1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:05,200 Speaker 1: Now the Red Beret has returned to radio. Curtis lee 2 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: Wall guest host The Mark Simone Show on sevent Tenor. 3 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 2: Oh, I heard that update about Governor Schrrell from a 4 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 2: congress woman. She's going on a diner tour. Boy. Nobody 5 00:00:24,079 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 2: is from Jack Ciarelli any longer. Remember he was the 6 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 2: big maga trumper guy this time around, third time around, 7 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 2: and her whole campaign was affordabily, cost the living, and 8 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:38,559 Speaker 2: he washed. But you don't hear from him at all. 9 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 2: I don't know what he plans on doing. I've known Jack. 10 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 2: There's a good candidate, but the voters were interested in, 11 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 2: in course, the living, affordability. That's what propelled Johann Mondamia 12 00:00:54,600 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 2: New York and in other races where Democrats beat republics 13 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 2: around the country and maywell end up determining the fate 14 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 2: of the House of Representative. You know Trump, there was 15 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 2: all fake news, fake nord. Now it's all about oh no, 16 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:14,480 Speaker 2: affordability courts OLIVI, Yeah, yeah, okay, get on board. But 17 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 2: it reminds me of a great radio figure who was 18 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:20,559 Speaker 2: here from time to time, the King of talk radio, 19 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 2: Bob Graham. He was here on two different occasions but 20 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 2: when he was at WABC, was there I was at 21 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:31,679 Speaker 2: that time, there was the woman trying to become governor. There, 22 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 2: Christine Todd Whittless. What de scratsiata what a shot though, 23 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:40,520 Speaker 2: Remember she's the one who was the EPA chieftains for 24 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 2: Bush forty three and in the aftermath of the attack 25 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:47,039 Speaker 2: of nine eleven said, oh, no toxins in the air. 26 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 2: You don't need gloves or masks or has matt suits. 27 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 2: Just inhal Xl. Look how many died, Look how many 28 00:01:54,800 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 2: still suffered. But anyway, at that time it was Governor Florio, 29 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 2: and Bob grand single handedly got her elected. He coined 30 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 2: the phrase Florio Free in ninety three. And Florio was 31 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 2: originally from Brooklyn. He worked in a butcher's shop, joined 32 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 2: the US Navy, and he was paving the way for 33 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 2: his reelection. He was raised in Texas. And Bob Grant 34 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:24,079 Speaker 2: took Christine Todd with lists of patrician by the hand, 35 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:26,239 Speaker 2: took her on the bus tour from Camden County to 36 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 2: Hudson County. Of course the stopover at his favorite haunt, 37 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 2: the Rio Diner and Woodbridge, New Jersey. We're at the time, 38 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 2: guess who the mayor was is he, well, yeah, the 39 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 2: guy who just lost his attempted political comeback in Jersey 40 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 2: City to become the mayor, as he addressed a nation 41 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 2: later on and said, I am a gay American. You 42 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:55,040 Speaker 2: know that is Yeah, like Cormoll, he attempted to come back. 43 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 2: He was the mayor of Woodbridge at the time. Jim 44 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 2: McGready greed and he crashed in burnerw Jersey City. But anyway, 45 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:10,640 Speaker 2: the point being is Bob Grant's single handedly took this 46 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 2: woman and got her elected, and then, in typical political fashion, 47 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 2: she stuck the shive in his back, came up, did 48 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 2: an interview in the studios at WABC at that time 49 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 2: at two pen Plaza, Madison Square Garden. Here's the guy 50 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 2: who got her elected. And because people were calling Bob 51 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 2: Grant a racist, she chimed in, oh yeah, she was 52 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 2: stabbing him in the back. And Bob was always respectful 53 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 2: to his guests on the radio. You know, he would 54 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 2: rail against them when he was doing his commentaries, but 55 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 2: he was always respectful. I was there at the station 56 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:55,160 Speaker 2: that day. It was a horrific political performance, and you 57 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 2: got to understand that you may be loyal to certain politicians. 58 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. They care only about themselves. And that 59 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 2: was clearly evidenced the Christine Todd Whitless, miserable person, but 60 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 2: she had no loyalty. The guy who did have loyalty, 61 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 2: it's the great Bernard McGirk. And I say great because 62 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 2: he earned it. His father was a bus driver, Irish 63 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:32,279 Speaker 2: bus driver in the Bronx. His mother raised kids in 64 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 2: the Monroe housing projects and Soundview's where Wesley Snipes grew up. Yeah, Wesley, 65 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 2: pay your taxes. They never did. And many others who 66 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 2: grew up there. But when you were white back then, 67 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 2: you were the minority, and it was a tough upbringing. 68 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 2: But when I've been to the Monroe projects and I 69 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:57,040 Speaker 2: speak to the elderly African American women, many of them 70 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 2: still living there, they would say Bernard McGirk would walk 71 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 2: around with books all the time. He'd be reading books, 72 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 2: he'd be teaching kids to read, even the ones threatening 73 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 2: him to give him a beat down. And as you know, 74 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:11,039 Speaker 2: Bernard was a tough guy. It was a Hayes man. 75 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 2: Went to Cardinal Hayes. I think he went to Mount 76 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:17,840 Speaker 2: Saint Vincent up in Riverdale, then left school, was driving 77 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:21,160 Speaker 2: livery cabs, up in youon because overnight you know how 78 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 2: dangerous that is. Back then the slowbine projects, Milford Gardens, thugs, 79 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 2: and then late at night, you know who's China hail 80 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 2: at back then livery cabs, it's pimps, it's prostitutes, it's John's, 81 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 2: it's drug dealers, it's drug users and drunks who are 82 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 2: getting out of the bars along McLean Avenue in the 83 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:44,919 Speaker 2: wee hours of the morning, and it was tough. He 84 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:46,919 Speaker 2: talked to me about all the times he got pissed 85 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 2: the whip guns to his head, Rob because back then 86 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 2: it was cash and carry. And then he fell into radio. 87 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 2: It's one of the best things that ever happened on radio. 88 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 2: At some point he hooked up with Imus, who had 89 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:09,280 Speaker 2: had his ups and downs and was just a nasty guy. 90 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 2: Nasty guy, but he became the lynchpin, the flywheel, the 91 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 2: one person who was able to turn it around for 92 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,160 Speaker 2: don Imus, who depended on which day it was, it 93 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:30,040 Speaker 2: was probably in a really bad mood. If I remember correctly, 94 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 2: there was Imus, Charles McCord, his newsguy, Rob Bartlett Loifino, 95 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 2: who is now sid Rosenberg's wingman. If he hadn't gotten 96 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 2: Lui Fino here from w o WAL. I don't think 97 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:50,279 Speaker 2: sid Rosenberg would have cut it. Once Bernard McGirk passed away. 98 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 2: We'll get into that momentarily. But by the time they 99 00:06:56,040 --> 00:07:00,800 Speaker 2: came to WABC, this is after that scarlet and situation 100 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 2: with Rutgers, which I think occurred in about two thousand 101 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 2: and seven. All of a sudden, MSNBC canceled them because 102 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 2: they were simulcast, and then WFA and canceled them. Fired, 103 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 2: the imish fired. Bernard McGirr kept the others on a 104 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 2: little bit, but let them go too, and they were 105 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 2: in a lurch. They were persona no grade. They had 106 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 2: a scarlet letter on them. They were called races, which, 107 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 2: let me tell you something. Bernard McGirr coughing up in 108 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 2: the projects with predominantly African Americans and Hispanics around him, 109 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 2: not far from the Soto Mayor Projects which used to 110 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 2: be the Bronxdale Projects renamed in her honor, near the 111 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 2: Bruckna in the heart of the South Bronx. He was 112 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 2: no racist. Probably the saddest moment that I experienced on 113 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 2: his behalf is that he was supposed to in two 114 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 2: thousand and seven be hired over at WRKO for the 115 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 2: morning program in Boston, and boy, they wanted him there 116 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 2: desperately because he would have been a perfect fit Irish. 117 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 2: And remember he used to do used to do the 118 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 2: imitations of John and Cardinal o'conna and Cardinal Egan. You know, 119 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 2: you had that Federal Express envelope as like the cone 120 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 2: on his head. He was great with the Irish brogue 121 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 2: man and loved him in Boston. So there I am 122 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 2: in the studios of WRKO in Boston. I was leading 123 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 2: Guardian Angel patrols. Some black minister had said, don't come 124 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 2: to Boston because you're just asking to end up in 125 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 2: a body bag. It was high crime. The mayor was 126 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 2: opposed to it, and so here it was they were 127 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:52,240 Speaker 2: going to hire Bernard McGirk to be the co host 128 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 2: with the former Speaker of the crooked Boston Excuse mean 129 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:03,199 Speaker 2: Massachusetts Legislature, Tom Finnerant and then Alslom Shady Sharpton and 130 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 2: Barack Obama started working the phones to all the advertisers 131 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 2: and telling him, if you hire that racist Bernard McGirk, 132 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:16,079 Speaker 2: we're going to launch a boycott. So when I got 133 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:20,079 Speaker 2: there that morning, I said, hey, where's Burnie. Oh no, no, no, 134 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,439 Speaker 2: they decided not to take him. Honest, but what that 135 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 2: would have helped you, Thomas, you know you're a politician. 136 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 2: I was honest with him. Politicians make horrible talk show 137 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 2: hosts because they always speak with a seven second SoundBite. 138 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 2: They're the worst. He goes, no, you're right, I needed Bernie. 139 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:41,199 Speaker 2: So once again, Bernard McGirk was off into the ABYSS, 140 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 2: labeled a racist. Meantime, unbeknownst to anybody, don Imus, who 141 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:51,839 Speaker 2: represented his whole crew, because you paid Imus and then 142 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 2: he paid his crew, so you were subject to whatever 143 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 2: Imus said you had to do. He was meeting with 144 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 2: the Buckley family who owned WOR, this station seven ten 145 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 2: at the time, family owned station, and they were on 146 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 2: the cusp of hiring him. Now, remember the morning shows 147 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:15,719 Speaker 2: there had either been gambling one, two, three, or programs 148 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 2: that sounded like the gambling show. You know, it soundedlikes 149 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 2: so this would have been a major departure for them. 150 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 2: I don't know what happened, but negotiations broke down and 151 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 2: at that point WOR decided not to bring him into 152 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 2: the mornings. That's like halfway through twenty two thousand and seven. 153 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:42,080 Speaker 2: And then towards the end of two thousand and seven, 154 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:46,360 Speaker 2: what happens. WABC hires Imis in the morning and his 155 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:49,839 Speaker 2: crew to replace Curtis and Koby. They fired Koby and 156 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:52,840 Speaker 2: they put me in a box doing overnight radio, and 157 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:56,000 Speaker 2: that was syndicated across the nation. But they weren't gonna 158 00:10:56,080 --> 00:11:00,320 Speaker 2: let me go. They said it so wow. That was 159 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 2: all within a year, And every step of the way, 160 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:12,320 Speaker 2: Bernard McGirk was loyal to Imus and loyal to the team. 161 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:15,559 Speaker 2: Never told the stories, the horrific stories of how badly 162 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 2: i'mus treated him and all the members of his staff. 163 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,959 Speaker 2: By the way, the executive producer, when you saw him 164 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 2: in the studio, he was feeding information i'mus. Bernard would 165 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:32,680 Speaker 2: read the books, he would give him the questions to ask. 166 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:38,840 Speaker 2: There was sometimes Imus was almost incoherent, and Bernard McGirk 167 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 2: would save the day whether i'mus was off in New 168 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:46,719 Speaker 2: Mexico and then eventually in Texas at Ranch whatever. And 169 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 2: then he had a wish at WABC. He wanted to 170 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 2: have his own show. He had earned it many times 171 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:56,840 Speaker 2: over great talk show hosts, and he said to management 172 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 2: and ownership, I want to be able to bring up 173 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 2: Sid Rosenberg from Florida, who was having a difficult time, 174 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:07,320 Speaker 2: and he convinced him. He convinced them that, yeah, this 175 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:09,480 Speaker 2: could be a good show. I remember I went down 176 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:12,679 Speaker 2: to Florida. I was hosting a Guardian Angel conference at 177 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:16,440 Speaker 2: the hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, and I was asking 178 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:19,079 Speaker 2: questions about Sid because he had just been fired in 179 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 2: another radio station. Assumed he had some of the same 180 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 2: problems he had before. He hadn't. I reported back to 181 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 2: ownership management and I told, man, you got it. You 182 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 2: got to bring Sid up because he wanted to hire 183 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:36,200 Speaker 2: Mike Lupeka, the sports writer at at the Daly News. 184 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 2: Great sports writer, but horrible talk show hosts. And I 185 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:42,199 Speaker 2: must say, convince him. You don't have to come into 186 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:44,079 Speaker 2: the station. You could do it from your basement in 187 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 2: New Canaan. Yeah, just destroy the station even more, saying God, 188 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 2: they listened to me. They brought Sid Rosenberg up. Sid 189 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 2: was a great addition. And then unfortunately Bernie, and this 190 00:12:57,800 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 2: is a message to all of you to get to 191 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:04,040 Speaker 2: your men, never took that PSA test. A simple prick 192 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:08,319 Speaker 2: of the finger, A simple prick of the finger. If 193 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 2: he had had that blood test, it's simple. I can 194 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 2: assure you he would not have died of prostate cancer 195 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:19,640 Speaker 2: like so many men needlessly do because they don't get tested. 196 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:22,600 Speaker 2: If you're forty five or older, you gotta get tested. Women, 197 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:26,320 Speaker 2: folks listening out there, you have the right to nag them, 198 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 2: be all over them, make sure they get that test, 199 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 2: because the toughest guys are the ones least likely to 200 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 2: take the test because they think, oh man, it goes 201 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 2: my manhood. You know, I'll have to be using no 202 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 2: longer the urino. I'll have to go into the stall 203 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:43,679 Speaker 2: and do a squad And for us, that's nonsense. I 204 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:48,120 Speaker 2: had stage four prostate cancer. But Bernie was old school. 205 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 2: And when we return, I'll tell you exactly what happened there. 206 00:13:55,800 --> 00:14:00,120 Speaker 2: For one year, this guy suffered and you continue to 207 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 2: do talk radio while his partner, Sid Rosenberg was hoping 208 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 2: that he would have a shot to do the show 209 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:15,079 Speaker 2: on his own. You imagine that this guy who had 210 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 2: brought him, who said I want sit up here, and 211 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 2: all Sid was doing while Bertie was suffering, is I 212 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 2: could do this show on my own. Really, No, you couldn't. No, 213 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 2: you can't. And I'll give you the rest of the 214 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 2: real story as I do my homage to a great 215 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:44,760 Speaker 2: all round figure in talk radio, Bernard McGirk, who should 216 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 2: be honored on a regular basis for all he put 217 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 2: up with, all he did and what he contributed to 218 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 2: the thing of ours. One eight hundred three two one 219 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 2: zero seven ten. That's one eight hundred three to two 220 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 2: one zero seven ten. 221 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:04,000 Speaker 1: Curtis Sliwa a guest host the Mark Simone Show on 222 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 1: seven tenor. 223 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 2: Every year when I was at WABC, not my place 224 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 2: to be. You got to be listening to seven to 225 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 2: ten war. It is the voice in New York. Don't 226 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 2: be a Massacus and go back listening there because they 227 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 2: don't do these tributes to a guy who was so 228 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 2: important to radio in general, never mind WABC. So Bernard 229 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 2: McGirk is fighting to have his own program and without 230 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 2: which I Miss could not exist without Bernie as his 231 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 2: executive producer. So the deal is made. Burnie will continue 232 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 2: to be the executive producer for don I Miss in 233 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 2: the Morning six to ten, and they would replace Heraldo Rivera, 234 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 2: who was a prima donna at that time, never wanting 235 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 2: to come and do the show in the studio with 236 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 2: the new show, Bernard McGirk and Sid Roseberg. Everybody knew 237 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 2: Bernard McGirk. Come on, he was on with O'Reilly. Remember 238 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 2: once a week before anybody really knew Gutfeld. Gutfeld now 239 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:12,840 Speaker 2: everybody knows him, but Bernie carried that segment until Gutfeld 240 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 2: got his legs. So everybody knew Bernie, not everybody knew Sid. 241 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:23,000 Speaker 2: But it was a great program because in twenty sixteen, 242 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 2: remember it was the election of Trump versus Hillary, and 243 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 2: Sid was truly a Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter, and as 244 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:35,560 Speaker 2: you know, there was no bigger supporter of Donald Trump 245 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 2: than Bernard McGirk. So it's great to listen to them 246 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 2: back and forth. And then, as you know, Trump becomes president. 247 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 2: Hillary was still in a fetal position at the Jacob 248 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 2: Chavich Senna, willing to accept the coronation, and they had 249 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:51,880 Speaker 2: a teller every day for a month. No, no, Hillary, 250 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 2: You're not the president. And finally bring it back to 251 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:57,840 Speaker 2: the Love Shack in Chappaqua, the whitest suburb in America, 252 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:02,920 Speaker 2: where even the launch jockey's away. So now they're moving along. 253 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,360 Speaker 2: They're doing mid mornings. Remember Bernie's still the executive producer 254 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 2: in the morning for don Imus, who is losing it. 255 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 2: I mean, you could tell. And then finally they determined 256 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 2: that it's time for Imus to ride into the sunset. 257 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:21,679 Speaker 2: That's it. He's retiring. I think it was in twenty eighteen. 258 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:26,119 Speaker 2: And so now it's Sid and Bernie in the morning. 259 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:29,399 Speaker 2: But Bernie's the bus driver. Bernie did all the show prep. 260 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 2: Bernie is getting cuts, Bernie is working hard like he 261 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:37,919 Speaker 2: always worked. He was the executive producer and obviously the host, 262 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:40,920 Speaker 2: the go to hosts and Sid. You could tell there 263 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:45,360 Speaker 2: was like resistance resistance. It's like Sid wanted to talk sports, 264 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:47,920 Speaker 2: okay a little bit of that, and naturally all about 265 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 2: himself and he'll tell you, oh, look I'm paranoid, I'm insecure, 266 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:57,440 Speaker 2: I'm neurotic. But he had to tell you things about himself. 267 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 2: Quite frankly, they weren't all that interesting. But Bernard would 268 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:05,959 Speaker 2: do the reading, do the research, and help do a 269 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 2: really good morning program. But unfortunately he did not pay 270 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 2: attention to the warning signs that maybe some of you 271 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 2: guys are having out there, and I beg you, I 272 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 2: beseech you, as somebody at stage four prostate cancer, get 273 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:21,440 Speaker 2: the simple prick of the finger, the blood test. That's 274 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:25,719 Speaker 2: all it is. Because if you don't, you might end 275 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 2: up like Bernard McGirt and so many others that you knew. 276 00:18:28,119 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 2: There was nobody healthier than Bernard mcgirky, lived in Long Beach, 277 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:34,200 Speaker 2: his wife, his two children. He'd be on the board 278 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:39,400 Speaker 2: walk there, riding his bicycle, healthy diet. It wasn't better 279 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:41,880 Speaker 2: shape than any of us. In fact, in the lockdown 280 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 2: and pandemic, I'll never forget the image of Bernard McGirt 281 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 2: coming off the Long Island Railroad dressed like Lawrence of 282 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 2: the Arabia with a shive in his hand. Because only 283 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 2: emotionally disturbing and homeless people are taken over Penn Station. 284 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:57,480 Speaker 2: I know we and the Guardian Angels were caring for him, 285 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 2: and I would see I would see Bernard to merge, man, 286 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:04,919 Speaker 2: you didn't want to mess with bern Ar McGirk. He 287 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:07,240 Speaker 2: was prepared, but he was gonna get to that station. 288 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:13,600 Speaker 2: And it was a great team. In the morning, now 289 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 2: everybody recommended to him, Bernie, Bernie, you better go talk 290 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 2: to Curtison Studio B because he was I'm not feeling well, 291 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:27,200 Speaker 2: and Bernie started to tell me what his symptoms were, 292 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 2: and I kind of understood it was prostate cancer. Having 293 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:34,320 Speaker 2: been through the ordeal myself. Luckily I survived. He didn't. 294 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:39,800 Speaker 2: He had not gotten a PSA test. He had to 295 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:42,400 Speaker 2: go home and at times do the broadcast from home 296 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 2: laying down on the bed parallel to the ceiling. Wow, 297 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:55,160 Speaker 2: there's cancer metastasized. I think he went into his liver 298 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 2: and then his brain. And then by twenty twenty two, 299 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:06,160 Speaker 2: unfortunately Bernard McGirk is dead. They had a nice commemorative 300 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 2: mass in Saint Patrick's Cathedral and we all got a 301 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,200 Speaker 2: chance to speak on behalf of Bernie, and the many 302 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:17,400 Speaker 2: fans who had grown up listening to Bernard McGirk filled 303 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 2: Saint Patrick's Cathedral. People went out to his wake in 304 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:26,560 Speaker 2: Long Beach, including at the time the Mayor of the 305 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:28,840 Speaker 2: City of New York, Eric Adams, who always used to 306 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:32,720 Speaker 2: tell Bernie and I tell Bernie, he's pulling your shorts. Oh, 307 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 2: it's my favorite morning show. Meantime you knew it was Charlemagne, 308 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,120 Speaker 2: that god right, they tell the Mighty Whities. Yeah, you're 309 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:41,080 Speaker 2: my favorite show. You in said, meantime, he's listening to Charlemagne, 310 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:43,240 Speaker 2: the guy. He went all the way out there, and 311 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:49,120 Speaker 2: Bernie's father, just like Bernie, looked at Eric Adams because 312 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:52,240 Speaker 2: he was sitting up in the front and he said, 313 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:55,080 Speaker 2: what are you doing here looking for votes? And everybody 314 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 2: busted out laughing because they knew what that was about. 315 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:02,080 Speaker 2: But the fact was that Sid was having a tough 316 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:05,880 Speaker 2: time carrying this program. It really was. People were used 317 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:09,240 Speaker 2: to Bernie. They wanted Bernie. Obviously he could no longer 318 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:13,160 Speaker 2: do it. So the suits, the owners of WABC, said 319 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 2: he needs a partner right away. They came to me 320 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:18,199 Speaker 2: because I've not morning shows, I mean, you name it, 321 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 2: have done him many times with Lisa Angels in the morning, 322 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 2: with Ron Coolby, done a lot of morning shot and Nope, 323 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:29,159 Speaker 2: not I. This guy does not want a partner. It 324 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 2: is clear he's a diva. He thinks the show should 325 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:38,400 Speaker 2: be all about him. And so they tried Andrew Giuliani, 326 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,160 Speaker 2: who was a rookie. I had him in the talk 327 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:44,399 Speaker 2: radio boot camp there along with others like Dominic Carter 328 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:48,879 Speaker 2: and others, and he was learning. And then one morning 329 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 2: he's on with Sid and they get into an argument about, 330 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:56,199 Speaker 2: of all things, former New York Yankee Paul O'Neill of 331 00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:59,359 Speaker 2: no consequence to the argument, and Sid uses that as 332 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,280 Speaker 2: the excure I don't want him here anymore. He never 333 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:08,360 Speaker 2: wanted a partner to begin with, big mistake, and then 334 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:13,960 Speaker 2: thankfully they brought over from here wr the former Border 335 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:18,120 Speaker 2: operator and great contributor Lou Raffino, who became SID swingman. 336 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 2: But I will tell you the show. At times she 337 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:27,639 Speaker 2: can't listen. It's all about said, I mean, you know, 338 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:31,760 Speaker 2: my whole life, who cares? And then October seventh hit 339 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:36,239 Speaker 2: the attack against all the Israelis and others in the 340 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:40,879 Speaker 2: southern end of Israel, thousand, two hundred killed, two hundred 341 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:46,160 Speaker 2: and fifty kidnapped, and said, who had never really been 342 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,639 Speaker 2: in tune with his Jewish roots, would always complain to 343 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,119 Speaker 2: wish I had been born as Supreme Cugiene. He'll admit it. 344 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:55,080 Speaker 2: Suddenly discovered his Jewish roots, and I may have created 345 00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 2: the monster that he is now. And I dubbed him 346 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:02,480 Speaker 2: King David the Second because now on almost any morning 347 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:07,119 Speaker 2: you tune in, he's either talking about a Jewish event, 348 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:11,160 Speaker 2: he went to a Jewish event, it's giving him an honor, Israel, 349 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 2: BB Israel, anything related to Jews. And I'm saying to myself, 350 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,680 Speaker 2: you know, there's more to this world than just Israel 351 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,400 Speaker 2: and Jews. I created a monster, There's no doubt about it. 352 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:30,960 Speaker 2: But he got so self absorbed you would think that 353 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:33,960 Speaker 2: he would bless his lucky stars, that he would look 354 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 2: high in the sky to Hashem and say, man, I 355 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:40,280 Speaker 2: I'm telling you, I would not be here if we're 356 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,359 Speaker 2: not for Bernie McGirk. I would not be here. If 357 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 2: Bernie McGirk had not said his opportunity, which he could 358 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 2: have handled solo, he said, I want to do this 359 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 2: show would sit and it was a great show, especially 360 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:57,399 Speaker 2: when they first came together in twenty sixteen, said a 361 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:00,639 Speaker 2: true supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton. He doesn't like to 362 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:05,280 Speaker 2: talk about it now. And the ultimate Trumper before there 363 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:12,400 Speaker 2: was MAGA was Bernard McGirt. So on that note, even 364 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:16,119 Speaker 2: though they won't do it at WABC, I do it 365 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 2: every year no matter where I am, because if we 366 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:23,119 Speaker 2: don't honor all of those who made this thing of 367 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:27,719 Speaker 2: ours possible, shame on us. You just don't understand how 368 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:32,080 Speaker 2: much abuse Bernard mcgirth was subjected to by don Imus. 369 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:38,120 Speaker 2: How he kept that team together. He was the CONSIGLIERI 370 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 2: i'mus was out of control. Charles McCord, Rob Bartlett, lit Rafino, 371 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:47,160 Speaker 2: all the others. He would be the ones. No, no, no, 372 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 2: I'll get control of him. He would do all the 373 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:52,399 Speaker 2: show prep, he would read the books, he would feed 374 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:56,760 Speaker 2: don Imus the lines. Did don ever acknowledge that? Of 375 00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:03,679 Speaker 2: course not? It's it ever that, of course not, And 376 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 2: all Bernard McGirk wanted to do with his own program. 377 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,680 Speaker 2: Let's be the bus driver and do all the heavy 378 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 2: lifting and all the work that's necessary. Two hours of 379 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 2: preparation is required for one hour talk radio. If you're good, 380 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 2: if you're just repeating what you heard the night before, 381 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:28,199 Speaker 2: anybody can do that so to a wor audience that 382 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 2: may not have ever really experienced the greatness of Bernard McGirk. 383 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 2: He so mightily contributed to this thing of ours and 384 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 2: suffered in so many ways. It's important for us to 385 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 2: acknowledge him each and every day. Our number is one 386 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,680 Speaker 2: eight hundred and three to two one zero seven ten. 387 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:52,160 Speaker 2: This is wor seven ten, the Voice of New York, 388 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,639 Speaker 2: and it should be if you haven't listened before your 389 00:25:54,680 --> 00:26:00,080 Speaker 2: newfound station, the False of New York. On the Voice 390 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:01,200 Speaker 2: of New York. 391 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 1: Curtis Sleewald guess Hose from Marks them All on sevent tenor. 392 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 2: As we Go to the phones, because it's your turn 393 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:16,719 Speaker 2: to be heard. What should be your talk radio station 394 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 2: seven to ten wor the voice of New York. It 395 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 2: certainly is in the Sleeper family now, and don't be 396 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 2: a massacres and go back to WABC always blaming Curtis 397 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,919 Speaker 2: for Zorah Mandamian, always bashing Curtis. I mean, that's what 398 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:35,680 Speaker 2: they do. Let's go to the phones if we can. 399 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,720 Speaker 2: And first up in the queue is Diane, who is 400 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:42,160 Speaker 2: calling from Summit. Your turn to be heard here on 401 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 2: seven ten WOR. Diane. 402 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,640 Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, Curtis. I'm so grateful to speak with you. 403 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 3: I cannot tell you how tholve them with emotion, I am. 404 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:58,800 Speaker 3: I'm grateful to speak with you. I live to listen 405 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:03,480 Speaker 3: to you, and what you did speaking of Bernhard was 406 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,640 Speaker 3: so touching. However, I don't want to speak in an 407 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 3: emotional fashion. I have a few quick comments to make. 408 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:20,120 Speaker 3: It was terribly disturbing, disgraceful and disappointing that the previous 409 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:26,760 Speaker 3: a W place you worked, uh this you know, regarding you, 410 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:32,120 Speaker 3: that spoke about you after you've been such a royal person. 411 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:38,800 Speaker 3: I listen to you regularly. You are you would have 412 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 3: good best manure you are very intelligent. Codis I really 413 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,760 Speaker 3: speak my heart? Would I tell you how much I 414 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:53,639 Speaker 3: admire you. I'm trying to be so emotional, but no, no. 415 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,359 Speaker 2: No, no, you have you have a right to be 416 00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 2: emotional again. Feel for you. 417 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 3: Speaking for I'm speaking for the community. I'm speaking for 418 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:04,400 Speaker 3: many people. 419 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:08,480 Speaker 2: Right But I want to focus not so much on me. 420 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 2: I'm still alive and well at least I think for today. 421 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:17,480 Speaker 2: With all the people whould love to kill me, that's 422 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:21,399 Speaker 2: been my history, It's okay, So I love that. Edm 423 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:26,840 Speaker 2: song bunt Oh. I enjoy I enjoy this day, another 424 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,639 Speaker 2: day of life. It's the best day of my life. 425 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:33,400 Speaker 2: It is because I'm alive. I have the best wife 426 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,960 Speaker 2: you could ever have, Nancy. I have our cats, and 427 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 2: I have so many people who've grown up listening to 428 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,760 Speaker 2: me for thirty five years in talk radio, and all 429 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,800 Speaker 2: the people that I've reached out and touched all over 430 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:48,320 Speaker 2: the world. No, no, this is the tribute to Bernard McGirk, 431 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:52,120 Speaker 2: who is not here. And if you want to honor 432 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 2: bern All McGirk as I do every year, as you 433 00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 2: should do, the way you can do it every day 434 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,959 Speaker 2: is to warn forty five and older to get that 435 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,760 Speaker 2: simple prick of the finger that psa blood test that 436 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 2: saves lives. I had stage four prostate cancer. You hear 437 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 2: from doctor Gil lead him in often after other doctors 438 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,920 Speaker 2: have not done well for their patients. He oftentimes can 439 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 2: patch people up and give them life where they would 440 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 2: have normally had a horrendous death like Bernard McGirt did. 441 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 2: So keep that in mind. That's how that's how you 442 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,880 Speaker 2: honor the memory of Bernard McGirt to make sure that 443 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 2: doesn't happen to other men. A simple blood test and 444 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:40,200 Speaker 2: he would still be alive. He was the healthiest of 445 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 2: all of us. Over there at WABC, let's go. I 446 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:45,080 Speaker 2: we can with Chris, who is calling from Beth Page. 447 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:47,720 Speaker 2: Your turn to be heard here at seven to ten 448 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:49,960 Speaker 2: WOR Chris. 449 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 4: Thank Curtis. 450 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 5: I used to listen to and call you a lot 451 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 5: your on the other station, obviously, and I love you. 452 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:58,960 Speaker 5: You're great. But I have to push back on a 453 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 5: couple of things if you don't, if you will let me. 454 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:03,960 Speaker 5: First of all, I listen to Sid all the time. 455 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,080 Speaker 5: He used to have you on like five days a week. 456 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,680 Speaker 5: These guys were the best together. I don't know what 457 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,560 Speaker 5: the heck happened, And to this day Sid will even 458 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,160 Speaker 5: say he goes, I love Curtis. I'm not you know, 459 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,560 Speaker 5: I'm sorry that this election got between you guys. It's 460 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:22,280 Speaker 5: just it's lunacy to me that this has happened was tremendous. 461 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,720 Speaker 2: Well, you have to understand, you have to understand that 462 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:29,280 Speaker 2: all when he was saying that testio, remember the godfather, 463 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:36,520 Speaker 2: whoever arranged the meeting is the trader, that's it, who 464 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:42,680 Speaker 2: all along was contacting people to vote for Cuomo, encouraging 465 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:47,040 Speaker 2: people to jump from my campaign to the Cuomo campaign. Look, 466 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 2: I have all the evidences, no doubt about it. He 467 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 2: had had five lunches, five dinners with Andrew Cmo. What's 468 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:59,840 Speaker 2: he having dinner for? That's how Andrew Cuomo Andrew evilized operated. 469 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:03,840 Speaker 2: I knew that Sid is a novice to politics. He 470 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,840 Speaker 2: never dealt with politics before. He is a sports guy, 471 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:13,239 Speaker 2: and then he became a homo sexual big time, Oh 472 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 2: big time. And the reason that I was on five 473 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,840 Speaker 2: times a week is I would not ever consider being 474 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 2: his partner because he needs one, He desperately needs one. 475 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 2: Lu Rafino does a great job as his wingman. The 476 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 2: board operator was great with Imans that keeps him a 477 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 2: little more focused. But when he got rid of Andrew 478 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:38,479 Speaker 2: Giuliani was trying, you can't see you can't disagree with Sid. 479 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 2: Now I could, because obviously I have more credit, I'm older, 480 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,920 Speaker 2: I have more experience than Sid. There but others couldn't. 481 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:49,240 Speaker 2: He couldn't. So I got on once a week and 482 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,440 Speaker 2: then they said, well, do it twice a week, three 483 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:53,960 Speaker 2: times a week, four times a week, five times a week. 484 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:58,400 Speaker 2: No problem, he needed that. I didn't mind doing the 485 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:04,040 Speaker 2: extra radio. Let does Barney talk? You know, sit in friends, 486 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:07,200 Speaker 2: I love you, you love me? And then, my god, 487 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 2: you can predict what the program is each and every day. 488 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 2: I can tell all of you if Bernard McGirk had 489 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 2: survived as prostate cancer, like luckily I had Stage four, 490 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 2: what happened at WABC, to me would never have happened. 491 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:29,440 Speaker 2: Bernard McGirk a man of honor. You couldn't be any 492 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:32,480 Speaker 2: more loyal than Bernard. Look at all those years with Imus. 493 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:36,800 Speaker 2: Look at all those years he kept that program together. 494 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:39,880 Speaker 2: Look at all those years that he would be beaten 495 00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:43,880 Speaker 2: down each and every day by Imus, who was a monster, 496 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,400 Speaker 2: and then he'd be the one to rally Charles McCord 497 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:54,280 Speaker 2: and Rob Bartlett and Lou Rafino and the other contributors 498 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:56,560 Speaker 2: and say no, no, no, let's let's let's focus for 499 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:58,600 Speaker 2: another day. And he would do all the heavy lifting. 500 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,480 Speaker 2: He would do all the show prep, just like he 501 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,600 Speaker 2: did for the brand new show Bernard McGirk and Sid Roseberg. 502 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:10,360 Speaker 2: Let's Sid. Now he thought he didn't need anybody. He does. 503 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:15,160 Speaker 2: You can't just do an eye on me show. You 504 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 2: gotta do the work, and not just with your friends. 505 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:21,800 Speaker 2: You have to deal with your foes. Let's go if 506 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,000 Speaker 2: we can to Bob, who's calling from Perth? Hand boy? 507 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:27,440 Speaker 2: Your turn to be heard here on seven to ten 508 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:28,880 Speaker 2: wor Bobby. 509 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,600 Speaker 4: Good morning courtage. How are you sir? Happy new year? 510 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:34,400 Speaker 4: Do you so, sir? 511 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:36,840 Speaker 2: Oh? Thank you, thank you. It's been greater. Had a 512 00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:40,200 Speaker 2: two week run here substituting for the best in talk radio, 513 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,680 Speaker 2: Mark Sabone and can't get any better than that. 514 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,320 Speaker 4: And I also know a good friend of yours that 515 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:55,120 Speaker 4: used to do Elvison Personaeder dear Elvis Paul Daniels. 516 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:59,959 Speaker 2: Oh yes, Paul lifelong and a good Polish American too, 517 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:00,480 Speaker 2: who I might. 518 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:04,800 Speaker 4: Add absolutely yes, he is definitely well. Anyway, I want 519 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:11,720 Speaker 4: to say, what is uh the airplane, the helicopter pilot 520 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:16,359 Speaker 4: and hook, who's gonna do at the outer bridge? Which? Uh, 521 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,839 Speaker 4: you know how how bad that is? They picked every 522 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,080 Speaker 4: other thing, but they can't fix the outer bridge, the. 523 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:27,799 Speaker 2: Outer bridge crossing. How many people over the years have 524 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:31,200 Speaker 2: done the hop skipping a jump? You know what that is? 525 00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:35,120 Speaker 2: Is he they start out in Brooklyn, they cross of Arizona, 526 00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:38,279 Speaker 2: they go to the south shore of Staten Island, then 527 00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:42,160 Speaker 2: across the outer Bridge crossing, go down to Manalapana, Jersey Shore. 528 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:47,920 Speaker 2: Next stop might be Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia, Texas, Tennessee, parts unknown. 529 00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:55,960 Speaker 2: It all starts with the outer Bridge crossing. Are there right? Oh, 530 00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,400 Speaker 2: let me tell you something. I just want you to 531 00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,720 Speaker 2: keep that focus. I know there are many many callers 532 00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:07,880 Speaker 2: blazing away there, blazing away. Please at the start of 533 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:11,719 Speaker 2: the new year, sink back to all the greats in 534 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,280 Speaker 2: this thing of ours that we love so much talk radio, 535 00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:19,960 Speaker 2: from Barry Gray to Bob Grant, to Barry Farbird and 536 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:26,319 Speaker 2: Samuels to Bernard McGirk, all the people who paved the way. 537 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:33,719 Speaker 2: None of them, though, suffered like Bernard McGirk suffered. You 538 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:35,799 Speaker 2: just have no idea what it was like to be 539 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:40,200 Speaker 2: in the Imus cage in the morning. He had to 540 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:44,360 Speaker 2: deal with that monster, and then he had to prepare 541 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,480 Speaker 2: the show. He had to keep don Imus going. And 542 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:50,960 Speaker 2: then when his dream came true, instead of saying what 543 00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:53,040 Speaker 2: so many in our business, well no, no, no, no, I 544 00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:54,600 Speaker 2: want to do it my own, he said. I want 545 00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:57,080 Speaker 2: to bring up my friends, said Rose Murty from Florida, 546 00:35:57,600 --> 00:35:59,880 Speaker 2: who had lost every job down there and had just 547 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:03,320 Speaker 2: been fired from another radio station. I don't know why, 548 00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:07,960 Speaker 2: but they were a great partnership. Twenty sixteen. Sid was 549 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:15,320 Speaker 2: for Hillary really legitimately, and Brenald McGirk was a Trumper 550 00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:22,160 Speaker 2: before many became Trumpers. And then when Sid thought it 551 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:26,560 Speaker 2: could be his own, watch out the long knives come out. 552 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,399 Speaker 2: Oh by the way, he's planning to move to Florida. Now, 553 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,240 Speaker 2: oh yeah, he lives out there in the Irish Riviera. 554 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,160 Speaker 2: He's ready to sell his house. Hey, look, God bless 555 00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,279 Speaker 2: all of you out there. If you don't want to 556 00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:40,120 Speaker 2: stay in the land of Mondami, I get it. That's 557 00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:43,120 Speaker 2: what America is about. You get to move to the 558 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:46,480 Speaker 2: places you want to go, but don't pretend you're gonna 559 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,160 Speaker 2: stay and fight for what you know is right, improve 560 00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:53,799 Speaker 2: don't move. You gotta prove it. You gotta be a 561 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,680 Speaker 2: man of honor. You come into this world with nothing, 562 00:36:56,719 --> 00:37:02,560 Speaker 2: you go out with nothing. God bless Bernard McGirk. He 563 00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:06,759 Speaker 2: lived as a man of honor. He died as a 564 00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:07,680 Speaker 2: man of honor. 565 00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:13,040 Speaker 1: The voice that fights for New York literally Curtis Leewad 566 00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:18,399 Speaker 1: guest hose for Mark Simone on sevent tenor. 567 00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:22,919 Speaker 2: As we move into this new year, the big talk 568 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,400 Speaker 2: is going to be about artificial intelligence. Was back in 569 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:30,439 Speaker 2: twenty fifteen that the masters of the universe, the billionaires 570 00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:35,400 Speaker 2: Elon Musk and Sam Altman, who owned open ai, said 571 00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:41,120 Speaker 2: we can't control this thing AI. It releases demons. Now 572 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:45,120 Speaker 2: they don't care because they're making millions billions of dollars. 573 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:48,120 Speaker 2: People are gonna be wiped out, they're going to lose 574 00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:53,040 Speaker 2: their employment salesforce. Amazon already said we don't need you anymore. 575 00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:57,560 Speaker 2: We got artificial intelligence. Yeah, and then they're going to 576 00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:02,320 Speaker 2: have to build these massive data centers, which requires double 577 00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:04,839 Speaker 2: the amount of electricity that we have now where we're 578 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:08,000 Speaker 2: gonna get that from, and lots of water, and it's 579 00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:12,880 Speaker 2: gonna be put in neighborhoods near you and software companies. 580 00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:18,120 Speaker 2: They're gonna use AI to write code. You're not gonna 581 00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:20,640 Speaker 2: need people to do it. They got a white college job. 582 00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:23,480 Speaker 2: You lived the American dream, you went four years of 583 00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:28,239 Speaker 2: college education, you came out, you're CPA. You know you're 584 00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:31,680 Speaker 2: a financial analyst, you're a lawyer. Hey, lawyers are using 585 00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:33,879 Speaker 2: it to draft legal breach. They're not gonna need you, 586 00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:37,640 Speaker 2: and they don't want to slow it down because the 587 00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:42,040 Speaker 2: masters of the universe are making money hand over fist. 588 00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:47,080 Speaker 2: You're not regularly gonna hear people talking about that. Just 589 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:50,000 Speaker 2: keep that in mind, do your research, think for yourself, 590 00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:53,960 Speaker 2: challenge authority. And oh, by by the way, you know 591 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:56,840 Speaker 2: the person who's gonna be happiest at Mark Simona is 592 00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:02,120 Speaker 2: back on Monday. It's gonna be great WABC. That guy 593 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:05,600 Speaker 2: he's been tortured for like two weeks because he did 594 00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:08,040 Speaker 2: all of his show prep by listening to the best 595 00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:11,480 Speaker 2: in talk radio, Mark Simone. And you should too.