and he is. And the moo Green Greg Kelly, and

498
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 3: the Tessio who may have been the worst is Sid Rosenberg.

499
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 3: And you know on Friday what I do every year,

500
00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 3: I always do a tribute to Bernard McGirk, who was

501
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 3: I mean, not only the hardest working guy in radio,

502
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 3: but took so much grief from don Nimus said. I

503
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 3: witnessed personally what a great radio guy he was. Died

504
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 3: way too early. If you're getting together with family and friends,

505
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 3: tell all the males get the PSA test, the prick

506
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 3: of the finger, a simple blood test. If Bernard McGirk

507
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 3: had done that, he'd be alive. Today and all the

508
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 3: nonsense that occurred against me a WABC, always bashing Curtis,

509
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 3: always blaming Curtis, would never have occurred if Bernard McGirk

510
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 3: were alive and well. But we'll do that tribute on Friday.

511
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 3: This boy, he was an iconic figure in this thing

512
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 3: of ours radio than now more.

513
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Speaker 1: With New York's iconic straight shooter Curtis Slawah guest hosting

514
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Speaker 1: from Mark Simone on seven ten Woah.

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Speaker 3: You on a minute Friday show My Life. I suppear

516
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 3: and see if Mark Simon will go heavy into artificial intelligence.

517
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 3: I'm not a supporter at all. Neither should most of you,

518
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:15,479
Speaker 3: except if you're in the medical field like we just

519
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 3: brought up Bernard McGirk. Will do my annual tribute to

520
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 3: him on Friday. But probably had AI been available to

521
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 3: find localized cancers from medical imagery, it does a better

522
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 3: job than humans do, he might still be alive. I'll

523
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 3: give AI high five on that. But that's it, because

524
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 3: the list of things that is ruining is long. I

525
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 3: want to listen on Friday. But up next my stream

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Speaker 3: of Consciousness, based on a conversation I had with program

527
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Speaker 3: director Tom Cuddy, who i've known for years over at

528
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 3: the old WPLJ. The two hardest working guys in radio

529
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 3: and in television cross paths first in Los Angeles, but

530
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 3: their roots and most of what they did in their

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Speaker 3: lives were before all of you in our ChRI State

532
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Speaker 3: area and sometimes right here on sevent ten wor.

533
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 1: Now the Red Beret has returned to radio. Curtis Leewall

534
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:38,840
Speaker 1: guest host the Mark Simone Show on sevent ten woors.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh boy, all these officials must cheat from one another.

536
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 3: You know, Eric Adams Swagerman with no plan. Thank god,

537
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:58,719
Speaker 3: he's gone claiming crimeers at an all time load. Now,

538
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:00,839
Speaker 3: if you're in the five boroughs of city in New York,

539
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 3: you don't know what city he's in. Well, that's right.

540
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 3: Most times he hasn't even been in our city. And

541
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 3: then I heard that broadcasts about ros Baraka, who, like

542
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:16,760
Speaker 3: his father, hates cops. Who is his father?

543
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 4: Is he?

544
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 3: I know? Look, look from West Milford. What would you know?

545
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 3: You know, you didn't grow up in Newark. I know

546
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 3: more about Newark than most people listening to this radio station.

547
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 3: Spent a lot of time there. But ros Baraka's father

548
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 3: was Lee Roy Jones, who then changed his name to

549
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 3: a mirror Baraka poet, self described communists and hater of

550
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:46,719
Speaker 3: everything white. If it was white, it wasn't right and

551
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 3: the lifelong enemy of Tony Imperiali, who at the Northward

552
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 3: Citizens Association. He kept that area along Bloomfield Avenue from

553
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 3: burning down during the riots. Unfortunately, the rest of the

554
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 3: city estimated and no has not returned since crime is

555
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 3: high there. You want to go to Weekwake Park. You

556
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 3: want to go to Broad and Market by the way

557
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:14,239
Speaker 3: broad and Market is he want you to go to

558
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 3: Penn Station in Newark. Yeah, they're all called Penn Station, Baltimore,

559
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 3: Penn Station, Phillip Penn Station, Washington Penn. I want you

560
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 3: to go to Penn Station in Newark. You got to

561
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 3: take the Path train there in New Jersey trans And

562
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 3: I want you to walk over the broad and Market.

563
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:34,319
Speaker 3: You'll see the goldleaf Dome of City Hall there. And

564
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 3: you need to know they're back in about nineteen twenty

565
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 3: twenty two on the sixth floor of one of the

566
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Speaker 3: biggest retailers of all time, Bamburgers. Oh yeah, there used

567
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 3: to be all the big stores there along Broad and Market,

568
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 3: same as you had in New York's where wor R

569
00:36:56,560 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 3: got its license to broadcast, and that's where I think

570
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 3: the first of the three gamblings was broadcasting from Chick, Florida.

571
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:07,839
Speaker 3: No longer Bamburgers, obviously. And to tell you how bad

572
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 3: things are in Newark, don't listen to Rasbaraca. He hates cops.

573
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 3: There used to be more Cadillac dealerships in NewART than

574
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 3: any other city in the nation, more than even in Detroit,

575
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 3: where the Cadillacs were coming off the assembly line. And

576
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 3: we go right into the assember, We'll go right into

577
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 3: the showcased halls, and you could get a Cadillac cheaper

578
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 3: there than anywhere. And my uncle's on the Italian American side,

579
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 3: the Bianchino side. They all love Cadillacs back then, or

580
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 3: Italian guys. That was the sign of success in El Dorado, Fleetwood, Seville,

581
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 3: you know where they went to buy their Cadillacs and

582
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,800
Speaker 3: then trade it in every year for a new Cadillac. Newark.

583
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 3: Then the riots said, you can't even buy a used

584
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 3: Cadillac anywhere in newarth now, so stop this nonsense. Oh no,

585
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 3: it's safer than it's ever been. New York City is

586
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 3: safer than it's ever been who knows more about both

587
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:15,879
Speaker 3: those cities than me. Yes, truly, Curtis Sliwa, get out

588
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 3: of here. Rise Baraka. The evil seed did not fall

589
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 3: far from the rotten tree of Leroy Jones aka Emira Baraka,

590
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 3: a self described communist. You know how that's been thrown

591
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 3: around Zoron Mondami. You know Kami Mondam. He's not a communist,

592
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 3: he's a socialists. But Leroy Jones was a communist. And

593
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:44,839
Speaker 3: we'll get one guarantee. If you were white, you were

594
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 3: not right. All right, Just a little side note there.

595
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 3: I want to get back on tractoh, because we are

596
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 3: doing homage as oftentimes Mark Simone would do. Nobody knows

597
00:38:56,160 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 3: more about television, movies, radio and its history, Mark Simon.

598
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 3: But I was sitting with Tom Cuddy yesterday after the

599
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Speaker 3: show and the name of Regis Philbin popped up, and

600
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 3: without a doubt, Regis Philbin was the hardest working guy

601
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 3: in all of television. And I know for a lot

602
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,280
Speaker 3: of people, they don't even think about Regis Philbin anymore.

603
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 3: Shame shame on you. Local guy Bronx Kid van Nass,

604
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 3: not far from Morris Park, went to Cardinal Hayes, a Hayesman,

605
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:34,839
Speaker 3: by the way, like Bernard McGirk, who I'll be talking

606
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 3: about tomorrow doing my annual tribute. But uh, I gotta

607
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:43,240
Speaker 3: tell you. Regis Philbin his father Irish named him Regis

608
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Speaker 3: because he wanted him to go to Regis High School

609
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Speaker 3: in Manhattan, which is the elite Jesuit high school. Can't

610
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 3: be elite if Fauci went there from Benson Hurts and

611
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 3: he is Udscratziata, he will burn in hell, if nothing

612
00:39:56,560 --> 00:40:01,399
Speaker 3: more for what he did in sending b eagles over

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00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 3: to Tunisia, third world country, to experiment on them at

614
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 3: our taxpayer's expense and torture them for no purpose other

615
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 3: than he's probably a satist, but anyway, just to divert

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00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:16,359
Speaker 3: So Regis got his name Regis because his father said, oh,

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Speaker 3: you're going to go to Regis High School in Manhattan,

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Speaker 3: the eliti Eduit high school. And I would always say

619
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Speaker 3: to Regis, guys, because I went to Brooklyn Prep where

620
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 3: they kicked me out my senior year, you're not a

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Speaker 3: real high school because you don't have a football team,

622
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 3: and they didn't and they still don't. So he grows

623
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Speaker 3: up in the Bronx, goes to Cardinal Hayes and the

624
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:41,320
Speaker 3: most in I think the interesting thing is he surfaces

625
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 3: in nineteen sixty seven with a member of the rat Pack.

626
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 3: Remember the rat Pack. Oh, you're all aware of that.

627
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:50,799
Speaker 3: If you didn't grow up with them, you probably saw

628
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:54,800
Speaker 3: the movie Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Junior, Peter Lawford,

629
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Speaker 3: and Joey Bishop. Joey Bishop, who I think had a

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Speaker 3: couple of call fee in the Bronx, was born there,

631
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 3: but I think grew up most of his life in Philadelphia.

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00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:08,880
Speaker 3: By the way, that's where Dick Clark get it. Notice

633
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 3: how the synergy here. It's a stream of consciousness Dick

634
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 3: Clark American Bandstand, which eventually led to what you just

635
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:23,759
Speaker 3: heard about, ABC's Dick Clark's New Yorkers Rocking Eve. You

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00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 3: know with Ryan Seacrest. I knew Dick Clark. Ryan, you

637
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Speaker 3: know Dick Clark, although he has worked radio Ryan Seacrest,

638
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 3: but he's milk toast. As you know, I don't have

639
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 3: time to be watching milk Toast. Regis, on the other hand,

640
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 3: was always a Wisenheimer, will always slip you a mickey,

641
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 3: and I first remember watching him on the Joey Bishop Show.

642
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 3: I'm sure some of you did it in competition, remember

643
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:56,399
Speaker 3: with Johnny Carson and his sidekick was Ed McMahon, by

644
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 3: the way, a great actor, great actor, does anybody out

645
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 3: there know, was probably the very first vigilante movie about

646
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 3: the subways before there was Death Wish with Charles Bronson.

647
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 3: I mean, it was a classic and Eddery McMahon had

648
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 3: a great party in it. Great actor. He was a

649
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:20,840
Speaker 3: barker on Atlantic City. He came up, became a sidekick

650
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 3: for Johnny Carson, you know the rest of that history.

651
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 3: And then of course you wanted him to come to

652
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:29,839
Speaker 3: your door the publisher's clearing house. I don't know if

653
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 3: it was a battle they were elbowing one another. Was

654
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 3: it Dick Clark or was it Ed McMahon. But anyway,

655
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 3: because then if you bought all the magazine subscriptions you

656
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 3: might become a millionaire. Oh, by the way, that was

657
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 3: another show that Regis Philbin hosted later on, You Want

658
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 3: to be a Millionaire? Who was that it came to

659
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 3: your door? Was that Dick Clark was at Ed McMahon.

660
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:56,240
Speaker 3: So anyway, it was Joey Bishop and sidekick was Regis Philbin,

661
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 3: and Regis was good It was a good company. And

662
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, Regis Philbmin was no more.

663
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:09,360
Speaker 3: You know, because those shows they come, they go, and

664
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Speaker 3: all of a sudden, Regis Philbin showed up on a

665
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 3: TV station in Los Angeles midday. I think it was

666
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 3: Channel thirteen or Channel nine. They have like these independent

667
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 3: stations there. They all have talk shows, they do news,

668
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:31,400
Speaker 3: many more than we have. And you know who he replaced.

669
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Speaker 3: He replaced the king of talk radio, Bob Grant, who

670
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 3: was on television at that time. Oh no, no, no,

671
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 3: there's so much more to delve into. Were ooh, but

672
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 3: this is a stream of consciousness, I said Dick Clark,

673
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:47,280
Speaker 3: if I remember correctly, Dick Clark was from Mount Vernon,

674
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 3: went to high school in Mount Vernon. Radio guy was

675
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 3: up there in Utica, you know, with the brewery and

676
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 3: the little mafia there. It was a mafia town and

677
00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 3: they went to Syracuse University did radio there. Then all

678
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:03,560
Speaker 3: of a sudden he goes outside of Philly. He's on

679
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 3: a radio station. They're experimenting with like an American bandstand

680
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:12,800
Speaker 3: format on the radio, and the host goes on vacation,

681
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:17,760
Speaker 3: gets busted for duy chunkin driving and guess who takes

682
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:21,319
Speaker 3: over the show if you're there at the right time,

683
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 3: in the right place. Dick Clark and they also had

684
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 3: an affiliate TV station, and that's how American Bandstand came about.

685
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 3: And boy, that was the time Philly was king. Oh

686
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:38,760
Speaker 3: Man was Philly King. Remember Mike Douglas Show, Mike Douglas.

687
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 3: Roger Ailes was the producer. They filmed that. It was

688
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:46,359
Speaker 3: late afternoon. That was in Philadelphia. I remember watching Mike

689
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 3: Douglas I think it was nineteen seventy two for a

690
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 3: full week. You know who co hosted with Mike Douglas,

691
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 3: John Lennon and your co owner four a full week.

692
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 3: This is mid after Nunes. They had forty million viewers

693
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 3: when the population was a lot less than it is now.

694
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 3: I remember there was George Carlin was on, Ralph Nader,

695
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:13,920
Speaker 3: the Black Panther Leader there, Bobby Seal I think he

696
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,359
Speaker 3: sells barbecue sauce so I Anyway, the point was it

697
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:22,479
Speaker 3: was so good and then the FBI Jay Gil Hoover

698
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:28,839
Speaker 3: muscled the Mike Douglas and said, hmm, you don't want

699
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:34,359
Speaker 3: to be putting on television enemies of America, especially when

700
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:36,919
Speaker 3: he heard him sing that song, which I think he sang.

701
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 3: I remember as a kid. Imagine nineteen seventy two. By

702
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:47,240
Speaker 3: the way, John Lennon used to listen to talk radio

703
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:50,799
Speaker 3: that's right into Dakota. He would listen to the old

704
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:55,840
Speaker 3: talker WMCA. That's where our own Mark Simone got his start.

705
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 3: So Lennard be listened to the king of talk radio,

706
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 3: Bob Green and Go Nuts because obviously their politics couldn't

707
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 3: be any more different. And at times he would walk over.

708
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 3: And this is when you had celebrities walking all over

709
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Speaker 3: New York City on their own. They didn't have an entourage,

710
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:18,840
Speaker 3: no bodyguards. I saw Mickey mannlhalf in the bag walking

711
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:22,040
Speaker 3: around in the streets. For that broke my heart. I

712
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 3: saw a walll Clyde Fraser walking around on his own.

713
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 3: I mean, you got to see so many people and

714
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:29,800
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, you know, when Lennon was killed,

715
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 3: that era ended quick. But anyway before that, he'd be

716
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 3: listening to WMCA all the way down on the dial.

717
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 3: Now it's like owned by Salem Communication where you got

718
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 3: to pay if you're a holy roller or a preacher

719
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 3: a dollar a holler or they'll take your money and

720
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:48,880
Speaker 3: then they'll put you on. But anyway, that was the

721
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 3: big talk station, our Peter Strauss ellen Strauss family owned.

722
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 3: I believe that's where Mark Simone got his start. That's

723
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Speaker 3: where he met Bob Grant. They were like commonion bleached.

724
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 3: He did not get along, but I will tell you

725
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 3: they had some of the greatest radio of all time.

726
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:10,799
Speaker 3: So all of a sudden you have John Ranny going

727
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 3: over and I think these studios at w ABC at

728
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 3: that time was right across from Carnegie Hall. No security

729
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:20,239
Speaker 3: at that time. He walk upstairs, he'd knock on the

730
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 3: door and he go, I want to go on and

731
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:26,799
Speaker 3: I want to contradict what Bob Grant said. And the

732
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 3: board operator would look at it, Hey John Lennon and

733
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:34,759
Speaker 3: go back to the hosts, and the host Nah, come on,

734
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 3: what are you half in the bag? What are you dropping?

735
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 3: LSD very popular at that time. LSD, you know Tim Leary,

736
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 3: and he would come in and he would rant about

737
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:51,160
Speaker 3: Bob Grant. See that's when you could do that. No security,

738
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:54,640
Speaker 3: you don't have to provide identification. Remember it was John

739
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 3: Lennon who got in trouble when he said, you know,

740
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 3: the Beatles are more popular than Jesus Christ. Oh they

741
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 3: were radio stations wouldn't play Beatles music at that time,

742
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:11,760
Speaker 3: Remember how popular? Remember and the guy would be listening

743
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:16,920
Speaker 3: to talk radio. Do you want to be a bird?

744
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:20,879
Speaker 3: Remember that song from Easy Rider? I wonder if any

745
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 3: of you know there was the theme song to the

746
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:26,360
Speaker 3: guy at night that he would listen to. Who was

747
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 3: a radical, the complete opposite of Bob Grant in the

748
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:34,359
Speaker 3: afternoon drive time. He was a total radical. Who when

749
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:41,280
Speaker 3: the Sibonese Liberation Army SINQ General General listening was SINQU

750
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 3: declared war in America and either kidnapped Pathy, Patty Hurst

751
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:51,960
Speaker 3: or Tanya joined them, he was praising them on the air.

752
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:55,440
Speaker 3: Yeah at the old WMC. A. Let's see if we

753
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 3: can sort of massage any of your memories. Can get

754
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:02,240
Speaker 3: back to our tribute to the hardest working guy ever

755
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:06,280
Speaker 3: in TV reagis Philpin and the hardest working guy ever

756
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 3: in radio talk radio Bob Grant. I'll conflate both of

757
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:15,359
Speaker 3: them as we do our homage to the greats, the

758
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 3: iconic figures who paved the way for all of us,

759
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:21,759
Speaker 3: and little of any tribute has ever made to how

760
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:25,439
Speaker 3: important they were to this thing of ours. I will

761
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 3: never forget. I know, Mark Simon, never forget. Unfortunately, there

762
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 3: are a lot of people in our business who get

763
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:36,759
Speaker 3: their paycheck and they either don't know, or if they

764
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 3: do know, God forbid they give any credit to these people.

765
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,399
Speaker 3: I'll tell you this much. Bob Grant. You know who

766
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 3: grew up listening to Bob Grant, the rock grabbed all

767
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:51,440
Speaker 3: American conservative voice reagent from Franklin, Long Island, Sean Hannity.

768
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:53,279
Speaker 3: You said him many times, and you catch him in

769
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 3: the afternoon drive here wor seven ten Bill O'Reilly. Oh,

770
00:49:57,200 --> 00:50:01,720
Speaker 3: he says it many times. Mark Levin, when Bob Grant

771
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:05,360
Speaker 3: was exiled at WWDB in Philadelphia. I'll get into that

772
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 3: coming up next. They all attribute this now, how it

773
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 3: start to Bob Grant? How come now little if any

774
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:22,399
Speaker 3: attention is paid to these folks who really paved the way,

775
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:25,960
Speaker 3: took a lot of risks, got fired many times for

776
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 3: taking a principal stand, took a licking, only to come

777
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 3: back ticking our numbers one eight hundred three to two

778
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Speaker 3: one zero seven ten. That's one eight hundred three to

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Speaker 3: two one zero seven ten.

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00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:41,799
Speaker 1: Street Smart Straight Talk. Curtis leewa guest host for Mark

781
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Speaker 1: Simone on sevent ten wo.

782
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 3: Wa as we don't take anything for granted, and we

783
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 3: paid tributes to Uh no doubt, hardest working guy ever

784
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:57,320
Speaker 3: in TV. I had this conversation with Tom Cutty yesterday.

785
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 3: Regis Filman father, Irish mother I think was a combination

786
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:05,840
Speaker 3: Italian Albanian, which is very similar to the makeup of

787
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:09,279
Speaker 3: Vaness and Morris park Now in the Bronx. He was

788
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:12,239
Speaker 3: a Hayesman, went to Cardinal Hayes. I think he was

789
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 3: best known for being on Live with Regis and Kathy Lee.

790
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 3: That was a great show. I think that went off

791
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:23,719
Speaker 3: for like twelve years until the year two thousand. That

792
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:26,799
Speaker 3: was the better one compared to when he was on

793
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:31,880
Speaker 3: with Kelly. Uh. Nope. You know Regis would get up

794
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:35,759
Speaker 3: and do his riff. That was something you waited to hear,

795
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:38,359
Speaker 3: like with Bob Grant the opening riff of his show

796
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:40,400
Speaker 3: when there was no podcast, there was no way to

797
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:44,320
Speaker 3: recover it. It was great and then in the interim

798
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:46,799
Speaker 3: he was doing the most watched TV program at that time.

799
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:53,560
Speaker 3: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Hard Working? According to

800
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:57,440
Speaker 3: the Guinness World Record for the most hours spent on television,

801
00:51:57,480 --> 00:52:03,240
Speaker 3: the hardest working Man TV show Business, Regis Philbin without

802
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:05,160
Speaker 3: a doubt. And by the way, you're going to be

803
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:10,960
Speaker 3: some of you watching the ABC's Dick Clark's New Yorkers

804
00:52:11,239 --> 00:52:16,160
Speaker 3: Rock and Roll Eve right with milktoast Ryan Seacresa. That's

805
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:21,279
Speaker 3: his sting, you know, sub student for Dick Clark when

806
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:26,480
Speaker 3: he had that stroke. That was Regis Philbin. If I

807
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 3: remember correctly, two thousand and four to two thousand and five,

808
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:31,600
Speaker 3: that first show was Regis Philbin. I mean, the guy

809
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:35,320
Speaker 3: was all over TV and it's almost like nobody nobody

810
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:37,120
Speaker 3: mentions him. I think the only one who mentions it

811
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:40,880
Speaker 3: from time to time is Letterman. But now let's switch

812
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:44,879
Speaker 3: to the hardest working guy ever in radio. We paid

813
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:49,000
Speaker 3: our homage to the father of talk radio, who was

814
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 3: right here at War when he was spinning that first

815
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:55,799
Speaker 3: stacks of wax that turned into taking callers, and that

816
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:58,440
Speaker 3: was Barry Grade nineteen forty five, right here at War.

817
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 3: Bob Grant, the king of talk radio. My mentor the

818
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:06,120
Speaker 3: reason that I'm in talk radio because nobody else wanted me.

819
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:11,200
Speaker 3: He forced them on. He forced me on them at

820
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:14,400
Speaker 3: WABC by saying, you gotta have Curtis. He knows who

821
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 3: all the bones are buried and who buried them? And

822
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:21,880
Speaker 3: everybody knows that now, and they hesitate every time I

823
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:25,279
Speaker 3: talk about their names. Is he going to reveal what

824
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:27,920
Speaker 3: I thought it would take to my grave? Well? You

825
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:31,919
Speaker 3: keep thinking out there, guys and gals, got one more

826
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 3: show to go on Friday. Could be opening up the

827
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 3: Pandora's box of many of those at WABC always bashing

828
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 3: Curtis now. But no, let's get back to Bob Grant.

829
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:48,120
Speaker 3: He actually was the busiest guy in all the talk radio,

830
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 3: not here but out at KABC. By the way, he

831
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:55,799
Speaker 3: gave me a call this morning, they want me to

832
00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:58,360
Speaker 3: do something for them. I had done a show for

833
00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:01,919
Speaker 3: al Rentel, unfortunately had broken his hip for a year.

834
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:05,080
Speaker 3: I substituted for al Rentel from New York City, and

835
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:07,760
Speaker 3: nobody knew that I wasn't in LA because I knew

836
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 3: LA like the back of my head. So I said

837
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 3: thank you, but no thank you, but a tribute to

838
00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:15,880
Speaker 3: a very iconic station by Grant was on that station

839
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:22,480
Speaker 3: and he had three shows, open Line, Nightline which eventually

840
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 3: became a TV production, a Ted coppol on ABC, and

841
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 3: Sunday Line, and he was doing TV busy busy, busy,

842
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:35,960
Speaker 3: and he interviewed Muhammad Ali, Ronald Reagan, first interview with

843
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 3: Ronald Reagan, and that Nutt who created Kwanza. That Kwanza guy,

844
00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:46,279
Speaker 3: ron Kurenge. What a story that is. Hey, he had

845
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:49,520
Speaker 3: the first interview with him. He was the go to guy.

846
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 3: And then some executives said, you know, it's just too bad, Bob,

847
00:54:56,040 --> 00:54:58,520
Speaker 3: that the number one talk show hosts in America doesn't

848
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:00,640
Speaker 3: want to come to the number one market in America,

849
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:03,440
Speaker 3: New York. So I'm not interested in going to your

850
00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:06,719
Speaker 3: New York. I got a house, SI, I got four kids,

851
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:11,960
Speaker 3: I'm on TV, I'm on radio. But you got to

852
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:15,040
Speaker 3: go to New York. Cub and the guy named R.

853
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:18,600
Speaker 3: Peter Strauss reached out to him and made him an offer.

854
00:55:18,719 --> 00:55:22,359
Speaker 3: He couldn't refuse the money. Although Bob came out here,

855
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:24,359
Speaker 3: he didn't want to stay. He told me he'd I

856
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:27,279
Speaker 3: hated New York. I wanted to go back to La

857
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 3: so desperately, where everybody knew me embraced me back there.

858
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:34,000
Speaker 3: You know, they were more conservative here. They called me

859
00:55:34,040 --> 00:55:36,840
Speaker 3: a fascist. So I decided I would get on the

860
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:39,719
Speaker 3: radio and be mean and it would force ar Peter

861
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:44,760
Speaker 3: Strauss to break my contract. So that's where this raging

862
00:55:44,920 --> 00:55:48,919
Speaker 3: persona came from. And unfortunately for Bob at that time

863
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 3: and good for us, his rating skyrocketing. Ratings not streams.

864
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:56,480
Speaker 3: You know, at the old WABC where I was, they

865
00:55:56,560 --> 00:56:00,160
Speaker 3: run around say, lo look, loah, my streamers up. A

866
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:02,520
Speaker 3: million people were listening to me. I said, are you

867
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 3: out of your mind? That's not a rating, that's the

868
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:11,920
Speaker 3: Wizard of Oz. You may like what you're being told,

869
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 3: but that does not give you a gauge of the audience.

870
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:18,920
Speaker 3: Oh one last thing. Barry Farber, who had been a

871
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:21,720
Speaker 3: fixture here for many years, decided to run for mayor.

872
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 3: It's nineteen seventy seven. Oh shades the Courtish sleep. When

873
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:32,080
Speaker 3: he left wr he asked Bob Grant to substitute for

874
00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:37,320
Speaker 3: him overnight. And when Bob Grant did, out of every

875
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:41,920
Speaker 3: four radios, two radios at night were listening to him.

876
00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:44,880
Speaker 3: Nobody ever had those kind of ratings. And then he

877
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:48,279
Speaker 3: said something I'm trying to remember the words. Oh yeah,

878
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:53,759
Speaker 3: she passed a gynecological and pigmentation test. I forget who

879
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:56,320
Speaker 3: he was attributing that to. He got fired and exiled

880
00:56:56,320 --> 00:57:03,160
Speaker 3: out to WWDB, only to come back to WABC. That's

881
00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:08,800
Speaker 3: my homage. Hottest working guy in talk radio, Hottest working

882
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:11,920
Speaker 3: guy in TV, Regis Philming and tomorrow you don't want

883
00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:14,960
Speaker 3: to miss my annual tribute to the best thing that

884
00:57:15,080 --> 00:57:21,120
Speaker 3: occur to WABC, which was Bernard McGirk one eight hundred

885
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:23,720
Speaker 3: three to two one is zero seven ten. That's one

886
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 3: eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. Talk radio

887
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:28,920
Speaker 3: with street crack.

888
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:33,920
Speaker 1: Literally Curtis Leewad joined sevent ten wo R to guess

889
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:42,720
Speaker 1: those from Mark Samo.

890
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 10: Hottest Working Guys and Gals Television and Radio in his

891
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 10: book of World Records, Regis Film and none O the

892
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:52,120
Speaker 10: Bronx guy proud of going to Cardinal Hayes Catholic High

893
00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:53,479
Speaker 10: School still open, thank god.

894
00:57:54,720 --> 00:58:00,400
Speaker 3: Unfortunately nearby all Hollows closing. Great School, Cathedral Heights School

895
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:06,360
Speaker 3: this year for girls. Great school closing, and Preston was

896
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:09,200
Speaker 3: on the cusp of closing in the Tremont section. Great

897
00:58:09,240 --> 00:58:14,080
Speaker 3: High School all girls. You know j Lowell maybe got

898
00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 3: back Jenny from the block. Never contributed as far as

899
00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:21,040
Speaker 3: I know a nickel diamond penny to the alumni front

900
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:23,920
Speaker 3: and keep them open. And they were kept open by Bally's.

901
00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:26,880
Speaker 3: I believe some arrangement was made. Who bought the Trump

902
00:58:26,880 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 3: golf course nearby? But think about that. He was Regis Philmen,

903
00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:37,280
Speaker 3: who appeared three times on the Celebrity Jeopardy. Again. The

904
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:40,760
Speaker 3: guy was constantly working out there. He had the most

905
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:45,000
Speaker 3: appearances and in one appearance he won fifty thousand dollars

906
00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 3: and gave it right to Cardinal Hayes. That's what you

907
00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:51,880
Speaker 3: should do if you're doing well, and you realize that

908
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 3: these Catholic high schools, they gave so many an opportunity

909
00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:57,240
Speaker 3: they might not have had if they had to go

910
00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:02,439
Speaker 3: to their local neighborhood public high school. And like j Lo, hey,

911
00:59:02,560 --> 00:59:06,800
Speaker 3: j Lo, you forget your roots. Anyway, let's go to

912
00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:10,840
Speaker 3: the phones. It's Bob who's calling from San Diego. Your

913
00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:15,880
Speaker 3: turn to be heard here at seven to ten. Wo Abob, Hey, Curtis.

914
00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:18,200
Speaker 5: Good to hear you on the are. Earlier you mentioned

915
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:22,280
Speaker 5: the first subway vigilante movie. There would I think would

916
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:25,280
Speaker 5: be the incident with Martin Sheen and Tony Mussanti.

917
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:28,960
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, And if you haven't seen it, ladies and gentlemen,

918
00:59:29,920 --> 00:59:35,200
Speaker 3: you must. A great period piece, black and white, all

919
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:38,760
Speaker 3: these different people getting on the number four train. You know,

920
00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:41,400
Speaker 3: coming out of the Bronx going down to Grand Central

921
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:46,240
Speaker 3: and Masante is a complete psycho Martin Sheen. I think

922
00:59:46,280 --> 00:59:49,640
Speaker 3: that was like his debut. And remember the part that

923
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:50,800
Speaker 3: Ed McMahon played.

924
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:55,840
Speaker 5: Yes, he actually he didn't want to take a cab

925
00:59:55,920 --> 00:59:59,520
Speaker 5: to Flushing from the Bronx, so he took the trains

926
00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:02,600
Speaker 5: and and he played the father of a young girl.

927
01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:05,760
Speaker 3: And he was on the car with his wife now

928
01:00:05,920 --> 01:00:08,760
Speaker 3: arguing with his wife. Great piece, she's going, let's take

929
01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:11,040
Speaker 3: a cab. We got a baby with us that nah,

930
01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:15,400
Speaker 3: I take that train, you know. And oh boy, these

931
01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:18,080
Speaker 3: two psycho boys were in the car. He was like

932
01:00:18,200 --> 01:00:23,600
Speaker 3: cockwork Orange before his Cockwork Orange. I mean, really really

933
01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:27,600
Speaker 3: a great, great movie that's never really gotten it, Stue.

934
01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:31,040
Speaker 5: It really is a great movie. He just keeps building

935
01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:34,160
Speaker 5: and building until the climax. And by the way, you

936
01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:37,920
Speaker 5: can watch it free on YouTube. Just search on YouTube

937
01:00:37,960 --> 01:00:39,000
Speaker 5: for the incident.

938
01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:43,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, please do. Especially during Hoghliday time. A lot of

939
01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:47,520
Speaker 3: people like to watch things. You gotta watch this movie.

940
01:00:48,160 --> 01:00:51,320
Speaker 3: Every station, a different group gets on her, a different

941
01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:54,480
Speaker 3: couple and they're all all of them went on to

942
01:00:54,520 --> 01:01:01,880
Speaker 3: become great stars and starlets. And they had their little cameo, rolls, Oh, man,

943
01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:05,040
Speaker 3: what a great, great movie. Let's go if we can

944
01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:08,600
Speaker 3: to John. Who's calling from? Is that old Japan?

945
01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:12,280
Speaker 8: Curtis, what's up my brother? No, well, I just depend

946
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:13,400
Speaker 8: on the New York side.

947
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:15,600
Speaker 3: Oh okay, Curtis.

948
01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:18,080
Speaker 8: I'm great to see it down in the South on

949
01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:21,919
Speaker 8: the dial there, very good. I was incorrect. I thought

950
01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:24,480
Speaker 8: Alex Bennett would have been the name you were.

951
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:29,240
Speaker 3: You were looking for you, You were absolutely correct. Alex

952
01:01:29,360 --> 01:01:34,960
Speaker 3: Bennett was the evening show host wmc A. Bob Grant

953
01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:38,760
Speaker 3: was Drive Time. You couldn't have been any more different.

954
01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:43,560
Speaker 8: Yeah, hey, Curtis, listen, I'm trying. I know you're busy there.

955
01:01:43,560 --> 01:01:44,960
Speaker 8: If I want to ask this gum, you know why

956
01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:46,800
Speaker 8: I was a little bewildered. I used to be in

957
01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:50,120
Speaker 8: Manhattan detectives. We had a homicide in nineteen ninety two

958
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:54,680
Speaker 8: fourteenth Street in the hole on the four train. A

959
01:01:54,720 --> 01:01:58,480
Speaker 8: young man, a hard working, stiff African American, Jerry Robinson,

960
01:01:59,040 --> 01:02:02,440
Speaker 8: on his way home at eleven o'clock at night. He

961
01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:05,680
Speaker 8: gets held up in the hall at fourteenth Street. He

962
01:02:05,720 --> 01:02:09,320
Speaker 8: pulls out a twenty five pops two guys kills one

963
01:02:09,360 --> 01:02:12,040
Speaker 8: of them. The third piece took off. They called him

964
01:02:12,160 --> 01:02:17,640
Speaker 8: the Blackbernie Gets. Barry Slotnik represented him at arraiments and

965
01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:19,840
Speaker 8: then an eighteen b attorney took it from there on.

966
01:02:20,160 --> 01:02:23,200
Speaker 8: He took a plea and I didn't do any time it.

967
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:26,520
Speaker 8: It never got well. It hit the paper that night

968
01:02:26,800 --> 01:02:29,200
Speaker 8: they were down in raiments, but afterwards he never got

969
01:02:29,200 --> 01:02:31,240
Speaker 8: any play. I was wondering if you knew about that.

970
01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:35,360
Speaker 3: No, I do, because I followed those cases. It was

971
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:38,959
Speaker 3: really the team that you had. Barry Slotnik was the

972
01:02:39,080 --> 01:02:43,640
Speaker 3: lead attorney, and I'm trying to remind Miller, I think

973
01:02:43,880 --> 01:02:47,320
Speaker 3: was his partner. He had to go. No Baker, Baker

974
01:02:47,480 --> 01:02:51,200
Speaker 3: was his partner. A great team, and they made themselves

975
01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:55,560
Speaker 3: available for those kind of cases. More often than not.

976
01:02:56,440 --> 01:03:02,080
Speaker 3: It was black victims fighting back again black Assallians. But

977
01:03:02,120 --> 01:03:06,360
Speaker 3: you see, it didn't have the ammonium bleach. It didn't

978
01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:08,680
Speaker 3: have what you needed, white versus black. I mean that

979
01:03:08,720 --> 01:03:12,560
Speaker 3: got you the headlines that kept the headlines going for days.

980
01:03:12,560 --> 01:03:15,840
Speaker 3: It was black on black crime. Nothing a mere mention.

981
01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:20,280
Speaker 3: By the way, you mentioned Alex Bennett. He was the

982
01:03:20,400 --> 01:03:24,080
Speaker 3: talk show host at WMCA at night. His theme song

983
01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:26,920
Speaker 3: was do You Want to Be a Bird? A classic song.

984
01:03:27,080 --> 01:03:31,360
Speaker 3: From Easy Rider and man, he would talk about coming

985
01:03:31,400 --> 01:03:35,680
Speaker 3: from concerts and he would be like be doing therapy

986
01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:40,600
Speaker 3: on himself before this guy did it Seagull remember a

987
01:03:40,680 --> 01:03:43,400
Speaker 3: channel seven. Oh there's anybody remember Seagull. I'm just gonna

988
01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:46,040
Speaker 3: give you a little hint there. And he would do

989
01:03:46,080 --> 01:03:50,480
Speaker 3: the same thing. And this guy supported radical causes. Do

990
01:03:50,560 --> 01:03:54,480
Speaker 3: you know who ended up taking over the apartment of

991
01:03:54,520 --> 01:03:57,320
Speaker 3: Alex Bennett, who went back to San Francisco where he

992
01:03:57,440 --> 01:04:01,480
Speaker 3: was from, to Radio Camel where they spun stacks of wax.

993
01:04:01,520 --> 01:04:06,200
Speaker 3: They're a little bit of talk. Bernard Yetz, who's still

994
01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:08,560
Speaker 3: in that apartment today right off of sixth Avenue and

995
01:04:08,600 --> 01:04:14,600
Speaker 3: fourteenth Street. Wow, the synergy is happening. Let's go if

996
01:04:14,640 --> 01:04:18,960
Speaker 3: we can to Stella in Quoes your turn to be

997
01:04:19,040 --> 01:04:22,320
Speaker 3: heard here at seven ten wr Stella.

998
01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:27,760
Speaker 11: Hello, listen, Curtis. I'm glad to hear you back, and

999
01:04:27,840 --> 01:04:31,720
Speaker 11: I'm glad to hear your voice. I'm very concerned and

1000
01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:33,880
Speaker 11: so are a lot of people in my neighborhood. And

1001
01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:39,520
Speaker 11: Queen's about Mendanni taking over privately owned homes. Do you

1002
01:04:39,600 --> 01:04:40,680
Speaker 11: know anything about that?

1003
01:04:41,680 --> 01:04:46,360
Speaker 3: Well, it's not just Mandami. This was the city of Yes.

1004
01:04:46,480 --> 01:04:50,320
Speaker 3: I warned everybody about it. Eric Adams got windined and

1005
01:04:50,440 --> 01:04:54,040
Speaker 3: pocket lined by the developers and realtors, as did Andrew

1006
01:04:54,120 --> 01:04:58,960
Speaker 3: Evilize Cuomo. So they now have the authority because the

1007
01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:02,040
Speaker 3: people voted this in to the law because everybody's for

1008
01:05:02,120 --> 01:05:05,640
Speaker 3: affordable housing, and they thought, oh wow, affordable housing, I'm

1009
01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:08,840
Speaker 3: for that. No no, no, no no. So if you

1010
01:05:08,880 --> 01:05:11,200
Speaker 3: happen to live in a residential community and this is

1011
01:05:11,200 --> 01:05:14,480
Speaker 3: coming to a neighborhood near you, they call it up zoning,

1012
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:21,880
Speaker 3: density housing. Kathy Hulkol tried that and realize that wasn't

1013
01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:25,040
Speaker 3: gonna work out to get her elected against lees Helden,

1014
01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:26,920
Speaker 3: so she dropped it like a hot rock. But the

1015
01:05:26,960 --> 01:05:31,840
Speaker 3: whole idea was build high rise housing, claim it's affordable

1016
01:05:31,920 --> 01:05:36,000
Speaker 3: near train stations along ther Metro North, and people in

1017
01:05:36,040 --> 01:05:38,480
Speaker 3: residential area say, oh no, no, no, no, no, we

1018
01:05:38,520 --> 01:05:41,520
Speaker 3: don't need any density housing. We don't need any up zoning.

1019
01:05:42,160 --> 01:05:47,480
Speaker 3: There's zoning, there's elected officials, there's a process. So Kathy

1020
01:05:47,480 --> 01:05:51,800
Speaker 3: Hoko recognized that was a third rail. But in New

1021
01:05:51,880 --> 01:05:55,400
Speaker 3: York City, because the issue became affordable housing, costs of living,

1022
01:05:56,920 --> 01:06:02,280
Speaker 3: they've pushed through this mandate. They give developers and realtors

1023
01:06:02,320 --> 01:06:05,680
Speaker 3: the opportunity to come into your neighborhoods in the outer boroughs,

1024
01:06:05,720 --> 01:06:09,000
Speaker 3: whether you live in the Bronx, Staten Island, Queens of Brooklyn,

1025
01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:11,240
Speaker 3: and they can come into your neighborhood. They don't have

1026
01:06:11,280 --> 01:06:14,000
Speaker 3: to go through any zoning regulations any longer. They don't

1027
01:06:14,040 --> 01:06:16,600
Speaker 3: have to meet with the community board, they don't have

1028
01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:19,480
Speaker 3: to even meet with the local elected officials. If they

1029
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:21,720
Speaker 3: want to put up a forty story high rise by

1030
01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:25,680
Speaker 3: the way, with no parking and burden your infrastructure, they

1031
01:06:25,720 --> 01:06:27,320
Speaker 3: have a right to do it. They've been given a

1032
01:06:27,320 --> 01:06:31,400
Speaker 3: green light. Worse yet, they're putting up these lithium ion

1033
01:06:31,520 --> 01:06:36,520
Speaker 3: battery warehouses, which is a real danger to the community.

1034
01:06:36,520 --> 01:06:39,960
Speaker 3: They're in residential areas. They're supposed to be in industrial areas,

1035
01:06:40,000 --> 01:06:43,400
Speaker 3: but then again, residential property is cheaper than industrial property.

1036
01:06:43,840 --> 01:06:48,080
Speaker 3: Thirty eight in Staten Island, twelve in Brooklyn, eight in

1037
01:06:48,200 --> 01:06:52,480
Speaker 3: Queens formed the Bronx none in Manhattan because we don't

1038
01:06:52,480 --> 01:06:57,120
Speaker 3: have enough electricity. And wait, if you think it's bad now,

1039
01:06:58,200 --> 01:07:01,360
Speaker 3: artificial intelligence is going to need double the amount of

1040
01:07:01,440 --> 01:07:05,440
Speaker 3: electricity and double the amount of water to run their

1041
01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:10,920
Speaker 3: filing centers. You haven't heard much about that, have you?

1042
01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:14,480
Speaker 3: Of course, not talk too much of talk radio, as

1043
01:07:14,520 --> 01:07:17,840
Speaker 3: are you? You see all those Somalian themes in Minnesota?

1044
01:07:17,840 --> 01:07:21,160
Speaker 3: Could you repeat each other anymore like parrots? How about

1045
01:07:21,200 --> 01:07:27,000
Speaker 3: actually talking about subject matter that affects everybody's lives. And

1046
01:07:27,040 --> 01:07:33,439
Speaker 3: these AI Artificial intelligence filing center centers that are gonna

1047
01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:36,320
Speaker 3: be built in a neighborhood near you, and they require

1048
01:07:36,480 --> 01:07:39,560
Speaker 3: twice the amount of electricity that's available on the grid,

1049
01:07:39,960 --> 01:07:42,240
Speaker 3: twice the amount of water that you don't even have

1050
01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:45,400
Speaker 3: access to. And guess who's gonna pay for all of that?

1051
01:07:46,160 --> 01:07:46,240
Speaker 5: You?

1052
01:07:47,840 --> 01:07:52,000
Speaker 3: What is anybody telling you that? Of course not. Oh

1053
01:07:52,040 --> 01:07:55,080
Speaker 3: and you don't want to miss Friday, my annual tribute

1054
01:07:55,080 --> 01:07:58,640
Speaker 3: to Bernard McGirt, best thing that ever happened at talk radio.

1055
01:07:58,640 --> 01:08:00,320
Speaker 3: Oh my god, the guy had to take some much

1056
01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:04,160
Speaker 3: abuse for from don Imus, without which don would never

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Speaker 3: have been able to function. And also a plead to

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Speaker 3: all of you to make sure whatever men folk you

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Speaker 3: run across this New Year's holiday, you let them know

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Speaker 3: to get that psa simple prick of the finger blood test.

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Speaker 3: If only Bernard McGirk had done that, he would not

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Speaker 3: have died a horrible death from prostate cancer. Look, I

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Speaker 3: had stage four I survived it. Some don't. The test

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Speaker 3: in most instances will help eliminate it. Though Beret is back.

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Speaker 1: Curtis Sliwa guest host The Mark Simone Show on seven

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Speaker 1: to ten.

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Speaker 3: Woo don I'll be able to let you know my

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Speaker 3: last day substituting for Mark on Friday. What went down

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Speaker 3: at that block party for zorn Mondami. I haven't been invited,

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Speaker 3: but I'm going. Who's gonna stop me? You all need

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Speaker 3: to know. And then we're gonna discuss AI, artificial intelligence

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Speaker 3: and elon muskers Saint, don't worry about it. We're going

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Speaker 3: to create an income for all of you. You won't

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Speaker 3: have to work. You can listen to talk radio all day.

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Speaker 3: We'll take care of you from the cradle to the grave,

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Speaker 3: watch your back. And then obviously cryptocurrency, blockchain, what I

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Speaker 3: call crime coin, Bitcoin, the scam of our time. It's

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Speaker 3: a Ponzi scheme. And driverless vehicles. Oh, many of you

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Speaker 3: are driving as we speak now. Don't worry about it.

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Speaker 3: The masters of the universe at Silicon Valley. You say

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Speaker 3: you won't have to drive, and what are you supposed

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Speaker 3: to do to earn a living