FULL SHOW: Latest on Rob Reiner's murder; Howard Stern is staying at Sirius XM.

Mark gives us the latest breaking news updates on the murder of actor Rob Reiner and his wife. Their son, Nick Reiner, appears in court today, charged with their murders. Mark interviews TV personality Rhonda Shear. Rhonda shares her grief over the loss of Rob Reiner and his wife. She also provides an update on her “Up All Night” Christmas special. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer faces criticism for saying “Go Bills” before addressing Australia’s recent mass shooting tragedy. Howard Stern remains with Sirius XM, but with new conditions to his contract. Mark interviews former NYC mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa. Curtis reflects on his experiences and adjustments since losing the NYC mayoral election, sharing insights into his personal and professional life. He discusses Andrew Cuomo’s continued presence in the political arena and reveals that he will be filling in for Mark Simone for two weeks on 710 WOR beginning December 22nd.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, this is Mark Simon sell on sevent tenor well.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
This ought to be interesting. We'll get to Rob Reiner
in great detail. We'll get to President Trump's attack on
Rob Reiner. Why did he do it? Why did he
have to do that? How could he do such a thing. Well,
we'll get to all of that coming up. We'll get
to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, who usually
stays way below the radar. I don't know why, gave

(00:29):
a big interview to Vanity Fair and it's causing all
kinds of controversy. We'll get to that. We'll get to
Howard Stern he announced he staying but with about one
hundred asterisks on that. We'll get to Bruce Blakeman running
for governor. We'll get to We've got a lot to
get to. Curtis will be with us a little later.
Can't wait to hear what he's got to say about everything.

(00:49):
So here's what we know. More stuff coming out every
hour about the whole Rob Reiner situation. You know, the
he was murdered Sunday afternoon about three o'clock, and that
night he was he and his wife were supposed to

(01:11):
have dinner with Michelle and Barack Obama. They were supposed
to have dinner that night. And that's quite a I
don't mean a group be gruesome, but you know, sometimes
you get a call, Hey, we're gonna have to cancel.
Not feeling well or something like that. But to get

(01:33):
a call have to cancel. What's the matter, Well, they're dead?
What dad? You know, the was stepped throat slit. They
can't come to dinner. I mean, what a shock that
must have been. Now all sorts of stuff is coming
out as we know now it looks like it's Nick
Reiner the Sun. The night before, there's a big Christmas

(01:57):
party thrown by Conan O'Brien and I don't know why
Rob Ryer and his wife are going to the party.
They brought a couple of the kids. I don't know
why they brought the son Nick or why he was there,
because everybody said he clearly didn't fit in, didn't want
to be there. It was, you know, a nice fancy
Christmas party with everybody dressed up, and Nick Ryner shows

(02:20):
up with a hoodie. You know, it's like a sweatsuit
and a hoodie with the hood up over his head,
looking very very out of place, also in the middle
of the crowd, looking very angry, like he didn't want
to be there. He didn't like this, he resented this,
and whenever he would look at anybody or talk to him,
it was always with an angry look. And he they said,

(02:44):
some people he went around said, are you famous? Are
you famous? So he just, you know, for a kid
with all kinds of mental problems to be in a
very agitated state and to be in this room was
a little bizarre. And then at some point he got
into a fight with his father and just freaked out
completely and starts yelling and screaming, and the father starts

(03:07):
yelling and screaming back. And this is in the middle
of the party. I mean, it was a very loud,
screaming argument that went on for a long time, freaking
out everybody else in the party. So at some point
the kid left, and then Rob Reiner and his wife,
realizing they had totally ruined the party and upset everybody,

(03:28):
they left as well. Now we now know that the
kid left the party and did something. For a few hours.
He was living, apparently in a guest house on the
Rob Reiner estate. On the compound. There's a guest house.
He was living there, but he may have gone back
there to get some things, but he didn't stay there. Instead,

(03:50):
later that night, in the middle of the night, actually
about four in the morning, he checked into a motel
in Santa Monica. So he left bread went to Santa Monica.
Checked into this hotel at about four in the morning.
The staff thought that he looked a little well, let's
just say, wound up a little nutty. But you know

(04:12):
who checks into a Hollywood hotel at four in the morning,
but a nutty looking guy in a hoodie. So he
checked in and then it was the next day. He
was still probably all crazed over the fight whatever that was.
The next day, went back to Rob Reiner's house, had
an extremely loud argument. The daughter could hear it from

(04:32):
she was also living in another guesthouse on the property.
She could hear the argument and it went on for
a while, and then I guess it stopped, and that's
why she decided to go check on her parents and
she found them dead. Imagine the daughter goes in and
finds them dead, their throat slit, blood everywhere, was just awful.

(04:55):
She immediately calls the police. And then I didn't realize
that really, really, the family was really close to Billy
Crystal and his wife. So as soon as she calls
the police and hangs up, she then immediately calls Billy
Crystal and tells him what's happened. He and his wife
jump in the car and race over to Rob Reiner's

(05:16):
house and get there about the same time as the police.
So they came in as the police are getting there.
So Billy Crystal and his wife as they come in,
see the bodies on the floor, the throat slit, the blood,
every it must have been just horrifying. And that's why
reporters said when they saw Billy Crystal come out of
the house, he and his wife were very shaken up.

(05:37):
We're crying and so imagine this is your close friend.
You see the bodies like that. So the police are there,
a huge response from the police department. And then she,
the daughter, tells them, you got to look at the sun.
He's crazy. He's got a history of violent, crazy behavior,
and they've had a big fight. I heard fighting something.
She tells them to look for him. They go look

(05:58):
for him. It took a while to find him. They
finally released the pictures of them arresting him. I think
he was at a train station or a bus station.
They find him, arrest him. You can see a picture
of him being thrown to the ground and handcuffed and
then pushed up against the car frisked, I guess, and
then they throw him in the car. He's a troubled kid.
He's been in rehab over seventeen times since the age

(06:22):
of fifteen. They've talked before about whether or not he
was a danger, and you know, experts will tell you
that these kind of situations, the family never fully understands
the danger. They always underestimate the violent danger of the kid.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
This doesn't just start the day before yesterday, So there
was ongoing issues between them. And when I've seen cases
like this in the past, oftentimes the family underestimates the
potential of their loved one in terms of what they
could do to them. But I think we're going to
see the patterns begin to come to the surface over time,

(07:06):
because that is a lot of anger.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
That's a lot of rage.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
It doesn't just start on the night of the attack.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
So the police find out the kid, Nick Reiner, was
in a hotel room. They go to the hotel and
they find the hotel room is got blood everywhere. There's
blood on the sheets, There's blood everywhere in this hotel room.
And he had taken some sheets and put them up
over the window to cover the windows, and then there's
blood all over the hotel room. Now, what could you

(07:32):
be doing in there that would cause all this blood?
And he might say, well, when he was stabbing his
mother and father, he might have gotten blood all over him,
but when he checked in, they didn't see blood all
over him. So who knows what he did in that
room to cause all that blood to be everywhere. The
kid obviously completely psycho, just literally just a raging maniac.

(07:55):
So he's under arrest, he's in custody, he's on suicide
watch right now. Believe he's suicidal. He's being held in isolation.
He's now being Originally there was bail, he's now being
held without bail. There is no bail, and he's on
suicide watch. Rob Reiner, the friend's family, they say they

(08:16):
family did everything they could for this kid. The problem is,
I don't think they fully understood how dangerous the situation
was and that they probably had to have this kid
committed in some kind of mental institution. But when you're
wealthy in hollywoodish, you know, sometimes you're you're not really
very realistic about things. And to let this kid live,

(08:39):
you know, in your guest house and let them just
be free in but somebody should have realized this kid
needed to be committed. I mean, obviously now we know
he needed to be committed. So but they said they
spared no expense in trying to rehabilitate them countless facilities.
But you know, sometimes these these are these Hollywood rehabs.

(09:01):
Then aren't that great? You know, you see everybody that
goes to these Hollywood rehab centers, every Charlie Sheen type.
Have you ever seen anybody actually cured? Not really, not
a lot. So it's just a horrible situation. Now, Rob Reiner,
he was great and all in the family. You know,
you got back check out my Twitter. There's some clips

(09:21):
up there, but you can see there were moments of
really great acting there. Then he goes on to be
a director. I think Spinal Tap was first, but when
you look back on his history as a director, producer
making films, it's an incredible career. He was just brilliant
at it, brilliant at it. Misery a few good men.

(09:42):
When Harry met Sally, I mean he was incredible a
director and producer, great, great talent, and you got to
give him credit. For Seinfeld, it was his company castle Rock,
which you named it after a town in Maine. Castle
Rock produced signed and nobody remembers this. But Seinfeld didn't

(10:03):
do very well the first couple of years, and after
the first year, NBC was going to cancel it, and
Jerry Seinfeld said, he owes everything to Rob Reiner. Rob
Reiner went to NBC and yelled and screamed and cried
and pleaded and begged for them to give Seinfeld another season,
give it another chance. It'll come together, and it worked.

(10:23):
He kept it on the air. They were going to
cancel it the first season, second season they were going
to cancel it. It was Rob Reiner that went and fought
and screamed, apparently gotten a huge screaming fights with NBC
president Brandon Tartakoff, and he kept Seinfeld on the air.
And Seinfeld yesterday said, if it wasn't for Rob Reiner,
it wouldn't have happened. Seinfeld wouldn't have happened. Now he

(10:45):
turned out to be right. Seinfeld went on to be
the biggest show in television for seven eight years. It
went on to be the biggest show in syndication, making
over a billion dollars. Everybody made a fortune, and one
of the guys that made some of that money was
Steve Bannon. Believe it or not, an unknown Steve Bannon
at the time, who had come from Goldman Sachs, was

(11:06):
one of the investors in Castle Rock, and then when
they sold Castle Rock, he advised people to keep a
percentage of the show, and they gave him a percentage.
So to this day, Steve Bannon makes a lot of
money in payments off the syndication of Seinfeld, which always
upset the hell out of Rob Reiner. Drove nuts that

(11:30):
Bannon was profiting from this. There are other people. James
Woods was on TV last night talking about how when
his career was over, he was finished, it was Rob
Reiner that believed in him gave him a part in
the movie. Studio said absolutely not, that guy's washed up. Again.
Rob Reiner went and fought for him, got him the part,
and he ended up getting an Academy Award nomination for it. So,

(11:52):
I mean Rob Reiner's father was the same way. You know,
the Dick Van Dyke Show was canceled after the first year.
At that time it was the greatest went on to
be the greatest sitcom of the early sixties, but it
was canceled after the first year. Carl Reiner got on
a plane flew to Ohio to meet with the sponsor.
It wasn't Johnson and Johnson, one of the big big

(12:15):
companies was the sponsor. He went and saw them, burst
into their office, yelled and screamed, begged and pleaded, and
somehow convinced him to just give it one more season,
and sure enough it went on to become huge. So
Rob Reiner must have remembered all that did the same
thing for Seinfeld. And if you watch the Dick Van
Dyke Show, it's about the comedy writer of the big

(12:37):
variety TV show who lives in Newest Shell and he's
got a son. Well, that was Rob Reiner. Carl Reiner
wrote that show based on his real life, and that
was Rob Reiner. Grew up in the same kind of
house with the Rob Petrie and Newest Schell at that time.
His father was actually Carl Reiner and he was writing
for Sid Caesar. But it's an amazing story Now, this

(13:02):
is a horrible tragedy, the most awful tragedy imaginable. And
then President Trump tweets out I don't have in front
of me, but he just said Rob Reiner was a deranged,
you know, maniac with Trump derangement syndrome. He was spewing
hatred all the time.

Speaker 5 (13:20):
You know.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
He said basically something about the hateful energy they put out,
the hate, the rage must have infected other people around him. Now,
you're not supposed to do that in a tragedy like this.
You're the president of the United States. You're supposed to
be very, very very gracious. But that's not Donald Trump. Now,

(13:41):
if for me, I would have been gracious about it,
or I would have just let it go, not say it.
But that's not Donald Trump. So it upset a lot
of people that he attacked Rob Reiner in death. But yeah,
of course, all the Hollywood people tweeting furiously all night
about how Trump is obviously and this is one of them,

(14:02):
said the twenty fifth Amendment. CNN, MSNBC and even Fox
Fox News panels, you know, totally denounced Trump for doing that.
And they're right, they're not wrong. I mean, Fox is
a classic place they would never do anything like that.
I would never do anything like that. But that's Donald Trump.
That's what he does. That's what he's always done, that's
what he'll continue to do. For a number of reasons. One,

(14:24):
he has absolutely no filter. He will always say what
he really thinks. Now, if you do that in this situation, boy,
it's gonna be the You're gonna get bombarded. But he
also loves to be the lead story of the day.
And with this Rob Reiner stuff, you know, nobody would
think of him. It would just all be about Robert.

(14:46):
So he puts himself right back on top of the
of the news. That's one reason he does it. Again,
it's not right to do it. I wouldn't do it,
but I understand why he does it. And you know,
you can't say, hey, don't do this, don't do that.
The guy's the most successful guy in the world. Who's
to tell him what to do? And I've seen this before.

(15:06):
You know, a lot of Trump is based on Frank Sinatra.
He was a big studier of Frank Sinatra. I used
to talk to him about this years ago. Sinatra techniques, methods,
the way that was Sinatra. Soho had no filter, he
would and he Sinatra was in the same situation. Earlier
in his career. There was a guy named Lee Mortimer.

(15:27):
He was the biggest columnist and he wrote the most
vicious things about Frank Sinatra. Vicious. He tried to tie
him to the mob. That's where actually all that mafia
stuff started from Lee Mortimer's columns. He tried to get
the guy just, you know, just totally disavowed by Holly.
I mean, nobody went after more than this columnist Lee Mortimer.
Sinatra SAWMWZ in the restaurant, punched him right in the

(15:49):
face and was put on trial. He was actually convicted
of assault, but Sinatra was so powerful that he managed
to avoid jail. Instead, he had to pay a fifteen
thousand dollars fine, which was a fortune back then, and
for the rest of his life, Sinatra carried in his
pocket a certified check for fifteen thousand dollars. He said,

(16:11):
if I ever see that guy, I'm gonna punch him
again and hand him the check. But years later, Lee
Mortimer died and he was a big columnist in America.
Said there was a huge funeral, and Sinatra didn't go
to the funeral. But later that night, at about two
in the morning, he brought a lot of friends to

(16:31):
the cemetery in the dark, in the middle of the night.
He wanted them to watch as he pissed on the
grave of Lee Mortimer. So that's Trump, that's Sinatra. There's
a lot of similarities. They just there was nothing phony
in these guys. They just couldn't do it. Hey, we'll
take some calls. Next eight hundred three to two one
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(16:53):
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Speaker 1 (16:56):
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Now back to the Mark Simon show on WOR.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Mara in Nevada. Mara,
how you doing so good?

Speaker 6 (17:16):
Up talking to you, Chad, Vincent, Mark I coulte to
wish you a wonderful vacation. Thanks, Merry Christmas, and I
hope you have a fun New Year's Eve. Thank you
very much for another year of putting a smile on
my face and bringing Vincent into my life.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Oh well, thank you for listening. Thank you for being
our number one fan in Nevada.

Speaker 7 (17:40):
There.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Thanks for everything. Let's go to Vic and Pennsylvania. Vick,
how you doing. I'm doing fine, Mark, Mark.

Speaker 8 (17:47):
You know, Trump should have said, do you attack that Rob.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
Ryan did on Rush Limbaugh when he was when he
gave him the Medal of Freedom and with jam and
the day after he died. It's verifiable. It's really terrible
the things.

Speaker 9 (18:05):
That he said.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
Yeah, that's a good point. Actually, if you go to
my Twitter, there's a little montage up there of the vile, disgusting, ugly,
horrifying hatefield things Rob Reiner used to post on Twitter,
hundreds and hundreds of them. It was really ugly hatefield stuff. Now,
if you're the president, you're not supposed to say bad

(18:27):
things in a tragedy like this. But if the guy
wrote the most ugly, vicious, awful stuff about you day
and night for years, you know, and for all the
people who say I could talk about Donald Trump say that,
how could he post that? While when Donald Trump said,
well where were you? And Rob Reiner was doing it
every second, all day and night. Let's go to Grace

(18:47):
in Rockland County. Grace, how you doing.

Speaker 10 (18:50):
I'm doing excellently, Mark. That monologue was wonderful. It was
so entertaining and I learned so much.

Speaker 8 (18:58):
Thank you.

Speaker 10 (18:58):
That's why you're such a radio personality.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Oh thanks. Thoughts about stabbing and death and throat slit,
I wouldn't call that entertaining.

Speaker 10 (19:06):
No, what you said about Sinatra and the come on
it was excellent. I learned so much. Listen. But as
far as Trump, okay, they can hold up a seven head.
They could wish him dead. Two people could have tried
to shoot him. You know the double standard we are.
We have crossed the line unfortunately to cibility. And I

(19:31):
don't care that president is right. If you're giving a punch,
you have to be willing to take it.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
All right, that's a good way to put it. Let's
go to Jerry and Greenwich. Jerry, how you doing.

Speaker 8 (19:42):
I'm very well. Thank you, Mark, thank you for taking
my cough. I would like to know why Fox puts
all ways just my crodcast on the television, then making
her a household name.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
I mean that every news out let's do it. It's news.
They cut news.

Speaker 11 (20:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
But also she's kind of stupid and goofy and silly.
It's fun to talk about her. It makes the Democrats
look bad too. To have this.

Speaker 8 (20:10):
I know that they tried to talk a bed about her,
but you know it's such they make another household name.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Well, you know one thing about that Fox News, it's
number one. It gets more viewers than MSNBC, CNN, Calbert Kimmel,
everybody combined. It's very successful. So I think they know
what they're doing. I think whatever the formula is, it's working.
Let's go to Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing.

Speaker 9 (20:34):
Good morning mal Good morning Mara. Unfortunately, at the expense
of his parents' lives, this kid, Nick will finally get straight. Unfortunately,
during the course of my life, I've known a lot
of junkies who will like Nick. Look at Twainne Dolbman.
How many times excuse me, Greg Albman, how many times

(20:56):
was he in rehab? I think seventeen times and seventeen times.
Failed junkies like this kid. That's the only way they
get straight. This kid is going to be in prison
for the rest of his life for a mental institution now. Unfortunately, uh,
fortunately for him and unfortunately for his parents, he'll get straight.

(21:18):
I've known a lot of people like that. I knew
a woman who used to beg the cops to arrest
her son. He was such a degenerate junkie. That being said, Mark,
I have to say, and Trump's should have been above
the fray. He should have just just said, my condolences
go out to the family. I don't care whether it's

(21:39):
filter or no filter, Sinatra or not Sinatra. In my opinion,
that's low rent exactly.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
Of course, of course your low rent. Of course you said,
of course, but it's ten years now. You got to
remember going to be above the fray.

Speaker 9 (21:54):
It's not gonna We understand, we understand what Rob Branan did,
but this is your talking about a kid, a father
and a mother that just got That's all I want
to say to.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
Me, mother, be honest, though your worst enemy ever in
the world, the guy that did Morris said more horrible things,
the worst enemy. He's dead. Somebody tells you, don't you
say good, I'm glad he did something.

Speaker 9 (22:19):
No, you don't. As a Catholic, and I haven't been.
My mother would always would say, show you above the fray.
Show you not, as we say in Italian cafe, Franks
are not for doing what he did. That was also,
in my opinion, that was a low red no you're right.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Of course you're right. But some guys don't want to
be above the fray. They want to be the fray.

Speaker 9 (22:44):
They when he did that, how many of this detractors said,
you see, I told you. That's all I want to say.
Thanks Fox, All.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
Right, Vincent, of course you're right, Thanks for calling.

Speaker 9 (22:56):
Hey.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
When we come back, Rhnda Sheer will be with us now.
I'm sure she knew Rob Reiner in all her Hollywood years.
We'll ask her about that and a lot of other stuff.
Bill O'Reilly not here today. He'll be here tomorrow. He
had a switch day, so he'll be here tomorrow. But
we'll get to Rnda shere next on seven ten wr.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Mark Simone wr.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Well, rondare you know she's back with the up all night?
It's better than ever. And of course, Ronda Shere the
fashion queen, fashion Empire. You go to Rhondasheer dot com
and of course follow her on Instagram and the Twitter
and all of that. Rhonda Shear, how you doing?

Speaker 12 (23:34):
I am disturbed, but I'm I'm really fine. I'm taking
a little winter vacation in North Carolina right now, in
the mountains, so away from the crazy. But I do
have to talk to you about this whole murder.

Speaker 4 (23:49):
It's horrible.

Speaker 12 (23:51):
I I really feel like you can't fix a child
like that. And I wonder if a lot of times
that Rob Reiner's just rapped and the Trump talk was
his own distraction away from the mental illness and the
problems that that child had from the time he was
a child. Because you know, they threw a lot of
money at it, obviously, and they do what Hollywood people

(24:13):
do and put him in rehab.

Speaker 4 (24:14):
There's no fixing him.

Speaker 12 (24:15):
If you looked at him in the many, many interviews
that he had with his dad, especially when they were
promoting the film Charlie, his eyes darting around, and the
way he looked at his father with disdain. I mean,
I think that he was very, very jealous of his dad.
He couldn't live up, you know, to his siblings and

(24:38):
or his father's success.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
Well, a lot of that happens and the Hollywood.

Speaker 12 (24:41):
You've heard a lot of these kids even committing suicide
that couldn't live up to their parents' fame. And I
think that he totally, you know, couldn't live up to it.
Turned to drugs at a very very young age, and
addictive personality. The thing is that parents, and I've had
this discussion with so many people, you know, I do
a podcast and parents, you know, they see it, but

(25:02):
they don't want to put their kid away. And yeah,
he should have been in a mental institution if they
have any of those anymore, but who's going to admit that.
So they feel like if they kept him close, brought
him to the parties, that's why he was at that
party in a hoodie and bringing him there. They want
him close, they know they want him close and nearby,
and that that family was a very close knit family.

(25:22):
But he was very damaged, very damaged, and probably very violent.

Speaker 4 (25:27):
I have a little bit of that.

Speaker 12 (25:28):
Actually have somebody in my own family, not violent, but
similar kind of story that still lives with you know.
Actually my brother's son in his forties still lives at
home and has you know, just been very damaged and
there's no fixing it. It's very sad and what do
you do now? Because he is or those people can
not only hurt themselves and or hurt others. But these

(25:50):
are the people we read about later on the commit
mass murders and shootings or what have you. But this
is just you know, beyond tragedy. And I looked up
because the curiosity in terms of who the murders of
all the murders of the past in Hollywood, just in murders,
there's no doubt Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle are
the most famous, most iconic of all. I mean, yes,

(26:12):
there was you know, Sharon Kate, you know, going back,
there was a you know, different murders of the years,
but nobody of this. This is this is beyond shocking.
And we're going to hear about this for a long
long time. But will it change anything with these kids,
especially kids of Hollywood, not especially, but it should shine
a be light on it, and it won't.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
Yeah, but friends of the family say either were They
don't want to describe it or talk about it, but
they said they were earlier violent incidents.

Speaker 12 (26:38):
So yeah, well yes all the way. Since I mean
I was reading about the yoga instruction. My mom had
him as a child, going to yoga and she would
teach them acrobatics and and but she could tell even
as a child.

Speaker 4 (26:51):
I mean, let's face it, mental illness.

Speaker 12 (26:53):
You know, you can be born with mental illness, you know,
And and then how it Manifes asked of course, then
taking drugs and he was drugged up on he admittedly
on cocaine and heroin, and he had violent incidents at
the house where he he crashed his hand for.

Speaker 4 (27:09):
A TV set.

Speaker 12 (27:10):
I mean, who and didn't even remember it. So it
is curious you brought up the timeline about the hotel
and I had read that, but I thought that was
before the murders. But they say he checked into the
hotel before the murders. So where was the blood? Was
he trying to self harm himself that law come out?

Speaker 2 (27:26):
Oh yeah, yeah, no, it was. It was the night
of the party. It was before the.

Speaker 12 (27:29):
Murder, the night of the party. So was he trying
to slit his own resks?

Speaker 4 (27:32):
He probably?

Speaker 12 (27:32):
I mean, you can't be and you can't We can't
be rationalized or rationalize it because we can't think like him,
because there is no rationalizing, especially if he did end
up during drugs that night and at the party. I'm sure,
I'm sure that went on. They say it went on
in the sets. And Rob Ronner and his wife were loving, loving,
loving people in terms of family.

Speaker 4 (27:52):
I'm not talking about the politics.

Speaker 12 (27:54):
I know about all the politics, but you know they
were loving, kept their kids really close, were great parents.

Speaker 4 (28:00):
But what do you do with a son that you
know or.

Speaker 12 (28:02):
Daughter or a child that you know his issues, but
you don't want to believe that he could kill anyone
of her himself. And that's why they had him living
there probably or kill you, you know. I mean it
is it is just very eye opening and and it.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
Is partially what's going on.

Speaker 12 (28:19):
The drugs have gotten stronger, the video games have gotten
you know, crazier and more violence. I think these kids,
these mass shootings, think they're acting out on video games,
you know, Charlie Christ shooter. I really it's just I know,
I'm more serious today, but very deeply disturbed.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
I did not know Rob Reiner. I knew everybody around.

Speaker 12 (28:39):
I worked with Teddy Marshall, I worked with all those people.

Speaker 4 (28:41):
I knew his dad.

Speaker 12 (28:42):
I mean not well, but I you know, my early
sitcom stints out in LA like Happy Days, that was
a whole group normally, you know, normally all those people
were really close friends, but it never actually met.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
I used to talk to Rob Reiner a lot. Will
you always talk about old comedians and old show business? Yeah,
it's amazing, very warm, warm, yes. Love. So how does
the guy that's sweet, that warm. How does it become
such a crazy, hate filled you know when it comes
to politics. How does that work?

Speaker 12 (29:12):
Well, I can tell you I have one in my
own family.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
So you talked about this.

Speaker 12 (29:17):
We all came from the same family for siblings, and
I have an older brother who writes me the most
vitriolic words that you can't even I mean tearing, like
gut wrenching, knife turning words about me and my husband.
And then my husband turned me into you know, a
Republican and a trunk fan.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
I mean just but that's.

Speaker 12 (29:35):
Nothing I mean, but the words that come out of
his mouth. And we were my family, oh my gosh,
the most loving, loving family. And I also think though
my brother's the one who has the son who's got problems?
Is it or was it a distraction for Rob Reiner
to then turn to politics to kind of like not,

(29:56):
I mean, you can't what do you do with that son?
It's almost his own distraction, Like they were saying, is
it a disraction that Trump was, you know, came out
with this Twitter because of all the other stuff that
he's going on.

Speaker 4 (30:06):
You don't know. We don't know, because we think like
rational people.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
You and I you know, Rob Ryder did a lot
of political work for many many years, did good work
for you know, money for kids programs, and he worked
with the governor and very fine political work.

Speaker 12 (30:20):
But he also took off for the whole Charlie Christing,
he I mean I read about that.

Speaker 4 (30:24):
He was Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 11 (30:26):
I'm so sorry.

Speaker 12 (30:27):
I'm so sorry I got to get I'm thinking of
Florida politics right now, So sorry about that. But yeah,
I'm so disturbed today I can't think. But yes, Charlie
Kirk that he took up that and and was like
very spoke about Erica and how she forgave the killer,
you know, because he's just a very forgiven person. So
he did not put it down when it came to that,

(30:47):
when it came to murder, or when it came to family,
he put the politics beside.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
He did have that other side.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
Well, how come when he talked about Trump he would
go into such a rage.

Speaker 12 (30:58):
Because I'm telling you, my own brother were born in
the same household, had the same parents.

Speaker 4 (31:02):
Why does my brother like that.

Speaker 12 (31:03):
I'm sure all of us know people that at some
point were very rational. Well, if I send you one
email from my brother you'd go, oh m rage and
by the way, all the time, all the time. I
finally need to block them from everything. But he does
have a son who is disturbed. I have a nephew
that lives at home in his forties. No, I mean
I laugh about it because but it's very very it's

(31:23):
creepy because you're like, how do we how are we
raised in the same household, have the same parents, and
where does this vitriolic these words, these incredible language come from.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
I mean, like just trying to take I mean, it's
like hard to believe. But I just think we've.

Speaker 12 (31:38):
Seen a lot of that on social media, that people
feel like they can hide behind words now and not
acted out where we just saw it acted out in
real time.

Speaker 4 (31:45):
It's just very horrible.

Speaker 12 (31:47):
I didn't mean to bring this up, but I have
to talk about it because it is like shocking and beyond.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
I hate to say that we're out of time already.
It went by really fast, but tell us what.

Speaker 12 (31:55):
Okay, but you do have to watch on a much
higher note, your note and a comedy note. My Christmas
special of All Night is going to be December the
twentieth on kingsof Horror dot com.

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Speaker 12 (32:10):
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I will let you know about that very soon after
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in such a short time.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
And thank you.

Speaker 12 (32:21):
You're one of the reasons that's happened for letting all
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Speaker 2 (32:24):
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But if you go to Rondashear Up All Night dot com,
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Speaker 2 (33:06):
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Speaker 1 (33:26):
On seven ten wr he it's more of the Marksimo show.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Well, a lot going on. So Nick Reiner, son of
Rob Reiner, should be in court for his first court
appearance later today. We'll see what happens there. There were
other people at that party the night before the Conan
O'Brien Christmas party. Jane Fonda was there and she tweets
Rob and Michelle Reiner were wonderful, caring, smart, funny, generous people,

(33:57):
always coming up with ideas for how to make the
world better kinder. Now that brings us back to the
question again. I talked to Rob Ryner a many many times.
He was a warm, fun sweet guy. So why when
it came to the Trump derangement syndrome was he so vicious?

(34:18):
If you look at my Twitter, there's a montage of
his tweets. I mean, they weren't just I don't like Trump,
I disagree with him on this. I don't think he's
right about this, or I hate when Trump does. They
were vicious the F word, cursing and screaming, calling him
an f and rapist of this, I mean, just the worst,
hate filled And it's not just him. Many of these people,

(34:42):
many Hollywood types that you know and love, and they're
lovable and sweet, and then when they get on the
subject of Trump, they become these raging, angry, vicious people.
What is it about Trump that does that? I mean,
we didn't like Joe Biden so much, but you didn't
get a rage about it. And he said, you know,

(35:02):
he made fun of Biden bumping into walls and the
way he talked, and you hated his policy on the border,
and he didn't like Biden's law fare. But you know,
I didn't stay up all night raging about it. We
didn't get into a There wasn't smoke coming out of
your ears, phone coming out of your mouth in a
mad rage talking about him. We just didn't like that guy.

(35:24):
But and again Rob Ryan is a good example of
a very sweet, warm guy. Why how did he get
himself into such a rage about Trump? It's not just politics,
As I was saying before he did a lot of
great work in politics. For many years before that, he
was working on programs for kids and children in trouble,

(35:47):
and he worked with the governor of California, not Newsome,
whoever it was back then, and the governor was so
impressed with his work he put him in the head
of a committee and a commission. And Rob Ryner would
flow to a Sacramento to meet with the governor every
month and did excellent work of political work. You know,
whether he agreed with her or not, but he was

(36:08):
very reasonable guy who talked reasonably. That had he'd run
the committee and commission meetings. But when it came to Trump,
a raging maniac about it. I don't know what that's
just him again. You see this all over. Check out
some of your favorite stars on Facebook or Twitter or
they're like nuts when they talk about Trump. I don't know.

(36:33):
He just sets them off, and I don't nobody's ever
been able to really explain it. Now. Susie Wilds is
the chief of staff in the White House. She's been excellent,
best person Trump has had around him. She's been in
politics for a long time. She worked for DeSantis. She
worked in the Reagan administration back then she was Susie

(36:56):
Summer all her father was Pat Summer. All Susie Great.
And she stays behind the scenes, she stays under the radar.
She's not looking for any attention or publicity. But she
did this big interview with Vanity Fair where she sat
down with this big Vanity Fair writer for like eleven
hours and eleven different sessions. I don't know why. Now,

(37:18):
the guy does have a history of covering chiefs of
staff and has written extensively about them. But on the
other hand, the guy's a big Trump hater. It's Vanity Fair.
He's a you know, left wing Trump arrangement syndrome type.
I don't know why she sent down with him, but
she did, and a big, long interview has come out.

(37:38):
There's stuff in there that people are a little surprised by.
It just seemed like things she wouldn't want to say publicly.
She said, you know, she's talking about JD. Vance. She said, wow,
he was always a conspiracy theorist. And she's talking about revenge,
you know, law Fair. And I've tried to get Trump
to stop the law Fair, to stop the revenge, stop

(38:00):
going after his enemies. And I tried to study, you know,
why would you say this to Vanity Fair. Then at
one point she said, he's got an alcoholic personality in
that like an alcoholic when they're in that stage, they
think they can do anything. They believe they could get
away with anything, do anything. I mean, I don't know

(38:24):
why she would say this stuff. Now it wasn't an
off the record interview, or maybe it wasn't. The guy
violated it, but she hasn't said that. At one point
she denied one of these comments. She said, well, I
didn't actually say that, and then the guy produced a
tape of her saying, Now, what's made it even worse?
If you read the Vanity Fair lengthy article, most of it,

(38:45):
although some of it's negative, it's quite thoughtful and negative.
But the problem is, I guess they gave it to
the New York Times to write an article about the
Vanity Fair interview, and the New York Times guy when
he wrote it, because it's the New York Times, completely distorted.
He took quotes out of context, and he made everything
sound fifty times worse than it actually was in the interview.

(39:07):
But the problem is most people don't read Vanity Fair.
You got to have a subscription and pay for it.
Most people, most of the world does not read Vanity Fair.
Very few people actually do. A lot of people read
the New York Times, so more people will just read
the New York Times summary of the interview, and it's
really taken out of context, slanted, bias, distorted. So that's

(39:29):
going to make it sound even worse. I mean, President
Trump won't like it when he reads it, but somebody
will have printed out the Vanity Fair article, the actual article,
and handed it to him. He'll see that it looks
a little better there. What else does she saying there?
She said he didn't know Gallaine Maxwell got moved to
a nicer prison and he wasn't happy about it. Well,

(39:52):
I mean, if he was that unhappy, he could have
moved her back. But it's just not stuff you say,
especially if you're Susie Wils who's an old Washington hand
who knows how things work. Yeah, it's one thing that
was Remember Anthony Scaramucci got himself in trouble. I don't
know why, but he started talking to The New York Times.
He thought it was off the record. He said awful
things and well, oh, actually what happened was he said

(40:14):
all this awful stuff. And then at the end of
the call he said, by the way, this is off
the record. Well he was an amateur at this, you know,
coming to Washington working in the White House politics, total amateur.
So he didn't know how things worked. He didn't know
that you can't say at the end of the call
it's off the record. You have to get that set

(40:35):
before you start talking. That has to be done at
the beginning. So he didn't realize. And at the end
he said, this is off the record, Well it's too late.
Then he didn't know that, so and then it got
him fired. He was I think they set the all
time record for shortest employment in the White House. It
was like a couple of days. And as they said,

(40:55):
he got fired before the first direct deposit even got
to his bank account for getting paid. Hey, Chuck Schumer
has become the most annoying guy in the world. There's
this video that's gone viral from the weekend where he's
talked what was he talking about. He was talking about

(41:16):
the brown shooting or the terrible tragedy in Australia, and
he was just awful about it, so tone deaf and weird.
He's just a cheap, fake, pandering politician. So he wants
to address the terrible tragedy. But listen to this guy,
Listen to this. This is just how bad he's become.

Speaker 13 (41:38):
Listen, of course, I'm going to say a few words
about the terrible shooting in Sydney, Australia. Okay, So in first,
of course, as I always say, no matter what, go Bills.
They beat the Patriots today, it's a big deal.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
Everybody thought that was just awful. He's supposed to be
addressing this terrible shooting, this massacre in Austria. Bit before that,
let's go Bill start talking about a football game, and
everybody knows this guy's not a football fan. This guy's
never watched a football game in his life. He just
needs Upstate voters, so he's pandering. He has no interest
in the in the Buffalo Bills, and then he had

(42:14):
the nerve to say this yesterday. He's just the phoniest
guy in the world.

Speaker 13 (42:18):
Listening to this and this tragedy in Sydney shows the
abject danger of letting anti Semitic propaganda, rhetoric and action
go unchecked.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
He's the guy that did that. He's the king of that.
You remember when Jewish students were being terrorized at Columbia
University physically and mentally, the Jewish students living in fear
being terrorized. Remember, the anti Semiti were margin all over
the campus. Schumer went and hid, never said a word.
In fact, people were yelling and screaming publicly, where's Chuck Schumer?

(42:54):
Why doesn't he do something? He never did, never did
anything the whole time that went on for six months,
the horrors of anti Semitism all over New York, at NYU,
at Columbia, everywhere. Schumer ran and hid, just didn't do
a damned thing about it. So for him to have
the nerve to say this.

Speaker 13 (43:12):
And this tragedy in Sydney shows the abject danger of
letting anti Semitic propaganda, rhetoric and action go unchecked.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
Well, Schumer's the king of doing that. Nobody did it
more than Schumer. So the gall of this guy is
just unbelievable. Uh oh, Howard Stern contract is up. It's
up tomorrow. That's the end of the Howard Stern contract.
You know, he had five year contracts, one after the
other with Sirius. When he left Terrestrial Radio went over

(43:45):
to Sirius, it was for a massive, crazy amount of money.
What was it hundred million a year? It was one
hundred million a year I think. And then over the
years his audience dwindled a little. They didn't quite need
him as much anymore, and there was a period of
was it five years ago or ten years they decided
to cut him back from one hundred to like fifty

(44:06):
million a year. So the compromise was instead of five
days a week, he would do three days a week
and he would get a lot more vacation. So they
cut him to fifty million. The contracts up. They don't
really need him anymore. He had a lot of listeners
in the beginning, but when he went totally woke, crazy
trumped arrangement syndrome, he lost an enormous amount of his

(44:27):
audience and very very very big loss of audience. So
the subscribers are just a fraction of what they were.
So they really don't want to pay him all that
money anymore. So there was a massive pay cut coming
or just get rid of them all together. Well, they've
been in talks and they reached an agreement over the weekend.
Howard Stern will stay. Now he's being very fuzzy about

(44:52):
how he's staying. He just said, signed a new contract
and I've decided to stay another three years. And he
said I was able to win it all, get it all,
get everything I want. And then he kept talking about
free time, how free time is the most valuable thing
he wants his free time. He said, I've worked all
my life. I need me time, free time to do

(45:14):
what I want. Well, it's a three year contract, which
is less than five years. When they cut the length
of the contract down, that's a lack of confidence. Now,
the most insulting thing you can get in broadcasting is
a one year contract. They didn't do that to him,
and he knows that's too insulting, that would be humiliating.
So he got a three year contract. They wouldn't give

(45:35):
him a five year deal. They got a three year deal.
And nobody knows the details. Some are speculating he's going
to work one day a week, that he's taken a
massive pay cut, and so in exchange for that, it'll
be something like one day a week or something like that.
He already in the last contract when he took the
huge pay cut, went to some ridiculous amount of vacation time,

(45:56):
it's like thirty weeks of vacation a year, so this
will probably be like one day, two days a week,
very few weeks a year. They have the right to
all his old shows. He's got a ton of old shows.
I think they have the rights to him for the
next twelve years, so they'll still be a stern channel,
but it'll be very few live shows. The details again,

(46:17):
the fact that he's not explaining the details means they're
not impressive to him. So we'll see. Hey, the healthcare
situation got to do something. Healthcare costs are scheduled to
just explode, increase. Everybody'll paying a lot more for healthcare.
It's because of Obamacare. Turned out not to work. The

(46:39):
whole idea of Obamacare was a disaster for two reasons. One,
if you have the government take over a business, it's
going to cost a lot more money because government is
all bloat, waste, fraud. So if the private sector were
running healthcare, they would streamline it get the cost down.
If you put it all into government running, it cost
go way up. The other problem was the idea of

(47:00):
Obamacare was you'd force or you'd force everybody on it. Now,
older people use a lot of health care. They got
all kinds of serious medical things that costs a fortune,
So the insurance compans got to pay a fortune for
these older people. But the idea was you get all
the younger people. People in the twenties thirties, they never

(47:21):
get any healthcare, they don't need anything, so they're paying
in and taking nothing out. So all the money they're
paying in will pay for the old people who were
taking money out. Well, that idea of forcing everybody on
it didn't pass. They couldn't get that through, so the
younger people are not forced to be on it. And
younger people twenties thirties, they don't need health care coverage.

(47:41):
They don't ever have any big healthcare needs, so they
weren't buying Obamacare. They didn't buy it, they rejected it.
So all you had were the older people taking money out.
You didn't have the younger people putting money in, so
the whole thing fell apart. That's why they're talking about subsidies.
You know. It was called the Affordable Care Act, but
it got so out of control that nobody could afford it,
so you had to have subsidies to pay for it. Obviously,

(48:04):
it was affordable you wouldn't need the subsidies. So Democrats
would like to just keep the subsidies, keep the taxpayers
funding it. But Trump, and he's probably right about this,
is you got to redo this whole thing. You got
to get the government out of it. You got to
make it efficient and make it work, so make the
cost not astronomical. Then you got the crazy Democrats, the

(48:27):
Hakeem Jeffreys.

Speaker 14 (48:28):
All we need are four House Republicans to join us.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
They're two hundred and twenty of them.

Speaker 14 (48:35):
All we need are four, and we can extend the
Affordable Care ACTAX credits in a straightforward fashion.

Speaker 9 (48:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:43):
Now, Democrats don't mind big bloated government programs. You know,
Republicans too. Most of these Republicans just as bad as
the Democrats. They like these big bloated government programs. Why
because big bloated government programs. Why that means contracts. To
hand out massive contracts. You hand it out the donors
to people you want to have become donors. You can

(49:04):
make a lot of money for your campaign and for
your packs with these contracts. So that's why they like it. Hey,
I saw Bruce Blakeman yesterday. He got a very good
chance to be the next governor of New York. He's
the perfect choice to be the next governor of New York.
News Max had a great Christmas party yesterday. Bruce Blakeman
came later in the party and everybody applauding him. They

(49:28):
love this Guy's gonna do very well in the governor's
race January, which is January twelfth, I think it is
a few weeks from now. He gets inaugurated again's second
term as county executive. Now. President Trump likes Elise Stefonic
and he loves Bruce Blakeman. Been close to Blakeman for years.

(49:48):
He has said all kinds of wonderful things about Elise
Stefanic and was back in there. But now with Blakeman
in the race, what does he do? I don't know.
I don't know. Now they're both great. But Alise Stephonic
is a legislator. She's a great talker. Put her on
those Congressional committees. She's a great interrogator. Voy does she
tear into people. But that's her talent. Blakeman, on the
on the other hand, his talents are what you need

(50:09):
in the governor. He is a governor now, he's the
governor of Nassau County. He's a manager. He runs things.
That's what it's really what the governor's job is. It's
it's you know, you don't always want a legislator in
that job. You want a manager, and that's Blakeman. So
to me be the much better choice for that. Hey,
we'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three to two

(50:29):
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Speaker 1 (50:36):
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Speaker 2 (50:47):
Hey, let's take a calls. Let's go to uh Steve
in White Plains, Steve, how you doing?

Speaker 11 (50:54):
Merry Christmas? Mark?

Speaker 2 (50:55):
Thanks Steve.

Speaker 11 (50:58):
Mark. The Democrats caused most of these issues with healthcare,
and over the last ten fifteen years they have been
very successful at convincing the American public, at least according
to all the polls. I see that it was the
Republican's fault for all these healthcare issues that we're having.

(51:18):
And if the Republicans don't do something to extend the
subsidies or something else quick and healthcare costs increase. Like
they will forget the midterms. Am I missing something here?
I guess too early to work miss.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
A million years from now, the whole landscape will change
eight times before the midterms. Hey, let me ask you
a better question. Are you a former radio guy?

Speaker 9 (51:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (51:43):
You asked me that usually when I call it, Well.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
You sound like a radio sort of announce here. Either
that or your car salesman. Which is it?

Speaker 11 (51:52):
No, I did radio for thirty five years.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
Oh okay, do you have that radio sound or Lexus
salesman Lexus of West Yes.

Speaker 11 (52:03):
I don't like the salesman concept.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
No, definitely not. All right, Well, you sound great, Thanks
for calling. Let's go to Chris and Queen's Chris. How
you doing?

Speaker 7 (52:13):
Hey?

Speaker 8 (52:14):
Mark A big fan?

Speaker 11 (52:16):
Uh for.

Speaker 7 (52:18):
I can't believe that they're talking about a long time
what do you call it?

Speaker 8 (52:25):
Reiner? But they don't give anything.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
Well, I don't know what you said, but as long
as you did, you got your point across the kirk. Yes,
you made your point. We don't know what it is,
but you made it. That's important. Let's go to H.
Dave in Chicago. Dave, how you doing?

Speaker 15 (52:41):
Good morning, Mark.

Speaker 11 (52:42):
I'm doing very well.

Speaker 8 (52:43):
Thank you?

Speaker 11 (52:44):
Mark?

Speaker 15 (52:44):
If I had the capability to be an advisor to
suse you whiles, I would recommend that she go on
Fox News channel and asks Sean aunt Hannity to interview her,
and knowing Sean, he would probably give her the full hour.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
Well, yeah, he's saying, you know, to explain this vanity
fair piece. I don't know. The better idea might be
just let it go, don't waste too much time on it.
It's it's good fighter for MSNBC and the Trump Arrangement
syndrome crowd, but it'll burn out on its own by
after a day or two. Let's go to Pam and Patterson. Pam,
how you doing?

Speaker 5 (53:20):
Hey, I have answers to your two questions. Rob Reiner's
son went back to that hotel room after the murders. Yeah,
I had heard that, and so I think he brought
some of the bled back with him on a sheet
or whatever and kind of swathe himself in it like
a serial killer, because that's part of the control, Like, look,

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I got control of you. That's something a serial killer
would do. And then second I think, oh god, I'm
running a blank here. Oh and in terms of why
his father would be so vitriolic, all of a sudden,
while everybody disc so sweet, Well, perhaps the apple doesn't

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so far from the tree.

Speaker 11 (54:05):
Well, you get my drift.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
It's not just him. There's a lot Well, we all
know people like this. They're nice, sweet, normal people. You
get them. On the subject of Trump, they're like vicious,
hate filled maniacs when they talk about Trump. It's uh,
it's just unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (54:19):
But perhaps he was that way with his family at time,
and we don't know about it. A lot of people
hide that, you know.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
Well, I don't know. The other kids look pretty nice.
The rest of the family looks pretty nice. They all
I don't know. I'm not a psychiatrist, but you know
who is Curtis Leewell. We'll talk to him next, Curtis next.
They had a lot of questions to ask him now
that the mayoral race is totally over, completely over. It's
a few things I want to we'll well, we'll get

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to that next. On seven to ten w R, it's.

Speaker 16 (54:50):
More of more Mark Simone on seven, Well, ladies and gentlemen,
the man who should be the mayor of New York
right now, Curtis Lee Well, of course, also one of
the great radio hosts of the last few decades, had
the number one morning show for many, many, many, many
many years.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
And he'll be filling in for me. I'll be off
the last two weeks of the year next week. In
the week after, Curtis will be filling in ten to
noon every weekday. And he's with us. Now, Curtis sliwa,
how you doing?

Speaker 7 (55:19):
Oh great now that you've given me an opportunity to
let my voice be heard on my favorite radio station.
WR Nope, he doesn't get any better than this, Mark,
because obviously you lead and everybody else follow So I
know you've got a huge following because all during the campaign,

(55:40):
people would stop me wherever I was going and says, well,
Mark's talking about you. Now, I didn't get that from
any other radio station or any other talk program.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
Hey, now that it's all over, let me ask you
about this campaign. First of all, Now, obviously you could win.
You could out talk everybody in the race. You got
a much longer career resume than Mamdani. But they started
this mantra, he can't win, Curtis can't win. Curtis can't win.
They just drilled this into people. I heard people start
repeating it like It's true. It was ridiculous. How did

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that ever get started?

Speaker 7 (56:14):
But actually got started right after Andrew Cuomo tossed in
the towel because he got so badly beaten in the
primary that if you remember Mark, when he entered the
race on March first, he was at forty percent in
the Democratic polls, Zorhan Mandami was last at one percent.
By the time of June twenty four, they hadn't even

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counted the rank choice votes yet he lost by thirteen percent,
and it was no mos, no mos. Now. The big
savior then was gonna be Eric Adams. They were gonna
somehow resurrect the crook out of the grave and put,
you know, put a new set of clothes on him
and say, oh no, he's a new Eric Adams. And

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the people didn't buy it. And then every day thereafter,
the masters of the universe, the billionaires, the influences, the
inside has kept this dropout game. Dropout, you got to
drop out. He became very difficult Mark to engage in
any kind of conversation because the first question I'd have
to ask every day, answer every day was no, I'm

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not dropping out. They bribed me, people were threatening to
kill me, my wife do harm to my staff, and
I said, no, I'm not dropping out. And I lived
up to that until November fourth, where clearly Johan Mandami
was elected mayor of the City of New York by
the people of New York.

Speaker 2 (57:34):
Yeah, now here's a better question. You knew Andrew Cuomo
can't win. I knew he can't win. He was a
terrible governor. He did awful things as governor. Everybody can't
stand the guy. But he went around for the three
or four years to every big donor, every big Upper
east Side Southampton, all this craft, and he convinced them
that only he could win. And these are otherwise very

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smart people. How did they fall for this nonsense? They
actually convinced themselves only he can win, buck.

Speaker 7 (58:01):
Mark, There's nobody better connected than you with all the
heavy hitters in New York, whether it's the Hamptons or
in New York City or around America. They may be
good on Wall Street, so they know nothing about the
streets in New York City. And by the way, they
know nothing about politics. As was evidence, they backed Culomo
in the primary, he lost, then they backed Derek Adams,

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Then they went back to back in Clomo. Look, they
may invest your money well in a hedge funt. You
know acman acman every day. This guy would tweet out
ten eight hundred and fifty two words in his midlife crisis.
But they couldn't have been more hopelessly wrong, and clearly
they At first they disparaged Cuomo when he lost the Mondomi,

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then they revived him, and all they kept doing was
supporting Democrats. So he guess what you got what you wanted,
Johann Mondommi, You just strengthened him and Mark What was
that love past between Donald Trump the President and Johan
Mondomie at the White House? Come on, they played us,
We were played all during the campaign.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
Yeah, so what do you think, mom, Donnie? I somehow
I still think maybe he was counting the socialists. Maybe,
and maybe he's not as bad as we think. What
do you think?

Speaker 7 (59:14):
Well, look, he is what he is. He is not surrendered,
He has not retreated. He is an idea log. Everybody
who gets elected mayors entitled to a grace period. He'll
have his grace period. But unlike everybody else who in
fear frighten this stereos said, I'm selling my prisoners are
moving the Florida. Hey where they gone? Mark is still here?
Are you kidding? Having backdoor meetings with Rohai Mondami? So

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the fact is I'm improved.

Speaker 9 (59:41):
O move.

Speaker 7 (59:41):
And by the way, Matt compliment you for a second, Mark,
because you're going on this well deserved vacation. What are
they gonna do over your competition? You realize that Greg
Kelly for years would listen to your program before he
would come on in the twelve o'clock hour. Basically you
would do his show prep for him, like he is
up in the borsch belt. That used to steal jokes

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from one another.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
Well, but Greg does a great show.

Speaker 7 (01:00:04):
They do it you away, but we all.

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
Listen to each other. We all take from each other.
It's uh, that's so, but now.

Speaker 7 (01:00:10):
Your mom Mark, But you're the best. That's why they
do it from you. They know that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:14):
Then you got to you gotta do a good job
the next two weeks. Curtis will be filling in for
me the next two weeks. Now you have done. They
used to make fun of how many hours you'd be
on the radio twenty hours a day, fourteen hours a
day six Will you be able to fit it into
just two hours? A day.

Speaker 7 (01:00:30):
Yeah, Oh, there's no doubt about it. Hey. Look, uh,
there was a time at WABC, as you know, because
you and I we were together. They're doing the morning
show with Ron Koopy, whose mommy is at comedy who
is the predecessor to Johann Mondami. Yeah, I mean you
wanted to know what Jorhan Mandami was. Look, that was
Donkoopy and the three of us would sit in that

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room doing the morning show. That was total chaos.

Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
Oh that's right.

Speaker 7 (01:00:56):
I don't know how. I don't know how you survived
that much.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
I forgot you. Yeah, you two weren't talking for about
six months. I had to like host the uh or
be the moderator of the show while you two were there.
But it's it's much better doing the show by yourself,
isn't it. It's always much better?

Speaker 7 (01:01:11):
Oh yeah. And I insisted on that I had always
done shows that partners, and I insisted that no, if
I'm the do talk radio anymore, it's going to be solo.
I will either sink or swim based on what I say,
not based on what my partners say. But boy, you
deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. Every morning for four hours,

(01:01:33):
Mark Simone, the referee between Ron Koby, who was door
on Mondomi before he was even born, and Curtis Sleewan,
And I mean it got hey, it got pretty hot
and heavy there. You almost had to put in a
nine one one call sometimes.

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
So well, next week will be you'll have fun here.
If you've come up, you've seen the studio, you've visited,
you've in fact, a lot of your old coworkers were
here when you came. Right.

Speaker 7 (01:02:01):
Well, let me tell you something for people who don't know.
Because War was the first radio station I was ever
interviewed on. I was the newspaper Boy of the Year.
I had gone to Washington, DC, got an award for
Richard Nixon, and my first interview was with Arlene Francis,
who did afternoons mid to mid days, and I got

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the bug. You know what it's like. You had the
bug for years. I've had the bug. And then when
Bob Grant went to War, I mean it was a continuation.
And by the way, I remember when I transported all
of his items from WABC where they exiled him to
wr and then he kicked off books over at WABC.
You remember that you worked with him at WBCA back

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with R Peter Strauss and Ellen.

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
That's true. Although Bob Grant and I didn't get along.
So Bob Grant was a complicated guy. I think you'd
agree off the air, Oh.

Speaker 7 (01:02:53):
No doubt about it. But let me tell you something.
He was magic on the radio. And that's all it counts.
And that's what you've been for so many years, Mark Simone.
So to be able to substitute for you while away,
I mean, it doesn't get any better than that. And
I listened to wo R. Now you've got a lot
of great shows. I have no reason to listen to

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anything else, including always blaming Curtis WABC other station.

Speaker 2 (01:03:20):
But since you announced you're going to be here, did
they contact you? Have you heard from anybody there?

Speaker 9 (01:03:25):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:03:26):
They're worried, aren't They're worried? Because remember I haven't told
the true story of what went on there, all that
drop out. You got to drop out? When do you
think it started?

Speaker 9 (01:03:36):
Mark?

Speaker 7 (01:03:36):
It started at WABC, And there are a lot of
bones buried there. And the question is in the two
weeks that you've given me the opportunity of management at
WR and iHeart the substitute for you, will I dig
up any of those bones and air the trunk of
what went on during the most historical and unprecedented mayor

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Old campaign in the history of New yorkitty politics.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
Well, I wouldn't go after them, but I can't just
blame them. I heard this from every Upper East Side idiot,
every Hedge fund idiot. Curtis can't win. Curtis cant that
was ridiculous. He's got to drop out. It was ridiculous.
And as you say, these guys made billions at what
they know and have never made a penny given political
advice to anybody.

Speaker 7 (01:04:19):
So, by the way, where's their friend Andrew Cuomo? Where
wait you go? As he fled to Borda like he
said he would do if Joan Mondomi got elected. Man,
come on, Mark, you know everything? Where is into?

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
I think they now realized we were right. This guy
couldn't win anything anymore. And I don't think we're done
with him. He'll try and come back again. But hey,
we're out of time, But everybody listened. Next week, for
the next two weeks, Curtis Lee will be filling in
for me ten to noon. Curtisly with ten to noon,
be listening and of course follow him on Instagram and
Twitter and all of that. So well, Curtis, good luck.

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Next week I'll be listening, have a good time.

Speaker 7 (01:05:01):
Well, thank you. I know where all the boats that
bury them, who bury them, and I may be digging
them up for the two weeks that you're away.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
All right, we'll talk to you again soon. Thanks, take care,
Thank you Mary. Thanks. Yeah, make sure next week. I'll
be off next week, in the week after. I've been
taking the next two weeks off, final two weeks the year,
by Christmas break. Curtis will be here every morning. This
should be really interesting stuff. Curtis every morning for the
next two weeks, ten to noon here on seven to ten.

(01:05:30):
Wr mister new yours Mark Simone, you're the best. Well,
let's see Nick Reiner, the son of Rob Reiner, is
expected to be in court at any moment. Right, that's
noon here. It's so it's nine o'clock in Los Angeles,

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nine in the morning. The very secretive about everything, the
angel Police. Even when the word came out that two
dead bodies were found at Rob Briner's house, they wouldn't
say it was him and his wife. They kept that quote.
So they keep everything very quiet. But they've arrested Nick Reiner,
and he's expected to be brought into court today, first
time in court. They will arrain him, they will formally

(01:06:16):
charge him. He's being held in isolation. He's on suicide watch,
so you may see some video of this at any
moment appearing on TV. Hey, we're out of time. I'll
be back tomorrow ten to noon. And remember, if you
can't listen ten to noon, get the podcast. You can
hear the show anytime you want, day or night, but
i'll be back tomorrow ten. I'll talk to you then

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on seven to ten. WR