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Mark interviews former NYC mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: It's more Mark Mark Simone on seven ten.
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  Speaker 2: Well, ladies and gentlemen, the man who should be the
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  Speaker 2: mayor of New York right now. Curtis Lee Well, of course,
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  Speaker 2: also one of the great radio hosts of the last
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  Speaker 2: few decades, had the number one morning show for many, many, many,
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  Speaker 2: many many years. And he'll be filling in for me.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be off the last two weeks of the year.
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  Speaker 2: Next week and the week after, Curtis will be filling
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  Speaker 2: in ten to noon every weekday. And he's with us. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Curtis sliwa, how you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Oh great now that you've given me an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: let my voice be heard on my favorite radio station,
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  Speaker 1: w R. Nope, he doesn't get any better than this, Mark,
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  Speaker 1: because obviously you lead and everybody else follow So I
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  Speaker 1: know you've got a huge following because all during the campaign,
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  Speaker 1: people would stop me wherever I was going and says, well,
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  Speaker 1: Mark's talking about you. Now, I didn't get that from
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  Speaker 1: any other radio station or any other talk program.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, now that it's all over, let me ask you
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  Speaker 2: about this campaign. First of all, Now, obviously you could win,
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  Speaker 2: You could out talk everybody in the race. You got
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  Speaker 2: a much longer career resume than Mamdani. But they started
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  Speaker 2: this mantra, he can't win, Curtis can't win, Curtis can't win.
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  Speaker 2: They just drilled this into people. I heard people start
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  Speaker 2: repeating it like it's true. It was ridiculous. How did
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  Speaker 2: that ever get started?
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  Speaker 1: But actually got started right after Andrew Cuomo tossed in
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  Speaker 1: the towel because he got so badly beaten in the
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  Speaker 1: primary that if you remember Mark, when he entered the
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  Speaker 1: race on March first, he was at forty percent in
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  Speaker 1: the Democratic polls, Zorhan Mandami was last at one percent.
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  Speaker 1: By the time of June twenty four, they hadn't even
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  Speaker 1: counted the rank choice votes yet he lost by thirteen percent,
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  Speaker 1: and it was mos no mos Now. The big savior
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  Speaker 1: then was going to be Eric Adams. They were gonna
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  Speaker 1: somehow resurrect the crook out of the way and put
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  Speaker 1: you know, put a new set of clothes on him
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  Speaker 1: and say, oh no, he's a new Eric Adams. And
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  Speaker 1: the people didn't buy it. And then every day thereafter,
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  Speaker 1: the masters of the universe, the billionaires, the influences, the
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  Speaker 1: insiders kept this dropout game. Drop out, you got to
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  Speaker 1: drop out. He became very difficult Mark to engage in
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  Speaker 1: any kind of conversation because the first question I'd have
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  Speaker 1: to ask every day, answer every day was no, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not dropping out. They bribed me, people were threatening to
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  Speaker 1: kill me, my wife, do harm to my staff, and
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  Speaker 1: I said, no, I'm not dropping out. And I lived
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  Speaker 1: up to that until November fourth, where clearly Johan Mandami
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  Speaker 1: was elected mayor of the City of New York by
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  Speaker 1: the people of New York.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, now here's a better question. You knew Andrew Cuomo
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  Speaker 2: can't win. I knew he can't win. He was a
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  Speaker 2: terrible governor. He did awful things as governor. Everybody can't
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  Speaker 2: stand the guy. But he went around for the three
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  Speaker 2: or four years to every big donor, every big Upper
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  Speaker 2: East Side Southampton, all this craw and he convinced them
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  Speaker 2: that only he could win. And these are otherwise very
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  Speaker 2: smart people. How did they fall for this nonsense? They
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  Speaker 2: actually convinced themselves only he can win.
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  Speaker 1: Look, Mark, there's nobody better connected than you with all
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  Speaker 1: the heavy hitters in New York, whether it's the Hamptons
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  Speaker 1: or in New York City or around America. They may
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  Speaker 1: be good on Wall Street, but they know nothing about
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  Speaker 1: the streets in New York City. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: they know nothing about politics, as was evidence. They backed
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  Speaker 1: Clomo in the primary, he lost, then they backed Derek Adams,
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  Speaker 1: then they went back to back in Clomo. Look, they
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  Speaker 1: may invest your money well in a hedge funt. You know,
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  Speaker 1: acmen actman every day. This guy would tweet out ten
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty two words in his mid life crisis.
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  Speaker 1: But they couldn't have been more hopelessly wrong and clearly
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  Speaker 1: they At first they disparaged Cuomo when he lost the Jarmandami,
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  Speaker 1: then they revived him, and all they kept doing was
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  Speaker 1: supporting Democrats. So I guess what you got what you wanted,
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  Speaker 1: Johai Mondami. You just strengthened him and Mark. What was
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  Speaker 1: that love clash between Donald Trump the President and Monday
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  Speaker 1: at the White House? Come on, they played us. We
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  Speaker 1: were played all during the campaign.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, uh so what do you think Mondannie? I somehow
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  Speaker 2: I still think maybe he was counting the socialists, maybe,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe he's not as bad as we think. What
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  Speaker 2: do you think?
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  Speaker 1: Well, look, he is what he is. He has not surrendered,
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  Speaker 1: he has not retreated. He is an idea log everybody
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  Speaker 1: who gets elected mayors entitled to a grace period. He'll
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  Speaker 1: have his grace period. But unlike everybody else who in
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  Speaker 1: fear frightened Stereos said, I'm selling my pristiners are moving
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  Speaker 1: the Florida Hey where they go? Mark is still here?
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  Speaker 1: Are you kidding? Having backdoor meetings with Sohai Mondami? So
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  Speaker 1: the fact is I'm the improved o't movement. And by
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  Speaker 1: the way, Matt compliment you for a second, Mark, because
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  Speaker 1: you're going on this well deserved vacation. What are they
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  Speaker 1: gonna do in your competition? You realize that Greg Kelly
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  Speaker 1: for years would listen to your program before he would
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  Speaker 1: come on in the twelve o'clock hour. Basically you would
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  Speaker 1: do his show prep for him. Like comedians up in
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  Speaker 1: the Borsch Belt that used to steal jokes from one another.
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  Speaker 2: Well, but Greg does a great show.
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  Speaker 1: They do what you away.
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  Speaker 2: But we all listen to each other, we all take
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  Speaker 2: from each other. It's so but.
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  Speaker 1: Now your mom, Mark, But you're the best. That's why
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  Speaker 1: they do it from you. They know that.
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  Speaker 2: Then you got to you gotta do a good job.
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  Speaker 2: In the next two weeks, Curtis will be filling in
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  Speaker 2: for me. The next two weeks. Now you have done.
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  Speaker 2: They used to make fun of how many hours you'd
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  Speaker 2: be on the radio, twenty hours a day, fourteen hours
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  Speaker 2: a day six Will you be able to fit it
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  Speaker 2: into just two hours a day?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh, there's no doubt about it. Hey. Look, there
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  Speaker 1: was a time at WABC, as you know, because you
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  Speaker 1: and I we were together there doing the morning show
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  Speaker 1: with Ron Koopy, whose mommy is at comedy who is
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  Speaker 1: the predecessor to Johann Mondami. Yeah, I mean you wanted
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  Speaker 1: to know what Joran Mondami was. Look, that was Don Coopy.
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  Speaker 1: Three of us would sit in that room doing the
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  Speaker 1: morning show. That was total chaos.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's right.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how you. I don't know how you
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  Speaker 1: survived that much.
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  Speaker 2: I forgot you. Yeah, you two weren't talking for about
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  Speaker 2: six months. I had to like host the uh or
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  Speaker 2: be the moderator of the show. You two were there.
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  Speaker 2: But it's it's much better doing the show by yourself,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it. It's always much better?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, and I and I insisted on that I
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  Speaker 1: had always done shows that partners, and I insisted that no,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm the do talk radio anymore, it's gonna be solo.
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  Speaker 1: I will either sink or swim based on what I say,
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  Speaker 1: not based on what my partners say. But boy, you
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  Speaker 1: deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. Every morning for four hours
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  Speaker 1: Mark Simone the referee between Ron Koby, who was Jorhan
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  Speaker 1: Mondomi before he was even born, and Curtis Sleewer, and
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  Speaker 1: I mean it got hey, it got pretty hot and
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  Speaker 1: heavy there. You almost had to put in a nine
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  Speaker 1: to one one call sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: So well, next week will be you'll have fun here.
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  Speaker 2: If you've come up, you've seen the studio, you've visited,
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  Speaker 2: you've in fact, a lot of your old coworkers were
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  Speaker 2: here when you came. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let me let me tell you something for people
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  Speaker 1: who don't know. Because War was the first radio station
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  Speaker 1: I was ever interviewed on. I was the newspaper Boy
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  Speaker 1: of the Year. I had gone to Washington, DC, got
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  Speaker 1: an award for Richard Nixon and my first interview was
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  Speaker 1: with Arlene Frances Whoad afternoons mid mid days, and I
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  Speaker 1: got the bug. You know what it's like. You had
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  Speaker 1: the bug for years, I've had the bug. And then
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  Speaker 1: when Bob Grant went to War, I mean it was
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  Speaker 1: a continuation and by the way. I remember when I
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  Speaker 1: transported all of his items from WABC where they exiled
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  Speaker 1: him to wr and then he kicked off bucks over
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  Speaker 1: at WABC. You remember that you worked with him at WBCA,
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  Speaker 1: back with r Peter Strauss and Ellens.
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  Speaker 2: That's true, although Bob Grant and I didn't get along.
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  Speaker 2: So Bob Grant was a a complicated guy. I think
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  Speaker 2: you'd agree off the air, no.
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  Speaker 1: Doubt about it. But let me tell you something. He
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  Speaker 1: was magic on the radio, and that's all it counts. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's all accounts. And that's what you've been for so
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  Speaker 1: many years, Mark Simone. So to be able to substitute
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  Speaker 1: for you a while away, I mean, it doesn't get
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  Speaker 1: any better than that. And I listened to wo R.
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  Speaker 1: Now you've got a lot of great shows. I have
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  Speaker 1: no reason to listen to anything else, including always blaming
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  Speaker 1: Curtigs WABC, the other station.
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  Speaker 2: But since you announced you're going to be here, did
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  Speaker 2: they contact you? Have you heard from anybody there?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? They're worried, aren't They're worried? Because remember I haven't
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  Speaker 1: told the true story of what went on there, all
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  Speaker 1: that drop out. You got to drop out? Where do
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  Speaker 1: you think it started? Mark. It started at WABC, and
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  Speaker 1: there are a lot of bones buried there. And the
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  Speaker 1: question is, in the two weeks that you've given me
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity of management at WOR and iHeart the substitute
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  Speaker 1: for you, will I dig up any of those bones
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  Speaker 1: and air they junk to what went on during the
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  Speaker 1: most historical and unprecidented mayor old campaign in the history
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  Speaker 1: of New York City politics.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I wouldn't go after them, but I can't just
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  Speaker 2: blame them. I heard this from every Upper East Side idiot,
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  Speaker 2: every Hedge fund idiot. Curtis can't win. Curtis knit that
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  Speaker 2: was ridiculous. He's got to drop out. It was ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: And as you say, these guys made billions at what
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  Speaker 2: they know and have never made a penny given political
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  Speaker 2: advice to anybody.
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  Speaker 1: So, by the way, where's their friend Andrew Cuomo? Where he.
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  Speaker 2: Wait?
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  Speaker 1: You go as he fled to Florida like he said
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  Speaker 1: he would do if Joran Mondommi got elected. Man, come on, Mark,
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  Speaker 1: you know everything where is into?
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  Speaker 2: I think they now realized we were right. This guy
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  Speaker 2: couldn't win anything anymore. And I don't think we're done
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  Speaker 2: with him. He'll try and come back again, but hey,
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  Speaker 2: we're out of time. But everybody listened. Next week, for
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  Speaker 2: the next two weeks Curtis Ly will be filling in
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  Speaker 2: for me ten to noon. Curtisly with ten to noon,
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  Speaker 2: be listening, and of course follow him on Instagram and
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  Speaker 2: Twitter and all of that. So well, Curtis, good luck.
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  Speaker 2: Next week I'll be listening, have a good time.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you. I know where all the boats are
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  Speaker 1: buried them to bury them, and I may be digging
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  Speaker 1: them up for the two weeks that you're away.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we'll talk to you again soon. Thanks, take care,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you Mary. Thanks, yeah, make sure next week. I'll
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  Speaker 2: be off next week, in the week after I've been
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  Speaker 2: taking the next two weeks off, final two weeks of
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  Speaker 2: the year by Christmas break. Curtis will be here every morning.
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  Speaker 2: This should be really interesting stuff. Curtis every morning for
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  Speaker 2: the next two weeks ten to noon here on seven
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  Speaker 2: to ten WR