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Mark's 11am Monologue. · 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. Woor yeah,
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  Speaker 1: oh boy. All these officials must cheat from one another.
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  Speaker 1: You know Eric Adams swaggerman with no plan. Thank god,
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  Speaker 1: he's gone claiming crimes at an all time load. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you're in the five boroughs of the city in
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  Speaker 1: New York, you don't know what city he's in. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's right. Most times he hasn't even been in our city.
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  Speaker 1: And then I heard that broadcasts about Ros Baraka, who,
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  Speaker 1: like his father, hates cops. Who's his father is he?
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  Speaker 1: I know? Look, look from West Milford. What would you know?
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  Speaker 1: You know, you didn't grow up in Newark. I know
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  Speaker 1: more about Newark than most people listening to this radio station.
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  Speaker 1: Spent a lot of time there. But Rosbarock because father
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  Speaker 1: was Lee Roy Jones. We then changed his name to
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  Speaker 1: a mirror Baraka, poet, self described communists and hater of
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  Speaker 1: everything white. If it was white, it wasn't right, and
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  Speaker 1: the lifelong enemy of Tony Imperiali, who at the Northward
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  Speaker 1: Citizens Association and kept that area along Bloomfield Avenue from
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  Speaker 1: burning down during the riots. Unfortunately the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: city decimated and no has not returned since crime is
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  Speaker 1: high there. You want to go to Weekwake Park. You
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  Speaker 1: want to go to broad and Market. By the way
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  Speaker 1: broad and Market is he want you to go to
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  Speaker 1: Penn Station in Newark. Yeah, they're all called Penn Station, Baltimore,
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  Speaker 1: Penn Station, Phillip, Penn Station, Washington. I want you to
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  Speaker 1: go to Penn Station in Newark. You take the Path
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  Speaker 1: train there in New Jersey trans and I want you
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  Speaker 1: to walk over the broad and Mind. You'll see the
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  Speaker 1: goldleaf dome of City Hall there. And you need to
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  Speaker 1: know they're back in about nineteen twenty twenty two on
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  Speaker 1: the sixth floor of one of the biggest retailers of
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  Speaker 1: all time, Bamburgers. Oh yeah, there used to be all
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  Speaker 1: the big stores there along Broader Market, same as you
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  Speaker 1: had in New York. Was where w R got its
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  Speaker 1: license to broadcasts. And that's where I think the first
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  Speaker 1: of the three Gamblings was broadcasting from six floorda no
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  Speaker 1: longer Bamburgers, obviously. And to tell you how bad things
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  Speaker 1: are in Newark, don't listen to Rasbaraka. He hates cops.
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  Speaker 1: There used to be more Cadillac dealerships in Newark than
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  Speaker 1: any other city in the nation, more than even in Detroit,
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  Speaker 1: where the Cadillacs were coming off the assembly line. And
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  Speaker 1: we'll go right into the some we'll go right into
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  Speaker 1: the showcased halls, and you could get a Cadillac cheaper
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  Speaker 1: there than anywhere. And my uncle's on the Italian American side,
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  Speaker 1: the Bianchino side. They all love Cadillacs back then, or
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  Speaker 1: Italian guys. That was the sign of success in El Dorado, Fleetwood, Seville,
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  Speaker 1: you know where they went to buy their Cadillacs and
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  Speaker 1: then trade it in every year for a new Cadillac. Newark.
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  Speaker 1: Then the riots hit. You can't even buy or used
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  Speaker 1: Cadillac anywhere in Newark now, So stop this nonsense. Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: it's safer than it's ever been. New York City, safer
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  Speaker 1: than it's ever been. Who knows more about both those
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  Speaker 1: cities than me? Yes, truly, Curtis Sliwa, Get out of here.
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  Speaker 1: Rose Baraka, the evil seed did not fall far from
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  Speaker 1: the rotten tree of leit Roy Jones aka Emira Baraka
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  Speaker 1: a selfish describe communists. You know how that's been thrown
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  Speaker 1: around Zoron Mondami. You know Kami Mondam. He's not a communist,
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  Speaker 1: he's a socialists. But Leroy Jones was a communist. And
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  Speaker 1: we'll get one guarantee. If you were white, you were
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  Speaker 1: not right. All right, Just a little side note there.
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  Speaker 1: I want to get back on track though, because we
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  Speaker 1: are doing homage, as oftentimes Mark Simone would do. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: knows more about television, movies, radio and its history than
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  Speaker 1: Mark Simone. But I was sitting with Tom Cuddy yesterday
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  Speaker 1: after the show and the name of Regis Philbin popped up,
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  Speaker 1: and without a doubt, Regi's Philbin was the hardest working
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  Speaker 1: guy in all of television. And I know for a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people, they don't even think about Regis Philbin anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Shame shame on you. Local guy, Bronx kid van Nass
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  Speaker 1: not far from Morris par Arc went to Cardinal Hayes,
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  Speaker 1: a Hayesman by the way, like Bernard McGirk, who I'll
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  Speaker 1: be talking about tomorrow doing my annual tribute. But I
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  Speaker 1: got to tell you, Regis Philman his father, Irish, named
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  Speaker 1: him Regis because he wanted him to go to Regis
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  Speaker 1: High School in Manhattan, which is the elite Jesuit high
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  Speaker 1: school can't be elite if Fauci went there from Benson
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  Speaker 1: Hurts and he is Udscratziata. He will burn in hell,
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  Speaker 1: if nothing more for what he did in sending beagles
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  Speaker 1: over to Tunisia, third world country, to experiment on them
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  Speaker 1: at our taxpayer's expense and torture them for no purpose
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  Speaker 1: other than he's probably a satist, but anyway, just to divert.
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  Speaker 1: So Regis got his name Regis because his father said, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna go to Regis High School in Manhattan, the
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  Speaker 1: elite Jesuit high school. And I would always say to
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  Speaker 1: Regi's guys, because I went to Brooklyn Prep, where they
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  Speaker 1: kicked me out my senior year, you're not a real
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  Speaker 1: high school because you don't have a football team. And
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  Speaker 1: they didn't and they still don't. So he grows up
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  Speaker 1: in the Bronx, goes to Cardinal Hayes and the most
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  Speaker 1: in I think the interesting thing is he surfaces in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty seven with a member of the rat Pack.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the rat Pack. Oh you're all aware of that.
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  Speaker 1: If you didn't grow up with them, you probably saw
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  Speaker 1: the movie Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Junior, Peter Lawford,
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  Speaker 1: and Joey Bishop. Joey Bishop, who I think had a
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  Speaker 1: couple of call fe in the Bronx, was born there,
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  Speaker 1: but I think grew up most of his life in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, that's where Dick Clark get it. Notice
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  Speaker 1: how the synergy here. It's a stream of consciousness Dick
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  Speaker 1: Clark American Bandstand, which eventually led to what you just
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  Speaker 1: heard about, ABC's Dick Clark's New Yorkers Rocking Eve. You
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  Speaker 1: know with Ryan Seacress. Knew Dick Clark, Ryan, you know
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  Speaker 1: Dick Clark, although he has worked radio Ryan Seacrest, but
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  Speaker 1: he's milk toast. As you know, I don't have time
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  Speaker 1: to be watching milk Toast. Regis, on the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: was always a Wisenheimer, will always slip you a mickey,
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  Speaker 1: and I first remember watching him on the Joey Bishop Show.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure some of you did. He in competition, remember
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  Speaker 1: with Johnny Carson, and his sidekick was Ed McMahon. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, great actor, great actor. Does anybody out there
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  Speaker 1: know was probably the very first vigilante movie about the
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  Speaker 1: subways before there was Death Wish with Charles Bronson. I
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  Speaker 1: mean it was a classic and Eddery McMahon had a
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  Speaker 1: great party in it, great actor. He was a barker
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  Speaker 1: on Atlantic City. He came up, became a sidekick for
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Carson, you know the rest of that history. And
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  Speaker 1: then of course you wanted him to come to your
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  Speaker 1: door the public clearing house. I don't know if it
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  Speaker 1: was a battle they were elbowing one another. Was it
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  Speaker 1: Dick Clark or was it Ed McMahon, But anyway, because
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  Speaker 1: then if you bought all the magazine subscriptions you might
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  Speaker 1: become a millionaire. Oh, by the way, that was another
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  Speaker 1: show that Regis Philbin hosted later on You Want to
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  Speaker 1: Be a Millionaire? Who was that it came to your door?
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  Speaker 1: Was that Dick Clark? Was at Ed McMahon. So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: it was Joey Bishop and sidekick was Regis Philbin, and
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  Speaker 1: Regis was good. It was a good combination. And then
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden Regis Philbin was no more, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because those shows they come, they go, and all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, Regis Philbin showed up on a TV station
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  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles midday. I think it was Channel thirteen
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  Speaker 1: or Channel nine. They have like these independent stations there
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  Speaker 1: they all have talk shows, they do news many more
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  Speaker 1: than we have. And you know who he replaced. He
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  Speaker 1: replaced the king of talk radio, Bob Grant, who was
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  Speaker 1: on television at that time. Oh no, no, no, there's so
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  Speaker 1: much more to delve into. We ooh, but this is
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  Speaker 1: a stream of consciousness, I said Dick Clark, if I
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  Speaker 1: remember correctly, Dick Clark was from Mount Vernon, went to
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  Speaker 1: high school in Mount Vernon. Radio guy was up there
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  Speaker 1: in Utica, you know, with the brewery and the little
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  Speaker 1: mafia there. It was a mafia town. And they went
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  Speaker 1: to Syracuse University did radio there. Then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: he goes outside of Philly. He's on a radio station.
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  Speaker 1: They're experimenting with like an American Bandstand format on the radio,
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  Speaker 1: and the host goes on vacation, gets busted for duy
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  Speaker 1: chrunkin driving and guess who takes over the show if
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  Speaker 1: you're there at the right time, in the right place.
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  Speaker 1: Dick Clark, and they also had an affiliate TV station,
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  Speaker 1: and that's how I'm American Bandstand came about. And boy,
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  Speaker 1: that was the time Philly was king. Oh man was
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  Speaker 1: Philly King? Remember Mike Douglas Show, Mike Douglas. Roger Ailes
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  Speaker 1: was the producer. They filmed that. It was late afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: That was in Philadelphia. I remember watching Mike Douglas. I
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  Speaker 1: think it was nineteen seventy two for a full week.
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  Speaker 1: You know who co hosted with Mike Douglas, John Lennon
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  Speaker 1: and your co owner four a full week. This is
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  Speaker 1: mid afternoons. They had forty million viewers when the population
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  Speaker 1: was a lot less than it is now. I remember
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  Speaker 1: there was George Carlin was on, Ralph Nader, the Black
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  Speaker 1: Panther Leader there, Bobby Seal I think he sells barbecue sauce. Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: The point was it was so good, and then the
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  Speaker 1: FBI Jay Gil Hoover muscled the Mike Douglas and said,
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  Speaker 1: uh hmm, you don't want to be putting on television
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  Speaker 1: enemies of America, especially when he heard him sing that song,
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  Speaker 1: which I think he sang. I remember as a kid,
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  Speaker 1: imagine nineteen seventy two. By the way, John Lennon used
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  Speaker 1: to listen to talk radio. That's right ento Dakota. He
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  Speaker 1: would listen to the old talker WMCA. That's where our
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  Speaker 1: own Mark Simone got his start. So let it be
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  Speaker 1: listened to the King of talk radio, Bob Grant and
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  Speaker 1: go Nuts because obviously their politics couldn't be any more different.
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  Speaker 1: And at times he would walk over. And this is
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  Speaker 1: when you had celebrities walking all over New York City
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  Speaker 1: on their own. They didn't have an entourage, no bodyguards.
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  Speaker 1: I saw Mickey mantlehalf in the bag walking around in
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  Speaker 1: the streets. For that broke my heart. I saw will
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  Speaker 1: Clyde Fraser walking around on his own. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: got to see so many people and then all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, you know, when Lennon was killed, that era
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  Speaker 1: ended quick. But anyway, before that, he'd be listening to
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  Speaker 1: WMCA all the way down on the dial. Now it's
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  Speaker 1: like owned by Salem Communication, where you got to pay
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  Speaker 1: if you're a holy roller or a preacher a dollar
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  Speaker 1: a holler. Oh, they'll take your money and then they'll
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  Speaker 1: put you on. But anyway, that was the big talk station,
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  Speaker 1: our Peter Strauss ellen Strauss family owned. I believe that's
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  Speaker 1: where Mark Simone got to start. That's where he met
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  Speaker 1: Bob Grant. They were like ammonium bleached. They did not
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  Speaker 1: get along, but I will tell you they had some
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  Speaker 1: of the greatest radio of all time. So all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden you have John Ranny going over and I
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  Speaker 1: think these studios at WABC at that time was right
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  Speaker 1: across from Carnegie Hall. No security at that time. He
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  Speaker 1: walk upstairs, he'd knock on the door and he go,
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  Speaker 1: I want to go on and I want to contradict
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  Speaker 1: what Bob Grant said. And the board operator would look
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  Speaker 1: at it, Hey John Lennon and go back to the hosts,
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  Speaker 1: and the host nah, come on, what are you half
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  Speaker 1: in the bag? What are you dropping? LSD very popular
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  Speaker 1: at that time. LSD, you know Tim Leary, and he
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  Speaker 1: would come in and he would rant about Bob Grant.
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  Speaker 1: See that's when you could do that. No security, you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to provide identification. Remember it was John Lennon
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  Speaker 1: who got in trouble when he said, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: Beatles are more popular than Jesus Christ. Oh they were.
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  Speaker 1: Radio stations wouldn't play Beatles music at that time, Remember
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  Speaker 1: how popular. Remember, and the guy would be listening to
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  Speaker 1: talk radio. Do you want to be a bird? Remember
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  Speaker 1: that song from Easy Rider? I wonder if any of
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  Speaker 1: you know that was the theme song to the guy
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  Speaker 1: at night that he would listen to who was a radical,
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  Speaker 1: the complete op a Bob Grant in the afternoon drive time.
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  Speaker 1: He was a total radical who when the Simbionese Liberation
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  Speaker 1: Army SINQ General General Liscimo Sinque declared war in America
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  Speaker 1: and either kidnapped Pathy Patty Hurst or Tanya joined them,
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  Speaker 1: he was praising them on the air. Yeah at the
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  Speaker 1: old WMCA. Let's see if we can sort of massage
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  Speaker 1: any of your memories can get back to our tribute
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  Speaker 1: to the hardest working guy ever in TV, Regis Philmin
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  Speaker 1: and the hardest working guy ever in radio talk radio,
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  Speaker 1: Bob Grant. I'll conflate both of them as we do
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  Speaker 1: our homage to the greats, the iconic figures who paved
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  Speaker 1: the way for all of us, and little of any
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  Speaker 1: tribute has ever made to how important they were to
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  Speaker 1: this thing of ours. I will never forget, I know,
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  Speaker 1: Mark Simon, never forget. Unfortunately, there are a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people in our business who get their paycheck and they
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  Speaker 1: either don't know, or if they do know, god forbid
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  Speaker 1: they give any credit to these people. I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: this much, Bob Grant. You know who grew up listening
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  Speaker 1: to Bob Grant. The rock grabbed all American Conservative voice.
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  Speaker 1: Reason from Franklin, Long Island, Sean Hannity, you said him
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  Speaker 1: many times, and you catch him in the afternoon drive
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  Speaker 1: here wor seven ten Bill O'Reilly. Oh, he says it
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  Speaker 1: many times, Mike Levin. When Bob Grant was exiled at
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  Speaker 1: WWDB in Philadelphia. I'll get into that coming up next.
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  Speaker 1: They all attribute this now, how it start to Bob Grant?
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  Speaker 1: How come now little, if any attention is paid to
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  Speaker 1: these folks who really paved the way, took a lot
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  Speaker 1: of risks, got fired many times for taking a principal stand,
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  Speaker 1: took a licking, only to come back ticking on. Number
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  Speaker 1: is one eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
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  Speaker 1: That's one eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.