Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / William DeMeo | 05-20-26
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- 0:04Speaker 1: So I told you this story years ago that my
- 0:05Speaker 1: friend Larry Millyon you don't know what he is and
- 0:09Speaker 1: don't worry about It's fine. He was a kid had
- 0:12Speaker 1: met down in Miami, a local radio guy, and he
- 0:14Speaker 1: called me one day. I was sending outside a Madison
- 0:16Speaker 1: Square gardener was well tylllby newt in New York City
- 0:18Speaker 1: at the time, back in twenty sixteen. Then he said, hey, said,
- 0:22Speaker 1: you're a Brooklyn guy. You've seen the show Gravesend. I said, no,
- 0:25Speaker 1: I haven't seen it. You know William de Mayo. I
- 0:27Speaker 1: said no, I had just gone back to New York.
- 0:29Speaker 1: I wasn't aware I live in a Boca Ratona all
- 0:32Speaker 1: those years. He said, you love the show. I said okay.
- 0:35Speaker 1: So he put William in touch with me, and I
- 0:38Speaker 1: was not in season one, but I love the show.
- 0:40Speaker 1: I loved it, music, the scenery. I grew up in Brooklyn,
- 0:45Speaker 1: so that's my that's my hood, you know, And I
- 0:48Speaker 1: loved it. And then when I met William and we
- 0:50Speaker 1: talked more, he said, you're a Brooklyn guy. You got
- 0:53Speaker 1: to look you know, you should be in the show.
- 0:54Speaker 1: I've never acted it before. I've done something since Danny
- 0:57Speaker 1: A imant de Sante all that stuff. My first acting
- 1:00Speaker 1: opportunity came with William Now I have to tell you this.
- 1:03Speaker 1: William that my boss upstairs or you've met. He was
- 1:07Speaker 1: in the movie Marti Supreme. That was a very, very
- 1:09Speaker 1: big deal. That movie should have won an Academy Award.
- 1:12Speaker 1: Was nominated for nine, nine or maybe seven, went over
- 1:15Speaker 1: seven and he did a really good job a couple
- 1:18Speaker 1: of scenes playing opposite Timothy Schalomey. So now Katz and
- 1:21Speaker 1: Matitis has the acting bug, you know, But it all
- 1:25Speaker 1: started with you. And season two was a blast. I
- 1:28Speaker 1: remember that first day, like yesterday, walking into the trailer
- 1:30Speaker 1: brisk Miami morning, and Chris was in there and Andrew
- 1:35Speaker 1: dice Clay was the door next to me. I said,
- 1:36Speaker 1: this can't be really happening, and it did, and we
- 1:39Speaker 1: shot some great scenes and the whole season was six episodes.
- 1:42Speaker 1: And then you called me back to do season three.
- 1:45Speaker 1: And the first day I shot up on the set
- 1:47Speaker 1: of that one, I'm staring at a guy who I
- 1:50Speaker 1: watched play on the court in the NBA bottles for
- 1:55Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers, for the name of Shaquille O'Neal. Now
- 1:58Speaker 1: I'm shooting scenes with shock and that. So we're looking
- 2:01Speaker 1: forward to So every week I get asked, Well, I'm
- 2:04Speaker 1: told every day, of course how great the radio show is.
- 2:06Speaker 1: When is season three coming out? For graves end every
- 2:10Speaker 1: week just so you know. So now we're gonna find
- 2:12Speaker 1: out here he is the star, writer, director, producer, does
- 2:18Speaker 1: a tremendous job. He's a good guy. William de Mayo,
- 2:21Speaker 1: Good morning, buddy, how are you?
- 2:22Speaker 2: Thank you? Good morning? And you're a great guy yourself
- 2:24Speaker 2: sitting Well, you get asked at once a week. I
- 2:27Speaker 2: get asked once a second. I'm sure about that. So, uh,
- 2:31Speaker 2: we're definitely gonna have it's a lot of episodes. That's
- 2:34Speaker 2: what people don't realize is actually gonna be minimum twelve episodes,
- 2:38Speaker 2: and we're probably gonna split the season. We're gonna put
- 2:41Speaker 2: the first six out right around September and then follow
- 2:44Speaker 2: with the next six around Christmas. That's the announcement. Now
- 2:47Speaker 2: that we're making butt through the summer, we're having on
- 2:52Speaker 2: showings in movie theaters. We need to catch the first
- 2:54Speaker 2: two episodes and watch it with some of the cast
- 2:56Speaker 2: members by our first Our first event is in bell
- 3:00Speaker 2: More in Long Island on June tenth and then the
- 3:03Speaker 2: second one is at in Staten Island at the Atrium.
- 3:06Speaker 2: Oh cool, on June twenty fourth.
- 3:08Speaker 1: Nice.
- 3:08Speaker 2: So we've been selling tickets. You're almost sold out for
- 3:10Speaker 2: the first showing. And uh, it'll be a great experience
- 3:13Speaker 2: because you know, it's it's like it's like a movie
- 3:15Speaker 2: in a way. It's like making six movies and you
- 3:18Speaker 2: get to see it on the big screen with people
- 3:20Speaker 2: like yourself and other actors that are in the show.
- 3:23Speaker 2: We had great new people that came on in season three.
- 3:27Speaker 2: We had you in it. I wish we could have
- 3:28Speaker 2: had you a couple more. You're so busy now. You're
- 3:31Speaker 2: so busy now it's hard to get you. So.
- 3:33Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true. And I was sick one day. I
- 3:36Speaker 1: was really sick, and that was the day I was
- 3:38Speaker 1: supposed to beat somebody to death with a baseball bat,
- 3:40Speaker 1: which I want to do in real life. I couldn't
- 3:43Speaker 1: do it, but I'm in thinking. I'm probably three or
- 3:45Speaker 1: four different episodes. I know, the Russian scene with Tony Darrow,
- 3:49Speaker 1: one with Shock, the Staten Island scene, that's a big one.
- 3:52Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's a great one to see that. Yeah,
- 3:55Speaker 2: if you come on, I hope you can make it
- 3:56Speaker 2: on the tent. Of course we're going to show that
- 3:58Speaker 2: that episode you're in that oh that's the one with
- 4:00Speaker 2: the with the scene and but he's yeah with Anthony
- 4:03Speaker 2: Roder who, by the way, he did a great job.
- 4:05Speaker 1: He was is amazing. I had no idea that kid
- 4:08Speaker 1: was that good. He really was. I but you want
- 4:11Speaker 1: this season? You waited?
- 4:13Speaker 2: Uh, Adrian, Yes, Tyler Shaw, Who's who's iconic, amazing to
- 4:18Speaker 2: have horror. Vince Cortola, you know who played Johnny Sack
- 4:21Speaker 2: and the Sopranos.
- 4:22Speaker 1: He's a great head of the New York crime family.
- 4:25Speaker 1: Right Tony ran the New Jersey Crime Family.
- 4:27Speaker 2: And yes, yeah, Vince is a great actor and.
- 4:30Speaker 1: A big Republican. Vince loves President Trump. He's been on
- 4:33Speaker 1: the show before, believe it or not, talking politics, and
- 4:36Speaker 1: he's not shy about it. He's like, I love Trump,
- 4:40Speaker 1: I love America. You don't like it, go at yourself.
- 4:43Speaker 2: Sacks, Yeah, you know he's he's a great actor too,
- 4:46Speaker 2: and a great guy. And and Shack, I mean, Shaq
- 4:48Speaker 2: has been uh, such a great addition to this, to
- 4:54Speaker 2: this cast. I mean, when we're shooting on in the street,
- 4:56Speaker 2: there's thousands of people that come for him. I've never
- 4:58Speaker 2: seen anything he he is like, I've never seen anything
- 5:02Speaker 2: like it. How many people love this man everywhere we go,
- 5:05Speaker 2: from kids from thirteen to people eighty years old. Everybody
- 5:08Speaker 2: knows him and he is one of the greatest people
- 5:11Speaker 2: I've ever met. It's so supportive of every device. He
- 5:13Speaker 2: could act, Yes, he did great.
- 5:15Speaker 1: He could actually act. It's one thing. He's one of
- 5:17Speaker 1: the most popular men in the world. There's no question
- 5:19Speaker 1: about that. The NBA right now has huge international exposure.
- 5:24Speaker 1: People still say that Michael Jordan is the most famous
- 5:26Speaker 1: person in the world. He played in the NBA Lebron
- 5:28Speaker 1: James walks the street in China. He's gonna get bobbed.
- 5:31Speaker 1: Shaq is one of those guys. And like you said,
- 5:34Speaker 1: he can also act. Is he coming on June tenth?
- 5:37Speaker 2: Possibly? Possibly, He's gonna be at some of these screenings.
- 5:41Speaker 2: We don't know which ones yet. His schedule is pretty crazy.
- 5:44Speaker 2: But he plays a great role. He did if he
- 5:47Speaker 2: plays Mustafa who runs bedsty and we are world's collide.
- 5:52Speaker 2: We get together and it's great to have him. You know,
- 5:55Speaker 2: the music, the cars, everything about it, and people again say,
- 6:00Speaker 2: why is it taking so long? It's like making six movies.
- 6:03Speaker 2: It's hard to make one independent movie. We have so
- 6:06Speaker 2: much content and we don't. And we really am very
- 6:09Speaker 2: proud of what we've come, what we've accomplished with. Michelle's
- 6:11Speaker 2: our producer. And it's just everybody, you know, from the cast,
- 6:15Speaker 2: from you to every single person that's in the cast.
- 6:18Speaker 2: You know, we have such a great It's like a family,
- 6:21Speaker 2: the Graves and family.
- 6:22Speaker 1: I always tell people that Brooklyn is the greatest place
- 6:25Speaker 1: in the world, and I never forgot that. I live
- 6:28Speaker 1: in Queens Now right on the beach, and its actually
- 6:30Speaker 1: very nice. But I go to Brooklyn off. Then I
- 6:32Speaker 1: go to Michael's Restaurant on Nostron Michael and Freddy a lot.
- 6:35Speaker 1: I go to Golmet Grill, my good buddy listening right now.
- 6:39Speaker 1: His place is terrific too. So I'm in Johnny, Johnny Descanti.
- 6:43Speaker 1: So I'm in Brooklyn quite a bit. And I've lived
- 6:45Speaker 1: all over Manhattan, the Bronx. I've lived in every borough
- 6:48Speaker 1: except for Stton Island, believe it or not. And I
- 6:50Speaker 1: lived in Florida for a long time in lovely Boca Ratone.
- 6:53Speaker 1: There's no place like Brooklyn. When you start to line
- 6:55Speaker 1: up the great people in any industry, acting, sports, politics, education.
- 7:03Speaker 1: Brooklyn rules the roost by a distance. And I love
- 7:08Speaker 1: the folks that remain loyal to Brooklyn. And I don't
- 7:11Speaker 1: think I know anybody anybody that has remained more loyal
- 7:15Speaker 1: to Brooklyn than you. I see you do videos on
- 7:19Speaker 1: your stoop and gravesend on West. I'm not going with
- 7:22Speaker 1: the whole Lodges, West Tent Street. I go this kid,
- 7:25Speaker 1: he really loves Brooklyn. I love that about you.
- 7:28Speaker 2: Thank you, and well, You're a big support to yourself.
- 7:31Speaker 2: And I always say you should never forget where you
- 7:33Speaker 2: come from, and sometimes when when you know people, That's
- 7:37Speaker 2: what I love about Shack because he never forgot where
- 7:39Speaker 2: he came from either. He does a lot for his
- 7:40Speaker 2: community and Newark and stuff like that. But growing up
- 7:43Speaker 2: in Brooklyn, it was just, you know, the way we
- 7:47Speaker 2: grew up was so unique and everything about it, and
- 7:49Speaker 2: on the support I get from everybody that how could you?
- 7:52Speaker 2: I mean, I like I say in the show, I
- 7:54Speaker 2: felt like it's the center of the universe. It is,
- 7:57Speaker 2: you know, and you're right. We could go down the list.
- 7:59Speaker 2: I mean, even Michael Jordan was born in Brooklyn. He
- 8:02Speaker 2: was Adam Sandler was born in Brooklyn. We can keep going.
- 8:05Speaker 1: No, Liz Murphy was born in Brooklyn.
- 8:07Speaker 2: Yeah, we could keep going. The owner of Starbucks, the
- 8:10Speaker 2: guy who created Starbucks, is from brook Howard Schultz.
- 8:12Speaker 1: Oh, you're right, it's just the list is incredible. And again,
- 8:15Speaker 1: I still love it there. Like I said, I mean
- 8:17Speaker 1: some of the areas it's sad. It's sad. Bay Ridge
- 8:21Speaker 1: is not the same when I was a kid going
- 8:22Speaker 1: to poly Prep. Bensonhurst is not the same. Even mill Bason,
- 8:25Speaker 1: which is still lovely, that's taken a hit. I live
- 8:28Speaker 1: in Queen's I'm okay, on the other side of the
- 8:31Speaker 1: Marine Park Bridge off Floppish Avenue, but and I lived
- 8:35Speaker 1: on King's Hoghway. He's twenty second in Quenton by Madison
- 8:37Speaker 1: High School most of my life, and that's not the same.
- 8:40Speaker 1: So I still love it, and I love that you
- 8:42Speaker 1: love it, and I'm glad that I'm only ten minutes away.
- 8:45Speaker 1: But you don't have to admit a lot of our
- 8:47Speaker 1: neighborhoods don't look the same, Willie.
- 8:49Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely no. Things have definitely changed. But we still
- 8:52Speaker 2: got the great places. We even got burning and car
- 8:54Speaker 2: Like you know, I'll find Michael, he loves you too.
- 8:57Speaker 1: I mean's still forty still.
- 8:59Speaker 2: All these places. We still got Krispy Peace, we still
- 9:01Speaker 2: got Allen B's Pomoni Gardens, we still got the fires,
- 9:04Speaker 2: we still got a lot. I mean they're still there, right,
- 9:06Speaker 2: these places are still holding their own.
- 9:08Speaker 1: You know.
- 9:09Speaker 2: They all great places.
- 9:10Speaker 1: Bay Ridges loaded with great places.
- 9:12Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know the Coney Island change, But Coney
- 9:14Speaker 2: Island is still Coney Island. When you when you walk
- 9:16Speaker 2: and you look at the cyclone and you getting.
- 9:18Speaker 1: Better, it's getting better. I don't know you know this,
- 9:20Speaker 1: but my boss upstairs again, you've met John katzmatitis. If
- 9:23Speaker 1: you ever on the water side, I gotta take a
- 9:25Speaker 1: ferry home every day. You'll see these, will you. These
- 9:27Speaker 1: two big white glass buildings, a brand new, the gorgeous.
- 9:31Speaker 1: He owns them. It's called Ocean Drive. He's about, I
- 9:34Speaker 1: don't know, ten blocks away from the Brooklyn Cyclone Stadium.
- 9:37Speaker 1: So you know you still have god Gulo's and Chris's.
- 9:41Speaker 1: Louis should say, it's fantastic. I love him. I was
- 9:43Speaker 1: there just two weeks ago. Then you still have Nathan's
- 9:45Speaker 1: in the amusement park, and they are spending more money
- 9:48Speaker 1: so I think Corney Island is actually on the rebound.
- 9:50Speaker 1: Some of these spots are getting better. It needs more work.
- 9:53Speaker 1: The problem is the guy that you voted for for mayor,
- 9:56Speaker 1: he's the wrong guy. Will you made the bad choice there?
- 9:58Speaker 1: I didn't vote you thought about it, You're like, oh, damn,
- 10:05Speaker 1: maybe I shouldn't have done that. I mean, that's a
- 10:08Speaker 1: rough guy to be the mayor of New York. No,
- 10:10Speaker 1: of course you see coming to any of the screenings,
- 10:12Speaker 1: I would hope.
- 10:12Speaker 2: I don't think that's all I'll say.
- 10:15Speaker 1: I don't think he stands funny the Brooklyn values. What's
- 10:18Speaker 1: the most fun about going home and doing this show?
- 10:21Speaker 1: For you? Because it's all you. You came up with this,
- 10:23Speaker 1: you raise the money for this, you're the lead actor,
- 10:25Speaker 1: you write it, you're a great writer. What's the most
- 10:28Speaker 1: fun for you?
- 10:28Speaker 2: Thank you? The most fun is when when we're actually
- 10:33Speaker 2: shooting and and people come out to see it, and
- 10:36Speaker 2: like the kids are on set and stuff like that,
- 10:38Speaker 2: and they get to experience something that that they it's
- 10:42Speaker 2: going to remember. They're going to remember it for the
- 10:43Speaker 2: rest of their lives, including my son, Yes, all these
- 10:47Speaker 2: kids he was in he was in the July fourth
- 10:49Speaker 2: scene at the end of season two, Me, him and
- 10:51Speaker 2: Bo didl.
- 10:51Speaker 1: Gabriel it was a little boy. Now I was going
- 10:53Speaker 1: to college next year. He loved that. Yeah, well that's
- 10:55Speaker 1: just set the whole block on fire with fire.
- 10:57Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the That's the thing that I that I
- 11:00Speaker 2: love about is being able to give people that experience.
- 11:03Speaker 2: It makes me smile and it's you know, like I said, again,
- 11:06Speaker 2: I'm so proud of like you bring up the fourth
- 11:08Speaker 2: of July. What it was like just for me to
- 11:10Speaker 2: see that on the screen, Mazon, you know, because you
- 11:13Speaker 2: know what it was like.
- 11:14Speaker 1: I mean, if you know, you know and all and
- 11:17Speaker 1: I got it. He remember, do you remember how that
- 11:18Speaker 1: episode started? The final episode of the season was a
- 11:22Speaker 1: July fourth celebration fireworks barbecue. Remember how it started?
- 11:26Speaker 2: Yeah, me and you will walk in. That's right. We
- 11:28Speaker 2: had that conversation.
- 11:29Speaker 1: We had a little conversation and I said I was home,
- 11:31Speaker 1: and I said, you can't get this in Miami, no way.
- 11:34Speaker 1: And I moved over to the table and there was
- 11:36Speaker 1: Bo Didele and Chuck Zito and a whole bunch of
- 11:40Speaker 1: other fine actors on the program, Chris and Peter Gaudio
- 11:43Speaker 1: all of them, and then the action took place and
- 11:45Speaker 1: the fireworks and all that great stuff, which is so Brooklyn, right,
- 11:49Speaker 1: I mean July fourth, Coney Island fireworks, that's Brooklyn. So Brooklyn.
- 11:53Speaker 2: Yeah. Well that's the thing is, I just wanted to
- 11:55Speaker 2: be as authentic as it could be. And uh, that's why,
- 11:59Speaker 2: you know, if people want to come out and get
- 12:00Speaker 2: tickets now to get a chance to meet some of
- 12:02Speaker 2: the actors and get a chance to see them, it's
- 12:04Speaker 2: worth it because you're gonna get a chance to see
- 12:06Speaker 2: the first two episodes. And I think, my opinion, humbly speaking,
- 12:11Speaker 2: once this gets out these two episodes and people, it's
- 12:14Speaker 2: gonna spread like wildfire.
- 12:16Speaker 1: Can we know what we have? I haven't seen it,
- 12:18Speaker 1: so I'm very I know what we have. I know,
- 12:20Speaker 1: I'm very proud of it. I worked very hard for it.
- 12:22Speaker 1: The last two episodes were great folks. Also Chas Palm
- 12:25Speaker 1: and Terry and Big Pussy Vinnie. He's in these episodes.
- 12:29Speaker 1: To any past story, he's terrific. I mean, there's so
- 12:31Speaker 1: many great actors. I be chouxito.
- 12:33Speaker 2: We have so Tony Darrow, we got such great, a great,
- 12:36Speaker 2: great cast, all these guys that are legends that we've
- 12:40Speaker 2: seen in all the biggest movies from Goodfellas. You know
- 12:43Speaker 2: we have to Rocky Yeah, Adrian, Yeah, she was.
- 12:46Speaker 1: She was a god bother. Yeah, pretty good job in
- 12:49Speaker 1: that too. They're all in your TV show. But do
- 12:52Speaker 1: we know yet where it's gonna air. It's been Amazon
- 12:54Speaker 1: Prime the first two years.
- 12:56Speaker 2: It's probably gonna be that in one other place that
- 12:58Speaker 2: we're working on right now to get you know, and speaking,
- 13:02Speaker 2: I just want to get back that Nick game last
- 13:03Speaker 2: night was insane. I was there. It was unbelievable. Video
- 13:06Speaker 2: was twenty two points and then were you like sitting.
- 13:09Speaker 1: By the court?
- 13:10Speaker 2: I was pretty, I was pretty. I was like the
- 13:11Speaker 2: fifth throw, I was bro. It was insane. The garden
- 13:15Speaker 2: was jumping, jumping, and let me tell you, brunching.
- 13:19Speaker 1: He's something outsy bro.
- 13:21Speaker 2: He just took the like I was like, every time
- 13:23Speaker 2: he came down, boom boom.
- 13:25Speaker 1: You know what that means. Aren't we wire going nan?
- 13:28Speaker 1: You know what that means? Bunting. It's gotta be in
- 13:30Speaker 1: season four. You gotta figure it out.
- 13:32Speaker 2: That would be nice.
- 13:33Speaker 1: That would be nice. I'm gonna tell Shaq to make
- 13:35Speaker 1: him more. Talk to him. I think everybody wants to
- 13:38Speaker 1: be in this show. That's why. That's how you know
- 13:40Speaker 1: you're doing a good job. If Shaq went to bruntson
- 13:42Speaker 1: and said, hey, we're doing a mob show on Brooklyn,
- 13:43Speaker 1: he would love it. He would do it some second.
- 13:45Speaker 2: But that's a good idea.
- 13:46Speaker 1: Bro. Now I'm going to reach out to assistant coach
- 13:48Speaker 1: with bruntsing, well, we got to run, but one more time.
- 13:51Speaker 1: Let the folks know where they can get tickets. I'll
- 13:52Speaker 1: be there June tenth and.
- 13:53Speaker 2: This event right, you could get him on event right.
- 13:55Speaker 2: Look on our social media graves n series and we'd
- 13:58Speaker 2: love to see you. That's going to be a there's
- 14:00Speaker 2: going to be a bunch of them, but try and
- 14:01Speaker 2: get to the first two Belmore Movie Theater in Long
- 14:04Speaker 2: Island and then the Atrium and Staten Island on June
- 14:06Speaker 2: twenty Fourth's June tenth is Belmore, Long Island.
- 14:09Speaker 1: We'd love to see you guys. Thank you for every
- 14:11Speaker 1: one of you.
- 14:12Speaker 2: I just want to say all you guys when I
- 14:13Speaker 2: see you on the street, I appreciate the love and support.
- 14:16Speaker 2: Everywhere I go people keeps asking me about it. Thank
- 14:19Speaker 2: you all and thank you Sid for having me back.
- 14:21Speaker 1: I love you. Buddy, I love you too. You really
- 14:22Speaker 1: are a sweet, sweet guy. You're a great guy. You're
- 14:24Speaker 1: very talented, very very talented, but a really terrific guy.
- 14:27Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 14:27Speaker 1: What you get with Willy DeMeo is who he is.
- 14:29Speaker 1: He's an authentic, lovely guy. Even Steve Maroano loves him
- 14:33Speaker 1: because yo, cause yo, cause he's in the season two. Lou,
- 14:38Speaker 1: I think we're done for today, right, that's it. As always,
- 14:40Speaker 1: you guys were a tremendous Liu Lufino. Excellent job. Happy
- 14:43Speaker 1: birthday to Share she's eighty today and we miss Joe
- 14:47Speaker 1: Cocker he's eighty two today. Excellent job all week, Kevin,
- 14:51Speaker 1: Joe Strestanellok is back tomorrow. You're back the program director.
- 14:53Speaker 1: But you did really well. Thank you. You worked hard.
- 14:55Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Know I'm late in great job. We'll
- 14:58Speaker 1: all be back, as Gee would say, God willing for
- 15:01Speaker 1: a six am Bill o' riley Thursday show tomorrow. Until then,
- 15:05Speaker 1: from all of us on sitting friends in the morning,
- 15:07Speaker 1: including Michelle, and we'll need to May open gravesend to
- 15:09Speaker 1: all of you in New York City. Peace Y