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Hour 2: Elon Musk is back for now. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now the Red Beret has returned to radio. Curtis Leewall
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  Speaker 1: guest host The Mark Simone Show on sevent tenor.
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  Speaker 2: I had my Christmas present last week substuoting for Mark Simon.
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  Speaker 2: He's the best in the business. And then I get
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  Speaker 2: my pre birthday gift substuting for Mark this week up
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  Speaker 2: until the second and that birthday March twenty six. I'll
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  Speaker 2: be seventy two, and I know more about New York
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  Speaker 2: City and politics and anybody alive. There's no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 2: I challenge anybody because I know where all the bones
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  Speaker 2: are buried in who buried them, And I don't mince
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  Speaker 2: my language. We are going to get into subject matter
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  Speaker 2: that is of incredible importance to all of you if
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  Speaker 2: you happen to live within New York State, and the
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  Speaker 2: same philosophy could be coming to a state where you
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  Speaker 2: live or near you. Because I've spent incredible amount of
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  Speaker 2: time since losing the election to Zoran Mondomi, and yes
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  Speaker 2: he is the mayor. He won fair and square. He
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  Speaker 2: is gonna have his celebration after he has sworn in
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  Speaker 2: by Bernie the Out the Coca Sanders, originally from Brooklyn
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  Speaker 2: who went to Madison High School, which is also where
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  Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer went. By the way, update on Chuck Schumer.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, a lot of you are not gonna like it.
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  Speaker 2: But the masters of the universe, the billionaires, they just
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  Speaker 2: can't stop themselves from getting involved in things they know
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  Speaker 2: absolutely nothing about. Big story, we're gonna get into it
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  Speaker 2: in this hour. It's how Elon Musk decides to weigh
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  Speaker 2: in on the new fire commissioner, who he claims, as
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  Speaker 2: a result of zarhon Mondami's appointment, that people will die
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  Speaker 2: as a result. Now he knows nothing at all about
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  Speaker 2: New York City. He happens to see somebody else who
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  Speaker 2: posted this, who themselves know nothing at all about the
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  Speaker 2: history of the fire department and fire commissioners in New
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  Speaker 2: York City, and he reposted and obviously he's in charge
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  Speaker 2: of X and he's getting millions of hits like he
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  Speaker 2: somehow knows all about this about the only thing he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't know is how to put out those fires from
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  Speaker 2: his Tesla batteries in his electric cars, because when they
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  Speaker 2: go on fire, Oh, it takes hours to put him out.
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  Speaker 2: He hasn't even yet figured that out. But we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: about that momentarily. Because he couldn't be more hopelessly wrong.
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  Speaker 2: And once again, I'll explain it from a historical performance.
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  Speaker 2: Most of the fire car missioners of late most I'm
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  Speaker 2: not just talking about those appointed by Eric Adams Swaggerman
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  Speaker 2: with no plan.
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  Speaker 3: I can't wait for him to get get out of here,
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  Speaker 3: get out of our lives.
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  Speaker 2: But prior yeah, let's see Bloombert Giuliani think it's nobody's
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  Speaker 2: even mentioning all the fire commissioners who served for those
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  Speaker 2: mayors who had never put out a waste paper basket fire.
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  Speaker 2: But do you think that a guy like Elon Musk,
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  Speaker 2: who is omnipotent, thinks he knows everything, like all those
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  Speaker 2: billionaires and millionaires because they succeeded in business, they're very wealthy.
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  Speaker 2: You think he'll apologize.
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  Speaker 3: Of course not. They never do.
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  Speaker 2: Like Trump yesterday, I had to turn it off in
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  Speaker 2: the wee hours of the morning. He's he's standing there
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  Speaker 2: with Zelenski and he's saying, yeah, Russia really wants to
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  Speaker 2: see the Ukraine succeed. Man, they's no way. Yeah, if
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  Speaker 2: Russia takes over the Ukraine again. By the way, the
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  Speaker 2: Ukraine gave up it's nuclear arsenal. They had more nuclear
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  Speaker 2: weapons than anyone else other than the United States, and
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  Speaker 2: the old Soviet Union isn't. Back in nineteen ninety one,
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  Speaker 2: Bill Clinton west president, and he convinced him give up
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  Speaker 2: your nuclear payload. Yeah, how did that work out? But
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  Speaker 2: when all of a sudden Trump is saying, oh, yeah, Russia.
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  Speaker 2: I just spoke to Putin earlier today on the phone, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Russia really wants to see the Ukraine succeed. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: Zelenski say something. Of course he' isn't gonna say anything,
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  Speaker 2: because nobody can ever challenge Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: I believe you.
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  Speaker 2: Challenge authority no matter who's in charge, and when somebody
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  Speaker 2: makes absolutely ridiculous comments, you must challenge it, like when
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  Speaker 2: Trump said that it was the Ukraine that started the war.
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  Speaker 2: How many Republicans challengship We're getting into Republican leadership, and
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  Speaker 2: how so many Republicans are just afraid to challenge authority
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  Speaker 2: at any level, local, regional, state, national, it's not you
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  Speaker 2: know it, don't make a big deal about it. I
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  Speaker 2: always make big deals about it because I believe you
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  Speaker 2: have to question authority, especially when it doesn't make sense,
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  Speaker 2: like that ridiculous statement yesterday of mar A Lago where
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  Speaker 2: the President says, yeah, Zonski, Russia really wants you to
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  Speaker 2: be successful in the Ukraine, and Zilenski, you bite your tongue,
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  Speaker 2: don't say anything, or Trump and the administration will go
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  Speaker 2: on a rampage against you. All right, put that aside,
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  Speaker 2: as you know, I've spent a lot of time bisecting
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  Speaker 2: and dissecting the fact that Republican leadership here in the
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  Speaker 2: state of New York has decided they want a Uni party,
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  Speaker 2: they don't want a two party system. They have cans themselves,
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  Speaker 2: and they have convinced a lot of the Republican registered
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  Speaker 2: voters that Republicans cannot win a city wide election or
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  Speaker 2: a state wide election. Now, for some of you, you
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  Speaker 2: may say, well that that sounds pretty personal.
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  Speaker 3: It is because I went through that.
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  Speaker 2: From the highest levels of the White House to Elon
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  Speaker 2: Musk himself soon to be a trillionaire, the world's richest guy,
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  Speaker 2: to a guy named Akman.
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  Speaker 3: Who the hell is this guy? Acman?
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  Speaker 2: Every day he was tweeting Curtis, you can't win, drop out,
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  Speaker 2: drop out, drop out travel and you know how that went.
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  Speaker 2: And then in the waning days of the campaign, the
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  Speaker 2: Republican leaders Republicans decided a vote for sle is a
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  Speaker 2: vote for Mondami Voa Cuomo, U Discratsiata in every which way.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we could spend the rest of this program
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  Speaker 2: just talking about what a disgrace that guy was, because
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  Speaker 2: in their minds, there are two parties in New York State.
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  Speaker 2: Now there are moderate Democrats and there are socialist Democrats,
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  Speaker 2: and Republicans don't have a chance to beat them citywide
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  Speaker 2: or in statewide elections. Now put my election aside. Still
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  Speaker 2: with atleast the Phonic we talked about her last week.
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  Speaker 2: Suddenly she drops out and says, not only is she
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  Speaker 2: dropping out of a Republican primary against Bruce Blakeman, but
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  Speaker 2: she's not going to run for reelection in the House.
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  Speaker 2: We lose a superstar because Republican leadership was working behind
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  Speaker 2: the scenes.
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  Speaker 3: To throw her under the bus.
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  Speaker 2: You see, as much as Donald Trump, the President, threw
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  Speaker 2: her under the bus. The worst part was is that
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  Speaker 2: Alista Phonic had put together a campaign team mostly from
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  Speaker 2: upstate New York, people that she knew, people that she trusted,
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  Speaker 2: and the Park Avenue crowd down here, most of whom
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  Speaker 2: are not Republicans, but they act like they can tell
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  Speaker 2: Republicans what to do. And it's not Park Avenue in
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  Speaker 2: Brooklyn and Park Avenue in the Bronx, which they've never
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  Speaker 2: traveled to. It's Park Avenue in Manhattan. Decided there's nobody
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  Speaker 2: from downstate involved in the least the Phonics campaign. We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna go all on board with Bruce Blakeman because Bruce
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  Speaker 2: Blakeman is a winner. This is what they said. And
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  Speaker 2: he won very convincingly the Nassau County executive position re
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  Speaker 2: election against his Democratic opponent. And then I hear them
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  Speaker 2: tell the yeah, and he's a winner. He's a winner.
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  Speaker 2: If you've been around long enough in politics, you've probably
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  Speaker 2: lost more than you won. Remember, Donald Trump was an
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  Speaker 2: exception to the rule of twenty sixteen. He's on the
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  Speaker 2: stage the announcements, the president. He shocked Hillary Rodham. Clinton
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  Speaker 2: was in a fetal position at the Jacob Chavits Convention Center,
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  Speaker 2: spent maybe a month in a fetal position. I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: accept the fact that she had lost. Very unusual. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying, look, I know, Bruce Blakeman, I like the guide,
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  Speaker 2: but let's face it, who would you want to be
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  Speaker 2: running against Kathy Hockel. I mean I remember Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 2: He ran for state Controller as a Republican ninety eight
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  Speaker 2: against Carl mc coole loss. He ran for the Nassau
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  Speaker 2: County Legislature ninety nine loss, ran for the US Senate
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  Speaker 2: special election twenty ten, remember when Hillary decided she would
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  Speaker 2: become Secretary of State and he lost the primary to
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  Speaker 2: Joe dio Guardi. And in twenty fourteen he ran for
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  Speaker 2: the House and lost to Kathleen Rice. So that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: disqualify him because you know, people say, well, well you
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  Speaker 2: got all no, no, no no. If you can run,
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  Speaker 2: he should run. But why did all of a sudden
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  Speaker 2: you notice people of great influence surround Kathy Hockel and
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  Speaker 2: we're meeting with her, and they have come to the conclusion.
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  Speaker 2: And I know because people have shared the conversations with
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  Speaker 2: me that rather than put all of their fiscal resource
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  Speaker 2: and support behind Bruce Blakeuin, that they're actually gonna work
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  Speaker 2: for Kathy Hulkl to get re elected because she'll keep
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  Speaker 2: Zoraan Mandami and the Democratic Socialist in check.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Right, But they figure they'll have more control with her
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  Speaker 2: because they don't think a Republican can win. This is
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  Speaker 2: coming off the mayoral election, and by the way, President
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump did at last Stefaniki disservice, throwing her under
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  Speaker 2: the bus on a number of occasions that led to
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  Speaker 2: her unexpected dropping out. Although I kind of felt it,
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  Speaker 2: I kind of felt it was coming. And now we
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  Speaker 2: have what you're really not going to like, and that's
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  Speaker 2: why we got to stop this. I was at a
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  Speaker 2: major gathering of Republicans yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: In Midtown.
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  Speaker 2: And I broke the news to all of them who
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  Speaker 2: had gathered for their holiday party, is that there are
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  Speaker 2: Republican leaders now, and there are Republican business people Park
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  Speaker 2: Avenue people who are meeting with Chuck Schumer Despise loath
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  Speaker 2: right the lowest of ratings of any major political figure
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  Speaker 2: in the country. It's down to about twenty eight percent.
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  Speaker 2: And they have come to the conclusion that if he
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  Speaker 2: decides to run for reelection, and let's face it, all
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  Speaker 2: these guys and gals, that's why you need term limits.
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  Speaker 2: It's until death do they part. They'll run forever. Get
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  Speaker 2: the defibriator next to them. They could be in the ICU.
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  Speaker 2: They want to run. But if Chuck Schumer decides to run,
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  Speaker 2: already Republican leaders and people, you know, the Acmans of
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  Speaker 2: the world, who know nothing about politics. You know, they
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  Speaker 2: know a lot about Wall Street, a lot about hedge funds.
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  Speaker 2: They've done very well in business, but they know nothing
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  Speaker 2: about nothing when it comes to politics because they made
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  Speaker 2: all the wrong choices. Are now meeting privately with Chuck
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  Speaker 2: Schumer and saying, you know, you probably can't win a
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  Speaker 2: Democratic primary if you run like Cuomo. But they'll probably
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  Speaker 2: either be AOC running against you in a Democratic primary,
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  Speaker 2: or if she decides to run for the presidency the
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  Speaker 2: Democratic primary, there'll be somebody else from the socialist wing
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  Speaker 2: of the Democratic Party and you'll lose. But then in
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  Speaker 2: the general election, we'll do like we did for CuMo.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get Republicans to support you, independence Conservatives, and moderate
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  Speaker 2: Democrats to stop a socialist from becoming a US Senate.
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  Speaker 2: He's entertaining that why would they be doing that, because
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  Speaker 2: they have already cast their lot into a UNI party.
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  Speaker 2: They don't think that Republicans can win in statewide elections
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  Speaker 2: or citywide elections. So they are the masters of the universe.
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  Speaker 2: They think they know everything, and they know nothing about nothing,
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  Speaker 2: as you will learn when we discuss the how can
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  Speaker 2: we be kind to him, the very eccentric Elon Musk,
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  Speaker 2: who decided to tweet his way into New York politics
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  Speaker 2: a second time, because remember he had tweeted to his
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  Speaker 2: massive following on x a vo for Slei is Avomandami
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  Speaker 2: Voa Cuomo. Why wouldn't he He got a billion dollars
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  Speaker 2: from the Buffalo billion and did nothing up there, a
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  Speaker 2: billion dollars to do nothing, and seven Cuomo cronies went
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  Speaker 2: to jail for that cause he likes Cuomo. But now
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  Speaker 2: he's tweeted into something that he knows nothing about the
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  Speaker 2: fire department in New York City. And you will not
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  Speaker 2: have heard this analogy from anybody. That's why I know
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  Speaker 2: where all the bones are buried and who buried them
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  Speaker 2: right now on my station, at the station that I
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  Speaker 2: listened to along with Nancy ten wor and it should
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  Speaker 2: be yours too. Our numbers one eight hundred three two
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  Speaker 1: Curtis leewa guest host for Mark Simone on sevent ten.
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  Speaker 2: Woo. Well, well, Elon Musk, I'll be kind to him.
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  Speaker 2: He's eccentric, done very well in his businesses. No doubt,
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  Speaker 2: but I predict since our teen today has been Hollywood
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  Speaker 2: because of the story in the Hollywood Reporter about me today.
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  Speaker 2: Curtis Leewa just wants to know where you're from. But
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  Speaker 2: we know where Elon Musk is from.
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  Speaker 3: He's from South Africa.
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  Speaker 2: He convinced that the president of the United States we
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  Speaker 2: was friends with and he was no longer friends with,
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  Speaker 2: and he was friends with, the Afrikaaners are under siege
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  Speaker 2: in South Africa, and that they should be the only
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  Speaker 2: people able to come into the United States. Well, number one,
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  Speaker 2: that's wrong. I've had Guardian angels in Cape Town. There's
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  Speaker 2: crime everywhere, and the people who are the victims of
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  Speaker 2: the crime of most are Black Africans in South Africa.
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  Speaker 2: Will save that for a different thing. But remember it's
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  Speaker 2: a year since Doze. Remember he took out that chainsaw.
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  Speaker 2: He was going to cut all the waste.
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  Speaker 3: Well what waste? He did nothing.
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  Speaker 2: We're spending more money than ever before, thirty eight trillion
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  Speaker 2: dollar debt and it's growing. Both parties responsible.
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  Speaker 3: But let's talk about what he decided to do.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday, somebody had tweeted out there that with zarn Mondami's
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  Speaker 2: appointment of Lilian Moon signor as a brand new fire
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  Speaker 2: commissioner that people will die. So he knows nothing about this,
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  Speaker 2: but he decides, Hey, I'm going to pimp that ride,
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  Speaker 2: and actually millions ended up up looking at it on acient.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying to myself, Hell, I'm Muskie. You don't know
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  Speaker 2: anything about the fire department. You have these electric batteries
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  Speaker 2: of you as Tesla batteries. When they go on fire,
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  Speaker 2: it takes hours to put them out. Very difficult, I.
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  Speaker 3: Might add, But let's deal with the substance of what he.
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  Speaker 2: Said, and everybody immediately well, you know, Eric Adams, he
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  Speaker 2: had two fire commissioners, Laura Kavanaugh and Tucker, who were
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  Speaker 2: not firefighters.
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  Speaker 3: That is true.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't really like either. But you know, the fire
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  Speaker 2: department is a department that can run on its own.
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  Speaker 2: They don't need a fire commissioner. You know everything there
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  Speaker 2: civil service, You work your way up. It's not as
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  Speaker 2: political as the police department and other agencies. But let
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  Speaker 2: me give you an idea of all the people. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: if somebody can alert Elon Musk all the people who
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  Speaker 2: have served as fire commissioner in New York City under
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  Speaker 2: different mayors, can we go back to David Dinkins. That
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  Speaker 2: wasn't that Eric Adams favorite mayor?
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  Speaker 3: Not Rudy right? David?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Charlie Hines was the fire commissioner, Charlie Hines. I
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  Speaker 2: never knew Charlie Hines would be a firefighter. He ended
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  Speaker 2: up becoming the King's County DA. Remember he was a
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  Speaker 2: special prosecutor assigned by Mario Cuomo to deal with the
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  Speaker 2: Howard Beach situation.
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  Speaker 3: That was a volatile, racially charged situation. Love that that
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  Speaker 3: was Charlie Hines. Was he a firefighter?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 2: Then in the aftermath of nine to eleven, Michael Bloomberg
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  Speaker 2: was elected because we said we needed a businessman. Who
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  Speaker 2: did he appoint to be the fire commissioner? Nicholas Scipetta.
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  Speaker 2: Now I had had conversations with Nicholas Scapetta down in
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  Speaker 2: Metro Tech. I would run a stickball contest every year
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  Speaker 2: between the firefighters and the NYPD.
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  Speaker 3: Boy, this guy was quite a stickball player. He had
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  Speaker 3: gone to Seward Park High School. Told me he had
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  Speaker 3: lived in an orphanage for a while.
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  Speaker 2: His mother had been put into jail for stealing welfare
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  Speaker 2: checks for a while. Speaking about Somalia and Minnesota, and
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  Speaker 2: then when she was released, the family was brought back together.
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  Speaker 2: I think a great guy. He had served under four
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  Speaker 2: different mayors, Department of Investigation, Deputy mayor. He served under
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  Speaker 2: Rudy Giuliani and put the child welfare agency back together
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  Speaker 2: again and was having problems, and then Bloomberg made him
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  Speaker 2: the fire commissioner.
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  Speaker 3: He had never put out a fire before.
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  Speaker 2: You know what, Because the guy who had served before him,
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  Speaker 2: Tommy Van Essen, was the ultimate firefighter a he was
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  Speaker 2: the president of the Firefighters Union, Rudy decided to make
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  Speaker 2: him his fire department commissioner. He was the whirling Dutchman again,
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  Speaker 2: very good stickball player. I saw him play from Ozone Park.
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  Speaker 2: But the men and the women hated.
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  Speaker 5: Him because they said he was responsible for the faulty
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  Speaker 5: new digital radios, the broken repeater systems, the crowded channel congestion,
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  Speaker 5: the plague firefighting during the attack of nine to eleven,
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  Speaker 5: and that many of the firefighters who were up in
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  Speaker 5: Towers one in towers two had no radio communication at
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  Speaker 5: all with their colleagues and more importantly, any of the
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  Speaker 5: Office of the Emergency Management personnel.
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  Speaker 2: Or the cops. So they hate Tommy van Essen. Now
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  Speaker 2: could you get any more of a firefighter than Tommy
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  Speaker 2: van Essen actually fought fires, was the head of the union,
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  Speaker 2: the UFA, and went on to become the fire commissioner.
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  Speaker 3: Wait, doesn't stop there.
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  Speaker 2: Who also became fire commissioner under Rudy Howard's safer. That's
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  Speaker 2: one tough jew from the Bronx. He joined the DEA.
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  Speaker 2: He was busting drug dealers. You know, we're talking now
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudd and Trump wants to go after
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  Speaker 2: the president of Columbia. He's a drug dealer. But he
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  Speaker 2: freed the former president of Honduras who he had in
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  Speaker 2: jail for being a drug dealer. All right, well, we'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about that maybe tomorrow. How it's safe for one
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  Speaker 2: tough juke. Went on to become the police commissioner after
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  Speaker 2: Bill Bratton, but was first the commissioner of the fire
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  Speaker 2: Department in New York never put out a fire. So
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  Speaker 2: do you think Elon Musk, facing all of this ack
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  Speaker 2: act going back at him blowback, would pull that tweet
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  Speaker 2: and say, hey, I made a mistake. I should never
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  Speaker 2: have waded into that conversation about who should be the
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  Speaker 2: fire commissioner. By the way, Lillian Bunsenira thirty one years
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  Speaker 2: with the EMS. They're like ad seventy percent of the
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  Speaker 2: responses to fire calls at EMS Man, they got one
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  Speaker 2: of the toughest jobs in the city, along with correction officers.
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  Speaker 3: It's like a perpetual nine to one one call. It
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  Speaker 3: can't even.
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  Speaker 2: Stop to get a cup of coffee. They're racing from
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  Speaker 2: one call to another, many of them emotionally disturbed persons.
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  Speaker 2: Elon Musk, stay in your lane. Another example from Ackman
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  Speaker 2: to Elon Musk, where billionaires the masters of the universe
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  Speaker 2: talk about things as if there are authorities and they
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  Speaker 2: know nothing about nothing.
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  Speaker 3: But do you think Elon Musk will apologize? Of course
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  Speaker 3: you won't.
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  Speaker 2: Our numbers one eight hundred three two one zero seven
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  Speaker 2: ten because they all think they're omnipotent, all knowing one
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  Speaker 2: eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. On this
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  Speaker 2: it should be your place to be from now on,
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  Speaker 2: as it is for me and Nancy sevent ten war
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  Speaker 2: The Voice of New York.
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  Speaker 1: Curtis Slayway joined sevent ten WR to guess os from
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  Speaker 1: Mark Simon.
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  Speaker 2: Well, well, I got some snail mail here. It's good
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  Speaker 2: to see, and right away I went to is He
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  Speaker 2: was a little Dizzy, our board operator also escape eat
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  Speaker 2: from WABC, not his place to be. And I say,
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  Speaker 2: is he we're friends right from our WABC days. Once
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  Speaker 2: you open it up, who knows?
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 2: I got many many enemies out there, as many of
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  Speaker 2: the listeners know. Could take me back to like remember
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  Speaker 2: two thousand and one, supposedly some guy in Trenton was
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  Speaker 2: sending out mail that had cipro in it, or possibly
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  Speaker 2: sipro not zipro. Excuse me antracks the antrax sports. Remember
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  Speaker 2: you Inhale those that's it, You're dead on arrival. I
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  Speaker 2: remember at the time the Patacki administration decided for he
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  Speaker 2: and his staff to be on the safe side because
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  Speaker 2: they were getting nefarious mail, along with people over at
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  Speaker 2: the Fox News Channel and some other places. Take cipro
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  Speaker 2: as a prophylactic, you know, to prevent it. God forbid
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  Speaker 2: they did Inhale any of those anthrax spores. I said,
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  Speaker 2: is he you know, just you know for old time shake. Noah,
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  Speaker 2: it's quite all right, quite a right, Curtis. Friendship only
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  Speaker 2: goes so far, is he? You weren't gonna touch that,
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  Speaker 2: were you? But it does remind me about George Matacki.
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  Speaker 2: The greatest governent we've had in our lifetime, without a doubt,
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  Speaker 2: three terms, no corruption, no chaos. Beat Mario Cuomo, who
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  Speaker 2: thought he was on his way possibly to becoming the
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  Speaker 2: first Italian American president of the United States. And nobody
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  Speaker 2: knew who George VATTACKI was. Nobody knew there were six
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  Speaker 2: Republicans vying to run against Mario Cuomo at that time,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: seeking a fourth term, and he superseded them. He had
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  Speaker 2: been the mayor of p Skills Sentiments Senator. I remember
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  Speaker 2: giving a speech for him at the Yale Club on
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  Speaker 2: the day that I got fired in the morning Angels
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  Speaker 2: in the morning with my wife Lisa at the time,
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  Speaker 2: but he had committed to his campaign manager. I would
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  Speaker 2: go to the Yale Club speak on his behalf. There
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  Speaker 2: were eight people there, four family members and four of
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  Speaker 2: his Yale graduate friends. That was it, and he beat
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  Speaker 2: Mary o'como and turned out to be our greatest mayor.
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  Speaker 2: He tells a great story. The chauffeur knows everything I know.
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  Speaker 2: There's a phone calls of blazing. I'll get to them momentarily.
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  Speaker 2: The chauffeur knows everything you know. Who was the chauffeur
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  Speaker 2: for Nelson Rockefeller for a while the world's richest man,
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  Speaker 2: former governor Judge Battacki, and his job. When Nelson Rockefeller
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  Speaker 2: was traveling the state and spending time at a five
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  Speaker 2: star hotel, you know, meeting up with his many gumatas,
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  Speaker 2: Judge Battacki had to bring him a bottle of Dubena
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  Speaker 2: and Oreo cookies. The world's richest man at that time
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  Speaker 2: was drinking dubenat. It tells you all you need to know.
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  Speaker 2: The chauffeurs know everything. Let's get to the phones. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to delay any longer. It's Norman who's calling
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  Speaker 2: from Long Island. Your turn to be heard at seven
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  Speaker 2: to ten wo.
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  Speaker 4: R Hi Curtis. I'm also Canarsie boy. I grew up
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  Speaker 4: in Bayview and I had some famous people in my class,
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  Speaker 4: like Jim McMillan, the basketball player Don Brockington who played
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  Speaker 4: for the Packers. But I have two questions for you.
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  Speaker 4: One question, do you think we can somehow where the
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  Speaker 4: Republicans can get behind Alice the Pronic to run for
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  Speaker 4: Senate against Schuma?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: First off, you would think so. Now you had mentioned
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  Speaker 2: McMillan who went to Columbia, but he went to Jefferson
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  Speaker 2: first right on Pennsylvania Avenue along with Right.
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  Speaker 4: I had him in my class in Jefferson, my chemistry class.
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  Speaker 2: Right. And then then you mentioned the great running back
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  Speaker 2: John Brockington, Well, I think went on to uh N
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  Speaker 2: Right went to Green Bay, Green Bay Packers, and you failed.
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  Speaker 3: To mention they're great. Coach Moe Finkelstein, Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Mo, I had Bo. He's my health teacher. He
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  Speaker 4: used to walk around. You had to buy tickets for
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  Speaker 4: the football game every week. I mean we didn't learn
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  Speaker 4: any health there. We used to watch the films from
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  Speaker 4: the games.
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  Speaker 2: What they used to have was the game of the
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  Speaker 2: week would be on Channel eleven high school, whether it
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  Speaker 2: was PSA, L or CHSL and Jefferson was a powerhouse then, so.
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  Speaker 3: They'd be on a lot.
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  Speaker 2: You know who the broadcaster was, Marty Klickman, who was
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: broadcasting New York Giant football games, Marty Klickman.
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  Speaker 3: And do you know who was on the sidelines?
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Who was the reporter on the sidelines, Not the way
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  Speaker 2: they do it now, some drop dead gorgeous woman that
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  Speaker 2: they go to, you know during the breaks. Elston Howard,
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  Speaker 2: who had been the catcher MVP for the New York Yankees.
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  Speaker 2: This is what you used to get high school football
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  Speaker 2: broadcasts on Channel eleven Saturday mornings, and you'd always see
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  Speaker 2: Mo Finkelstein. You'd see all of a Sudd, Marty Glickman,
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  Speaker 2: Mo tell us, how did you beat boys and girls
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  Speaker 2: high this week?
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  Speaker 3: Tell us?
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: And Mo would go on and on and on. Boy,
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  Speaker 2: those are great memories, but I know that's not why
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  Speaker 2: you were.
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  Speaker 4: Called football Court was king with Mo.
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  Speaker 3: That's for sure. All the memories.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, who was the other famous alumni of
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: the Bayview Projects? So with two others one and went
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: on not to own but to run Starbucks three times
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  Speaker 2: three times? And I have no love for this guy.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: I'll share that with you momentarily. And I know the
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  Speaker 2: great NBA ball player went to Canarcie High School, went
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  Speaker 2: on to success with the Detroit Pistons and the LA Lakers,
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  Speaker 2: and became quite a broadcaster and handle the sports talk show.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit of trivia here one eight hundred and
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  Speaker 2: three two one zero seven ten, let's go if we
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  Speaker 2: can to Mike, who I believe is calling from Long Island.
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  Speaker 2: Your turn to be heard here at seven ten wor Mikey.
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  Speaker 4: Hike Curtis. I'm glad to hear you back on the radio.
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  Speaker 4: I want to weigh in on the new fire commissioner.
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  Speaker 3: Oh could you speak up a bit, Mikey, speak up
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  Speaker 3: a bit.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Yeah, Kavanaugh on the Adams was
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  Speaker 4: the first DEI commissioner. She couldn't handle the job, so
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  Speaker 4: they had that retired chief. I shall come back to
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  Speaker 4: run things now. I know the same thing is going
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  Speaker 4: to happen with this thing that he he's gonna I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Hopefully she'll be good, but if not,
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  Speaker 4: I hope defied. It's active and retired elicited to me,
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  Speaker 4: do not step up to run the department for this guy,
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  Speaker 4: mean Danny, if he wants this to be the commissioner,
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  Speaker 4: let him do it. Now, let her run it well
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  Speaker 4: what it is. But you named those other commissioners, but
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  Speaker 4: they had they were credible administrators, who hold.
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  Speaker 3: On incredible administrators.
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  Speaker 2: But again, what did Ellen Musk tweet out as a
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  Speaker 2: result of Lillian bon Signori being assigned fire commissioner by
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  Speaker 2: Jorhanmandami thirty one years ems? People will die yet, I
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  Speaker 2: just went to a litany of former fire commissioners who
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  Speaker 2: served under Dinkins, Giuliani, Bloomberg, and none of them had
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  Speaker 2: ever even put out a waste paper bag. But they
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  Speaker 2: were good administrators. Well is that what may say? Fire commissioner.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, the fire department can run on itself. Again,
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  Speaker 2: it's civil service to the highest level. The political appointment
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  Speaker 2: is the fire commissioner. But I will tell you this,
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  Speaker 2: she deserves an opportunity. And again I speak on behalf
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  Speaker 2: of EMS workers that I know work real hard constant calls.
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  Speaker 2: They don't have enough personnel. They only make about thirty
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  Speaker 2: five thousand to start. They don't have pay parody with
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: the other uniform services who started at about fifty two thousand.
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  Speaker 2: They have to deal with everybody that nobody else wants
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  Speaker 2: to deal with to take to the hospital. Many of
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  Speaker 2: them don't want to go to the hospital, and they
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  Speaker 2: fight them in the back of the wagon.
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  Speaker 3: How do I know, Iron Guardian.
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  Speaker 2: Angels have had to go in there and help the
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  Speaker 2: EMS people who immediately have to fight with somebody. They
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  Speaker 2: just put an IV into their arm and as soon
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  Speaker 2: as they drop that patient off, they're running to another
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  Speaker 2: nine to one. But oh no, Ellen Musk, he's an expert, right,
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna turn out to be the Howard Hughes of
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  Speaker 2: our generation. Watch very successful in business, but very eccentric.
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  Speaker 3: Two Do Beat is back.
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  Speaker 1: Curtis leewa guest host The Mark Simone Show on seven
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  Speaker 1: to TENOO.
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  Speaker 2: And as we approach the starting the new year, the
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  Speaker 2: dropping of the ball in Times Square, I've met many
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  Speaker 2: people from Mexico City to Montreal to uh.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: Lagos, Nigeria who were here to watch that.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: If you are from New York, you're really gonna be
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  Speaker 2: down there in the manners, of course not. We'll talk
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  Speaker 2: about that as we get closer to the end of
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  Speaker 2: the week.
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  Speaker 3: But I want to.
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  Speaker 2: Give a shout out because so often we in talk
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  Speaker 2: radio are negative about political figures and what they promised
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  Speaker 2: to do and don't do. I gotta give a shout
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  Speaker 2: out to Vinnie Ignizio. Now some of you might know
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  Speaker 2: him in Staten Island. He was the assemblyman, he was
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  Speaker 2: city council member, and in the election at twenty twenty one,
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: I remember when I was going to vote. Remember I
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: had that little kitten in my hand, Gizmo, who Nancy
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: had rescued from the shelter, like she's rescued dozens of
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: others who would have been euthanized, and Gizmo became the
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: most famous cat in the world. It was featured on
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Stephen Colbert went viral. They made fun of me, but
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Gizmo became a star. Remember they wouldn't let me take
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  Speaker 2: Gizmo in to vote. But when I did go in
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: to vote in Nancy, right near Brandt's High School on
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  Speaker 2: the Upper West Side, the machine was not working, the
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  Speaker 2: scanning machine, so they had to call with the call
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  Speaker 2: a engineer on call. The engineer showed up like a
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  Speaker 2: half hour later, and instead of adjusting things so that
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  Speaker 2: it could accept my ballot. Remember the ballot had to
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  Speaker 2: be filled out on both sides. Uh. The engineer, in
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  Speaker 2: front of all the TV cameras that were there to
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  Speaker 2: record my vote, karate chopped the machine. The director of
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  Speaker 2: the Board of Elections said, man, you can't do that.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: And that's when Vinnie Ignizio was hired as the deputy
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  Speaker 2: executive director of the Board of Elections and said to me, oh,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to reform things from these missteps, and he
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: delivered on that promise. Do you realize we just went
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: to an election cycle where there were two million, one
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  Speaker 2: hundred thousand votes casts. There haven't been that many votes
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  Speaker 2: casts since nineteen sixty five, the election of John Lindsay
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  Speaker 2: and no problems. And I haven't heard anybody out there,
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: not in the media or anyone else praise those people
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: I've been at odds with it before, who did an
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: absolutely outstanding job to process that vote. So my berets
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: off to Vinnie Ignissio and everyone who was involved in
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: that long election process to determine who the next mayor
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  Speaker 2: of the City of New York was. An the other
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  Speaker 2: down ballot votes that you made