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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Simone on wo R. Hey, let's say some calls. Let's
go to Randall and Maryland. Randall, how you doing.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
I'm good Mark. Do you remember a theatre critic that
used to be on wo R in the mornings by name.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
O'Brien, Jack O'Brien.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yes, yes, he was actually a big writer for the
was it the Daily News of the World Telegram on
one of those things and Jack O'Brien, yeah, used to anyway,
The show was called Critics Circle. I actually knew the guy.
It was very late in his life. Not the nicest
guy in the world. I never really liked him.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
But go ahead, Well, well about Sinatra. He had some
kind of feud or he hated Sinatra?

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Well, uh, Jack O'Brien was this guy could have a
feud with anybody. If you met him for two minutes,
you'd hate the guy.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
I mean, he just not a nice guy. I'd argue
about anything and everything.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Can I tell you you know the man? I didn't,
But can I tell you my favorite Sinatra quote?

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Go ahead, is it?

Speaker 3 (01:17):
When he was freshed about this mob connections early on, right,
he says, any of the checks were always good?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:27):
You know, well, it's too much to get into the
whole mob thing. He wasn't the mob singer. He was
made out to me. He loved the mob. He romanticized
that he chased after these mobsters. He loved hanging out
with him. There were other guys in the music, other
famous singers who were so mob connected, way beyond Sinatra.
But Sinatra liked to play it up a lot. Let's
go to Dave in Chicago.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Dave, how you doing, Good morning, Mark.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
I'm doing very well. Thank you, Mark. I have a
couple of Frank Sinatra questions, if I may go ahead.
I know he had a record label call the Reprise Records.

Speaker 5 (02:02):
The Night.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
Yeah, I had heard that he did not like the song.
And the second question is regarding the rat Pack. I
had heard that Angie Dickinson was a member. Is this true?

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yes, she was in the movie Ocean's Eleven. She was
a member of the rat Pack Strangers in the Night. Yes,
he did hate that song. He didn't like my Way,
couldn't stand it, hated paul Anka. Despite anything, paul Anka,
I tell you, Sinatra was not a big paul Anka FANU.
In fact, it's the Concert for the Americas. You can

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get the video the Concert for the America's whenever it
was big TV special and we're going to film the concert.
He had to do Strangers in the Night. He hated
the song. But if you get the Concert for the Americas,
he does Strangers in the Night and at the end
people are applauding and applauding. You see him go over
and say something to Vinnie Falcone, the pianist and conduct

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And I said the Falcon, what did he say to you?
And he said he went over and said, that's the
worst Fens song ever written. He didn't, he said the
actual effort. So I went back and I got you
can barely hear it, but if you turn it up
real loud, put your ear right up there, you can
hear him say that to Vinnie Falcone. Let's go to

(03:20):
Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing, Good.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
Morning, Mark, I'm okay, Good morning Marah. Mark. You may
remember the theater critic of the New York Times, Andrew saras.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Well, Yeah, I didn't know him. I know the name.

Speaker 5 (03:32):
Yeah, he lived in my building. He was more lived
in my apartment building.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
There's more of a film critic.

Speaker 5 (03:37):
Wasn't he He was. I was very young when he
lived in my house. But anyway, he lived in my
house when my when my family owned the building. What
I wanted to say is, it would be easy to
bring a case against Letitia James in New York because
here it's black and white. It was in Virginia, but

(04:01):
here at first off, we would go to Brooklyn because
she owns the property in Brooklyn and she listed it
as a four family. It's a five family. And also
Dre's here.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Well, you're also you're right about the law, But you
can't bring the case in New York because you got
New York judges, new York jury's they'll never do anything.

Speaker 5 (04:19):
But don't they have the same crooked problem in Virginia mind?

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, apparently, But in New York, forget it. You know
that case she brought against Sinatra, not Sinatra Trump, in
case she brought against Trump. No judge jury anywhere in
the world would allow that, no court room, but only
here in New York, crazy left wing judges.

Speaker 5 (04:38):
Yeah, you're you're right, Bok, you're you're right. Probably it
would be like a lead balloon here. But I just
thought because maybe with the insurance company, because you.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Gotta get it anytime you're in the New York Court,
New York judge, New York jurors.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Forget it. You got no shot. That's ted.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
Yeah, Unfortunately, you're probably right.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Mak all right, great call, Thanks for Colin. Wh break
for the news, get caught up on everything, and then
we'll talk to the greatest polster in the world. You're
being bombarded with fake polls right now, ap those kind
of crazy left wing slanted places. We'll get We'll get
the real story. Let's see what kind of what he
thinks about Bruce Blakeman, who's going to be governor. We'll

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get to that too.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
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