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FULL SHOW: Curtis Sliwa returns to the airwaves; NYC subway crime. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Now the Guardian Angel of talk radio is here. Curtis
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Speaker 1: Leewah guest host the Mark Simone Show on seven to ten.
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Speaker 2: Woor wow.
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Speaker 3: This is an early Christmas present for me to be
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Speaker 3: back on talk radio and the station that I listened
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Speaker 3: to all the time now war and to be substituting
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Speaker 3: for the best talk show hosts in all of New
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Speaker 3: York City, March Simon. Nobody's been doing it longer, and
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Speaker 3: nobody's been doing it better. I worked with March Simon
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Speaker 3: over at WABC, and then he was a competitor against me.
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Speaker 3: So is nobody who knows talk radio better than March Simon.
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Speaker 3: So it's a real honor to be able to come
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Speaker 3: in and substitute for this let And having met with
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Speaker 3: Tom Cutty, who's the program director who I knew at WPLJ.
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Speaker 3: I remember what happened when Cumulus, who owned a cluster
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Speaker 3: of stations, they had decided that they wanted to get
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Speaker 3: out of the business in New York. That made no
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Speaker 3: sense to me, and they turned off the lights on
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Speaker 3: the most iconic FM station with the call letters WPLJ.
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Speaker 3: Couldn't believe that, and Tom then obviously was picked up
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Speaker 3: by wor has been a great program director here and
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Speaker 3: I've had an opportunity to sample all of the hosts
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Speaker 3: and presenters here at woor from Larry Menty in the
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Speaker 3: Morning was so kind to me during the election cycle
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Speaker 3: to obviously mark them all my biggest fan. Both in
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty one when I ran from mayor against Eric Adams,
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Speaker 3: and I did warn you, didn't I say, is he
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Speaker 3: that he would be a crook and there would be chaos.
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Speaker 4: But nobody wanted to listen. Everybody said to me, you
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Speaker 4: were right, we should have listened.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you should have listened, and we suffered, and as
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Speaker 3: a result of his massive failure, we ended up with
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Speaker 3: Johan Mandami. We're gonna get into all of that and
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Speaker 3: a lot of the background that went into clearly what
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Speaker 3: is the most historic press I said, president setting election
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Speaker 3: that has ever taken place in the City of New
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Speaker 3: York for Maya. It took on international, national, regional, and
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Speaker 3: local ramifications for a number of reasons. We're going to
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Speaker 3: explore all of that, and I'm going to dig up
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Speaker 3: the bones, because nobody knows where the bones are buried
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Speaker 3: more than courteously, and I will dig them up, and
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Speaker 3: I will expose a lot of folks and what they
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Speaker 3: did during this election cycle to prevent a fair square
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Speaker 3: election in which people could go into the voting booths
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Speaker 3: and choose candidates based on the issues. On this desire
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Speaker 3: to have you constantly play dropout, dropout, drop out, drop out.
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Speaker 4: We're going to get into all of that.
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Speaker 3: And as you heard at the top of the news hour,
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Speaker 3: iHeart again this powerful owner of so many radio stations
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Speaker 3: in the nation to be able to broadcast here as
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Speaker 3: I have from many of the different programs both on
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Speaker 3: FM and AM over the years as a guest, and
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Speaker 3: to hear Larry the news Guy talk about where I
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Speaker 3: will be at two o'clock this afternoon. It is a
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Speaker 3: story that the local officials in New York City want
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Speaker 3: to go away. It is the most horrific case that
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Speaker 3: has ever occurred, a tragedy, a crime, an act of
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Speaker 3: barbaric proportion. And in all my years of riding the subways,
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Speaker 3: and I've been riding the subway since I was five
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Speaker 3: years old, by myself, nineteen fifty nine, took my first
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Speaker 3: ride on the L train. L stood for Lousey Line,
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Speaker 3: Rockaway Parkway, last stop in Kenarsi, where I was raised,
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Speaker 3: and I've been riding ever since. It'll be forty seven
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Speaker 3: years in February since I started the Guardian Angels to
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Speaker 3: protect people both in the subways and streets here, across
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Speaker 3: the nation and in thirteen countries around the world, and
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Speaker 3: increasingly having to come to the aid of women like
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Speaker 3: the brin and Kowam. Yeah, the Brina Kowam was homeless,
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Speaker 3: emotionally disturbed, like so many who live in the subways,
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Speaker 3: and she was sent on fire by that illegal alien,
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Speaker 3: Sebastian Zepeta that we were housing in a homeless shelter
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Speaker 3: at great expense in East New York Samaritan House.
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Speaker 4: I thought they took care of people with drug issues, but.
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Speaker 3: They were making a lot of money at our taxpayer's expense.
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Speaker 3: And he was a pyromaniac. We're going to go into
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Speaker 3: all of those details, but this is what I do
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Speaker 3: on a regular basis. Since the moment that I lost
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Speaker 3: the election, I haven't missed a beat. I've been down
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Speaker 3: in the subways and in the streets and taking care
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Speaker 3: of those poor lost souls, the homeless, the emotionally disturbed,
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Speaker 3: who shouldn't be there, and yet they lived there. They
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Speaker 3: reside there, no matter who the mayor was, whether it
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Speaker 3: was Comrade Bildeblasio, the part time mayor of the Dope
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Speaker 3: from Park Slope, along with his grift of wife Charlane.
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Speaker 3: We'll talk about that later on, because he owes US
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Speaker 3: one and a half billion dollars money that was taken
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Speaker 3: for a program called Thrive that was supposed to help
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Speaker 3: the emotionally disturb. I don't ever remember one person having
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Speaker 3: been helped, and then by Eric Adams Swagerman with no plan.
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Speaker 3: By the way, where is he? What country is Eric
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Speaker 3: Adams the cor up one in today? Sort of like
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Speaker 3: when Matt Lower used to do the morning show at NBC.
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Speaker 3: You know what country is Matt Lower in?
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Speaker 4: Today?
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Speaker 3: This guy is, I mean, a grifter like you can't believe,
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Speaker 3: and oo far soon he will be gone. But I
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Speaker 3: also want to talk about what happened behind the scenes,
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Speaker 3: and I'm doing it on a radio station Wor of
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Speaker 3: which I made my very first appearance back in nineteen
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Speaker 3: seventy one, having been named the newspaper Boy of the Year,
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Speaker 3: having delivered the daily news like so many people did,
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Speaker 3: and growing up saved five people in a burning building
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Speaker 3: at that time. That got the attention of then President
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Speaker 3: Richard Nixon, got an award in the White House, and
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Speaker 3: then my very first interview upon my return to New
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Speaker 3: York City was at fourteen forty Broadway, the mid morning
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Speaker 3: show hosted by Arlene Francis.
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Speaker 4: Boy. I've had the bug ever since talking on radio.
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Speaker 3: So actually WOOR provided me my baptism.
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Speaker 4: In radio with my very first interview.
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Speaker 3: As they escorted me around, I look at all the
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Speaker 3: various studios, the news room that had many men and
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Speaker 3: women that were processing the news back then, and it's
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Speaker 3: one of the most iconic symbols of talk radio in
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Speaker 3: the nation. With only three call letters WR everybody else right,
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Speaker 3: it's four like where I was from where I spent
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Speaker 3: most of my life in talk radio WABC close to
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Speaker 3: thirty years. There were some other stations in between. You
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Speaker 3: know how long you've been in talk radio by the
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Speaker 3: number of radio stations that you've worked at. But WABC
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Speaker 3: was the bulk of my time there. In all different
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Speaker 3: time slots. Morning Drive, it was Angels in the Morning
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Speaker 3: with my wife Lisa at that time. Then there was
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Speaker 3: a spot morning Drive with Ron Kooby, whose mommy was
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Speaker 3: a comedy for many years. I did mid mornings, I
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Speaker 3: did overnights, I did weekends. I was always available twenty
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Speaker 3: four to seven, three sixty five, so that the acronym
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Speaker 3: stood for WABC, always broadcasting Curtis and so going into
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Speaker 3: this election cycle, early on, I made it very clear
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Speaker 3: that I would seek the Republican nomination a run for
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Speaker 3: mayor again, as I did in twenty twenty one. By
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Speaker 3: the way, with no help from WABC back then. None
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Speaker 3: people should know that the orders came from management and
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Speaker 3: ownership that you were not to talk about Curtis Leewell
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Speaker 3: when he was running for mayor. In fact, you were
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Speaker 3: not to interview Curtis Lee were back in twenty twenty one,
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Speaker 3: there was.
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Speaker 4: A big sign in the newsroom. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I mean, let's just say there was no excuse for that.
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Speaker 3: And I wasn't supported by anybody. They were at WABC
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Speaker 3: running for mayor. Although they weren't insulting, they weren't personally
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Speaker 3: attacking me. The owner and operator, John Katchimatidis was supporting
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Speaker 3: Eric Adams. Everyone was under the impress that he was
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Speaker 3: supporting me because he would say, oh, with family here, Curtis,
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Speaker 3: he knows more about the city than everyone else, and
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Speaker 3: let's face it, that's true. Whether you like my politics
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Speaker 3: or not, whether you like my style or not. There's
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Speaker 3: nobody who knows more about the City of New York
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Speaker 3: to me. But as it goes from twenty twenty one
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Speaker 3: to twenty twenty five, the drum beat for me to
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Speaker 3: drop out, and boy was a steady trump beat from June.
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Speaker 3: Excuse me, make that.
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Speaker 4: Just about July fourth, on our nation's birthday.
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Speaker 3: I remember, I was in Travis Staten Island, as I
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Speaker 3: am every year with the Guardian Angels, the longest running
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Speaker 3: Fourth of July parade in the nation. Eric Adams was
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Speaker 3: out there because he had been reborn, resurrected with the
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Speaker 3: failure of Andrew Cuomo, who threw in the tow when
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Speaker 3: losing convincingly to zor Modi. Just give you an idea.
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Speaker 3: On March first, when Andrew Cuomo announced that he was
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Speaker 3: running for Maya for the Democratic nomination, he was clocking
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Speaker 3: at forty percent in the polls. Zorhan Mondomi was dead
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Speaker 3: last in the Democratic primary at one percent. By June
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Speaker 3: twenty fourth, Zoron Mondami had beat him by thirteen percent
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Speaker 3: because Andrew Cuomo mailed it in, didn't run any kind
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Speaker 3: of a campaign, and so they resurrected Eric Adams, who
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Speaker 3: chose not to run. And this guy, right out of
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Speaker 3: the box, brought all the crooks back into the house
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Speaker 3: of Eric Adams and they were getting windyed in pocket
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Speaker 3: lined by the real estate interests. And he crashed and
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Speaker 3: burned and dropped out in September. And then boy did
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Speaker 3: they ratchet it up. The masters of the universe, the billionaires.
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Speaker 3: John Casimatidis, owner and operator, who was the the maestro
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Speaker 3: of the orchestra that was constantly banging a drum that
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Speaker 3: critically had to drop.
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Speaker 4: Out, to drop out for the good of the city.
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Speaker 3: And I remember he was saying, Oh, I'm gonna leave,
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna sell my businesses. I'm down in Florida. The
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Speaker 3: moment Johan Mandami was announced the winner on November fourth,
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Speaker 3: all of a sudden he would saying, oh, we got
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Speaker 3: to work with the mayor.
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Speaker 4: Oh for the good of the city.
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Speaker 3: Because these billionaires, along with Ackman and others, made it
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Speaker 3: seem like they would be fear fright, hysteria, and all
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Speaker 3: they did was hype that every day. But you see,
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Speaker 3: they always back channel, They always have a back door.
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Speaker 3: They always have a way to survive, whereas the working
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Speaker 3: class people that I represented in this election, because of
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Speaker 3: the fear in the fright, they had no options.
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Speaker 4: So it was an.
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Speaker 3: Election cycle dominated by the masters of the universe. Donald Trump,
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Speaker 3: the President, was no friend of mine. He went out
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Speaker 3: of his way to disparage me on a regular basis.
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Speaker 3: Talked about was Curtis a Republican?
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Speaker 4: Is he is?
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Speaker 5: He?
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Speaker 4: Really?
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Speaker 3: Is he ready for prime time? And what about all
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Speaker 3: those cats he and his wife Nancy have rescued and
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Speaker 3: kept from being euthanized in shelters. So many people out
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Speaker 3: there who do that for dogs and cats. He disparaged,
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Speaker 3: Really a nation of dog and cat lovers, But he
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Speaker 3: went out of his way to disparage me, along with
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Speaker 3: Elon Musk and Steve Miller and so many of the
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Speaker 3: other masters of the universe and the billionaires that he
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Speaker 3: came down in the last few weeks with twenty million
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Speaker 3: dollars spent in advertising.
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Speaker 4: The word was a vote for sliwa is a vote for.
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Speaker 3: Zoran Mandami, vote for Andrew evilized Coomo, a guy responsible
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Speaker 3: for the deaths of fifteen thousand elderly people at the
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Speaker 3: height of the pandemic, and the lockdown, and a man
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Speaker 3: was still paying his victims for sexual harassment, thirteen of
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Speaker 3: them who worked for him, including a female state trooper,
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Speaker 3: and the bill will probably get up to sixty million dollar.
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Speaker 3: And once again, you know, whenever you speak to Eric Adams,
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Speaker 3: I'm not guilty. I didn't do anything wrong. Andrew Cuomo,
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Speaker 3: I didn't do anything wrong. Donald Trump, I didn't do
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Speaker 3: anything wrong. Nobody does anything wrong. I'm somebody who is
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Speaker 3: a lot different when I do things wrong. When I
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Speaker 3: mess up, I fess up. And I certainly had a
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Speaker 3: lot of opportunities in my life to do that. But
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Speaker 3: this is an opportunity for all of you to be hurt.
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Speaker 3: In the words my great mentor Bob Grant, who actually
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Speaker 3: was broadcasting here at w OR on two separate occasions,
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Speaker 3: which we'll get into later on, feel free to give
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Speaker 3: me a cause. I welcome back to the airwaves of
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Speaker 3: New York City and the Tri State area and beyond
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Speaker 3: one of the most powerful radio stations that have ever
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Speaker 3: been created in this nation. Woor give a call to
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Speaker 3: eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. That's eight
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Speaker 3: hundred three two one zero seven ten. And there's so
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Speaker 3: much more to tell you about all my fairweather friends
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Speaker 3: at WABC, which the acronym has become always blaming Curtis
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Speaker 3: and always bashing Curtis. You don't want to go anywhere,
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Speaker 3: Keep it right here at seven ten WOR.
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Speaker 1: Street Smart Straight Talk. Curtis leewa guest host for Mark
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Speaker 1: Simone on sevent ten WOO.
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Speaker 4: I said I would be back, and I'm back.
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Speaker 3: Your's Julie Curtis Sliwa on WORR Radio, substituting for Mark Simone.
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Speaker 3: If you're just joining us right now. My wife Nancy
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Speaker 3: listening as she is going off to celebrate the birthday
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Speaker 3: of her mother Beth, wish I could have been with her,
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Speaker 3: but I would not turn down this opportunity, that's for sure.
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Speaker 4: And on my way here.
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Speaker 3: This morning, as I was riding on the subways as
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Speaker 3: I do each and every day, taking the car from
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Speaker 3: car to car, looking at the homeless, the emotionally disturb
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Speaker 3: any of them that I know by first name, and
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Speaker 3: walking down the block, and I know the outgoing mayor
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Speaker 3: he can't leave fast enough for me. Eric Adams, who
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Speaker 3: knows what country is in today a taxpayers expense, says
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Speaker 3: that there are no homeless settlements up in the street.
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Speaker 4: They were all over the area in Upper Midtown.
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Speaker 3: And one thing that was normal for me for quite
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Speaker 3: some time is I joined the morning show with sid
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Speaker 3: Rosenberg five mornings a week. And I must tell you
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Speaker 3: that he turned out to be like Tessio from the Godfather.
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Speaker 3: He was actually setting up meetings with Andrew Cuomo and
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Speaker 3: backstabbing me all through that campaign. And I remember he
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Speaker 3: had asked me originally could you come on one morning
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Speaker 3: a week, then two, three, four five. I loved it.
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Speaker 3: I love doing it. Do whatever kind of radio that
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Speaker 3: you want for unsue my veins and arteries. But he
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Speaker 3: pretended to be a friend, and like so many, turned
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Speaker 3: out to be a fair with a friend. And I
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Speaker 3: in that scene in The Godfather where Don Corleone tells Michael,
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Speaker 3: whoever set up the meeting, that's the trader Tessio sid
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Speaker 3: Rosenberg paranoid, I would say, low self esteem. And if
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Speaker 3: Bernard mcgirth, bless his soul, who was his partner, were
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Speaker 3: alive today, that never would have happened. In fact, I
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Speaker 3: was listening to Doctor lead him in Great Doctor, Save
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Speaker 3: so Many. I had stage four prostate cancer almost took
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Speaker 3: my life, but I remember sitting down with Bernard McGirk
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Speaker 3: when he was explaining to me his symptoms, and wow,
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Speaker 3: I knew by then it had metastasized and the last
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Speaker 3: year of his life.
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Speaker 4: Horrible way to live.
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Speaker 3: So that's why, if there's anything that should come out
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Speaker 3: of this program, men and ladies who are listening, force
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Speaker 3: your menfolk to get that simple PSA test, a prick
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Speaker 3: of the finger, that's all. It is, a simple blood test.
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Speaker 3: It has saved so many lives. It's something that Bernard McGirk,
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Speaker 3: or an iconic figure in radio for so many years,
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Speaker 3: as really the wingman for don Imus, who could never
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Speaker 3: have done what he did in the mornings without Bernard
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Speaker 3: McGirk in so many ways, probably would have been alive
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Speaker 3: and well now if he had taken a simple PSA test.
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Speaker 3: And we're coming towards the Christmas holiday New Year's some
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Speaker 3: of those rare occasions where family and friends get together,
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Speaker 3: feel free to get out that word. If you're forty
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Speaker 3: five or older as a male, you gotta get your
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Speaker 3: yearly PSA test.
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Speaker 4: It's a simple prick of the finger. And women, I
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Speaker 4: give you a.
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Speaker 3: License to nagman to just be non stop chattering and
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Speaker 3: nattering away and force them to do the simple thing,
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Speaker 3: because you would be amazed. The stronger the guy, and
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Speaker 3: Bernard McGirk was one of the strongest men alive. But
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Speaker 3: the stronger a guy is, the less likely they want
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Speaker 3: to go through that process because they feel what the
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Speaker 3: outcome may be.
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Speaker 4: Make sure you.
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Speaker 3: Spread out that word during this holiday gathering of so many.
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Speaker 3: And then also at WABC, whereas I had to deal
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Speaker 3: with Tessio in the morning, said Rosenberg, who I'm still
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Speaker 3: pulling the knives out of my back from him setting
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Speaker 3: up these meetings with Andrew Como and working on his
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Speaker 3: behalf every step of the way, like a five dinners
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Speaker 3: and five lunches with the guy before he ever came
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Speaker 3: on the radio. And then all of a sudden, WABC
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Speaker 3: turned into always blaming Curtis for the rise of Jorhan Mandami,
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Speaker 3: then always broadcasting Cuomo in the last month, and then
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Speaker 3: to this day, always bashing Curtis. And then there was
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Speaker 3: Greg Kelly in the afternoon. It's Greg Kelly who knew
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Speaker 3: his father father, great guy the sun huh. During the primary,
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Speaker 3: the Democratic primary, he was actually advocating to his listeners
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Speaker 3: that they support Jorhan Mandami over Andrew Cuomo.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, him.
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Speaker 3: And then in the end, through the directions of John Katzimatitis,
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Speaker 3: the owners and operators and managers at WABC, he spoke
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Speaker 3: the party line. He said, oh, Curtis is running a
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Speaker 3: lazy campaign. Yeah, twenty hours a day of a twenty
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Speaker 3: four hour day, and obviously social networking that was getting
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Speaker 3: the message out in so many ways. But oh no, no,
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Speaker 3: Curtis is a lazy campaigner. He doesn't know what he's doing.
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Speaker 3: And then finally, the worst trader of all, Dominic Carter.
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Speaker 3: Dominic Carter would not be in radio today if not
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Speaker 3: for my intervention on his behalf. Without going into great details,
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Speaker 3: he had problems, like we've all had problems in our life.
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to get into the nitty gritty, but
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Speaker 3: he had done something that had basically made him an untouchable.
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Speaker 3: And I remember I went to the mat with management
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Speaker 3: and ownership at WABC. I said, look, give Dominic Carter
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Speaker 3: an opportunity. You know, he knows about New York City.
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Speaker 3: He had been the voice and the image of New
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Speaker 3: York one for so many years. Lost his job because
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Speaker 3: of that problem that I referred to. And then I
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Speaker 3: schooled him. I took him into what I called the
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Speaker 3: talk radio boot Camp at WABC because we really didn't
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Speaker 3: have a program director at that time, so I worked
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Speaker 3: as sort of the adjunct Oh yeah, have an adjunct
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Speaker 3: profession in college.
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Speaker 4: I was the adjunct program director.
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Speaker 3: There were a number of figures there who were in
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Speaker 3: the critically with talk radio boot camp, and he listened.
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Speaker 3: He was a reporter, and I said, you no longer
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Speaker 3: a reporter, Dominic. He got to be a talk radio shows.
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Speaker 3: He was the first to consistently cast the spurgeons against
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Speaker 3: me in this campaign. And it's not about just saying, oh,
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Speaker 3: I don't think you can win. That's fine. There was
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Speaker 3: some here at wr who said exactly that, but to
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Speaker 3: get personal about it, talk about how I wasn't running
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Speaker 3: a good campaign, talk about problems that I was having
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Speaker 3: in the campaign, things that he knew nothing about, and
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Speaker 3: doing it on a regular basis, so.
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Speaker 4: You should know.
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Speaker 3: And I just gave you a thumbnail scared of the
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Speaker 3: problems that I had at WABC. And probably first and
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Speaker 3: foremost the image that went out during the campaign is
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Speaker 3: that I was an employee of WABC. I was on
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Speaker 3: leave from WABC. I was part of the dysfunctional family.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 3: No, when you leave to run for office, you're gone.
22:23
Speaker 3: You don't get paid, you don't get benefits, you don't
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Speaker 3: get anything. You're no longer an employee of WABC. But
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Speaker 3: they created that impression like somehow John Katzimatidis was still
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Speaker 3: pulling my strings that he could command me to drop out.
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Speaker 4: Ay, how did that work out? My former colleagues at WABC.
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Speaker 3: In the next segment, I promise I teased you enough,
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Speaker 3: We're going to go to the phone calls, our numbers
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Speaker 3: one eight hundred and three to two, one zero, seven
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Speaker 3: to ten. We're also going to talk about at least
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Speaker 3: the phonic he suddenly dropping out. I can give you
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Speaker 3: all the nitty gritty details of what is another shot
23:06
Speaker 3: across the bow of a very weakened Republican party in
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Speaker 3: both New York City and in New York State right
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Speaker 3: here in my place to be for Mark Simone wor seventen.
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Speaker 4: Talk Radio with Street Crag.
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Speaker 1: Literally Curtis Leewa joined sevent ten WR the guest ohs
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Speaker 1: for Mark Samore.
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Speaker 6: Oh.
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Speaker 3: I know that so many are saying, Boy, can I
23:37
Speaker 3: get what Curtis Lee was saying today in a podcast
23:39
Speaker 3: because he sounds like Michael Corleone and the Godfather in
23:43
Speaker 3: that baptism scene in the church where he says I'm
23:47
Speaker 3: settling all scores. In fact, that church is actually a
23:51
Speaker 3: Mount Laredo on the south shore of Staten Island.
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Speaker 4: That's where it was filmed. Amazing place if you've ever
23:59
Speaker 4: been out there there. But no, no, no, no, no,
24:03
Speaker 4: no no, I haven't settled all scores, is he My
24:07
Speaker 4: enemies will die of a thousand cuts. This is just
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Speaker 4: a little bit of so much more to come.
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Speaker 3: In fact, Mark Simone was kind enough to allow me
24:18
Speaker 3: to substitute for him till January two, along with Tom Cutty,
24:21
Speaker 3: the program director and obviously the big mockers at iHeart.
24:26
Speaker 3: So you're gonna be listening every day ten to twelve
24:31
Speaker 3: and you will hear more information that you never got
24:36
Speaker 3: before about this campaign that we just got through that
24:40
Speaker 3: made headlines all across the world, and how when all
24:44
Speaker 3: was said and done, the President of the United States,
24:47
Speaker 3: Donald Trump was calling him remember Kami Mandami, Remember oh
24:51
Speaker 3: the COMMI Oh, what a love fest at the White House,
24:55
Speaker 3: And how he threw at least the phonic right under
24:59
Speaker 3: the bush.
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Speaker 4: Well, you're gonna talk all about that in the next hour.
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Speaker 4: It's part of the reason that she unexpectedly dropped out. Well,
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Speaker 4: you thought unexpectedly. I kind of figured that was going
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Speaker 4: to happen. I'll let you know.
25:11
Speaker 3: But let's go to the phones, as I promised a
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Speaker 3: while back. First call her up is Rich who's calling
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Speaker 3: from icelip your turn to be heard here on wor Rich.
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Speaker 7: Well, Curtis, when they can mock you about the seven
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Speaker 7: to ten percent of the vote, but when you take seven, ten,
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Speaker 7: fifteen to twenty percent of their ratings, you'll get the
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Speaker 7: last one if you put it right up there. Took
25:35
Speaker 7: a sh I don't know if you're going to get
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Speaker 7: a show there, you better get a show there.
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Speaker 4: I don't want.
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Speaker 7: Anybody to lose their job. But whoever you go against,
25:43
Speaker 7: you're going to destroy Curtis. You're going to take them,
25:45
Speaker 7: You're going to take them down.
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Speaker 4: Uh. Rich, You know my style of radio. I am
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Speaker 4: old school. I never forgive and I never forget. Oh.
25:57
Speaker 3: I have a lot that I'm going to be sharing
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Speaker 3: with all of you over the course of the next
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Speaker 3: few days till January two and the welcoming in of
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Speaker 3: the new year. Let's go to Tony, who's calling from
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Speaker 3: white planes? Your turn to be heard at w or tone?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Hi, Curtis. Curtis the biggest backstare row is Dominic Carter.
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Speaker 6: He's like Salasso. He kept saying from day one he
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Speaker 6: can't win, he can't win, telling the drop out every day.
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Speaker 6: You know, you know why he wanted you to lose,
26:31
Speaker 6: because he said so. He didn't want to prove himself wrong.
26:34
Speaker 6: As a matter of fact, I even called up and
26:36
Speaker 6: I don't know if you remember, you were on the
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Speaker 6: air and I said, if Curtis wins, will you will
26:42
Speaker 6: you apologize to Curtis? And you said no, he don't
26:45
Speaker 6: have to apologize. But he kept saying from day one
26:49
Speaker 6: that you can't win, you got to drop out. He's
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Speaker 6: the reason why we've got Zoran. And then then he
26:56
Speaker 6: gets down the air and he lies and he says
26:59
Speaker 6: that if you dropped out, that Cromo were one who's
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Speaker 6: like if he I can't believe they even thought of
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Speaker 6: him being.
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Speaker 3: A mayor after it, well, I got to tell you
27:11
Speaker 3: that point you made, Tony to all of those naysayers
27:14
Speaker 3: out there who maybe graduated school from social promotion and
27:20
Speaker 3: need remedial training in mathematics. If you had taken every
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Speaker 3: vote that I got in this election and it had
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Speaker 3: gone to Andrew evilized Croomo, he still would have lost.
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Speaker 6: Curtis, That's exactly what I was going to tell you.
27:32
Speaker 6: He got on the air and was saying that, like,
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Speaker 6: if you dropped out, that Clomo would have won with it.
27:38
Speaker 6: So he's they're assuming that everybody that voted for you
27:43
Speaker 6: would turned around and vote for Clomo. That was idiot.
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Speaker 3: Well it goes beyond that, Tony. It goes to the
27:49
Speaker 3: fact that when Cromo was first running on March first
27:54
Speaker 3: of twenty twenty four, whether it was Dominic Carter or
27:57
Speaker 3: whether it was Tessio, said Rosenberg told they were saying, Curtis,
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Speaker 3: why you're knocking yourself out. There's gonna be a coronation.
28:07
Speaker 3: They all predicted that Cuomo would win in a runaway
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Speaker 3: victory in the Democratic primary, and they all act as
28:15
Speaker 3: if they are savants, like they know everything. They know
28:17
Speaker 3: nothing about nothing. To be honest, they're not out in
28:20
Speaker 3: the streets. They didn't watch the Zoronistas in all five boroughs,
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Speaker 3: in all the neighborhoods like I did, because I'm in
28:28
Speaker 3: all the three hundred and fifty neighborhoods. I'm in every
28:30
Speaker 3: subway station, on every subway line. I could see the energy,
28:34
Speaker 3: I could see the passion. There was nothing for Cuomo,
28:37
Speaker 3: and yet they pretended as if he would suddenly be victorious.
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Speaker 4: How did that work out? Uh? How come you didn't
28:47
Speaker 4: all move away? How you after moment I'm selling? Oh, yeah, yeah,
28:52
Speaker 4: they're all here. They're in.
28:55
Speaker 3: What my grandfather Fidelo Bianchino used to say from about
28:58
Speaker 3: the Italy Kiakia Pinocchio's let's go if we can. To Lily,
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Speaker 3: who was calling from Queen's your turn to be heard
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Speaker 3: here at WR.
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Speaker 5: Lily, Hi, Curtis, you made my Christmas gift, Curtis, and
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Speaker 5: I'll never put on ABC. Oh. I'd loved that for years,
29:20
Speaker 5: but with what they did to you and Cindy Adams especially,
29:24
Speaker 5: forget it, Curtis client issue something. I bought that Tony
29:28
Speaker 5: Bennett book and Howard Beach at your campaign office, and
29:34
Speaker 5: I wonder if you got it.
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Speaker 4: I got it. I got it. They were great to
29:41
Speaker 4: Howard Beach.
29:42
Speaker 3: I mean it was right up in fact, was right
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Speaker 3: up from Newpark Peacheria. I love Newpark Pecheria. That's why
29:49
Speaker 3: I had my first slice of peacha. Also in nineteen
29:51
Speaker 3: fifty nine, when visiting my aunt Mary and uncle Steven,
29:55
Speaker 3: cousin Butchie.
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Speaker 4: And Joey g the chief from Howard Each nineteen fifty nine,
30:02
Speaker 4: my first life of pizza was said New Park Pizzeria,
30:05
Speaker 4: and I've been going there ever since. Don't worry about it, Lily.
30:09
Speaker 4: You don't need to.
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Speaker 3: Listen to WABC. They've lost so many listeners. They're down
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Speaker 3: in the ratings. Just keep it right here to seven
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Speaker 3: to ten, Worr. It's your new home away from home.
30:21
Speaker 3: Like for me, it's part of my radio listening familia.
30:26
Speaker 3: Now this is my family. WABC stabbed me in the back,
30:33
Speaker 3: like they did all the listeners. Don't listen to them.
30:35
Speaker 3: Keep it right here at seven to ten WOR.
30:38
Speaker 1: The Beret is back Curtis leewa guest host The Mark
30:42
Speaker 1: Simone Show on seven ten woo.
30:48
Speaker 2: Oh.
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Speaker 4: And you don't want to go anywhere.
30:50
Speaker 3: He unexpected dropping out of the least Stephonic who would
30:55
Speaker 3: have been a great governor here in the state of
30:57
Speaker 3: New York. And nobody knows that situation better than yours, truly. Nope,
31:03
Speaker 3: And I'll tell you why Aleis Stephonic was my biggest
31:07
Speaker 3: supporter during this mayoral campaign. She was loyal with the
31:12
Speaker 3: capital l She never vacillated, and she is a woman
31:16
Speaker 3: of great character. And more importantly, in the two debates
31:22
Speaker 3: that I had and running for mayor, if I had
31:24
Speaker 3: to throw a lifeline at somebody that say I need
31:26
Speaker 3: you to substitute.
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Speaker 4: For me, I would have wanted at least Stephonic up there.
31:30
Speaker 3: She has eviscerated the presidents of Ivy League universities. She
31:37
Speaker 3: eviscerated Andrew evilized Cuomo up on the hell in Congress,
31:41
Speaker 3: she eviscerated Kathy Grifter Hockel, who couldn't even remember who
31:50
Speaker 3: the migrant killers were. Of all the victims in New
31:53
Speaker 3: York State, including Dobrina Kwam, who I will eulogize in
31:59
Speaker 3: the next hour because from here Wor I will be
32:02
Speaker 3: heading out to the f train platform in Coney Island.
32:07
Speaker 3: We're on this date a year ago, at seven point
32:10
Speaker 3: thirty in the morning, this monster set her on fire
32:15
Speaker 3: like a human torch. The cops ran up and down
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Speaker 3: on the platform like the Keystone Cops.
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Speaker 4: People were filming it so it could be live at five.
32:23
Speaker 3: Nobody helped this homeless woman from Tom's Riven, New Jersey.
32:29
Speaker 4: It's quite a story. I am the Guardian Angels. We
32:32
Speaker 4: will not forget. Unfortunately so many people did.
32:38
Speaker 3: And I remember that moment when Congressman Elise Stefanic was
32:43
Speaker 3: cross examining Kathy Hoklunn said, tell me the.
32:46
Speaker 4: Name of the person who set Debrin and Kuam on fire.
32:55
Speaker 4: She didn't know, like she didn't know any of.
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Speaker 3: The other migrant names. You're not gonna I want to
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Speaker 3: miss this, ladies and gentlemen, because everyone is in shock
33:04
Speaker 3: that Elis Stephonic is no longer running to become governor
33:08
Speaker 3: or the state of New York to save us. And
33:11
Speaker 3: there is a reason, and I trace it to President
33:17
Speaker 3: Donald Trump. Oh yeah, oh yeah, threw her right under
33:21
Speaker 3: the bus, and that woman was not going to take it.
33:25
Speaker 3: Are you going anywhere? Keep it right here at seventen Wor.
33:30
Speaker 1: Now the Red Beret has returned to radio. Curtis leewa
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Speaker 1: guest host the Mark Simone Show on sevent tenor.
33:46
Speaker 3: Doesn't get any better than this, beyond this iconic radio
33:52
Speaker 3: station where the call letters the only place I know
33:56
Speaker 3: of in America, and I've been on most stations from
33:59
Speaker 3: time to time.
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Speaker 4: It's only three letters wo r.
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Speaker 2: Oh.
34:05
Speaker 3: And I remember the time that I had to carry
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Speaker 3: all the items from Bob Grant to King of Talk
34:12
Speaker 3: Radio from the studios of WABC, where he had been
34:15
Speaker 3: fired by Bob Iger of Disney. When Disney owned WABC
34:20
Speaker 3: and other talk radio stations, why would they be in
34:22
Speaker 3: the talk radio business.
34:24
Speaker 4: It's controversial, but they were.
34:27
Speaker 3: And nobody would help Bob Grant, who had helped so
34:31
Speaker 3: many people at WABC. Nobody could touch Bob Grant, and
34:36
Speaker 3: so I said, I'll bring it over, and I took
34:40
Speaker 3: some of the hand trucks. I made trips back and
34:43
Speaker 3: forth from WABC, which was the seventeenth floor to two
34:47
Speaker 3: Penn Plaza right by Madison Square Garden up to fourteen
34:50
Speaker 3: forty Broadway.
34:51
Speaker 4: And everybody was amazed that I would do that. They say,
34:54
Speaker 4: you know, if Bob Iger he is about this, he'll
34:57
Speaker 4: fire you. You know what we're I gave in his direction?
35:02
Speaker 4: So are you kidding? Are you kidding for this?
35:05
Speaker 3: A guy who put us on the map WABC, A
35:08
Speaker 3: Bob Grinner, by the way, just a little bit of
35:11
Speaker 3: information in the past. In nineteen seventy seven, Barry Farber
35:16
Speaker 3: the great Barry Farber, no longer with us, was the
35:19
Speaker 3: overnight host here at wo R. He had just run
35:24
Speaker 3: against Bella Abzick for Congress and had lost as a
35:27
Speaker 3: Conservative Republican, and then he decided he was going to
35:31
Speaker 3: run for mayor, as obviously I have twice, and in
35:36
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy seven he was running against Ed Koch. Mario Como,
35:43
Speaker 3: by the way, Andrew, I knew your father, Mario. You
35:47
Speaker 3: know Mario Cmo. He was on the Liberal party line.
35:51
Speaker 3: There was Barry Farber on the conservative line, and Roy Goodman,
35:55
Speaker 3: who was the Republican state Senator of the Upper east Side,
35:58
Speaker 3: the heir to the exit Lacks fortune. He was a
36:01
Speaker 3: Rockefeller Liberal Republican. They had twelve debates. Gabe Pressman was
36:07
Speaker 3: the moderated twelve debates, and it was a catch who won.
36:13
Speaker 3: I think Barry Farber got four percent and Roy Goodman
36:16
Speaker 3: got about four percent. It was Koch and Mario Ocomo
36:19
Speaker 3: who split the rest of the votes. But it was
36:22
Speaker 3: a great race to follow. So Barry Farber had left.
36:28
Speaker 3: Bob Grant was the overnight host at war that I
36:32
Speaker 3: listened to, and then later on he was to return
36:35
Speaker 3: to WOR as I had mentioned when being fired by
36:38
Speaker 3: Bob Igar of Disney, and I had a substitute for
36:43
Speaker 3: him for the first month. Uh, those fax machines didn't stop,
36:50
Speaker 3: you know, it was like NonStop back then.
36:52
Speaker 4: The fax machine would run, you, Trader, why you there?
36:57
Speaker 4: Bob Grant is your mentor. You wouldn't be on tour
37:00
Speaker 4: Cradio WABC without him. I said, exactly right, but this
37:04
Speaker 4: is the business we have chosen.
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Speaker 3: And if I got fired, Bob Grant would say, why,
37:11
Speaker 3: I hope he lands on his feet, and I knew
37:14
Speaker 3: he would. Those fax machines kept running twenty four seven,
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Speaker 3: three six y five for like three straight weeks with
37:21
Speaker 3: the most vile invectives that people could scratch out and
37:25
Speaker 3: write out. And then of course there was Barry Gray
37:30
Speaker 3: mid mornings. But I remember the personal situation involving Barry Gray,
37:35
Speaker 3: who was missed the Second Amendment. Tough guy, but also
37:38
Speaker 3: he was the leader of those that wanted to remove
37:44
Speaker 3: the horse drawn carriages from Central Park, which I and
37:47
Speaker 3: my wife Nancy were in favor of, and so many others.
37:50
Speaker 4: He was ahead of his time. On the morning.
37:54
Speaker 3: Of June nineteenth, nineteen ninety two, on my way to
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Speaker 3: WABC to do the morning show Angels and the Morning
38:00
Speaker 3: with my wife at the time, Lisa, now Lisa Ever's
38:03
Speaker 3: over at Channel five. I was shot five times with
38:07
Speaker 3: hollow point bullets on the orders of John Gotty Senior
38:09
Speaker 3: to John Gotti Junior and the Gambino crime family. The
38:13
Speaker 3: guy Michael Ianatti was the guy who shot me five times.
38:17
Speaker 4: He did twenty years for that.
38:20
Speaker 3: But the interesting thing is, since I was being rushed
38:24
Speaker 3: to Bellevue Hospital, they didn't know if I would live
38:26
Speaker 3: or die. Lisa was on her way there, and my
38:30
Speaker 3: producer at that time, Mike Thompson, took over the show.
38:34
Speaker 4: And the first person to call.
38:36
Speaker 3: In that morning was Barry Gray, who had just finished
38:40
Speaker 3: the overnight, said w Orr, concerned about what had happened
38:44
Speaker 3: to me. Weeks later, when I came back on the air,
38:47
Speaker 3: the first caller into the show.
38:51
Speaker 4: Was Arry Gray.
38:53
Speaker 3: I mean, these are the men and in some cases
38:59
Speaker 3: women like had men. Arlene Francis Lynn Samuels over at WABC.
39:04
Speaker 4: Eclectic as she was.
39:06
Speaker 3: They paved the way for all of us in talk radio,
39:10
Speaker 3: and I will always honor that tradition because without them,
39:15
Speaker 3: there would be no talk radio as we know. It
39:17
Speaker 3: now or podcasts or all the other affiliated ways that
39:22
Speaker 3: you can get your news, your information, your talk.
39:25
Speaker 4: And remember, above any and all things, this is entertainment
39:31
Speaker 4: because if it's not entertaining, you're not going to be listening.
39:34
Speaker 3: I guarantee. But this is my homage to Wor because
39:39
Speaker 3: I've listened to wr In fact, does anybody know is he?
39:43
Speaker 3: Where's Eric Adams today? What country is he in? His
39:46
Speaker 3: tax payers expense? A man who got windined in pocket line,
39:50
Speaker 3: the Swagerman with No Plan. There was a crooked mayor
39:54
Speaker 3: many years ago. Bob Hope actually played him in the movie.
39:59
Speaker 3: You should get that movie. It's absolutely incredible. Bob Hope
40:03
Speaker 3: did a magnificent job playing the Swagerman with No Plan.
40:07
Speaker 3: At that time with the Flappers during the time of
40:10
Speaker 3: Speakeasy's Jimmy Walker, he had, like Eric Adams, about fifty
40:15
Speaker 3: customized suits, and he had ladies galore. And FDR was
40:21
Speaker 3: the governor who wanted to run for president on the
40:24
Speaker 3: Democratic line, and he knew he had a problem because
40:26
Speaker 3: Jimmy Walker was so hopelessly corrupt with the guidance of
40:31
Speaker 3: Tammany Hall. And so he tells Jimmy Walker, you know
40:36
Speaker 3: I'm going to have to use the power of the
40:37
Speaker 3: governorship and fire you, which a governor can do. Governor
40:41
Speaker 3: can fire the mayor, and Jimmy Walker understanding that his
40:46
Speaker 3: days were numbered and that FDR needed to get Jimmy
40:49
Speaker 3: Walker out of here so he could run for president
40:51
Speaker 3: without having to also explain how that kind of corruption
40:56
Speaker 3: could exist while FDR was the governor.
40:59
Speaker 4: You know what Jimmy.
41:00
Speaker 3: Walking did is he he took an ocean liner with
41:03
Speaker 3: one of his gumadas, one of his many females, went
41:06
Speaker 3: to Paris, who lived there for about ten years, came
41:10
Speaker 3: back in the early forties, and you know what his
41:13
Speaker 3: first job back was a talk show host here at WR.
41:20
Speaker 3: You see, when you listen to me, you're gonna learn stuff.
41:23
Speaker 3: You're gonna hear things that you probably wouldn't have heard
41:27
Speaker 3: from other than March Simone himself, who knows more about
41:30
Speaker 3: radio than any other person alive. Just to give you
41:32
Speaker 3: an idea, I sat with March Simon early on in
41:35
Speaker 3: the campaign, after I had announced for the Republican nomination
41:39
Speaker 3: with my very dear friend Paul Carlucci aka Johnny Legit
41:43
Speaker 3: at Nicolas. For three hours we sat there. They were
41:46
Speaker 3: gonna give me advice politically. We spoke for two and
41:49
Speaker 3: a half hours about radio. That's all we talked about.
41:53
Speaker 3: That's the love that Marc Simone has for radio. Paul Carlucci,
41:57
Speaker 3: who at the time was the publisher of The New
42:00
Speaker 3: York Post, now actually he had already left that position,
42:03
Speaker 3: he had retired, and yours truly imagine two and a
42:06
Speaker 3: half hours all we talked about was radio. All we
42:09
Speaker 3: talked to because that when you love radio, like so
42:12
Speaker 3: many of you do, who listen to it morning, noon
42:15
Speaker 3: and night, you understand what's good talk radio, and you
42:20
Speaker 3: understand what's bad talk radio. I need you all to
42:23
Speaker 3: do me a favor, though, when I run into you
42:25
Speaker 3: in the streets, which I do quite often, so many
42:28
Speaker 3: people in so many places, do not, Please, do not treat.
42:31
Speaker 4: Me like a gabon.
42:34
Speaker 3: Do not tell me, oh, I voted for you, because
42:37
Speaker 3: so far since the end of the campaign and the
42:40
Speaker 3: announcement of the results that Zarroon Mandami would be sworn
42:43
Speaker 3: in as mayor on January first of this year, everybody
42:46
Speaker 3: comes up to me and says, I voted for you,
42:49
Speaker 3: and then, being the Weisenheimer than I am, I do
42:52
Speaker 3: a pivot in shift and I say, oh really, Oh yeah,
42:56
Speaker 3: my family voted for you too. Where you from I'm
42:58
Speaker 3: from Scarsdale.
43:00
Speaker 4: I'd to do that. He couldn't vote for mayor.
43:03
Speaker 3: So don't tell me you voted for me, because I
43:06
Speaker 3: will have to end up embarrassing you sometimes in front
43:11
Speaker 3: of family and friends, because you're trying to pull my
43:15
Speaker 3: chain and chew my shorts.
43:17
Speaker 4: Don't do that.
43:18
Speaker 3: If I had gotten every vote that people claimed that
43:21
Speaker 3: they had cast on my behalf, I would have been
43:24
Speaker 3: the mayor of the City of New York. So please, now,
43:29
Speaker 3: let's get to the other key subject today. Give you
43:32
Speaker 3: a little background information on what was a terrible loss
43:37
Speaker 3: for the Republican Party nationally, the Republican Party in the
43:42
Speaker 3: state of New York, and the Republican Party in the
43:44
Speaker 3: City of New York, where we are extraordinarily weak. It says,
43:48
Speaker 3: if we had been exposed to kryptonite by mostly Republicans,
43:55
Speaker 3: never mind the Democrats, by mostly Republicans, they go out
43:58
Speaker 3: of their way to damage the brand and to damage
44:02
Speaker 3: their candidates.
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Speaker 4: You certainly saw that with me. Oh, vote for Aslee
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Speaker 4: was a vote for Zoran. Vote for Cromo.
44:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, Cromo, who did that President Donald Trump, who did that?
44:15
Speaker 3: Elon Musk, who did that? The billionaires, the masters of
44:18
Speaker 3: the universe spent twenty million dollars doing that in the
44:21
Speaker 3: final weeks of the campaign. But put me aside. We
44:28
Speaker 3: had a star in the Republican Party who could touch
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Speaker 3: at least Stephanic. Do you not remember when she was
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Speaker 3: cross examining the presidents of the Ivy League schools?
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Speaker 4: Do you not remember?
44:46
Speaker 8: You know?
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Speaker 3: It was two years ago, December, two years ago, one
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Speaker 3: by one.
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Speaker 4: First there was the Harvard president, Claudine Gay. She knocked
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Speaker 4: her out. Ding Gay resigned after being crush examined by
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Speaker 4: Elis Stefanic. Number two was Elizabeth Magill University of Pennsylvania.
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Speaker 3: Knocked her out. She resigned right after that interrogation by
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Speaker 3: Elis Stephonic.
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Speaker 4: The only one who suffered a TKO at the hands
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Speaker 4: of Elis Stephonic was Sally Cornbluff of MIT. She somehow
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Speaker 4: held on. And what was it about? It was simple.
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Speaker 3: All that Elis Stephonic asked them is would you call
45:38
Speaker 3: would you suggest that calling for genocide of Jews violated
45:44
Speaker 3: the code of conduct at your university? And they all
45:48
Speaker 3: did the chicken dance and said, well, depends.
45:51
Speaker 4: On whether you're this was amazing.
45:57
Speaker 3: It depends on whether you're speech crossed into action. After that,
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Speaker 3: they were dead on arrival.
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Speaker 4: But that was the first of many cross examinations to.
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Speaker 3: Come from one everyone realized was the star of the
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Speaker 3: Republican Party. Tough, smart, young, think she's a millennial, who
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Speaker 3: think she's like forty or forty one, gave up a
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Speaker 3: prestigious position as the US ambassador to the United Nations.
46:34
Speaker 3: She would have been a clone of Jeane Kirkpatrick.
46:38
Speaker 4: Oh, we have a lot to talk about, because there
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Speaker 4: were so many other situations that were taking place behind
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Speaker 4: the scenes that none of you are aware of.
46:46
Speaker 3: Why oh, why you saying to yourself. Would at least
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Speaker 3: stephonic have dropped out on this late Friday in an
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Speaker 3: election she had a real chance to win and really
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Speaker 3: the only person who could have totally turned this state around.
47:01
Speaker 4: They're not going anywhere. You're going to keep it right
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Speaker 4: here on the dial.
47:04
Speaker 3: If you're just discovering seven to ten WOORR, this is
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Speaker 3: your place to be. Forget WABC always bashing Curtis and
47:14
Speaker 3: by the way, sinking in the ratings. Nobody giving them
47:18
Speaker 3: the kind of attention that they were used to. But
47:22
Speaker 3: thank you iHeart, thank you Tom Cuddy, thank you WR
47:25
Speaker 3: for extending me this microphone till January second, because I
47:29
Speaker 3: am going to be blazing and I'm gonna be glazing
47:33
Speaker 3: some and I think is he most people would want
47:37
Speaker 3: to be glazed by Curtis Sleewer. They would not want
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Speaker 3: to be put on blast, as you've heard some of
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Speaker 3: the people earlier today right here on your New Place
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Speaker 3: to Be seven ten wor the.
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Speaker 1: Pulse of New York Now on the Voice of New
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Speaker 1: York Curtis Sleewald, guess hos for Marx them on seven
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Speaker 1: ten double.
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Speaker 3: At the station that I listened to now seven ten wooh.
48:08
Speaker 3: You don't need to be over at WABC. Don't waste
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Speaker 3: your time, just keep it right here. In fact, it's
48:14
Speaker 3: soon your turn to be heard in this hour. If
48:17
Speaker 3: you call eight hundred three two one zero seven ten,
48:22
Speaker 3: that's eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten.
48:26
Speaker 3: We're talking about Alista Phonic, star of the Republican Party,
48:32
Speaker 3: dropping out unexpected to sum on Friday, not to me.
48:38
Speaker 3: She was my most loyal supporter during the mayoral campaign.
48:44
Speaker 3: I can remember we were at the Union League Club.
48:49
Speaker 3: Was in the summer and she was speaking to a
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Speaker 3: group of people and she called me up from the
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Speaker 3: audience and she gave me the microphone. Midway through her speech,
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Speaker 3: she said, this is the guy that I'm supporting for
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Speaker 3: Maya Curtis Lee and nobody else. And don't ever, don't
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Speaker 3: ever say he should be dropping out. He's the Republican candidate.
49:07
Speaker 3: I said to elist, you really want to give me
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Speaker 3: the microphone, You may never get it back. She said,
49:14
Speaker 3: go for it. She remained loyal. She was a woman,
49:19
Speaker 3: a character, and you may have remembered in September twenty
49:23
Speaker 3: twenty four the performance up on the Hill when she
49:26
Speaker 3: eviscerated Andrew evilized Cromo at that Coronavirus Committee hearing in
49:32
Speaker 3: which she said, you will never be elected to anything
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Speaker 3: ever again. And boy, has she been so right on that.
49:41
Speaker 3: And let's not forget all the other appearances she made
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Speaker 3: at the behest of the Republican Party for a very
49:49
Speaker 3: weak Speaker of the House Johnson, who is having problems
49:53
Speaker 3: with female members. That's become quite apparent. And she gave
49:57
Speaker 3: up the prize. She was announced to be our next
50:03
Speaker 3: UN Ambassador United States UN Ambassador Boy Shades of Jeane Kirkpatrick,
50:10
Speaker 3: shades of Adleist Stevenson. The cameras would have been there
50:14
Speaker 3: every time it would have been indicated that at least
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Speaker 3: Aphonic in the General Assembly or before the Security Council
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Speaker 3: was speaking on behalf of our nation. But because she
50:26
Speaker 3: is the ultimate team player, she gave up that position
50:30
Speaker 3: so she could come back and be the deciding vote
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Speaker 3: for President Donald Trump's legislation. He needed that vote because
50:39
Speaker 3: the margin in the House was so slim, and it
50:42
Speaker 3: was anticipated that that favor would be returned to her
50:47
Speaker 3: at some point.
50:49
Speaker 4: And then when she announced that she was running for
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Speaker 4: the governorship on the Republican line, so many Republicans, myself included,
50:57
Speaker 4: was so happy.
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Speaker 3: You got a superstar here. Fundraising machine. She had twelve
51:02
Speaker 3: million dollars that she had already raised. And the President
51:07
Speaker 3: Donald Trump realized that he had to clear out any
51:12
Speaker 3: competition in a primary, so he convinced Congressman Mike Lawler
51:16
Speaker 3: to bow out, and he did so, and he cleared
51:19
Speaker 3: the field. But then things began to go arrived. I'll
51:25
Speaker 3: never forget this state for me. It was a day
51:27
Speaker 3: in infamy. November twenty one.
51:29
Speaker 4: Zoran Mandami has been invited to come to the White House.
51:33
Speaker 4: Four months.
51:34
Speaker 3: President Donald Trump had been calling him the Kami. Mandami
51:40
Speaker 3: had cast all kinds of aspersions, talked about how he
51:44
Speaker 3: would move in, he would run the city of New York.
51:47
Speaker 3: He would not give him an opportunity. In fact, he
51:50
Speaker 3: was with whole federal funds. If the voters elected Joran Mondami,
51:54
Speaker 3: that was a mistake because that just strengthened Jorhan Mandami
51:58
Speaker 3: because it was now David versus Kala Zoron MONDAMMI didn't
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Speaker 3: have to campaign against Eric Adams, didn't have to campaign
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Speaker 3: against Andrew Cuomo, didn't have to campaign against me. He
52:07
Speaker 3: could campaign against Donald Trump, who couldn't keep himself out
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Speaker 3: of the race.
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Speaker 4: And then all of a sudden, it's love fest at
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Speaker 4: the White House. It was sort of like Barney talk.
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Speaker 4: I love you, you love me.
52:21
Speaker 3: I tell you all the times that I watched Barney
52:23
Speaker 3: that cartoon with my sons growing up. I wanted to
52:26
Speaker 3: pull a forty four magnum mountain blow Barney away on
52:29
Speaker 3: the TV. I hated Barney with a passion, and there
52:32
Speaker 3: it was Barney talk. Oh, Zorn, you want to call
52:34
Speaker 3: me a fascist, go ahead, You're gonna be a great mayor.
52:39
Speaker 4: In fact, you may be the best mayor ever.
52:41
Speaker 3: And then, all of a sudden, towards the end of
52:43
Speaker 3: the one hour sit down the love fest that President
52:47
Speaker 3: Donald Trump had doing Barney Talk with Johan Mondami, a
52:52
Speaker 3: reporter asked, mister President, do you agree with Congresswoman Elistefanik
52:57
Speaker 3: who calls Zorhan I'm the ag hottest? In fact, they
53:03
Speaker 3: think her nickname was the Gehti souran Oran?
53:06
Speaker 4: Does she hot?
53:08
Speaker 3: And he could have sidestep that, he did not. He's
53:12
Speaker 3: very good at side stepping questions and ignoring questions, but no, no,
53:16
Speaker 3: on this one. He threw at least the fonic under
53:18
Speaker 3: the bus. He goes, I disagree with her. In fact,
53:21
Speaker 3: he'll probably turn out to be the greatest mayor of
53:24
Speaker 3: New York City. He's a very reasonable guy. Hey, you
53:27
Speaker 3: want to call me fascist again, go ahead, Zorn, throw
53:31
Speaker 3: it right under the bus. Okay, that was bad, but
53:38
Speaker 3: the worst was just about ten days ago. He was
53:43
Speaker 3: asked at the White House, you know, your friend Ruce Blakeman,
53:46
Speaker 3: who just won reelection as a Nassau County executive as
53:49
Speaker 3: a Republican, says he wants to run for the Republican nomination.
53:54
Speaker 3: What do you make of it? Oh, I like Elise,
53:56
Speaker 3: I like Bruce Blakeman. He never bothered to try to
54:01
Speaker 3: convince Bruce Blakeman not to run. There's no doubt that's
54:06
Speaker 3: why Alis Stefani dropped out. Could you have been any
54:10
Speaker 3: more loyal and a team player than Elise Stephonic The
54:16
Speaker 3: answer is no. In fact, you know what the campaign
54:20
Speaker 3: would have been if she went into the primary. I
54:22
Speaker 3: guarantee you somewhere along the line, a vote for Elise
54:25
Speaker 3: Staphonic is a vote for Kathy Hocal, vote for Bruce Blakeman.
54:29
Speaker 3: I guarantee you that. And so now she'll serve out
54:34
Speaker 3: her term in the House. She will not run for reelection.
54:38
Speaker 3: She s dropped out. So although she wasn't asked to
54:42
Speaker 3: drop out, wasn't that pretty.
54:44
Speaker 4: Much the same thing? Come on, ladies and gentlemen, I
54:46
Speaker 4: know how many of you are.
54:47
Speaker 3: Come on, we can't say anything bad about President Donald Trump.
54:52
Speaker 3: This was done on purpose, and the Republican Party, which
54:57
Speaker 3: is hurting in New York State, is hurting now even more,
55:01
Speaker 3: and boy has lost a real star in the Republican Party.
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Speaker 3: Elise Stefanic, when we return your phone calls one eight
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Speaker 3: hundred and three to two one zero, seven ten, and
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Speaker 3: your place to be from now on as it is
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Speaker 3: mine seven ten WR.
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Speaker 1: The Voice that fights for New York Literally Curtis leewa
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Speaker 1: guest HOS for Mark Simone on sevent ten WOR.
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Speaker 3: All right, let's make sure h Wow, those phone lines
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Speaker 3: are blazing. He is he, But don't be glazing. I
55:39
Speaker 3: mean when you get on, I don't need to be glazed.
55:43
Speaker 3: Let's just say what is on your mind. That's what
55:47
Speaker 3: talk radio is all about. And now you have a
55:49
Speaker 3: friend of your own, WR seven ten. And if you
55:52
Speaker 3: listen to anyone else, you don't need to listen to
55:55
Speaker 3: them anymore. Let's go to Phil, who is calling from Brooklyn.
56:01
Speaker 3: Your turn to be heard here at WOR seven ten, Phil.
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Speaker 9: Great Curtis. There's one part of the story that hasn't
56:08
Speaker 9: been told yet that a lot of people are very
56:10
Speaker 9: curious about. And that is why didn't the Conservative Party
56:15
Speaker 9: give you their nomination for mayor after you had been
56:18
Speaker 9: loyal to them and had such great relations with them
56:20
Speaker 9: for decades.
56:22
Speaker 3: Well, to be honest with you, I'm not a conservative.
56:26
Speaker 3: They are purists. To their credit, you have to agree
56:29
Speaker 3: with them on all their policy positions. As you have stated, Phil,
56:34
Speaker 3: I got along with them all the time. I went
56:36
Speaker 3: to the same events. But you know, Rudy Giuliani didn't
56:40
Speaker 3: run on the conservative line. He wasn't a conservative, at
56:43
Speaker 3: least when he was running for mayor of the City
56:45
Speaker 3: of New York. I've never really been a conservative. I
56:48
Speaker 3: disagree with them on some subjects, but I respect them.
56:52
Speaker 3: Let's go if we can to Kevin, who's calling from Putnam?
56:57
Speaker 4: Your turn to be heard here at seven wo.
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Speaker 10: R oh, Curtis. Uh, we love you. There's no better
57:08
Speaker 10: way to say that we love you up in Putnam.
57:12
Speaker 10: I wish we could have voted for you for other things,
57:17
Speaker 10: but maybe should consider a run for governor. I don't know.
57:21
Speaker 10: Call me crazy, but no, no.
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Speaker 4: No, you're not.
57:25
Speaker 3: You're not crazy, Kevin. But I am so upset with
57:31
Speaker 3: my Republican party and I am a Republican.
57:33
Speaker 4: I'm nothing else. Even though you will hear you know
57:37
Speaker 4: that detractors at my old place of business, WABC, said
57:43
Speaker 4: that I was working for Johan Mandami, I was being
57:45
Speaker 4: paid by to throw the election to him.
57:50
Speaker 10: I was listening to all of that from w ABC,
57:54
Speaker 10: and I can tell you the guy you picked out
57:56
Speaker 10: to be the I won't say it.
58:02
Speaker 3: Well, I will see you hesitate, but as you know,
58:05
Speaker 3: I don't have a filter. It starts with the owner operator,
58:07
Speaker 3: John Katzmatitis. He gave the signal to attack and undercut
58:12
Speaker 3: courteously when create the image that Zoron Mandami was somehow
58:17
Speaker 3: paying me off to deprive Andrew Cmo of an opportunity
58:22
Speaker 3: to destroy the city of New York like he did
58:24
Speaker 3: the State of New York. And then naturally sid Rosenberg,
58:28
Speaker 3: Tessio and Greg Kelly and Dominic Carter, they all follow
58:32
Speaker 3: because whatever John tells him to do, they do. They're dutiful,
58:36
Speaker 3: you know, They're like little dancing bears. Whereas when I
58:39
Speaker 3: worked there, I had an agreement with John was if
58:42
Speaker 3: I'm wrong, I'm gone. And I broke a lot of
58:45
Speaker 3: news there and the station benefited. They went right to
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Speaker 3: number one. They will no longer be number one because
58:52
Speaker 3: if I have to, I'll be listening to w or morning,
58:55
Speaker 3: noon and night wherever I go, and I'm everywhere in
58:58
Speaker 3: this city. Let's go if we can to Mike, Who's
59:02
Speaker 3: calling from Queen's your turn to be heard here at
59:05
Speaker 3: seven to ten wr Mike.
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Speaker 8: Yes, sir, welcome back to the seven Never Ends. I'm
59:10
Speaker 8: glad to hear you on the aircutter. That's what counts. Listen,
59:13
Speaker 8: the staphanic thing is making my board boil because I
59:17
Speaker 8: could read the teelies on the whole thing. We finally
59:20
Speaker 8: get a star who can beat Hulko, and now she's gone.
59:23
Speaker 8: And let me tell you something, Pal, one of the
59:25
Speaker 8: big reasons you lost, in my opinion, is the chickens
59:29
Speaker 8: voted for Colonel Sanders, if you know what I mean,
59:31
Speaker 8: so they can't blame you for everything. And if you
59:33
Speaker 8: would have withdrawn, then what do you have here? Have pocus?
59:36
Speaker 8: You either have a Republican party or you don't have
59:39
Speaker 8: a Republican party. I'd never heard of any Democrats throwing
59:42
Speaker 8: their elections to get a Republican elected. So anyway, welcome back, kid,
59:46
Speaker 8: and you're doing a great job, and happy New York
59:47
Speaker 8: and tell them missus we all said hello too. By night.
59:50
Speaker 3: I liked that he called me kid. I'm seventy one
59:53
Speaker 3: years old. That makes me feel great. That's that's that's
59:57
Speaker 3: other than substituting for Mark Simon to January tewod, that's
1:00:01
Speaker 3: the second best Christmas present. I've gotten so far being
1:00:04
Speaker 3: called kid, and it really is a president. This is
1:00:09
Speaker 3: such a powerful vehicle, and that again, I want you
1:00:17
Speaker 3: to understand what's happening here. The Republican Party in New
1:00:22
Speaker 3: York City and New York State is being destroyed by Republicans,
1:00:27
Speaker 3: not by the Democrats. Republicans put me aside. Obviously, I
1:00:35
Speaker 3: can't compare with Elis Stefani. She was the star of
1:00:39
Speaker 3: all stars. There's nobody out there they could do combat
1:00:44
Speaker 3: with her, verbal combat in the ring and survive a
1:00:48
Speaker 3: cross examination and interrogation by Elis Stefani. Everybody would agree that.
1:00:54
Speaker 3: Look at the three presidents of the Ivy League schools
1:00:58
Speaker 3: who went down. Claudia Gay Harvard after that retired Elizabeth
1:01:04
Speaker 3: Megel of University of Pennsylvania. After her cross examination by Elist,
1:01:09
Speaker 3: retired Sally Cornbluff was holding onto the ropes TKO.
1:01:15
Speaker 4: The referee said, no, bos no us, it's over. It's over.
1:01:18
Speaker 4: Released no more or she would have retired.
1:01:22
Speaker 3: She eviscerated andrew evilized Cuomo at the Corona's Virus Committee hearing.
1:01:28
Speaker 3: And then remember it was June of this year, she
1:01:33
Speaker 3: crossed examined Kathy Hokel on the hill and said, who
1:01:38
Speaker 3: are these migrants who are killing citizens in New York State?
1:01:43
Speaker 4: Who are these illegal aliens?
1:01:44
Speaker 3: Do you know any of them? Uh? Do you know
1:01:49
Speaker 3: who that woman was who was turned into a human
1:01:53
Speaker 3: torch on January twenty second on that f train in
1:01:58
Speaker 3: Coney Island?
1:01:59
Speaker 4: Do you know what inn is say? Her name?
1:02:03
Speaker 2: No?
1:02:03
Speaker 3: No, you know who the migrant killer was. They was
1:02:11
Speaker 3: being housed that It's Amaritian House shelter in East New York.
1:02:14
Speaker 3: I thought they only deal with drug issues, but they were.
1:02:17
Speaker 3: They were in it for the money, that's for sure.
1:02:19
Speaker 4: You know his name, Kathy Hokel, mhm Sebastian Zapeta.
1:02:29
Speaker 3: Of Guatemala, that pyromaniac. Oh, I'm gonna you don't want
1:02:35
Speaker 3: to go anywhere. I'm gonna give you more.
1:02:36
Speaker 4: Details on the how quickly everybody forgets Nobody could step
1:02:42
Speaker 4: into the ring with at least Stefani and survive. Nobody
1:02:45
Speaker 4: wanted to. They hesitated.
1:02:48
Speaker 3: You really think that Bruce Blakeman would have stood up
1:02:52
Speaker 3: in a debate against at least Stefanic. Come on, guy
1:02:57
Speaker 3: like Bruce, I like some of his policies. If given
1:03:00
Speaker 3: the choice to vote between Bruce Blakeman and Kathy Hokele. Obviously,
1:03:03
Speaker 3: I'm gonna vote for Bruce.
1:03:04
Speaker 4: Blakeman, but I'm not excited like I was with Eli Staphonic,
1:03:09
Speaker 4: who also had a lot of young followers. Young you know, millennials,
1:03:13
Speaker 4: gen zs. They are the majority of the population.
1:03:16
Speaker 3: I hate to tell you baby boomers out there, and
1:03:18
Speaker 3: I'm one of you, we are no longer the majority.
1:03:20
Speaker 4: We are no longer the majority of the voters. We
1:03:23
Speaker 4: are no longer going to be the shot callers. Baby
1:03:26
Speaker 4: Boomers may have most of.
1:03:27
Speaker 3: The equity and wealth, but that will soon change too.
1:03:32
Speaker 3: Bruce Blakeman is not going to be able to attract
1:03:35
Speaker 3: younger voters. That's just not his style. It's not what
1:03:39
Speaker 3: got him elected the county executive in Nassau County.
1:03:48
Speaker 4: And you really think that Kathy Hokele could have stood
1:03:51
Speaker 4: on a debate stage and survived the withering cross examination
1:03:55
Speaker 4: of Elis Staphonic, Say in a bazooka and what were
1:04:02
Speaker 4: Kathy hoklovd a pop gun? In return?
1:04:06
Speaker 3: And now we're being deprived of all that. Who did that?
1:04:09
Speaker 3: Not the Democrats, the Republicans. It goes right to the
1:04:15
Speaker 3: White House itself. Donald Trump flipped the script on at
1:04:21
Speaker 3: least Stephonic. You knew he was gonna do that to me.
1:04:27
Speaker 3: I was not his most loyal maga following at least
1:04:31
Speaker 3: the Phonic was uber maga. Could you have been any
1:04:38
Speaker 3: more loyal to the president? Any more of a team player?
1:04:42
Speaker 3: Stop drinking the kool aid. The problem of a Republican
1:04:47
Speaker 3: party is that, depending on what mood the President is
1:04:51
Speaker 3: in on any given day, he will side against the
1:04:56
Speaker 3: Republican candidates.
1:04:57
Speaker 4: You don't cross the line. You don't cross the line,
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Speaker 4: and you.
1:05:03
Speaker 3: Don't listen to any other stations other than seven to
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Speaker 3: ten wor now.
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Speaker 1: More with New York's iconics straight shooter Curtis Leewah guest
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Speaker 1: hosting from Mark Simone on sevent ten WOOR.
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Speaker 3: I can assure you, ladies and gentlemen, this is live
1:05:22
Speaker 3: in local. There's nothing in these past two hours there's
1:05:25
Speaker 3: been pre recorded.
1:05:27
Speaker 4: I don't do that kind of radio.
1:05:29
Speaker 3: No does Mark Simon, who I'm substituting for till January
1:05:34
Speaker 3: tewod and you know tomorrow, I think I gotta delve
1:05:38
Speaker 3: into this. The new WWE Worldwide Wrestling Exhibition like the
1:05:47
Speaker 3: old ww FA. Vince Mcmahonsenior and Bruno Sammartino that I
1:05:51
Speaker 3: grew up with Turning Point USA and the annual gathering
1:05:56
Speaker 3: in Phoenix. I know most of the players who appeared.
1:06:00
Speaker 3: Boy is anything more contrived nowadays it's like the old WWF,
1:06:05
Speaker 3: like the WWE Come on. I'll bring it down for
1:06:09
Speaker 3: you tomorrow. But right now I'm not going to be
1:06:13
Speaker 3: hanging out with influences or insiders, or billionaires.
1:06:18
Speaker 4: Or the masters of the universe. I never do.
1:06:21
Speaker 3: I'll be heading out to Coney Island with the Guardian
1:06:23
Speaker 3: Angels to commemorate and memorialize the most horrific killing that
1:06:30
Speaker 3: ever has occurred in the subway system.
1:06:33
Speaker 4: And that says a lot. Say her name.
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Speaker 3: How come nobody in the city is saying her name,
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Speaker 3: DeBie Kwam To bring a Kwam from Tom's River who
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Speaker 3: had a great growing up period, which I'm going to
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Speaker 3: get into tomorrow. Things you didn't know about her, And
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Speaker 3: you say to yourself, somebody who suffered a mental health
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Speaker 3: lapse and ended up being on a f train, homeless,
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Speaker 3: suffering emotional setbacks and set on fire by a monster,
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Speaker 3: A monster migrant from Guatemala, a pyromaniac boy the city
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Speaker 3: officials here, Eric Adams, a swaggerman with no plan, Jessica Tish,
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Speaker 3: the rest Governor, Kathy Hoko. They don't even they don't
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Speaker 3: even want to.
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Speaker 4: Mention the name that we've seen the woman in the
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Speaker 4: CTA in Chicago set on fire. They keep talking about
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Speaker 4: that story, and rightfully so. The man was set on fire,
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Speaker 4: the homeless man in Times Square, in the subway station,
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Speaker 4: he was reunited with his long lost son. That's a great.
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Speaker 3: Story, and we keep talking the moment that occurred. He
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Speaker 3: couldn't close that story fast enough. It is a fascinating story.
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Speaker 3: And I and the Guardian Angels we honored Debrina Kwam
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Speaker 3: by going out and helping the homeless and the emotionally
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Speaker 3: disturbed every day, those lost souls in the subways and streets.
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Speaker 3: I can't wait to be back with all of you
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Speaker 3: tomorrow at my favorite radio station, and it should be
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Speaker 3: yours now sevent ten wor