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Hour 2: TV and Radio icons. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Now the Red Beret has returned to radio. Curtis Leewall
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Speaker 1: guest host the Mark Simone Show on sevent ten wor.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh boy. All these officials must cheat from one another.
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Speaker 2: You know Eric Adams swaggerman with no plan. Thank god,
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Speaker 2: he's gone, claiming crimers at an all time load. Now,
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Speaker 2: if you're in the five boroughs of the city in
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Speaker 2: New York, you don't know what city he's in. Well,
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Speaker 2: that's right. Most times he hasn't even been in our city.
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Speaker 2: And then I heard that broadcasts about Rosbaraka, who, like
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Speaker 2: his father, hates cops. Who's his father is he? I know? Look,
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Speaker 2: look from West Milford. What would you know? You know,
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Speaker 2: you don't grow up in Newark. I know more about
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Speaker 2: Newark than most people listening to this radio station. Spent
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Speaker 2: a lot of time there. But Rosbarock because father was
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Speaker 2: Lee Roy Jones. We then changed his name to a
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Speaker 2: mirror Baraka, poet, self described communists and hater of everything white.
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Speaker 2: If it was white, it wasn't right, and the lifelong
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Speaker 2: enemy of Tony Imperiale. We at the Northward Citizens Association
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Speaker 2: and kept that area along Bloomfield Avenue from burning down
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Speaker 2: during the riots. Unfortunately the rest of the city decimated
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Speaker 2: and no has not returned since crime is high there.
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Speaker 2: You want to go to Weekwake Park. You want to
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Speaker 2: go to broad and Market. By the way broad and
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Speaker 2: Market is he want you to go to Penn Station
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Speaker 2: in Newark. Yeah, they're all called Penn Station, Baltimore, Penn Station,
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Speaker 2: Phillip Penn Station, Washington Pen. I want you to go
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Speaker 2: to Penn Station in Newark. You take the Path train
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Speaker 2: there in New Jersey trans and I want you to
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Speaker 2: walk over the broad and Mind. You'll see the goldleaf
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Speaker 2: dome of City Hall there. And you need to know
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Speaker 2: they're back in about nineteen twenty twenty two on the
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Speaker 2: sixth floor of one of the biggest retailers of all time, Bamburgers.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there used to be all the big stores
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Speaker 2: there along Broader Market, same as you had in New York.
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Speaker 2: Was where wor R got its license to broadcasts. And
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Speaker 2: that's where I think the first of the three Gamblings
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Speaker 2: was broadcasting from six floor. No longer Bamburgers, obviously. And
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Speaker 2: to tell you how bad things are in Newark, don't
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Speaker 2: listen to Rasbaraka. He hates cops. There used to be
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Speaker 2: more Cadillac dealerships in Newark than any other city in
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Speaker 2: the nation, more than even in Detroit, where the Cadillacs
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Speaker 2: were coming off the assembly line. And we'll go right
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Speaker 2: into the some we'll go right into the showcased halls,
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Speaker 2: and you can get a Cadillac cheaper there than anywhere.
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Speaker 2: And my uncle's on the Italian American side, the Bianchino side.
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Speaker 2: They all love Cadillacts back then, or Italian guys. That
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Speaker 2: was the sign of success in El Dorado, Fleetwood, Seville,
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Speaker 2: you know where they went to buy the Cadillacs and
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Speaker 2: then trade it in every year for a new Cadillac. Newark.
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Speaker 2: Then the riots hit. You can't even buy or used
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Speaker 2: Cadillac anywhere in Newark now, So stop this nonsense. Oh no,
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Speaker 2: it's safer than it's ever been. New York City, safer
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Speaker 2: than it's ever been. Who knows more about both those
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Speaker 2: cities than me? Yes, truly, Curtis Sliwa, Get out of here.
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Speaker 2: Rose Baraka, the evil seed did not fall far from
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Speaker 2: the rotten tree of leit Roy Jones aka Emira Baraka
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Speaker 2: a selfish describe communists. You know how that's been thrown
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Speaker 2: around Zoron Mondami. You know Kami Mondam. He's not a communist,
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Speaker 2: he's a socialists. But Leroy Jones was a communist. And
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Speaker 2: we'll get one guarantee. If you were white, you were
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Speaker 2: not right. All right, Just a little side note there.
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Speaker 2: I want to get back on track though, because we
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Speaker 2: are doing homage, as oftentimes Mark Simone would do. Nobody
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Speaker 2: knows more about television, movies, radio and its history than
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Speaker 2: Mark Simone. But I was sitting with Tom Cuddy yesterday
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Speaker 2: after the show and the name of Regis Philbin popped up,
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Speaker 2: and without a doubt, Regis Philbin was the hardest working
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Speaker 2: guy in all of television. And I know for a
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Speaker 2: lot of people they don't even think about Regis Philbin anymore.
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Speaker 2: Shame shame on you. Local guy Bronx kid van Nass
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Speaker 2: not far from Morris par went to Cardinal Hayes Hayesman
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Speaker 2: by the way, like Bernard McGirk, who I'll be talking
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Speaker 2: about tomorrow doing my annual tribute. But I gotta tell you,
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Speaker 2: Regis Philman his father, Irish named him Regis because he
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Speaker 2: wanted him to go to Regis High School in Manhattan,
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Speaker 2: which is the elite Jesuit high school can't be elite
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Speaker 2: if Fauci went there from Benson Hurts and he is Udscratziata,
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Speaker 2: he will burn in hell, if nothing more for what
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Speaker 2: he did in sending beagles over to Tunisia, third world country,
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Speaker 2: to experiment on them at our taxpayer's expense and torture
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Speaker 2: them for no purpose other than he's probably a statist,
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Speaker 2: but anyway, just to divert. So Regis got his name
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Speaker 2: Regis because his father said, oh, you're gonna go to
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Speaker 2: Regis High School in Manhattan, the elite Jesuit high school.
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Speaker 2: And I would always say to Regis, guys, because I
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Speaker 2: went to Brooklyn Prep, where they kicked me out my
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Speaker 2: senior year, you're not a real high school because you
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Speaker 2: don't have a football team. And they didn't and they
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Speaker 2: still don't. So he grows up in the Bronx, goes
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Speaker 2: to Cardinal Hayes and the most in I think the
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Speaker 2: interesting thing is he surfaces in nineteen sixty seven with
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Speaker 2: a member of the rat Pack. Remember the rat Pack.
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Speaker 2: Oh you're all aware of that. If you didn't grow
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Speaker 2: up with them, you probably saw the movie Sinatra, Dean Martin,
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Speaker 2: Sammy Davis, Junior, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop. Joey Bishop,
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Speaker 2: who I think had a couple of call fee in
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Speaker 2: the Bronx, was born there, but I think grew up
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Speaker 2: most of his life in Philadelphia. By the way, that's
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Speaker 2: where Dick Clark get it. Notice how the synergy here.
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Speaker 2: It's a stream of consciousness Dick Clark American Bandstand, which
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Speaker 2: eventually led to what you just heard about, ABC's Dick
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Speaker 2: Clark's New Yorkers Rocking Eve, you know with Ryan Seacress,
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Speaker 2: Dick Clark, Ryan, you know, Dick Clark, although he has
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Speaker 2: worked radio, Ryan Seacrest, but he's milk toast. As you know,
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Speaker 2: I don't have time to be watching milk Toast. Regis,
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Speaker 2: on the other hand, was always a Wisenheimer. Will always
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Speaker 2: slip you with Mickey and I first remember watching him
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Speaker 2: on the Joey Bishop Show. I'm sure some of you did.
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Speaker 2: He in competition, remember with Johnny Carson, and his sidekick
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Speaker 2: was Ed McMahon. By the way, great actor, great actor.
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Speaker 2: Does anybody out there know was probably the very first
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Speaker 2: vigilante movie about the subways before there was Death Wish
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Speaker 2: with Charles Bronson. I mean, it was a classic and
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Speaker 2: Eddery McMahon had a great party in it. Great actor.
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Speaker 2: He was a barker on Atlantic City. He came up,
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Speaker 2: became a sidekick for Johnny Carson, you know the rest
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Speaker 2: of that history. And then of course you wanted him
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Speaker 2: to come to your door the publish clearing House. I
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Speaker 2: don't know if it was a battle they were elbowing
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Speaker 2: one another. Was it Dick Clark or was it Ed McMahon.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, because Ed, if you bought all the magazine subscriptions,
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Speaker 2: you might become a millionaire. Oh, by the way, that
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Speaker 2: was another show that Regis Philbin hosted later on, You
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Speaker 2: Want to Be a Millionaire? Who was that it came
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Speaker 2: to your door? Was that Dick Clark was at Ed McMahon.
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Speaker 2: So anyway, it was Joey Bishop and sidekick was Regis Philbin,
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Speaker 2: and Regis was good. It was a good combination. And
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Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, Regis Philbin was no more,
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Speaker 2: you know, because those shows they come, they go, and
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, Regis Philbin showed up on a
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Speaker 2: TV station in Los Angeles midday. I think it was
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Speaker 2: Channel thirteen or Channel nine. They have like these independent
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Speaker 2: stations there. They all have talk shows they do news
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Speaker 2: many more than we have. And you know who he replaced.
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Speaker 2: He replaced the king of talk radio, Bob Grant, who
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Speaker 2: was on television at that time. Oh no, no, no, there's
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Speaker 2: so much more to delve into. We ooh, but this
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Speaker 2: is a stream of consciousness, I said Dick Clark, if
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Speaker 2: I remember correctly, Dick Clark was from Mount Vernon, went
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Speaker 2: to high school in Mount Vernon. Radio guy was up
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Speaker 2: there in Utica, you know, with the brewery and the
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Speaker 2: little mafia there. It was a mafia town. And they
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Speaker 2: went to Syracuse University did radio there. Then all of
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Speaker 2: a sudden, he goes outside of Philly. He's on a
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Speaker 2: radio station. They're experimenting with like an American bandstand format
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Speaker 2: on the radio, and the host goes on vacation, gets
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Speaker 2: busted for duy drunk and driving, and guess who takes
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Speaker 2: over the show If you're there at the right time,
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Speaker 2: at the right place, Dick Clark. And they also had
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Speaker 2: an affiliate TV station, And that's how I'm American Bandstand
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Speaker 2: came about. And boy, that was the time Philly was king.
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Speaker 2: Oh man was Philly King? Remember Mike Douglas Show, Mike
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Speaker 2: Douglas Roger Ailes was the producer. They filmed that. It
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Speaker 2: was late afternoon. That was in Philadelphia. I remember watching
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Speaker 2: Mike Douglas I think it was nineteen seventy two for
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Speaker 2: a full week. You know who co hosted with Mike Douglas,
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Speaker 2: John Lennon and your co owner four a full week.
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Speaker 2: This is mid afternoons. They had forty million viewers when
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Speaker 2: the population was a lot less than it is now.
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Speaker 2: I remember there was George Carlin was on, Ralph Nader,
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Speaker 2: the Black Panther Leader there, Bobby Seal I think he
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Speaker 2: sells barbecue sauce. Anyway, The point was it was so
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Speaker 2: good and then the fbon Jay Gilhover muscled the Mike
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Speaker 2: Douglas and said, uh hmm, you don't want to be
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Speaker 2: putting on television Enemies of America, especially when he heard
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Speaker 2: him sing that song, which I think he sang. I
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Speaker 2: remember as a kid, imagine nineteen seventy two. By the way,
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Speaker 2: John Lennon used to listen to talk radio. That's right
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Speaker 2: at the Dakota. He would listen to the old talker WMCA.
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Speaker 2: That's where our own Mark Simone got his start. So
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Speaker 2: let it be listened to the King of talk radio,
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Speaker 2: Bob Grant and go Nuts because obviously their politics couldn't
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Speaker 2: be any more different. And at times he would walk over.
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Speaker 2: And this is when you had celebrities walking all over
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Speaker 2: New York City on their own. They didn't have an entourage,
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Speaker 2: no bodyguards. I saw Mickey Mantlehalff in the bag walking
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Speaker 2: around in the streets for that broke my heart. I
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Speaker 2: saw will Clyde Fraser walking around on his own. I mean,
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Speaker 2: you got to see so many people. And then all
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Speaker 2: of a sudden, you know, when Lennon was killed that
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Speaker 2: era and it quick. But anyway, before that, he'd be
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Speaker 2: listening to wmcaight all the way down on the dial.
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Speaker 2: Now it's like owned by Salem Communication where you got
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Speaker 2: to pay if you're a holy roller or a preacher
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Speaker 2: a dollar a holler or they'll take your money and
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Speaker 2: then they'll put you on. But anyway, that was the
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Speaker 2: big talk station, our Peter Strauss ellen Strauss family owned.
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Speaker 2: I believe that's where Mark Simone got his start. That's
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Speaker 2: where he met Bob Grant. They were like commonium bleached.
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Speaker 2: They did not get along. But I will tell you
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Speaker 2: they had some of the greatest radio of all time.
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Speaker 2: So all of a sudden, you have John Ranny going
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Speaker 2: over and I think these studios at w ABC at
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Speaker 2: that time was right across from Carnegie Hall. No security
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Speaker 2: at that time. He walk upstairs, he'd knock on the
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Speaker 2: door and he go, I want to go on and
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Speaker 2: I want to contradict what Bob Grant said. And the
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Speaker 2: board operator would look at it, Hey, John Lennon and
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Speaker 2: go back to the hosts, and the host nah, come on,
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Speaker 2: what are you half in the bag? What are you dropping?
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Speaker 2: LSD very popular at that time. LSD, you know Tim Leary,
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Speaker 2: and he would come in and he would rant about
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Speaker 2: Bob Grant.
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Speaker 3: See that's when you could do that. No security, you
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Speaker 3: don't have to provide identification. Remember it was John Lennon
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Speaker 3: who got in trouble when he said, you know, the
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Speaker 3: Beatles are more popular.
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Speaker 2: Than Jesus Christ. Oh they were. Radio stations wouldn't play Beatles'
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Speaker 2: music at that time, Remember how popular. Remember, and the
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Speaker 2: guy would be listening to talk radio. Do you want
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Speaker 2: to be a bird? Remember that song from Easy Rider?
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Speaker 2: I wonder if any of you know that was the
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Speaker 2: theme song to the guy at night that he would
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Speaker 2: listen to, who was a radical the complete opera of
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Speaker 2: Bob Grant in the afternoon drive time. He was a
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Speaker 2: total radical who when the Sibbinese Liberation Army SINQ General
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Speaker 2: General Listimo Sinceque declared war in America and either kidnapped
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Speaker 2: Pathy Patty Hurst or Tanya joined them, he was praising
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Speaker 2: them on the air. Yeah at the old WMCA. Let's
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Speaker 2: see if we can sort of massage any of your
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Speaker 2: memories can get back to our tribute to the hardest
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Speaker 2: working guy ever in TV, Regis Philmin and the hardest
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Speaker 2: working guy ever in radio talk radio, Bob Grant. I'll
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Speaker 2: conflate both of them as we do our homage to
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Speaker 2: the greats, the iconic figures who paved the way for
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Speaker 2: all of us, and little of any tribute has ever
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Speaker 2: made to how important they were to this thing of ours.
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Speaker 2: I will never forget, I know, Mark Simon, never forget. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 2: there are a lot of people in our business who
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Speaker 2: get their paycheck and they either don't know, or if
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Speaker 2: they do know, God forbid they give any credit to
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Speaker 2: these people. I tell you this much, Bob Grant. You
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Speaker 2: know who grew up listening to Bob Grant. The rock
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Speaker 2: grabbed all American conservative Voice sub region from Franklin, Long Island,
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Speaker 2: Sean Hannity, you said him many times, and you catch
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Speaker 2: him in the afternoon drive here wor seven ten bill O'Reilly? Oh,
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Speaker 2: he says it many times. Mike Levin. When Bob Grant
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Speaker 2: was exiled at WWDB in Philadelphia, I'll get into that
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Speaker 2: coming up next. They all attribute this, Now, Howard start
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Speaker 2: to Bob Grant? How come now, little if any attention
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Speaker 2: is paid to these folks who really paved the way,
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Speaker 2: took a lot of risks, got fired many times for
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Speaker 2: taking a principal stand, took a licking, only to come
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Speaker 2: back ticking our numbers one eight hundred three to two
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Speaker 2: one zero seven ten. That's one eight hundred three two
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Speaker 2: one zero seven.
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Speaker 1: Ten, Street Smart, Straight Talk. Curtis leewa guest host for
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Speaker 1: Mark Simone on sevent TENO.
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Speaker 2: Wa as we don't take anything for granted, and we
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Speaker 2: paid tributes to no doubt hardest working guy ever in TV.
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Speaker 2: I had this conversation with Tom Cuddy yesterday. Regis Filman
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Speaker 2: father was Irish mother. I think was a combination Italian Albanian,
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Speaker 2: which is very similar to the makeup of Vaness and
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Speaker 2: Morris Park now in the Bronx, he was a Hayesman,
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Speaker 2: went to Cardinal Hayes. I think he was best known
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Speaker 2: for being on Live with Regis and Kathy Lee. That
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Speaker 2: was a great show. I think that went off for
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Speaker 2: like twelve years until the year two thousand. That was
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Speaker 2: the better one compared to when he was on with
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Speaker 2: Kelly Uh. Nope. You know, Regis would get up and
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Speaker 2: do his riff. That was something you waited to hear,
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Speaker 2: like with Bob Grant the opening riff of his show,
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Speaker 2: and there was no podcast, there was no way to
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Speaker 2: recover it. It was great. And then in the interim
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Speaker 2: he was doing the most watched TV program at that time,
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Speaker 2: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Hard working According to
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Speaker 2: the Guinness World Record for the most hours spent on television,
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Speaker 2: the hardest working man in TV show business Regis Philbin,
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Speaker 2: without a doubt. And by the way, you're going to
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Speaker 2: be some of you watching the ABC's Dick Clark's New
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Speaker 2: Yorkers Rock and Roll Eve right with milk toast Ryan Seacressa.
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Speaker 2: That's his sting, you know, sub student for Dick Clark
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Speaker 2: when he had that stroke. That was Regis Philbin. If
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Speaker 2: I remember correctly two thousand and four to two thousand
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Speaker 2: and five that first show was Regis Philbin. I mean,
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Speaker 2: the guy was all over TV, and it's almost like
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Speaker 2: nobody nobody mentions him. I think the only one who
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Speaker 2: mentions it from time to time is Letterman. But now
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Speaker 2: let's switch to the hardest working guy ever in radio.
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Speaker 2: We paid our homage to the father of talk radio,
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Speaker 2: who was right here at WR when he was spinning
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Speaker 2: that first stacks of wax that turn into taking callers,
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Speaker 2: and that was buried Grade nineteen forty five, right here
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Speaker 2: at War Bob Grant, the king of talk radio. My
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Speaker 2: mentor the reason that I'm in talk creadio because nobody
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Speaker 2: else wanted me. He forced them on. He forced me
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Speaker 2: on them at WABC by saying, you gotta have Curtis.
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Speaker 2: He knows who all the bones are buried and who
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Speaker 2: buried them, and everybody knows that now, and they hesitate
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Speaker 2: every time I talk about their names. Is he going
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Speaker 2: to reveal what I thought it would take to my grave? Well,
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Speaker 2: you keep thinking out there, guys and gals, got one
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Speaker 2: more show to go on Friday. Could be opening up
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Speaker 2: the Pandora's box of many of those at WABC always
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Speaker 2: bashing Curtis now, but no, let's get back to Bob Grant. Uh.
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Speaker 2: He actually was the busiest guy in all of talk radio,
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Speaker 2: not here but out at KABC. By the way, he
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Speaker 2: gave me a call this morning, they want me to
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Speaker 2: do something for them. I had done a show for
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Speaker 2: Al Rentel, unfortunately had broken his hip for a year.
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Speaker 2: I substituted for al Rentel from New York City, and
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Speaker 2: nobody knew that I wasn't in LA because I knew
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Speaker 2: LA like the back of my head. So I said
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Speaker 2: thank you, but no thank you, but a tribute to
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Speaker 2: a very iconic station. Bob Grant was on that station
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Speaker 2: and he had three shows, Open Line, Nightline, which eventually
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Speaker 2: became a TV production at Ted coppol on ABC, and
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Speaker 2: Sunday Line, and he was doing TV Busy, Busy, busy,
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Speaker 2: and he interviewed Muhammad Ali, Ronald Reagan, first interview with
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Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan, and that nut who created Kwanza, that Kwanza guy,
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Speaker 2: Ron Krenge. What a story that is? Hey, he had
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Speaker 2: the first interview with him. He was the go to guy,
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Speaker 2: and then some executives said, you know, it's just too bad.
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Speaker 2: Bob that the number one talk show hosts in America
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Speaker 2: doesn't want to come to the number one market in America,
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Speaker 2: New York. So I'm not interested going to New York.
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Speaker 2: I got a house, See, I got four kids, I'm
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Speaker 2: on TV, I'm on radio. But he got to go
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Speaker 2: to New York. Bob and the guy named R. Peter
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Speaker 2: Strauss reached out to him and made him an offer.
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Speaker 2: He couldn't refuse the money. Although Bob came out here,
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Speaker 2: he didn't want to stay. He told me he'd I
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Speaker 2: hated New York. I wanted to go back to La
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Speaker 2: so desperately, where everybody knew me embraced me back there.
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Speaker 2: You know, they were more conservative here. They called me
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Speaker 2: a fascist. So I decided I would get on the
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Speaker 2: radio and be mean and it would force ar Peter
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Speaker 2: Strauss to break my contract. So that's where this raging
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Speaker 2: persona came from. And unfortunately for Bob at that time
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Speaker 2: and good for us, his rating skyrocketing. Ratings not streams.
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Speaker 2: You know, at the old WABC where I was, they
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Speaker 2: run around say lo look, Loia, my streamers up. A
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Speaker 2: million people were listening to me. I said, are you
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Speaker 2: out of your mind? That's not a rating. That's the
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Speaker 2: Wizard of Oz. You may like what you're being told,
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Speaker 2: but that does not give you a gauge of the audience.
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Speaker 2: Oh one last thing. Barry Farbara, who had been a
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Speaker 2: fixture here for many years, decided to run for mayor.
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Speaker 2: It's nineteen seventy seven. Oh shades of Curtis Sleep. When
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Speaker 2: he left w R he asked Bob Grant to substitute
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Speaker 2: for him overnight. And when Bob Grant did, out of
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Speaker 2: every four radios, two radios at night, we're listening to him,
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Speaker 2: nobody ever had those kind of ratings. And then he
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Speaker 2: said something I'm trying to remember the words. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 2: she passed a gynecological and pigmentation test. I forget who
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Speaker 2: he was attributing that to. He got fired and exiled
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Speaker 2: out to WWDB, only to come back to WABC. That's
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Speaker 2: my homage. Hardest working guy in talk radio, hortest working
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Speaker 2: guy in TV reagions, Philbinton, and tomorrow, you don't want
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Speaker 2: to miss my annual tribute to the best thing that
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Speaker 2: occurred to WABC, which was Bernard McGirk. One eight hundred
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Speaker 2: three to two one is zero seven ten. That's one
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Speaker 2: eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten talk Radio.
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Speaker 1: It's street literally Curtis Slaywad joined seven to ten WR
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Speaker 1: to guess those for.
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Speaker 2: Mark samol dtists working guys and gals television and radio.
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Speaker 2: In his book of World records, readis filled and none other.
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Speaker 2: Bronxky proud of going to Cardinal Hayes Catholic High School
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Speaker 2: still open, thank god. Unfortunately nearby all hollows closing, Great
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Speaker 2: School Cathedral High School this year for girls. Great school closing,
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Speaker 2: and Preston was on the cusp of closing in the
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Speaker 2: Tremont section. Great High School all girls. You know j
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Speaker 2: Low maybe got back Jenny from the block. Never contributed
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Speaker 2: as far as I know, a nickel diamond penny to
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Speaker 2: the alumni front and keep them open. They were kept
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Speaker 2: open by Bally's. I believe some arrangement was made. Who
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Speaker 2: bought the Trump golf course nearby? But think about that.
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Speaker 2: He was Regis Philman, who appeared three times on the
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Speaker 2: Celebrity Jeopardy Again. The guy was constantly working out there.
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Speaker 2: He had the most appearances and in one appearance he
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Speaker 2: won fifty thousand dollars and gave it right to Cardinal Hayes.
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Speaker 2: That's what you should do if you're doing well, and
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Speaker 2: you realize that these Catholic high schools, they gave so
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Speaker 2: many an opportunity they might not have had if they
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Speaker 2: had to go to their local neighborhood public high school.
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Speaker 2: And like j Lo, hey, j Lo, you forget your roots. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: let's go to the phones. It's Bob who's calling from
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Speaker 2: San Diego. Your turn to be heard here at seven
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Speaker 2: to ten.
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Speaker 4: Woo Bob, hey, Curtis, good to hear you on the here.
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Speaker 4: Earlier you mentioned the first subway vigilante movie. There would,
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Speaker 4: I think would be the incident with Martin Sheen and
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Speaker 4: Tony Mussanti.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, And if you haven't seen it, ladies in gentlemen,
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Speaker 2: you must. A great period piece, black and white. All
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Speaker 2: these different people were getting on the number four train,
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Speaker 2: you know, coming out of the Bronx going down to
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Speaker 2: Grand Central, and masonte is a complete psycho. Martin Sheen,
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Speaker 2: I think that was like his debut. And remember the
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Speaker 2: part that Ed McMahon played.
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Speaker 4: Yes, he actually he didn't want to take a cab
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Speaker 4: to Flushing from the Bronx, so he took the trains
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Speaker 4: and he played the father of a young girl.
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Speaker 2: And he was on the car with his wife, now
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Speaker 2: arguing with his wife. Great piece, she's going, let's take
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Speaker 2: a cab. We got a baby with us that nah,
25:42
Speaker 2: I take that train, you know an oh boy, these
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Speaker 2: two psycho boys were in the car. It was like
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Speaker 2: cockwork Orange before his cockwork Orange. I mean, really, really
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Speaker 2: a great, great movie that's never really gotten it, Stue.
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Speaker 4: It really is a great movie. Just keeps building and
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Speaker 4: building until the climax. And by the way, you can
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Speaker 4: watch it free on YouTube. Just search on YouTube for
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Speaker 4: the incident.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, please do. Especially during highliaday time, a lot of
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Speaker 2: people like to watch things. You gotta watch this movie.
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Speaker 2: Every station, a different group gets on, or a different couple,
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Speaker 2: and they're all all of them went on to become
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Speaker 2: great stars and starletts, and they had their little cameo rolls.
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Speaker 2: Oh man, what a great, great movie. Let's go if
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Speaker 2: we can to John, who's calling from? Is that old Japan?
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Speaker 5: Curtis?
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Speaker 6: What's up my brother?
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Speaker 4: Noll?
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Speaker 6: I just depend on the New York side.
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Speaker 2: Ah, okay, Curtis.
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Speaker 6: Good, I'm glad to see it down shop on the
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Speaker 6: dial there, very good. I was incorrect. I thought Alex
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Speaker 6: Bennett would have been the name you were you were
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Speaker 6: looking for.
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Speaker 2: You are absolutely corre Alex Bennett. Evening show hosts wmc
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Speaker 2: A Bob Grant was Drive Time. You couldn't have been
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Speaker 2: any more different.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Courtaige, listen, I'm trying. I know you're busy there.
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Speaker 6: If I want to ask this gum, you know why
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Speaker 6: I was a little bewildered. I used to be in
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Speaker 6: Manhattan Detectives. We had a homicide in nineteen ninety two,
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Speaker 6: fourteenth Street in the holes on the fourth train. A
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Speaker 6: young man, a hard working stuff African American, Jerry Robinson,
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Speaker 6: on his way home at eleven o'clock at night. He
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Speaker 6: gets held up in the hall at Fourteenth Street. He
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Speaker 6: pulls out a twenty five pops two guys kills one
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Speaker 6: of them. The third piece took off. They called him
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Speaker 6: the Blackbernie gets Barry Slotnick represented him at arraiments and
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Speaker 6: then an eighteen b attorney took it from there on.
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Speaker 6: He took a plea and I didn't do any time.
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Speaker 6: It was it. It never got well. It hit the
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Speaker 6: paper that night they were down in raiments, but after
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Speaker 6: never got any place. I was wondering if you knew
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Speaker 6: about that.
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Speaker 2: No, I do, because I followed those cases. It was
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Speaker 2: really the team that you had. Barry Slotnik was the
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Speaker 2: lead attorney, and I'm trying to remember Miller, I think
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Speaker 2: was his partner. He had to go. No Baker, Baker
28:19
Speaker 2: was his partner. A great team, and they made themselves
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Speaker 2: available for those kind of cases. More often than not.
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Speaker 2: It was black victims fighting back against black assailians. But
28:33
Speaker 2: you see, it didn't have the ammonium bleach. It didn't
28:38
Speaker 2: have what you needed, white versus black. I mean that
28:40
Speaker 2: got you the headlines that kept the headlines going for days.
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Speaker 2: It was black on black crime. Nothing a mere mention.
28:48
Speaker 2: By the way, you mentioned Alex Bennett. He was the
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Speaker 2: talkshow host at WMCA at night. His theme song was
28:56
Speaker 2: do You Want to Be a Bird? A classic song
28:58
Speaker 2: from Easy Rider, and man, he would talk about coming
29:03
Speaker 2: from concerts and he would be like be doing therapy
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Speaker 2: on himself before this guy did it Seagull remember a
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Speaker 2: Channel seven? Oh does anybody remember Seagull? I'm just gonna
29:15
Speaker 2: give you a little hint there, and he would do
29:17
Speaker 2: the same thing self there. And this guy supported radical causes.
29:21
Speaker 2: Do you know who ended up taking over the apartment
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Speaker 2: of Alex Bennett, who went back to San Francisco where
29:28
Speaker 2: he was from, to Radio Camel where they spun stacks
29:32
Speaker 2: of wax, did a little bit of talk Bernard Getz,
29:37
Speaker 2: who's still in that apartment today right off of sixth
29:39
Speaker 2: Avenue and fourteenth Street. Wow, the synergy is happening. Let's
29:45
Speaker 2: go if we can to Stella in close. Your turn
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Speaker 2: to be heard here at seven ten wr Stella.
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Speaker 5: Hello, listen to Curtis. I'm glad to hear you back,
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Speaker 5: and I'm glad to hear your voice. I'm very concerned
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Speaker 5: and so are a lot of people in my neighborhood
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Speaker 5: and queens about Mendani taking over privately owned homes. Do
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Speaker 5: you know anything about that?
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Speaker 2: Well, it's not just Mandami, this was the city of Yes.
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Speaker 2: I warned everybody about it. Eric Adams got windined in
30:22
Speaker 2: pocket lined by the developers and realtors, as did Andrew
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Speaker 2: Evilize Cuomo. So they now have the authority because the
30:30
Speaker 2: people voted this into the law because everybody's so affordable housing,
30:34
Speaker 2: and they thought, oh wow, affordable housing. I'm for that. No, no, no,
30:38
Speaker 2: no no, So if you happen to live in a
30:41
Speaker 2: residential community and this is coming to a neighborhood near you.
30:44
Speaker 2: They call it up zoning, density housing. Kathy Holkol tried
30:50
Speaker 2: that and realize that wasn't gonna work out to get
30:54
Speaker 2: her elected against leez Elden, so she dropped it like
30:57
Speaker 2: a hot rock. But the whole idea was build high
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Speaker 2: rise housing, claim it's affordable near train stations along ther
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Speaker 2: Metro North, and people in residential area say, oh no, no, no,
31:09
Speaker 2: no no, we don't need any density housing. We don't
31:12
Speaker 2: need any up zoning. There's zoning, there's elected officials, there's
31:16
Speaker 2: a process. So Kathy Hoko recognized that was a third rail.
31:22
Speaker 2: But in New York City, because the issue became affordable
31:25
Speaker 2: housing costs of living, they've pushed through this mandate that
31:31
Speaker 2: gives developers and realtors the opportunity to come into your
31:35
Speaker 2: neighborhoods in the outer boroughs, whether you live in the Bronx,
31:38
Speaker 2: Staten Island, Queens of Brooklyn, and they can come into
31:41
Speaker 2: your neighborhood. They don't have to go through any zoning
31:44
Speaker 2: regulations any longer, they don't have to meet with the
31:46
Speaker 2: community board, they don't have to even meet with the
31:48
Speaker 2: local elected officials. If they want to put up a
31:51
Speaker 2: forty story high rise by the way, with no parking
31:55
Speaker 2: and burden your infrastructure, they have a right to do it.
31:58
Speaker 2: They've been given a green light. Worse yet, they're putting
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Speaker 2: up these lithium ion battery warehouses, which is a real
32:06
Speaker 2: danger to the community. They're in residential areas. They're supposed
32:10
Speaker 2: to be in industrial areas, but then again, residential property is
32:13
Speaker 2: cheaper than industrial property. Thirty eight in Staten Island, twelve
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Speaker 2: in Brooklyn, eight in Queens formed the Bronx none in
32:21
Speaker 2: Manhattan because we don't have enough electricity. And wait if
32:27
Speaker 2: you think it's bad now, artificial intelligence is going to
32:31
Speaker 2: need double the amount of electricity and double the amount
32:34
Speaker 2: of water to run their filing centers. You haven't heard
32:41
Speaker 2: much about that, have you? Of course, not talk too
32:44
Speaker 2: much of talk radios. Are you you see all those
32:47
Speaker 2: Somalian themes in Minnesota? Could you repeat each other anymore
32:51
Speaker 2: like parrots? How about actually talking about subject matter that
32:55
Speaker 2: affects everybody's lives. And these AI artificial intelligence filing cell
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Speaker 2: centers that are gonna be built in a neighborhood near you,
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Speaker 2: and they require twice, the amount of electricity that's available
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Speaker 2: on the grid, twice the amount of water that you
33:13
Speaker 2: don't even have access to. And guess who's gonna pay
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Speaker 2: for all of that?
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Speaker 4: You?
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Speaker 2: What is anybody telling you that? Of course not? Oh
33:23
Speaker 2: and you don't want to miss Friday My annual tribute
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Speaker 2: to Bernard McGirt. Best thing that ever happened at Turk Radio.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, the guy had to take so much
33:31
Speaker 2: abuse for from don Imus, without which don would never
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Speaker 2: have been able to function. And also a plead to
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Speaker 2: all of you to make sure whatever men folks can
33:42
Speaker 2: run across this New Year's holiday, you let them know
33:45
Speaker 2: to get that PSA simple prick of the finger blood test.
33:49
Speaker 2: If only Bernard McGirk had done that, he would not
33:53
Speaker 2: have died a horrible death from prostate cancer. Look, I
33:57
Speaker 2: had Stage four. I survived it. Some don't. The test
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Speaker 2: in most instances will help eliminate it.
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Speaker 6: Do.
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Speaker 2: Beret is back.
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Speaker 1: Curtis slievwa guest host the Mark Simone Show on seven
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Speaker 1: tenoo on.
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Speaker 2: I'll be able to let you know my last day
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Speaker 2: substituting for Mark on Friday? What went down at that
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Speaker 2: block party for Zoranmandami? I haven't been invited, but I'm
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Speaker 2: going who's gonna stop me? You all need to know.
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