December 31, 2025 • 35 mins
Curtis continues as guest host for Mark Simone, paying tribute to two hard-working legends in the entertainment industry: the late, great Regis Philbin and talk radio icon Bob Grant. He discusses Regis Philbin’s remarkable journey through television and reflects on how Bob Grant influenced talk radio for generations of broadcasters. Curtis takes your calls on Regis, Bob Grant, and other topics.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now the Red Beret has returned to radio. Curtis Leewall
guest host the Mark Simone Show on sevent ten wor.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah, oh boy. All these officials must cheat from one another.
You know Eric Adams swaggerman with no plan. Thank god,
he's gone, claiming crimers at an all time load. Now,
if you're in the five boroughs of the city in
New York, you don't know what city he's in. Well,
that's right. Most times he hasn't even been in our city.
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And then I heard that broadcasts about Rosbaraka, who, like
his father, hates cops. Who's his father is he? I know? Look,
look from West Milford. What would you know? You know,
you don't grow up in Newark. I know more about
Newark than most people listening to this radio station. Spent
a lot of time there. But Rosbarock because father was
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Lee Roy Jones. We then changed his name to a
mirror Baraka, poet, self described communists and hater of everything white.
If it was white, it wasn't right, and the lifelong
enemy of Tony Imperiale. We at the Northward Citizens Association
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and kept that area along Bloomfield Avenue from burning down
during the riots. Unfortunately the rest of the city decimated
and no has not returned since crime is high there.
You want to go to Weekwake Park. You want to
go to broad and Market. By the way broad and
Market is he want you to go to Penn Station
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in Newark. Yeah, they're all called Penn Station, Baltimore, Penn Station,
Phillip Penn Station, Washington Pen. I want you to go
to Penn Station in Newark. You take the Path train
there in New Jersey trans and I want you to
walk over the broad and Mind. You'll see the goldleaf
dome of City Hall there. And you need to know
they're back in about nineteen twenty twenty two on the
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sixth floor of one of the biggest retailers of all time, Bamburgers.
Oh yeah, there used to be all the big stores
there along Broader Market, same as you had in New York.
Was where wor R got its license to broadcasts. And
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that's where I think the first of the three Gamblings
was broadcasting from six floor. No longer Bamburgers, obviously. And
to tell you how bad things are in Newark, don't
listen to Rasbaraka. He hates cops. There used to be
more Cadillac dealerships in Newark than any other city in
the nation, more than even in Detroit, where the Cadillacs
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were coming off the assembly line. And we'll go right
into the some we'll go right into the showcased halls,
and you can get a Cadillac cheaper there than anywhere.
And my uncle's on the Italian American side, the Bianchino side.
They all love Cadillacts back then, or Italian guys. That
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was the sign of success in El Dorado, Fleetwood, Seville,
you know where they went to buy the Cadillacs and
then trade it in every year for a new Cadillac. Newark.
Then the riots hit. You can't even buy or used
Cadillac anywhere in Newark now, So stop this nonsense. Oh no,
it's safer than it's ever been. New York City, safer
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than it's ever been. Who knows more about both those
cities than me? Yes, truly, Curtis Sliwa, Get out of here.
Rose Baraka, the evil seed did not fall far from
the rotten tree of leit Roy Jones aka Emira Baraka
a selfish describe communists. You know how that's been thrown
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around Zoron Mondami. You know Kami Mondam. He's not a communist,
he's a socialists. But Leroy Jones was a communist. And
we'll get one guarantee. If you were white, you were
not right. All right, Just a little side note there.
I want to get back on track though, because we
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are doing homage, as oftentimes Mark Simone would do. Nobody
knows more about television, movies, radio and its history than
Mark Simone. But I was sitting with Tom Cuddy yesterday
after the show and the name of Regis Philbin popped up,
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and without a doubt, Regis Philbin was the hardest working
guy in all of television. And I know for a
lot of people they don't even think about Regis Philbin anymore.
Shame shame on you. Local guy Bronx kid van Nass
not far from Morris par went to Cardinal Hayes Hayesman
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by the way, like Bernard McGirk, who I'll be talking
about tomorrow doing my annual tribute. But I gotta tell you,
Regis Philman his father, Irish named him Regis because he
wanted him to go to Regis High School in Manhattan,
which is the elite Jesuit high school can't be elite
if Fauci went there from Benson Hurts and he is Udscratziata,
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he will burn in hell, if nothing more for what
he did in sending beagles over to Tunisia, third world country,
to experiment on them at our taxpayer's expense and torture
them for no purpose other than he's probably a statist,
but anyway, just to divert. So Regis got his name
Regis because his father said, oh, you're gonna go to
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Regis High School in Manhattan, the elite Jesuit high school.
And I would always say to Regis, guys, because I
went to Brooklyn Prep, where they kicked me out my
senior year, you're not a real high school because you
don't have a football team. And they didn't and they
still don't. So he grows up in the Bronx, goes
to Cardinal Hayes and the most in I think the
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interesting thing is he surfaces in nineteen sixty seven with
a member of the rat Pack. Remember the rat Pack.
Oh you're all aware of that. If you didn't grow
up with them, you probably saw the movie Sinatra, Dean Martin,
Sammy Davis, Junior, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop. Joey Bishop,
who I think had a couple of call fee in
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the Bronx, was born there, but I think grew up
most of his life in Philadelphia. By the way, that's
where Dick Clark get it. Notice how the synergy here.
It's a stream of consciousness Dick Clark American Bandstand, which
eventually led to what you just heard about, ABC's Dick
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Clark's New Yorkers Rocking Eve, you know with Ryan Seacress,
Dick Clark, Ryan, you know, Dick Clark, although he has
worked radio, Ryan Seacrest, but he's milk toast. As you know,
I don't have time to be watching milk Toast. Regis,
on the other hand, was always a Wisenheimer. Will always
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slip you with Mickey and I first remember watching him
on the Joey Bishop Show. I'm sure some of you did.
He in competition, remember with Johnny Carson, and his sidekick
was Ed McMahon. By the way, great actor, great actor.
Does anybody out there know was probably the very first
vigilante movie about the subways before there was Death Wish
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with Charles Bronson. I mean, it was a classic and
Eddery McMahon had a great party in it. Great actor.
He was a barker on Atlantic City. He came up,
became a sidekick for Johnny Carson, you know the rest
of that history. And then of course you wanted him
to come to your door the publish clearing House. I
don't know if it was a battle they were elbowing
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one another. Was it Dick Clark or was it Ed McMahon.
But anyway, because Ed, if you bought all the magazine subscriptions,
you might become a millionaire. Oh, by the way, that
was another show that Regis Philbin hosted later on, You
Want to Be a Millionaire? Who was that it came
to your door? Was that Dick Clark was at Ed McMahon.
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So anyway, it was Joey Bishop and sidekick was Regis Philbin,
and Regis was good. It was a good combination. And
then all of a sudden, Regis Philbin was no more,
you know, because those shows they come, they go, and
all of a sudden, Regis Philbin showed up on a
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TV station in Los Angeles midday. I think it was
Channel thirteen or Channel nine. They have like these independent
stations there. They all have talk shows they do news
many more than we have. And you know who he replaced.
He replaced the king of talk radio, Bob Grant, who
was on television at that time. Oh no, no, no, there's
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so much more to delve into. We ooh, but this
is a stream of consciousness, I said Dick Clark, if
I remember correctly, Dick Clark was from Mount Vernon, went
to high school in Mount Vernon. Radio guy was up
there in Utica, you know, with the brewery and the
little mafia there. It was a mafia town. And they
went to Syracuse University did radio there. Then all of
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a sudden, he goes outside of Philly. He's on a
radio station. They're experimenting with like an American bandstand format
on the radio, and the host goes on vacation, gets
busted for duy drunk and driving, and guess who takes
over the show If you're there at the right time,
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at the right place, Dick Clark. And they also had
an affiliate TV station, And that's how I'm American Bandstand
came about. And boy, that was the time Philly was king.
Oh man was Philly King? Remember Mike Douglas Show, Mike
Douglas Roger Ailes was the producer. They filmed that. It
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was late afternoon. That was in Philadelphia. I remember watching
Mike Douglas I think it was nineteen seventy two for
a full week. You know who co hosted with Mike Douglas,
John Lennon and your co owner four a full week.
This is mid afternoons. They had forty million viewers when
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the population was a lot less than it is now.
I remember there was George Carlin was on, Ralph Nader,
the Black Panther Leader there, Bobby Seal I think he
sells barbecue sauce. Anyway, The point was it was so
good and then the fbon Jay Gilhover muscled the Mike
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Douglas and said, uh hmm, you don't want to be
putting on television Enemies of America, especially when he heard
him sing that song, which I think he sang. I
remember as a kid, imagine nineteen seventy two. By the way,
John Lennon used to listen to talk radio. That's right
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at the Dakota. He would listen to the old talker WMCA.
That's where our own Mark Simone got his start. So
let it be listened to the King of talk radio,
Bob Grant and go Nuts because obviously their politics couldn't
be any more different. And at times he would walk over.
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And this is when you had celebrities walking all over
New York City on their own. They didn't have an entourage,
no bodyguards. I saw Mickey Mantlehalff in the bag walking
around in the streets for that broke my heart. I
saw will Clyde Fraser walking around on his own. I mean,
you got to see so many people. And then all
of a sudden, you know, when Lennon was killed that
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era and it quick. But anyway, before that, he'd be
listening to wmcaight all the way down on the dial.
Now it's like owned by Salem Communication where you got
to pay if you're a holy roller or a preacher
a dollar a holler or they'll take your money and
then they'll put you on. But anyway, that was the
big talk station, our Peter Strauss ellen Strauss family owned.
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I believe that's where Mark Simone got his start. That's
where he met Bob Grant. They were like commonium bleached.
They did not get along. But I will tell you
they had some of the greatest radio of all time.
So all of a sudden, you have John Ranny going
over and I think these studios at w ABC at
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that time was right across from Carnegie Hall. No security
at that time. He walk upstairs, he'd knock on the
door and he go, I want to go on and
I want to contradict what Bob Grant said. And the
board operator would look at it, Hey, John Lennon and
go back to the hosts, and the host nah, come on,
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what are you half in the bag? What are you dropping?
LSD very popular at that time. LSD, you know Tim Leary,
and he would come in and he would rant about
Bob Grant.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
See that's when you could do that. No security, you
don't have to provide identification. Remember it was John Lennon
who got in trouble when he said, you know, the
Beatles are more popular.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Than Jesus Christ. Oh they were. Radio stations wouldn't play Beatles'
music at that time, Remember how popular. Remember, and the
guy would be listening to talk radio. Do you want
to be a bird? Remember that song from Easy Rider?
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I wonder if any of you know that was the
theme song to the guy at night that he would
listen to, who was a radical the complete opera of
Bob Grant in the afternoon drive time. He was a
total radical who when the Sibbinese Liberation Army SINQ General
General Listimo Sinceque declared war in America and either kidnapped
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Pathy Patty Hurst or Tanya joined them, he was praising
them on the air. Yeah at the old WMCA. Let's
see if we can sort of massage any of your
memories can get back to our tribute to the hardest
working guy ever in TV, Regis Philmin and the hardest
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working guy ever in radio talk radio, Bob Grant. I'll
conflate both of them as we do our homage to
the greats, the iconic figures who paved the way for
all of us, and little of any tribute has ever
made to how important they were to this thing of ours.
I will never forget, I know, Mark Simon, never forget. Unfortunately,
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there are a lot of people in our business who
get their paycheck and they either don't know, or if
they do know, God forbid they give any credit to
these people. I tell you this much, Bob Grant. You
know who grew up listening to Bob Grant. The rock
grabbed all American conservative Voice sub region from Franklin, Long Island,
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Sean Hannity, you said him many times, and you catch
him in the afternoon drive here wor seven ten bill O'Reilly? Oh,
he says it many times. Mike Levin. When Bob Grant
was exiled at WWDB in Philadelphia, I'll get into that
coming up next. They all attribute this, Now, Howard start
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to Bob Grant? How come now, little if any attention
is paid to these folks who really paved the way,
took a lot of risks, got fired many times for
taking a principal stand, took a licking, only to come
back ticking our numbers one eight hundred three to two
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one zero seven ten. That's one eight hundred three two
one zero seven.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Ten, Street Smart, Straight Talk. Curtis leewa guest host for
Mark Simone on sevent TENO.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Wa as we don't take anything for granted, and we
paid tributes to no doubt hardest working guy ever in TV.
I had this conversation with Tom Cuddy yesterday. Regis Filman
father was Irish mother. I think was a combination Italian Albanian,
which is very similar to the makeup of Vaness and
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Morris Park now in the Bronx, he was a Hayesman,
went to Cardinal Hayes. I think he was best known
for being on Live with Regis and Kathy Lee. That
was a great show. I think that went off for
like twelve years until the year two thousand. That was
the better one compared to when he was on with
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Kelly Uh. Nope. You know, Regis would get up and
do his riff. That was something you waited to hear,
like with Bob Grant the opening riff of his show,
and there was no podcast, there was no way to
recover it. It was great. And then in the interim
he was doing the most watched TV program at that time,
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Hard working According to
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the Guinness World Record for the most hours spent on television,
the hardest working man in TV show business Regis Philbin,
without a doubt. And by the way, you're going to
be some of you watching the ABC's Dick Clark's New
Yorkers Rock and Roll Eve right with milk toast Ryan Seacressa.
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That's his sting, you know, sub student for Dick Clark
when he had that stroke. That was Regis Philbin. If
I remember correctly two thousand and four to two thousand
and five that first show was Regis Philbin. I mean,
the guy was all over TV, and it's almost like
nobody nobody mentions him. I think the only one who
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mentions it from time to time is Letterman. But now
let's switch to the hardest working guy ever in radio.
We paid our homage to the father of talk radio,
who was right here at WR when he was spinning
that first stacks of wax that turn into taking callers,
and that was buried Grade nineteen forty five, right here
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at War Bob Grant, the king of talk radio. My
mentor the reason that I'm in talk creadio because nobody
else wanted me. He forced them on. He forced me
on them at WABC by saying, you gotta have Curtis.
He knows who all the bones are buried and who
buried them, and everybody knows that now, and they hesitate
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every time I talk about their names. Is he going
to reveal what I thought it would take to my grave? Well,
you keep thinking out there, guys and gals, got one
more show to go on Friday. Could be opening up
the Pandora's box of many of those at WABC always
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bashing Curtis now, but no, let's get back to Bob Grant. Uh.
He actually was the busiest guy in all of talk radio,
not here but out at KABC. By the way, he
gave me a call this morning, they want me to
do something for them. I had done a show for
Al Rentel, unfortunately had broken his hip for a year.
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I substituted for al Rentel from New York City, and
nobody knew that I wasn't in LA because I knew
LA like the back of my head. So I said
thank you, but no thank you, but a tribute to
a very iconic station. Bob Grant was on that station
and he had three shows, Open Line, Nightline, which eventually
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became a TV production at Ted coppol on ABC, and
Sunday Line, and he was doing TV Busy, Busy, busy,
and he interviewed Muhammad Ali, Ronald Reagan, first interview with
Ronald Reagan, and that nut who created Kwanza, that Kwanza guy,
Ron Krenge. What a story that is? Hey, he had
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the first interview with him. He was the go to guy,
and then some executives said, you know, it's just too bad.
Bob that the number one talk show hosts in America
doesn't want to come to the number one market in America,
New York. So I'm not interested going to New York.
I got a house, See, I got four kids, I'm
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on TV, I'm on radio. But he got to go
to New York. Bob and the guy named R. Peter
Strauss reached out to him and made him an offer.
He couldn't refuse the money. Although Bob came out here,
he didn't want to stay. He told me he'd I
hated New York. I wanted to go back to La
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so desperately, where everybody knew me embraced me back there.
You know, they were more conservative here. They called me
a fascist. So I decided I would get on the
radio and be mean and it would force ar Peter
Strauss to break my contract. So that's where this raging
persona came from. And unfortunately for Bob at that time
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and good for us, his rating skyrocketing. Ratings not streams.
You know, at the old WABC where I was, they
run around say lo look, Loia, my streamers up. A
million people were listening to me. I said, are you
out of your mind? That's not a rating. That's the
Wizard of Oz. You may like what you're being told,
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but that does not give you a gauge of the audience.
Oh one last thing. Barry Farbara, who had been a
fixture here for many years, decided to run for mayor.
It's nineteen seventy seven. Oh shades of Curtis Sleep. When
he left w R he asked Bob Grant to substitute
for him overnight. And when Bob Grant did, out of
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every four radios, two radios at night, we're listening to him,
nobody ever had those kind of ratings. And then he
said something I'm trying to remember the words. Oh yeah,
she passed a gynecological and pigmentation test. I forget who
he was attributing that to. He got fired and exiled
out to WWDB, only to come back to WABC. That's
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my homage. Hardest working guy in talk radio, hortest working
guy in TV reagions, Philbinton, and tomorrow, you don't want
to miss my annual tribute to the best thing that
occurred to WABC, which was Bernard McGirk. One eight hundred
three to two one is zero seven ten. That's one
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eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten talk Radio.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
It's street literally Curtis Slaywad joined seven to ten WR
to guess those for.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Mark samol dtists working guys and gals television and radio.
In his book of World records, readis filled and none other.
Bronxky proud of going to Cardinal Hayes Catholic High School
still open, thank god. Unfortunately nearby all hollows closing, Great
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School Cathedral High School this year for girls. Great school closing,
and Preston was on the cusp of closing in the
Tremont section. Great High School all girls. You know j
Low maybe got back Jenny from the block. Never contributed
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as far as I know, a nickel diamond penny to
the alumni front and keep them open. They were kept
open by Bally's. I believe some arrangement was made. Who
bought the Trump golf course nearby? But think about that.
He was Regis Philman, who appeared three times on the
Celebrity Jeopardy Again. The guy was constantly working out there.
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He had the most appearances and in one appearance he
won fifty thousand dollars and gave it right to Cardinal Hayes.
That's what you should do if you're doing well, and
you realize that these Catholic high schools, they gave so
many an opportunity they might not have had if they
had to go to their local neighborhood public high school.
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And like j Lo, hey, j Lo, you forget your roots. Anyway,
let's go to the phones. It's Bob who's calling from
San Diego. Your turn to be heard here at seven
to ten.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Woo Bob, hey, Curtis, good to hear you on the here.
Earlier you mentioned the first subway vigilante movie. There would,
I think would be the incident with Martin Sheen and
Tony Mussanti.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Oh yeah, And if you haven't seen it, ladies in gentlemen,
you must. A great period piece, black and white. All
these different people were getting on the number four train,
you know, coming out of the Bronx going down to
Grand Central, and masonte is a complete psycho. Martin Sheen,
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I think that was like his debut. And remember the
part that Ed McMahon played.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Yes, he actually he didn't want to take a cab
to Flushing from the Bronx, so he took the trains
and he played the father of a young girl.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
And he was on the car with his wife, now
arguing with his wife. Great piece, she's going, let's take
a cab. We got a baby with us that nah,
I take that train, you know an oh boy, these
two psycho boys were in the car. It was like
cockwork Orange before his cockwork Orange. I mean, really, really
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a great, great movie that's never really gotten it, Stue.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
It really is a great movie. Just keeps building and
building until the climax. And by the way, you can
watch it free on YouTube. Just search on YouTube for
the incident.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah, please do. Especially during highliaday time, a lot of
people like to watch things. You gotta watch this movie.
Every station, a different group gets on, or a different couple,
and they're all all of them went on to become
great stars and starletts, and they had their little cameo rolls.
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Oh man, what a great, great movie. Let's go if
we can to John, who's calling from? Is that old Japan?
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Curtis?
Speaker 6 (26:42):
What's up my brother?
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Noll?
Speaker 6 (26:43):
I just depend on the New York side.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Ah, okay, Curtis.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Good, I'm glad to see it down shop on the
dial there, very good. I was incorrect. I thought Alex
Bennett would have been the name you were you were
looking for.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
You are absolutely corre Alex Bennett. Evening show hosts wmc
A Bob Grant was Drive Time. You couldn't have been
any more different.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Yeah, Courtaige, listen, I'm trying. I know you're busy there.
If I want to ask this gum, you know why
I was a little bewildered. I used to be in
Manhattan Detectives. We had a homicide in nineteen ninety two,
fourteenth Street in the holes on the fourth train. A
young man, a hard working stuff African American, Jerry Robinson,
on his way home at eleven o'clock at night. He
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gets held up in the hall at Fourteenth Street. He
pulls out a twenty five pops two guys kills one
of them. The third piece took off. They called him
the Blackbernie gets Barry Slotnick represented him at arraiments and
then an eighteen b attorney took it from there on.
He took a plea and I didn't do any time.
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It was it. It never got well. It hit the
paper that night they were down in raiments, but after
never got any place. I was wondering if you knew
about that.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
No, I do, because I followed those cases. It was
really the team that you had. Barry Slotnik was the
lead attorney, and I'm trying to remember Miller, I think
was his partner. He had to go. No Baker, Baker
was his partner. A great team, and they made themselves
available for those kind of cases. More often than not.
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It was black victims fighting back against black assailians. But
you see, it didn't have the ammonium bleach. It didn't
have what you needed, white versus black. I mean that
got you the headlines that kept the headlines going for days.
It was black on black crime. Nothing a mere mention.
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By the way, you mentioned Alex Bennett. He was the
talkshow host at WMCA at night. His theme song was
do You Want to Be a Bird? A classic song
from Easy Rider, and man, he would talk about coming
from concerts and he would be like be doing therapy
on himself before this guy did it Seagull remember a
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Channel seven? Oh does anybody remember Seagull? I'm just gonna
give you a little hint there, and he would do
the same thing self there. And this guy supported radical causes.
Do you know who ended up taking over the apartment
of Alex Bennett, who went back to San Francisco where
he was from, to Radio Camel where they spun stacks
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of wax, did a little bit of talk Bernard Getz,
who's still in that apartment today right off of sixth
Avenue and fourteenth Street. Wow, the synergy is happening. Let's
go if we can to Stella in close. Your turn
to be heard here at seven ten wr Stella.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Hello, listen to Curtis. I'm glad to hear you back,
and I'm glad to hear your voice. I'm very concerned
and so are a lot of people in my neighborhood
and queens about Mendani taking over privately owned homes. Do
you know anything about that?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Well, it's not just Mandami, this was the city of Yes.
I warned everybody about it. Eric Adams got windined in
pocket lined by the developers and realtors, as did Andrew
Evilize Cuomo. So they now have the authority because the
people voted this into the law because everybody's so affordable housing,
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and they thought, oh wow, affordable housing. I'm for that. No, no, no,
no no, So if you happen to live in a
residential community and this is coming to a neighborhood near you.
They call it up zoning, density housing. Kathy Holkol tried
that and realize that wasn't gonna work out to get
her elected against leez Elden, so she dropped it like
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a hot rock. But the whole idea was build high
rise housing, claim it's affordable near train stations along ther
Metro North, and people in residential area say, oh no, no, no,
no no, we don't need any density housing. We don't
need any up zoning. There's zoning, there's elected officials, there's
a process. So Kathy Hoko recognized that was a third rail.
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But in New York City, because the issue became affordable
housing costs of living, they've pushed through this mandate that
gives developers and realtors the opportunity to come into your
neighborhoods in the outer boroughs, whether you live in the Bronx,
Staten Island, Queens of Brooklyn, and they can come into
your neighborhood. They don't have to go through any zoning
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regulations any longer, they don't have to meet with the
community board, they don't have to even meet with the
local elected officials. If they want to put up a
forty story high rise by the way, with no parking
and burden your infrastructure, they have a right to do it.
They've been given a green light. Worse yet, they're putting
up these lithium ion battery warehouses, which is a real
(32:06):
danger to the community. They're in residential areas. They're supposed
to be in industrial areas, but then again, residential property is
cheaper than industrial property. Thirty eight in Staten Island, twelve
in Brooklyn, eight in Queens formed the Bronx none in
Manhattan because we don't have enough electricity. And wait if
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you think it's bad now, artificial intelligence is going to
need double the amount of electricity and double the amount
of water to run their filing centers. You haven't heard
much about that, have you? Of course, not talk too
much of talk radios. Are you you see all those
(32:47):
Somalian themes in Minnesota? Could you repeat each other anymore
like parrots? How about actually talking about subject matter that
affects everybody's lives. And these AI artificial intelligence filing cell
centers that are gonna be built in a neighborhood near you,
and they require twice, the amount of electricity that's available
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on the grid, twice the amount of water that you
don't even have access to. And guess who's gonna pay
for all of that?
Speaker 4 (33:17):
You?
Speaker 2 (33:19):
What is anybody telling you that? Of course not? Oh
and you don't want to miss Friday My annual tribute
to Bernard McGirt. Best thing that ever happened at Turk Radio.
Oh my god, the guy had to take so much
abuse for from don Imus, without which don would never
have been able to function. And also a plead to
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all of you to make sure whatever men folks can
run across this New Year's holiday, you let them know
to get that PSA simple prick of the finger blood test.
If only Bernard McGirk had done that, he would not
have died a horrible death from prostate cancer. Look, I
had Stage four. I survived it. Some don't. The test
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in most instances will help eliminate it.
Speaker 6 (34:06):
Do.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Beret is back.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Curtis slievwa guest host the Mark Simone Show on seven
tenoo on.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
I'll be able to let you know my last day
substituting for Mark on Friday? What went down at that
block party for Zoranmandami? I haven't been invited, but I'm
going who's gonna stop me? You all need to know.
And then we're gonna discuss AI artificial intelligence, and Elon
Musk is saying, don't worry about it. We're gonna create
(34:36):
an income for all of you. You won't have to work.
You can listen to talk radio all day. We'll take
care of you from the cradle to the grave. Watch
your back. And then obviously cryptocurrency, blockchain, what I call
crime coin, Bitcoin, the scam of our time. It's a
Ponzi scheme. And driverers vehicles, Oh, many of you are
(34:58):
driving as we speak now. Don't worry about it. The
masters of the University of Silicon Valley, you say you
won't have to drive, and what are you supposed to
do to earn a living
Now the Red Beret has returned to radio. Curtis Leewall
guest host the Mark Simone Show on sevent ten wor.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah, oh boy. All these officials must cheat from one another.
You know Eric Adams swaggerman with no plan. Thank god,
he's gone, claiming crimers at an all time load. Now,
if you're in the five boroughs of the city in
New York, you don't know what city he's in. Well,
that's right. Most times he hasn't even been in our city.
(00:37):
And then I heard that broadcasts about Rosbaraka, who, like
his father, hates cops. Who's his father is he? I know? Look,
look from West Milford. What would you know? You know,
you don't grow up in Newark. I know more about
Newark than most people listening to this radio station. Spent
a lot of time there. But Rosbarock because father was
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Lee Roy Jones. We then changed his name to a
mirror Baraka, poet, self described communists and hater of everything white.
If it was white, it wasn't right, and the lifelong
enemy of Tony Imperiale. We at the Northward Citizens Association
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and kept that area along Bloomfield Avenue from burning down
during the riots. Unfortunately the rest of the city decimated
and no has not returned since crime is high there.
You want to go to Weekwake Park. You want to
go to broad and Market. By the way broad and
Market is he want you to go to Penn Station
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in Newark. Yeah, they're all called Penn Station, Baltimore, Penn Station,
Phillip Penn Station, Washington Pen. I want you to go
to Penn Station in Newark. You take the Path train
there in New Jersey trans and I want you to
walk over the broad and Mind. You'll see the goldleaf
dome of City Hall there. And you need to know
they're back in about nineteen twenty twenty two on the
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sixth floor of one of the biggest retailers of all time, Bamburgers.
Oh yeah, there used to be all the big stores
there along Broader Market, same as you had in New York.
Was where wor R got its license to broadcasts. And
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that's where I think the first of the three Gamblings
was broadcasting from six floor. No longer Bamburgers, obviously. And
to tell you how bad things are in Newark, don't
listen to Rasbaraka. He hates cops. There used to be
more Cadillac dealerships in Newark than any other city in
the nation, more than even in Detroit, where the Cadillacs
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were coming off the assembly line. And we'll go right
into the some we'll go right into the showcased halls,
and you can get a Cadillac cheaper there than anywhere.
And my uncle's on the Italian American side, the Bianchino side.
They all love Cadillacts back then, or Italian guys. That
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was the sign of success in El Dorado, Fleetwood, Seville,
you know where they went to buy the Cadillacs and
then trade it in every year for a new Cadillac. Newark.
Then the riots hit. You can't even buy or used
Cadillac anywhere in Newark now, So stop this nonsense. Oh no,
it's safer than it's ever been. New York City, safer
(03:40):
than it's ever been. Who knows more about both those
cities than me? Yes, truly, Curtis Sliwa, Get out of here.
Rose Baraka, the evil seed did not fall far from
the rotten tree of leit Roy Jones aka Emira Baraka
a selfish describe communists. You know how that's been thrown
(04:01):
around Zoron Mondami. You know Kami Mondam. He's not a communist,
he's a socialists. But Leroy Jones was a communist. And
we'll get one guarantee. If you were white, you were
not right. All right, Just a little side note there.
I want to get back on track though, because we
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are doing homage, as oftentimes Mark Simone would do. Nobody
knows more about television, movies, radio and its history than
Mark Simone. But I was sitting with Tom Cuddy yesterday
after the show and the name of Regis Philbin popped up,
(04:43):
and without a doubt, Regis Philbin was the hardest working
guy in all of television. And I know for a
lot of people they don't even think about Regis Philbin anymore.
Shame shame on you. Local guy Bronx kid van Nass
not far from Morris par went to Cardinal Hayes Hayesman
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by the way, like Bernard McGirk, who I'll be talking
about tomorrow doing my annual tribute. But I gotta tell you,
Regis Philman his father, Irish named him Regis because he
wanted him to go to Regis High School in Manhattan,
which is the elite Jesuit high school can't be elite
if Fauci went there from Benson Hurts and he is Udscratziata,
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he will burn in hell, if nothing more for what
he did in sending beagles over to Tunisia, third world country,
to experiment on them at our taxpayer's expense and torture
them for no purpose other than he's probably a statist,
but anyway, just to divert. So Regis got his name
Regis because his father said, oh, you're gonna go to
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Regis High School in Manhattan, the elite Jesuit high school.
And I would always say to Regis, guys, because I
went to Brooklyn Prep, where they kicked me out my
senior year, you're not a real high school because you
don't have a football team. And they didn't and they
still don't. So he grows up in the Bronx, goes
to Cardinal Hayes and the most in I think the
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interesting thing is he surfaces in nineteen sixty seven with
a member of the rat Pack. Remember the rat Pack.
Oh you're all aware of that. If you didn't grow
up with them, you probably saw the movie Sinatra, Dean Martin,
Sammy Davis, Junior, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop. Joey Bishop,
who I think had a couple of call fee in
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the Bronx, was born there, but I think grew up
most of his life in Philadelphia. By the way, that's
where Dick Clark get it. Notice how the synergy here.
It's a stream of consciousness Dick Clark American Bandstand, which
eventually led to what you just heard about, ABC's Dick
(06:52):
Clark's New Yorkers Rocking Eve, you know with Ryan Seacress,
Dick Clark, Ryan, you know, Dick Clark, although he has
worked radio, Ryan Seacrest, but he's milk toast. As you know,
I don't have time to be watching milk Toast. Regis,
on the other hand, was always a Wisenheimer. Will always
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slip you with Mickey and I first remember watching him
on the Joey Bishop Show. I'm sure some of you did.
He in competition, remember with Johnny Carson, and his sidekick
was Ed McMahon. By the way, great actor, great actor.
Does anybody out there know was probably the very first
vigilante movie about the subways before there was Death Wish
(07:41):
with Charles Bronson. I mean, it was a classic and
Eddery McMahon had a great party in it. Great actor.
He was a barker on Atlantic City. He came up,
became a sidekick for Johnny Carson, you know the rest
of that history. And then of course you wanted him
to come to your door the publish clearing House. I
don't know if it was a battle they were elbowing
(08:02):
one another. Was it Dick Clark or was it Ed McMahon.
But anyway, because Ed, if you bought all the magazine subscriptions,
you might become a millionaire. Oh, by the way, that
was another show that Regis Philbin hosted later on, You
Want to Be a Millionaire? Who was that it came
to your door? Was that Dick Clark was at Ed McMahon.
(08:23):
So anyway, it was Joey Bishop and sidekick was Regis Philbin,
and Regis was good. It was a good combination. And
then all of a sudden, Regis Philbin was no more,
you know, because those shows they come, they go, and
all of a sudden, Regis Philbin showed up on a
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TV station in Los Angeles midday. I think it was
Channel thirteen or Channel nine. They have like these independent
stations there. They all have talk shows they do news
many more than we have. And you know who he replaced.
He replaced the king of talk radio, Bob Grant, who
was on television at that time. Oh no, no, no, there's
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so much more to delve into. We ooh, but this
is a stream of consciousness, I said Dick Clark, if
I remember correctly, Dick Clark was from Mount Vernon, went
to high school in Mount Vernon. Radio guy was up
there in Utica, you know, with the brewery and the
little mafia there. It was a mafia town. And they
went to Syracuse University did radio there. Then all of
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a sudden, he goes outside of Philly. He's on a
radio station. They're experimenting with like an American bandstand format
on the radio, and the host goes on vacation, gets
busted for duy drunk and driving, and guess who takes
over the show If you're there at the right time,
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at the right place, Dick Clark. And they also had
an affiliate TV station, And that's how I'm American Bandstand
came about. And boy, that was the time Philly was king.
Oh man was Philly King? Remember Mike Douglas Show, Mike
Douglas Roger Ailes was the producer. They filmed that. It
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was late afternoon. That was in Philadelphia. I remember watching
Mike Douglas I think it was nineteen seventy two for
a full week. You know who co hosted with Mike Douglas,
John Lennon and your co owner four a full week.
This is mid afternoons. They had forty million viewers when
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the population was a lot less than it is now.
I remember there was George Carlin was on, Ralph Nader,
the Black Panther Leader there, Bobby Seal I think he
sells barbecue sauce. Anyway, The point was it was so
good and then the fbon Jay Gilhover muscled the Mike
(10:56):
Douglas and said, uh hmm, you don't want to be
putting on television Enemies of America, especially when he heard
him sing that song, which I think he sang. I
remember as a kid, imagine nineteen seventy two. By the way,
John Lennon used to listen to talk radio. That's right
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at the Dakota. He would listen to the old talker WMCA.
That's where our own Mark Simone got his start. So
let it be listened to the King of talk radio,
Bob Grant and go Nuts because obviously their politics couldn't
be any more different. And at times he would walk over.
(11:41):
And this is when you had celebrities walking all over
New York City on their own. They didn't have an entourage,
no bodyguards. I saw Mickey Mantlehalff in the bag walking
around in the streets for that broke my heart. I
saw will Clyde Fraser walking around on his own. I mean,
you got to see so many people. And then all
of a sudden, you know, when Lennon was killed that
(12:02):
era and it quick. But anyway, before that, he'd be
listening to wmcaight all the way down on the dial.
Now it's like owned by Salem Communication where you got
to pay if you're a holy roller or a preacher
a dollar a holler or they'll take your money and
then they'll put you on. But anyway, that was the
big talk station, our Peter Strauss ellen Strauss family owned.
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I believe that's where Mark Simone got his start. That's
where he met Bob Grant. They were like commonium bleached.
They did not get along. But I will tell you
they had some of the greatest radio of all time.
So all of a sudden, you have John Ranny going
over and I think these studios at w ABC at
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that time was right across from Carnegie Hall. No security
at that time. He walk upstairs, he'd knock on the
door and he go, I want to go on and
I want to contradict what Bob Grant said. And the
board operator would look at it, Hey, John Lennon and
go back to the hosts, and the host nah, come on,
(13:06):
what are you half in the bag? What are you dropping?
LSD very popular at that time. LSD, you know Tim Leary,
and he would come in and he would rant about
Bob Grant.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
See that's when you could do that. No security, you
don't have to provide identification. Remember it was John Lennon
who got in trouble when he said, you know, the
Beatles are more popular.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Than Jesus Christ. Oh they were. Radio stations wouldn't play Beatles'
music at that time, Remember how popular. Remember, and the
guy would be listening to talk radio. Do you want
to be a bird? Remember that song from Easy Rider?
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I wonder if any of you know that was the
theme song to the guy at night that he would
listen to, who was a radical the complete opera of
Bob Grant in the afternoon drive time. He was a
total radical who when the Sibbinese Liberation Army SINQ General
General Listimo Sinceque declared war in America and either kidnapped
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Pathy Patty Hurst or Tanya joined them, he was praising
them on the air. Yeah at the old WMCA. Let's
see if we can sort of massage any of your
memories can get back to our tribute to the hardest
working guy ever in TV, Regis Philmin and the hardest
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working guy ever in radio talk radio, Bob Grant. I'll
conflate both of them as we do our homage to
the greats, the iconic figures who paved the way for
all of us, and little of any tribute has ever
made to how important they were to this thing of ours.
I will never forget, I know, Mark Simon, never forget. Unfortunately,
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there are a lot of people in our business who
get their paycheck and they either don't know, or if
they do know, God forbid they give any credit to
these people. I tell you this much, Bob Grant. You
know who grew up listening to Bob Grant. The rock
grabbed all American conservative Voice sub region from Franklin, Long Island,
(15:22):
Sean Hannity, you said him many times, and you catch
him in the afternoon drive here wor seven ten bill O'Reilly? Oh,
he says it many times. Mike Levin. When Bob Grant
was exiled at WWDB in Philadelphia, I'll get into that
coming up next. They all attribute this, Now, Howard start
(15:42):
to Bob Grant? How come now, little if any attention
is paid to these folks who really paved the way,
took a lot of risks, got fired many times for
taking a principal stand, took a licking, only to come
back ticking our numbers one eight hundred three to two
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one zero seven ten. That's one eight hundred three two
one zero seven.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Ten, Street Smart, Straight Talk. Curtis leewa guest host for
Mark Simone on sevent TENO.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Wa as we don't take anything for granted, and we
paid tributes to no doubt hardest working guy ever in TV.
I had this conversation with Tom Cuddy yesterday. Regis Filman
father was Irish mother. I think was a combination Italian Albanian,
which is very similar to the makeup of Vaness and
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Morris Park now in the Bronx, he was a Hayesman,
went to Cardinal Hayes. I think he was best known
for being on Live with Regis and Kathy Lee. That
was a great show. I think that went off for
like twelve years until the year two thousand. That was
the better one compared to when he was on with
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Kelly Uh. Nope. You know, Regis would get up and
do his riff. That was something you waited to hear,
like with Bob Grant the opening riff of his show,
and there was no podcast, there was no way to
recover it. It was great. And then in the interim
he was doing the most watched TV program at that time,
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Hard working According to
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the Guinness World Record for the most hours spent on television,
the hardest working man in TV show business Regis Philbin,
without a doubt. And by the way, you're going to
be some of you watching the ABC's Dick Clark's New
Yorkers Rock and Roll Eve right with milk toast Ryan Seacressa.
(17:47):
That's his sting, you know, sub student for Dick Clark
when he had that stroke. That was Regis Philbin. If
I remember correctly two thousand and four to two thousand
and five that first show was Regis Philbin. I mean,
the guy was all over TV, and it's almost like
nobody nobody mentions him. I think the only one who
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mentions it from time to time is Letterman. But now
let's switch to the hardest working guy ever in radio.
We paid our homage to the father of talk radio,
who was right here at WR when he was spinning
that first stacks of wax that turn into taking callers,
and that was buried Grade nineteen forty five, right here
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at War Bob Grant, the king of talk radio. My
mentor the reason that I'm in talk creadio because nobody
else wanted me. He forced them on. He forced me
on them at WABC by saying, you gotta have Curtis.
He knows who all the bones are buried and who
buried them, and everybody knows that now, and they hesitate
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every time I talk about their names. Is he going
to reveal what I thought it would take to my grave? Well,
you keep thinking out there, guys and gals, got one
more show to go on Friday. Could be opening up
the Pandora's box of many of those at WABC always
(19:12):
bashing Curtis now, but no, let's get back to Bob Grant. Uh.
He actually was the busiest guy in all of talk radio,
not here but out at KABC. By the way, he
gave me a call this morning, they want me to
do something for them. I had done a show for
Al Rentel, unfortunately had broken his hip for a year.
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I substituted for al Rentel from New York City, and
nobody knew that I wasn't in LA because I knew
LA like the back of my head. So I said
thank you, but no thank you, but a tribute to
a very iconic station. Bob Grant was on that station
and he had three shows, Open Line, Nightline, which eventually
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became a TV production at Ted coppol on ABC, and
Sunday Line, and he was doing TV Busy, Busy, busy,
and he interviewed Muhammad Ali, Ronald Reagan, first interview with
Ronald Reagan, and that nut who created Kwanza, that Kwanza guy,
Ron Krenge. What a story that is? Hey, he had
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the first interview with him. He was the go to guy,
and then some executives said, you know, it's just too bad.
Bob that the number one talk show hosts in America
doesn't want to come to the number one market in America,
New York. So I'm not interested going to New York.
I got a house, See, I got four kids, I'm
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on TV, I'm on radio. But he got to go
to New York. Bob and the guy named R. Peter
Strauss reached out to him and made him an offer.
He couldn't refuse the money. Although Bob came out here,
he didn't want to stay. He told me he'd I
hated New York. I wanted to go back to La
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so desperately, where everybody knew me embraced me back there.
You know, they were more conservative here. They called me
a fascist. So I decided I would get on the
radio and be mean and it would force ar Peter
Strauss to break my contract. So that's where this raging
persona came from. And unfortunately for Bob at that time
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and good for us, his rating skyrocketing. Ratings not streams.
You know, at the old WABC where I was, they
run around say lo look, Loia, my streamers up. A
million people were listening to me. I said, are you
out of your mind? That's not a rating. That's the
Wizard of Oz. You may like what you're being told,
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but that does not give you a gauge of the audience.
Oh one last thing. Barry Farbara, who had been a
fixture here for many years, decided to run for mayor.
It's nineteen seventy seven. Oh shades of Curtis Sleep. When
he left w R he asked Bob Grant to substitute
for him overnight. And when Bob Grant did, out of
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every four radios, two radios at night, we're listening to him,
nobody ever had those kind of ratings. And then he
said something I'm trying to remember the words. Oh yeah,
she passed a gynecological and pigmentation test. I forget who
he was attributing that to. He got fired and exiled
out to WWDB, only to come back to WABC. That's
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my homage. Hardest working guy in talk radio, hortest working
guy in TV reagions, Philbinton, and tomorrow, you don't want
to miss my annual tribute to the best thing that
occurred to WABC, which was Bernard McGirk. One eight hundred
three to two one is zero seven ten. That's one
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eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten talk Radio.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
It's street literally Curtis Slaywad joined seven to ten WR
to guess those for.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Mark samol dtists working guys and gals television and radio.
In his book of World records, readis filled and none other.
Bronxky proud of going to Cardinal Hayes Catholic High School
still open, thank god. Unfortunately nearby all hollows closing, Great
(23:29):
School Cathedral High School this year for girls. Great school closing,
and Preston was on the cusp of closing in the
Tremont section. Great High School all girls. You know j
Low maybe got back Jenny from the block. Never contributed
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as far as I know, a nickel diamond penny to
the alumni front and keep them open. They were kept
open by Bally's. I believe some arrangement was made. Who
bought the Trump golf course nearby? But think about that.
He was Regis Philman, who appeared three times on the
Celebrity Jeopardy Again. The guy was constantly working out there.
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He had the most appearances and in one appearance he
won fifty thousand dollars and gave it right to Cardinal Hayes.
That's what you should do if you're doing well, and
you realize that these Catholic high schools, they gave so
many an opportunity they might not have had if they
had to go to their local neighborhood public high school.
(24:32):
And like j Lo, hey, j Lo, you forget your roots. Anyway,
let's go to the phones. It's Bob who's calling from
San Diego. Your turn to be heard here at seven
to ten.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Woo Bob, hey, Curtis, good to hear you on the here.
Earlier you mentioned the first subway vigilante movie. There would,
I think would be the incident with Martin Sheen and
Tony Mussanti.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Oh yeah, And if you haven't seen it, ladies in gentlemen,
you must. A great period piece, black and white. All
these different people were getting on the number four train,
you know, coming out of the Bronx going down to
Grand Central, and masonte is a complete psycho. Martin Sheen,
(25:17):
I think that was like his debut. And remember the
part that Ed McMahon played.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Yes, he actually he didn't want to take a cab
to Flushing from the Bronx, so he took the trains
and he played the father of a young girl.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
And he was on the car with his wife, now
arguing with his wife. Great piece, she's going, let's take
a cab. We got a baby with us that nah,
I take that train, you know an oh boy, these
two psycho boys were in the car. It was like
cockwork Orange before his cockwork Orange. I mean, really, really
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a great, great movie that's never really gotten it, Stue.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
It really is a great movie. Just keeps building and
building until the climax. And by the way, you can
watch it free on YouTube. Just search on YouTube for
the incident.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah, please do. Especially during highliaday time, a lot of
people like to watch things. You gotta watch this movie.
Every station, a different group gets on, or a different couple,
and they're all all of them went on to become
great stars and starletts, and they had their little cameo rolls.
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Oh man, what a great, great movie. Let's go if
we can to John, who's calling from? Is that old Japan?
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Curtis?
Speaker 6 (26:42):
What's up my brother?
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Noll?
Speaker 6 (26:43):
I just depend on the New York side.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Ah, okay, Curtis.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Good, I'm glad to see it down shop on the
dial there, very good. I was incorrect. I thought Alex
Bennett would have been the name you were you were
looking for.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
You are absolutely corre Alex Bennett. Evening show hosts wmc
A Bob Grant was Drive Time. You couldn't have been
any more different.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Yeah, Courtaige, listen, I'm trying. I know you're busy there.
If I want to ask this gum, you know why
I was a little bewildered. I used to be in
Manhattan Detectives. We had a homicide in nineteen ninety two,
fourteenth Street in the holes on the fourth train. A
young man, a hard working stuff African American, Jerry Robinson,
on his way home at eleven o'clock at night. He
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gets held up in the hall at Fourteenth Street. He
pulls out a twenty five pops two guys kills one
of them. The third piece took off. They called him
the Blackbernie gets Barry Slotnick represented him at arraiments and
then an eighteen b attorney took it from there on.
He took a plea and I didn't do any time.
(27:54):
It was it. It never got well. It hit the
paper that night they were down in raiments, but after
never got any place. I was wondering if you knew
about that.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
No, I do, because I followed those cases. It was
really the team that you had. Barry Slotnik was the
lead attorney, and I'm trying to remember Miller, I think
was his partner. He had to go. No Baker, Baker
was his partner. A great team, and they made themselves
available for those kind of cases. More often than not.
(28:28):
It was black victims fighting back against black assailians. But
you see, it didn't have the ammonium bleach. It didn't
have what you needed, white versus black. I mean that
got you the headlines that kept the headlines going for days.
It was black on black crime. Nothing a mere mention.
(28:48):
By the way, you mentioned Alex Bennett. He was the
talkshow host at WMCA at night. His theme song was
do You Want to Be a Bird? A classic song
from Easy Rider, and man, he would talk about coming
from concerts and he would be like be doing therapy
on himself before this guy did it Seagull remember a
(29:12):
Channel seven? Oh does anybody remember Seagull? I'm just gonna
give you a little hint there, and he would do
the same thing self there. And this guy supported radical causes.
Do you know who ended up taking over the apartment
of Alex Bennett, who went back to San Francisco where
he was from, to Radio Camel where they spun stacks
(29:32):
of wax, did a little bit of talk Bernard Getz,
who's still in that apartment today right off of sixth
Avenue and fourteenth Street. Wow, the synergy is happening. Let's
go if we can to Stella in close. Your turn
to be heard here at seven ten wr Stella.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Hello, listen to Curtis. I'm glad to hear you back,
and I'm glad to hear your voice. I'm very concerned
and so are a lot of people in my neighborhood
and queens about Mendani taking over privately owned homes. Do
you know anything about that?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Well, it's not just Mandami, this was the city of Yes.
I warned everybody about it. Eric Adams got windined in
pocket lined by the developers and realtors, as did Andrew
Evilize Cuomo. So they now have the authority because the
people voted this into the law because everybody's so affordable housing,
(30:34):
and they thought, oh wow, affordable housing. I'm for that. No, no, no,
no no, So if you happen to live in a
residential community and this is coming to a neighborhood near you.
They call it up zoning, density housing. Kathy Holkol tried
that and realize that wasn't gonna work out to get
her elected against leez Elden, so she dropped it like
(30:57):
a hot rock. But the whole idea was build high
rise housing, claim it's affordable near train stations along ther
Metro North, and people in residential area say, oh no, no, no,
no no, we don't need any density housing. We don't
need any up zoning. There's zoning, there's elected officials, there's
a process. So Kathy Hoko recognized that was a third rail.
(31:22):
But in New York City, because the issue became affordable
housing costs of living, they've pushed through this mandate that
gives developers and realtors the opportunity to come into your
neighborhoods in the outer boroughs, whether you live in the Bronx,
Staten Island, Queens of Brooklyn, and they can come into
your neighborhood. They don't have to go through any zoning
(31:44):
regulations any longer, they don't have to meet with the
community board, they don't have to even meet with the
local elected officials. If they want to put up a
forty story high rise by the way, with no parking
and burden your infrastructure, they have a right to do it.
They've been given a green light. Worse yet, they're putting
up these lithium ion battery warehouses, which is a real
(32:06):
danger to the community. They're in residential areas. They're supposed
to be in industrial areas, but then again, residential property is
cheaper than industrial property. Thirty eight in Staten Island, twelve
in Brooklyn, eight in Queens formed the Bronx none in
Manhattan because we don't have enough electricity. And wait if
(32:27):
you think it's bad now, artificial intelligence is going to
need double the amount of electricity and double the amount
of water to run their filing centers. You haven't heard
much about that, have you? Of course, not talk too
much of talk radios. Are you you see all those
(32:47):
Somalian themes in Minnesota? Could you repeat each other anymore
like parrots? How about actually talking about subject matter that
affects everybody's lives. And these AI artificial intelligence filing cell
centers that are gonna be built in a neighborhood near you,
and they require twice, the amount of electricity that's available
(33:10):
on the grid, twice the amount of water that you
don't even have access to. And guess who's gonna pay
for all of that?
Speaker 4 (33:17):
You?
Speaker 2 (33:19):
What is anybody telling you that? Of course not? Oh
and you don't want to miss Friday My annual tribute
to Bernard McGirt. Best thing that ever happened at Turk Radio.
Oh my god, the guy had to take so much
abuse for from don Imus, without which don would never
have been able to function. And also a plead to
(33:40):
all of you to make sure whatever men folks can
run across this New Year's holiday, you let them know
to get that PSA simple prick of the finger blood test.
If only Bernard McGirk had done that, he would not
have died a horrible death from prostate cancer. Look, I
had Stage four. I survived it. Some don't. The test
(34:02):
in most instances will help eliminate it.
Speaker 6 (34:06):
Do.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Beret is back.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Curtis slievwa guest host the Mark Simone Show on seven
tenoo on.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
I'll be able to let you know my last day
substituting for Mark on Friday? What went down at that
block party for Zoranmandami? I haven't been invited, but I'm
going who's gonna stop me? You all need to know.
And then we're gonna discuss AI artificial intelligence, and Elon
Musk is saying, don't worry about it. We're gonna create
(34:36):
an income for all of you. You won't have to work.
You can listen to talk radio all day. We'll take
care of you from the cradle to the grave. Watch
your back. And then obviously cryptocurrency, blockchain, what I call
crime coin, Bitcoin, the scam of our time. It's a
Ponzi scheme. And driverers vehicles, Oh, many of you are
(34:58):
driving as we speak now. Don't worry about it. The
masters of the University of Silicon Valley, you say you
won't have to drive, and what are you supposed to
do to earn a living
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