Latest / The Mark Simone Show / FULL SHOW: More info on the Ayatollah's son; Oscars recap.

Transcript

FULL SHOW: More info on the Ayatollah's son; Oscars recap. · The Mark Simone Show

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Now Sor Presents, no Mark si Own show.
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: Hey, it's Monday already. All right, We've got a lot
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: to get to. We'll go over the oscars, we'll get
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: to that. We'll get to obviously Iran, We'll get to
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: crazy Mom Donnie and what he's up to. We'll get
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: to some more Epstein revelations coming up. Some of the
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: last people you'd think would get implicated in the Epstein
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: stuff are. We'll get to the TSA, the shutdown, and
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: a whole lot more Iran, inside intel from people. War
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: three more weeks, about three more weeks of the war.
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: Straits of horn Moose could be opened by the weekend, possibly,
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: but war about three more weeks.
• 0:52
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: You're gonna hear this false narrative everywhere if you watch
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: the fake news, that there was no planning. There's no
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: objective they just went in there without any plan. There's
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: detailed planning on every step of the way. There's detailed planning,
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: contingency plans, contingency plans for the contingency. They've got this
• 1:12
  Speaker 2: all figured out now. Of course, as they say, when
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: you go into where anything can happen and your plans change.
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: But give it about three more weeks gas prices it
• 1:20
  Speaker 2: will spike during this They could hit five dollars a gallon,
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: which media the Democrats are outraged about. Of course, it
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: was five dollars a gallon the whole Biden administration. They
• 1:30
  Speaker 2: never said a word. But instead of four years of
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: Biden gas prices, you're going to get about four weeks
• 1:37
  Speaker 2: of this. And there's things that can do to ease
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: up the gas prices. And by the way, it doesn't
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: affect the US as much because we don't really buy
• 1:44
  Speaker 2: that gas. The gas coming out of Iran usually goes
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: to India, China and other countries. We got enough gas
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: to supply ourselves for the next hundred years here in
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: this country. They've lifted sanctions on Russian oil for a month.
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: That way the market will get flooded with more Russian oil.
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: The fact that they lifted the sanctions on Russia for
• 2:07
  Speaker 2: a month indicates that maybe Russia is helping us with
• 2:11
  Speaker 2: some things in Iran. Putin and Trump have been talking,
• 2:15
  Speaker 2: so that gesture from Trump might be in exchange for
• 2:19
  Speaker 2: whatever help Putin has offered. Russian oil, by the way,
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: is dirty, very hard to refine. It's the last oil
• 2:26
  Speaker 2: you want to use, so we don't use it, but
• 2:28
  Speaker 2: it's oil that China and other countries will use. The
• 2:33
  Speaker 2: visit to China, by the way, Trump, President Trump scheduled
• 2:36
  Speaker 2: to visit China in a couple of weeks. Looks like
• 2:38
  Speaker 2: that's probably going to get postponed. It wouldn't make sense
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: to visit at a time like this, and security wise
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: a nightmare trying to protect the president and all of this.
• 2:49
  Speaker 2: You don't really know where China stands on this whole
• 2:51
  Speaker 2: Iran mess. The Iatola son Iotola Junior, supposedly the new leader.
• 2:58
  Speaker 2: Nobody has seen him. He was blown up in one
• 3:03
  Speaker 2: of those bombing attacks, lost a leg, has been in
• 3:07
  Speaker 2: a coma, facial damage. So you know, when you talk
• 3:11
  Speaker 2: about the cost of the war. By the way, we
• 3:13
  Speaker 2: got the number the cost of the war so far,
• 3:15
  Speaker 2: twelve billion dollars. Twelve billion dollars is the cost so far.
• 3:20
  Speaker 2: And that's a little less than a billion dollars a day.
• 3:24
  Speaker 2: It's expensive, but worth it for what you'll get out
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: of this. You're totally disarming a rand, which is by
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: the way, the first objective. Take away all the threats,
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: the nuclear threat, the missile threat, all that sort of stuff.
• 3:36
  Speaker 2: That's been accomplished. So it cost us twelve billion. But
• 3:41
  Speaker 2: look at the Iatola cost him an arm and a leg.
• 3:43
  Speaker 2: But now the other thing about the Ayatola, the sun
• 3:48
  Speaker 2: Is intelligence supports are that he's gay. President Trump laughed
• 3:54
  Speaker 2: out loud when he heard this, because the Iyahtola himself
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: leaved in death for gay people. Sodomy is illegal and
• 4:03
  Speaker 2: a capital offence in Iran. Being gay is illegal in Iran,
• 4:07
  Speaker 2: and it was always said that he didn't want his
• 4:09
  Speaker 2: son to succeed him, and that could be why gay
• 4:14
  Speaker 2: is considered a horrible thing in Iran. It's a crime.
• 4:16
  Speaker 2: You go to jail or actually you get hanged for
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: being gay. And so it's a strange situation over there.
• 4:24
  Speaker 2: Iran lashing out. This is their last gasp. They've bombed
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: hit the Dubai airport with a drone, a lot of
• 4:32
  Speaker 2: people that were happened to be in Dubai tourist business whatever,
• 4:36
  Speaker 2: having no idea this war would break out. And it's
• 4:39
  Speaker 2: been very, very bad in Dubai and other places, but
• 4:44
  Speaker 2: things calming down. They do have, apparently Iran quite an
• 4:48
  Speaker 2: inventory of drones, so we're gonna have to take those out.
• 4:51
  Speaker 2: Drones are a problem, but bit by bit they'll get
• 4:55
  Speaker 2: them all. There is a marine expeditionary force that's going there,
• 5:00
  Speaker 2: twenty five hundred marines. Now, what this will be used
• 5:02
  Speaker 2: for is a rapid strike force. When this is in
• 5:07
  Speaker 2: part to open the Straits of Hormoose. Sometimes these speed
• 5:10
  Speaker 2: boats are these unmanned boats come flying off the coast
• 5:14
  Speaker 2: to hit anything going to the Straits of horm Moose. Well,
• 5:17
  Speaker 2: when they do this, they can see where it came from.
• 5:19
  Speaker 2: The strike force will quickly go ashore, take it out
• 5:22
  Speaker 2: and quickly leave. So it's a strike force that would
• 5:25
  Speaker 2: only go in for like an hour half an hour
• 5:27
  Speaker 2: and be out, So probably the Straits of Hormose's. First
• 5:32
  Speaker 2: of all, if you could even move the tankers, you
• 5:34
  Speaker 2: could have naval escorts, and that's been done in the past.
• 5:38
  Speaker 2: The insurance companies are holding this up. It's basically Lloyd's
• 5:42
  Speaker 2: of London and the tanker companies. They don't want to
• 5:46
  Speaker 2: lose a tanker because a tanker, the actual tanker costs
• 5:50
  Speaker 2: about one hundred and ten million dollars. The oil on
• 5:54
  Speaker 2: board could be worth one hundred and fifty million, so
• 5:56
  Speaker 2: that's two hundred and fifty million you'd lose in the tanker.
• 5:59
  Speaker 2: But more than that, each tanker has a crew of
• 6:02
  Speaker 2: thirty people. And that's the problem with the insurance companies.
• 6:05
  Speaker 2: It's not so much the oil or the tanker. That's
• 6:08
  Speaker 2: the loss of life. That's where insurance companies have real problems,
• 6:12
  Speaker 2: and they don't want to get involved in that. So
• 6:13
  Speaker 2: you could lose thirty lives because when you hit a tanker,
• 6:16
  Speaker 2: it just blow up and kill everybody. So that's that's
• 6:20
  Speaker 2: the problem. But expect the straits of horn Moovese to
• 6:22
  Speaker 2: be open within days, not weeks. It's been closed before
• 6:26
  Speaker 2: every war. Every war we get into in that region,
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: straits of horn Moose gets closed, it gets mined. Remember
• 6:31
  Speaker 2: the tanker wars was closed for a while, So it's
• 6:35
  Speaker 2: happened before. It'll happen again. The Epstein files, we'll get
• 6:43
  Speaker 2: to that coming up. Some really amazing names coming out
• 6:46
  Speaker 2: of there. He speaking of the Iran War, the best
• 6:49
  Speaker 2: poster in the world, John McLaughlin. Do people support this
• 6:53
  Speaker 2: war in Iran? Yes, almost sixty percent fifty eight percent.
• 6:57
  Speaker 2: Fifty eight percent of the public fifty eight percent back
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: of the war, and even stronger majority sixty one percent
• 7:07
  Speaker 2: say that we must finish the job, so the public
• 7:10
  Speaker 2: is behind it. Oscar's last night, Well, Conan O'Brien, everybody
• 7:16
  Speaker 2: thought he did a great job. They don't make an
• 7:19
  Speaker 2: Oscar host anymore. The Oscar host used to be the
• 7:23
  Speaker 2: most legendary, biggest comedian on earth. It was Bob Hope
• 7:26
  Speaker 2: for years. It was Johnny Carson for years, and by
• 7:29
  Speaker 2: the way, we'll talk about Johnny Carson in the next hour.
• 7:32
  Speaker 2: And you don't have people like that anymore. You got,
• 7:36
  Speaker 2: you know, this great comedian, Sebastian Maniscalco and people like that,
• 7:39
  Speaker 2: but they're not legendary, monumental Mount Rushmore type comedians that
• 7:44
  Speaker 2: they're just not of that stature. There's nobody of that
• 7:46
  Speaker 2: statue anymore. So Conan comes closest, not that he was
• 7:50
  Speaker 2: of that stature, but in today's crazy world, of all
• 7:54
  Speaker 2: these people show up in the oscars and you don't
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: know who the hell they are, Conan's the only one
• 7:57
  Speaker 2: you know, and the only one that's been around for
• 8:00
  Speaker 2: a while. And he's geeky and gawky, but he has
• 8:03
  Speaker 2: a certain confidence on stage and the way he moves
• 8:06
  Speaker 2: it's a confident kind of look. So and he's funny
• 8:11
  Speaker 2: and listen. He's not hysterical, but he's funny. He was
• 8:15
  Speaker 2: a good MC.
• 8:16
  Speaker 4: I'm honored to be the last human host of the
• 8:19
  Speaker 4: Academy Award. Yeah yeah, next year it's going to be
• 8:26
  Speaker 4: a way mow In.
• 8:27
  Speaker 2: A toughs not bad so. And he's got a charm
• 8:31
  Speaker 2: and a warmth about him, unlike that Jimmy Kimmel who
• 8:34
  Speaker 2: comes out and it's like a dark cloud that just
• 8:36
  Speaker 2: comes out. He's just a angry, bitter looking, angry guy.
• 8:40
  Speaker 2: He's not there to entertain you. He's not there to
• 8:43
  Speaker 2: have fun. He's there to scold you, lecture you, tell
• 8:46
  Speaker 2: you how much smarter he is. So he did attack
• 8:49
  Speaker 2: CBS News. There was a presenter or two that yelled
• 8:54
  Speaker 2: free Palestine or something so that. I mean, they just
• 8:56
  Speaker 2: look like idiots and they do that Barbara streisand that
• 8:59
  Speaker 2: was quite a moment for half the audience. The other
• 9:02
  Speaker 2: half of the audience don't know. They didn't know who
• 9:04
  Speaker 2: the hell she was. And that's the problem. You know,
• 9:07
  Speaker 2: you watch the Oscars, you go, who are these people?
• 9:09
  Speaker 2: I don't watch the Red carpet. I don't know any
• 9:11
  Speaker 2: of these people, these current celebrities, who are they? I
• 9:16
  Speaker 2: don't know any of it. Well, for people under forty
• 9:18
  Speaker 2: when Streisand comes out, let's say, people under thirty five,
• 9:21
  Speaker 2: when Streisand comes out, they don't know who this is.
• 9:23
  Speaker 2: They have no idea who this is. And she's talking
• 9:26
  Speaker 2: about Robert Redford. They don't even know who that so,
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: and apparently Jane Fonda was very upset, very upset that
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: Streisand did the tribute to Robert Redford and said to
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: people at the party afterwards, she said, I did four
• 9:42
  Speaker 2: movies with him, She only did one. Hell was she
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: doing the tribute? They wanted her to sing. She wasn't
• 9:47
  Speaker 2: going to sing. She finally did sing like half of
• 9:50
  Speaker 2: the way we were So that wasn't bad. Tribute to
• 9:53
  Speaker 2: Rob Reiner. He had some big memoriams this year. Billy
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: Crystal was Reiner's best friend. He did that for us.
• 10:01
  Speaker 3: Who had the privilege of working with and knowing him
• 10:04
  Speaker 3: and loving him.
• 10:06
  Speaker 4: All we can say is, buddy, what fun we had
• 10:10
  Speaker 4: storming the Castle?
• 10:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, some good moments. It was about a three hour show,
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: two hours and forty five minutes. We didn't get the
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: ratings yet, but it's not you know, it's not gonna
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: be like in There were times where eight hundred million
• 10:23
  Speaker 2: people around the world would see the Oscars, fifty sixty
• 10:26
  Speaker 2: seventy five million in this country would see the Oscars.
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: It's going to come in at like eight nine million.
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: And it's not what it used to be. And people
• 10:34
  Speaker 2: don't go to the theaters much anymore. They stay home.
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: They watch Netflix, and I don't blame them. Why should
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: you go to a theater and you can watch a
• 10:41
  Speaker 2: million things? You know, you look what's playing at the theater?
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: Four choices? Go on Netflix, what's playing forty thousand choices?
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: And you can watch them the comfort of your own home.
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: The chairman of Netflix was there in the Oscars. Conan
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: O'Brien looked at him.
• 10:56
  Speaker 4: Netflix CEO Ted Sorrandos is here and this is exciting.
• 11:01
  Speaker 4: It's his first time in a theater.
• 11:07
  Speaker 5: This is what they're talking about.
• 11:11
  Speaker 4: Why are they altogether and joining them? Felts At be
• 11:15
  Speaker 4: holding on.
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: Well, I can mortify that, all right, that's pretty good.
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: That's pretty good. More Conan.
• 11:22
  Speaker 4: It's the first time since twenty twelve, first time since
• 11:26
  Speaker 4: twenty twelve that there are no British actors nominated for
• 11:30
  Speaker 4: Best Actor or Best Actress. Yeah, British spokesperson said, yeah, well,
• 11:36
  Speaker 4: at least we arrest our pedophiles.
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: So you got that.
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know what that means. We did arrest Epstein,
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: he's our pedophile. We did arrest him. In fact, he
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: died in jail. Actually we arrested him, prosecuted him twice.
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: Jesse Buckley, Big Winner, Best Actress.
• 11:58
  Speaker 6: It's Mother's Day in the UK today, so I would
• 12:06
  Speaker 6: like to dedicate this to the beautiful chaos of a
• 12:10
  Speaker 6: mother's heart.
• 12:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I was at an oscar party, hundreds of people
• 12:14
  Speaker 2: and they're all saying, who's Jesse Buckley? What movie he
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: was on? Amy Madigan want I hate these kind of speeches.
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: You know, if you want to thank the director, if
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: you want to thank the writer, but when you start
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: thanking your family, we don't need to hear this, do it.
• 12:31
  Speaker 7: The most important is my beloved Ed.
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: This is what I mean. I'm sure Adds a nice guy.
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: We don't know who the hell Ed is. Nobody knows that.
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: Do we need to hear all about Ed?
• 12:42
  Speaker 7: The most important is my beloved Ed, who's been with
• 12:51
  Speaker 7: me forever and that's a long time and none of
• 12:56
  Speaker 7: us would mean anything if he wasn't By my side.
• 13:00
  Speaker 7: Thank you very much. I'm very overwhelmed.
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: Millions of people watching don't know who the hell she is.
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: They never heard of Ed. None of this would have
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: happened without Ed. You know what, I bet it would
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: have happened without Ed. You could have married a guy
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: named Frank, an name named Jesse. It might have happened.
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's all Ed. Michael B. Jeordan,
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: everybody liked him again. One of those speeches mentioned too
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: many names, but seemed like a really sweet, lovable guy.
• 13:25
  Speaker 8: Sidney Potsier, Denzel Washington, how many day Jamie Fox, Forrest Whitaker,
• 13:30
  Speaker 8: Will Smith, And to be amongst those giants, amongst those
• 13:34
  Speaker 8: great greats, amongst my ancestors, amongst my guys. Thank you
• 13:37
  Speaker 8: everybody in his room and everybody at home for supporting
• 13:40
  Speaker 8: me over my career.
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, he seemed like a really nice guy.
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: I won for the movie, and I don't know any
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: of these movies Hamnet with the hel'se Hamnet. And what
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: did he win for? Was it sinister? I don't know
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: who knows what movie? Sinners, Sinners. I've never heard of
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: any these movies. The only one I saw was Marty
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: Supreme and it didn't. But it got nine nominations. It
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: didn't win mainly because well, there were a lot of
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: Timothy Shamalay kind of made a fool out of himself
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: during his Oscar campaign that screwed things up, and critics
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: always says said it was too dark. It was nobody,
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: nobody to really root for in the film. So that
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: could be. Hey, we'll get to Epstein coming up. Boy,
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: some of the names that come out in their deep
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: pack show pra ooh does he look bad in the
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: Epstein files. There's a few others like that. We'll get
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: to all of that coming up, and we'll get to
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: the TSA. The strike continues. Democrats are going to get
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: a lot of flak for they've been offered three chances
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: to reopen the partial shutdown, reopen that Department of Homeland Security,
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: which is TSA, Coast Guard a lot of vital stuff,
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: but they won't do it. TSA. We lost three hundred
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: TSA agents. The other problem, who has sympathy for the TSA.
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: These are the guys that keep you in line for
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: an hour and a three hours and pat you down.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: But got to get that reopen anyway. We've got a
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: lot to get to. We'll get to crazy Mom Donnie
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: and all his nonsensical lunatic ideas. Tomorrow's Saint Patrick's day.
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: Don't even think of coming into Manhattan tomorrow. It's gonna
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: be a traffic nightmare. Today is going to be a rainy,
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: windy mess. But sixty degrees. We'll take some calls. Next.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: number eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: In Mark on Demand by setting up presead for his
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: podcast on the iHeartRadio app. Now back to Mark Simone on.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: Wr Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Patricia
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: in Brooklyn. Patricia, how you doing?
• 15:44
  Speaker 9: Oh, dear Mark, listen. I wrote to the President and
• 15:48
  Speaker 9: I you know, I said that I welco him, you know,
• 15:52
  Speaker 9: stuff like that.
• 15:53
  Speaker 10: But I also.
• 15:54
  Speaker 9: Absolutely mentioned you. You got me through the pandemic.
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: I mean you, I mean.
• 16:01
  Speaker 9: Through the craziest times where I thought, what the hell
• 16:04
  Speaker 9: is going on? I got the most beautiful letter back
• 16:07
  Speaker 9: from the President. Don't think he doesn't know what you
• 16:10
  Speaker 9: do for the New Yorkers. God bless you, Mark, I
• 16:14
  Speaker 9: love you.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: What did he say?
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: Thank you for you?
• 16:19
  Speaker 9: I mean I'm just powerful. Thank you for your letter.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: It was you know, it was very powerful.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Thank you for your letter. What a response?
• 16:29
  Speaker 9: Are you making fun of me? That's none?
• 16:31
  Speaker 11: Nice?
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: Hello?
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Hello, Well you know it's a letter.
• 16:35
  Speaker 9: All keep until the day I die, and I thank
• 16:38
  Speaker 9: you for everything you have done for us.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Well, I thank you. I thank you for listening. You're
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: a good friend of ours. And thanks for listening.
• 16:48
  Speaker 9: Thank you, thank you so much more.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: All right, take care.
• 16:51
  Speaker 10: Thanks.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: You know, if you write a letter to the president,
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: to any president, you'll get a letter back. I don't
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: know if he sees it or if he writes it,
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: but it's a great thing to do. Now, if you
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: go over there, two blocks in around the corner, there's
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: a shirt maker and it's a smart thing to do.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: This shirt maker writes to every president, whoever's in office,
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: and sends like four shirts, and a letter comes back
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: from the president. It's not really from the President's somebody
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: in the White House. Dear so and so, thank you
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: for the shirts. I love them. I'm going to wear
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: them all the time. So then he puts these up.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Now the president has never seen the letter, never seen
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: the shirts, but he puts them up in his window
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: with a big sign shirt maker to four presidents. So yeah,
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: I just gave a lot of people a lot of ideas, right,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: and you'll get a letter back. Let's go to Bill
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: and Lafayette, New Jersey. Bill, how you doing.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: Mark?
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: You know you were talking about the Oscars last night,
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: which I did not watch. When talent used to be
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: real talent, when you used to have Jonathan Winter's, Johnny Cartson,
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: like you said, and the good I don't know if
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: you remember that first Today show was hunketed by Dave
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: Garaway and then Jack Barr. But you have Gun Will Travel.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: You had Mickey Mouse, Ed Sullivan, Gun Smoke, Lassie Rin Tintin.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Well, I gotta be honest. You know some of those
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: shows they weren't They called it the Golden Age that
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Lassie I never understood. I mean, there was about this
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: kid who kept falling down a well. This kid got
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: stuck under a tree. Every two seconds, a kid needed
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: to be rescued by Lassie. The dog was smarter than
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: the kid.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know what it was about. It was
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: about innocence and kids today that were my that are
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: eight nine ten. Back then I was allowed to keep
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: my innocence and not be soiled by the crap that
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: you see the see on TV today.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point. That's a very good point.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: You know, there was an innocence to it, you know,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: like Breaking Bad is a brilliant show. It's as good
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: as anything ever on television. But you're right, it's so dirty, disgusting, horrifying.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, you watch a few episodes of that, you
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: have nightmares all night. Let's go to Mike and Florida. Mike,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: how you doing, Good morning, Mark, that's Mike.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: I'm with you on some of those old shows. I
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: watched them down here, Bailey and Boy, some of them
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: are really rotten there, so stiff and stilted. But getting
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: back to the Oscars, by the way, I think Ed
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: is Ed Harris, who, to your point, nobody remembers as
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: an actor.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: I know who he was. Yeah, it was a pretty
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: good actor, Glengarry, Glenn Ross and the right stuff I
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: think was right.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: The right stuff I was thinking of Paul thy team,
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: the right stuff. Okay, but you know you're you're an EMC,
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: and you know you know when Hope did it and
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: when Caught did it, they would have quit the essential
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: mcs to these events. They moved it along. You know,
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: they know they're playing to like a dumb, needy, vapid audience,
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: and they kept this stuff simple and it was much
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: more enjoyable.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's just it was different. Back then.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: We all knew who everybody was. Today it's all fragmented.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: You don't know who the any of these p people are.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: That's true, A really good point. I don't any of
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: them are.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, well thanks for calling. That's the problem.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: It's so fragmented. You don't know who anybody is anymore,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: even when you watch it. If you start watching the
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: series and you love it, you tell people about it.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: I don't know what you're talking about. They'll tell you
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: about the series they're watching. You never heard of that one.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: It's a real problem now. Same thing with the radio.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Look at podcasts. Do you know how many podcasts there are?
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: I think it's two million. Now, there are two million
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: podcasts out there right now. By the way, this show
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: ends up this week and almost every week in the
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: top fifty out of those two million. But there's two
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: million podcasts, and nobody can keep track of all of them.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: The other thing we're talking about that golden age of
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: television because you watch I Love Lucy and The Dick
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Van Dyke Show, and you ed saw me. Wow, it
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: was a golden age. Tell you're forgetting there were hundreds
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: of shows back on back then. You're only seeing like
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: the top twenty of the hundred. There were plenty of
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: bad shows back then. There was a million other sitcoms
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: that stunk. If you watch them today, you can't believe
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: how bad they are. So you're only saying the absolute
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: cream of the crop from the fifties and the sixties.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: In the seventies. You know, you see some of the
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: seventies shows, Boy were they great. But go back to
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: actually the nineteen seventies, ninety percent of what was on
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: television was so horrifying it could never be real anywhere.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: It was just bad, cheesy stuff. Hey, the greatest columnist
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: in the in the country, Michael Goodwin, he'll be with
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: us next and he'd been the second hour. We'll get
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: to Johnny Carson, the side of him. You may not
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: know there was a dark side there you We'll get
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: to that coming up in the second hour. But Michael
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: goodwani'll be with us next on seven to ten. WR
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: you're listening.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: To Mark the most show only you.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Are well the best columnist in America. Michael Goodwin every
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Sunday and every Wednesday in the New York Post. You
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: can get all of calms. They're up on the New
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: York Post website. Michael Goodwin, How you.
• 22:03
  Speaker 11: Doing, Good morning? Mark?
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Thank you. You're right about the media. It's hard to
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: run a democracy without legitimate media, isn't it. The what
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: side are they on here?
• 22:14
  Speaker 11: Well, that's the question, right the uh you know, talking
• 22:18
  Speaker 11: about the terror attacks, in particular the one into synagogue
• 22:23
  Speaker 11: in Michigan where a lot of the big outlets at TVs.
• 22:28
  Speaker 11: Of course, the New York Times stuck with this bland
• 22:33
  Speaker 11: thing that that the attacker had lost relatives in Lebanon,
• 22:39
  Speaker 11: but the Israeli media beat them to the pond. Same
• 22:43
  Speaker 11: Wait a minute, His relatives were members of Hezblah, that's
• 22:47
  Speaker 11: why they were killed, and that, of course it took
• 22:52
  Speaker 11: The New York Time on Saturday was still reporting all
• 22:55
  Speaker 11: the poor guy he lost relatives. Talking about an official
• 23:01
  Speaker 11: in the town where this bombing happened, he said, oh,
• 23:07
  Speaker 11: I can't tell you anymore. He was afraid of retaliation. Now,
• 23:11
  Speaker 11: who would he be afraid of retaliation from? Of course
• 23:16
  Speaker 11: hezeb lah. But the New York Times never made the
• 23:19
  Speaker 11: connection because why ruin a perfectly good story that makes
• 23:24
  Speaker 11: America look bad?
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's out and out deception. His relatives were
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Hesbela terrorists. Israel stopped him. The Times they knew all this.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Sec chair car talking about sanctioning some of these media outlets.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: He's right, isn't he.
• 23:42
  Speaker 11: Well? Look, I think I'm not certain of the legal
• 23:46
  Speaker 11: definitions in these cases. But look, I do think that
• 23:52
  Speaker 11: the anti American tone, the anti Israeli tone, of much
• 23:56
  Speaker 11: of the American media is unfooled to display in their
• 24:01
  Speaker 11: coverage of the war. I mean, you do often wonder
• 24:05
  Speaker 11: whose side are they on?
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, whose side are they on? They're just on the
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Democrat side. They'll just say anything bad about things when
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: the Republican Isn't Is it that simple?
• 24:16
  Speaker 11: Well, I think that's the kind of the spear. The
• 24:21
  Speaker 11: tip of the spear is that they hate Donald Trump,
• 24:24
  Speaker 11: and so anything that would make him look good then
• 24:29
  Speaker 11: has to be you know, defeated in an argument. And
• 24:33
  Speaker 11: of course, in the case of war, you are effectively
• 24:38
  Speaker 11: not just going after the president you're going after the
• 24:42
  Speaker 11: American military and America itself. That's what we're seeing here.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:49
  Speaker 11: Look, they don't have to become but they have to
• 24:53
  Speaker 11: release the fair and accurate in their reporting. But rather
• 24:58
  Speaker 11: they're rushing to judgment in ways that suit their agenda,
• 25:03
  Speaker 11: not the facts.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Now, Michael Goodwin, you used to work at the New
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: York Times, do you? Yes, it was not like this.
• 25:10
  Speaker 11: It was a little No, it's a very different place.
• 25:12
  Speaker 11: And I you know, Mike, I still many of the
• 25:15
  Speaker 11: things that I still go by in my own work
• 25:19
  Speaker 11: I learned at the New York Times. I mean the
• 25:22
  Speaker 11: idea that you don't you don't assume what's in someone's head.
• 25:28
  Speaker 11: And I would like our listeners to this. Gaze at
• 25:31
  Speaker 11: the front page of the New York Times one day
• 25:34
  Speaker 11: or any of their stories about Trump and Republicans, and
• 25:38
  Speaker 11: they are telling you what they're thinking. Their motives are
• 25:42
  Speaker 11: always the focus of the attack. It's not that they
• 25:46
  Speaker 11: wanted to do the best. They wanted to do the worst.
• 25:49
  Speaker 11: They wanted to do this their self enriching or whatever.
• 25:53
  Speaker 11: It's constantly an attack on motives. When I was at
• 25:57
  Speaker 11: the New York Times, there was an open rule you
• 26:00
  Speaker 11: don't go after someone's motives because you're not a mind reader.
• 26:05
  Speaker 11: Neither are you a detective.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, hey, mayor mom, Donnie trying to Olive branch
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: wants to meet with Jewish leaders. Then they find out
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: he's only going to be there briefly. It was obviously
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: just a photo op. What is wrong with this guy?
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: How hard would it be to actually sit down for
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: an hour and listen to people?
• 26:24
  Speaker 11: Yeah, it's a you know, I think he's thinking himself
• 26:28
  Speaker 11: a very deep hole in a lot of ways. Mark,
• 26:31
  Speaker 11: He seems sort of not to care about the basic
• 26:35
  Speaker 11: things that a mayor is elected to do. He seems
• 26:39
  Speaker 11: to be off on his own tension, and there doesn't
• 26:42
  Speaker 11: seem to be any real filter between what he says
• 26:47
  Speaker 11: what he does. With a larger reality in the city
• 26:53
  Speaker 11: is about full steam ahead on the radical socialist agenda.
• 26:59
  Speaker 11: And you know, also with a Muslim situation, he's quick
• 27:04
  Speaker 11: to criticize everybody else, but very slow on that side.
• 27:09
  Speaker 11: So it does look like he's playing favorites. Yeah, in
• 27:14
  Speaker 11: a very dangerous and volatile situation.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't think he realizes a job number one,
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: fill the potholes, you know, get the trains, move all
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: that sort of th.
• 27:24
  Speaker 11: That's right, that's right. Yeah, when you get too far
• 27:28
  Speaker 11: off the core issues that a mayor is elected to do,
• 27:32
  Speaker 11: that's when you really fail. You mean, you come up
• 27:35
  Speaker 11: empty handed and you get entangled in all these disputes
• 27:39
  Speaker 11: that ultimately are meaningless about the job.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: And he's back to this closed Rikers island. I mean,
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: there's no more perfect spot for a prison than on
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: an island, and he wants to move them into the boroughs.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: This is the foremost crazy idea to Blasio's crazy idea.
• 27:55
  Speaker 11: What's the s Yeah, I agree. I do think the
• 27:58
  Speaker 11: one thing that really will stop that would be the
• 28:02
  Speaker 11: cost of building those jails and the community opposition. Nobody
• 28:08
  Speaker 11: wants a jail in their neighborhood, so I think that
• 28:12
  Speaker 11: will to me run into reality and as it did
• 28:16
  Speaker 11: with build a Bosio and Eric Adams never really embraced
• 28:20
  Speaker 11: that idea. But I'm not surprised that Mom donney thinks
• 28:24
  Speaker 11: it's just a swell thing to do.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So will this get better or worse? Will he
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: start to will those big special interests, real estate guys,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: unions start to dangle things in front of maybe get
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: him in line will it improve it all?
• 28:39
  Speaker 11: Well, I think the one break on a lot of
• 28:42
  Speaker 11: his stuff, Mark is going to be the budget, you know,
• 28:47
  Speaker 11: the downgrade from from you know stable too. I think
• 28:52
  Speaker 11: a negative outlook on the credit It doesn't mean we're
• 28:56
  Speaker 11: approaching bankruptcy. But it's the kind of kind of warning
• 29:00
  Speaker 11: signed that all mayors of all parties have adhered to
• 29:05
  Speaker 11: since the fiscal crisis of the seventies. That was the
• 29:08
  Speaker 11: great learning moment about the dangers of losing access to
• 29:13
  Speaker 11: the credit markets and being viewed as the spend for
• 29:18
  Speaker 11: its Well, that is the sort of thing that he
• 29:21
  Speaker 11: does not pay attention to. It. It could undermine everything
• 29:24
  Speaker 11: he wants to do, in part because all of his
• 29:28
  Speaker 11: ideas are big ticket items, very expensive. So and I
• 29:33
  Speaker 11: think if he gets any of his taxes, he's going
• 29:36
  Speaker 11: to find he probably collects the less money rather the more,
• 29:41
  Speaker 11: because you're going to drive people out of the city.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Well, Michael Goodwin, great stuff. Everybody go read his column.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: You can read his Calm every Sunday and every Wednesday
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: in the New York Post. But all the coms are
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: up on the website. You can go New York Posts
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: website and read them. Michael Goodwin. Thanks for being with us.
• 29:57
  Speaker 11: Oh, it's a pleasure.
• 29:58
  Speaker 10: Thank you.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Mark, take care. Hey, coming up, don't forget at noon,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Buck Sexton, Clay Travis, excellent show at twelve noon and
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: get Bucks new book. It just came out. It's on Amazon.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Sean Hannity three o'clock, the most listened to radio show
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: in America. Jesse Kelly at six and you got Jimmy
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Faylor with him. Oh, it's a really funny show. Every
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: night at nine here on seven to ten.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Wo News breaks out in every show, Mark Simone on
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: seven ten, wor.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Well, Hey, coming up for the next hour, I'll talk
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: about the Oscars. We'll also talk about Johnny Carson, one
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: of the great Oscar hosts for many, many, many years.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: And we've talked about him before, but usually the stuff
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: you think of when you think of Johnny Carson, But
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: you know, there was another side to him. He was
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: overall a great guy, wonderful guy. But there was a
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: period of a lot of womanizing, cheating on his wife.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: There was running with the mob where there was a
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: hit out on him. This is right in the middle
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: of the tonight show, and he had to go into
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: hiding for a few days, So we'll get to that
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: other stuff. And this is not just a cheap tabloid.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is the greatest Carson historian has documented
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: all of this stuff. We'll get to that coming up
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: in the next hour, and we'll get to crazy mayor Mom,
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Donnie floundering around, and we'll get back to Iran and
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: a whole lot more in Cuba that could be the
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: next country to get liberated. We'll get to that in
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: the next hour. Hey, spring begins Friday, so you got Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: you got three more days tomorrow and then spring. It
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: actually begins like eleven Thursday night, so Friday officially be
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: the first day of spring. Hey, I'm here every day
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: ten to noon, and don't forget if you can't listen
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: ten to noon, or if you've got to miss a
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: show or miss an hour, you can always hear this
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: show by just getting the podcast. Wherever you get your podcasts,
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: you'll find this show and you can listen anytime day
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: or night. So we'll be back right after the news
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: on seven to ten wor.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Back to Marshamore on wor.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Well, we'll get to Johnny Carson later this hour, Hey,
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: speaking which Stephen Colbert. Believe it or not, I can
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: talk to believe it. You went from Johnny Carson to
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: Stephen Colbert, this angry, bitter little guy with this twisted
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: up It's called the Late Show, should be called the
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Hate Show. It's just this hate filled rant every night.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: They fired him. He's gone, he's just working out the
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: contract which has got This is March April May, so
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: it's about two more months. But CBS is already erasing
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Stephen Colbert from everything they can. If you go into
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: the Big Broadcast Center fifty seventh and eleventh, when you
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: walk in there, there's pictures of all the shows. As
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: you come down the hallway, the pictures of Colbert and
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: the Late Show have disappeared. They've been taken off the walls.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: One insider saying it's it's like it never existed at all.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Every CBS facility everywhere has taken down all the pictures
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: of Colbert, all the references to Colbert. The network now
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: confirms that when he goes off the air, there will
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: be no sendoff, no goodbye party, no anything. They've had
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: it with this guy. They want nothing to do with him.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: He's ruined late night television. Something completely destroyed it. He
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: was really first to go total hatred, and then Kimmel followed.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Fallon sort of followed, but Fallon's the one guy who
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: could go back to a regular entertainment show at night
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: if he wanted to. Kimmel is too far gone. He
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: just became this angry, bitter guy. Colbert was always just
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: a hate filled, angry guy. So they can't wait to
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: get this thing off the air. The Late Show, The
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: Stephen Colbert Late Show. Now, remember it's in its final
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: month or two. You know, remember when Johnny Carson announced
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: he was retiring, and may have why the last few months,
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: the ratings were through the roof. Everybody wanted to watch
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: his final shows, and all the biggest stars in the
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: world wanted to come on. It was quite a ratings
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: boost those final months. It's just the opposite of the Colbert.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: He's going off pretty soon and his final months are
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: ratings disaster. In fact, the last month was the worst ever,
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: worst January ever. He had two hundred and eighty five
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: thousand viewers in the demo. Two hundred and eighty five
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: thousand in their demo. Now, normally, you know, in the
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Carson days, it was eight million, nine million network says
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: the final show can't come soon enough. Now, when they
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: take him off the air, they're not going to put
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: on another talk show. It could be a game show,
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: or it could be reruns. You know, when The Kimmel
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: got pulled off the air for a week, they just
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: ran reruns of Password and it got triple the ratings
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: of Kimmel, So don't think CBS didn't notice it. And
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: to run the reruns of Password, it's free, it doesn't
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: cost anything. So expect Colbert to be replaced with reruns
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: of a game show or CBS drama or something like that,
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: and it'll get double triple the ratings at Colbert and
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: cost nothing. What do they do with that big theater, Well,
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: they spent a lot of money on that theater through
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: the years, the Ed Sullivan Theater, and it's a really
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: good TV studio. So I would imagine CBS keeps it,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: uses it to do game shows and that sort of
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: stuff out of there. Also, you can make a lot
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: of money renting out the theater as a TV studio.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: In fact, before Letterman took it over, in between The
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Ed Sullivan Show and Letterman taking it over, that's what
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: it was. You could rent that theater and millions of
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: shows were done out of there if you needed to
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: rent a studio. Hey, you know the show Access Hollywood
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: gone canceled. Even the top producers were totally unaware it
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: was going to get canceled. NBC Universal made the decision Friday.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Access Hollywood got a call after nearly thirty years, canceled.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: That's it, no more Access Hollywood. Why. Ratings were good,
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: in fact, they were higher than Extra, but TV viewership,
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Network TV viewership is way way way down. A lot
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: less people watch network TV or local stations TV. That's
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: who runs all these Access Hollywood. All these local stations
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: run Access Hollywood and just doesn't pay to do them anymore.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Viewership is way way way down. So Access Hollywood is canceled. Hey,
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: we're talking about potholes before they're still there. This was
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: the worst season ever for potholes because of the Remember
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: the temperature would go from minus fifteen to seventy five
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: the next day. It's that quick temperature shifts that caused
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: the potholes, and also the salt and stuff they throw
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: all over the road. So it's worse than ever. And
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: apparently they don't have enough people to fix it. The
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: mayor and others said there'd be two weeks, will fix
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: all the potholes. It's not getting done. The union that's
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: in charge of all that says they don't have enough people.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: They could use at least two hundred more highway workers
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: to get the job done. Say it's the biggest crop
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: of potholes they've seen after this brutal winter. But the
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Mamdani promised for two weeks. They say, he is not
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: going to happen. Just not possible. Hey, so the Epstein files,
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: there are a lot of people you know. Sometimes you
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: see these business people are Bill Gates or Bill Clinton.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: You're not shocked, and that's how your picture hanging out
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: with Epstein. But deep pak Chopra his followers stunned, stunned
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: that he's in there.
• 37:38
  Speaker 9: Now.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: There's some guys that end up in this Epstein file,
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: like Dick Cavett. You wouldn't expect him to be in there.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Woody Allen, but it's pretty innocent with these two. Woody Allen.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: It was remember after the scandal, Woody Allen could not
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: get any financing to make movies. All the big studios
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: stopped financing his movies, so he couldn't get movies made
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: with the big studios or and the Hollywood stuff, so
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: he had to go out and raise his own money.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: And the way you raise money is you find wealthy guys, starstruck,
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: wealthy guys who want to pretend to be a movie
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: producer or hang around show business, and they'll finance your movies.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: And there's a lot of them, a lot of them,
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: not just Woody ell a lot of Scorsese's done that
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: with a few films. You just go find some rich
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: guys to give you the money. You don't have to
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: deal with the Hollywood studio. And these rich guys are
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: just as starstruck as anybody. So that's what Woody Allen
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: was doing, getting Epstein to finance movies. In exchange, Woody
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Allen had to come to his house for a lot
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: of dinners, a lot of luncheons, and Epstein would invite
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: all of his friends and you could sit there and
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: have lunch with Woody Allen, dinner with Woody Allen. It's annoying,
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: but he was willing to do it to get the financing.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Woody Allen's close friend Dick Caviot got dragged into this.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: Why was Cavot doing it? Well, if you read the files,
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: it looks like Cabot wanted a rich guy to finance
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: a PBS special he was trying to put together other
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: Epstein did do that. So that's what I'm now. That's innocent.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: D Pac Chopra, the guru who everybody idolized. This guru,
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: this is different. You can read all the emails. You
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: can go to the Epstein files. His behavior was pretty
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: slimy there. He was all over Epstein. Here's one devoted
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: follower of his on Facebook says, I just looked at
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: the Chopra emails with Epstein and I am about to
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: drown in my own vomit. He wants to go away
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: with Epstein on trips and in the invitation he says
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: bring your girls. On at least two occasions, Chopra invited
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: Epstein to join him on trips to Israel in Switzerland,
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: specifically telling him to bring your girls. In the Israel invitation,
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Chopra also suggested Epstein use a fake name if he
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: wished Chopra. Another one wrote, God is a construct. Cute
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: girls are real. Yeah, a lot of stuff with women
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: and Deepak Chopra and then apparently Chopra was quite the
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: ladies man. In one email, Epstein's texting him, I liked
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: watching you zero in on your prey made me smile.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: The word predator is used. And then there's another one
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: from Chopra requests for cute girls. He asked if he
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: had found him acute Israeli while he's over there, Epstein
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: offered to send two girls to a meditation events Chopra
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: was hosting, which Chopra accepted, requesting their names for the
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: guest list. Now what does Chopra say about all this? Well,
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: he issued a statement on X denying any criminal or
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: exploiti of contact. He acknowledged that some past email exchanges
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: reflected poor judgment in tone and expressed regret for how
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: they might be interpreted. The reports specified that it's unclear
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: how old the girls were in the message as well
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: how it might be interpreted. I don't know if when
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: you're writing Epstein and you say bring your girls, how's
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: it going to get interpreted? Hey, there was a noted publicist,
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Peggy Siegel. I think she's kind of retired now. Peggy's
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: Siegel throughout the eighties and nineties was the big publicist
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: for the movie studios through the big, big, big, big
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: movie premiere parties here in New York. Was the nastiest
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: person ever, nasty personality. Everybody behind her back, always bad
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: motter like crazy. But she was quite the publicist. If
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: it was a big event with big, big names, major
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: business names, society names, that's who you hired to put
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: together the party. Well, nobody was more involved with Epstein
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: than Peggy Siegel. Nobody. It was five thousand emails turned
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: up just in one year, oh no, ten years, five
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: thousand emails in ten years. And why would she do
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: this for Epstein? Well, money, he had what's known as
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: check's appeal. He would write massive checks. For instance, on
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: her birthday party, he sent her one hundred thousand dollars
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: as a gift, that kind of stuff. And every time
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: he wanted her to put together a party, put together
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: a dinner party for my birthday, invite all the biggest
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: names in New York. He sent thirty thousand dollars for
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: the party they wanted Elton John, So fifteen thousand was
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: donated to Elton John's charity. A lot of money was spent.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: Now she lost. I think a lot of the movie
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: Studios once it all came out about Epstein, and she's
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: really the one that got him a lot of big
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: names in New York, but she's getting a lot of
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: flak for this now. He's the one that when he
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: got Prince Andrew at his house. She's the one that
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: threw the dinner party for Prince Andrew, and she got
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: George Stefanopolis to come, and Katie Kuric to come and
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: Stephanoppolis later got a lot of flack for having dinner
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: at Epstein's house, and he put out some stupid statement about, well,
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: maybe I should have done my due diligence. Well, he's
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: supposed to be some sort of a news guy, and
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: it was in every news outlet in the world that
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: he was convicted of being a pedophile in prison, So
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: it wasn't that hard to do the due diligence. But anyway,
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: we'll do that. Throughout the week, we'll bring you more
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: of these shocking names that are in the Epstein files. Hey, Cuba, Cuba,
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: the communist government of Cuba could fall at any moment.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: There were riots in the street this weekend. Rioters attacking
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: a communist party building, entering it throwing everything out the windows.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: This is building. It's possible that Iran is liberated. It's
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: possible Iran gets a new government, is no longer a
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: brutal terrorist dictatorship. And it's possible in the months ahead,
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: Cuba gets rid of communism, goes capitalist. Trump would absolutely,
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: without question, deserve a Nobel Prize for all of this,
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: because he's been working on this behind the scenes. And
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: you know, Cuba is a beautiful Caribbean island. It's in
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: total poverty and decay for decades under communism. If you
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: liberated it, it would look like Miami. In fact, before
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: the Communists took over, it looked like Miami. It had
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: all the same hotels. Same guy that built the Fountain
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: Blue had a hotel in Cuba. The same guy that
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: built the Eden Rock had a hotel in Cuba that
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: was magnificent. Hotels, the most beautiful beaches, gambling casinos, nightclubs.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: It could go back to that. It could make a fortune.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: So look for that to happen. You know, if they
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: need somebody to take over and run Iran, who would
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: do it well, the Sun of the Shaw of Iran.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: He's been in this country for forty seven years, Reza
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: pan La Pavlav, and he's been pushing for decades to
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: be the guy to go back and take over. And
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: he's been leading, you know, all kinds of events and
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: discussions and about going back and taking over. I don't
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: know if the White House has any real confidence in him.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: Nothing wrong with him, He's just he hasn't been there
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: in forty seven years, and it's hard to imagine you
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: could go back forty seven years later and know what
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: the hell's going on or know anybody there. But he
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: could play some sort of role in this, he probably
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: would not be the new leader. And there's a tremendous
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: amount of Persians here in the United States and the
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: Persian community. You see them all over in New Jersey,
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: Long Island, Sands Point, Great Neck, very very very successful
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: business people, very very smart people. So it's a huge
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: diaspora of the Persian community. Huge and they've been talking, meeting,
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: gathering over the last few weeks figuring out what they
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: can do. And these are smart, wealthy guys. They can
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: do plenty to help support a new government in Iran.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: So it could happen soon. You know, we've been trying
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: to take out the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the Revolutionary Guard,
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: the Republican Guard. And they're the vicious ones. They're the
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: really ugly, vicious, brutal terrorist ones have been shooting protesters
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: and all that. But there's the regular army. We're trying
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: very hard not to hit them. The Islamic Republican Iran Army.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: We've been leaving them alone because they'll be needed. If
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: Iran gets free, they'll be there. They'll be the new army.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: We'll get rid of the Republican Guard, the regular army
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: will take over. It could get pretty interesting in the
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: next few months. We'll get to Johnny Carson coming up
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: in a few minutes. Interesting stuff that you never knew
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: about them. We'll take some calls next eight hundred three
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: two one zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: three two one zero seven ten.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: Always this step ahead of the news. Here's more Marks
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: imone on seven ten. Wr.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Bonnie and
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: Toms River. Bonnie, how you doing.
• 47:18
  Speaker 12: Hi, Mark? I was just wondering this guy they put
• 47:23
  Speaker 12: in charge of Iran, the Sun. Yeah, he's pretty banged up.
• 47:30
  Speaker 12: I mean he's performed and he's in a coma. Is
• 47:33
  Speaker 12: it sort of like the Weekend with Bernie thing where
• 47:36
  Speaker 12: they prop them up and he waves yeah.
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: He's kind of the Joe Biden of Iraq. Now yeah,
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: they actually think he well, some think he's dead. There's
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: no confirmation that he's actually alive. It's been reported he
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: lost a leg in the bombing, facial lacerations, he was
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: in a coma, and.
• 47:54
  Speaker 12: Some of them I heard last night they think he's gay.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's gay, which is pretty funny because in Iran
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: that's illegal and they'll hang you if you're gay. So
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: so it was always said that the Iotola himself never
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: wanted his son to take over, and they said the
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: reason was they didn't want to get into this family
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: dynasty because that's what they had with the Shaw. But
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: could also be that he knew his son was gay
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: and that doesn't fit with what the Iranian government believes.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Phil in Northport. Phil, how you doing?
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 48:27
  Speaker 13: Hello, Hello Mark, And just kudos to whose cadets put
• 48:32
  Speaker 13: it into that miserable human being that killed the lieutenant
• 48:37
  Speaker 13: colonel in Arlington, Arlington, Virginia. And why didn't the governor
• 48:43
  Speaker 13: of Arlington, Virginia make one word about this.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: You mean the governor of Virginia. All right, Well, anyway,
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: she's a left wing cook. She's not going to say
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: a word about it. But you've had the worst coverage
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: of everything we're talking about this last hour with Michael Goodwin,
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: just absolutely. For instance, the Michigan shooter, the guy who
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: tried to run over the kids, I mean, this awful terrorist,
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: and the New York Times and others put out this
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: narrative that he was so driven, so crazy because his
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: brother had been killed and an Israeli airstrike, his brother
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: in Lebanon was killed and in his early airstrike it
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: was very you know, to get sympathy from this is
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: what the New York Times and others wrote. Well, it
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: turns out it was true. The reason he was killed
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: he was a Hesbala terrorist. They forgot to mention that
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: in the article. They deliberately didn't mention it in the article.
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: You've had this kind of stuff going on. That's why
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: the FCC chair is warning these media outlets. They also
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: reported the story about we lost six ships, six ships
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: were sunk in or rent. None of this was true,
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: completely false, but major news outlets all ran this story.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: That's why they're talking about FCC crackdown. Let's go to
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing.
• 49:55
  Speaker 10: Good morning, Mark, I'm okay, Good morning, Mara, Mark abb
• 49:59
  Speaker 10: A girls Bamberger. The governor Virginia pulled the bait and switch.
• 50:04
  Speaker 10: She ran as a moderate, and now she wants to
• 50:07
  Speaker 10: tax anything walking, even cockerroaches and water bugs. Mark, I'm
• 50:13
  Speaker 10: sure you heard about Mandami's latest boneheaded plan. He wants
• 50:18
  Speaker 10: the state to low the inheritance tax threshold from seven
• 50:24
  Speaker 10: million dollars to seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and
• 50:30
  Speaker 10: he wants an inheritance tax rate of fifty percent.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: Now, if you have inheritance, the first seven million is
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: not taxed, he wants to make that the first seven
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: hundred thousand, which, now explain this to me, though federal
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: inheritance tax about fifty percent, isn't it?
• 50:49
  Speaker 11: No?
• 50:49
  Speaker 10: Actually, and you got to make you got to really
• 50:52
  Speaker 10: be inherit a lot of a lot, a lot of buddy, No,
• 50:56
  Speaker 10: it's not not that what there is tax on. Like
• 50:59
  Speaker 10: if somebody in New York, and that's upfront, if let's
• 51:03
  Speaker 10: say your mom leaves a bank account in trust for
• 51:07
  Speaker 10: you if it's over thirty thousand dollars, they put and
• 51:11
  Speaker 10: this was years ago. I don't even know what it
• 51:13
  Speaker 10: is now. They put a lock on that accountant to
• 51:16
  Speaker 10: get you paid a tax up front, and you get
• 51:19
  Speaker 10: a clearance, a statement of clearance from the state tax Department,
• 51:24
  Speaker 10: and you present it to the bank and they'll free
• 51:27
  Speaker 10: up your money. I heard an economist over this weekend
• 51:31
  Speaker 10: talking about real estate in New York. And this person
• 51:35
  Speaker 10: knows about economics, but does not know about real estate.
• 51:40
  Speaker 10: He was saying that you could buy the average house
• 51:42
  Speaker 10: in New York City. You could you buy one for
• 51:45
  Speaker 10: seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. No way, you can't
• 51:49
  Speaker 10: even even in Brooklyn. The average co op let alone
• 51:53
  Speaker 10: of Manhattan goes for at least a million dollars. Block.
• 51:57
  Speaker 10: I was offered the beginning the last week for one
• 52:01
  Speaker 10: of my properties. I was offered a straight up deal.
• 52:05
  Speaker 10: We would have went to the lawyer's office and closed
• 52:08
  Speaker 10: five million dollars for one of mine. A good dollars.
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: Very good. Now, listen, the argument against the inheritance tax
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: is this is money that people have earned, and they've
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: already rational wealth, they've already paid tax on it when
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: they earned it, they paid the tax. So you're taxing
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: the money that's already been taxed, which is.
• 52:24
  Speaker 10: And they paid tax on and when they invested in
• 52:27
  Speaker 10: the dividends, the interest, they paid tax on it, when
• 52:30
  Speaker 10: they put it in the bank and everything. And so
• 52:34
  Speaker 10: it's robbery. And that's this is how you create generational wealth.
• 52:40
  Speaker 10: And Montami and these communists they don't want that. They
• 52:43
  Speaker 10: want everybody to be in the poorhouse. Now they're the
• 52:47
  Speaker 10: only ones conducted to eat steak and lobster. And they
• 52:50
  Speaker 10: complain about our military men and women who were fighting
• 52:54
  Speaker 10: for us having a stake or lobster didn't what they
• 52:57
  Speaker 10: added their mind.
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: Yes, as a matter of fact, Vincent, great, thanks for calling.
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: That's another example of fake news. They printed the story
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: as if Hexath had ordered millions of dollars of taking
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: lobster for himself. It was for the troops. They also
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: failed to mention this has done a lot. When troops
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: are about to go into combat, you spend a lot
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: of money and give them one incredible meal before they
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: go off to off to war. Hey, when we come back.
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: The Johnny Carson, expert of the world, he wrote it
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: just came out the greatest book about Johnny Carson. But
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: there's a dark side to Carson you may not have
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: known about. We'll get to that next on seven to ten.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: Wor give woor o, Bri said on the iHeartRadio app
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: to hear Marximone and all the wr hosts in an instance.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: Now back to the Mark Simon show on woor.
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: Well, you know there's been a lot of books about
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: Johnny Carson, but nothing like this. The Definitive Ultimate Johnny
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: Carson book came out last year. I urge you to
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: get it. It's the greatest book ever on Carson. It's
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: uncovered everything you could ever know about him. It's called
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: Love Johnny Carson. It's by Mark Malkoff. He also does
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: the Carson Podcast. There's about four hundred episodes you can
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: listen to with anybody and everybody that was ever involved
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: with the Tonight Show. But get the book, Love Johnny Carson,
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: by Mark Malcoff. You won't be able to put it down.
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: And he's with us now, Mark Malkoff, how you doing, Mark.
• 54:21
  Speaker 4: I'm doing great. Nice to talk to you again.
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: Hey, Oscars. Last night made me think of Carson. He
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: has been how many years was the Oscar host many years.
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: It was four or five years. He was the only
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: Oscar host in the history, no teleprompter, no q cars.
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: He memorized everything. The opening monologue, he would edit the
• 54:41
  Speaker 4: jokes in his head depending on how he did with
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: the crowd with each shoke. I mean that guy was
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: on a different level as a host, probably the greatest
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: Oscar host of all time.
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he did that with the Tonight Show. You know,
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: got like Jay Leno had to work on the monologue
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: to get the jokes in just the right order. But Carson,
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: you're right, on the Tonight Show would just jumble up jokes,
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: moving around on switch whatever he had to do. And
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: I think the only hoster ever that do that right.
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: Everyone else had the cue cards.
• 55:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it was at Johnny was effortless. I
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: mean he had a phote, he took a photograph, a
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: memory class, and he could learn. He learned Russian, he
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: learned Swahili, he took Spanish classes and between shows in
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: Las Vegas. I mean the guy was unbelievable in terms
• 55:22
  Speaker 4: of his intellect.
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, now you should get the book Love Johnny Carson,
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: and the book is wonderful. You're gonna love Johnny Carson
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: even more when you read it. But we've had you
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: on a number two. We never talked about the bad stuff.
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: I thought we'd just well. During the New York years.
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: He was a big drinker and apparently a lot of affairs, cheating,
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: not just him but the wife too.
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: Correct that's true. I mean Johnny would talk on the
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: Tonight Show about how we struggled with drinking. It was
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: one of those things in New York where he was
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: so famous. He would go into a restaurant or a
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: bar and people would constantly be sending over drinks, and
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: he tried to be polite, take a sip, and he
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: was a lightweight, so after few drinks, as Carson acknowledged,
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: he would turn into Attila the Hunt. And in the
• 56:04
  Speaker 4: spring of nineteen seventy one, Johnny was at Jillies on
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: fifty second straight World's Fame as Jilly's Sinatra Territory. He
• 56:11
  Speaker 4: was with Ed McMahon and Ed's manager Robert Coe, and
• 56:15
  Speaker 4: Carson had way too much to drink, and mobster Joey
• 56:18
  Speaker 4: Gallo had just gotten out of prison after serving a
• 56:21
  Speaker 4: decade who was locked away just got out. As at Jilli's,
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: Gallo is with his girlfriend, goes to the bathroom. Gallow
• 56:27
  Speaker 4: does and Johnny unfortunately didn't remember this because he was drunk,
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: but he did something highly inappropriate to Gallow's girlfriend. Jilly
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: Rizzo told ed get Carson the blank out of here,
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: which he did, and then Gallo came back and discovered
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: what Carson did, and he put a hit on Johnny's life.
• 56:44
  Speaker 4: And two things happened. One, Carson wisely got his good
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: friend Frank Sinatra to intervene. Sinatra new Gallo. He knew
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: some of the mafia figures. So Sinatra sat down with Gallow.
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: They need a favor, and he said, anything, I need
• 56:58
  Speaker 4: you to leave Johnny Carson alone. And Galo got really upset,
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: but he said, you tell Carson the only reason he
• 57:04
  Speaker 4: lives and breathes is because he knows Frank Sinatra. And
• 57:07
  Speaker 4: then the second thing is NBC. Carson was twenty five
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: percent of NBC's profits at one point, and to appease
• 57:13
  Speaker 4: the acting mafia don in New York City, Joe Colombo,
• 57:17
  Speaker 4: NBC News they aired a positive story in nineteen seventy
• 57:21
  Speaker 4: one on Joe Colombo and his Italian American Civil Rights
• 57:25
  Speaker 4: League for no reason, I mean, I watched it with
• 57:28
  Speaker 4: my own eye.
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: And you don't mean they ran a piece during the news.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: I mean they created a primetime special for this, right
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: they did.
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: It was was prime time because they would have higher ratings.
• 57:38
  Speaker 4: They were really worried about this and it aired in
• 57:42
  Speaker 4: primetime and I look at that and I was like,
• 57:44
  Speaker 4: it was just why would they do this? And they
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: just you know, Carson was their cash cow. I mean,
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: he was the most important person to the network and
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: then Bob Hope. So they did that, and that was
• 57:54
  Speaker 4: how Johnny was able to keep his life. I mean
• 57:57
  Speaker 4: he would go to the Copa cabana and Jerry Vale
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: was opening up the Copa and Carson again, two drinks
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: and he was gone, and it was it was. He
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: ruined Jerry Vale's entire premiere and Carson Jerry Vale's a.
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: Carson apologized for decades.
• 58:15
  Speaker 10: The show.
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, you just did not want to be around Johnny.
• 58:19
  Speaker 4: But he would talk about it on the Tonight Show.
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: We talked about it with Mike Wallace. It was a
• 58:22
  Speaker 4: struggle of his. Really didn't get a hold of it
• 58:25
  Speaker 4: until nineteen eighty two after he got unfortunately arrested for
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: drinking and driving and three months prior on the Tonight Show,
• 58:31
  Speaker 4: he was warning people you do not want to drink
• 58:33
  Speaker 4: and drive during the holidays. And then three months later,
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: of course, Johnny, but it was a struggle of his
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: and then obviously the marriage is married. Four times he
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: would talk about the struggles. But yeah, unfortunately in nineteen
• 58:45
  Speaker 4: this has also happened in nineteen seventy one, Johnny. This
• 58:49
  Speaker 4: was wife number two, Joe Anne, who was the one
• 58:51
  Speaker 4: that really convinced Johnny to take the Tonight Show because
• 58:55
  Speaker 4: Johnny and everybody said, don't you don't want to take
• 58:57
  Speaker 4: over for Jack part, No one's going to succeed. She unfortunately,
• 59:01
  Speaker 4: had caught Carson in some compromising situations with women, and
• 59:04
  Speaker 4: she wanted to make Carson jealous. So she was going
• 59:07
  Speaker 4: on the weekends to race car, drive races, race car
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: She loved race car driving. She started having an affair
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: with Peter Revson, a race car driver, a playboy race
• 59:16
  Speaker 4: car driver, who's the heir to the Revlon throne. That's
• 59:18
  Speaker 4: what the media said. Carson found out he had a
• 59:22
  Speaker 4: she had a secret apartment, and he had a private
• 59:24
  Speaker 4: investigator who you were actually friends with. Carson was crying
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: when he found out that joe Anne was cheating on
• 59:31
  Speaker 4: him and changed the locks on their apartment and it
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: was over. And it was a really, really sad thing.
• 59:37
  Speaker 4: But you know, Carson just I mean temptation with the ladies.
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: He couldn't turn it down. He didn't turn them down
• 59:43
  Speaker 4: very often.
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: So so he's cheating with other women and she's going
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: away every weekend to go watch race races. But is
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: that smart that your husband's a cheater and you leave
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: them alone on the weekends.
• 59:56
  Speaker 4: That I just don't know about that. It was one
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: of those things where Johnny, for whatever reason, and men
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 4: of his generation thought it was totally fine for the husband.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 4: There was nothing they would say, it was nothing emotional
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: about it, just physical. But if their wives did it
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 4: for whatever reason, it was like the worst thing that
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 4: they could possibly do. But yeah, Joanne was probably not
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 4: smart about that. And then she of course moved to
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 4: California and moved with Truman Capodi, who also has neighbors
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 4: with Johnny and the un plausa. Can you believe this?
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 4: Bobby Kennedy, Truman Capodi, David Suskin, Angela Lansbury, Yule Brenner.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: I mean, it was just a cavalcade of talent in
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 4: this one place. And then yeah, Truman Capodi in White
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 4: number two moved to la and they lived there until
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 4: they passed away.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well that un Plaza back in nineteen sixty four
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: sixty five, that was the premier apartment building of New York.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 4: It really wise. I mean it was that's where Johnny
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 4: met Sonny Werblin, who owned the New York Jets, who
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 4: became his business partner, and they opened the clothing line
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 4: and made Johnny a rich ben.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 10: Wow.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: Now, hey, get the book. Most of it is positive
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: and Johnny Carson, if you think that's true, wonderful guy.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: We're just focusing on the bad stuff here first because
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: we never got to it before. And there were people
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: that got themselves banned from the Tonight Show because Johnny
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: would have a problem with him.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 4: You know, I talked to four hundred people when I'm
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 4: talking to people that were on the very first show,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 4: like mel Brooks, to people that were you know, one
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 4: of the last guest in nineteen nineties, so you have
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 4: thirty years of people. The one thing Carson did to
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 4: test it was rudeness, especially to his staff. And he
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 4: was you know from Nebraska, and he was very much
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 4: about having good manners. And Jerry Lewis was really rude
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 4: to Carson's staff, and Carson said, he is never coming back.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 4: He would not tolerate rudeness, He would not tolerate comedians
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 4: coming on that for that we're debuting that did material
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 4: that might offend his audience. So unfortunately, Ellen DeGeneres on
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 4: her third appearance, did an offensive joke that Carson asked
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 4: her not to do, and she did, and she was
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 4: banned on the show. From the show, So there were
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 4: a bunch of people, maybe like thirty people that were
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 4: not welcomed on the show any I mean, William Shatner
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 4: was somebody that wouldn't let Johnny get a word in,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: and Johnny detested that, and then Shatner turned his back
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 4: to Carson to talk to the previous guests, Buddy Hackett,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 4: and then Shatner back then, you weren't allowed to believe
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 4: it or not. You remember this. You weren't allowed to
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: say what network your show was on unless it was NBC.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 4: They say, on another network, And of course Shatner says,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: watched me Saturday nights on ABC. TJ. Hooker. So Johnny
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 4: basically said three strikes, you're out, and we go into
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 4: everyone that was banned and why they were banned. Rich
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 4: little to this, almost to this day would he asked me,
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: why do you know why I was banned? And I
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 4: was able with my reporting to figure that out why
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 4: these people we were gone from Carson's show and even
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 4: his friend Carl Sagan, the famous astronomer, unfortunately after ten
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 4: or twelve appearances, was banned from the show.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but he remained friends with him. He'd still go
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: to dinner with him.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 4: He did, unfortunately interrupted Carson twice during this segment to
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 4: correct him, and it was very abrupt, and Johnny was
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 4: embarrassed and thought it was poor man. And he never
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 4: had him on. He did stay friends with him, you know.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 4: He would have dinners with Carl Sagan. He with Jim Fowler,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 4: the wildlife expert. He went to San Diego to see
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 4: the animals with with Joanah Embery at the San Diego Zo.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 4: Just a really really interested man in how things work.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 4: He really loved New York. I mean he pitched to
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 4: Mickey Mantle in nineteen sixty two on the Tonight Show.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 4: He played with the Jets at the polo grounds. He
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 4: was diving out of planes. I mean, Mark, you and
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 4: I talk about Johnny in the New York Years. Unfortunately
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 4: most of that footage is gone. But Johnny was on
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 4: a different level, jumping out of airplanes, racing an Indiana
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: motor speedway with Hernelli Jones, going over one hundred miles
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 4: an hour. It's a really, really fun thirty years to
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 4: look at.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: Well, it's a great book. I urge everybody to get it,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: the new book, and it's got all kinds of great
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: things about Johnny Carson and everything you never knew about him.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: It's fascinating. It's called Love Johnny Carson by Mark Malcof.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: Now for those are gonna write to me, what was
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: the name of that place? Love Johnny Carson by Mark Malkoff.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: Get the book. You're gonna love it. And listen to
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: the Carson Podcast. He's got four hundred episodes that are amazing.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: But get the book, Love Johnny Carson, Mark Malkoff. It's
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: on Amazon. Mark Malkoff, we'll do it again soon. Thanks
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: for being with us.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 4: I would love that yet. We have some new episodes
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 4: coming out and always good talking to you. Mark. Thank
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 4: you so much.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: All right, take care. Hey, don't forget. Curtis is now
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: on the Morning show, Curtis and Larry, Curtis Lee, Larry Minti.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: It's every morning, six to ten, seven ten wor here's more.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: Mark Simone on seven ten wor.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: Hey, we're out of time. Lousy weather today, but spring
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: begins Friday. I'll see you tomorrow ten o'clock, seven to
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: ten wor