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The Mark Simone Show

Hour 2: Reminiscing about African American achievements.

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Curtis Sliwa fills in for Mark Simone. Who is currently the most respected Black figure within the Black community? Curtis offers his own perspective, noting that a former President often comes to mind. Additionally, he mentioned the annual Polish parade, encouraging listeners to check it out. Curtis takes your calls to discuss various topics, including recent happenings at Curtis's former radio station and their own views on influential Black leaders.

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0:00.0

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0:23.0

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0:25.5

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0:28.6

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0:34.1

Now, the Red Beret has returned to radio. Curtis Sliwa, guest hosts the Mark Simone show on 710 WOR.

0:44.1

This is the place that you should be all the time to get your talk radio information news and most importantly entertainment because

0:57.0

that's what talk radio should be if it's good talk radio if it's not entertaining well

1:04.1

see you later and that's uh that was your options nowadays you have so many options to be able to listen to, look at, read many, many more than when we were all growing up.

1:18.8

I remember in the wee hours of the morning, I would be listening to a little Sony transistor radio underneath a pillow in my room in Canarsie being raised by my father,

1:31.5

Chester Merchant Seamen, close to 50 years, my mother, Francesca, dental technician, and they were

1:37.4

sort of patroly area.

1:40.1

I wonder if I was listening.

1:41.8

You remember the smell from that Sony transistor radio?

1:45.0

I'd be listening to Long John Neville and Candy Jones.

1:48.5

Oh, hey, had me believing that Candy Jones was a CIA agent,

1:54.8

and you could actually dig a hole all the way from Bayonne, New Jersey,

1:59.2

the gateway to the world, down to Peking, Red China there,

2:04.1

Mount Chitong.

2:04.8

Yeah, they actually had you believe in that.

2:07.3

That's great theater of the mine.

2:09.9

Now, a person I never listened to, but it was a fixture here at WOL for years, Gene Shepherd.

2:15.2

A lot of people said over the years, wow, you got a lot of

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