Latest / The Mark Simone Show / FULL SHOW: Family Values; Times Square fun.

Transcript

FULL SHOW: Family Values; Times Square fun. · The Mark Simone Show

0:00
Speaker 1: Now the guardian Angel of talk radio is here. Curtis
0:05
Speaker 1: Leewah guest host the Mark Simone Show on seven to ten.
0:09
Speaker 2: Woo oh yeah.
0:20
Speaker 3: My responsibility as being on Mark Simone's turf, the best
0:27
Speaker 3: talk radio host in our region bar none. And I'm
0:32
Speaker 3: sure Greg Kelly was listening over there at WABC doing
0:34
Speaker 3: his show prep as he always did by listening to
0:38
Speaker 3: Mark Simone. Hey, why not? He had good stuff and
0:42
Speaker 3: always says good stuff. He'll be back on the fifth
0:46
Speaker 3: on Monday, but I'll be back on Friday. And the
0:50
Speaker 3: kind of talk radio I do is different than most
0:54
Speaker 3: because I believe that we have this opportunity to speak
0:58
Speaker 3: to all of you now because of the technology, not
1:02
Speaker 3: just throughout the Try State area, throughout the United States,
1:04
Speaker 3: but all over the world, because any radio station can
1:10
Speaker 3: be picked up virtually anywhere. And I've heard from a
1:14
Speaker 3: lot of people listening to me on wor my place
1:17
Speaker 3: to be seventy ten never again at WABC, which the
1:21
Speaker 3: acronym stands for always blaming Curtis, for Zara Mandami being
1:25
Speaker 3: the mayor and always bashing Curtis even to this day.
1:31
Speaker 3: You think they would give it up, right, Ain't coming back?
1:34
Speaker 3: There never I'd rather live in a homeless shelter. I'd
1:38
Speaker 3: rather be stuck on the number four train and going
1:40
Speaker 3: round than round. They're out, is he? You think people
1:43
Speaker 3: understand that. And this is a much better station in
1:46
Speaker 3: a lot of different ways. But this thing of ours,
1:50
Speaker 3: talk radio, it requires that you pay homage to it. Now,
1:55
Speaker 3: Mark Simone does because nobody knows more about radio and
1:58
Speaker 3: television then March some mom and he talks about it regularly.
2:03
Speaker 3: I listened to his show, and as you know now
2:07
Speaker 3: you have the benefit. Doesn't have to be appointment radio.
2:10
Speaker 3: You can always get it on the podcast. But I
2:13
Speaker 3: want to touch on a few things before I do
2:16
Speaker 3: my homage in these last two days, for the reason
2:21
Speaker 3: that many of us have the opportunity to speak to
2:24
Speaker 3: all of you, whether in live form or if you
2:29
Speaker 3: wanted to listen to three four days, a month later,
2:32
Speaker 3: a year later on these podcasts. First off from Nancy
2:39
Speaker 3: and yours, truly, we have a special message. New Year's
2:44
Speaker 3: message will be posting to all of you, the many
2:48
Speaker 3: hundreds of thousands who have now become followers all over
2:51
Speaker 3: the world on all the platforms. So whether it's TikTok
2:55
Speaker 3: that most of you know nothing about. Oh you gotta
2:57
Speaker 3: be on TikTok and just trust me. He didn't get
3:01
Speaker 3: elected because he was on TikTok. Two years ago. President
3:06
Speaker 3: Donald Trump is saying this is a red Chinese strit
3:09
Speaker 3: to take over America, and then all of a sudden
3:12
Speaker 3: he discovered, hey, maybe I can get a few votes
3:14
Speaker 3: with this, and then all of a sudden, yeah, we
3:16
Speaker 3: love TikTok. TikTok does not get you elected to anything.
3:22
Speaker 3: So whether it's TikTok, Instagram or Facebook, where you're putting
3:28
Speaker 3: on there what you had for beakfast this morning at
3:31
Speaker 3: the local diner. Do I need to see you having
3:34
Speaker 3: eggs and pancakes, you know with toast? Yeah? Yeah, you
3:38
Speaker 3: post what you had for lunch and then a mad
3:41
Speaker 3: on ami. Your life must be so miserable? Is that
3:46
Speaker 3: all you compose? And of course Ellen musk x, Twitter
3:51
Speaker 3: so many different ways to get you a message out.
3:53
Speaker 3: But our message to everybody listening right now and they'll
3:57
Speaker 3: be posted later on at Curtisley, which have a way
4:00
Speaker 3: you can get that social network. Is that? All Nancy
4:04
Speaker 3: and I want for this New Year's is for all
4:07
Speaker 3: stray and shelter animals to have a loving home. And
4:13
Speaker 3: I know for some of you we're like, oh, there
4:14
Speaker 3: it goes with the animal welfare stuff. Yeah. And again
4:19
Speaker 3: as we welcome in a new year, it doesn't get
4:22
Speaker 3: any better than Mahatma Gandhi again a victim of an
4:26
Speaker 3: assassination because of his beliefs, but a man who said,
4:31
Speaker 3: is society that does not take care of its animals
4:33
Speaker 3: does not take care of its people. And on my
4:35
Speaker 3: way here to Wor seven ten to do this broadcast
4:41
Speaker 3: to all of you, I had to pass the homeless
4:45
Speaker 3: people and emotionally disturb persons in the subway because the
4:50
Speaker 3: hawk is talking out there it's cold, and talk with them,
4:56
Speaker 3: many of them that I know, And see all the
4:59
Speaker 3: flots and jets. As I came up top to the street,
5:03
Speaker 3: I was picking up the garbage. It was flying all
5:06
Speaker 3: over and people are looking at me. You pick up
5:07
Speaker 3: garbage too, and so what is it? That's where I
5:11
Speaker 3: was raised by my grandfather, Fidela Biangino from body Italy.
5:17
Speaker 3: On my mother's side, Francesca side. He said, one young
5:21
Speaker 3: which means young man, young boy, you see garbage? Yeah,
5:25
Speaker 3: like you heard Eric Adams say, we're gonna talk about
5:27
Speaker 3: him a second, A Mama, luke. But anyway, you see something,
5:31
Speaker 3: you see something. Hey. Long before they ever quantified that statement,
5:38
Speaker 3: my grandfather would tell me, Hey, you see garbage, you
5:40
Speaker 3: pick it up. If you can't find a can and
5:43
Speaker 3: put it in, you put it in your pocket until
5:45
Speaker 3: you can find a can. That's where I was brought up,
5:50
Speaker 3: and many of you listening now were brought up. And
5:53
Speaker 3: it used to be the sanitation department. After they pick
5:56
Speaker 3: up the garbage, it had brooms on the truck. Remember one,
5:59
Speaker 3: They would have brooms, wear the brooms. Now, huh, they
6:02
Speaker 3: pick up the garbage and that's it, not my job.
6:05
Speaker 3: Then we have these business improvement districts. They hire mostly
6:10
Speaker 3: mental women who have been down on their luck, and
6:12
Speaker 3: they go out there and they change the trash can
6:15
Speaker 3: bags and they do a little sweeping and that's all good.
6:20
Speaker 3: We never needed that. Years ago, everybody picked up the garbage.
6:26
Speaker 3: So people were looking at me this morning on my
6:28
Speaker 3: way here to w oh, like I believe, like I
6:32
Speaker 3: belong in the Museum of Natural History, Like here is
6:36
Speaker 3: a species from a different era that actually believes if
6:39
Speaker 3: you see something garbage on the ground, you pick it up.
6:43
Speaker 3: The problem is that the police commissioner Jess Katsh who
6:48
Speaker 3: you all fall and over. When she was sanitation commissioner,
6:52
Speaker 3: she took half the baskets off the streets. Well, if
6:56
Speaker 3: there are less baskets, there'll be less garbage. Ugh, past
7:01
Speaker 3: the great poupon jescatage. Maybe Jeeves or a limit driver
7:04
Speaker 3: on Park Avenue can get you to one police plaza.
7:07
Speaker 3: That was a disastrous program. Some of the folks in
7:12
Speaker 3: the MTA money taking agency, you know, they were having
7:15
Speaker 3: the press conference. Ye, it's the end of the metro
7:18
Speaker 3: card and now all of a sudden you're gonna have
7:21
Speaker 3: to tap and go the omni card, debit card, credit card.
7:24
Speaker 3: There will be nothing left the beginning of the year
7:26
Speaker 3: on your debit or credit card. So good luck. And
7:29
Speaker 3: I'm saying to myself, are these people delusional? One third
7:34
Speaker 3: of the people don't even pay their subway fair to
7:36
Speaker 3: begin with, and that's gonna increase with zor on Mondamique.
7:39
Speaker 3: One half don't even pay the city bus fare. They
7:42
Speaker 3: don't do a tap in go, they don't have a
7:44
Speaker 3: metro card, and if you say anything to them, they
7:48
Speaker 3: give you the finger. They're defiant. So they're all mourning
7:51
Speaker 3: the loss of the metro card. What are you talking about?
7:55
Speaker 3: Half the people didn't even use a Metro card to
7:58
Speaker 3: get in on a bus, one third on the subway. Oh,
8:03
Speaker 3: because of the crime that never gets dealt with. It's
8:06
Speaker 3: called fair evasion. That's a crime. Let's face it. Let's
8:11
Speaker 3: not make any arrests. Let's not make people pay the
8:16
Speaker 3: fair even though they are all kinds of programs. If
8:18
Speaker 3: you're down on your luck, half fair, one third fare,
8:22
Speaker 3: but you gotta go out and get that right. We're
8:25
Speaker 3: not gonna bring you to eat. So that's my first observation.
8:30
Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden, I'm on the subway
8:35
Speaker 3: platform and I'm trying to give tourist directions because naturally
8:39
Speaker 3: the token booth clerks who do nothing now it's like
8:42
Speaker 3: a feather bettered job. They should be out of the
8:45
Speaker 3: booth giving instructions to people at the machines to be
8:50
Speaker 3: able to pay their fare because he's getting scammed by
8:53
Speaker 3: every hustler in the world. But they should also be
8:56
Speaker 3: telling people how to get around town. So I'm helping tourists,
8:59
Speaker 3: many of them already know me. Hey, Curtis, I'm trying
9:02
Speaker 3: to get down to where else the World Trade Center.
9:04
Speaker 3: That's where they want to go. See the battery, want
9:07
Speaker 3: to see the Statue of Liberty, all the places that
9:10
Speaker 3: we folks, we don't go because we know that's where
9:13
Speaker 3: all the tourists go. Like, if any of you are
9:16
Speaker 3: schmucks or Puttses and you're gonna go down to Times
9:20
Speaker 3: Square to watch the ball drop, did you not hear
9:22
Speaker 3: Jessica Tish say, Oh, they're gonna be double screenings. They
9:27
Speaker 3: took all the garbage cans away. There's no porter sands,
9:30
Speaker 3: there's none of that. They cattle cars, and you're gonna
9:33
Speaker 3: start mooing at three o'clock. That's when they're gonna start
9:39
Speaker 3: letting you in. And once you're in, you don't get out.
9:42
Speaker 3: You get out, you don't come back. So imagine you've
9:46
Speaker 3: already been drinking a few. It's three o'clock. The ball
9:49
Speaker 3: doesn't drop until until all of a sudden the new
9:55
Speaker 3: year comes in. Right, say, let me, I'm not too
9:58
Speaker 3: good at nine hours, nine hours? You think you could
10:02
Speaker 3: hold it in nine hours? Have you been drinking a few,
10:04
Speaker 3: hoisting a few? That's why on my way over here,
10:08
Speaker 3: I stopped at a few Dwayne Reid's and CVS's wiped
10:12
Speaker 3: out of depends wiped out because people live their whole
10:17
Speaker 3: life to come to watch the ball drop on Times Square.
10:21
Speaker 3: And they come from Monta, Mexico City, and they come
10:26
Speaker 3: from Kye Town, South Africa. They come from everywhere because
10:29
Speaker 3: they want that experience. But if you happen to be
10:31
Speaker 3: living in this Tri state area and you're stupid enough
10:34
Speaker 3: to show up because you want to be able to
10:37
Speaker 3: talk about it, don't waste your time. But make sure
10:44
Speaker 3: you have depends on. Yeah, because remember, we come into
10:48
Speaker 3: this world with diapers at some point, and most of
10:52
Speaker 3: us when we go out of this world, we'll be
10:53
Speaker 3: wearing diapers. So get ready. And here's Jessica to saying, yeah,
10:58
Speaker 3: there'll be two screenings. Okay, jess good, you'll keep talking
11:04
Speaker 3: and then of course, uh, there's a boss. But thank god,
11:09
Speaker 3: just the final day that Mama Luke, what a cry baby.
11:13
Speaker 3: Eric Adams the most corrupt mayor in the history of
11:16
Speaker 3: New York City, and that is saying a lot. The
11:18
Speaker 3: swaggerman with no plan and the nightlife mayor. All he
11:21
Speaker 3: ever did was hang out in clubs till they break
11:23
Speaker 3: of dawn. And a man who just waited to be
11:26
Speaker 3: wind eying them pocket lined, and if my sources are correct,
11:31
Speaker 3: decided to drop out a running for mayor when the
11:34
Speaker 3: price was right. Uh you remember that show the price
11:41
Speaker 3: was right? I think I think he settled on twenty milt.
11:43
Speaker 3: I think time will tell.
11:47
Speaker 4: Because then he was like, well, should I go to
11:49
Speaker 4: the inauguration at CEO?
11:51
Speaker 3: Should I ain't not go?
11:52
Speaker 4: I wouldn't have made asked me to go and tell
11:54
Speaker 4: your peepsers an Easterns, don't yell at me, don't shout at.
11:58
Speaker 3: What a mama, lukee, what a baby? And so I
12:04
Speaker 3: guess the mayor had a conversation with him, the incoming mayor, Yeah, yeah,
12:07
Speaker 3: you should be there. Oh I'm gonna be there, Like wow, Wow,
12:13
Speaker 3: Eric Adams, He's the reason this is sore. Had Mandami,
12:17
Speaker 3: had he done anywhere of a decent job, halfway job,
12:21
Speaker 3: he would have been the Democratic incumbent mayor running for reelection.
12:25
Speaker 3: I would have been the Republican candidate, and hey would
12:28
Speaker 3: have been tough. It's tough for a Republican to begin with.
12:32
Speaker 3: He failed, and then they resurrected that political Some beat Cuomo.
12:38
Speaker 3: By the way, has anybody seeing Cuomo? Will he be
12:40
Speaker 3: at the inauguration, of course, not is he anywhere other
12:43
Speaker 3: than hanging out with his billionaire friends as he's slithered
12:47
Speaker 3: under his rock in the Hampton's where he loves to be.
12:50
Speaker 3: Maybe he can launch it after the run for mayor
12:52
Speaker 3: of Southampton. So here was Eric Adams. You were talking.
12:56
Speaker 3: I'm gonna write a book. I got the title ready.
13:00
Speaker 3: I didn't do nothing wrong. He's gonna get involved in cryptocurrency,
13:05
Speaker 3: which is bitcoin, crime coin, and he wants to teach
13:08
Speaker 3: a new generation of how to become criminals, because that's
13:11
Speaker 3: what blockchain cryptocurrency is. It's a scam. We'll talk about
13:16
Speaker 3: that on Friday, my last day here. We're gonna talk
13:19
Speaker 3: about AI. Oh my god, what a headache. And also
13:22
Speaker 3: robotics because the masters of the universe are all telling
13:26
Speaker 3: you to worry about it. We're gonna take your jobs,
13:29
Speaker 3: but we're gonna give you a universal high income of
13:32
Speaker 3: about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. You're
13:35
Speaker 3: not gonna have to do nothing. You just sit at home,
13:40
Speaker 3: scratch your belly button. We're going to take care of you.
13:44
Speaker 3: You trust any of them, We'll get into all of that.
13:47
Speaker 3: These are subjects many of which don't get discussed and
13:50
Speaker 3: talk radio. And then of course there is Eric Adams
13:56
Speaker 3: on his way out, who has decided, hey, you know,
14:03
Speaker 3: there is things I'm going to do to try to
14:04
Speaker 3: make amends. He said, signing an executive order today. I
14:10
Speaker 3: always had breaking news, right, Hey, this is Mark Simon's turf.
14:14
Speaker 3: It's not my turf. I had breaking news. He's using
14:18
Speaker 3: an executive order in the waning moments of his horrible
14:23
Speaker 3: mayoralty to have charter revision. Now what that is, ladies
14:26
Speaker 3: and gentlemen. He's going to assign people to actually put
14:31
Speaker 3: on the ballot this coming year, the gubernatory year, the
14:34
Speaker 3: midterm elections on the back of your ballot, things that
14:37
Speaker 3: you as citizens can vote on. I think the chairman
14:43
Speaker 3: is I gotta check my sources on this, but got
14:47
Speaker 3: it on pretty good authority. My husband and lawd David Patterson,
14:52
Speaker 3: the former governor, a man who needs adderall. In this
14:56
Speaker 3: last mayoral election, first he was Farrick Adams, and he
14:59
Speaker 3: was for and then he was for Eric Adams, and
15:01
Speaker 3: he was for Como. He gave me vertigo and I said,
15:05
Speaker 3: do me a favor and don't endorse me. It's a
15:07
Speaker 3: kiss her death, and it was so give him some
15:10
Speaker 3: adderall he'll be on the charity commission. I guess the
15:13
Speaker 3: Mayor's going to have some others. And there should be
15:16
Speaker 3: the question of sanctuary city up there, which I talked
15:19
Speaker 3: about during the campaign. Let the people vote. Let the people, boy,
15:23
Speaker 3: A lot of people will come out to vote in
15:26
Speaker 3: an election on that issue, whether you're for it or
15:29
Speaker 3: against it. You can have town hall meetings, you can
15:32
Speaker 3: have spirited debate. You will have a lot of people
15:36
Speaker 3: coming out to vote, if nothing more because of that issue.
15:40
Speaker 3: Let's see what Eric Adams is going to do. And
15:45
Speaker 3: how about putting on the initiative and referendum for twenty
15:49
Speaker 3: twenty six, once and for all, voting on the horse
15:54
Speaker 3: joint carriage issue. Let the people decide. And on that note,
16:00
Speaker 3: it's gonna lead us into a homage coming up to
16:05
Speaker 3: the man who was considered the father of talk radio,
16:09
Speaker 3: and he started right here on WOR. Yeah, Yeah, our
16:13
Speaker 3: new favorite station here in the sleeper household, Nancy, yours truly,
16:18
Speaker 3: and yet our six cats we listen to seven to
16:23
Speaker 3: ten WOR and so shit, all of you, our numbers
16:29
Speaker 3: one eight hundred three to two, one zero seven ten.
16:31
Speaker 3: That's one eight hundred three to two one zero seven
16:34
Speaker 3: ten The Pulse of New York On the Voice of
16:40
Speaker 3: New York.
16:41
Speaker 1: Curtis Sleewad guest hosts from Marks them All on sevent
16:44
Speaker 1: ten wor.
16:52
Speaker 3: Oh you're not gonna want to miss Friday one, I'm back.
16:56
Speaker 3: We talk about artificial intelligence, like that Stephen King novel
17:03
Speaker 3: what was that? That collection of his works? Like em
17:10
Speaker 3: You remember that song?
17:11
Speaker 5: Is?
17:11
Speaker 3: He certainly doesn't remember that. That wasn't his playless the
17:16
Speaker 3: End of the World as we know it? Right? We'll
17:20
Speaker 3: discuss that because it affects everybody, everybody, and it's moving
17:25
Speaker 3: too fast, and too many of you may end up
17:30
Speaker 3: losing your jobs unfortunately as a result of what they
17:34
Speaker 3: call artificial intelligence. But let's talk about the homage to
17:40
Speaker 3: talk radio, of which many of you loved. You grew
17:43
Speaker 3: up with it as I did, and the father of
17:46
Speaker 3: talk radio is rarely, if ever recognized now, and it
17:49
Speaker 3: started all here at war seven ten. Who is a guy?
17:53
Speaker 3: Barry Gray? Barry Gray was from my believe it was
17:56
Speaker 3: red and Lion New Jersey got a job a disc jockey,
18:00
Speaker 3: bat then spinning stacks of wax. I think he was
18:04
Speaker 3: playing a Woody Herman song, and then Woody Herman called up.
18:10
Speaker 3: And then right after Woody Herman hung up, instead of
18:13
Speaker 3: going back to playing records, Harry Gray crushed over that
18:20
Speaker 3: maginal line and started to take people that were calling
18:24
Speaker 3: up on the request line and having conversations with them.
18:30
Speaker 3: So the suits at w R some of them were saying, wait, wait,
18:34
Speaker 3: you're just supposed to be playing stacks of wax occasionally,
18:37
Speaker 3: you know, you talk to Benny Goodman or Woody Herman.
18:40
Speaker 3: You don't be taking calls. And others said no, that
18:43
Speaker 3: was so fascinating. That's how talk radio was invented, because
18:49
Speaker 3: talk radio is really about the conversation that we have
18:53
Speaker 3: with all of you. It's not so much guest oriented,
18:56
Speaker 3: it's you. The call is your turn to be hurt,
19:00
Speaker 3: give you an idea in the golden age of radio.
19:03
Speaker 3: He then is hosting an overnight show at the Copa Cabana.
19:07
Speaker 3: I mean that was the place you wanted to be.
19:09
Speaker 3: I know you recognize that is the Barry Manilo the
19:12
Speaker 3: song Copa Cabana East sixtieth Street, right off of Fifth Avenue.
19:17
Speaker 3: Everybody wanted to go there, couldn't go. Mob controlled by
19:20
Speaker 3: Frank Costello and he had like the first interview with
19:25
Speaker 3: Dean Martin who was from Stubenville, Ohio, and the team
19:30
Speaker 3: that was put together Jerry Lewis, so as Martin Lewis.
19:33
Speaker 3: Jerry Lewis was from newer And boy, if you're gonna
19:37
Speaker 3: watch one movie, you gonna watch one movie over this weekend.
19:42
Speaker 3: You gotta see one of my favorites, The King of
19:44
Speaker 3: Comedy with Jerry Lewis and Robert de Niro. It is
19:48
Speaker 3: absolutely outstanding. Never gets the credit that it's due. But
19:55
Speaker 3: Barry Gway was such a listen to radio broadcast again
19:59
Speaker 3: the father a talk radio, doing live talk radio out
20:04
Speaker 3: of the most popular nightclub in America, the Corporate Cabanam.
20:10
Speaker 3: And it was Walter Winshew who was despising him. Walter
20:14
Speaker 3: Winshew who was the columnist at that time. Ed Sullivan
20:17
Speaker 3: was a columnist and they would do battle with one another.
20:21
Speaker 3: But the one guy Walter Winshew hated the most was
20:27
Speaker 3: Barry Gray. And apparently when Walter Winshell died penniless, he
20:33
Speaker 3: was out there on Hollywood Boulevard. He was mimeographing what
20:38
Speaker 3: would have been his column for the day. Because nobody
20:42
Speaker 3: wanted to syndicate him any longer. Nobody wanted to print
20:46
Speaker 3: it in the newspaper he'd handed on the corner. Died penniless.
20:50
Speaker 3: But apparently when they cleaned out his office after he
20:53
Speaker 3: passed away, I think only his daughter and maybe two
20:56
Speaker 3: or three people attended his way, the most powerful on
21:01
Speaker 3: Sunday nights walk to Winchhill. Uh you ever see the
21:05
Speaker 3: replays of the Untouchables, but Robert Stacked after that's the voice.
21:10
Speaker 3: Well it's all so many anyway. So they're cleaning out
21:13
Speaker 3: his office and apparently he had up pinned to the
21:18
Speaker 3: wall a photo of a bloodied Barry Gray who was
21:24
Speaker 3: beaten up by mobsters on his way out of the
21:29
Speaker 3: Copacabana after hosting overnight radio, the most listened to in
21:33
Speaker 3: the nation. And that just shows you the intensity of
21:41
Speaker 3: this thing of ours. Now, why shouldn't we, I know,
21:46
Speaker 3: Mark Simonde's why shouldn't we all pay tribute to these
21:50
Speaker 3: men and women who paved the way and made it
21:54
Speaker 3: so that we could talk to all of you all
21:55
Speaker 3: over the world like we're doing right now on our
21:58
Speaker 3: new favorite station here. And it should be yours seven
22:02
Speaker 3: ten wor But it is your turn to be heard
22:05
Speaker 3: up next the format created by Barry Gray unexpectedly right
22:11
Speaker 3: here at seven ten WR our number is one eight
22:16
Speaker 3: hundred three to two one zero seven ten. That's one
22:20
Speaker 3: eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. And then
22:24
Speaker 3: in a stream of consciousness, I had a conversation with
22:26
Speaker 3: Tom Cuddy, our program director, who knows so much and
22:30
Speaker 3: has dealt with so many people. And the next home,
22:33
Speaker 3: we're going to talk about the hardest working guy ever
22:37
Speaker 3: in radio and the hardest working guy ever in TV.
22:43
Speaker 3: And they have a lot in common, and they had
22:47
Speaker 3: a lot of impact on all of you right here
22:50
Speaker 3: in the Tri State area. And yeah, one of them
22:54
Speaker 3: worked right here at seven ten wor.
22:58
Speaker 1: The voice that fights for New York literally Curtis Leewad,
23:03
Speaker 1: guest hos for Mark Simone on sevent tenor.
23:11
Speaker 3: Artificial Intelligence Aisy, You're gone. If I remained at talk
23:20
Speaker 3: radio show hosts, I'll be gone. There won't be jobs anybody,
23:25
Speaker 3: because let's leave it to the masters of the universe.
23:28
Speaker 3: Elon Musk and the other billionaires trillionaires said, don't worry,
23:34
Speaker 3: we'll have universal high income. We'll take care of all
23:37
Speaker 3: of you from the cradle to the grave. You're on
23:39
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty five thousand dollars a year, and
23:42
Speaker 3: you can play with your belly button lint at home. Yeah, well,
23:46
Speaker 3: you're gonna trust any of them before we go to
23:51
Speaker 3: the folds. I went through Times Square earlier this week,
23:55
Speaker 3: and they have what they call their wishing wall. It's
23:59
Speaker 3: mostly for tour rus who are dumb enough to show
24:02
Speaker 3: up and want to wait for the ball to drop.
24:05
Speaker 3: Remember today, the rules are three o'clock. That's when you
24:08
Speaker 3: got to get into your cattle pens. All the depends
24:13
Speaker 3: have been cleaned off the racks at CBS and Dwayne
24:16
Speaker 3: Reid because you met a you met a double bundle yourself.
24:20
Speaker 3: Imagine you got to be there from three to twelve
24:23
Speaker 3: when the ball drops nine hours. You've been drinking a
24:26
Speaker 3: little bit, right, you know you're gonna have to go,
24:30
Speaker 3: and you can't squeeze your legs forever. But if you
24:33
Speaker 3: leave the cattle pen, you can't come back. Now, why
24:38
Speaker 3: would anybody in their right mind who lives in the
24:41
Speaker 3: Tri State area want to venture into that. Normally they'd
24:44
Speaker 3: start loading up the cattle pens at six. But Jessica
24:48
Speaker 3: Tis she wants everybody search twice. It's like taking the
24:51
Speaker 3: list and then checking it twice. Ridiculous. But then again,
24:56
Speaker 3: you gotta be ridiculous to be there. That's why you
24:59
Speaker 3: notice it's all Taurus. But anyway, so they're putting up
25:02
Speaker 3: these pasties on this wishing wall. I got about two
25:06
Speaker 3: hundred thousand that'll be shredded up put with the confetti
25:10
Speaker 3: that drops with the release of the ball to welcome
25:12
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty six. And there's one paste it stood
25:17
Speaker 3: out to me. It said, no more AI. Oh, we're
25:21
Speaker 3: gonna get into that on Friday, and we're gonna talk
25:24
Speaker 3: about bitcoin, crime, coin and driverless vehicles. A lot of
25:30
Speaker 3: you driving right now, not gonna need you if you're
25:34
Speaker 3: doing this for a profession. The masters of the universe
25:38
Speaker 3: don't want to have to pay any of you. They're
25:40
Speaker 3: gonna they're gonna take care of you from the cradle
25:43
Speaker 3: to the grave. Yeah, yeah, right, don't trudge them. Let's
25:49
Speaker 3: go if we can to Bill, who's calling? Your turn
25:51
Speaker 3: to be heard here at seven to ten wor.
25:53
Speaker 6: Billy Good Morning. Curtis comment on Walter Winstle's radio shows,
26:02
Speaker 6: he had there was a major plumbing league in the
26:05
Speaker 6: White House between nineteen thirty three and nineteen forty five,
26:08
Speaker 6: and that leak went right to Walter Winch's radio show.
26:12
Speaker 6: The League was the president.
26:13
Speaker 3: Himself fdr Right.
26:15
Speaker 6: Every one had been because of that league. He my god,
26:20
Speaker 6: he had. Walter Wischell had more enemies after forty five.
26:25
Speaker 6: Truman hated Winchell, so after forty five his radio net
26:30
Speaker 6: just collapsed on him.
26:31
Speaker 3: Well, let me tell you one thing. When I was
26:33
Speaker 3: over at WABC, no longer my place to be, we
26:36
Speaker 3: had a crown jewel in broadcasting on Sunday night who
26:40
Speaker 3: just wanted to be like his mentor, Walter Winchell. His
26:43
Speaker 3: name was Mad Trudge. The guy loved talk radio. I
26:47
Speaker 3: know because when I met him in LA for the
26:49
Speaker 3: first time, he was behind the seven and eleven serving
26:53
Speaker 3: not chosen slurpies. He was not the Mad Trudge that
26:56
Speaker 3: he became. And he would go and listen to Kiev
27:02
Speaker 3: George Putnam. I would be a guest there, organizing Guardian Angels,
27:05
Speaker 3: and we got to know one another. And George Putman
27:07
Speaker 3: was sort of like the Bob Grant of LA and
27:10
Speaker 3: he would regale us with stories. He wanted to be
27:14
Speaker 3: just like Walter Winchell. He had to hat the whole
27:16
Speaker 3: nine yards. Lynn Samuel's another great hostess and talk creator
27:20
Speaker 3: never gets recognized, was his board operator. On Sunday nights,
27:25
Speaker 3: they had ratings that nobody ever had. And you know
27:29
Speaker 3: what happened. Bill, the program director at the time, Phil Boyce, goes,
27:33
Speaker 3: the network wants to syndicate you. You're doing so well
27:37
Speaker 3: Monday through Friday from six to nine. And Matt Judge said,
27:42
Speaker 3: all they want to do is Sunday nights. Just like
27:44
Speaker 3: my mentor, Walter Winschell, I don't want to do radio
27:48
Speaker 3: five days a week. And then Phil just kept pressing him,
27:52
Speaker 3: and you know, sudden, he picked up, he left, he
27:54
Speaker 3: went down to Miami. The rest is history. The person
27:58
Speaker 3: who got hired to fill that boy because they were
28:00
Speaker 3: so hoping that Matt Drudge would get those same ratings
28:03
Speaker 3: from Monday through Friday. Uh, take a guess somebody who
28:11
Speaker 3: also his mentor when he was listening on Hiatus to
28:15
Speaker 3: Bob Grant at WWB, Mark Levin, who grew up outside
28:19
Speaker 3: of Philadelphia, and that's how his radio career started. If
28:26
Speaker 3: only they had left Matt Drudge alone with Lynn Samuels's
28:32
Speaker 3: board operated. Both of them very eccentric, but it was
28:37
Speaker 3: some of the greatest radio of all time. And the
28:40
Speaker 3: ratings were through the roof. The other trick they use
28:43
Speaker 3: over there at WABC, they had this thing they say,
28:48
Speaker 3: look at the stream on my phone. Look at the stream,
28:51
Speaker 3: Look how my ratings are going up. That's not ratings.
28:56
Speaker 3: It's like the Wizard of Ours. It's like snake oil salesman.
29:00
Speaker 3: And they all buy that. You want real ratings. Boy,
29:03
Speaker 3: I never seen ratings like Matt Drudge got on Sunday
29:06
Speaker 3: nights imitating his mentor Walter Winschew, who would do only
29:11
Speaker 3: one radio show a week on Sunday nights on the
29:14
Speaker 3: ABC network. Thousands of radios would be tuned to him.
29:21
Speaker 3: Thousands of radio stations carried that the golden age of radio. Well,
29:29
Speaker 3: let's go back to the phones in honor today of
29:31
Speaker 3: the father of talk radio, Barry Gray, who really created
29:35
Speaker 3: the format of taking calls. Let's go to Maria, who's
29:39
Speaker 3: calling from Westchester. Your turn to be heard here at
29:41
Speaker 3: seven to ten WR Hello, Curtis.
29:45
Speaker 7: What an honor to talk to you. Can we ask
29:48
Speaker 7: if Johan and Donnie will be taking his oath of
29:51
Speaker 7: office with his hand on the Constitution.
29:55
Speaker 8: Well, one of his.
29:56
Speaker 7: Swearing inns be based on the Constitution. Will he respect
30:01
Speaker 7: this Constitution of the United States.
30:05
Speaker 3: I wouldn't know because I haven't been invited. You know,
30:08
Speaker 3: you saw them. I'm Alu carricatam to show up. If
30:11
Speaker 3: you tell you a Zornista's not taboomy, oh my god.
30:15
Speaker 3: I will try to find that out for you. Whether
30:17
Speaker 3: he's taking it on a Koran, a Bible, based on
30:21
Speaker 3: our United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights. I will
30:26
Speaker 3: certainly let you know by Friday, because, as I told
30:30
Speaker 3: my wife Nancy, if I'm not invited, I'm going anyway, right,
30:34
Speaker 3: you know me, what are they gonna do? Stop me?
30:36
Speaker 3: I'll go there for that. What are that street party
30:38
Speaker 3: they're gonna have? What are they gonna do? Say you
30:40
Speaker 3: can't come here? Yeah, I'm the only real New Yorker
30:45
Speaker 3: who was in this race. Hey, look, he won fair
30:48
Speaker 3: and square. But he says it's a block party for
30:51
Speaker 3: people in New York City. Right, It didn't just say
30:54
Speaker 3: a block party for those people who voted for him.
30:57
Speaker 3: Am I correct on that? To be continued. That's why
31:01
Speaker 3: you better be listening. On Friday morning, when I returned
31:05
Speaker 3: for my final program here in substitute for Mark Simon.
31:09
Speaker 3: Let's go to Tony, who's calling from White Plains. Your
31:12
Speaker 3: turn to be heard here at seven to ten war
31:14
Speaker 3: the voice of New York Tone.
31:16
Speaker 9: Yeah, Hi, Churs, Chris. Before you mentioned Salatto over there
31:20
Speaker 9: on the other station, I thought of that before you did.
31:24
Speaker 9: But you gave him the perfect name, Salato, because that's
31:28
Speaker 9: exactly what he means.
31:29
Speaker 3: Well, let me clarify for our listeners, Tony, I did
31:32
Speaker 3: not give him that name. It was actually another caller,
31:35
Speaker 3: who'll say. The Salazzo at WABC is Dominic Carter, Oh,
31:40
Speaker 3: and he is. And the moo Green Greg Kelly, and
31:45
Speaker 3: the Tessio who may have been the worst is Sid Rosenberg.
31:52
Speaker 3: And you know on Friday what I do every year,
31:56
Speaker 3: I always do a tribute to Bernard McGirk, who was
32:01
Speaker 3: I mean, not only the hardest working guy in radio,
32:03
Speaker 3: but took so much grief from don Nimus said. I
32:07
Speaker 3: witnessed personally what a great radio guy he was. Died
32:13
Speaker 3: way too early. If you're getting together with family and friends,
32:15
Speaker 3: tell all the males get the PSA test, the prick
32:18
Speaker 3: of the finger, a simple blood test. If Bernard McGirk
32:22
Speaker 3: had done that, he'd be alive. Today and all the
32:26
Speaker 3: nonsense that occurred against me a WABC, always bashing Curtis,
32:30
Speaker 3: always blaming Curtis, would never have occurred if Bernard McGirk
32:36
Speaker 3: were alive and well. But we'll do that tribute on Friday.
32:40
Speaker 3: This boy, he was an iconic figure in this thing
32:43
Speaker 3: of ours radio than now more.
32:47
Speaker 1: With New York's iconic straight shooter Curtis Slawah guest hosting
32:53
Speaker 1: from Mark Simone on seven ten Woah.
32:58
Speaker 3: You on a minute Friday show My Life. I suppear
33:00
Speaker 3: and see if Mark Simon will go heavy into artificial intelligence.
33:05
Speaker 3: I'm not a supporter at all. Neither should most of you,
33:11
Speaker 3: except if you're in the medical field like we just
33:15
Speaker 3: brought up Bernard McGirk. Will do my annual tribute to
33:18
Speaker 3: him on Friday. But probably had AI been available to
33:28
Speaker 3: find localized cancers from medical imagery, it does a better
33:32
Speaker 3: job than humans do, he might still be alive. I'll
33:38
Speaker 3: give AI high five on that. But that's it, because
33:44
Speaker 3: the list of things that is ruining is long. I
33:48
Speaker 3: want to listen on Friday. But up next my stream
33:53
Speaker 3: of Consciousness, based on a conversation I had with program
33:56
Speaker 3: director Tom Cuddy, who i've known for years over at
33:58
Speaker 3: the old WPLJ. The two hardest working guys in radio
34:06
Speaker 3: and in television cross paths first in Los Angeles, but
34:14
Speaker 3: their roots and most of what they did in their
34:19
Speaker 3: lives were before all of you in our ChRI State
34:22
Speaker 3: area and sometimes right here on sevent ten wor.
34:29
Speaker 1: Now the Red Beret has returned to radio. Curtis Leewall
34:34
Speaker 1: guest host the Mark Simone Show on sevent ten woors.
34:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh boy, all these officials must cheat from one another.
34:51
Speaker 3: You know, Eric Adams Swagerman with no plan. Thank god,
34:55
Speaker 3: he's gone claiming crimeers at an all time load. Now,
34:58
Speaker 3: if you're in the five boroughs of city in New York,
35:00
Speaker 3: you don't know what city he's in. Well, that's right.
35:03
Speaker 3: Most times he hasn't even been in our city. And
35:06
Speaker 3: then I heard that broadcasts about ros Baraka, who, like
35:12
Speaker 3: his father, hates cops. Who is his father?
35:17
Speaker 4: Is he?
35:17
Speaker 3: I know? Look, look from West Milford. What would you know?
35:19
Speaker 3: You know, you didn't grow up in Newark. I know
35:22
Speaker 3: more about Newark than most people listening to this radio station.
35:25
Speaker 3: Spent a lot of time there. But ros Baraka's father
35:30
Speaker 3: was Lee Roy Jones, who then changed his name to
35:35
Speaker 3: a mirror Baraka poet, self described communists and hater of
35:41
Speaker 3: everything white. If it was white, it wasn't right and
35:46
Speaker 3: the lifelong enemy of Tony Imperiali, who at the Northward
35:51
Speaker 3: Citizens Association. He kept that area along Bloomfield Avenue from
35:56
Speaker 3: burning down during the riots. Unfortunately, the rest of the
35:59
Speaker 3: city estimated and no has not returned since crime is
36:03
Speaker 3: high there. You want to go to Weekwake Park. You
36:07
Speaker 3: want to go to Broad and Market by the way
36:10
Speaker 3: broad and Market is he want you to go to
36:14
Speaker 3: Penn Station in Newark. Yeah, they're all called Penn Station, Baltimore,
36:17
Speaker 3: Penn Station, Phillip Penn Station, Washington Penn. I want you
36:21
Speaker 3: to go to Penn Station in Newark. You got to
36:24
Speaker 3: take the Path train there in New Jersey trans And
36:26
Speaker 3: I want you to walk over the broad and Market.
36:29
Speaker 3: You'll see the goldleaf Dome of City Hall there. And
36:34
Speaker 3: you need to know they're back in about nineteen twenty
36:37
Speaker 3: twenty two on the sixth floor of one of the
36:43
Speaker 3: biggest retailers of all time, Bamburgers. Oh yeah, there used
36:48
Speaker 3: to be all the big stores there along Broad and Market,
36:52
Speaker 3: same as you had in New York's where wor R
36:56
Speaker 3: got its license to broadcast, and that's where I think
37:00
Speaker 3: the first of the three gamblings was broadcasting from Chick, Florida.
37:04
Speaker 3: No longer Bamburgers, obviously. And to tell you how bad
37:07
Speaker 3: things are in Newark, don't listen to Rasbaraca. He hates cops.
37:14
Speaker 3: There used to be more Cadillac dealerships in NewART than
37:17
Speaker 3: any other city in the nation, more than even in Detroit,
37:23
Speaker 3: where the Cadillacs were coming off the assembly line. And
37:27
Speaker 3: we go right into the assember, We'll go right into
37:30
Speaker 3: the showcased halls, and you could get a Cadillac cheaper
37:35
Speaker 3: there than anywhere. And my uncle's on the Italian American side,
37:41
Speaker 3: the Bianchino side. They all love Cadillacs back then, or
37:45
Speaker 3: Italian guys. That was the sign of success in El Dorado, Fleetwood, Seville,
37:53
Speaker 3: you know where they went to buy their Cadillacs and
37:55
Speaker 3: then trade it in every year for a new Cadillac. Newark.
37:59
Speaker 3: Then the riots said, you can't even buy a used
38:02
Speaker 3: Cadillac anywhere in newarth now, so stop this nonsense. Oh no,
38:06
Speaker 3: it's safer than it's ever been. New York City is
38:08
Speaker 3: safer than it's ever been who knows more about both
38:11
Speaker 3: those cities than me. Yes, truly, Curtis Sliwa, get out
38:15
Speaker 3: of here. Rise Baraka. The evil seed did not fall
38:21
Speaker 3: far from the rotten tree of Leroy Jones aka Emira Baraka,
38:27
Speaker 3: a self described communist. You know how that's been thrown
38:30
Speaker 3: around Zoron Mondami. You know Kami Mondam. He's not a communist,
38:35
Speaker 3: he's a socialists. But Leroy Jones was a communist. And
38:41
Speaker 3: we'll get one guarantee. If you were white, you were
38:44
Speaker 3: not right. All right, Just a little side note there.
38:49
Speaker 3: I want to get back on tractoh, because we are
38:51
Speaker 3: doing homage as oftentimes Mark Simone would do. Nobody knows
38:56
Speaker 3: more about television, movies, radio and its history, Mark Simon.
39:02
Speaker 3: But I was sitting with Tom Cuddy yesterday after the
39:05
Speaker 3: show and the name of Regis Philbin popped up, and
39:11
Speaker 3: without a doubt, Regis Philbin was the hardest working guy
39:16
Speaker 3: in all of television. And I know for a lot
39:18
Speaker 3: of people, they don't even think about Regis Philbin anymore.
39:21
Speaker 3: Shame shame on you. Local guy Bronx Kid van Nass,
39:27
Speaker 3: not far from Morris Park, went to Cardinal Hayes, a Hayesman,
39:32
Speaker 3: by the way, like Bernard McGirk, who I'll be talking
39:34
Speaker 3: about tomorrow doing my annual tribute. But uh, I gotta
39:39
Speaker 3: tell you. Regis Philbin his father Irish named him Regis
39:43
Speaker 3: because he wanted him to go to Regis High School
39:45
Speaker 3: in Manhattan, which is the elite Jesuit high school. Can't
39:49
Speaker 3: be elite if Fauci went there from Benson Hurts and
39:52
Speaker 3: he is Udscratziata, he will burn in hell, if nothing
39:56
Speaker 3: more for what he did in sending b eagles over
40:01
Speaker 3: to Tunisia, third world country, to experiment on them at
40:04
Speaker 3: our taxpayer's expense and torture them for no purpose other
40:08
Speaker 3: than he's probably a satist, but anyway, just to divert
40:12
Speaker 3: So Regis got his name Regis because his father said, oh,
40:16
Speaker 3: you're going to go to Regis High School in Manhattan,
40:19
Speaker 3: the eliti Eduit high school. And I would always say
40:21
Speaker 3: to Regis, guys, because I went to Brooklyn Prep where
40:23
Speaker 3: they kicked me out my senior year, you're not a
40:26
Speaker 3: real high school because you don't have a football team,
40:28
Speaker 3: and they didn't and they still don't. So he grows
40:33
Speaker 3: up in the Bronx, goes to Cardinal Hayes and the
40:37
Speaker 3: most in I think the interesting thing is he surfaces
40:42
Speaker 3: in nineteen sixty seven with a member of the rat Pack.
40:46
Speaker 3: Remember the rat Pack. Oh, you're all aware of that.
40:48
Speaker 3: If you didn't grow up with them, you probably saw
40:50
Speaker 3: the movie Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Junior, Peter Lawford,
40:54
Speaker 3: and Joey Bishop. Joey Bishop, who I think had a
40:58
Speaker 3: couple of call fee in the Bronx, was born there,
41:01
Speaker 3: but I think grew up most of his life in Philadelphia.
41:05
Speaker 3: By the way, that's where Dick Clark get it. Notice
41:08
Speaker 3: how the synergy here. It's a stream of consciousness Dick
41:12
Speaker 3: Clark American Bandstand, which eventually led to what you just
41:18
Speaker 3: heard about, ABC's Dick Clark's New Yorkers Rocking Eve. You
41:23
Speaker 3: know with Ryan Seacrest. I knew Dick Clark. Ryan, you
41:29
Speaker 3: know Dick Clark, although he has worked radio Ryan Seacrest,
41:34
Speaker 3: but he's milk toast. As you know, I don't have
41:36
Speaker 3: time to be watching milk Toast. Regis, on the other hand,
41:41
Speaker 3: was always a Wisenheimer, will always slip you a mickey,
41:45
Speaker 3: and I first remember watching him on the Joey Bishop Show.
41:48
Speaker 3: I'm sure some of you did it in competition, remember
41:51
Speaker 3: with Johnny Carson and his sidekick was Ed McMahon, by
41:56
Speaker 3: the way, a great actor, great actor, does anybody out
41:59
Speaker 3: there know, was probably the very first vigilante movie about
42:06
Speaker 3: the subways before there was Death Wish with Charles Bronson.
42:11
Speaker 3: I mean, it was a classic and Eddery McMahon had
42:14
Speaker 3: a great party in it. Great actor. He was a
42:16
Speaker 3: barker on Atlantic City. He came up, became a sidekick
42:20
Speaker 3: for Johnny Carson, you know the rest of that history.
42:24
Speaker 3: And then of course you wanted him to come to
42:26
Speaker 3: your door the publisher's clearing house. I don't know if
42:29
Speaker 3: it was a battle they were elbowing one another. Was
42:32
Speaker 3: it Dick Clark or was it Ed McMahon. But anyway,
42:34
Speaker 3: because then if you bought all the magazine subscriptions you
42:38
Speaker 3: might become a millionaire. Oh, by the way, that was
42:41
Speaker 3: another show that Regis Philbin hosted later on, You Want
42:44
Speaker 3: to be a Millionaire? Who was that it came to
42:48
Speaker 3: your door? Was that Dick Clark was at Ed McMahon.
42:52
Speaker 3: So anyway, it was Joey Bishop and sidekick was Regis Philbin,
42:57
Speaker 3: and Regis was good It was a good company. And
43:01
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, Regis Philbmin was no more.
43:05
Speaker 3: You know, because those shows they come, they go, and
43:09
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, Regis Philbin showed up on a
43:15
Speaker 3: TV station in Los Angeles midday. I think it was
43:21
Speaker 3: Channel thirteen or Channel nine. They have like these independent
43:24
Speaker 3: stations there. They all have talk shows, they do news,
43:27
Speaker 3: many more than we have. And you know who he replaced.
43:33
Speaker 3: He replaced the king of talk radio, Bob Grant, who
43:35
Speaker 3: was on television at that time. Oh no, no, no,
43:38
Speaker 3: there's so much more to delve into. Were ooh, but
43:41
Speaker 3: this is a stream of consciousness, I said Dick Clark,
43:44
Speaker 3: if I remember correctly, Dick Clark was from Mount Vernon,
43:48
Speaker 3: went to high school in Mount Vernon. Radio guy was
43:51
Speaker 3: up there in Utica, you know, with the brewery and
43:54
Speaker 3: the little mafia there. It was a mafia town and
43:56
Speaker 3: they went to Syracuse University did radio there. Then all
44:00
Speaker 3: of a sudden he goes outside of Philly. He's on
44:03
Speaker 3: a radio station. They're experimenting with like an American bandstand
44:08
Speaker 3: format on the radio, and the host goes on vacation,
44:13
Speaker 3: gets busted for duy chunkin driving and guess who takes
44:17
Speaker 3: over the show if you're there at the right time,
44:21
Speaker 3: in the right place. Dick Clark and they also had
44:24
Speaker 3: an affiliate TV station, and that's how American Bandstand came about.
44:31
Speaker 3: And boy, that was the time Philly was king. Oh
44:34
Speaker 3: Man was Philly King. Remember Mike Douglas Show, Mike Douglas.
44:38
Speaker 3: Roger Ailes was the producer. They filmed that. It was
44:42
Speaker 3: late afternoon. That was in Philadelphia. I remember watching Mike
44:46
Speaker 3: Douglas I think it was nineteen seventy two for a
44:49
Speaker 3: full week. You know who co hosted with Mike Douglas,
44:52
Speaker 3: John Lennon and your co owner four a full week.
44:58
Speaker 3: This is mid after Nunes. They had forty million viewers
45:03
Speaker 3: when the population was a lot less than it is now.
45:07
Speaker 3: I remember there was George Carlin was on, Ralph Nader,
45:11
Speaker 3: the Black Panther Leader there, Bobby Seal I think he
45:14
Speaker 3: sells barbecue sauce so I Anyway, the point was it
45:17
Speaker 3: was so good and then the FBI Jay Gil Hoover
45:23
Speaker 3: muscled the Mike Douglas and said, hmm, you don't want
45:28
Speaker 3: to be putting on television enemies of America, especially when
45:34
Speaker 3: he heard him sing that song, which I think he sang.
45:37
Speaker 3: I remember as a kid. Imagine nineteen seventy two. By
45:43
Speaker 3: the way, John Lennon used to listen to talk radio
45:47
Speaker 3: that's right into Dakota. He would listen to the old
45:50
Speaker 3: talker WMCA. That's where our own Mark Simone got his start.
45:56
Speaker 3: So Lennard be listened to the king of talk radio,
45:59
Speaker 3: Bob Green and Go Nuts because obviously their politics couldn't
46:04
Speaker 3: be any more different. And at times he would walk over.
46:09
Speaker 3: And this is when you had celebrities walking all over
46:12
Speaker 3: New York City on their own. They didn't have an entourage,
46:15
Speaker 3: no bodyguards. I saw Mickey mannlhalf in the bag walking
46:18
Speaker 3: around in the streets. For that broke my heart. I
46:22
Speaker 3: saw a walll Clyde Fraser walking around on his own.
46:24
Speaker 3: I mean, you got to see so many people and
46:27
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, you know, when Lennon was killed,
46:30
Speaker 3: that era ended quick. But anyway before that, he'd be
46:33
Speaker 3: listening to WMCA all the way down on the dial.
46:37
Speaker 3: Now it's like owned by Salem Communication where you got
46:41
Speaker 3: to pay if you're a holy roller or a preacher
46:43
Speaker 3: a dollar a holler or they'll take your money and
46:46
Speaker 3: then they'll put you on. But anyway, that was the
46:49
Speaker 3: big talk station, our Peter Strauss ellen Strauss family owned.
46:53
Speaker 3: I believe that's where Mark Simone got his start. That's
46:57
Speaker 3: where he met Bob Grant. They were like commonion bleached.
47:00
Speaker 3: He did not get along, but I will tell you
47:03
Speaker 3: they had some of the greatest radio of all time.
47:05
Speaker 3: So all of a sudden you have John Ranny going
47:10
Speaker 3: over and I think these studios at w ABC at
47:14
Speaker 3: that time was right across from Carnegie Hall. No security
47:17
Speaker 3: at that time. He walk upstairs, he'd knock on the
47:20
Speaker 3: door and he go, I want to go on and
47:23
Speaker 3: I want to contradict what Bob Grant said. And the
47:26
Speaker 3: board operator would look at it, Hey John Lennon and
47:32
Speaker 3: go back to the hosts, and the host Nah, come on,
47:34
Speaker 3: what are you half in the bag? What are you dropping?
47:37
Speaker 3: LSD very popular at that time. LSD, you know Tim Leary,
47:44
Speaker 3: and he would come in and he would rant about
47:46
Speaker 3: Bob Grant. See that's when you could do that. No security,
47:51
Speaker 3: you don't have to provide identification. Remember it was John
47:54
Speaker 3: Lennon who got in trouble when he said, you know,
47:57
Speaker 3: the Beatles are more popular than Jesus Christ. Oh they
48:00
Speaker 3: were radio stations wouldn't play Beatles music at that time,
48:05
Speaker 3: Remember how popular? Remember and the guy would be listening
48:11
Speaker 3: to talk radio. Do you want to be a bird?
48:16
Speaker 3: Remember that song from Easy Rider? I wonder if any
48:20
Speaker 3: of you know there was the theme song to the
48:23
Speaker 3: guy at night that he would listen to. Who was
48:26
Speaker 3: a radical, the complete opposite of Bob Grant in the
48:29
Speaker 3: afternoon drive time. He was a total radical. Who when
48:34
Speaker 3: the Sibonese Liberation Army SINQ General General listening was SINQU
48:41
Speaker 3: declared war in America and either kidnapped Pathy, Patty Hurst
48:46
Speaker 3: or Tanya joined them, he was praising them on the air.
48:52
Speaker 3: Yeah at the old WMC. A. Let's see if we
48:55
Speaker 3: can sort of massage any of your memories. Can get
48:59
Speaker 3: back to our tribute to the hardest working guy ever
49:02
Speaker 3: in TV reagis Philpin and the hardest working guy ever
49:06
Speaker 3: in radio talk radio Bob Grant. I'll conflate both of
49:11
Speaker 3: them as we do our homage to the greats, the
49:15
Speaker 3: iconic figures who paved the way for all of us,
49:17
Speaker 3: and little of any tribute has ever made to how
49:21
Speaker 3: important they were to this thing of ours. I will
49:25
Speaker 3: never forget. I know, Mark Simon, never forget. Unfortunately, there
49:29
Speaker 3: are a lot of people in our business who get
49:31
Speaker 3: their paycheck and they either don't know, or if they
49:36
Speaker 3: do know, God forbid they give any credit to these people.
49:41
Speaker 3: I'll tell you this much. Bob Grant. You know who
49:44
Speaker 3: grew up listening to Bob Grant, the rock grabbed all
49:47
Speaker 3: American conservative voice reagent from Franklin, Long Island, Sean Hannity.
49:51
Speaker 3: You said him many times, and you catch him in
49:53
Speaker 3: the afternoon drive here wor seven ten Bill O'Reilly. Oh,
49:57
Speaker 3: he says it many times. Mark Levin, when Bob Grant
50:01
Speaker 3: was exiled at WWDB in Philadelphia. I'll get into that
50:05
Speaker 3: coming up next. They all attribute this now, how it
50:09
Speaker 3: start to Bob Grant? How come now little if any
50:17
Speaker 3: attention is paid to these folks who really paved the way,
50:23
Speaker 3: took a lot of risks, got fired many times for
50:26
Speaker 3: taking a principal stand, took a licking, only to come
50:29
Speaker 3: back ticking our numbers one eight hundred three to two
50:32
Speaker 3: one zero seven ten. That's one eight hundred three to
50:35
Speaker 3: two one zero seven ten.
50:37
Speaker 1: Street Smart Straight Talk. Curtis leewa guest host for Mark
50:41
Speaker 1: Simone on sevent ten wo.
50:44
Speaker 3: Wa as we don't take anything for granted, and we
50:49
Speaker 3: paid tributes to Uh no doubt, hardest working guy ever
50:54
Speaker 3: in TV. I had this conversation with Tom Cutty yesterday.
50:58
Speaker 3: Regis Filman father, Irish mother I think was a combination
51:02
Speaker 3: Italian Albanian, which is very similar to the makeup of
51:06
Speaker 3: Vaness and Morris park Now in the Bronx. He was
51:09
Speaker 3: a Hayesman, went to Cardinal Hayes. I think he was
51:12
Speaker 3: best known for being on Live with Regis and Kathy Lee.
51:19
Speaker 3: That was a great show. I think that went off
51:21
Speaker 3: for like twelve years until the year two thousand. That
51:24
Speaker 3: was the better one compared to when he was on
51:27
Speaker 3: with Kelly. Uh. Nope. You know Regis would get up
51:31
Speaker 3: and do his riff. That was something you waited to hear,
51:35
Speaker 3: like with Bob Grant the opening riff of his show
51:38
Speaker 3: when there was no podcast, there was no way to
51:40
Speaker 3: recover it. It was great and then in the interim
51:44
Speaker 3: he was doing the most watched TV program at that time.
51:46
Speaker 3: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Hard Working? According to
51:53
Speaker 3: the Guinness World Record for the most hours spent on television,
51:57
Speaker 3: the hardest working Man TV show Business, Regis Philbin without
52:03
Speaker 3: a doubt. And by the way, you're going to be
52:05
Speaker 3: some of you watching the ABC's Dick Clark's New Yorkers
52:11
Speaker 3: Rock and Roll Eve right with milktoast Ryan Seacresa. That's
52:16
Speaker 3: his sting, you know, sub student for Dick Clark when
52:21
Speaker 3: he had that stroke. That was Regis Philbin. If I
52:26
Speaker 3: remember correctly, two thousand and four to two thousand and five,
52:29
Speaker 3: that first show was Regis Philbin. I mean, the guy
52:31
Speaker 3: was all over TV and it's almost like nobody nobody
52:35
Speaker 3: mentions him. I think the only one who mentions it
52:37
Speaker 3: from time to time is Letterman. But now let's switch
52:41
Speaker 3: to the hardest working guy ever in radio. We paid
52:44
Speaker 3: our homage to the father of talk radio, who was
52:50
Speaker 3: right here at War when he was spinning that first
52:53
Speaker 3: stacks of wax that turned into taking callers, and that
52:55
Speaker 3: was Barry Grade nineteen forty five, right here at War.
53:00
Speaker 3: Bob Grant, the king of talk radio. My mentor the
53:03
Speaker 3: reason that I'm in talk radio because nobody else wanted me.
53:07
Speaker 3: He forced them on. He forced me on them at
53:11
Speaker 3: WABC by saying, you gotta have Curtis. He knows who
53:14
Speaker 3: all the bones are buried and who buried them? And
53:16
Speaker 3: everybody knows that now, and they hesitate every time I
53:22
Speaker 3: talk about their names. Is he going to reveal what
53:25
Speaker 3: I thought it would take to my grave? Well? You
53:28
Speaker 3: keep thinking out there, guys and gals, got one more
53:31
Speaker 3: show to go on Friday. Could be opening up the
53:35
Speaker 3: Pandora's box of many of those at WABC always bashing
53:41
Speaker 3: Curtis now. But no, let's get back to Bob Grant.
53:45
Speaker 3: He actually was the busiest guy in all the talk radio,
53:48
Speaker 3: not here but out at KABC. By the way, he
53:54
Speaker 3: gave me a call this morning, they want me to
53:55
Speaker 3: do something for them. I had done a show for
53:58
Speaker 3: al Rentel, unfortunately had broken his hip for a year.
54:01
Speaker 3: I substituted for al Rentel from New York City, and
54:05
Speaker 3: nobody knew that I wasn't in LA because I knew
54:07
Speaker 3: LA like the back of my head. So I said
54:10
Speaker 3: thank you, but no thank you, but a tribute to
54:13
Speaker 3: a very iconic station by Grant was on that station
54:16
Speaker 3: and he had three shows, open Line, Nightline which eventually
54:22
Speaker 3: became a TV production, a Ted coppol on ABC, and
54:25
Speaker 3: Sunday Line, and he was doing TV busy busy, busy,
54:31
Speaker 3: and he interviewed Muhammad Ali, Ronald Reagan, first interview with
54:36
Speaker 3: Ronald Reagan, and that Nutt who created Kwanza. That Kwanza guy,
54:42
Speaker 3: ron Kurenge. What a story that is. Hey, he had
54:46
Speaker 3: the first interview with him. He was the go to guy.
54:50
Speaker 3: And then some executives said, you know, it's just too bad, Bob,
54:56
Speaker 3: that the number one talk show hosts in America doesn't
54:58
Speaker 3: want to come to the number one market in America,
55:00
Speaker 3: New York. So I'm not interested in going to your
55:03
Speaker 3: New York. I got a house, SI, I got four kids,
55:06
Speaker 3: I'm on TV, I'm on radio. But you got to
55:12
Speaker 3: go to New York. Cub and the guy named R.
55:15
Speaker 3: Peter Strauss reached out to him and made him an offer.
55:18
Speaker 3: He couldn't refuse the money. Although Bob came out here,
55:22
Speaker 3: he didn't want to stay. He told me he'd I
55:24
Speaker 3: hated New York. I wanted to go back to La
55:27
Speaker 3: so desperately, where everybody knew me embraced me back there.
55:31
Speaker 3: You know, they were more conservative here. They called me
55:34
Speaker 3: a fascist. So I decided I would get on the
55:36
Speaker 3: radio and be mean and it would force ar Peter
55:39
Speaker 3: Strauss to break my contract. So that's where this raging
55:44
Speaker 3: persona came from. And unfortunately for Bob at that time
55:48
Speaker 3: and good for us, his rating skyrocketing. Ratings not streams.
55:54
Speaker 3: You know, at the old WABC where I was, they
55:56
Speaker 3: run around say, lo look, loah, my streamers up. A
56:00
Speaker 3: million people were listening to me. I said, are you
56:02
Speaker 3: out of your mind? That's not a rating, that's the
56:07
Speaker 3: Wizard of Oz. You may like what you're being told,
56:12
Speaker 3: but that does not give you a gauge of the audience.
56:15
Speaker 3: Oh one last thing. Barry Farber, who had been a
56:19
Speaker 3: fixture here for many years, decided to run for mayor.
56:21
Speaker 3: It's nineteen seventy seven. Oh shades the Courtish sleep. When
56:27
Speaker 3: he left wr he asked Bob Grant to substitute for
56:32
Speaker 3: him overnight. And when Bob Grant did, out of every
56:37
Speaker 3: four radios, two radios at night were listening to him.
56:41
Speaker 3: Nobody ever had those kind of ratings. And then he
56:45
Speaker 3: said something I'm trying to remember the words. Oh yeah,
56:48
Speaker 3: she passed a gynecological and pigmentation test. I forget who
56:53
Speaker 3: he was attributing that to. He got fired and exiled
56:56
Speaker 3: out to WWDB, only to come back to WABC. That's
57:03
Speaker 3: my homage. Hottest working guy in talk radio, Hottest working
57:08
Speaker 3: guy in TV, Regis Philming and tomorrow you don't want
57:11
Speaker 3: to miss my annual tribute to the best thing that
57:15
Speaker 3: occur to WABC, which was Bernard McGirk one eight hundred
57:21
Speaker 3: three to two one is zero seven ten. That's one
57:23
Speaker 3: eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. Talk radio
57:27
Speaker 3: with street crack.
57:29
Speaker 1: Literally Curtis Leewad joined sevent ten wo R to guess
57:33
Speaker 1: those from Mark Samo.
57:38
Speaker 10: Hottest Working Guys and Gals Television and Radio in his
57:45
Speaker 10: book of World Records, Regis Film and none O the
57:48
Speaker 10: Bronx guy proud of going to Cardinal Hayes Catholic High
57:52
Speaker 10: School still open, thank god.
57:54
Speaker 3: Unfortunately nearby all Hollows closing. Great School, Cathedral Heights School
58:00
Speaker 3: this year for girls. Great school closing, and Preston was
58:06
Speaker 3: on the cusp of closing in the Tremont section. Great
58:09
Speaker 3: High School all girls. You know j Lowell maybe got
58:14
Speaker 3: back Jenny from the block. Never contributed as far as
58:18
Speaker 3: I know a nickel diamond penny to the alumni front
58:21
Speaker 3: and keep them open. And they were kept open by Bally's.
58:24
Speaker 3: I believe some arrangement was made. Who bought the Trump
58:26
Speaker 3: golf course nearby? But think about that. He was Regis Philmen,
58:32
Speaker 3: who appeared three times on the Celebrity Jeopardy. Again. The
58:37
Speaker 3: guy was constantly working out there. He had the most
58:40
Speaker 3: appearances and in one appearance he won fifty thousand dollars
58:45
Speaker 3: and gave it right to Cardinal Hayes. That's what you
58:48
Speaker 3: should do if you're doing well, and you realize that
58:51
Speaker 3: these Catholic high schools, they gave so many an opportunity
58:55
Speaker 3: they might not have had if they had to go
58:57
Speaker 3: to their local neighborhood public high school. And like j Lo, hey,
59:02
Speaker 3: j Lo, you forget your roots. Anyway, let's go to
59:06
Speaker 3: the phones. It's Bob who's calling from San Diego. Your
59:10
Speaker 3: turn to be heard here at seven to ten. Wo Abob, Hey, Curtis.
59:15
Speaker 5: Good to hear you on the are. Earlier you mentioned
59:18
Speaker 5: the first subway vigilante movie. There would I think would
59:22
Speaker 5: be the incident with Martin Sheen and Tony Mussanti.
59:25
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, And if you haven't seen it, ladies and gentlemen,
59:29
Speaker 3: you must. A great period piece, black and white, all
59:35
Speaker 3: these different people getting on the number four train. You know,
59:38
Speaker 3: coming out of the Bronx going down to Grand Central
59:42
Speaker 3: and Masante is a complete psycho Martin Sheen. I think
59:46
Speaker 3: that was like his debut. And remember the part that
59:49
Speaker 3: Ed McMahon played.
59:52
Speaker 5: Yes, he actually he didn't want to take a cab
59:55
Speaker 5: to Flushing from the Bronx, so he took the trains
59:59
Speaker 5: and and he played the father of a young girl.
1:00:02
Speaker 3: And he was on the car with his wife now
1:00:05
Speaker 3: arguing with his wife. Great piece, she's going, let's take
1:00:08
Speaker 3: a cab. We got a baby with us that nah,
1:00:11
Speaker 3: I take that train, you know. And oh boy, these
1:00:15
Speaker 3: two psycho boys were in the car. He was like
1:00:18
Speaker 3: cockwork Orange before his Cockwork Orange. I mean, really really
1:00:23
Speaker 3: a great, great movie that's never really gotten it, Stue.
1:00:28
Speaker 5: It really is a great movie. He just keeps building
1:00:31
Speaker 5: and building until the climax. And by the way, you
1:00:34
Speaker 5: can watch it free on YouTube. Just search on YouTube
1:00:37
Speaker 5: for the incident.
1:00:39
Speaker 3: Yeah, please do. Especially during Hoghliday time. A lot of
1:00:43
Speaker 3: people like to watch things. You gotta watch this movie.
1:00:48
Speaker 3: Every station, a different group gets on her, a different
1:00:51
Speaker 3: couple and they're all all of them went on to
1:00:54
Speaker 3: become great stars and starlets. And they had their little cameo, rolls, Oh, man,
1:01:02
Speaker 3: what a great, great movie. Let's go if we can
1:01:05
Speaker 3: to John. Who's calling from? Is that old Japan?
1:01:10
Speaker 8: Curtis, what's up my brother? No, well, I just depend
1:01:12
Speaker 8: on the New York side.
1:01:13
Speaker 3: Oh okay, Curtis.
1:01:16
Speaker 8: I'm great to see it down in the South on
1:01:18
Speaker 8: the dial there, very good. I was incorrect. I thought
1:01:21
Speaker 8: Alex Bennett would have been the name you were.
1:01:24
Speaker 3: You were looking for you, You were absolutely correct. Alex
1:01:29
Speaker 3: Bennett was the evening show host wmc A. Bob Grant
1:01:35
Speaker 3: was Drive Time. You couldn't have been any more different.
1:01:40
Speaker 8: Yeah, hey, Curtis, listen, I'm trying. I know you're busy there.
1:01:43
Speaker 8: If I want to ask this gum, you know why
1:01:44
Speaker 8: I was a little bewildered. I used to be in
1:01:46
Speaker 8: Manhattan detectives. We had a homicide in nineteen ninety two
1:01:50
Speaker 8: fourteenth Street in the hole on the four train. A
1:01:54
Speaker 8: young man, a hard working, stiff African American, Jerry Robinson,
1:01:59
Speaker 8: on his way home at eleven o'clock at night. He
1:02:02
Speaker 8: gets held up in the hall at fourteenth Street. He
1:02:05
Speaker 8: pulls out a twenty five pops two guys kills one
1:02:09
Speaker 8: of them. The third piece took off. They called him
1:02:12
Speaker 8: the Blackbernie Gets. Barry Slotnik represented him at arraiments and
1:02:17
Speaker 8: then an eighteen b attorney took it from there on.
1:02:20
Speaker 8: He took a plea and I didn't do any time it.
1:02:24
Speaker 8: It never got well. It hit the paper that night
1:02:26
Speaker 8: they were down in raiments, but afterwards he never got
1:02:29
Speaker 8: any play. I was wondering if you knew about that.
1:02:31
Speaker 3: No, I do, because I followed those cases. It was
1:02:35
Speaker 3: really the team that you had. Barry Slotnik was the
1:02:39
Speaker 3: lead attorney, and I'm trying to remind Miller, I think
1:02:43
Speaker 3: was his partner. He had to go. No Baker, Baker
1:02:47
Speaker 3: was his partner. A great team, and they made themselves
1:02:51
Speaker 3: available for those kind of cases. More often than not.
1:02:56
Speaker 3: It was black victims fighting back again black Assallians. But
1:03:02
Speaker 3: you see, it didn't have the ammonium bleach. It didn't
1:03:06
Speaker 3: have what you needed, white versus black. I mean that
1:03:08
Speaker 3: got you the headlines that kept the headlines going for days.
1:03:12
Speaker 3: It was black on black crime. Nothing a mere mention.
1:03:17
Speaker 3: By the way, you mentioned Alex Bennett. He was the
1:03:20
Speaker 3: talk show host at WMCA at night. His theme song
1:03:24
Speaker 3: was do You Want to Be a Bird? A classic song.
1:03:27
Speaker 3: From Easy Rider and man, he would talk about coming
1:03:31
Speaker 3: from concerts and he would be like be doing therapy
1:03:35
Speaker 3: on himself before this guy did it Seagull remember a
1:03:40
Speaker 3: channel seven. Oh there's anybody remember Seagull. I'm just gonna
1:03:43
Speaker 3: give you a little hint there. And he would do
1:03:46
Speaker 3: the same thing. And this guy supported radical causes. Do
1:03:50
Speaker 3: you know who ended up taking over the apartment of
1:03:54
Speaker 3: Alex Bennett, who went back to San Francisco where he
1:03:57
Speaker 3: was from, to Radio Camel where they spun stacks of wax.
1:04:01
Speaker 3: They're a little bit of talk. Bernard Yetz, who's still
1:04:06
Speaker 3: in that apartment today right off of sixth Avenue and
1:04:08
Speaker 3: fourteenth Street. Wow, the synergy is happening. Let's go if
1:04:14
Speaker 3: we can to Stella in Quoes your turn to be
1:04:19
Speaker 3: heard here at seven ten wr Stella.
1:04:22
Speaker 11: Hello, listen, Curtis. I'm glad to hear you back, and
1:04:27
Speaker 11: I'm glad to hear your voice. I'm very concerned and
1:04:31
Speaker 11: so are a lot of people in my neighborhood. And
1:04:33
Speaker 11: Queen's about Mendanni taking over privately owned homes. Do you
1:04:39
Speaker 11: know anything about that?
1:04:41
Speaker 3: Well, it's not just Mandami. This was the city of Yes.
1:04:46
Speaker 3: I warned everybody about it. Eric Adams got windined and
1:04:50
Speaker 3: pocket lined by the developers and realtors, as did Andrew
1:04:54
Speaker 3: Evilize Cuomo. So they now have the authority because the
1:04:59
Speaker 3: people voted this in to the law because everybody's for
1:05:02
Speaker 3: affordable housing, and they thought, oh wow, affordable housing, I'm
1:05:05
Speaker 3: for that. No no, no, no no. So if you
1:05:08
Speaker 3: happen to live in a residential community and this is
1:05:11
Speaker 3: coming to a neighborhood near you, they call it up zoning,
1:05:16
Speaker 3: density housing. Kathy Hulkol tried that and realize that wasn't
1:05:21
Speaker 3: gonna work out to get her elected against lees Helden,
1:05:25
Speaker 3: so she dropped it like a hot rock. But the
1:05:26
Speaker 3: whole idea was build high rise housing, claim it's affordable
1:05:31
Speaker 3: near train stations along ther Metro North, and people in
1:05:36
Speaker 3: residential area say, oh no, no, no, no, no, we
1:05:38
Speaker 3: don't need any density housing. We don't need any up zoning.
1:05:42
Speaker 3: There's zoning, there's elected officials, there's a process. So Kathy
1:05:47
Speaker 3: Hoko recognized that was a third rail. But in New
1:05:51
Speaker 3: York City, because the issue became affordable housing, costs of living,
1:05:56
Speaker 3: they've pushed through this mandate. They give developers and realtors
1:06:02
Speaker 3: the opportunity to come into your neighborhoods in the outer boroughs,
1:06:05
Speaker 3: whether you live in the Bronx, Staten Island, Queens of Brooklyn,
1:06:09
Speaker 3: and they can come into your neighborhood. They don't have
1:06:11
Speaker 3: to go through any zoning regulations any longer. They don't
1:06:14
Speaker 3: have to meet with the community board, they don't have
1:06:16
Speaker 3: to even meet with the local elected officials. If they
1:06:19
Speaker 3: want to put up a forty story high rise by
1:06:21
Speaker 3: the way, with no parking and burden your infrastructure, they
1:06:25
Speaker 3: have a right to do it. They've been given a
1:06:27
Speaker 3: green light. Worse yet, they're putting up these lithium ion
1:06:31
Speaker 3: battery warehouses, which is a real danger to the community.
1:06:36
Speaker 3: They're in residential areas. They're supposed to be in industrial areas,
1:06:40
Speaker 3: but then again, residential property is cheaper than industrial property.
1:06:43
Speaker 3: Thirty eight in Staten Island, twelve in Brooklyn, eight in
1:06:48
Speaker 3: Queens formed the Bronx none in Manhattan because we don't
1:06:52
Speaker 3: have enough electricity. And wait, if you think it's bad now,
1:06:58
Speaker 3: artificial intelligence is going to need double the amount of
1:07:01
Speaker 3: electricity and double the amount of water to run their
1:07:06
Speaker 3: filing centers. You haven't heard much about that, have you?
1:07:11
Speaker 3: Of course, not talk too much of talk radio, as
1:07:14
Speaker 3: are you? You see all those Somalian themes in Minnesota?
1:07:17
Speaker 3: Could you repeat each other anymore like parrots? How about
1:07:21
Speaker 3: actually talking about subject matter that affects everybody's lives. And
1:07:27
Speaker 3: these AI Artificial intelligence filing center centers that are gonna
1:07:33
Speaker 3: be built in a neighborhood near you, and they require
1:07:36
Speaker 3: twice the amount of electricity that's available on the grid,
1:07:39
Speaker 3: twice the amount of water that you don't even have
1:07:42
Speaker 3: access to. And guess who's gonna pay for all of that?
1:07:46
Speaker 5: You?
1:07:47
Speaker 3: What is anybody telling you that? Of course not. Oh
1:07:52
Speaker 3: and you don't want to miss Friday, my annual tribute
1:07:55
Speaker 3: to Bernard McGirt, best thing that ever happened at talk radio.
1:07:58
Speaker 3: Oh my god, the guy had to take some much
1:08:00
Speaker 3: abuse for from don Imus, without which don would never
1:08:04
Speaker 3: have been able to function. And also a plead to
1:08:08
Speaker 3: all of you to make sure whatever men folk you
1:08:10
Speaker 3: run across this New Year's holiday, you let them know
1:08:13
Speaker 3: to get that psa simple prick of the finger blood test.
1:08:17
Speaker 3: If only Bernard McGirk had done that, he would not
1:08:21
Speaker 3: have died a horrible death from prostate cancer. Look, I
1:08:25
Speaker 3: had stage four I survived it. Some don't. The test
1:08:30
Speaker 3: in most instances will help eliminate it. Though Beret is back.
1:08:37
Speaker 1: Curtis Sliwa guest host The Mark Simone Show on seven
1:08:40
Speaker 1: to ten.
1:08:41
Speaker 3: Woo don I'll be able to let you know my
1:08:45
Speaker 3: last day substituting for Mark on Friday. What went down
1:08:49
Speaker 3: at that block party for zorn Mondami. I haven't been invited,
1:08:53
Speaker 3: but I'm going. Who's gonna stop me? You all need
1:08:56
Speaker 3: to know. And then we're gonna discuss AI, artificial intelligence
1:09:00
Speaker 3: and elon muskers Saint, don't worry about it. We're going
1:09:03
Speaker 3: to create an income for all of you. You won't
1:09:08
Speaker 3: have to work. You can listen to talk radio all day.
1:09:10
Speaker 3: We'll take care of you from the cradle to the grave,
1:09:12
Speaker 3: watch your back. And then obviously cryptocurrency, blockchain, what I
1:09:19
Speaker 3: call crime coin, Bitcoin, the scam of our time. It's
1:09:23
Speaker 3: a Ponzi scheme. And driverless vehicles. Oh, many of you
1:09:26
Speaker 3: are driving as we speak now. Don't worry about it.
1:09:30
Speaker 3: The masters of the universe at Silicon Valley. You say
1:09:34
Speaker 3: you won't have to drive, and what are you supposed
1:09:36
Speaker 3: to do to earn a living