December 9, 2025 • 33 mins
Mark discusses the ongoing bidding war between Paramount and Netflix for the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., sharing his belief that Paramount will ultimately emerge victorious. He also comments on the increasing challenges President Trump faces from left-wing judges and criticizes the Senate tradition of the blue slip, echoing the President’s view that it’s an outdated and ineffective practice. Mark takes your calls! Mark interviews Sal Scognamillo from Patsy’s Italian Restaurant in New York City. In honor of Frank Sinatra’s birthday week, they reminisce about Sinatra’s deep love for Patsy’s, share stories about his favorite meal, and reflect on the statue dedicated to him in the restaurant. The conversation explores Sinatra’s lasting impact on entertainment and how his legacy serves as a source of inspiration for both Mark and Sal.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mark Simone on sevent ten w R.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, another freezing cold data today. It's just I like
to walk outside. I like to walk for miles outside.
But it was not easy yesterday or today. You can
hear now it's good. You get used to it. It's a
fun walking out there in the cold. Your nose goes
crazy and you can't take anywhere. But and I saw
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Sean Hannity yesterday. You know he's in Florida now, but
he came to New York and they get that Florida look.
He's got that Florida look, which like the perfect sun tan,
and you know they look more relaxed. I guess that's good.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I don't want the perfect suntan. I don't want to
look that relaxed. I like to have that New York
you know, that freezing cold face and uh yeah, all
riled up, kind of New York attitude. But he looked great,
and of course you can him here today three to
six on WOR. Let's see now in in Chicago, they
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got snow and everything. So Ice agents were there going
after a dangerous criminal who's an illegal alien. He got
in under Biden and he was in fact and the
bidenminstration they actually did have this guy was so bad
and such a criminal. They did arrest him at the
border and he had entered the country illegally. This is
twenty twenty three in the Biden years. But the Biden
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deministration released them. They released them. They even granted him
temporary protected status. So he's a dangerous criminal gang member.
He's from that TDA trend to AGUAD. He's a gang,
I mean, the most violent, awful gang. He's a member
of the gang. So he's in Chicago. They're there to
arrest him. They got him on a traffic stop. Ice
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was going to arrest the guy at this traffic stop.
So what he did was he smashed his car into
one of the ICE agency vehicles, which made it careene
into a tree. I mean, this is like a blue
Blood's chase scene. He then fled on foot after the crash.
ICE agents chased him. He barricaded himself into a stranger's apartment. Now,
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if you didn't know, I think you could tell this
as a criminal. You know, normally on a traffic stop,
you stop. This guy instead drives his car right into
their car and makes him crash into a tree. He
jumps out of his car, runs runs into a stranger's
apartment and barricades himself in there. I think you can
be pretty sure this is a criminal. So ICE is
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trying to go after this guy. But it's Chicago, and
a large crowd forms outside and starts throwing things at
the ICE agents start throwing rocks, snowballs, other projectiles. Well,
but you do have the police in Chicago that says
local police refuse to assist or do anything. That's Chicago
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for you. This is the Democrats of today. And you know,
if that were your neighborhood, this guy's may remember the
most dangerous gang. His behavior on a traffic stop gives
you an idea what he's like. Wouldn't you want that
guy removed from your neighborhood. Would you want him to
still live around the block from you. No, But they're
fighting the ICE agents to stop them from taking this
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guy away. You know President Trump got he didn't get
the Nobel Peace Prize that he's so deserved, but he
got the FIFA World Cup FIFA Peace Prize. They decided
to award him one. That's nice, not for CNN. Jake
Tapper goes on CNN yesterday attacking, viciously attacking FIFA, calling
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their peace prize a joke, ridiculous, it's not legitimate. This guy,
this Jake Tapper, who tries to occasionally pass himself off
as a journalist. He tries to pretend he's doing some
sort of a news show, going into a tirade denouncing FIFA,
attacking their peace prize. What does this have to do
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with doing the news on CNN. I don't know. But
CNN is part of Warner Brothers and Discovery at the
company that's going to be taken over by Netflix, but
probably not. Netflix won the bidding at almost thirty one
dollars a share, which means it would take over Warner Brothers,
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which includes CNN, includes HBO, includes the biggest movie studio
in Hollywood, all sorts of stuff. But I don't think
Netflix is going to end up with it. I think
this deal's going to fall through and paramount the original
bidder who had been too low. I think in the
end they'll end up with it. I think they'll end
up with it because Warner Bros. Might have agreed to
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the Netflix takeover, might have signed off on it, but
that was the people that run it. That wasn't the shareholders,
and the shareholders are upset. They felt it should have
gotten a higher price. They still think it should have
been more like thirty five dollars this year, not thirty.
So they're pushing to have this deal undone shareholders of
a big say in this. President Trump has indicated he'd
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rather have Paramount. He's close to friends with the Paramount CEO,
the Ellisons also friends with the Netflix. But Netflix the
bid was too low. They may have to increase it,
but it may also just go to Paramount. They may
end up taking it over. Now, how can you do
that when they already made an agreement with the other Well,
they would have to break the Netflix agreement. And there's
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a penalty clause of two point eight billion. But if
Paramount agrees to pay the penalty, then that solves that
problem right there. And you're talking about an eighty five
billion dollar deal, So two point eight billion is just
a tiny percentage. So I think they're going to think,
I bet your Paramount ends up with it. Now there's
all fake news is going after Paramount saying they've made
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some sort of deal with Trump promised to make radical
changes at Sea. Well, first of all. CNN is a tiny,
little nothing part of this company. It's not doesn't make
any real revenue for the company. It gets no ratings,
it has no viewers. And by the way, if anybody
bought the company, the first thing you would logically do
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is make radical changes. At CNN. You'd look at it
and say, wait a minute, you're in last place and
you have no ratings. Of course you got to make
radical You can't do what you can't keep doing what
you're doing. You're in last place and nobody's watching. You've
got to make changes. So any logical owner would have
to have to make some changes there. Hey, over at
CBS News, they're getting rid of the anchors on the
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nightly network News. It's Maurice du Bois and who's the
other guy, John Dickerson. Two nice guys. They're very the competent,
but they're not major league anchor people. They're not you know,
Brian Williams, they're not David muh Or. They're not in
that league. Maurice du Bois with the local channel two
anchor John Dickon is like a third string face the
(07:03):
nation kind of a host. So they're gonna they've already
picked a guy. It's somebody from CBS News whose name
I can't remember. He's on one of theays. I think
he's on the morning show. He's a very good looking anchor.
He said. I think they've decided let's copy David Newer
because that's the number one show on television, the ABC
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Evening News with David Muir, number one show in all
of television primetime everything. Why, well, it's different from the
other evening news shows in that it's slicker. It's really
fast moving at disc keeps moving. It's not that political.
It's political, but there's a million other things. It kind
of looks like TMZ or Entertainment Tonight. It really moves,
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and the anchor is just a really handsome, good looking guy.
It's very you know, slick. It's much slicker. So I
think they've decided to go in that direction. So they
got a new anchor whose name I don't remember. I
could look it up, but what's the difference. You're not
gonna remember his name either, but he looks very good.
He looks like David Muir. So they'll probably get some
producers in there, could make it faster, tighter, good looking anchor,
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so the little copy, David Muir, that's a good idea.
It makes sense. Barry Weiss is now running CBS News
is going to slowly but surely change everything there. They're
going to change all the sixty minutes people. She wants
to get rid of what they call the programs older correspondence.
They're all like eighty five years old, so expect them all,
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one by one to get taken out. Scott Pelly, Leslie Stall,
Bill Whittaker, so they'll all go. And now she's already
made a big higher ABC News Matt Gutman, you know,
the reporter Matt Gutman. She's very high on him. She
wants him to take quote a major role at CBS.
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He'll be the new host of forty eight hours. Well
she hadn't said host, but she'll be the big part
of big star of forty eight hours. Nowan's reporter with
a lot of experience, international correspondent, all sorts of stuff.
But his real thing is he's a crime expert, real crime.
And he hosted that podcast, True Crime podcast that was
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top rated. And I think that's what she wants for
forty eight hours. You know when it comes to all
these podcasts, Well, now there's a million big podcasts, but
you know in the beginning, the biggest podcast where those
crime podcasts. Remember, that's what everybody would listen to. They
would tell you, well, you got to listen to this.
It's a ten part series about remember the killing by
the River in Utah ten years No, I don't, but
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they would listen to this ten part podcast on it.
So that's what this guy specializes in. She thinks forty
eight hours should be doing that. She's probably right. So
he'll be Matt Gutman of ABC and his big, big,
major hire. But slowly but surely she'll change everything over
there at CBS and get rid of all those people
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over there. Let's see the Ukraine. Zelensky says he is
not interested in giving up any territory at all. Well,
that throws a huge monkey wrench into the peace talks,
because that was the big part of it, that both
sides have to make some concessions. One is Ukraine would
have to concede a little territory. But uh uh, he says,
(10:20):
absolutely no. This is all probably just negotiating. In the end,
you'll have to give up something. It's going to take
longer than we thought. A lot of people thought it
might get done by the end of the year. But
that's not gonna happen. Hey, Alina Habba has to step
down as the US attorney. You know the way this
works because you hear this all the time when the
fake news gets in the middle of it because a
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Trump appointed judge ruled that, or the a Trump appointed
US attorney. Well, when you hear a Trump appointed judge,
it had nothing to do with Trump. He didn't know
the judge. He didn't pick the judge. What usually happens
is even with US attorneys, it's normally the case that
I mean sometimes Trump will pick a US attorney, you know,
like they're in district here in New York. But most
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of the time when you need to pick judges or
US attorneys, the local senators, the state senators pick the person.
The two senators of the state, they recommend them the
president ninety eight percent of the time, the President goes
along with it. Very rarely do they object. It's called
a blue slip. The senators of the state have to
pick the person. So they didn't pick Alina Habba. The
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Senate will not confirm her. That's why it's not going
to work. And Trump talked about this dumb blue slip
thing they have. You've got a blue slip thing. That's horrible.
It's a horrible thing.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
It makes it impossible to appoint the judge or US
attorney and it's a shame and the Republicans should be
ashamed of themselves that they allowed us to go on
because I can't appoint a US attorney that's not a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah, I mean sometimes it makes sense because Trump would
know any of these people, and he's so far removed
from the state or whoever the president is. He's you
let the local people recommend. But it's a problem if
you got like a sleazy, slimy Chuck Schumer doing the picking.
Or look at Connecticut you got the two dirtiest, sleaziest senators,
Chris Murphy and that lying rotten Bloomenthal. Can you imagine
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leaving up to them to pick a US attorney. But
that's the system. I think I know.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Why they did that, to protect their ass Okay, and
that's why they did that, But it should be done
away with.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I want to be able to.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Appoint great that most highly educated, the most respected people.
They can't keep that Jebs.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, no, he may be right. That's why they always
are careful who senators want to pick.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
It.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
They pick somebody they know who will never come after them,
and that's the idea. So fake news goes after Elena hobbit.
This is there's no experience, he's never been a prosecutor. Never. Well,
that's pretty normal for US attorneys. Remember Chris Christy was
the US attorney. He'd never been in the court room
in his life when he was appointed US attorney. Never
wasn't a prosecutor when he was appointed. He's a big,
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big campaign donor in Bundler. So as a reward, they
made a US attorney with no experience as a prosecutor.
Haba was a major partner to major law firm where
she did it was civil litigation, but a lot of
that was about white collar crime, fraud, that sort of stuff.
So Haba actually qualified.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Yeah, Alena Habba says she's stepping down as US Attorney
for the District of New Jersey after the courts disqualified her.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Do you have any comment on that.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Which she's not disqualified.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
You've got a blue slip thing.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
That's horrible.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
It's a horrible thing. It makes it.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Impossible to appoint a judge or US attorney. And it's
a shame, and the Republicans should be ashamed of themselves
that they allowed us to go on.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
You know, fake news does that a lot if they
don't like so if they don't like Pete Hagsith, you
hear that a lot. And he was never qualified to
be Secretary of Defense. You hear these senators, these low
lifes on these talking heads. He shouldn't have been a
point in the first place. He had no qualifications. He
has more qualifications to be Secretary of Defense than half
of the secretaries of Defense we've had. Many of them
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had no experience. You know that Chuck Hagel was congressman
all his life and less aspen. He was a college
professor when he was appointed secretary to most of these
secretary defenses don't have a lot of exits. Had a
lot of military experience when he got appointed. So Matt
Lower wants to more talk about this comeback than Matt
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Lower come back. Now he's apparently it's the girlfriend pushing this.
The girlfriend is also a publicist, so she wants him
to come back. And since she's a publicist, she knows
how to plant all these stories, all over the place,
trying to engineer this comeback, come back for what. I
don't know what. He's going to come back to the
Today Show, I don't think so he can't take him
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back there. I mean, it's a cuomo trying to make
a comeback. You left in disgrace, you left under a
cloud of terrible scandal, and in the case of Matt Lower,
it was real scandal, real sexual harassment stuff, real problem.
So who's going to bring him back? And for what reason?
You know, you know, if it's like Lewis c k well,
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you know, there's the reason to bring him back. Guy.
The guy was funny. He was really funny and a
lot of stuff, had a lot of talent. So maybe
he's a question mark on this guy, but boy was
he good. Let's bring him back? Or Kevin Spacey, you know,
why would you bring this guy?
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Well?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Because he was pretty talented. Watch him in what's the
TV show? He did House the Cards or other stuff.
Guy's really talented. No, let's maybe you bend the role
that we'll bring him back because he's really talented. Case
of Matt Lower, you can't say he's really talented. He's
I mean, he was a pleasant guy. He was nice looking.
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You know, he's older now he's not so hot looking anymore.
And he's basically he would read the teleprompter. I mean,
he's not a talented guy. I mean, there's no Matt
Lower videos going viral because he was so brilliant. I
mean to bend the rules for him, I don't think so.
I don't know. We'll take some calls in a minute.
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Now back to the Mark Simone Show on wr Hey,
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we'll take some calls. Eight hundred three to two one
zero seven ten is remember, let's go to Joel in Florida. Joel,
how you doing.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Good morning Mark again, Good morning Vincent, Good morning Marret.
Just have a question for you.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Mark.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Over the weekend, Rosie o'donald, while in Ireland, said that
he believes that President Schrump should be taken out, and
there are other Democrats that have said the same. Given
the fact that he's going to be going back on
a junket with going to other cities or the areas.
Has the Secret Service greatly extended to be able to
cover all these visits to these various locations.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, you get Remember he was a candidate,
that was candidate levels already. Now it's presidential security. In fact,
if you watch the videos of the motorcade even going
from mar A Lago to the golf course, it's like
twenty five cars. It's amazing. It's enormous protection. He's going
to be traveling today to the Pocono's. They're not saying
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how he's getting there, which means it's probably not Air
Force one. Sometimes when it's not that far, they'll take
Marine one the helicopter, so it'll be a whole bunch
of helicopters heading there. Let's go to Bob in Bridgeport. Bob,
how you doing.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I'm well Mark a big fan, long time thanks. In
the course of your career, did you ever work with
SUPI sales?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yes, a million times.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
He seems hilarious. I watched some of his old stuff
on YouTube. Did he just do that whole thing by himself?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Well, yeah, he was a very funny guy. He was
a regular guest on this show for years and years
and years and years. In fact, remember I used to
do that Saturday night oldie show.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Fight, I do remember that show.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
That was his final publican. His final public appearance was
on that show, and then we lost him. But he
was a very very funny guy. I remember he did
a radio show for years w NBC. Remember it was
I remember that Soupy from ten to.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Two lunch at the Commissary.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah, then it was Soupye and then Howard Stern. That
was quite a lineup back then, but he was He
was a great guy. His wife is still with us, Trudy,
who was a great dancer and performer. Anyway, le's go
to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Good morning, Mark, Good morning Joe, Good morning Battle Mark.
I loved that Saturday night oldie show used to do.
I would be cooking Saturday night dinner, listen to it.
I loved it.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Mark.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
First off, I would like to apologize for during the
course of this past years, I groused that Trump wasn't
doing enough to get rid of congestion pricing. Well, at
the end of last week in the Post. They had
a full page article detailing about Katty Hochel's corrupt judges
are putting the kebash on the Trump administration's efforts to
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roll back the congestion price. And Trump said that he's
take them back to consent agreement that Joe Biden did,
and the judges saying he can't, So I apologize.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Also right now they want to leave it there because
it's going to be a factor that works against Kathy
Hochele on reelection.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Well, you saw yesterday in the papers they had this
whole article on the front page story the Post of
how certain police officers are using up official vehicles to
go through the tolls even though they're going home to
evade the toes.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Mark.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
This put v to my next thing. Zora Mandani was
on i think on social media or on video whatever
with this message to the illegal migrants, how to avoid
ICE agents, what to do in case you're confronted by them,
and saying this is what a war it looks like. Mark,
this is a big conflict of interest for Jessica Tish.
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What is she going to do when there is a
major confrontation where police like what happened in Chinatown last
week have to be called to help ice agents out
just to get out of the building or something where
they're being attacked, like in Chicago. What is she going
to do? She's he is playing her mark. She should
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get out. She should follow her brother's lead. Zorah Mandani
is should get out.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Listen. She's not Ray Kelly. She's not the greatest police
commission the world. But she's pretty good.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
I know.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
If she gets out, you want Mamdani to pick a.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Replacement, Well, you'll watch this. But she's going to ruin
her future. Mark. She already she did a bad thing.
She apologized on behalf of your brother if I ever did.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
That, bet Listen. Her future is her ambitions. She wants
to be mayor. She she's not gonna be that great
a candidate. She's not exactly the most exciting dynamic speaker
in the world. And uh, she doesn't have a great
record a police and which a good record, but it's
not a great.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
But she's she's she's doing good, but this is gonna
hurt her. You do you think a lot of Jewish
voters they're going to see a flip flopping? What are
you doing where? I mean, it's like, uh, you're.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Gonna see some flip flopping. But we don't want to leave.
She's a good police commissioner and we don't want to
lose her.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
All right, Mack, I'll you know, maybe you know something, Uh,
maybe you know something. I don't know the way.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I just know she's tough. She's a very wealthy. She
doesn't need anybody's money, so she's not going to cave
into any special interests.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Listen, if if Mom Donnie picks his own guy, that
guy's gonna do whatever he's told by Mom Donnie. You
don't want that, all right?
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Well, I'm just talking about the appearance of u of
uh conflict. By the way, Mark, when are they going
to get rid of Andrea Mitchell at NBC?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Uh? You know the problem is that you know she's
like ninety seven and a half. You know, Well, he's
gonna drop that in any second. I mean, why worry
about it?
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Of course, you were talking about them getting a rid
of all the old fossils at the other.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Netwell that's CBS. Well, CBS brought in a sane person.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
To rut I know, but Andrew Mitchell fits that category,
doesn't she?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah, But at MSNBC still crazy, still nuts. Anyway, thanks
for calling, Vincent, great call. Hey, when we come back,
we'll talk about Frank Sinatra next and other matters with
the owner of Patsy's, the great landmark restaurant. Sal from
Patsy's in a moment on seven ten wor He's more
Mark Okay, So Mark Simone show on seven ten wor Well,
(22:43):
you know Patsy's, the landmark restaurant, fifty sixth Street between
Broadway and Eighth It was Frank Sinatra's favorite restaurant. And
there's a lot to talk about with Frank Sinatra. It's
that time of year. Oh not Christmas. It's Sinatra's birthday
this week. And with us right now, the owner of
pat So you Sal Skygdamilo Sal How you doing?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Hey, Good morning, Mark, Happy holidays, Merry Christmas, buddy.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
You too, Frank Sinatra's favorite restaurant. Where do we even start?
Tell us Frank Sinatra's favorite meal? What like if you
went to Patsy's and said to you make me Sinatra's
favorite meal, what would you make?
Speaker 4 (23:20):
He liked it the auditchok Reaganot appetizers and then he'd
have some kind of short pasti the pen of Rigatonio
Sperali with the tomato basil sauce, which is onions, no garlic.
If I made a garlic sauce for him, sometimes you
have the clams in the garlic sauce. It would be
the whole garlic. We brace it in the olive oil
and take it out. You see, you had the flavor
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and then the edge of tomatoes and clams and white
wine and all the spices. And he loved to from
the main course, the veal and chicken milonnaise. It says scillatini,
very fine flour, sea egg and seasoned bread from fried
pills chris a lit will rouble it, tomato salad and
most importantly red wine, vinegar, no balsonic fan.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Well, that's a very good meal, but if you go
to Patty look at the menu, there's probably twenty five
better things to order there.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
That's just well, my favorite I like, I like pastawi chiese.
So my favorite is Rigatoni sonino with the tomato basil.
Regard to Milton Mozela palmachon, all the Pamgan's and Gueeny
with the clamsauce. Popular anything with fish locks to Friday Oblo.
I think it's spectacular, makes a great dish and you know,
just a lot of great Southern Italian classics. The heart
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of the menu the same. Only three chefs all these
years was my grandfather, Esqual, Patsy Scott, the Millo, my
dad and myself. It's over eighty one years now and
in this Friday would have been Franks one hundred and
tenth birthday, and we always celebrate his birthday at a
restaurant with a beautiful muncheon. From twelfth to three, it's
going to be halted by Adriana Trigiani. She's very same
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as author. She's written i think twenty seven books. Her
latest book was A View from Lake Cuomo, which we
actually had the book signing and our restaurant was a
sold out, so much sold out we added a second
event and so popular great stuff. We're gonna have some
video tributes also, you are not in person, but video tributes.
Who have Michael Billblay and Robert Dobby, Steve longme son
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David beautiful because they love the play too, and Gene
Kelly's wife Patricia Kelly beautiful stuff. And the latest, the
real surprise guest we just added is Frank Sinatra's granddaughter, A. J.
Lambert is going to be there, and it's just so exciting.
She's such a such a sweet woman. That's Nancy's daughter,
and we're gonna be so happy. We've got Steve Maglio
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who performs at the Carnegie Club, the Sinatra tributes all
the time.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Oh yeah, that's this. Friday is Sinatra's birthday, the twelfth,
so you.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Can Friday is the birthday.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Can people go to this Sinatra luncheon?
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Yes, we have about five seats left. They can call
the restaurant two one two two four seven three four
nine one two one two two four seven three includes
all this great entertainment and of course Frank's favorite meal
as between know, some things we've talked about, and it's
gonna be a great time. We always we always love
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remembering him. So many people.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
How much is it to go to.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
It's a one ninety five plus taxi tip.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yes, well that includes music and the food and the whole.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Thing, music, everything, the whole nine yards and it's it
always sells out. This this year, we just had a
few few seats left. It's always so much fun and
everybody enjoys it. It's just a wonderful remembrance of such
a spectacular man. And I know how much you loved
him and how much you know about him. You're definitely
an encyclopedia when it comes to Frank Sinatra. But you
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just take a look at the wall of all the
photos we have, and almost everyone could be traced back
to Frank Sinatra, like he brought in Jackie Gleeson, who
brought in the Rosemary Coon, who brought in George Corney,
you know, and and Jerry still always very close friends
with Nancy Sinatra, And of course they brought their son
Ben Stola. He wrote the poet Nancy and the Sinatra
wrote the forward to my first cookbook, and Ben Stilla
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wrote the forward to my second cookbook. And we sell,
you know, during the holidays, we sell a lot of
that as a gift. If you don't know what to
get anyone, we have apasta sauces, Mariinada fadiaalo To made
a basil and vodka sauce. You can get the cookbooks,
and we have a little gift box at some pasta
and coffee. If you don't know what to get anyone,
you go to our website, which is patchis without the
(27:30):
apostrophe p A T S Y S dot com. And
like you said, it's the only location where it took
between Ans and Broadway by Connegie Hall.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
And when you go to Patty's, do not rush right
into the restaurant. When you walk through the door, stop
and look at the pictures on the wall. These are
all the customers through the all famous famous faces. Look
at all the pictures and look carefully the end of
the bar. There's a beautiful statue of Frank Sinatra there,
so that.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
One we got to it was commissioned by Tina Sinatra.
I think there's only a nine hundred limited edition. We
have that for many many years. And then on the
upstairs we have a smaller statue of Frank Dean and
Sammy the rat Pack. A great, great remembrance. Is great fun.
We're is so lucky because even like last week, my
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wife is a big country music fan. And Kenny Chesney
came in and he said, the first time he came
here was, you know, like thirty years ago because he
heard it was Frank Sinatra's favorite place. So you can't
ask for a better pr guy than that.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
All right, now, let me ask you an important question.
Let's Sinatra would always pick up the check. Let's there
was a whole bunch of people to check. Was one
thousand dollars? What would Sinatra tip on that?
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Oh he was easily thirty thirty five percent without and
that's not including one hundreds he threw out everybody when
one hundred dollars was a lot of money. Yes, he was.
He was so generous. I mean, he just was in
every way, I mean with his philanthropy, with his help.
And the most important point, and I know you know
this mark was he wanted to be anonymous. He just
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wanted to do it because he wanted to do it,
not to get his name in the paper. And that's
just such a wonderful quality. The man was so ahead
of his time, even with civil rights though, you and
I don't have to tell you all those stories.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Now when he was in the restaurant, he's big tipper,
ended out hundreds and that was like thousands back then. Also,
how many times would he pick up the check for
other tables?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Oh, so many times, There's so many times. The most
famous one I think I probably told you New York
Yankees were in they won the World Series. He they
introduced to each other and at the end of the night,
Sinatra left and Billy Martin was the manager back then.
He says, all right, now that Frank left, we can leave.
He says, give me the check. He says, too late.
Frank paid for.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
You, for the whole team, the entire Yankees.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
There was one time Mark, I don't know if I
told you this story. One time when he said to
my father, he says, me and Barbara and another couple
were coming in, it's okay for the other man to
pay the check. And Ty came to pay the check.
He gave him his gold American Express caught it, denied.
It wind up that that was the president of American
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Express and his goal call is denied. He thought Sinatra
was playing a practical joke.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
On him, and he was. I don't know how he
pulled that off, but that was Jim Robinson, right, the
chairman of America Express. Somehow Sinatra got his card to
be denied.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Yes, they were friends. They lived close together on pomp Springs.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah, it was so.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
I was the one time because he said I don't
want I don't want to owe anyone anything, you know,
because when he was down and out, nobody want to
talk to him. When he came back. He says, now
I don't want nothing from nobody, so God bless him.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Well, if you want to celebrate Sinatra, this Friday is
the birthday of Frank Sinatra. It's December twelfth, and they've
been doing this every year for a million years, the
Sinatra Birthday party. And it's at Patsy's. They'll be live music,
singing and some well known people there. And so what
now what do people do? If they want to come,
you make a reservation.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Please please give us a call at the restaurant. It's
two and two two four seven three four nine one
two one two two four seven three four nine one
and so the products and everything else. You go to
the website it's patsys dot com, p A T. S
y s No apostrophe dot com and it's it's always
such fun, it's such a great event. I know w
(31:12):
O R has been there many times. You've been there
too as well.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Make sure you follow Patsy's on Patsy's Italian Restaurant on Instagram.
Very good pictures, all sorts of stuff there. We only
got a few seconds left. Sinatra always brought a lot
of people to dinner. What's the biggest aunt rush you
ever came in with.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Oh he was there when he did for the seventy
fifth birthday of James Cagney. He took over the whole
upstairs and it was it was probably probably about eighty
or eighty five people came time to sing Happy Birthday
to James Cagney. Dean Martin was singing, Sammy Davis was
doing a soft shoe and Sinatra was just about to
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join him to sing Happy Birthday to James Cagney. My
father said, wait, wait, Frank, you can't do this, and
Frank Sinatra got mad. What can I do? My father said,
I can't afford this kind of here.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
But if you want to see and again when you
walk into Paties, don't rush in stops you come through
the door and look at the pictures on the wall.
They're amazing of all the celebrities that were there and
these call Patsies. Follow them on Instagram Patsy's Italian Restaurant
Seal great stuff. Thanks for being with us, always a pleasure.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
God bless you a happy and healthy to you and
your family.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Thanks take care, h Thanks, Hey, don't forget we got
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on W Well, Hey, the big news this morning, Bruce
(33:09):
Blakeman announced he's running. Now. At least Stephonic is great,
but I think Blakeman is better. Stephonica is great. She's
a great legislator, she's great fighting on those committees. But
Blakeman's a governor. That's basically what he does in NASA County,
the governor of the county, and he turns out to
be the number one best county executive in America. So
(33:32):
it's exactly what you want for a governor. So we'll
see what happens now. You could have a primary all
of that, but good problem to have when you got
a lot of good candidates. We're out of time, don't
go away. Buck and Clay are coming up next there. Great.
They'll be here from noon to three. I'll be back
tomorrow from ten to noon and I'll talk to you
then right here on seven to ten. WR
Mark Simone on sevent ten w R.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Well, another freezing cold data today. It's just I like
to walk outside. I like to walk for miles outside.
But it was not easy yesterday or today. You can
hear now it's good. You get used to it. It's a
fun walking out there in the cold. Your nose goes
crazy and you can't take anywhere. But and I saw
(00:26):
Sean Hannity yesterday. You know he's in Florida now, but
he came to New York and they get that Florida look.
He's got that Florida look, which like the perfect sun tan,
and you know they look more relaxed. I guess that's good.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I don't want the perfect suntan. I don't want to
look that relaxed. I like to have that New York
you know, that freezing cold face and uh yeah, all
riled up, kind of New York attitude. But he looked great,
and of course you can him here today three to
six on WOR. Let's see now in in Chicago, they
(01:07):
got snow and everything. So Ice agents were there going
after a dangerous criminal who's an illegal alien. He got
in under Biden and he was in fact and the
bidenminstration they actually did have this guy was so bad
and such a criminal. They did arrest him at the
border and he had entered the country illegally. This is
twenty twenty three in the Biden years. But the Biden
(01:30):
deministration released them. They released them. They even granted him
temporary protected status. So he's a dangerous criminal gang member.
He's from that TDA trend to AGUAD. He's a gang,
I mean, the most violent, awful gang. He's a member
of the gang. So he's in Chicago. They're there to
arrest him. They got him on a traffic stop. Ice
(01:52):
was going to arrest the guy at this traffic stop.
So what he did was he smashed his car into
one of the ICE agency vehicles, which made it careene
into a tree. I mean, this is like a blue
Blood's chase scene. He then fled on foot after the crash.
ICE agents chased him. He barricaded himself into a stranger's apartment. Now,
(02:16):
if you didn't know, I think you could tell this
as a criminal. You know, normally on a traffic stop,
you stop. This guy instead drives his car right into
their car and makes him crash into a tree. He
jumps out of his car, runs runs into a stranger's
apartment and barricades himself in there. I think you can
be pretty sure this is a criminal. So ICE is
(02:37):
trying to go after this guy. But it's Chicago, and
a large crowd forms outside and starts throwing things at
the ICE agents start throwing rocks, snowballs, other projectiles. Well,
but you do have the police in Chicago that says
local police refuse to assist or do anything. That's Chicago
(02:59):
for you. This is the Democrats of today. And you know,
if that were your neighborhood, this guy's may remember the
most dangerous gang. His behavior on a traffic stop gives
you an idea what he's like. Wouldn't you want that
guy removed from your neighborhood. Would you want him to
still live around the block from you. No, But they're
fighting the ICE agents to stop them from taking this
(03:20):
guy away. You know President Trump got he didn't get
the Nobel Peace Prize that he's so deserved, but he
got the FIFA World Cup FIFA Peace Prize. They decided
to award him one. That's nice, not for CNN. Jake
Tapper goes on CNN yesterday attacking, viciously attacking FIFA, calling
(03:42):
their peace prize a joke, ridiculous, it's not legitimate. This guy,
this Jake Tapper, who tries to occasionally pass himself off
as a journalist. He tries to pretend he's doing some
sort of a news show, going into a tirade denouncing FIFA,
attacking their peace prize. What does this have to do
(04:03):
with doing the news on CNN. I don't know. But
CNN is part of Warner Brothers and Discovery at the
company that's going to be taken over by Netflix, but
probably not. Netflix won the bidding at almost thirty one
dollars a share, which means it would take over Warner Brothers,
(04:25):
which includes CNN, includes HBO, includes the biggest movie studio
in Hollywood, all sorts of stuff. But I don't think
Netflix is going to end up with it. I think
this deal's going to fall through and paramount the original
bidder who had been too low. I think in the
end they'll end up with it. I think they'll end
up with it because Warner Bros. Might have agreed to
(04:50):
the Netflix takeover, might have signed off on it, but
that was the people that run it. That wasn't the shareholders,
and the shareholders are upset. They felt it should have
gotten a higher price. They still think it should have
been more like thirty five dollars this year, not thirty.
So they're pushing to have this deal undone shareholders of
a big say in this. President Trump has indicated he'd
(05:12):
rather have Paramount. He's close to friends with the Paramount CEO,
the Ellisons also friends with the Netflix. But Netflix the
bid was too low. They may have to increase it,
but it may also just go to Paramount. They may
end up taking it over. Now, how can you do
that when they already made an agreement with the other Well,
they would have to break the Netflix agreement. And there's
(05:34):
a penalty clause of two point eight billion. But if
Paramount agrees to pay the penalty, then that solves that
problem right there. And you're talking about an eighty five
billion dollar deal, So two point eight billion is just
a tiny percentage. So I think they're going to think,
I bet your Paramount ends up with it. Now there's
all fake news is going after Paramount saying they've made
(05:56):
some sort of deal with Trump promised to make radical
changes at Sea. Well, first of all. CNN is a tiny,
little nothing part of this company. It's not doesn't make
any real revenue for the company. It gets no ratings,
it has no viewers. And by the way, if anybody
bought the company, the first thing you would logically do
(06:16):
is make radical changes. At CNN. You'd look at it
and say, wait a minute, you're in last place and
you have no ratings. Of course you got to make
radical You can't do what you can't keep doing what
you're doing. You're in last place and nobody's watching. You've
got to make changes. So any logical owner would have
to have to make some changes there. Hey, over at
CBS News, they're getting rid of the anchors on the
(06:38):
nightly network News. It's Maurice du Bois and who's the
other guy, John Dickerson. Two nice guys. They're very the competent,
but they're not major league anchor people. They're not you know,
Brian Williams, they're not David muh Or. They're not in
that league. Maurice du Bois with the local channel two
anchor John Dickon is like a third string face the
(07:03):
nation kind of a host. So they're gonna they've already
picked a guy. It's somebody from CBS News whose name
I can't remember. He's on one of theays. I think
he's on the morning show. He's a very good looking anchor.
He said. I think they've decided let's copy David Newer
because that's the number one show on television, the ABC
(07:23):
Evening News with David Muir, number one show in all
of television primetime everything. Why, well, it's different from the
other evening news shows in that it's slicker. It's really
fast moving at disc keeps moving. It's not that political.
It's political, but there's a million other things. It kind
of looks like TMZ or Entertainment Tonight. It really moves,
(07:44):
and the anchor is just a really handsome, good looking guy.
It's very you know, slick. It's much slicker. So I
think they've decided to go in that direction. So they
got a new anchor whose name I don't remember. I
could look it up, but what's the difference. You're not
gonna remember his name either, but he looks very good.
He looks like David Muir. So they'll probably get some
producers in there, could make it faster, tighter, good looking anchor,
(08:06):
so the little copy, David Muir, that's a good idea.
It makes sense. Barry Weiss is now running CBS News
is going to slowly but surely change everything there. They're
going to change all the sixty minutes people. She wants
to get rid of what they call the programs older correspondence.
They're all like eighty five years old, so expect them all,
(08:29):
one by one to get taken out. Scott Pelly, Leslie Stall,
Bill Whittaker, so they'll all go. And now she's already
made a big higher ABC News Matt Gutman, you know,
the reporter Matt Gutman. She's very high on him. She
wants him to take quote a major role at CBS.
(08:52):
He'll be the new host of forty eight hours. Well
she hadn't said host, but she'll be the big part
of big star of forty eight hours. Nowan's reporter with
a lot of experience, international correspondent, all sorts of stuff.
But his real thing is he's a crime expert, real crime.
And he hosted that podcast, True Crime podcast that was
(09:13):
top rated. And I think that's what she wants for
forty eight hours. You know when it comes to all
these podcasts, Well, now there's a million big podcasts, but
you know in the beginning, the biggest podcast where those
crime podcasts. Remember, that's what everybody would listen to. They
would tell you, well, you got to listen to this.
It's a ten part series about remember the killing by
the River in Utah ten years No, I don't, but
(09:36):
they would listen to this ten part podcast on it.
So that's what this guy specializes in. She thinks forty
eight hours should be doing that. She's probably right. So
he'll be Matt Gutman of ABC and his big, big,
major hire. But slowly but surely she'll change everything over
there at CBS and get rid of all those people
(09:57):
over there. Let's see the Ukraine. Zelensky says he is
not interested in giving up any territory at all. Well,
that throws a huge monkey wrench into the peace talks,
because that was the big part of it, that both
sides have to make some concessions. One is Ukraine would
have to concede a little territory. But uh uh, he says,
(10:20):
absolutely no. This is all probably just negotiating. In the end,
you'll have to give up something. It's going to take
longer than we thought. A lot of people thought it
might get done by the end of the year. But
that's not gonna happen. Hey, Alina Habba has to step
down as the US attorney. You know the way this
works because you hear this all the time when the
fake news gets in the middle of it because a
(10:40):
Trump appointed judge ruled that, or the a Trump appointed
US attorney. Well, when you hear a Trump appointed judge,
it had nothing to do with Trump. He didn't know
the judge. He didn't pick the judge. What usually happens
is even with US attorneys, it's normally the case that
I mean sometimes Trump will pick a US attorney, you know,
like they're in district here in New York. But most
(11:01):
of the time when you need to pick judges or
US attorneys, the local senators, the state senators pick the person.
The two senators of the state, they recommend them the
president ninety eight percent of the time, the President goes
along with it. Very rarely do they object. It's called
a blue slip. The senators of the state have to
pick the person. So they didn't pick Alina Habba. The
(11:24):
Senate will not confirm her. That's why it's not going
to work. And Trump talked about this dumb blue slip
thing they have. You've got a blue slip thing. That's horrible.
It's a horrible thing.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
It makes it impossible to appoint the judge or US
attorney and it's a shame and the Republicans should be
ashamed of themselves that they allowed us to go on
because I can't appoint a US attorney that's not a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yeah, I mean sometimes it makes sense because Trump would
know any of these people, and he's so far removed
from the state or whoever the president is. He's you
let the local people recommend. But it's a problem if
you got like a sleazy, slimy Chuck Schumer doing the picking.
Or look at Connecticut you got the two dirtiest, sleaziest senators,
Chris Murphy and that lying rotten Bloomenthal. Can you imagine
(12:10):
leaving up to them to pick a US attorney. But
that's the system. I think I know.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Why they did that, to protect their ass Okay, and
that's why they did that, But it should be done
away with.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I want to be able to.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Appoint great that most highly educated, the most respected people.
They can't keep that Jebs.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, no, he may be right. That's why they always
are careful who senators want to pick.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
It.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
They pick somebody they know who will never come after them,
and that's the idea. So fake news goes after Elena hobbit.
This is there's no experience, he's never been a prosecutor. Never. Well,
that's pretty normal for US attorneys. Remember Chris Christy was
the US attorney. He'd never been in the court room
in his life when he was appointed US attorney. Never
wasn't a prosecutor when he was appointed. He's a big,
(12:54):
big campaign donor in Bundler. So as a reward, they
made a US attorney with no experience as a prosecutor.
Haba was a major partner to major law firm where
she did it was civil litigation, but a lot of
that was about white collar crime, fraud, that sort of stuff.
So Haba actually qualified.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Yeah, Alena Habba says she's stepping down as US Attorney
for the District of New Jersey after the courts disqualified her.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Do you have any comment on that.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Which she's not disqualified.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
You've got a blue slip thing.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
That's horrible.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
It's a horrible thing. It makes it.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Impossible to appoint a judge or US attorney. And it's
a shame, and the Republicans should be ashamed of themselves
that they allowed us to go on.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
You know, fake news does that a lot if they
don't like so if they don't like Pete Hagsith, you
hear that a lot. And he was never qualified to
be Secretary of Defense. You hear these senators, these low
lifes on these talking heads. He shouldn't have been a
point in the first place. He had no qualifications. He
has more qualifications to be Secretary of Defense than half
of the secretaries of Defense we've had. Many of them
(13:57):
had no experience. You know that Chuck Hagel was congressman
all his life and less aspen. He was a college
professor when he was appointed secretary to most of these
secretary defenses don't have a lot of exits. Had a
lot of military experience when he got appointed. So Matt
Lower wants to more talk about this comeback than Matt
(14:20):
Lower come back. Now he's apparently it's the girlfriend pushing this.
The girlfriend is also a publicist, so she wants him
to come back. And since she's a publicist, she knows
how to plant all these stories, all over the place,
trying to engineer this comeback, come back for what. I
don't know what. He's going to come back to the
Today Show, I don't think so he can't take him
(14:40):
back there. I mean, it's a cuomo trying to make
a comeback. You left in disgrace, you left under a
cloud of terrible scandal, and in the case of Matt Lower,
it was real scandal, real sexual harassment stuff, real problem.
So who's going to bring him back? And for what reason?
You know, you know, if it's like Lewis c k well,
(15:04):
you know, there's the reason to bring him back. Guy.
The guy was funny. He was really funny and a
lot of stuff, had a lot of talent. So maybe
he's a question mark on this guy, but boy was
he good. Let's bring him back? Or Kevin Spacey, you know,
why would you bring this guy?
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Well?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Because he was pretty talented. Watch him in what's the
TV show? He did House the Cards or other stuff.
Guy's really talented. No, let's maybe you bend the role
that we'll bring him back because he's really talented. Case
of Matt Lower, you can't say he's really talented. He's
I mean, he was a pleasant guy. He was nice looking.
(15:40):
You know, he's older now he's not so hot looking anymore.
And he's basically he would read the teleprompter. I mean,
he's not a talented guy. I mean, there's no Matt
Lower videos going viral because he was so brilliant. I
mean to bend the rules for him, I don't think so.
I don't know. We'll take some calls in a minute.
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zero seven ten is remember, let's go to Joel in Florida. Joel,
how you doing.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Good morning Mark again, Good morning Vincent, Good morning Marret.
Just have a question for you.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Mark.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Over the weekend, Rosie o'donald, while in Ireland, said that
he believes that President Schrump should be taken out, and
there are other Democrats that have said the same. Given
the fact that he's going to be going back on
a junket with going to other cities or the areas.
Has the Secret Service greatly extended to be able to
cover all these visits to these various locations.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, you get Remember he was a candidate,
that was candidate levels already. Now it's presidential security. In fact,
if you watch the videos of the motorcade even going
from mar A Lago to the golf course, it's like
twenty five cars. It's amazing. It's enormous protection. He's going
to be traveling today to the Pocono's. They're not saying
(17:16):
how he's getting there, which means it's probably not Air
Force one. Sometimes when it's not that far, they'll take
Marine one the helicopter, so it'll be a whole bunch
of helicopters heading there. Let's go to Bob in Bridgeport. Bob,
how you doing.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I'm well Mark a big fan, long time thanks. In
the course of your career, did you ever work with
SUPI sales?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yes, a million times.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
He seems hilarious. I watched some of his old stuff
on YouTube. Did he just do that whole thing by himself?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Well, yeah, he was a very funny guy. He was
a regular guest on this show for years and years
and years and years. In fact, remember I used to
do that Saturday night oldie show.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Fight, I do remember that show.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
That was his final publican. His final public appearance was
on that show, and then we lost him. But he
was a very very funny guy. I remember he did
a radio show for years w NBC. Remember it was
I remember that Soupy from ten to.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Two lunch at the Commissary.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah, then it was Soupye and then Howard Stern. That
was quite a lineup back then, but he was He
was a great guy. His wife is still with us, Trudy,
who was a great dancer and performer. Anyway, le's go
to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Good morning, Mark, Good morning Joe, Good morning Battle Mark.
I loved that Saturday night oldie show used to do.
I would be cooking Saturday night dinner, listen to it.
I loved it.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Mark.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
First off, I would like to apologize for during the
course of this past years, I groused that Trump wasn't
doing enough to get rid of congestion pricing. Well, at
the end of last week in the Post. They had
a full page article detailing about Katty Hochel's corrupt judges
are putting the kebash on the Trump administration's efforts to
(19:08):
roll back the congestion price. And Trump said that he's
take them back to consent agreement that Joe Biden did,
and the judges saying he can't, So I apologize.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Also right now they want to leave it there because
it's going to be a factor that works against Kathy
Hochele on reelection.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Well, you saw yesterday in the papers they had this
whole article on the front page story the Post of
how certain police officers are using up official vehicles to
go through the tolls even though they're going home to
evade the toes.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Mark.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
This put v to my next thing. Zora Mandani was
on i think on social media or on video whatever
with this message to the illegal migrants, how to avoid
ICE agents, what to do in case you're confronted by them,
and saying this is what a war it looks like. Mark,
this is a big conflict of interest for Jessica Tish.
(20:06):
What is she going to do when there is a
major confrontation where police like what happened in Chinatown last
week have to be called to help ice agents out
just to get out of the building or something where
they're being attacked, like in Chicago. What is she going
to do? She's he is playing her mark. She should
(20:29):
get out. She should follow her brother's lead. Zorah Mandani
is should get out.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Listen. She's not Ray Kelly. She's not the greatest police
commission the world. But she's pretty good.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
I know.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
If she gets out, you want Mamdani to pick a.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
Replacement, Well, you'll watch this. But she's going to ruin
her future. Mark. She already she did a bad thing.
She apologized on behalf of your brother if I ever did.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
That, bet Listen. Her future is her ambitions. She wants
to be mayor. She she's not gonna be that great
a candidate. She's not exactly the most exciting dynamic speaker
in the world. And uh, she doesn't have a great
record a police and which a good record, but it's
not a great.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
But she's she's she's doing good, but this is gonna
hurt her. You do you think a lot of Jewish
voters they're going to see a flip flopping? What are
you doing where? I mean, it's like, uh, you're.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Gonna see some flip flopping. But we don't want to leave.
She's a good police commissioner and we don't want to
lose her.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
All right, Mack, I'll you know, maybe you know something, Uh,
maybe you know something. I don't know the way.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I just know she's tough. She's a very wealthy. She
doesn't need anybody's money, so she's not going to cave
into any special interests.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Listen, if if Mom Donnie picks his own guy, that
guy's gonna do whatever he's told by Mom Donnie. You
don't want that, all right?
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Well, I'm just talking about the appearance of u of
uh conflict. By the way, Mark, when are they going
to get rid of Andrea Mitchell at NBC?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Uh? You know the problem is that you know she's
like ninety seven and a half. You know, Well, he's
gonna drop that in any second. I mean, why worry
about it?
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Of course, you were talking about them getting a rid
of all the old fossils at the other.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Netwell that's CBS. Well, CBS brought in a sane person.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
To rut I know, but Andrew Mitchell fits that category,
doesn't she?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah, But at MSNBC still crazy, still nuts. Anyway, thanks
for calling, Vincent, great call. Hey, when we come back,
we'll talk about Frank Sinatra next and other matters with
the owner of Patsy's, the great landmark restaurant. Sal from
Patsy's in a moment on seven ten wor He's more
Mark Okay, So Mark Simone show on seven ten wor Well,
(22:43):
you know Patsy's, the landmark restaurant, fifty sixth Street between
Broadway and Eighth It was Frank Sinatra's favorite restaurant. And
there's a lot to talk about with Frank Sinatra. It's
that time of year. Oh not Christmas. It's Sinatra's birthday
this week. And with us right now, the owner of
pat So you Sal Skygdamilo Sal How you doing?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Hey, Good morning, Mark, Happy holidays, Merry Christmas, buddy.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
You too, Frank Sinatra's favorite restaurant. Where do we even start?
Tell us Frank Sinatra's favorite meal? What like if you
went to Patsy's and said to you make me Sinatra's
favorite meal, what would you make?
Speaker 4 (23:20):
He liked it the auditchok Reaganot appetizers and then he'd
have some kind of short pasti the pen of Rigatonio
Sperali with the tomato basil sauce, which is onions, no garlic.
If I made a garlic sauce for him, sometimes you
have the clams in the garlic sauce. It would be
the whole garlic. We brace it in the olive oil
and take it out. You see, you had the flavor
(23:40):
and then the edge of tomatoes and clams and white
wine and all the spices. And he loved to from
the main course, the veal and chicken milonnaise. It says scillatini,
very fine flour, sea egg and seasoned bread from fried
pills chris a lit will rouble it, tomato salad and
most importantly red wine, vinegar, no balsonic fan.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Well, that's a very good meal, but if you go
to Patty look at the menu, there's probably twenty five
better things to order there.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
That's just well, my favorite I like, I like pastawi chiese.
So my favorite is Rigatoni sonino with the tomato basil.
Regard to Milton Mozela palmachon, all the Pamgan's and Gueeny
with the clamsauce. Popular anything with fish locks to Friday Oblo.
I think it's spectacular, makes a great dish and you know,
just a lot of great Southern Italian classics. The heart
(24:28):
of the menu the same. Only three chefs all these
years was my grandfather, Esqual, Patsy Scott, the Millo, my
dad and myself. It's over eighty one years now and
in this Friday would have been Franks one hundred and
tenth birthday, and we always celebrate his birthday at a
restaurant with a beautiful muncheon. From twelfth to three, it's
going to be halted by Adriana Trigiani. She's very same
(24:50):
as author. She's written i think twenty seven books. Her
latest book was A View from Lake Cuomo, which we
actually had the book signing and our restaurant was a
sold out, so much sold out we added a second
event and so popular great stuff. We're gonna have some
video tributes also, you are not in person, but video tributes.
Who have Michael Billblay and Robert Dobby, Steve longme son
(25:15):
David beautiful because they love the play too, and Gene
Kelly's wife Patricia Kelly beautiful stuff. And the latest, the
real surprise guest we just added is Frank Sinatra's granddaughter, A. J.
Lambert is going to be there, and it's just so exciting.
She's such a such a sweet woman. That's Nancy's daughter,
and we're gonna be so happy. We've got Steve Maglio
(25:37):
who performs at the Carnegie Club, the Sinatra tributes all
the time.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Oh yeah, that's this. Friday is Sinatra's birthday, the twelfth,
so you.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Can Friday is the birthday.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Can people go to this Sinatra luncheon?
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Yes, we have about five seats left. They can call
the restaurant two one two two four seven three four
nine one two one two two four seven three includes
all this great entertainment and of course Frank's favorite meal
as between know, some things we've talked about, and it's
gonna be a great time. We always we always love
(26:11):
remembering him. So many people.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
How much is it to go to.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
It's a one ninety five plus taxi tip.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yes, well that includes music and the food and the whole.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Thing, music, everything, the whole nine yards and it's it
always sells out. This this year, we just had a
few few seats left. It's always so much fun and
everybody enjoys it. It's just a wonderful remembrance of such
a spectacular man. And I know how much you loved
him and how much you know about him. You're definitely
an encyclopedia when it comes to Frank Sinatra. But you
(26:47):
just take a look at the wall of all the
photos we have, and almost everyone could be traced back
to Frank Sinatra, like he brought in Jackie Gleeson, who
brought in the Rosemary Coon, who brought in George Corney,
you know, and and Jerry still always very close friends
with Nancy Sinatra, And of course they brought their son
Ben Stola. He wrote the poet Nancy and the Sinatra
wrote the forward to my first cookbook, and Ben Stilla
(27:08):
wrote the forward to my second cookbook. And we sell,
you know, during the holidays, we sell a lot of
that as a gift. If you don't know what to
get anyone, we have apasta sauces, Mariinada fadiaalo To made
a basil and vodka sauce. You can get the cookbooks,
and we have a little gift box at some pasta
and coffee. If you don't know what to get anyone,
you go to our website, which is patchis without the
(27:30):
apostrophe p A T S Y S dot com. And
like you said, it's the only location where it took
between Ans and Broadway by Connegie Hall.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
And when you go to Patty's, do not rush right
into the restaurant. When you walk through the door, stop
and look at the pictures on the wall. These are
all the customers through the all famous famous faces. Look
at all the pictures and look carefully the end of
the bar. There's a beautiful statue of Frank Sinatra there,
so that.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
One we got to it was commissioned by Tina Sinatra.
I think there's only a nine hundred limited edition. We
have that for many many years. And then on the
upstairs we have a smaller statue of Frank Dean and
Sammy the rat Pack. A great, great remembrance. Is great fun.
We're is so lucky because even like last week, my
(28:19):
wife is a big country music fan. And Kenny Chesney
came in and he said, the first time he came
here was, you know, like thirty years ago because he
heard it was Frank Sinatra's favorite place. So you can't
ask for a better pr guy than that.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
All right, now, let me ask you an important question.
Let's Sinatra would always pick up the check. Let's there
was a whole bunch of people to check. Was one
thousand dollars? What would Sinatra tip on that?
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Oh he was easily thirty thirty five percent without and
that's not including one hundreds he threw out everybody when
one hundred dollars was a lot of money. Yes, he was.
He was so generous. I mean, he just was in
every way, I mean with his philanthropy, with his help.
And the most important point, and I know you know
this mark was he wanted to be anonymous. He just
(29:03):
wanted to do it because he wanted to do it,
not to get his name in the paper. And that's
just such a wonderful quality. The man was so ahead
of his time, even with civil rights though, you and
I don't have to tell you all those stories.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Now when he was in the restaurant, he's big tipper,
ended out hundreds and that was like thousands back then. Also,
how many times would he pick up the check for
other tables?
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Oh, so many times, There's so many times. The most
famous one I think I probably told you New York
Yankees were in they won the World Series. He they
introduced to each other and at the end of the night,
Sinatra left and Billy Martin was the manager back then.
He says, all right, now that Frank left, we can leave.
He says, give me the check. He says, too late.
Frank paid for.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
You, for the whole team, the entire Yankees.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
There was one time Mark, I don't know if I
told you this story. One time when he said to
my father, he says, me and Barbara and another couple
were coming in, it's okay for the other man to
pay the check. And Ty came to pay the check.
He gave him his gold American Express caught it, denied.
It wind up that that was the president of American
(30:03):
Express and his goal call is denied. He thought Sinatra
was playing a practical joke.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
On him, and he was. I don't know how he
pulled that off, but that was Jim Robinson, right, the
chairman of America Express. Somehow Sinatra got his card to
be denied.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Yes, they were friends. They lived close together on pomp Springs.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah, it was so.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
I was the one time because he said I don't
want I don't want to owe anyone anything, you know,
because when he was down and out, nobody want to
talk to him. When he came back. He says, now
I don't want nothing from nobody, so God bless him.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Well, if you want to celebrate Sinatra, this Friday is
the birthday of Frank Sinatra. It's December twelfth, and they've
been doing this every year for a million years, the
Sinatra Birthday party. And it's at Patsy's. They'll be live music,
singing and some well known people there. And so what
now what do people do? If they want to come,
you make a reservation.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
Please please give us a call at the restaurant. It's
two and two two four seven three four nine one
two one two two four seven three four nine one
and so the products and everything else. You go to
the website it's patsys dot com, p A T. S
y s No apostrophe dot com and it's it's always
such fun, it's such a great event. I know w
(31:12):
O R has been there many times. You've been there
too as well.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Make sure you follow Patsy's on Patsy's Italian Restaurant on Instagram.
Very good pictures, all sorts of stuff there. We only
got a few seconds left. Sinatra always brought a lot
of people to dinner. What's the biggest aunt rush you
ever came in with.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Oh he was there when he did for the seventy
fifth birthday of James Cagney. He took over the whole
upstairs and it was it was probably probably about eighty
or eighty five people came time to sing Happy Birthday
to James Cagney. Dean Martin was singing, Sammy Davis was
doing a soft shoe and Sinatra was just about to
(31:50):
join him to sing Happy Birthday to James Cagney. My
father said, wait, wait, Frank, you can't do this, and
Frank Sinatra got mad. What can I do? My father said,
I can't afford this kind of here.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
But if you want to see and again when you
walk into Paties, don't rush in stops you come through
the door and look at the pictures on the wall.
They're amazing of all the celebrities that were there and
these call Patsies. Follow them on Instagram Patsy's Italian Restaurant
Seal great stuff. Thanks for being with us, always a pleasure.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
God bless you a happy and healthy to you and
your family.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
Thanks take care, h Thanks, Hey, don't forget we got
the hunger thon. You know we raise money every year
for people that are hungry who need help, and Hunger
Thon raises millions to feed people struggling with hunger. So
they do an auction all kinds of take a look
at the auction's all kinds of great packages. One is
even you can come visit the studio here, you can
(32:44):
sit right over there. You can come on the air
if you want promote something, if you want take a
tour of iHeart all our great stations, a lot of
great different auction packages. Just go to hunger thon dot
org slash iHeart hungerthon dot org slash iHeart Mary similar
on W Well, Hey, the big news this morning, Bruce
(33:09):
Blakeman announced he's running. Now. At least Stephonic is great,
but I think Blakeman is better. Stephonica is great. She's
a great legislator, she's great fighting on those committees. But
Blakeman's a governor. That's basically what he does in NASA County,
the governor of the county, and he turns out to
be the number one best county executive in America. So
(33:32):
it's exactly what you want for a governor. So we'll
see what happens now. You could have a primary all
of that, but good problem to have when you got
a lot of good candidates. We're out of time, don't
go away. Buck and Clay are coming up next there. Great.
They'll be here from noon to three. I'll be back
tomorrow from ten to noon and I'll talk to you
then right here on seven to ten. WR
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