Radio Man: The World's Most Famous Homeless Man

30:58Got to be at least 30, I'd think, wouldn't he? He was like 16, 17 then. Yeah. How good was Robin Williams? How good a person was he? How good a person was Robin Williams? Was he a good person? He was a really good person. He loved everybody. He'd crack jokes. He'd make funny things all the time. Yeah, when we were on set, on camera and off camera, both ways. He was just a personable guy. You know, he didn't act like an actor, actor, you know. I worked with him also on Night at the Museum that Ben Stiller did with Robin Williams, where he played the statue of Teddy Roosevelt that comes to life.

31:45That was fun. Robin was a great guy, really good guy. I loved him. I hope you're hearing this up there, wherever you are. Yeah. A lot of people say I look like him. I have the same mannerisms. Do you think that? I think so. Yeah. Yeah, he was an absolute legend. And he had a big part. He had a big connection with Scotland. He was very good at Scotland. Yeah. He was very good friends. He was able to do all types of voices. Sierra has all the best active and outdoor brands you need. From athletic stuff, like a full-court pickup game, swish, to athletic stuff, like a half-mile stroll. Get those steps in.

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33:06We've been doing that, brother You know, stuff like that, you know Yeah, he was He could do any kind of dialogue It was incredible He was very good friends with Billy Connolly Who was a comedian Oh, Barry Connolly, yeah, yeah And Mrs. Doubtfire was Scottish Yeah, Mrs. Doubtfire, of course Yeah, he was an absolute legend The movie, Patch Adams Like, unbelievable movie Patch Adams, yeah Unbelievable Awakenings with Robert De Niro, that Penny Marshall also directed. I wasn't in that one, but I do know about it. Adam Sandler. Also, you've been in a lot of Adam Sandler's movies. Mr. Deeds. Yep. School is for fools.

33:44That was me. Yeah. Yeah. How did Tika? Adam Sandler, I worked with him at least several or eight times in different films. Yeah. Look at me, school is for fools. Don't go to school. And I did Rain On Me with him and Don Cheadle. So many different films I worked with. Adam. Yep. Big Daddy. Yep. What's Martin Scorsese like? Marty's one of a kind. Yeah. There's no one like him. He's just like different than any other director you could ever meet. he is the quintessential director of films he knows everything about phil nor he gets all his knowledge from different old movies and stuff like tcm movies he watches all that those different films of cinema and he's a regular hey man how are you oh i good ha ha ha i want to see i gotta put you in this movie but you gotta get rid of your beard and your hair and all that.

34:54Are you willing to do that? I go, yeah, Marty, no problem. All right, get them ready. And that was on Shutter Island, where they put me in a crazy mental house outside it. We shot in Medford, Massachusetts, and we dressed up an old, real psychiatric center. And we dressed it up with flowers and everything in a courtyard. And I was, it's in the 1950s. Leo was in it. Mark Roof, below, yeah, and me, and some other people, yeah, oh, Max von Sydow, you know, from The Exorcist was also in it, and Ben Kingsley, great film, great film, and then the ending leaves you up in the air, you don't know what it's all about, it was a good movie though, and I did that and I had shackles on my feet and handcuffs, no hair, shaved everything off.

35:55I had a pair of garden shears and I'm in the garden over there and I look at Leo with a menacing look, someone like this.

36:06And Marty captured that on film, right close up, pan me. It was great. We call him the business panning. yeah so Bellevue I love Marty and Marty's about to do another movie he also put me in something called Killers of the Flower Moon I worked with Jesse Febbins and De Niro was there and Leo was also in it so you see Leo DiCaprio and Marty had like a bond the chemistry they've worked together like like me six or seven films or more you know they're very close together and Marty's about to do something in Rhode Island starting up shortly. Yeah. With Jennifer Lawrence. Well, you're in the Wolf of Wall Street?

36:52I was in the Wolf of Wall Street. That was Oliver Stone who directed that. Michael Douglas and Shia LaBeouf, who I got to meet out there too. That's got to be about, oh, I'd say, what, 10, 15 years ago? The Wolf of Wall Street? Yeah. Oh, excuse me. No, I got that confused. The Wolf of Wall Street was Marty. Yeah. Wall Street 2. Money never sleeps. That was Oliver Stone. See, I got confused between the two different Wall Streets. Yeah, Marty did the Wolf of Wall Street with him. Matthew McConaughey was in it, who was banging his chest in the beginning. Yeah, great film. Jonah Hill, yeah. I wound up on some of those sets too.

37:49And I was in front of Rayo's picture shop. It was raining and I had my bike then. And this is going several years after the bush cut. And I had the bike and Marty goes, why don't you guys make a circle around near Rayo's with the bike? So I go, okay, yeah. And they captured that in the shot. of the Wolf of Wall Street. Yep.

38:18Now, another director I worked with was Ron Howard, and he did Ransom. That's how I got the part in that one. And he put me in the shop there. That was pretty cool. In Harlem, underneath a bridge way over near the water on 125th, 126th Street. And that was another big movie, too, for me. What's DiCaprio like? And I worked with Spielberg, who also over there, I mean, you're probably going to talk about that later. You don't have this in there yet. But I worked with him as well on several films. What's DiCaprio like? What's Leonardo like? DiCaprio? He's a good guy. He's into all his look, his character, whatever it is.

39:07You don't bother him when he's working. you know but we talk in between here and there you know Leo's a fun guy you know but he doesn't he's not that I do call it friendly in many ways to many people but because he's into his production you know he's working he's doing what he has to do and he hasn't had time for games and stupidity and people's BS, you know. So other than that, he's a good people. He's a good guy. What's Shire LeBouf like? Shire, I didn't really know that well, but he thought I was fascinating. He goes, how does this guy know where we are all the time? He knows where we're shooting before I do.

39:53It's uncanny how he knows all these things before I even know, before I see a call sheet, radio man knows where I'm going to be. Yeah. It was that kind of involvement, how I got to meet him. Yeah. And what about... Nice kid, but now he looks different. He's got a big beard. Yeah. What about Whippy Goldberg? Did she take you to the... Recognizing Your Saints was the movie that I met him on. The one that Trudy Styler produced. Yeah. And that Sting's wife, you know, Sting, the singer from the police. Yep. And I worked with Channing Tatum and Shia LaBeouf. I didn't know who they were then. They were just starting out in the business.

40:40What about Whippy Goldberg? Did she take you to the Oscars? She took me to the Oscars, yes. To the oysters. I love your voice. Thank you, brother. Yeah.

40:54Yeah. That was the first time I went to the Oscars. It's got to be decades ago. and she got me a ticket and suit and everything, tuxedo. She's just incredible, just incredible. Never mind her views on The View, you know, all this political stuff. But she's very feisty and she tells it like it is. Some people don't want to hear it and some people do. So you have the good and the bad. She projects it the way she should And that's how she is I love her I think she's one of the best Yeah she was in great In show business or anything Yeah she was in great movies Back in the day Ghost Sister Act The Color Purple The Color Purple Sister Act 1 and 2 Yep Ghost Ghost Ghost Ghost of Mississippi Another good one Yep What's Robert De Niro like?

41:57well it's like this you know you're good radio man you're very good I don't know why but you're good

42:11he's a wild guy I messed the wrong terminology but

42:25he's different in many ways how do I explain it most of the things you see on screen is him from casino to the godfather to what was it all those different movies. Raging Bull. His character is very similar to the way he is in real life for all the different people he plays, right? Even the comedy stuff that he's doing recently with Meet the Parents, Meet the Fuckers, and all that other stuff. Sierra has all the best active and outdoor brands you need, from athletic stuff, like a full-court pickup game, swish, to athletic-ish stuff, like a half-mile stroll. Get those steps in. And for morning hikes up the mountain trail, good pace.

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44:40Not everybody can get along with them, but I even asked Pacino that one day. I go, I hear you and Bob don't get along. And Sheila goes, I get along with everybody. Just like that. Yeah, so I didn't go further than that. And, you know, they're pretty close friends. Maybe because they're Italian, but they're in the same business as in the movie industry or whatever. Yeah. What about Tom Cruise? Tom Cruise Because you've been on Mission Impossible Yeah I never worked on any Mission Impossible Because they were never in New York But I used to see him a lot When he was with his ex Nicole Kidman And Katie and all these other women He went out with That's That's a bridge too far We don't even want to discuss that He's a nice guy.

45:38He's okay. Every time he sees me, how you doing, radio? Good to see you. How you been? And he shakes my hand and all that. Comes out of the woodwork just like that, just to come up and say it over to me. It's amazing. Really is. And he's a great actor. He does all his own stunts. He really does. Because he wants to project that it's him, not a stunt double. They want to know not just a close-up, but all the things he does, like the Mission Impossible was a dead reckoning. He actually was on that mountain and jumped off that with a motorcycle down about what? 400 feet or more? He was on that. And then a parachute opens up.

46:22I think they did that in two takes. It had to be just right. So they him and Chris McQuarrie, who directed it, they've done a few things together. And then when I went out to Pittsburgh, When he was shooting Jack Reacher, I went there to get some autographs from him. And he's never turned me down all the time. I get stuff signed. And if he does, he says, give me your address, Randy. I'll send him to you. Sure enough, within a month later, I get them in the mail. And it will sign Tom Cruise. Crazy, right? Great actor, too. There's nothing like him. Like I said, he does do all of his own stunt work and everything.

47:08Yeah. In all the movies he's portrayed. And don't forget, what's the one with Demi Moore? No, not Demi Moore. Jack Nicholson. Maybe she was in the show. A few good men. Yes, a few good men. Correct. Yes. All we want is the truth. You can't handle the truth, says Jack. Remember? that was a classic line Nicholson too what a guy radio how are you good what do you want me signing these fucking things I go yeah I got about 10 10 what are you crazy there's about 6 but that's alright Jack is Jack there's no way to describe Jack any other way but Jack great great person really is Yeah. They say he's losing it.

48:03I don't believe that. You get old, that's all. You forget things. But the last time he came in, about a year ago, he looked fine. He had a little cane with him, but he looked fine. Radio, how you been? You good? Yeah, it's been a while. I go, yeah, Jack, it has. They got more shit for me again. Don't tell me the Yankees score. Oh, I did that once He blew up on me I wanted to see it on Tebow, don't tell me You know

48:37Good old Jack What was it like being in the Departed? Because that was our star-studded line-up They had Which one? The Departed, Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio We shot a lot of that In Boston and some New Yorker. And let's see. You had DiCaprio. You had Matt Damon, a very nice guy. I did a lot of movies with him, too. All the, yeah. The Bourns? Bourne, yeah. All the Bourne Identity, I didn't do. Bourne Supreme, because it wasn't shot here. Paul Greengrass directed that. the uh born identity not born identity born supremacy and born ultimatum I was in both of those seen very nice and featured in that one with Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon coming out of the building it was it was good yeah yeah and who else we had in that uh Leo Matt uh Martin Sheen and Marty that too you know James O 'Hara He's Scottish Who?

49:55James O 'Hara James O 'Hara He's Scottish He was in Braveheart Like Marine O 'Hara Yeah he was in Braveheart Jamesy boy Or does it David O 'Hara David O 'Hara David O 'Hara He was in The Departed I don't remember Yeah Scottish guy Was he a bad guy? Yeah He was in So he's what On Costello's team Jack Nicholson's one Yeah Well Jack played Costello In that one Yeah Yeah Do you like that film That was really cool Great movie. Great movie. Yeah. What about Keanu Reeves? Marty and Mary. Unbelievable movie. What about Keanu Reeves? Keanu Reeves.

50:34Keanu likes people. He likes to be on his own. He's a loner. And he just likes to do his own thing. You know, have a beer. Go in the park. Smoke a cigarette. Talk to ordinary people on the street. Some of them don't even recognize. it's Keanu, and if they do, they go, aren't you? Go, yeah, yeah, well, sit down, we'll talk. So they sit on a park bench or on a stoop, and he's just bullshits with ordinary people. He's really a personable guy, a very friendly person, and he took care of me every time he sees me, signs my stuff. He just finished a play called Waiting for a Godot, and almost every night, He came out and signed playbills.

51:26Excuse me. He signed playbills, not autographs much. Because he knew the autograph people and wanted them a whole sort of crap. They're going to go out and put them on the internet and sell them. You know? So he didn't, because he's seen the same faces every day. He knew something was up. But real fans he hugs and takes selfies with. Um, piano's cool, yeah. I never worked on Speed because that was in California. Uh, did John Wick a couple of times. And I'm here, they may do another one. Uh, John Wick 5, they're working on it. And somewhere it'll be in New York. Where are you, Key? I hope you're near this.

52:11What about Hugh Jackman? Hugh Jackman. Hugh Jackman, yes. I don't call him Hugh Jackman. I go, you jackass! You got that right, radio! He's a nice guy. He's cool, too.

52:36Let's see. Kate Leopold with Meg Ryan. That was one of his first films, I think, anyway. It might have been others, but that's the one I got to see him win.

52:52and James Mangold the first time I met that director he worked on it on Kate and Leopold and he put me in the scene with Leif Shriver outside the Brooklyn Bridge underneath it and it was Otis Elevator with people back then in the 1800s or whatever because it goes through time from his time into her time you know like time travel and yeah and i was dressed up a little bit and they called me the naysayer and mangled for me right in the shop with lee shriver it was great yeah as you know you jackass he's got a movie called song sun blue and he does a dynamite job hopefully he'll win something um but there's a huge lineup right now for nominations of people all different films song sun blue about neil diamond where he impersonates neil diamond in the movie and kate hussen who does a bang up job too in that that's uh coming up uh should be online by now or maybe it's streaming, I don't know.

54:13I hate all these new platforms, you know. What do you think of them? TikTok. Well, I could say something, but I won't. TikTok, blah, blah, blah. You know what I'm trying to say here. I know what you're trying to say. Yeah, I just think times have changed, Radio Man. I think it's not just cinema anymore. You have Netflix, you have Amazon, you've got Facebook, TikTok. Yeah, but it's also a good business opportunity. Like myself, like yourself And this is what you're doing When you were younger This never existed Blockbuster we had We had little cameras, mini camcorders At the time And Flash cameras, remember?

54:58When I was a kid We had something called a swinger That was in colour in black and white Polaroid made it And what you do is you take the picture is the shot hit it down zip it off meet the swinger Polaroid swinger it was a commercial like that and I remember when I was young very young I probably was about 18 or more at the time now I'm in my 70s and I'm still crazy after all these years so yeah and now we're doing these what do you call podcasts or whatever what is a podcast I remember the pods in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Remember that, Vinny? Who was the original one? The Invasion of the Body Snatch?

55:50Keisha Sutherland. I mean, Donald Sutherland.

55:57Kevin McCarthy. Nah, that was the 50s, I believe. That was a spooky movie. When you were a kid, you thought, wow, forget about now, and then Walking Dead and all that. Nah, this one was really cool. They had all these clones that became the other people in these pods. And the alien pods looked just like the other people. Yeah, that's what they were called clones then. so anyway yeah what about Russell Crowe because you worked with him in the beautiful mind I think he won an Oscar or else he was nominated but he said something to the academy that they didn't quite like at the time and they gave it to Denzel for training day instead great movie also though Russell really should have had that they stole it from him no offence to you Denzel you did a great job too in your movie, but still, there was some kind of animosity there.

56:58I don't know. Nonetheless, Russell's great. And do you see him in Noah? What a movie. Did you see Noah? David Aronofsky? Wow. What a film. I always said to Russell, I wanted to say to him, you could be the next Richard Burton. He had those chops, just like Richard did. Like Burton did. Elizabeth Taylor and all that. He's just a great method actor in every way possible. And he has a band, too. You know, he also performs. The gladiator. How are you? You need some cash? You're us. You need some cash? And instead of saying you need money, you need some cash? And he would pull out money and have a cash out of his pocket and hand it to me.

57:46Yeah, just like that. Yeah. And he would sign graphs for me. and Russell's a good guy and like I say, Christian Bale, all these different people that I know. Our life's out, you know, when it comes to meeting me with them. It's another world, you know, another ballgame. They don't look at me as a fan. They look at me like a brethren, you know, like we grew up together. We were in the same league. It's amazing. It really is. who's the best you have worked with who's the best I've worked with chances pinpoint one and of course Robin but he's dead living now

58:35yeah Christian Russell

58:42Pierce Brosnan all great guys I know them all well actors, male, female like Helen Mirren, Sandra Bullock, Meryl Streep, and go on and on, you know.

59:01They're just incredible people, you know. Not just acting, but as far as their other lifestyles, you know. They just knock it out of the park, I think so. Yeah. Is that anyone you don't like? Anyone I don't like. There's a few, but I will remain nameless right now. Yeah. What happened with Sean Penn? Oh, yeah, Sean Penn. Well, years ago, what was it? I was at the Oscars when Mopi took me there. She wasn't there to take me there, but she paid for it. And we got to be everything in a hotel and whatnot. And I'm watching from the hotel room. the telecast of the Oscars, you know, the Academy Awards.

59:52And I saw somebody else would win, and Hugh Jackman and Beyoncé were hosting it. They go, and at that time, it wasn't on the Oscar goes to, no. And the winner is Sean Penn. I go, oh, shit. What do you mean he won, you know? He's such a scumbag, you know, and he's not a cool guy, you know. then. Now he's changed a little bit. He's a little more open up about things. And the other guy, Mel Gibson, tried to chase me off the set of Ransom. I was drunk at the time, and I had a big, big boom box. I should have had a box here, some kind of radio saber, but no, it was really Radio man. I didn't bring one.

1:00:40Yeah. But anyway. Do we have one in the back? I guess not, no? Joe, you see what? Oh, okay, never mind. Yeah. Yep. That was something. What about Will Farrell? Because you worked with him in Zoolander? Will Farrell, yeah. I didn't really get to talk to him much. The scene I did had nothing to do with him. it just was a shot of that you know of Elf was in Canada when you see the sleigh go over that was like CGI or AI whatever and so when it hits the bench I'm there on the bench laying down like that with the radio on my neck and it hits the the wing of the statue and it goes on the bench Oh, boom.

1:01:37And you see me going like this, back and forth. That was shot in Central Park. But the sleigh and the reindeer, that was done in the Canadian woods. He goes, oh, no. The rangers are after me. The park rangers. That was Canada, not Central Park. But the guys on the horseback, those were Canadian Mountain Police. but uh maybe three or four weeks of that movie we shot in new york like in macy's or gimbals whatever it was and on the streets over there yeah that was new york john fabreau directed that great guy too really cool he put me in his movie called made and now uh the lead of that is serving time in jail.

1:02:28You know, P. Diddy was in May, along with that. Yeah, and John Fabreau directed that too. Oh, yeah. And Vince Vaughn was also in that, very early years. So he gave me a piece there, and I was standing outside at some kind of nightclub, and I go back and forth, looking back and forth. And he goes, here's here. Hey, you, get out of here. Let's go. No, you can't hang out, you know. some bodyguard that's in the movie. It's called Maze. It's a good film. You'll have to see it. And I think they, I don't want to get political in any way, but I think they gave P. Diddy a wrong turn. Now, he doesn't deserve to be in jail.

1:03:15Some people, you know, are just jealous of certain people, and they try to ways to finagle it and say, oh, he did this and did that. I think we all did that when we were young, you know? You know? And drugs and alcohol and having sex and fooling around and grabbing women's behinds. It was all natural then. It was a thing to do. Go to Studio 54, whatever, you know? And now they treat it like, oh, it's horrible to do that and women's rights and whatnot, even men's rights. I mean, you got transgender now, men who want to look like women. And believe it or not, it's shocking, because they do. Some of them look like broads, like females.

1:04:03It's incredible. Only they have a magic wand, or what they call a pet snake. And they dress in these exotic dresses and fiery all around. I don't know. The world has changed a hell of a lot. Let's put it that way. What was James Gandolfini like? James Gandolfini. He seemed like a good guy What a guy, a very good guy Yeah Yeah Because when I look at You kind of get a good judgment Like I believe Keanu Reeves is a good guy Yeah Jimmy would take care of people Robin Williams Not because they were homeless or whatever they were He just liked people Ordinary human beings, you know He didn't even care for the actors much, you know Of course, the guys he worked with are Sopranos.

1:04:54But he would just hang around, do his thing. In a documentary, he's out coming out of the camper. And he goes, Jimmy, I'm doing a documentary here. He goes, yeah? He goes, what are you doing? He goes, I'm just hanging out. I'm making a show. I'm making a movie. And Radio Man's my girlfriend. That's what he says in that DVD. Yeah. in a documentary. Yeah, it was cool. He's a nice guy, really nice guy. He's a shame. Only the good die young. You heard that song, right? Yeah. Billy Joel. It's true. Very true. Yep. Did you ever think that Robin Williams would take his own life because he was so funny and out there and happy all the time?

1:05:46Did I ever fight with him? No, did you ever think that Robin Williams would take his own life because of his character? Maybe, yeah. Did you? Because all the different characters he portrayed were similar to the people that he sees on the street all the time. Yeah, and he did a bang-up job with everything he ever made. Like you say, Mrs. Doubtfire, he dresses up like the old lady to get back in the good graces of his wife and pretend to be this woman. Yeah. I'll break your arm. I'll just, ooh. Oh my child What is your name darling Oh it's a pity name Oh yes yes yes It was a great film Did you see it?

1:06:28Yeah yeah great movie What's the best movie you've done What's the best What's the best thing you've done You think What's the one that stands out to you You enjoy Best movie ever worked on Yeah Or the best part you've done Nothing really stands out except me and De Niro in something that Taylor Hackford directed called The Comedian. And we shot that in the soup kitchen in the city. And I have a one-on-one with him, me and him together. And I go, Taylor, what do you want me to do? Just look at him? He goes, no, asshole, say something to him. So I go, okay, I made up some lines. And he said, well, these people always like they are.

1:07:24You know, why are they in the street and all this? I go, and my line was what I made up. He goes, oh, you make your bed and you sleep in it too. Oh, that's pretty good advice. I like that. Oh, I got to go. I got to go. I'll see you later. And that was my line, basically, in that, with me and him. But chemistry is perfect. And we fed off of each other. in that movie, The Comedian. You ever see it? No. Go check it out. You'll like it. What do you think about your life? What do I think about my life? Yeah. It sucks. Let's see. Well, I started from nothing, basically. I can explain. I wasn't bored with a silver spoon in my mouth.

1:08:11I just happened by, and that's how I got known, And by just being on sets and being known by different people and PAs wanted to put me in shows and directors. And it's been on and on ever since. I never made the big money. I never looked to make the big money. I wasn't interested in making a whole lot of fame and fortune. But now it's turning around after all these years. And I can't even figure it out why. But it is. And I'm part of it. and I guess I got to just keep pushing until I die. I don't know. But it's fun and I enjoy it, you know. It's not like a nine-to-five job. There are people who do their regular jobs don't really like what they're doing, but they do it to make a living, yeah.

1:09:04Not everybody can break into show business, you know, or be discovered. Some can, some can't. In my case, it just maybe was a fluke. I have no idea, but that's about it. What makes you happy? What makes me happy? Women. Hot girls, no. Sex, the poor chicken. Transgender men. Old British movies. I love those British movies, those Hammer films. Christopher Lee and all that, that makes me happy. Seeing all those hot girls, almost partially naked. Yeah. And that was back in the 60s and 70s. You know, promiscuity was there. No one tried to turn it off or cover it up. It just fit in. And the British are so, or any English or foreign actor, I think, have better acting chops than Americans do.

1:10:06They look so believable, you know. They really portray it perfectly.

1:10:13I love Scrooge. You ever see that? Bill Murray? The original one. No, no, no, no, no. That's Scrooge. Not Bill Murray. Oh, the one you showed? The one way back in 1951. Republic Pictures that was portrayed by Alistair Sims. And I used to recite all the lines in that. I love that. That's the one Scrooge I always showed. Trash it. You're late. How dare you come into this time of day? which leaves me no alternative but to raise your salary. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. I haven't taken leave of my senses, Bob. I've come to them. I don't want to raise a little family of yours, if you'll let me.

1:10:59Meanwhile, we'll go to a bowl of hot punch. You go out and you buy a new cold stuttle. You do that before you dot another I, Bob crashes.

1:11:13That was some of the line in that. You got to see that. If you never saw that particular version, get that one. 1951 Republic Pictures is now in color. Colorage. Check it out. Every Christmas. It's fabulous. It's like The Wizard of Oz. I can recite all that, too. I used to always watch that. When I was a kid, did you? Yeah. Yeah. Have you ever seen It's a Wonderful Life? Oh, yeah. James Stewart, yeah. Never met him. Never met him. I would have loved to meet him. Never did. Is there anyone you would have loved to have met? Because you've met all the biggest names in the world. Marlon Brando. Because I wasn't doing this then, and I never really met the guy.

1:12:06I mean, I saw him once at the Four Seasons Hotel, and he happened to be in a wheelchair coming out of the hotel. And that was the only time I ever ran into Marlon Brando. And I asked him for an autograph.

1:12:24Looks me up and down at Mobile. And he signed one for me, Marlon Brando. I wish I still had that photo. That was years ago. But it's got to be 30 years ago. Something like that, yeah. Also a good actor. Do you have any regrets?

1:12:49Yeah. Sometimes you get lonely, you know. Not everything's rosy all the time. Nothing is to regret or anything like that.

1:13:04I was married once and I have two kids and they live in Florida and my wife and now she sees I'm big and famous all of a sudden they want to know what I'm doing why are you like this my God we see you everywhere and all that that's a little bit regrettable that I'm not with them anymore but you move on and things change after all these years. But other than that, no. No regrets at all. In fact, now I'm more grateful doing what I'm doing than ever before. It's just incredible what's happening. People have always gravitated towards you, though, all around the world. People have always gravitated towards you, even today getting all that attention and people watching you on social media.

1:14:01Like, it's good to see because you're a good guy. You know, like, we've all had bad luck in life sometimes. We've all made mistakes. But from being alcoholic, sleeping on the street, mental institute, to working with some of the biggest names in the world. It's all over social media. Why should it be? These guys wouldn't. It's not right. Yeah, these guys, these people wouldn't give you the time of day if you were a fucking idiot. You know, like, these people obviously like you. They care about you. you've clearly got something about you you know and that's a special thing it is a special thing do you ever look back and realise what you've actually done yes can you appreciate it

1:14:47it happens to me and back then I didn't appreciate it no because I got a lot of I've been shown around, chased over here and there. And I wasn't well received by a lot of people. But ever since then, it's just evolved. And now I'm more acceptable to everybody. Everybody wants to know me. It's incredible. It really is that I have this kind of persona to them. And I don't think I have it, but they do. because I know what I look like and what I do every day is me, not anybody else. I'm not portraying anything. I'm just myself. And if other people feel regretful or they're down and out and doing whatever and they don't like what they're doing, well, it's time for a change, man.

1:15:44You got to believe in yourself and believe in what you do and how you do what you have to do. in order to change the rut you're in. And the only way to do that is to go straight forward and go ahead and make amends and just try to start all over again. And it'll work out for you. What about Daniel Day-Lewis? Daniel Day-Lewis? What do you mean, what happened to him? Yeah, what's the story when he broke out of character? when he was playing, is it Lincoln? When he was method acting and he seen you and he broke out of character. Oh.

1:16:32Yes. That was on the set of the movie Lincoln that Steven Spielberg directed in Virginia. And I come up there and I was looking to go to see Daniel Day to get some autographs signed.

1:16:55And I see him on top of this hill, near where the old-looking White House was supposed to be the White House back in the day in Virginia. And he's there with a little lamp, and I couldn't quite recognize him. He had the beard and the hat, and I see him and I go I don't want to sit and Spielberg's in between takes and I go Daniel it's me radio man radio man what are you doing here I broke completely out of character out of his Lincoln stuff and said hello and talked to me and even Spielberg was just like stuptified to see that he's never done that for nobody. He's been in this late since we started the movie.

1:17:50And he sees me, and he just broke out of character, and we started talking for a little while. And then he, of course, went back to doing what he was doing. But it was great. It was great. What was that? 20 years? No. How many years ago was that? About 15, maybe. 20 years? 15, 20. Yeah, something like that. Yeah, maybe 15. I don't think it's that old. Were you an Irishman? Not really, because it was period. But I was on the set a lot while they were filming. And we did it all over the place. Yeah, it was a great film, too. Did you see The Irishman? Yeah. I thought it was okay. I thought it was okay.

1:18:34There was a couple of loose ends. Yeah, I don't think it was as good as, obviously, casino and stuff. But yeah When you see De Niro Whoever Shoot him in the back Of the head By the ear I don't think that's the way It actually happened And nobody knows If Hoffa really died that way Or is he even dead Yeah Because no one's ever Found the body What about Men in Black Will Smith Will Smith And Tommy Lee Jones Yeah And Radio Man How you doing Nah nah nah here. Hi, Tommy. Yeah, I don't usually like to do a lot of these little holograph things, but I do a few for you, you know, and that was that. Men in Black 1, we shot New York.

1:19:26Men in Black 2, it was somewhere else. And the third one, I think we did part of it in New York. yeah um will is will will smith he would always call me rm yo rm what's up radio man instead of radio man is rm he shook my hand many times we talked and

1:19:55Barry Sonnenfeld put me in the movie, the first one.

1:20:02Whether or not you see some of it, it's like blurry, but I'm there, you know. But I'm not actually seeing that well in that one, but it's okay. I have fun with these actors, no matter what, whether they get me in it or not. when you say oh radio man's in 200 300 movies yeah i've been around them not necessarily in every single one of them but i've been on sets you know where they shoot with the crew and the actors and all that sometimes they get seen sometimes they don't i didn't care either way you know i even tell them sometimes maybe now with digital and all that kind of digital vouchers No, just put me in the shot.

1:20:49I'm happy with it. Did you ever have a relationship with your brother? With what? With your brother. Did you ever have a relationship? Relationship with my brother? Yeah. How do you know about that? Your documentary. Ah, Richard, yeah. We really... He was on the opposite side of the fence. We didn't get along that well, anyway. He was the first child. I came later.

1:21:19and like me, I like the acting stuff. My brothers like to sing. He's a singer, you know. Good singer, too. He's a singer, like Bobby Darin's songs and Bobby Rydell and all the old 60s bands.

1:21:40Richard Cortell. That was his character. That was his name for, he called himself Rick Cortell and he made a few records here and there cut a couple of albums he was a great singer and he didn't make it too well and he died very early of cancer 38 years old he had melanoma like stomach cancer couldn't believe it my father found out so loud he went to the hospital and he bowled like a baby when he seen my brother and he would say to his father that's the pain it hurts so much please pull the plug I can't take it no more and he knew he was going to die

1:22:35self inflicted to kill him but two days later he passed away but that was his first child you know i came like 20 years later see when you were on the streets radio man see when you were homeless and stuff like how hard is it how difficult is it what how hard is it when you're actually on the streets do you just i actually done a whole i've made a homeless documentary i slept on the street for seven days really and i realized how how tough it is yeah yeah i was sleeping with people under the bridge and to grow a communication to show people nobody knew you nobody yeah you had my cupboard or whatever yeah seven days um days through christmas i slept on the street christmas day and i went home in scotland yeah um but i grew such a connection with people it was to show people that we're all human it's to show people that we've all there is an alternative yeah of course yeah and people in the documentary did change an amazing man stuart who was in the documentary changed his life but how difficult is it when you're on the street and it's like nobody cares and you're lonely and you're struggling like how difficult is that it's struggling is that easy begging from here and there and asking for food and going here and going there in those days it was much harder much harder to live there was no such thing as homelessness then it was just that you were didn't have a place to go and nobody wanted you for certain reasons and who knows why and you find out all different stories from these guys who were were down on their luck and how they became that way.

1:24:33Some of them were pretty intelligent too. They just got caught in the wrong spot at the wrong time. But like I say, if there are people out there who feel that they want to make a change, now's the time to do it. Now's the time to lift off your bootstraps and do it and just change your whole life around. and try to beat the devil, as it were. I think everybody should have that opportunity. What's the worst thing you've seen when you were on the streets? Did you see a lot of bad things? I saw a lot of other guys trying to rob stuff from themselves, from other homeless guys. Not much killings or murders, nothing like that then.

1:25:27it was just as they saw an opportunity to steal something or you go to sleep in maybe a cot or laying down on the ground somewhere. They try to take your wallet. They know you have money or a watch or something, you know, something of value. Yeah. But other than that, no, we have a few brushes with fights here and there, you know, fisticuffs. But other than that, no. How is your life now? How is your daily routine? My life now is all roses. I don't get it. No, it's a different world.

1:26:07What we're living in now is total chaos. And no one seems to have the answers on how to piece it together, whether it be the president of the United States or mayors or anybody who holds political office. doesn't seem to get the grasp of what it's like. Like you said, you went on the street for seven days. Do you think any of them people were what we were about in those days? No, none of them. They all came from money. They were all very rich. They don't understand what it is to be poor and destitute because they always were born with a silver spoon in their mouth, you know? The gift horse. and they've always lived like in nice suburbs and everything handed to them.

1:27:01Never had to work a day in their life basically. Like my Danny who's our new mayor I don't know what he's all about maybe he'll do the right thing maybe he won't but that's another story for another day. What do you think life is Radio Man? What do you think life is? What do you think it's about? That's a tough question.

1:27:27We're here. Somebody put us here. And we're living. Whether or not we like our lifestyle or we don't like our lifestyle. We're breathing. We're living. We're proof that we're human beings. And we all have to treat everybody like a human being. Not fight. Not yell. Not this. Not that. sure it happens but we have to control ourselves and make our lives our lives plattable and with respect for others and everybody no matter what they are whether they whatever their political beliefs is fine maybe you don't agree with it maybe you do agree with it but either way we have to work together it's the only way to change things all over the world, not just America, everywhere.

1:28:22People have to realize that people are people. We all have arms, well, not all of us, but we were born with arms, legs, and mouths to talk with. We have to do it in the right way. I think that's what life is basically structured on and what we should pursue. For anybody watching Radio Man that's maybe struggling in life right now, someone who's maybe got an addiction or maybe can't find any strength to be better or make better changes what advice would you have for them for people who are struggling now yeah like i say is just go on with what you're doing but uh start trying to go in a different direction and straighten yourself out any way you can there's no reason to struggle it might look dark and dismal but there are ways of changing that and you have to you're the one, no one else can do it these people on their own have to make a decision to change their life around it's that simple or it's that difficult, whatever but it has to be done it has to be done Radio Man I think what you're doing is unbelievable I think it's great to see in all these movies And be connected to all these superstars And still kicking on and still want to do things I think you're very smart I hope they like what I said And my whole idea behind this And you become rich and famous Yeah listen I just love interviewing people I just love understanding people And understanding their stories I've created a good life If I travel the world.

1:30:14These are street stories that you probably had other people you talk about to as well. No? Yeah. And is it similar or each one has their own? Everyone is different. Everyone's different, yeah. I've interviewed mafia men, hit men. The migrants. Yeah, everyone. Migrants, white, black, blue, brown, whatever. Yeah, I've interviewed a lot of the mafia guys as well. Really? Yeah. When they were in the mob. They're out now. but a lot of them turn snitches a lot of they they tell you stories about when they were part of it yeah because they all become majority become snitches they start speaking they become rats so they start speaking out you know but they think these mob movies that these actors and directors make are pretty much true yeah yeah most of it yeah marie knows how to put it out yeah he's a great great director but for anybody watching or listening go to radio man stuff it's on real radio man he's got signed photos um all his social media is on instagram tiktok facebook but i'm going to bring the real radio yeah but i'm going to bring vinnie in who looks after you just to you want to come in vinnie so vinnie is works with radio man helps him um but what sort of stuff is radio man doing now well radio man And we'll give you a little bit of background.

1:31:43I've known radio for about 15 years, maybe more. More than that, yeah. Probably more than that. And I handle a lot of his personal affairs, banking, Social Security, credit cards, health care, apartment hunting, and just all the daily things. Like he's focusing on being radio man, and he loves it. And I focus on, you know, keeping him, you know, up to date and going and taking care of all the things that he needs to get by in life. And through the years, we get into the most ridiculous arguments, crazy conversations. Yeah. He sometimes drives me nuts. Sometimes I drive him completely insane. Completely.

1:32:27I'm sure. Yeah. And so I would say for years, this is a show. this is nobody would believe this if i wrote this as a script no one would believe it's real yeah um i said it's hilarious it's hysterical i go home laughing or crying either way it's it's complete drama so i said uh radio i think i think we should stop putting you out in the world you have all this recognition all this fame you do all these things let's see if we can't share you with the world because he's an enigma. He's totally unique. He's unbelievable. He appears to have so little. I'm an enigma? Yes. Or an embryo. There you go.

1:33:12Like 2001 in Space Odyssey. Anyway, go ahead. And that's what he does. Exactly. I said, maybe it was my train of thought. So He's a negma Yeah So no he Like nobody would believe this I want to just share him with the world Because he appears to have so little But he's so happy He doesn't want fame He doesn't want fortune He doesn't want that kind of success He just is very happy being who he is Wake up in the morning Going to set Eating craft services Meeting his friends The cast and the crew of these films And then going home That's his day And he considers that absolutely the pinnacle. So I says, I think we should share this.

1:34:00There's a human interest story here. So I set him up with Instagram and TikTok. Well, somebody else set up his Instagram. We kind of just managed it for you now. Facebook. What are they so far people can subscribe and watch? Well, everything is under the real radio man. TikTok. Instagram, Facebook, TikTok. Look at the craft. on YouTube, which is where a lot of the long-form episodes will be found, is Real Radio Man. And there should be links there for his Shopify account. He's been getting a lot of autograph requests. And there'll be T-shirts and hats and mugs and all that stuff, I'm sure, coming that we're going to use to help fund the show, fund him, and get him into maybe a little more financial better condition so that he can enjoy what he's worked for and what he's built.

1:34:55Do all the sort of movie sets treat him well? Does everybody treat him well? Or does some people maybe block him from coming in? Yes, no. The majority of them welcome him, invite him in, feed him, give him a part, give him a role. They treat him like royalty. There are some that either don't know who he is or sometimes he just shows up on a bad day where they're tight schedule, very busy. It's a very close set. It's a location that doesn't want outside parties coming in. So those he has to be turned away from. But he understands that. But yeah, the majority of them welcome him and accept him and treat him really, really, really well.

1:35:40Could there potentially be a movie? And you personally have seen that. You notice when you go on the set. Could there potentially be a movie about his life? because Robin Williams would have played his part amazingly. There has been talk about what we could do. I mean, we could do another updated doc. We could do the life story of Radio Man. I don't know where this is going to lead to. Right now, we're all just really having a good time doing episodes of me and Radio Man capturing the nonsense that we do on a daily basis. The essence of what I do. Right. And what do you do yourself, Vinny? I am an actor and a producer.

1:36:12I've been working pretty steadily for about 20 years, And that's why I said Probably 10 years ago Me and another actress Producer, friend of mine, Leanne Melissa Bishop Said, you know, we love this guy, we've known Let's try and get him You know, a series or a movie Or something, so we started shooting content And putting it out there and trying to shop it But the funny thing is, is nobody Was buying into the concept I've been pitching this for 10 years 10 years, the two of us Have been pitching this, trying to get him Some sort of acknowledgement, some sort of deal But only recently When social media started taking hold Did we get the attention To maybe make it into something further Or grow it But it's an unbelievable story The homeless man The psychic It's insane Stopping drinking And then being involved With some of the biggest names on the planet These people genuinely give their time To Radio Man It's unbelievable I have seen it I have seen The most famous man And homeless man in show business.

1:37:16Yeah, yeah, he's, like I said, I don't know how to explain him, and it's hard to explain him to others, so now we're showing it. We would get comments like, oh, well, yeah, he's famous in New York, but, you know, we can't really sell this as a series, you know, globally or internationally or whatever, because he's really just a small town thing. I'm like, oh, no, no, there is a story here. There is a human interest story. This guy is unreal. What he's been through, what he's gone through, what he goes through on a daily basis. He makes it sound relatively easy, but you or I could never do what he does.

1:37:50He gets up, he's 7 ,900 years old. How old are you? Like a 99-year-old man, yeah? And this guy gets up. 75 plus. That's right. Carries his bike that weighs probably 500 pounds, outside, rides to Manhattan, rides to wherever he's got to go, and he's pedaling in all kinds of weather, rain, sleet, snow, he doesn't care, It doesn't bother him. It could be 10 degrees, could be 150 degrees. Doesn't matter. It doesn't keep him home. He won't stay home for anything. He goes out and he hustles and he works his way onto sets and he bounces from hotel to hotel, from set to set. It's exhausting. It's grueling.

1:38:30I could never do it. He does it every day. Every day. It's not - Sometimes we get lucky, sometimes we don't. Exactly. Exactly. Sometimes we capture gold on camera in five minutes. Sometimes we're chasing you around for three days. Get all that stuff from Keanu and John Goodman. Right. The celebrities that sign autographs for him help him supplement his income. He markets that stuff. But I think the celebrities know this. They do. Because they don't sign everything. So these signed photos get a few hundred dollars. Pays for his rent. He still needs to eat. Pays for his rent. Like it's not. Yeah, yeah.

1:39:04Especially New York's not cheap. Yeah. Not everybody does it. Not everybody does everything. Everybody gives it back right away. So that's a struggle for him, too. Not to mention one that I didn't mention. Yeah. Cher. Great lady. Cher. Sweetheart. I've seen Cher pull her car over in the middle of the street, like to a screeching halt, roll down the window to call to him, wave him over to the car. And she's like a security team meant to do the opposite of that. Do not expose her to the public. Now she opens up. Radio, get over here. So we've got big plans for Radio Man for the future Radio Man, what is your real name?

1:39:44Is it David? They want my real name? No, what is your real name? Is it David? It's all over the internet Yes, what are we doing? Craig Radio Man Yeah, Craig Castaldon Castaldon Yeah, yeah No, I had him from the documentary Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, it's Craig Craigie That's how My mother used to say it That's how he knows when I'm annoyed I'll call him up and I'll go Craig! What are you doing? Yeah, because he... We're really oil and water. We're two characters you would never, ever think would fit together. But it's good that he's got people behind him. You know, especially in your 70s as well. It's not easy out there.

1:40:27You know, it's good to have the right team. You're only a few weeks away with a longer beard that you take for his part. Yeah, yeah. It's for a role. You have a similar watch that Pierce gave me. Is that an Omega? Yeah. Yeah. The 007 watch, by the way, it still happened in my pocket. That's right. Don't lose it. We need it for an episode. Okay. But plans for the future then, so everything's sweet. There's big things happening. His social media exposure is growing by leaps and bounds. He has his Shopify account. We're going to add stuff like t-shirts and mugs to help supplement his income. Yeah, and we're hoping to get him the YouTube channel just really up and running with some really fun, interesting content.

1:41:10Perfect. Yeah. Again, listen, Radio Man. And with your involvement, maybe we'll shoot up like a temperature. Fingers crossed. But I think you're amazing. Thank you for coming on today. Thank you so much. Vinny, thank you. No, thank you. I wish you guys nothing but the best for the future. I appreciate you, sir. Anyway, from Scotland. To see a bum like me. Yeah. I think you're more than that. And again, grateful. I wish you nothing but the best for the future and anything I can ever help with, I'm a phone call away. Same here. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah.