December 12, 2025 • 16 mins
Department of Homeland Security’s Kristi Noem was challenged on Capitol Hill yesterday by Democrats regarding her handling of ICE. Today, we also remember the legendary music icon Frank Sinatra on what would have been his 110th birthday.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to the Mark Simone show.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
W R.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hey, it's Friday. It's less than two weeks the Christmas Day,
can you believe it? And uh, three weeks from today
it'll be the new year. It'll be the first full
day of the Mom Donnie administration. Three weeks from today.
All Right, calm down, it's gonna be like Deblasio. We
(00:31):
got through eight years of that. We'll get through a
couple of years of Mom Donnie and all right, it
wasn't great under Deblasio, but we got through it. We'll
get through this too. So hey, you know this guy Thompson.
We're talking about Democrats. They're just nuttier and nuttier and nuttier, crazier,
(00:55):
more far left. Every year, it's just they get worse
and worse. So they're having hearings yesterday in Congress and
christinoam is there to testify about deportation, about ice, Christy
Nome is testifying in the course. The Democrats with the
TV cameras on, they want to, you know, create some
(01:15):
viral moments, so they're yelling and screaming, you got this
crazy left wing. Dan Goldman from New York yelling at Christine.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Lass If you're Department of Courts. Anyone with an ongoing
asylum application, you are violating the law. Isn't that correct?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
The asylum program was broken under the list.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Chairman, I will reclaim my time. She's not answering the question,
but the obvious answer is that yes, if you follow
a lawful pathway. Asylum is a lawful pathway. If you
have an open asylum case, you are here lawfully. But
the problem that we are seeing around the country is
(01:55):
that you are not following the law. Don't tell us
to change the law. If you don't like the asylum system,
you changed the asylum law.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
This is the problem. He shouldn't allow cameras on these things.
Here's a guy just carrying on for just crazy theatrics
for the camera. He's a smart guy, Goldman, need to
me far left wing kook, but he's a smart guy.
But he's just carrying on for the camera. He has
no interest in her answer. He's not even listening to
her answer. In fact, he's as soon as she talks,
he's just waiting to jump in again and talk. And
(02:25):
he's yelling and screaming and huffing and puffing for the camera.
And he's going and you you carrying on because he
wants to be on the news. Seriously, they should not
allow cameras for these things. But you could also make
the case, you know what, you should have the cameras
there because some of these Democrats are so incredibly stupid
(02:49):
that you need to capture it on camera. Listen to
this Democrat, Congressman Thompson. This guy is just an IQ
of maybe maybe a I mean, he's just the dumbest
left wing Democrats. So he's going after Christy Nome and
he gets to the terrible assassination of two National Guard
(03:12):
troops in Washington, d C. This Muslim terrorist shoots two
National Guards and one is a woman, kills her, shoots
her in the head. Listen to this Thompson discussed the
incident with Christy Noman. Listen to his you won't believe
the words he.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Uses amount of secretary of you and the gentleman from
ct N CTC reference the unfortunate accident that occurred with
the National guardsman being.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Keel You think that was an unfortunate accident, I mean
it's a terrorist.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Wait wait, look, I'll get it straight.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And then you can shot our National guardsman in the head.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Look was Sam, will you direct the witness to allow
me to ask my question? It was an unfortunate situation.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
It's hard to believe a guy this dumb has any
kind of a job. But how the hell is a
guy this dumb a congressman. Listen to it again and
now it's Christine Noman. It takes her a second to
even process what he said that you can't believe he
setting in this dumb it's a Muslim terrorist assassinating a
National guardswoman.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Mauntim secretary of you and a gentleman from ct in
CTC reference the unfortunate accident that occurred with the National guardsman.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Ko you think that was an unfortunate accident.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I mean it's a terrorist. Wait wait, look, I'll get
it straight.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Then you can shot our National guardsman in the head.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Looks, Sam, will you direct witness to allow me to
ask my question?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
It's an unbelievable here's the founding father's coming back to
life and finding out this this ins is an actual cause.
Oh I'm laughing. It's not funny. Mike Johnson.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I'm very privileged in honor today to have my family
with me.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I like, oh, this is this is Christy notman as
she's testifying, and of course you have a nut job
or two have got into the chamber and they're gonna approach.
This is why they shouldn't allow these cameras in there.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Actually, I'm very privileged in honor today to have my
family with me. I'd like to introduce them to you.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
A deportations disruptions of congressional business is a violation of law.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
It's a criminal offense under federal law.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Audience members are advised to take their seats and maintain order.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Of course, we'll get a desk appearance ticket and that's
it and it's over with. It's not like January sixth,
where if this were the Democrats, they would put this
guy in solitary confinement convictim for twenty years. He basically
did what everybody on January sixth did. But in this case,
it'll be a desk appearance ticket. What does Curtis call
that appearance ticket? You don't even have to answer it.
(06:02):
So you get these lunatics and then I take the
governor of Illinois. Problem is you get these really raging
lunatics in office, and then the otherwise smart people start
behaving them like that. You know, Pritzker, who's a billionaire
of businessman, has to act like a nut to be
a successful Democrat. So he's fighting Ice. They're trying to
(06:24):
come in and get illegal criminals and gang members off
the street. He's trying to block it. He's trying to
stop it.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
The Chicago region has been subjected to a relentless campaign
of cruelty and intimidation and abuse at the hands of
ICE and Border Patrol agents. Together, we're sending a message
to Donald Trump, to Christy Gnome, to Gregory Bavino and
anyone else seeking to terrorize our people. Your divisiveness and
(06:53):
your brutality are not welcome here.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, the message is you leave our criminals alone, leave
our gang members there. Of course Holman has to respond
talk about terrorizing.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Why don't he talk to the victims of illegal crime.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Won't he do?
Speaker 7 (07:08):
I've done and talk to the angel moms and dad
who buried their children because they were killed by someone's
not supposed to be here. While he talked to you know,
called the ICE office and talk to people that are
involved with voice victims of immigration crime, and here are
their stories. They're the ones that are terrorized.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Like Tom Holman, but give up. You can't explain it.
You can't explain anything to these lunatics. They don't want
to hear it. Here's another guy, I Q eighty five.
Maybe this is a congressman. He's going to impeach Pete Hexath.
Listen to this guy.
Speaker 8 (07:44):
I introduced articles to impeach Secretary Pete Hexath for murder
and conspiracy to murder and reckless and unlawful mishandling of
classified information exaction are not just reprehensible, but illegal as well.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I know you're saying, what an idiot, what the hell?
Why is? It's not going to go anywhere, you know,
don't get yourself the Sky'll get on the view, he'll
get on MS whatever they call it, he'll get on CNN. Hey,
some bad news. They tried once again to indict Letitia James.
It went before a grand jury, this time in Alexandria, Virginia.
(08:25):
The grand jury refused to indict. That's tough and a
second time. Second time a grand jury didn't indict. Usually
pretty easy to get a grand jury to go along.
So this is not looking good here. First you had
a judge. Now you could say, well, they'll bring it again.
Hopefully they will, but you got to be careful. You know,
you do this too many times. It looks like you're
(08:47):
grand jury shopping. And even the CNN guy here as
a point.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
This is over.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
We have never I can point to no case in
the last twenty years where you've had a case thrown
out by a judge and then you had a grand
jury refused to indict it, which is very hard to do.
Then you had a second grand jury a week later
refused to re reindict it.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah, but if you look at all the stuff she's done,
you could tell this is one sleazy woman. They'll find something,
they'll they'll get her on something before they're done. Hey,
remember a George Soros is a company bought a lot
of radio groups and radio stations and radio companies. It
was a couple of years ago. They got FCC approval.
(09:29):
It was Biden at the time. So the Soros Fund
owns a lot of radio. Everybody worried, well they try
to tamper with conservative radio. That kind of swell. They
bought a lot of AM stations. They just shut one
of them down. It's in Miami. It's a Spanish station,
but it's a conservative Spanish station. It's conservative stuff for
(09:50):
the Spanish community in Miami. The Soros group just shut
it down, just took it off the air, claiming for
financial reasons. They took it. Well, very important voice in
the Miami Spanish community, a conservative voice, though, so they
just shut it down. It's gone, as I said, Mom, Donnie, Uh,
(10:11):
two weeks, three weeks from yesterday. Takes office. Three weeks
from yesterday, Mom, Donnie takes office, they'll have the inauguration.
It looks like Adams is not going to go. He's
making quite a stink about not going. Says he hasn't decided,
but it sounds like he's not going. That's unusual. There's
always always always the previous mayor there. That'll be unusual.
(10:33):
He'll be sworn in. I guess that night he goes
to Gracie Mansion to stay there for the first night.
He's the youngest mayor ever. He also, you know, he
has no kids. I'm trying to think, oh, ed Kotch,
but him, I guess ed Coach was the only other
mayor that didn't have kids. If we ever had a
mayor with no children ed Cotch, Uh, Mom, Donnie, I
(10:56):
think that, But you know, Mom, Donnie hasn't been married
very long. He just got married. Beinning of the Year,
February he got married. Yeah, he's only been married like
ten months to this seemingly a nice woman. And he's
got to be nuts. He's married to Mom Donnie. But
they met on the dating app Hinge. Hinge is a
very good app. And I notice, you know, normally if
(11:18):
you're a dating app, you do some advertising promote yourself.
That's a pretty good coup. Hey, you the mayor of
New York met his wife on Hinge. I noticed they're
not using it for any kind of advertise. I guess
they don't even they don't want to be tied to
Mom Donnie. Hey, it's Frank Sinatra's one hundred and tenth
(11:39):
birthday today. It's a big day. December twelfth, the birthday
of Frank Sinatra. He was the greatest singer ever in
the history of music, the biggest star of the twentieth century.
You don't realize how big this guy was and how long.
You know, you could be really big for ten years,
twenty years.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
You look at the Beatles, you know they were really
only there. I mean they came to America in sixty four,
but they broke up in nineteen seventies, so it was
really six years. It was really sixty two because they
were very big in Europe first, but that's eight years.
So that was it. You know, Sinatra was like on
top of the world, performing all over the world for
(12:21):
decades and decades. You know, when he started, Herbert Hoover
was president and when he stopped, Bill Clinton was president.
That's a long long run of being on top. He
was very good at evolving, at changing himself. There were
different Sinatras every decade. He was the boys singer with
the bow tie Little Frankie in the forties, then he
(12:44):
came back in the fifties as the older nightclub pal
Joey singer. And then in the sixties he was the
rat pack Las Vegas guy, and then you know, that
didn't work out, and that was huge. But then in
the seventies it wasn't working so he switched and he
he did what a lot of these singers have to realize.
Billy Joel figured it out, McCartney figured it out. He
(13:06):
got to stop trying to be the contemporary churning out
top forty hits kind of a guy and switch as
you get older and become the elder Statesman, where all
you do is just travel the world doing these big,
grand concerts, these big events the Elder states and doing concerts,
and that's it. And that's what he did for the
last twenty years very successfully. Sinatra was you know, he
(13:29):
lived in California, but he also really more than half
the time he lived in New York, right over there
of the Waldorf Apartment thirty three A. How's that for
a memory. But he loved New York. He was out
all night. Wherever he was in the world, he'd be
out all night. In fact, when Sinatra would invite you
to dinner, you'd bring sunglasses because it might be noon
(13:51):
by the time you got home. It would just go
all night long. Dinner was huge. It was always thirty people,
forty people. Sometimes I'd see a guy and he'd be
all excited. Frank invited me to dinner tonight, and the
guy was so thrilled. I didn't have the heart to
tell him, dinner's forty people. You're gonna be like fourteen
seats away. And that guy would say, I was thinking
(14:15):
about what I want to talk about with him, and
I didn't have the heart to tell him, you're not
going to get a word in all night. He's going
to talk NonStop. You won't get to say anything. But
it was always fun. It was always incredible, and he
was an incredible tipper. You know. He would this that
famous story. He was leaving the place and he gave
the doorman. He said to the doorman, what's the biggest
(14:35):
tip you ever got? And the doorman said one hundred dollars.
That was a fortune back then. So Sinatra said one
hundred dollars, here's two hundred. Door man couldn't believe it.
And a Sinatra's leaving, he turned around, he says, hey,
who gave you the hundred? He goes you did a
few months ago. So he had to keep topping his
own record. But he was just an unbelievable guy, the
(14:57):
most generous guy in the world. All these great you
know there was. He had beautiful art all over his house, beautiful, incredible,
very expensive paintings and everything. There was the violinist Eleanor Slotkin,
who played on a lot of his records, Eleanor Slatkin,
and he saw her in the house at a party.
She'd come to a big dinner party she was staring
(15:18):
at one painting and he said, you like that? She said,
oh what, I love that painting. So anyway, they went
into the dinner and all that, and hours later she's
leaving and gets into her car and there's the painting
wrapped up in the back seat of her car. That's
the way. He was just very, very generous and incredible guy.
(15:39):
You know, if you haven't done it in a while,
go back and start listening to Sinatra music. I'm sure
you do now and then, but seriously listen to it.
Go go on wherever you get your music, and just
listen to we small hours of the morning. Go listen
to the whole album or only the Lonely or any
of those. We'll take some calls. Next eight. We'll talk
to the world's greatest polster in a few moments, see
where Trump really stands and what the real issues are,
(16:02):
and we'll take some calls. Next eight hundred three two
one zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten.
You're listening to the Mark Simone show.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
W R.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hey, it's Friday. It's less than two weeks the Christmas Day,
can you believe it? And uh, three weeks from today
it'll be the new year. It'll be the first full
day of the Mom Donnie administration. Three weeks from today.
All Right, calm down, it's gonna be like Deblasio. We
(00:31):
got through eight years of that. We'll get through a
couple of years of Mom Donnie and all right, it
wasn't great under Deblasio, but we got through it. We'll
get through this too. So hey, you know this guy Thompson.
We're talking about Democrats. They're just nuttier and nuttier and nuttier, crazier,
(00:55):
more far left. Every year, it's just they get worse
and worse. So they're having hearings yesterday in Congress and
christinoam is there to testify about deportation, about ice, Christy
Nome is testifying in the course. The Democrats with the
TV cameras on, they want to, you know, create some
(01:15):
viral moments, so they're yelling and screaming, you got this
crazy left wing. Dan Goldman from New York yelling at Christine.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Lass If you're Department of Courts. Anyone with an ongoing
asylum application, you are violating the law. Isn't that correct?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
The asylum program was broken under the list.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Chairman, I will reclaim my time. She's not answering the question,
but the obvious answer is that yes, if you follow
a lawful pathway. Asylum is a lawful pathway. If you
have an open asylum case, you are here lawfully. But
the problem that we are seeing around the country is
(01:55):
that you are not following the law. Don't tell us
to change the law. If you don't like the asylum system,
you changed the asylum law.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
This is the problem. He shouldn't allow cameras on these things.
Here's a guy just carrying on for just crazy theatrics
for the camera. He's a smart guy, Goldman, need to
me far left wing kook, but he's a smart guy.
But he's just carrying on for the camera. He has
no interest in her answer. He's not even listening to
her answer. In fact, he's as soon as she talks,
he's just waiting to jump in again and talk. And
(02:25):
he's yelling and screaming and huffing and puffing for the camera.
And he's going and you you carrying on because he
wants to be on the news. Seriously, they should not
allow cameras for these things. But you could also make
the case, you know what, you should have the cameras
there because some of these Democrats are so incredibly stupid
(02:49):
that you need to capture it on camera. Listen to
this Democrat, Congressman Thompson. This guy is just an IQ
of maybe maybe a I mean, he's just the dumbest
left wing Democrats. So he's going after Christy Nome and
he gets to the terrible assassination of two National Guard
(03:12):
troops in Washington, d C. This Muslim terrorist shoots two
National Guards and one is a woman, kills her, shoots
her in the head. Listen to this Thompson discussed the
incident with Christy Noman. Listen to his you won't believe
the words he.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Uses amount of secretary of you and the gentleman from
ct N CTC reference the unfortunate accident that occurred with
the National guardsman being.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Keel You think that was an unfortunate accident, I mean
it's a terrorist.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Wait wait, look, I'll get it straight.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
And then you can shot our National guardsman in the head.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Look was Sam, will you direct the witness to allow
me to ask my question? It was an unfortunate situation.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
It's hard to believe a guy this dumb has any
kind of a job. But how the hell is a
guy this dumb a congressman. Listen to it again and
now it's Christine Noman. It takes her a second to
even process what he said that you can't believe he
setting in this dumb it's a Muslim terrorist assassinating a
National guardswoman.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Mauntim secretary of you and a gentleman from ct in
CTC reference the unfortunate accident that occurred with the National guardsman.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Ko you think that was an unfortunate accident.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
I mean it's a terrorist. Wait wait, look, I'll get
it straight.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Then you can shot our National guardsman in the head.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Looks, Sam, will you direct witness to allow me to
ask my question?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
It's an unbelievable here's the founding father's coming back to
life and finding out this this ins is an actual cause.
Oh I'm laughing. It's not funny. Mike Johnson.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I'm very privileged in honor today to have my family
with me.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I like, oh, this is this is Christy notman as
she's testifying, and of course you have a nut job
or two have got into the chamber and they're gonna approach.
This is why they shouldn't allow these cameras in there.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Actually, I'm very privileged in honor today to have my
family with me. I'd like to introduce them to you.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
A deportations disruptions of congressional business is a violation of law.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
It's a criminal offense under federal law.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Audience members are advised to take their seats and maintain order.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Of course, we'll get a desk appearance ticket and that's
it and it's over with. It's not like January sixth,
where if this were the Democrats, they would put this
guy in solitary confinement convictim for twenty years. He basically
did what everybody on January sixth did. But in this case,
it'll be a desk appearance ticket. What does Curtis call
that appearance ticket? You don't even have to answer it.
(06:02):
So you get these lunatics and then I take the
governor of Illinois. Problem is you get these really raging
lunatics in office, and then the otherwise smart people start
behaving them like that. You know, Pritzker, who's a billionaire
of businessman, has to act like a nut to be
a successful Democrat. So he's fighting Ice. They're trying to
(06:24):
come in and get illegal criminals and gang members off
the street. He's trying to block it. He's trying to
stop it.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
The Chicago region has been subjected to a relentless campaign
of cruelty and intimidation and abuse at the hands of
ICE and Border Patrol agents. Together, we're sending a message
to Donald Trump, to Christy Gnome, to Gregory Bavino and
anyone else seeking to terrorize our people. Your divisiveness and
(06:53):
your brutality are not welcome here.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, the message is you leave our criminals alone, leave
our gang members there. Of course Holman has to respond
talk about terrorizing.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Why don't he talk to the victims of illegal crime.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Won't he do?
Speaker 7 (07:08):
I've done and talk to the angel moms and dad
who buried their children because they were killed by someone's
not supposed to be here. While he talked to you know,
called the ICE office and talk to people that are
involved with voice victims of immigration crime, and here are
their stories. They're the ones that are terrorized.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Like Tom Holman, but give up. You can't explain it.
You can't explain anything to these lunatics. They don't want
to hear it. Here's another guy, I Q eighty five.
Maybe this is a congressman. He's going to impeach Pete Hexath.
Listen to this guy.
Speaker 8 (07:44):
I introduced articles to impeach Secretary Pete Hexath for murder
and conspiracy to murder and reckless and unlawful mishandling of
classified information exaction are not just reprehensible, but illegal as well.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
I know you're saying, what an idiot, what the hell?
Why is? It's not going to go anywhere, you know,
don't get yourself the Sky'll get on the view, he'll
get on MS whatever they call it, he'll get on CNN. Hey,
some bad news. They tried once again to indict Letitia James.
It went before a grand jury, this time in Alexandria, Virginia.
(08:25):
The grand jury refused to indict. That's tough and a
second time. Second time a grand jury didn't indict. Usually
pretty easy to get a grand jury to go along.
So this is not looking good here. First you had
a judge. Now you could say, well, they'll bring it again.
Hopefully they will, but you got to be careful. You know,
you do this too many times. It looks like you're
(08:47):
grand jury shopping. And even the CNN guy here as
a point.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
This is over.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
We have never I can point to no case in
the last twenty years where you've had a case thrown
out by a judge and then you had a grand
jury refused to indict it, which is very hard to do.
Then you had a second grand jury a week later
refused to re reindict it.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah, but if you look at all the stuff she's done,
you could tell this is one sleazy woman. They'll find something,
they'll they'll get her on something before they're done. Hey,
remember a George Soros is a company bought a lot
of radio groups and radio stations and radio companies. It
was a couple of years ago. They got FCC approval.
(09:29):
It was Biden at the time. So the Soros Fund
owns a lot of radio. Everybody worried, well they try
to tamper with conservative radio. That kind of swell. They
bought a lot of AM stations. They just shut one
of them down. It's in Miami. It's a Spanish station,
but it's a conservative Spanish station. It's conservative stuff for
(09:50):
the Spanish community in Miami. The Soros group just shut
it down, just took it off the air, claiming for
financial reasons. They took it. Well, very important voice in
the Miami Spanish community, a conservative voice, though, so they
just shut it down. It's gone, as I said, Mom, Donnie, Uh,
(10:11):
two weeks, three weeks from yesterday. Takes office. Three weeks
from yesterday, Mom, Donnie takes office, they'll have the inauguration.
It looks like Adams is not going to go. He's
making quite a stink about not going. Says he hasn't decided,
but it sounds like he's not going. That's unusual. There's
always always always the previous mayor there. That'll be unusual.
(10:33):
He'll be sworn in. I guess that night he goes
to Gracie Mansion to stay there for the first night.
He's the youngest mayor ever. He also, you know, he
has no kids. I'm trying to think, oh, ed Kotch,
but him, I guess ed Coach was the only other
mayor that didn't have kids. If we ever had a
mayor with no children ed Cotch, Uh, Mom, Donnie, I
(10:56):
think that, But you know, Mom, Donnie hasn't been married
very long. He just got married. Beinning of the Year,
February he got married. Yeah, he's only been married like
ten months to this seemingly a nice woman. And he's
got to be nuts. He's married to Mom Donnie. But
they met on the dating app Hinge. Hinge is a
very good app. And I notice, you know, normally if
(11:18):
you're a dating app, you do some advertising promote yourself.
That's a pretty good coup. Hey, you the mayor of
New York met his wife on Hinge. I noticed they're
not using it for any kind of advertise. I guess
they don't even they don't want to be tied to
Mom Donnie. Hey, it's Frank Sinatra's one hundred and tenth
(11:39):
birthday today. It's a big day. December twelfth, the birthday
of Frank Sinatra. He was the greatest singer ever in
the history of music, the biggest star of the twentieth century.
You don't realize how big this guy was and how long.
You know, you could be really big for ten years,
twenty years.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
You look at the Beatles, you know they were really
only there. I mean they came to America in sixty four,
but they broke up in nineteen seventies, so it was
really six years. It was really sixty two because they
were very big in Europe first, but that's eight years.
So that was it. You know, Sinatra was like on
top of the world, performing all over the world for
(12:21):
decades and decades. You know, when he started, Herbert Hoover
was president and when he stopped, Bill Clinton was president.
That's a long long run of being on top. He
was very good at evolving, at changing himself. There were
different Sinatras every decade. He was the boys singer with
the bow tie Little Frankie in the forties, then he
(12:44):
came back in the fifties as the older nightclub pal
Joey singer. And then in the sixties he was the
rat pack Las Vegas guy, and then you know, that
didn't work out, and that was huge. But then in
the seventies it wasn't working so he switched and he
he did what a lot of these singers have to realize.
Billy Joel figured it out, McCartney figured it out. He
(13:06):
got to stop trying to be the contemporary churning out
top forty hits kind of a guy and switch as
you get older and become the elder Statesman, where all
you do is just travel the world doing these big,
grand concerts, these big events the Elder states and doing concerts,
and that's it. And that's what he did for the
last twenty years very successfully. Sinatra was you know, he
(13:29):
lived in California, but he also really more than half
the time he lived in New York, right over there
of the Waldorf Apartment thirty three A. How's that for
a memory. But he loved New York. He was out
all night. Wherever he was in the world, he'd be
out all night. In fact, when Sinatra would invite you
to dinner, you'd bring sunglasses because it might be noon
(13:51):
by the time you got home. It would just go
all night long. Dinner was huge. It was always thirty people,
forty people. Sometimes I'd see a guy and he'd be
all excited. Frank invited me to dinner tonight, and the
guy was so thrilled. I didn't have the heart to
tell him, dinner's forty people. You're gonna be like fourteen
seats away. And that guy would say, I was thinking
(14:15):
about what I want to talk about with him, and
I didn't have the heart to tell him, you're not
going to get a word in all night. He's going
to talk NonStop. You won't get to say anything. But
it was always fun. It was always incredible, and he
was an incredible tipper. You know. He would this that
famous story. He was leaving the place and he gave
the doorman. He said to the doorman, what's the biggest
(14:35):
tip you ever got? And the doorman said one hundred dollars.
That was a fortune back then. So Sinatra said one
hundred dollars, here's two hundred. Door man couldn't believe it.
And a Sinatra's leaving, he turned around, he says, hey,
who gave you the hundred? He goes you did a
few months ago. So he had to keep topping his
own record. But he was just an unbelievable guy, the
(14:57):
most generous guy in the world. All these great you
know there was. He had beautiful art all over his house, beautiful, incredible,
very expensive paintings and everything. There was the violinist Eleanor Slotkin,
who played on a lot of his records, Eleanor Slatkin,
and he saw her in the house at a party.
She'd come to a big dinner party she was staring
(15:18):
at one painting and he said, you like that? She said,
oh what, I love that painting. So anyway, they went
into the dinner and all that, and hours later she's
leaving and gets into her car and there's the painting
wrapped up in the back seat of her car. That's
the way. He was just very, very generous and incredible guy.
(15:39):
You know, if you haven't done it in a while,
go back and start listening to Sinatra music. I'm sure
you do now and then, but seriously listen to it.
Go go on wherever you get your music, and just
listen to we small hours of the morning. Go listen
to the whole album or only the Lonely or any
of those. We'll take some calls. Next eight. We'll talk
to the world's greatest polster in a few moments, see
where Trump really stands and what the real issues are,
(16:02):
and we'll take some calls. Next eight hundred three two
one zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten.
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