October 24, 2025 • 6 mins
Kathy in North Carolina calls Mark to talk about a memory of Ace Frehley from Kiss. Vincent in Brooklyn, NY, called Mark to discuss the aspects of gambling.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Give woar a bre said on the iHeartRadio app to
hear Mark Simone and all the WOR hosts in an instance.
Now back to the Mark Simon show on woar Hey. Well,
let's take some calls. Let's go to Frank in Phoenix. Frank,
how you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Mark?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
How's it going? Mark? I have a question for Vincent.
The question is scandal now with the mafia with this bedding,
going back as far as Lucciano and Warpstein, these guys
have always had an ability to make millions of dollars. Vincent,
do you think these guys could have done the same
kind of business if they were straight and arrow?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Now why do you it's why would you tie Vincent
to this kind of stuff? Anyway, we'll see if he calls.
Let's go to Kathy North Carolina. Kathy, how you doing?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Oh I good morning, Good morning, Vincent. That's a good question.
By the way, there's so many important topics that I
want to talk about. Kiss because I heard your interview
with Scott Shannon, the Fabulous DJ, and he brought up,
uh that Ace Frayley had died recently, which I didn't
know until I heard your show. That's so great you're
(01:11):
getting pardon no, that Ace Frayley died.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
No, it's not great. It's great that I learned it
from me, So thank you for update.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I'm sorry that was awful.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
They're getting, you know, nominated, or they're for the Lincoln
Center thing. But anyway, I wanted to give you my
quick Ace Frayley story because he did want and it
was fabulous. Scott Shannon told a great story. But they
were just they eat, breathed, and ate. Uh, you know,
rock and roll all night and party every day. I
spent a weekend with them on tour too. Huh yeah,
(01:44):
I know that's but anyway, but for but in memory
of Ace, my story is that I was I was, uh,
we were trying to figure out what to do for
the weekend because they.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Got to get right to the story. We don't have
this kind of time, okay.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
So anyway, I said, let's go to Disney World. It's
you know, Rye, this is gonna be too long.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
We'll never get to this.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Just get right to the good part, he said, Baby,
I am disney World anyway, long live. Yes, there you.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Go, baby, I am Disney World. I don't know, I
mean I met the guy a few times. He didn't
look like maybe maybe great adventure. I don't think he
was Disney World, but who knows. Let's go to Mike
and Florida. Mike, how you doing? Wait a minute, is
gonna be go ahead, go ahead, good morning?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Hi, Mark, kissed too.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
The question about I want to ask you about Heavy
Como's stumbled the cost two of.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
My favorite songs by him, Round and round bless.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Hey, you know what you're gonna you gonna have to
call us back. Not your fault, something screwed up with it.
We have these prob we have these digital phones. That's
why sometimes it sounds so sped up. Let's go to
Oh there he is, Vincent and Brooklyn Vincent, how you doing?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Good morning? Mark? Can you hear me? Okay, yeah, okay, you.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Know it's always that line, line eight. It's always on
that line where that stuff happened.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I called once. I called a couple of minutes ago,
and or immediately dropped and I called back from Christal mean,
I don't know what this world is coming to. Jesus Christ.
Can't these guys even just be honest gangsters and payout?
And I say that because fifty years ago, back in
the day, I ran a gambling joint. I'm shocked, and
(03:23):
there was none of those shenanigans going on. In fact,
I would even fund one of usually one of the
players at one of the tables was funded by me.
And what we would do is whatever I would get
sixty percent, I would give him forty percent. But there
was no cheating, none of those shenanigans going on. I
(03:47):
checked everybody when they came in for weapons and stuff.
I made the women opened their pocketbook to see if
they had anything in there, and as low as long
as you were playing in my place. The food that drinks.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Thing was the executive.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Game, Yeah, exactly, every Saturday night at twelve o'clock. And
it was you had to be You couldn't just come,
you had to be a member.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
And was like to Soprano with an executive game. But
let me ask you a question. If you just did
a normal poker game like Tony Sopranos or Henry Hill,
and you would make a nice profit, wouldn't you.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, because I got a cut on every part. I
got a cut, so I got a cut no matter what.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I see your play. Why do you need to cheat?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Then that's what I'm saying, I don't know, that's what
I'm saying. It's it's not. I knew a woman up
the street and when I was a kid, I used
to deliver the food her house. She had a game
where people would come from all over and she would pay.
This was before ubers and lift. She would pay your
(04:52):
cart service or the limousine to take you to the
game because you had to have so much to get
sit at the table, and the game went on all night,
and food and drink, everything was free as long as
you were playing. And she she paid out. You know,
none of the Shenanigan because they're making it. I was
(05:15):
making it out no matter what. I was making it
that I got a cut of every pot that was played.
So I had it coming and going, so there was
no need to do stuff like that. And I don't
need that if you found if somebody found out somebody
was cheating, I don't want nobody a shot or stamped
in front of my place. So uh now I was
(05:39):
to all the people I knew, and did it on
the I even had a game in a hotel at
the Hotel Saint George that Marinos.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Where the executive game was too. Remember it was in
a hotel.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Exactly every week it changed, U change the room, and
I would pay off the house sticks that day, old day,
and every very.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Good vincent, excellent call, very informative. Hey, we got to
take a break for the news. But coming up, it's
Johnny Carson's one hundredth birthday. There's all kinds of celebrations
and in honor of that, a new book is out.
It is the definitive book on Johnny Carson. It is
the most detailed, fascinating book. We'll talk to the author
next on seven to ten wor
Give woar a bre said on the iHeartRadio app to
hear Mark Simone and all the WOR hosts in an instance.
Now back to the Mark Simon show on woar Hey. Well,
let's take some calls. Let's go to Frank in Phoenix. Frank,
how you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Mark?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
How's it going? Mark? I have a question for Vincent.
The question is scandal now with the mafia with this bedding,
going back as far as Lucciano and Warpstein, these guys
have always had an ability to make millions of dollars. Vincent,
do you think these guys could have done the same
kind of business if they were straight and arrow?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Now why do you it's why would you tie Vincent
to this kind of stuff? Anyway, we'll see if he calls.
Let's go to Kathy North Carolina. Kathy, how you doing?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Oh I good morning, Good morning, Vincent. That's a good question.
By the way, there's so many important topics that I
want to talk about. Kiss because I heard your interview
with Scott Shannon, the Fabulous DJ, and he brought up,
uh that Ace Frayley had died recently, which I didn't
know until I heard your show. That's so great you're
(01:11):
getting pardon no, that Ace Frayley died.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
No, it's not great. It's great that I learned it
from me, So thank you for update.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I'm sorry that was awful.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
They're getting, you know, nominated, or they're for the Lincoln
Center thing. But anyway, I wanted to give you my
quick Ace Frayley story because he did want and it
was fabulous. Scott Shannon told a great story. But they
were just they eat, breathed, and ate. Uh, you know,
rock and roll all night and party every day. I
spent a weekend with them on tour too. Huh yeah,
(01:44):
I know that's but anyway, but for but in memory
of Ace, my story is that I was I was, uh,
we were trying to figure out what to do for
the weekend because they.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Got to get right to the story. We don't have
this kind of time, okay.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
So anyway, I said, let's go to Disney World. It's
you know, Rye, this is gonna be too long.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
We'll never get to this.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Just get right to the good part, he said, Baby,
I am disney World anyway, long live. Yes, there you.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Go, baby, I am Disney World. I don't know, I
mean I met the guy a few times. He didn't
look like maybe maybe great adventure. I don't think he
was Disney World, but who knows. Let's go to Mike
and Florida. Mike, how you doing? Wait a minute, is
gonna be go ahead, go ahead, good morning?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Hi, Mark, kissed too.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
The question about I want to ask you about Heavy
Como's stumbled the cost two of.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
My favorite songs by him, Round and round bless.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Hey, you know what you're gonna you gonna have to
call us back. Not your fault, something screwed up with it.
We have these prob we have these digital phones. That's
why sometimes it sounds so sped up. Let's go to
Oh there he is, Vincent and Brooklyn Vincent, how you doing?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Good morning? Mark? Can you hear me? Okay, yeah, okay, you.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Know it's always that line, line eight. It's always on
that line where that stuff happened.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I called once. I called a couple of minutes ago,
and or immediately dropped and I called back from Christal mean,
I don't know what this world is coming to. Jesus Christ.
Can't these guys even just be honest gangsters and payout?
And I say that because fifty years ago, back in
the day, I ran a gambling joint. I'm shocked, and
(03:23):
there was none of those shenanigans going on. In fact,
I would even fund one of usually one of the
players at one of the tables was funded by me.
And what we would do is whatever I would get
sixty percent, I would give him forty percent. But there
was no cheating, none of those shenanigans going on. I
(03:47):
checked everybody when they came in for weapons and stuff.
I made the women opened their pocketbook to see if
they had anything in there, and as low as long
as you were playing in my place. The food that drinks.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Thing was the executive.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Game, Yeah, exactly, every Saturday night at twelve o'clock. And
it was you had to be You couldn't just come,
you had to be a member.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
And was like to Soprano with an executive game. But
let me ask you a question. If you just did
a normal poker game like Tony Sopranos or Henry Hill,
and you would make a nice profit, wouldn't you.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, because I got a cut on every part. I
got a cut, so I got a cut no matter what.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I see your play. Why do you need to cheat?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Then that's what I'm saying, I don't know, that's what
I'm saying. It's it's not. I knew a woman up
the street and when I was a kid, I used
to deliver the food her house. She had a game
where people would come from all over and she would pay.
This was before ubers and lift. She would pay your
(04:52):
cart service or the limousine to take you to the
game because you had to have so much to get
sit at the table, and the game went on all night,
and food and drink, everything was free as long as
you were playing. And she she paid out. You know,
none of the Shenanigan because they're making it. I was
(05:15):
making it out no matter what. I was making it
that I got a cut of every pot that was played.
So I had it coming and going, so there was
no need to do stuff like that. And I don't
need that if you found if somebody found out somebody
was cheating, I don't want nobody a shot or stamped
in front of my place. So uh now I was
(05:39):
to all the people I knew, and did it on
the I even had a game in a hotel at
the Hotel Saint George that Marinos.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Where the executive game was too. Remember it was in
a hotel.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Exactly every week it changed, U change the room, and
I would pay off the house sticks that day, old day,
and every very.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Good vincent, excellent call, very informative. Hey, we got to
take a break for the news. But coming up, it's
Johnny Carson's one hundredth birthday. There's all kinds of celebrations
and in honor of that, a new book is out.
It is the definitive book on Johnny Carson. It is
the most detailed, fascinating book. We'll talk to the author
next on seven to ten wor
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