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Mark's 11am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now the Red Beret has returned to radio. Curtis Leewall
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  Speaker 1: guest host the Mark Simone Show on sevent ten woor
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  Speaker 1: doesn't get any better than this, be on this iconic
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  Speaker 1: radio station where the call letters the only place I
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  Speaker 1: know of in America, and I've been on most stations
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  Speaker 1: from time to time, there's only three letters wor oh.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember the time that I had to carry
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  Speaker 1: all the items from Bob Grant to King of Talk
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  Speaker 1: Radio from the studios of WABC where he had been
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  Speaker 1: fired by Bob Iger of Disney. When Disney owned WABC
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  Speaker 1: and other talk radio stations, why would they be in
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  Speaker 1: the talk radio business. It's controversial, but they were, and
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  Speaker 1: nobody would have Bob Grant, who had helped so many
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  Speaker 1: people at WABC. Nobody could touch Bob Grant, and so
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  Speaker 1: I said, I'll bring it over, and I took some
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  Speaker 1: of the hand trucks. I made trips back and forth
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  Speaker 1: from WABC, which was the seventeenth four to two Penn
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  Speaker 1: Plaza right by Madison Square Garden up to fourteen forty Broadway,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody was amazed that I would do that. They say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if Bob Iger hears about this, he'll fire you.
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  Speaker 1: You know what words I gave in his direction, I say,
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  Speaker 1: are you kidding? Are you kidding? For this? A guy
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  Speaker 1: who put us on the map WABC, Bob Grant. And
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  Speaker 1: by the way, just a little bit of information in
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  Speaker 1: the past. In nineteen seventy seven, Barry Farbath, the Great
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  Speaker 1: Barry Farba, no longer with us, was the overnight host
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  Speaker 1: here at wo R. He had just run against Bella
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  Speaker 1: Abzick for Congress and had lost as a Conservative Republican.
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  Speaker 1: And then he decided he was going to run for mayor,
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  Speaker 1: as obviously I have twice. And in nineteen seventy seven
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  Speaker 1: he was running against Ed Koch Mario Como. By the way, Andrew,
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  Speaker 1: I knew your father, Mario. You know Mario Como. He
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  Speaker 1: was on the Liberal party line. There was Barry Farber
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  Speaker 1: on the conservative line, and Roy Goodman, who was the
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  Speaker 1: Republican state Senator of the Upper east Side, the heir
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  Speaker 1: to the x Lax fortune. He was a Rockefeller Liberal Republican.
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  Speaker 1: They had twelve debates. Gay Pressman was the moderate of
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  Speaker 1: twelve debates, and it was at Cotch who won. I
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  Speaker 1: think Barry Farber got four percent and Roy Goodman got
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  Speaker 1: about four percent. It was Cooch and Mariocomo who split
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the votes. But it was a great
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  Speaker 1: race to follow. So Barry Farber had left. Bob Grant
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  Speaker 1: was the old host at WR that I listened to,
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  Speaker 1: and then later on he was to return to WOR.
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  Speaker 1: As I had mentioned when being fired by Bob Igar
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  Speaker 1: of Disney and is he I had a substitute for
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  Speaker 1: him for the first month. Uh, those fax machines didn't stop,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it was like NonStop back then. The fax
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  Speaker 1: machine would run you, Trader, why you there? Bob Grant
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  Speaker 1: is your mentor you wouldn't be on talk radio WABC
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  Speaker 1: without him. I said, exactly right, But this is the
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  Speaker 1: business we have chosen. And if I got fired, Bob
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  Speaker 1: Grant would say, why, I hope he lands on his feet,
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  Speaker 1: and I knew he would. Those fax machines kept running
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  Speaker 1: twenty four seven, three, six y five for like three
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  Speaker 1: straight weeks with the most vile invectives that people could
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  Speaker 1: scratch out and write out. And then of course there
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  Speaker 1: was Barry Gray mid mornings. But I remember the personal
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  Speaker 1: situation involving Barry Gray, who has missed a second Amendment
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  Speaker 1: tough guy, but also he was the leader of those
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  Speaker 1: that wanted to remove the horse drawn carriages from Central Park,
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  Speaker 1: which I and my wife Nancy were in favor of,
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  Speaker 1: and so many others. He was ahead of his time.
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  Speaker 1: On the morning of June nineteenth, nineteen ninety two, on
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  Speaker 1: my way to WABC to do the morning show Angels
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  Speaker 1: in the Morning with my wife at the time, Lisa
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  Speaker 1: now Lisa Ever's over at Channel five, I was shot
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  Speaker 1: five times with hollow point bullets on the orders of
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  Speaker 1: John Gotti Senior to John Gotti Junior and the Gambino
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  Speaker 1: crime family. The guy Michael Ianatti was the guy who
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  Speaker 1: shot me five times. He did twenty years for that.
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  Speaker 1: But the interesting thing is, since I was being rushed
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  Speaker 1: to Bellevue Hospital, they didn't know if I would live
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  Speaker 1: or die. Lisa was on her way there, and my
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  Speaker 1: producer at that time, Mike Thompson, took over the show,
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  Speaker 1: and the first person to call in that morning was
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  Speaker 1: very Gray, who had just finished the overnight said wor
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  Speaker 1: concerned about what had happened to me. Weeks later, when
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  Speaker 1: I came back on the air, the first caller into
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  Speaker 1: the show was very great. I mean, these are the
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  Speaker 1: men and in some cases women, like had mentioned Arlene
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  Speaker 1: Francis Lynn Samuels over at WABC eclectic as she was.
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  Speaker 1: They paved the way for all of us in talk radio,
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  Speaker 1: and I will always honor that tradition because without them,
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  Speaker 1: there would be no talk radio as we know it now,
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  Speaker 1: or podcasts or all the other affiliated ways that you
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  Speaker 1: can get your news, your information, your talk. And remember,
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  Speaker 1: above any and all things, this is enter because if
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  Speaker 1: it's not entertaining, you're not going to be listening. I guarantee.
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  Speaker 1: But this is my homage to WOR because I've listened
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  Speaker 1: to wr In fact, does anybody know is he? Where's
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  Speaker 1: Eric Adams today? What country is he? In? His tax
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  Speaker 1: payers expense? A man who got windned in pocket line,
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  Speaker 1: the Swagerman with No Plant. There was a crooked mayor
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  Speaker 1: many years ago. Bob Hope actually played him in the movie.
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  Speaker 1: You should get that movie. It's absolutely incredible. Bob Hope
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  Speaker 1: did a magnificent job playing the Swagerman with No Plan.
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  Speaker 1: At that time with the Flappers during the time of
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  Speaker 1: Speakeasy's Jimmy Walker, he had, like Eric Adams, about fifty
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  Speaker 1: customized suits and he had ladies Galore, and FDR was
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  Speaker 1: the governor who wanted to run for president on the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic line, and he knew he had a problem because
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Walker was so hopelessly corrupt with the guidance of
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  Speaker 1: Tammany Hall. And so he tells Jimmy Walker, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to use the power of the governorship
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  Speaker 1: and fire you, which a governor can do. The governor
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  Speaker 1: can fire the mayor. And Jimmy Walker understanding that his
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  Speaker 1: days were numbered in that FDR needed to get Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: Walker out of here so he could run for president
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  Speaker 1: without having to also explain how that kind of corruption
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  Speaker 1: could exist while FDR was the governor. You know what
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Walker did is he he took an ocean liner
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  Speaker 1: with one of his gumatas one of his many females,
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  Speaker 1: went to Paris, lived there for about ten years, came
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  Speaker 1: back in the early forties, and you know what his
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  Speaker 1: first job back was a talk show host here at wor.
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  Speaker 1: You see, when you listen to me, you're gonna learn stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna hear things that you probably wouldn't have heard
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  Speaker 1: from other than March Simona himself more about radio than
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  Speaker 1: any other person alive. Just to give you an idea.
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  Speaker 1: I sat with Mark Simone early on in the campaign,
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  Speaker 1: after I had announced for the Republican nomination, with my
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  Speaker 1: very dear friend Paul Carlucci aka Johnny Legit at Nicolas
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  Speaker 1: for three hours. We sat there. They were gonna give
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  Speaker 1: me advice politically. We spoke for two and a half
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  Speaker 1: hours about radio. That's all we talked about. That's the
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  Speaker 1: love that Marc Simone has for radio. Poul Carlucci, who
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  Speaker 1: at the time was the publisher of The New York Post.
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  Speaker 1: Now actually he had already left that position, he had retired,
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  Speaker 1: and yours truly imagine two and a half hours all
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  Speaker 1: we talked about was radio. All we talked to because
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  Speaker 1: that when you love radio, like so many of you do,
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  Speaker 1: who listen to it morning, noon and night, you understand
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  Speaker 1: what's good talk radio and you understand what's bad talk radio.
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  Speaker 1: I need you all to do me a favor, though
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  Speaker 1: when I run into you in the streets, which I
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  Speaker 1: do quite often, so many people in so many places,
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  Speaker 1: do not. Please, do not treat me like a gavon.
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  Speaker 1: Do not tell me, oh, I voted for you, because
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  Speaker 1: so far since the end of the campaign, and the
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  Speaker 1: announcement of the results that zarround Mandami would be sworn
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  Speaker 1: in as mayor on January first of this year. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: comes up to me and says, I voted for you,
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  Speaker 1: and then, being the Weisenheimer than I am, I do
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  Speaker 1: a pivot in shift and I say, oh really, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: my family voted for you too. Where you from? I'm
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  Speaker 1: from Scarsdale? Ha ha, did you do that? He couldn't
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  Speaker 1: vote for mayor. So don't tell me you voted for me,
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  Speaker 1: because I will have to end up embarrassing you sometimes
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  Speaker 1: in front of family and friends because you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: pull my chain and chew my shorts. Don't do that.
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  Speaker 1: If I had gotten every vote that people claimed that
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  Speaker 1: they had cast on my behalf, I would have been
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  Speaker 1: the mayor of the City of New York. So please,
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  Speaker 1: let's get to the other key subject today. Give you
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  Speaker 1: a little background information on what was a terrible loss
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  Speaker 1: for the Republican Party nationally, the Republican Party in the
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  Speaker 1: State of New York, and the Republican Party in the
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  Speaker 1: City of New York, where we are extraordinarily weak. It says,
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  Speaker 1: if we have been exposed to kryptonite by mostly Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: Never mind the Democrats, by mostly Republicans, they go out
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  Speaker 1: of their way to damage the brand and to damage
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  Speaker 1: their candidates. You certainly saw that with me. Oh, vote
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  Speaker 1: Ausle was a vote for Zoron, vote for Cmo. Yeah, Cromo,
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  Speaker 1: who did that? President Donald Trump? Who did that? Elon Musk,
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  Speaker 1: who did that? The billionaires, the masters of the universe
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  Speaker 1: spent twenty million dollars doing that in the final weeks
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  Speaker 1: of the campaign. But put me aside. We had a
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  Speaker 1: star in the Republican Party who could touch Elise Stephanic.
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  Speaker 1: Do you not remember when she was cross examining the
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  Speaker 1: presidents of the Ivy League schools? Do you not remember?
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  Speaker 1: You know? It was two years ago, December, two years ago,
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  Speaker 1: one by one. First there was the Harvard president, Claudine Gay.
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  Speaker 1: She knocked her out. Claudine Gay resigned after being cross
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  Speaker 1: examined by Elise stefani. Number two was Elizabeth Magill University
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  Speaker 1: of Pennsylvania. Knocked her out. She resigned right after that
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  Speaker 1: interrogation by Elise Stefanik. The only one who suffered a
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  Speaker 1: TKO at the hands of Elis Stefanic was Sally Kornbluth
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  Speaker 1: of mit she somehow held on and what was it about?
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  Speaker 1: It was simple. All that eleast Staphonic asked them is
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  Speaker 1: would you call would you suggest that calling for genocide
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  Speaker 1: of Jews violated the code of conduct at your university?
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  Speaker 1: And they all did the chicken dance and said, well,
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  Speaker 1: it depends on whether this was amazing. It depends on
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  Speaker 1: whether your speech crossed into action. After that, they were
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  Speaker 1: dead on arrival. But that was the first of many
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  Speaker 1: cross examinations to come from what everyone realized was the
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  Speaker 1: star of the Republican Party, tough, smart, young, think she's
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  Speaker 1: a millennial and thinks she's like forty or forty one,
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  Speaker 1: gave up a prestigious position as the US ambassador to
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  Speaker 1: the United Nations. She would have been a clone of
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  Speaker 1: Gene Kirkpatrick. Oh, we have a lot to talk about,
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  Speaker 1: because there were so many other situations that were taking
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  Speaker 1: place behind the scenes that none of you are aware of.
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  Speaker 1: Why oh, why you saying to yourself, would at least
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  Speaker 1: the phonic have dropped out on this late Friday. In
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  Speaker 1: an election she had a real chance to win, and
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  Speaker 1: really the only person who could have totally turned this
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  Speaker 1: state around. You're not going anywhere You're going to keep
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  Speaker 1: it right here on the dial. If you're just discovering
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  Speaker 1: seven to ten Worr, this is your place to be.
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  Speaker 1: Forget WABC always bashing Curtis and by the way, sinking
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  Speaker 1: in the ratings, nobody giving them the kind of attention
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  Speaker 1: that they were used to. But thank you, iHeart, thank
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  Speaker 1: you Tom Cuddy, thank you WR for extending me this
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  Speaker 1: microphone till January second, because I I'm gonna be blazing,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be glazing some and I think, as
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  Speaker 1: he most people would want to be glazed by Curtis Sleewer.
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  Speaker 1: They would not want to be put on blast as
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  Speaker 1: you've heard some of the people earlier today, right here
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  Speaker 1: on your new place to be, seven to ten Wor.