November 12, 2025 • 7 mins
Comedian Richie Gold called Mark to praise Mark's 10:40 am guest today, Alan Zweibel! Richie is working on a similar project to Alan's. Film actor Gideon Fountain calls Mark to mention a talk he had with Billionaire John Catsimatidis, whom he recently ran into.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh now more Mark Simone on sevent ten wo Well,
let's take some colls. Let's go to oh Richie Gold,
the great comedian then Connecticut. Richie Gold, How are you good?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Mark?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
How are you? Axents for taking my call? Great show
as usual as listened to Alan Zuideau, great comedy writer.
I remember him going back years when he used to
write for Saturday Night Lives.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Now he's writing a music or Broadway play about Rodney Dainsfield.
You must have worked with Rodney.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah, let me tell you something coincially, how thinking minds,
comic minds parallel Tony.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
You know Tony Tony Bavakua, who is the owner of Dangerfields,
who's uh out there in Long Island, lives near Bill O'Reilly.
Actually Tony Bovaqua, great guy's.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Right, So listen to this. Tony and I have been
working on a movie script talking about writing about Rodney,
Dangerfields and the birth of the Dangerfield Club. It has
all the elements of what happened to the club that
people that try to influence it one way or the
others to talk about Rodney's history and Tony how they
got together working to the small rooms. Yeah, there's at
(01:12):
the downstairs, blah blah blah. So it just shows you out,
was mister Alaibell, And I said, Tony and I are
writing a movie about this. He's doing a Broadway play,
And Tony and I are writing a movie about Rodney
and Tony how they came together and developed this idea
for Dangerous.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, Tony Bovaco was a bass player and they played together,
Rodney and him in the living room. And when Rodney
opened the club, he got Tony to be the the
guy run the club, and he turned out to be
brilliant running a club, a comedy club.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah, you used to hang out there. I remember you, Rodney.
Everybody used to hang out at that club. It was
the in place to be and opened the nineteen sixty
nine and it ran for fifteen years straight. So you
were there during the hey day. I remember Mark.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Well, yeah, keeping well, keep in touch with me, or
I'll put you together with Zwaibelle. Maybe you guys can
work together or something like that.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
You never know, because told the Anders and those in fact,
Ardel used to rife for rob there's a whole views.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
All right, well we'll we'll work out a meeting roll
everybody get involved in Richie, thanks for calling. Let's go
to UH. Also Connecticut, Gideon and Greenwich. Is this Gideon Fountain?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I know, yes you do.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
In fact I saw I just ran into John Katsimatidi.
I have the Pierre Hotel for that Hudson Institute yearly
event with Rupert Murdoch was there. I said that Katsa metides,
you should acquire Mark Simone, but of course you have
to stay at w R.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
This is iHeart. This is like being in the New
York Yankees. This is the biggest best radio company in
the world. Don't you don't you have the radio station
in Greenwich?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I do. In fact, I.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Even said to thanks Mark. I said to John, hey,
you want to buy a radio station. He wanted to
know how many watts.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
And you know that kind of thing. Maybe he's interested.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
That's a good station, WGH, very good station. What's the
guy there, Bobby?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
We've had We've had you there, I've been I guess what.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Who's that nice guy that works there? Bob Small, Bob
Small Nice.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
October twelfth is Bob Small day and Greenwich every year?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
All right, well, thanks for calling, great stuff. Let's go
to UH. Let's go to Aaron in Indianapolis erin how
you doing.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Good morning, Mark? Speaking of Rodney Dangerfield. I have the
pleasure of seeing him do a couple of shows in
Indianapolis back in his day. And oh those were just
awesome shows.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
And you didn't have to wander backstage, did you no? Oh?
Good good, Because when Rodney was on the road, things
were going on back there you wouldn't want to know about.
Rodney had quite a private life going on there.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I'm editing myself. I'm well, one day we'll tell stories
about Rodney. But that right now, Let's go to h
Vincent and Brooklyn Vincent. How are you.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Doing, Good morning, Mack balk You're cracking me up as usual.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I'll tell you what Rodney I don't want to. He
was playing a big place in Massachusetts and he told
the agent, I need a bed in the dressing room.
And my god, the guy arrange for a bed. But
the agent called him. He said, listen, there's a problem.
It's right next to the kitchen. It's very noisy. I
don't know if you're gonna be able to sleep. Dangers
sleep sleep.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
He's gonna do. Ted Kennedy will added Chris Dodd. You
know what that means? Yes, yes, Okay Mack. Last week
a lot of these crazy Democrats were making the New
Jersey election and Virginia election a rebuttal of Trump's policies.
It was never such thing, uh Maclaroney, Jack Chatterrelly, could
(04:51):
o'reian a much better campaign? He was trying to stick
too many points into like fifteen seconds. None of these candidates,
even in New York, really explain why things are very high,
why rent is high, why things are seemingly unaffordable, and
(05:14):
win some sears. Although a good candidate, she was not
a Glen Youngkin. When Glen Youngkin would go on stage,
literally he reminded me in many ways like Johnny Cossady.
He would own the stage. And that's probably because the
guy is a businessman. He's used to being around people,
(05:36):
high powered people selling his products and everything. Mark, yesterday
we spoke about Curtis saying he's gonna stay in the fight.
He's gonna he's in it to win it. Mark Curtis
has to say that if Curtis doesn't stay in the
fight with the Guardian Angels, he will become irrelevant. He's
(05:58):
almost irrelevant.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Curtis is never irrelevant. Curtis has been a fixture for
thirty years.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
No, I'm not. I don't mean in the fact that
people are gonna forget who he is. But right now
that's the only thing he's got.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
You know, I should say it, but I hate to say,
but when a guy like Mamdani comes into office, it's
good for Curtis because more crime, he can be more
of a crime. No, it's good for us. It's like
another pandemic. You know, we got our highest ratings. When
pandemic people are scared, they turn to the radio.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
For exactly he could be like, he could be like
a pitbull. He could all be nipping at his ankles
all the time. And that's where it's really good.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
But you know, the first time got a few seconds.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
The first time the Democrats won Virginia, they would claim
that Virginia is the southernmost northern state, and that when
a Republican win it, they would say it's the southernmost
northern state.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
That's a good part, all right, Vincent, thanks for calling,
great call. We got to take a break for the news,
get caught up on everything, and then when we come
back and Coulter will be with us next on seven
to ten wor
Oh now more Mark Simone on sevent ten wo Well,
let's take some colls. Let's go to oh Richie Gold,
the great comedian then Connecticut. Richie Gold, How are you good?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Mark?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
How are you? Axents for taking my call? Great show
as usual as listened to Alan Zuideau, great comedy writer.
I remember him going back years when he used to
write for Saturday Night Lives.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Now he's writing a music or Broadway play about Rodney Dainsfield.
You must have worked with Rodney.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Yeah, let me tell you something coincially, how thinking minds,
comic minds parallel Tony.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
You know Tony Tony Bavakua, who is the owner of Dangerfields,
who's uh out there in Long Island, lives near Bill O'Reilly.
Actually Tony Bovaqua, great guy's.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Right, So listen to this. Tony and I have been
working on a movie script talking about writing about Rodney,
Dangerfields and the birth of the Dangerfield Club. It has
all the elements of what happened to the club that
people that try to influence it one way or the
others to talk about Rodney's history and Tony how they
got together working to the small rooms. Yeah, there's at
(01:12):
the downstairs, blah blah blah. So it just shows you out,
was mister Alaibell, And I said, Tony and I are
writing a movie about this. He's doing a Broadway play,
And Tony and I are writing a movie about Rodney
and Tony how they came together and developed this idea
for Dangerous.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah, Tony Bovaco was a bass player and they played together,
Rodney and him in the living room. And when Rodney
opened the club, he got Tony to be the the
guy run the club, and he turned out to be
brilliant running a club, a comedy club.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah, you used to hang out there. I remember you, Rodney.
Everybody used to hang out at that club. It was
the in place to be and opened the nineteen sixty
nine and it ran for fifteen years straight. So you
were there during the hey day. I remember Mark.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Well, yeah, keeping well, keep in touch with me, or
I'll put you together with Zwaibelle. Maybe you guys can
work together or something like that.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
You never know, because told the Anders and those in fact,
Ardel used to rife for rob there's a whole views.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
All right, well we'll we'll work out a meeting roll
everybody get involved in Richie, thanks for calling. Let's go
to UH. Also Connecticut, Gideon and Greenwich. Is this Gideon Fountain?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I know, yes you do.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
In fact I saw I just ran into John Katsimatidi.
I have the Pierre Hotel for that Hudson Institute yearly
event with Rupert Murdoch was there. I said that Katsa metides,
you should acquire Mark Simone, but of course you have
to stay at w R.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
This is iHeart. This is like being in the New
York Yankees. This is the biggest best radio company in
the world. Don't you don't you have the radio station
in Greenwich?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I do. In fact, I.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Even said to thanks Mark. I said to John, hey,
you want to buy a radio station. He wanted to
know how many watts.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
And you know that kind of thing. Maybe he's interested.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
That's a good station, WGH, very good station. What's the
guy there, Bobby?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
We've had We've had you there, I've been I guess what.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Who's that nice guy that works there? Bob Small, Bob
Small Nice.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
October twelfth is Bob Small day and Greenwich every year?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
All right, well, thanks for calling, great stuff. Let's go
to UH. Let's go to Aaron in Indianapolis erin how
you doing.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Good morning, Mark? Speaking of Rodney Dangerfield. I have the
pleasure of seeing him do a couple of shows in
Indianapolis back in his day. And oh those were just
awesome shows.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
And you didn't have to wander backstage, did you no? Oh?
Good good, Because when Rodney was on the road, things
were going on back there you wouldn't want to know about.
Rodney had quite a private life going on there.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
I'm editing myself. I'm well, one day we'll tell stories
about Rodney. But that right now, Let's go to h
Vincent and Brooklyn Vincent. How are you.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Doing, Good morning, Mack balk You're cracking me up as usual.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I'll tell you what Rodney I don't want to. He
was playing a big place in Massachusetts and he told
the agent, I need a bed in the dressing room.
And my god, the guy arrange for a bed. But
the agent called him. He said, listen, there's a problem.
It's right next to the kitchen. It's very noisy. I
don't know if you're gonna be able to sleep. Dangers
sleep sleep.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
He's gonna do. Ted Kennedy will added Chris Dodd. You
know what that means? Yes, yes, Okay Mack. Last week
a lot of these crazy Democrats were making the New
Jersey election and Virginia election a rebuttal of Trump's policies.
It was never such thing, uh Maclaroney, Jack Chatterrelly, could
(04:51):
o'reian a much better campaign? He was trying to stick
too many points into like fifteen seconds. None of these candidates,
even in New York, really explain why things are very high,
why rent is high, why things are seemingly unaffordable, and
(05:14):
win some sears. Although a good candidate, she was not
a Glen Youngkin. When Glen Youngkin would go on stage,
literally he reminded me in many ways like Johnny Cossady.
He would own the stage. And that's probably because the
guy is a businessman. He's used to being around people,
(05:36):
high powered people selling his products and everything. Mark, yesterday
we spoke about Curtis saying he's gonna stay in the fight.
He's gonna he's in it to win it. Mark Curtis
has to say that if Curtis doesn't stay in the
fight with the Guardian Angels, he will become irrelevant. He's
(05:58):
almost irrelevant.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Curtis is never irrelevant. Curtis has been a fixture for
thirty years.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
No, I'm not. I don't mean in the fact that
people are gonna forget who he is. But right now
that's the only thing he's got.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
You know, I should say it, but I hate to say,
but when a guy like Mamdani comes into office, it's
good for Curtis because more crime, he can be more
of a crime. No, it's good for us. It's like
another pandemic. You know, we got our highest ratings. When
pandemic people are scared, they turn to the radio.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
For exactly he could be like, he could be like
a pitbull. He could all be nipping at his ankles
all the time. And that's where it's really good.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
But you know, the first time got a few seconds.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
The first time the Democrats won Virginia, they would claim
that Virginia is the southernmost northern state, and that when
a Republican win it, they would say it's the southernmost
northern state.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
That's a good part, all right, Vincent, thanks for calling,
great call. We got to take a break for the news,
get caught up on everything, and then when we come
back and Coulter will be with us next on seven
to ten wor
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