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FULL SHOW: Taking care of animals; Student loan crisis. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Well, well, well, Mark sim owners away and curtishly with
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Speaker 1: his here to play on talk radio, which I've been
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Speaker 1: involved with for what will be thirty six years in
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Speaker 1: January and crashes on the boards. Old WABC alumni will
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Speaker 1: talk about that later on not my place to be
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Speaker 1: any longer because it's always bashing Kurdish there. But I
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Speaker 1: am festooned in red and will be taking you the
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Speaker 1: rest of the way to Mark returns on January second.
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Speaker 1: And you might, you might think that I was actually
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Speaker 1: a form of Santa Claus. What is that the miracle
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Speaker 1: on thirty fourth Street, you know where that crazed woman
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Speaker 1: walked in and stabbed a tourists from California multiple times.
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Speaker 1: Thank god she survived. Yeah, no, not see. I'm always
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Speaker 1: getting people coming up to me actually talking about crime
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Speaker 1: and things that are going wrong. Understood, understood. You see
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Speaker 1: the red beret, you see the red satin jacket that's
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Speaker 1: expected them in the subways and streets every day. But
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Speaker 1: last night, I once again attended in Washington Heights our
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Speaker 1: annual Junior Guardian Angels Christmas extravagance for Lease Navidad. They're
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Speaker 1: predominantly Dominicans. A lot of those kids We give remedial
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Speaker 1: training after school at our headquarters there, you know, to
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Speaker 1: get them to be able to speak English and assimilate
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Speaker 1: to math, do the things that maybe they're not getting
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Speaker 1: in the public school system, which are many instances, is
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Speaker 1: failing our kids with spending credible amounts of money forty
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Speaker 1: one billion dollars alone in the city. That's one third
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Speaker 1: of the budget. But our program and a lot of
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Speaker 1: other programs around the city nourish these children who were
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Speaker 1: in need, many of them without fathers. The mothers were
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Speaker 1: present or the older brothers or sisters, and it was great.
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Speaker 1: But I also ended up doing a moonwalk, so to speak,
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Speaker 1: because everywhere I went last night, and I'm always in
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Speaker 1: the subways streets, I was involved in a flashback. Let
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Speaker 1: me you explain. I was not in a drug induce psychosis.
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Speaker 1: I had not been smoking Maui Wawi or Hindu kush.
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Speaker 1: Like the former mayor who Discratsia to build a bosio
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Speaker 1: who's in his midlife crisis. My god, that guy cannot
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Speaker 1: you know, he should keep his rocket in his pocket
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Speaker 1: because the guy is just chasing skirts all over the place. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: The point being is I'm up there, I'm watching Santi
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Speaker 1: Claus give out presents to the children of the Junior
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Speaker 1: Guardian Angels program, and I'm thinking about ten years. Do
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Speaker 1: you know who would come in and entertain the children?
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Speaker 1: Because the leader there, super Stretcher's been with me since
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Speaker 1: he was fifteen years old. Fifteen years old in the
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Speaker 1: Bronx nineteen seventy nine. He runs the program. You know
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Speaker 1: he had had in Jordan Neely. Now you may say,
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Speaker 1: who's Jordan Neely? Think about that? Think, think, think, think moonwalk,
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Speaker 1: Think Michael Jackson. He lived right across the street in
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Speaker 1: Washington Heights sink back May one, twenty twenty three at
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Speaker 1: Saint Jordan Neely, who was best known as an impersonator
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Speaker 1: of Michael Jackson. He would do the moonwalk and sing
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Speaker 1: Billy Jean ended up in that subway, remember with Daniel Penny,
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Speaker 1: the marine who then ended up choking him out because
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Speaker 1: he was so emotionally disturbed. Been living in the subway
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Speaker 1: and a dysfunctional way because he was emotionally disturbed for years,
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Speaker 1: for years, going through garbage cans, trying to find a
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Speaker 1: place to relieve himself, like so many other who live
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Speaker 1: in our subterranean. Dante's inferno that we call the subway.
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Speaker 1: And there's a group out there, the Bowery Residence Committee.
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Speaker 1: You should all know. We spend millions and millions of
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Speaker 1: dollars for them. It's part of the nonprofit industrial complex
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Speaker 1: dealing with homeless. There's five hundred contracts out there, various agencies.
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Speaker 1: They are always kickbacks, always subcontracts. Really needs to be investigated.
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Speaker 1: But this group goes out there in these orange Sherbet jackets.
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Speaker 1: You almost never see them. I've seen them on occasion.
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Speaker 1: And their job isn't to care for the emotionally disturbed.
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Speaker 1: They're the homeless. It's to count them. Yeah, count it
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Speaker 1: once and count it to And in reference to this
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Speaker 1: very disturbed young man, Jordan Neely, who was quite the
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Speaker 1: entertainer ten years ago before unfortunately he died in the
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Speaker 1: arms of Daniel Penny, who did not want to kill him.
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Speaker 1: Was quite the Michael Jackson impersonator. So you want to
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Speaker 1: know what happened in between that causted him to fall
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Speaker 1: into the abyss. And even though he came into contact
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Speaker 1: with many homeless outreach persons of this Bowery Residence Committee
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Speaker 1: that has failed us over and overtaking our money and
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Speaker 1: provided little of any service. He was put on a
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Speaker 1: list of the fifty most dangerous emotionally disturbed persons who
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Speaker 1: live in the city subway system at like four hundred
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Speaker 1: and seventy two platforms and stations. I've been to them all, imagine,
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Speaker 1: and making a list, not taking him to a mental
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Speaker 1: health care facility, not getting him help, but just putting
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Speaker 1: him on a list and checking it twice, madn Am I.
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Speaker 1: And then on that fateful afternoon on May first, twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty three, Jordan nearly comes into that car, that f
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Speaker 1: train car right in the Lower east Side where I
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Speaker 1: was yesterday. I think he was at Broadway Lefiad starts
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Speaker 1: terrorizing the passengers. Daniel Penny was living in the Lower
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Speaker 1: east Side going for a job interview. Did not look
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Speaker 1: like your typical jarhead marine. No, no, he was very
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Speaker 1: very much like almost a hippie so to speak, very bohemian.
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Speaker 1: Puts him in a show cold. Unfortunately, Jordans dies and
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Speaker 1: he goes for the interview or the first police precinct.
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Speaker 1: The DTS say, okay, you did the right thing. And
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Speaker 1: then days later who decides to windem Alvin Bragg, who
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Speaker 1: turns all criminals loose, but in dts, those that are
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Speaker 1: defending themselves and everyone else. You know that Jose Alba,
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Speaker 1: remember in the bodega, who unfortunately had to kill the
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Speaker 1: guy who came over the counter, who was threatening his life.
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Speaker 1: It goes on and on, but this case in particular,
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Speaker 1: it's ten years ago. He was entertaining junior Guardian Angels
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Speaker 1: from time to time with his skill level. He had skills,
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Speaker 1: and so I was like moonwalking back and saying, you
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Speaker 1: know how long this has been going on? We have
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Speaker 1: all these emotionally disturbed persons, We have all these homeless
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Speaker 1: nothing being done, nothing by Deblasio and his griff of
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Speaker 1: wife Charlene. Remember they took one and a half billion
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Speaker 1: dollars over five years for a program called Thrive. They
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Speaker 1: never helped one emotionally disturbed person, never investigated because it's
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Speaker 1: a one party system in New York City and New
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Speaker 1: York State. That's why you need a two party system,
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Speaker 1: if not more the checks and balances. So that was
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Speaker 1: my experience there. Then I jump on the A train
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Speaker 1: and I head down to East Broadway Guardian Angel headquarters
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Speaker 1: in Chinatown to accompany them as they go out and
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Speaker 1: they handle the emotionally disturbed and the homeless, many of
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Speaker 1: whom reside in Sarah Roosevelt Park. Now some of you
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Speaker 1: probably have been through that over the years. Goes between
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Speaker 1: Canal Street and He's housed and Forsyth and Christie, and
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Speaker 1: there are all kinds of rules and regulations. Is he
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Speaker 1: let me tell you something, if you ever go there.
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Speaker 1: It says big side pets are prohibited from the park,
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Speaker 1: but not drug dealers, drug users, or pervs pedophiles. It
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Speaker 1: says no scooters, And yet you see scooters going through
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Speaker 1: like mad crazed individuals who are ready to knock you down.
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Speaker 1: And it's just a miserable park. Miserable park, lots of problems,
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Speaker 1: lots of emotionally disturb lots of homeless. So we go
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Speaker 1: through there and we make sure things are cool, calm
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Speaker 1: and collected, and we have Narkan with us. You know
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Speaker 1: why these people are on the verge maybe of dying
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Speaker 1: having taken in fentanyl. Later on we're going to discuss,
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Speaker 1: you know, Venezuela, we're on the cusp of starting this
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Speaker 1: war supposedly because Maduro is helping to export the fentanyl
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Speaker 1: into our country. That's a lie. That's like weapons of
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Speaker 1: mass destruction. Remember we got invade the Rock Saddam Hussein, right,
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Speaker 1: Dick Sheney, who was saying, oh, well, you know, forget
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Speaker 1: Saddam Hussein, you might as well look at how Kaida
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Speaker 1: there Osama been. Like they trying to conflate the two.
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Speaker 1: We're still looking for those weapons of mass destruction.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: There's no fentinol coming out of Venezuela. If anything, it's cocaine.
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Speaker 1: But that's one of the rationalsis. We are on the
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Speaker 1: cusp of war as troops being assembled on the island
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Speaker 1: of Puerto ri They're off in the Atlantic Ocean in
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Speaker 1: different parts, ready to strike a task force with a
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Speaker 1: aircraft carrier, the Gerald Ford and others. By the way,
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Speaker 1: have they renamed any of our battleships in honor of
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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump? Apparently he wants new battleships named in
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Speaker 1: his honor. He wants everything named in his honor. Right
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Speaker 1: there it is, see the Kennedy Center, it's now the
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Speaker 1: Trump Kennedy Center. He wants to coin You know, generally
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Speaker 1: these things happen once you're dead. No, I don't need
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Speaker 1: to hear that. Uh, Like the tappan Zee Bridge right
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Speaker 1: there was renamed in the waning moments of a legislative
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Speaker 1: station by Andrew evilised Cuomo the Mario coumol Bridge. To me,
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Speaker 1: it'll always be the tappanzee, which which tad happens once
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Speaker 1: you're dead. Trump wants all these things while he's alive.
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Speaker 1: Oh boy, But let's discuss that, because we are at
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Speaker 1: a point with this holiday Christmas extravaganz in New Year's
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Speaker 1: where a lot of men and women are overseas and
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Speaker 1: it comes on the cusp of another war that is
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Speaker 1: raging in the Ukraine. Putin, responsible for invading the ukrains
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Speaker 1: Zlenski did not take the opportunity to leave. He stood
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Speaker 1: the Ukrainian's battle back somewhat at an impasse. Putin wants
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Speaker 1: Zelenski to say no Mass, no Mass, and the carnage continues.
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Speaker 1: All the carnage continues. And it was interesting that Zelenski,
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Speaker 1: right before the holiday, said, hey, I tell you what
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Speaker 1: Putin wants the eastern part of the Ukraine. Instead of
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Speaker 1: arguing over what you get and we get. If there
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Speaker 1: is peace, an armistice, why don't we set up a
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Speaker 1: DMZ de militarized ump. It was a certain number of
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Speaker 1: miles whould separate both sides, and then of course there
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Speaker 1: would be troops that would guarantee the Ukrainian security on
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Speaker 1: the NATO side. Now, let's explore that, because that's a
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Speaker 1: pretty damn good idea to stop this carnage, because it
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Speaker 1: doesn't seem like at this point anything is going to
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Speaker 1: do that. So a neutral area in between. And it
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Speaker 1: sort of reminded me as I do the moonwalk, I
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Speaker 1: go into the time machine slowly, I turn step by step,
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Speaker 1: and hey, we're still involved. In Korea, the Korean Peninsula
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Speaker 1: thirty eighth parallel, there is what one hundred and sixty
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Speaker 1: mile long wall barbed wire three miles wide in between,
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Speaker 1: in which there are sharpshooters on the North Korean side
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Speaker 1: if you attempt to bolt the cross to leave, to
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Speaker 1: leave the horror of Kim Jung mentally Ill's evil seat,
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Speaker 1: that cult in North Korea, which barely has about it
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Speaker 1: one million, two hundred thousand soldiers ready to go to battle,
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Speaker 1: if not more. South Korea has four hundred and fifty
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Speaker 1: thousand on their side of the DMZ, which was set
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Speaker 1: up just about the time I was born in nineteen
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Speaker 1: fifty four, twenty eight thousand United States troops across one
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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty miles to keep the peace. Hopefully you'll
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Speaker 1: all understand the sacrifice that those men and women are
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Speaker 1: making and being on the front line, knowing that any
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Speaker 1: moments especially there's a little portion there where you saw
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Speaker 1: that President Donald Trump in his first term, walk like
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Speaker 1: halfway across, and then you saw a guy who was
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Speaker 1: in need of ozempic who was at the evil see
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Speaker 1: to Kim Jung mentally ill, who's coming across. They shook
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Speaker 1: hands there and you have the North Korean guards staring
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Speaker 1: at the South Korean guards, I fortegating, mad dogging one another.
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Speaker 1: Do you know that war is still going on? It
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Speaker 1: was never ended. It was called the police action.
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Speaker 3: Yea.
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Speaker 1: And the Americans died. Fifty two thousand Americans died in
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Speaker 1: that Korean War. How many thousands were taking his POW's
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Speaker 1: And I think once there was the armistice, remember didn't end.
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Speaker 1: The war was to continue. It's officially a war now.
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Speaker 1: I think there were twenty one soldiers who decided to
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Speaker 1: stay back in North Korea. Boy, I think they're in
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Speaker 1: need of a psychiatric Can you imagine that I want
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Speaker 1: to stay in North Korea? But that's where a DMZ
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Speaker 1: exists as we speak. I'll never forget. I was going
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Speaker 1: down from California from San Francisco, where I had a
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Speaker 1: chapter of The Guardian Angels to Los Angeles, right beautiful.
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Speaker 1: On the coach stopped in Carmel where Clint Eastwood remember
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Speaker 1: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, He was the
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Speaker 1: mayor at that time, continuing to make films. I remember
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Speaker 1: an old codger. They was telling me, Oh, yeah, you know, Clint,
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Speaker 1: he was in the Korean War. He was, oh, tell me,
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Speaker 1: you know, I want to sop up all the information.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, he was stationed at Fort Ord. He was
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Speaker 1: a swimming instructor, he said. But it came into handy
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Speaker 1: use because he was on a flight that crashed. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if it was in the ocean somewhere, it
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Speaker 1: was in water, and he swam to shore, saved his life.
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Speaker 1: But he did service like so many other men and
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Speaker 1: women stationed around the world this Christmas New Year's holiday
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Speaker 1: that oftentimes we just don't think of at all, don't
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Speaker 1: think of at all. And then, of course there was
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Speaker 1: the DMC that I grew up with, like so many
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Speaker 1: of the baby boomers in the cold War. The Wall,
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Speaker 1: the Berlin Wall, in fact, I think it was put
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Speaker 1: up in nineteen sixty one on the orders of Nikita
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Speaker 1: kruz Jef remember said he would bury us at the
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Speaker 1: General Assembly in a drunken stupor too much vodka, he
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Speaker 1: took his shoe off, he banged the table, he said,
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Speaker 1: we will bury you. And man, whenever you took a
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Speaker 1: subway or a bus there was there was an area
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Speaker 1: that showed that on television, and every day we'd have
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Speaker 1: to get underneath our our classroom tables that we worked
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Speaker 1: from desks, and we had to put our hands behind
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Speaker 1: our next and kiss Artuka sardupa air rage ciren will
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Speaker 1: go on. You never know, the big one could be
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Speaker 1: dropped at any moment in the midst of the Cold War,
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Speaker 1: and how many many women were assigned to guarding that
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Speaker 1: wall on the western side West Germany obviously much larger
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Speaker 1: than East Germany. But helping the Stasi at that time
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Speaker 1: was who Vladimir putin kg B guy on the eastern side.
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Speaker 1: And that all came to me because I remember, I
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Speaker 1: remember the scenes of the guard towers, the trenches, the
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Speaker 1: death strip that separated East from West because the Communists
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Speaker 1: were worried that so many of their people each day
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Speaker 1: were fleeing to the West and freedom, about one thousand
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Speaker 1: a day, that they decided to cut him down with
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Speaker 1: machine gun fire if you did try to cross over
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Speaker 1: for freedom. Some of the buildings actually were partially on
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Speaker 1: one side and another of the wall. I happened to
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Speaker 1: be able to see it up close and personal after
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Speaker 1: the wall came down. I was that nineteen eighty nine
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Speaker 1: Bush forty one asleep at the wheel, CIA asleep at
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Speaker 1: the wheel. They had no idea this was happening. It
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Speaker 1: was part of Gorbachev, you know, with a weinstain on
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Speaker 1: his head, the glass nose, Perestroika. Communism was falling, and
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Speaker 1: we didn't move quickly enough to start teaching those folks
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Speaker 1: about democracy and capitalism. We were just stunned. So by
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Speaker 1: the time I got there organizing Guardian Angels. In Berlin,
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Speaker 1: you could take the Uban and the s Bahn one
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Speaker 1: was the underground subway that went from West Berlin to
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Speaker 1: East Berlin, and then the elevated and the trains were
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Speaker 1: graffeited just like they were in the nineteen seventies and
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Speaker 1: eighties here, and I was stunned as I walked through Berlin,
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Speaker 1: walking through parks and plaza where everybody thought, oh this
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Speaker 1: is this is the American Way graffiti. But I will
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Speaker 1: tell you this, how many men and women served there,
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Speaker 1: how many were killed and attempting to flee a DMC
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Speaker 1: that existed. I think this is a pretty good idea
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Speaker 1: that Zelenski has to end this carnage and think about it.
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Speaker 1: Think about it, and think about all those men and
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Speaker 1: women who continue to serve in including those men and
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Speaker 1: women who already at a moment's notice to invade Venezuela
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Speaker 1: when our commander in chief gives them the word. Right
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Speaker 1: here at your place to be, Our number is eight
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Speaker 1: wife Nancy will be joining me in the eleven o'clock hour,
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Speaker 1: Smart Straight Talk.
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Speaker 4: Curtis leewa guest host for Mark Simone on sevent ten WAW.
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Speaker 1: Seeing crash here a board operator, knowing he'd been in
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Speaker 1: the business for thirty years, mostly at my other place
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Speaker 1: to be no longer WABC. A true savant. I mean
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Speaker 1: this guy was like Google before there was Google, and
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Speaker 1: rescued many hosts and hostesses by giving them information that
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Speaker 1: they weren't privy to. Never got the credit, never did.
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Speaker 1: But he went to Fordham University and he worked at WFUV,
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Speaker 5: There.
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Speaker 1: The other guy who rescued w ABC was working he
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Speaker 1: after thirty years, himself a savant when it came to
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Speaker 1: music in trivia was Lura Fino. Yeah, Louis Fine was
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Speaker 1: on the board and unfortunately a very dear friend, Bernard McGirk,
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Speaker 1: died of prostate cancer. Again, I can't warn you enough.
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Speaker 1: A simple prick of the finger, now that you're going
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Speaker 1: to be with family and friends, Tell any male over
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Speaker 1: forty five, get that prick of the finger, get that
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Speaker 1: blood test. That's all it is. Look, I had stage
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Speaker 1: four prostate cancer. I survived Beranan McGirt did not, and
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Speaker 1: so they tried to go forward with Sid Rosenberg on
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Speaker 1: his own. It wasn't working out. He needed a wingman
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Speaker 1: and Lui Fino as he had done for over thirty years.
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Speaker 1: I remember he was hanging out of Beef Steak Charlie's
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Speaker 1: up there in Fordham. Roll remember beef Steak Charlie's. They
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Speaker 1: were everywhere. There were like sixty of them in the eighties.
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Speaker 1: Well you can eat salad, barn limited beer wine, sangreia,
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Speaker 1: you know, the cheapest of the cheap, but you leave
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Speaker 1: with a belly full, as many of the folks who
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Speaker 1: went to Fordham did. Great radio guy and he cap
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Speaker 1: he kept us at Rosenberg show alive. He threw him
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Speaker 1: a lifeline. Yeah, you see this thing of ours. You know,
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Speaker 1: what comes around goes around. But now I'm at my
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Speaker 1: place to be w or seven ten that I listened
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Speaker 1: to along with my wife, was going to give you
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Speaker 1: an update in the eleven o'clock arrow. You know, she's
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Speaker 1: all animal welfare all the time. And before we head
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Speaker 1: out on the road to visit family and relatives for
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Speaker 1: this Christmas vacation. Boy is a lot to catch up
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Speaker 1: too with all of you, but up next, as promise
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Speaker 4: Curtis Sleepwa guest host the Mark Simone Show on seven tenor.
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Speaker 1: As promised to the phones, we go because it's your
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Speaker 1: turn to be heard here at seven w pam in Pattison,
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Speaker 1: New Jersey. Thanks for joining us, then, thank you.
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Speaker 6: And you probably remember me from the past and I
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Speaker 6: missed Nancy's Animal Hour. Also, you and I have something
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Speaker 6: in common from that other station called all day Bullying Callers.
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Speaker 6: The person who's on one to five in the morning
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Speaker 6: weekdays spent three out of the four hours mocking me
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Speaker 6: because I rescue cats and calling it a psychopathy. There
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Speaker 6: were a couple people who defended me. Your name was
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Speaker 6: mentioned in vain as a cat person who's you know,
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Speaker 6: we all have copathies and there's something wrong with us
23:50
Speaker 6: and we don't like people. Just coming from a person
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Speaker 6: who has no children and no pets. Interesting.
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Speaker 2: Interesting, And I.
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Speaker 6: Did not christiate it because I was one of the
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Speaker 6: people responsible for helping that station get on its seat.
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Speaker 1: Oh no, no, I know, Ben, but I know you're
24:10
Speaker 1: talking about Lionel. He's not alone. Look the President of
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Speaker 1: the United States, in the middle of the mayoral campaign
24:17
Speaker 1: that he should have stayed out of, decided to chastise
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Speaker 1: me and my wife Nancy for rescuing cats like so
24:26
Speaker 1: many others listening here in the Tri State area and
24:29
Speaker 1: throughout the world on the Worldwide Net seven wor who
24:36
Speaker 1: were going to be euthanized in shelters. Oh, this is
24:38
Speaker 1: a bad thing. Well, I guess Mahatma Gandhi was a
24:41
Speaker 1: bad person, right, who said a society that does not
24:45
Speaker 1: take care of its animals does not take care of
24:48
Speaker 1: its people. Look obvious, emotionally disturb people everywhere, Homeless people,
24:53
Speaker 1: no way to go for Christmas and the holidays other
24:56
Speaker 1: than the subways and parks and streets. And they want
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Speaker 1: to make fun of people who rescue animals. That's the
25:06
Speaker 1: President of the United States in this case. She was
25:10
Speaker 1: referring to Lionel others at Greg Kelly over at w
25:13
Speaker 1: ABC's same thing, Same thing. Interesting little update. The incoming mayor,
25:19
Speaker 1: Zoron Mandami. His wife has been a bit of an enigma.
25:24
Speaker 1: The incoming first lady, her name is Rama, She's an
25:28
Speaker 1: artist from like Bushwick. She's going to have a cat
25:33
Speaker 1: at Gracie Mansion. I had no idea that Zoron was
25:36
Speaker 1: allergic to cats, But in order to satisfy the desire
25:41
Speaker 1: of his wife, he's going to take the shots because
25:44
Speaker 1: he would have an allergy with the cat president in
25:46
Speaker 1: Gracy Mansion. Good thing you don't hear anybody attacking him.
25:51
Speaker 1: Of course not they attack him for other things. But oh,
25:55
Speaker 1: if the worst thing we ever did in the world
25:58
Speaker 1: was to rescue animals in need. These people hate animals
26:04
Speaker 1: and that's what they do. Need to look at the
26:07
Speaker 1: Pew Research study last year. Check it out right now.
26:12
Speaker 1: If I would ask Crash, I wouldn't even have to
26:14
Speaker 1: google a chat chet. He would conjure it right up.
26:20
Speaker 1: So ninety seven percent of Americans, whether they voted for Trump,
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Speaker 1: will voted for Harris, or they don't vote now, view
26:29
Speaker 1: their pets as family members, as people ninety seven percent.
26:35
Speaker 1: So let them make fun of people who rescue animals
26:42
Speaker 1: in distress or people in distress who are homeless or
26:46
Speaker 1: emotionally disturbed, because let's face it, they have self centered
26:51
Speaker 1: iron me in many instances miserable lives. We will be
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Speaker 1: talking to animal rescue rescue up Nancy in the upcoming hour.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Stuart, who's calling from the Lower East Side,
27:08
Speaker 1: the East Village. Your turn to be heard here at
27:11
Speaker 1: seven ten wo R.
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Speaker 5: Thank you. Myn was Stu pardon the voice and World
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Speaker 5: Trade Center and one of those idiots that ran in
27:20
Speaker 5: the wrong direction to help that day. And thank God
27:24
Speaker 5: for the World Trade Center Health Registry book. I just
27:28
Speaker 5: wanted to say one. I love animals and to bid
27:31
Speaker 5: they don't have a shot for an incoming mayor that
27:34
Speaker 5: wants some handle cats. Stoley also likes New York Jews.
27:38
Speaker 5: They don't have a shot for that too. Bet You,
27:41
Speaker 5: I've met three times. I've always liked you. I voted
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Speaker 5: for you twice. You would have been the best man
27:46
Speaker 5: of the city ever had. And I hate what they
27:50
Speaker 5: did at ABC. I can't listen to the station. I
27:53
Speaker 5: hate betrayal. I hate what they did to you. I
27:56
Speaker 5: can't and listen to him when that one No.
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Speaker 1: No, you don't have to. You don't have to. You
28:00
Speaker 1: may not have been listening to seven to ten wor
28:02
Speaker 1: for a long time. Now you have a friend of
28:04
Speaker 1: your own.
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Speaker 2: Back.
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Speaker 1: When Nancy joins me in the next hour. What we
28:09
Speaker 1: used to do is for the holidays, we would come
28:12
Speaker 1: on here and tend to all the shut ins and
28:15
Speaker 1: people at no one. You know, these times of year
28:20
Speaker 1: for them can be the most miserable times of the year.
28:23
Speaker 1: While others are enjoying family and friends, there are a
28:26
Speaker 1: lot of people they don't have family and friends who
28:29
Speaker 1: are either available to them or are no longer around.
28:32
Speaker 1: And we used to talk directly to them for hours
28:34
Speaker 1: and hours and hours. Let's go to if we can. Anita,
28:43
Speaker 1: who is calling from Maspith your turn to be heard
28:48
Speaker 1: here at seven to ten. Woor Anita, How you doing, Curtis?
28:52
Speaker 7: I love listening to you on the radio now and
28:55
Speaker 7: even more to actually speak to you in person. I
28:59
Speaker 7: want you to know, on my property and on my block,
29:02
Speaker 7: I had all the vote for Curtis signs and I
29:06
Speaker 7: have a theory that I would like to ask your
29:10
Speaker 7: opinion on. When I heard Greg Kelly and Sid Rosenberg
29:16
Speaker 7: tell us to vote for Como, inside my body I
29:20
Speaker 7: kept saying, what if they had said vote for Curtis
29:26
Speaker 7: or wouldn't you I believe then have become our mayor.
29:29
Speaker 7: Now if they would have talked in that vein, no.
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Speaker 1: I would have had a much better shadow. We'll tell
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Speaker 1: you this, so I will be traveling with my wife
29:38
Speaker 1: Nancy to visit her side of the family. We'll be
29:42
Speaker 1: up in Capital Land, Albany, Rensalier, Troy, and we'll be
29:46
Speaker 1: going for her mom and her stepdad's house from Pennsylvania.
29:50
Speaker 1: So we'll be on the road. I have it on
29:54
Speaker 1: pretty good authority. I have to check it out in
29:56
Speaker 1: Capital Land while I'm there. The Republican leadership through Congresswoman
30:02
Speaker 1: Elised Stophonic under the bus yep again on behalf of
30:08
Speaker 1: a Democrat. That grifter Kathy Hoko, who you saw in
30:13
Speaker 1: New York City yesterday basically having a love fest with
30:17
Speaker 1: Eric Adams swagger man with no plan. Maybe she's going
30:22
Speaker 1: to give him a parade through the canyony heroes just
30:24
Speaker 1: to get him the hell out of here. You know
30:26
Speaker 1: where he was. He traveled at our expense to Israel,
30:30
Speaker 1: Uzbekistan that he can't even find on a map, Mexico,
30:33
Speaker 1: and now we find out he went to Georgia and
30:36
Speaker 1: not Atlanta, Georgia, the country the home of Joe Stalin.
30:41
Speaker 1: He was in Tubilisi for a grand opening of a
30:44
Speaker 1: five star hotel, probably getting wine dined in pocket lined man.
30:51
Speaker 1: I can't wait till we are finished with a guy
30:57
Speaker 1: who for four years pimped or at tax pay us expense,
31:05
Speaker 1: barmbing up in the bullpen. The best thing that ever
31:08
Speaker 1: happened to me animal lover extraordinaire my wife Nancy, who
31:14
Speaker 1: will be joining all of us by phone in the
31:16
Speaker 1: next hour as she is getting ready for our trip
31:20
Speaker 1: to family members and friends who out to try state area.
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Speaker 1: Right here on your place to be seven to ten wor.
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Speaker 4: Talk Radio with Street Crag literally Curtis Sleewad joined sevent
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Speaker 4: ten WR to guess those for Mark Samow.
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Speaker 1: And this has been a wonderful Christmas present to be
31:43
Speaker 1: back on the air at the Newfound station for so
31:47
Speaker 1: many of you, and my wife Nancy and I seven
31:50
Speaker 1: ten WR. More importantly, Nancy, are you there? Do we
31:59
Speaker 1: have Nancy on the line?
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Speaker 2: Yes?
32:02
Speaker 1: Hello, oh yeah, oh yeah, we're getting here a little earlier,
32:05
Speaker 1: just a little bit of a tease into the next hour.
32:08
Speaker 1: You'll be with us a whole hour. But I remember
32:11
Speaker 1: how you would join me often during the holidays, the
32:14
Speaker 1: holiday atself, when there were so many shut ins and
32:17
Speaker 1: lonely people, the worst day of the year for them,
32:21
Speaker 1: and you would bring joy to them over the airwaves.
32:24
Speaker 1: We're going to continue that tradition right here in the
32:27
Speaker 1: next hour and also talk about animal rescue and all
32:34
Speaker 1: the people who have decided to make fun of not
32:38
Speaker 1: just you and me, but so many out there that
32:42
Speaker 1: we know are dedicated to their pets who are like
32:45
Speaker 1: family members and friends and ferrow animals who live out
32:49
Speaker 1: in the fields or maybe their backyard or out in
32:52
Speaker 1: their barn wherever they are listening here to seven to
32:56
Speaker 1: ten wors. I know you're getting ready for our christ
33:00
Speaker 1: State extravagance as we go from place to place visiting
33:04
Speaker 1: your family members. Are you up for it?
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Speaker 2: Yes, I am definitely up for it.
33:09
Speaker 1: Yeah. And in fact, and Nancy likes that dog show
33:12
Speaker 1: that is here on war. I think it's nine o'clock
33:15
Speaker 1: on Saturdays. Very good, Very good. You don't want to
33:19
Speaker 1: go anywhere. The best part of the Sliwa family is
33:21
Speaker 1: coming up next. The best thing that ever happened to me,
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Speaker 1: Nancy Slee. We're right here at seven ten wor.
33:29
Speaker 4: Now the Red Beret has returned to radio. Curtis leewa
33:34
Speaker 4: guest host the Mark Simone Show on sevent ten woor.
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Speaker 1: So, yeah, I just came through the tunnel here at
33:55
Speaker 1: ihearts sevent ten war. It's all red. You know, could
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Speaker 1: be the locker room for the Kansas City Chiefs Arrowhead
34:06
Speaker 1: Stadium now moving to Kansas. You know, like Dorothy, you know,
34:11
Speaker 1: clicking her red shoes. But I'm festooned all in red,
34:16
Speaker 1: red satine jacket, red beret, feeling like Santi Claus and
34:22
Speaker 1: also having received a gift to be able to broadcast
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Speaker 1: to all of you and our new found talk radio
34:29
Speaker 1: station seven to ten WR that Nancy and I listened
34:33
Speaker 1: to as often as possible. And she joins me right
34:37
Speaker 1: now as she joined me at many times on WABC.
34:41
Speaker 1: No longer our place to be where they're always bashing Curtis.
34:45
Speaker 1: But I know you're busy getting ready for our trip
34:47
Speaker 1: ahead the next two days, as we'll be dealing with
34:50
Speaker 1: family members on your side of the family. So I'd
34:54
Speaker 1: like you just to give everybody here an idea who
34:58
Speaker 1: you are and whe you came from as long term listeners.
35:03
Speaker 1: He at seven ten WA.
35:06
Speaker 2: Well that's a pretty tall order, but let's see. So
35:11
Speaker 2: where I came from. I grew up in Long Island.
35:14
Speaker 2: I graduated from Stonybrook, I went to law school in
35:20
Speaker 2: Brooklyn and once I got to Brooklyn, I never looked back.
35:25
Speaker 2: You know, I love being in the city, and living
35:29
Speaker 2: in Brooklyn was the first time that I had discovered
35:32
Speaker 2: all of these cats that wander around outside, and that's
35:37
Speaker 2: when I first discovered the concept of the colony cats
35:41
Speaker 2: and all the people out there who were taking care
35:44
Speaker 2: of them, and you know, had like regular groups of
35:47
Speaker 2: outdoor cats because as you know, the shelter system is
35:51
Speaker 2: so filled up, and unfortunately, you know, they're they're a
35:55
Speaker 2: kill shelter in the city, so you know, they bring
35:58
Speaker 2: them in, they warehouse them a bit, and then after
36:00
Speaker 2: that happens, they euphanize them pretty quickly, even when they
36:03
Speaker 2: don't really have any significant types of problems. So you know,
36:07
Speaker 2: that's not a great place to be. And I realize
36:10
Speaker 2: that there's this incredible community of people out there who
36:13
Speaker 2: are doing exactly what you know, it's passionate. I'm passionate about,
36:18
Speaker 2: which is taking care of them, realizing that they can
36:21
Speaker 2: live outside as long as you know, it's done within,
36:24
Speaker 2: like the structure of the colony, which is making sure
36:26
Speaker 2: they're spade and neutered, providing them with houses, especially in
36:31
Speaker 2: inclement weather like right now where it's cold outside, and
36:35
Speaker 2: you know, feeding them on a regular basis, so this
36:38
Speaker 2: way they have a food source. So I mean, you know,
36:41
Speaker 2: I guess that's the And then need I met you
36:43
Speaker 2: about ten years ago or so, and you know we've
36:46
Speaker 2: been together ever since. So that's that's me in a nutshell.
36:49
Speaker 2: I guess.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I remember you were living in Sunset Park at the time,
36:53
Speaker 1: and you said, there are cats living in the alleyway,
36:58
Speaker 1: you know, swear all the garage, and I said, I
37:01
Speaker 1: didn't see any. I walked through the alleyway, I didn't
37:04
Speaker 1: see anny. And then you walked through and you made
37:07
Speaker 1: this sound like the female version of Doctor Doolittle. And
37:12
Speaker 1: I mean, cats were coming out of every Nookrannian corner,
37:17
Speaker 1: and they were rubbing up against your leg, the tails
37:20
Speaker 1: in the air, all of them with all of their
37:23
Speaker 1: own unique personalities as I observe them. And there are
37:28
Speaker 1: so many people just like yourself, mostly women, some men
37:33
Speaker 1: out of pocket who care for these animals, sometimes in distress.
37:39
Speaker 1: Will also serve as a barrier because their presence keeps
37:43
Speaker 1: the rats, the mice, the rodents away, and so they
37:47
Speaker 1: earned their keep many times over without there having to
37:50
Speaker 1: be pest asides. And all other kinds of alternatives they
37:55
Speaker 1: used to try to eliminate the rats and the mice
37:59
Speaker 1: that you'll never eliminated. You could have daytime with them,
38:01
Speaker 1: but you can keep them at bay. What was it
38:05
Speaker 1: like when people would turn to you and it'll call
38:08
Speaker 1: you a cat lady or disparagingly make fun of you
38:12
Speaker 1: because you and others were reaching into your pocket spending
38:16
Speaker 1: your own money to care for these animals.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, well, first of all, I don't get
38:22
Speaker 2: offended by people. I you know, I usually try to
38:24
Speaker 2: explain it to them, because you know, the misconception I
38:29
Speaker 2: would I would get a lot of times is like
38:30
Speaker 2: somehow I brought them there, like I created these cats,
38:32
Speaker 2: and I try to you know, you have to explain no, no, no,
38:36
Speaker 2: there's so many of them that live outside all the time,
38:39
Speaker 2: and what I'm doing is basically caring for the ones
38:42
Speaker 2: that are here. And if if for some reason, if
38:45
Speaker 2: someone calls, like the you know, the shelter to come
38:48
Speaker 2: pick them up, it just creates a vacuum in that area,
38:51
Speaker 2: and then what happens is other cats in the area
38:53
Speaker 2: move in. There's just so many cats, you don't see
38:55
Speaker 2: them all the time, so I'm you know, I'm pretty
38:57
Speaker 2: tough skinned, like I wouldn't really take it when people
39:00
Speaker 2: are getting annoyed. But that's why you also have to
39:02
Speaker 2: make sure you take care of these things in a
39:04
Speaker 2: decent basis. So for example, you know, you don't leave
39:07
Speaker 2: the food around, you don't do things that are going
39:09
Speaker 2: to clearly bother neighbors, and you know, create nuisance. So
39:12
Speaker 2: as long as and again that's also why you want
39:14
Speaker 2: to make sure that you get the cats fixed. I mean,
39:17
Speaker 2: that's essential. You can't keep having the kittens around. And
39:19
Speaker 2: then plus, when they're fixed, they calm down a lot.
39:22
Speaker 2: I mean, the the aggression that happens with the male
39:25
Speaker 2: cats when they're not fixed, I mean, it's all territorial.
39:28
Speaker 2: So you know, you can get their behavior to a
39:32
Speaker 2: point where you know they're i mean again they're they're
39:35
Speaker 2: the same as the indoor cats. It's just they need,
39:38
Speaker 2: you know, the very specific attention because it's a tough
39:41
Speaker 2: it's a tough time out there. You know, there's a
39:43
Speaker 2: lot of cats that just inavertently stumble on poisons, things
39:45
Speaker 2: of that nature, Like I would have to explain to people, like,
39:48
Speaker 2: you know, don't inadvertently throw things down because that happens
39:51
Speaker 2: a lot too. I mean, you know, it always bothers
39:53
Speaker 2: me in the winter. Now, obviously you see a lot
39:55
Speaker 2: of people throwing down the like rock salt. The city
39:58
Speaker 2: throws down the rock salt. That's actually dangerous for animals
40:01
Speaker 2: because they use like the cheapest variety. So you know,
40:04
Speaker 2: you have this. I mean, it's a tough life for
40:06
Speaker 2: them out there. So you know, I just you know,
40:08
Speaker 2: I'm very compassionate. You know, I have people who you know,
40:12
Speaker 2: you know, I feel like everyone can understand it if
40:14
Speaker 2: you explain it to them, and then if they don't
40:16
Speaker 2: understand it after that, then to heck with them, because
40:18
Speaker 2: you know, they're living creatures and I can't see any
40:21
Speaker 2: justification for letting someone's dislike of them ever stop the
40:25
Speaker 2: behavior of Karen for animals.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what I loved about Wisconsin when I was up
40:29
Speaker 1: there organizing Guardian Angels and Milwaukee is they don't use
40:33
Speaker 1: rock salt because they had, you know, years ago, they
40:35
Speaker 1: had feet of snow. It's not like that as it
40:40
Speaker 1: used to be. But they would put down a brine
40:42
Speaker 1: of parmesan cheese, a brine really yeah, and naturally, I
40:49
Speaker 1: mean even some people, you know, it's whole parmesan cheese.
40:52
Speaker 1: Oh they'd be down there, you know, licking the asphalt.
40:56
Speaker 1: But there were so many other alternatives. And I think
41:01
Speaker 1: one singular thing that comes across is I've noticed some
41:04
Speaker 1: time to time you'll be walking the streets where we
41:07
Speaker 1: live and you'll see some pigeons in distress and you'll
41:09
Speaker 1: feed them. Some people will refer them as rats with wings,
41:14
Speaker 1: others as basically the official bird of New York City.
41:19
Speaker 1: Fact that i'd been elected mayor, as you know, on
41:23
Speaker 1: the campaign trail, I said we would have taken the
41:25
Speaker 1: New York City flag. It's like some indescript bird on there.
41:31
Speaker 1: I would put a pigeon. That's what New York City
41:33
Speaker 1: is known for. And I noticed some people would be
41:37
Speaker 1: talking and say she's feeding her pigeons, and I will
41:41
Speaker 1: walk off to them and I'd say, you got a
41:42
Speaker 1: problem with that? Oh no, Curtis, No, no, no no. You
41:46
Speaker 1: know that's my wife, Nancy. You got a problem with that? No,
41:49
Speaker 1: no no. And they they have spikes that they they
41:54
Speaker 1: put on the windowsills.
41:56
Speaker 2: The aggression against the pigeons, I find really really just
42:01
Speaker 2: to your point. The spikes that are allowed to be
42:04
Speaker 2: put up and then now you have pigeons that are maimed.
42:07
Speaker 2: I mean that to me. I can't believe that's even
42:09
Speaker 2: legal that that happened. But I definitely catch a lot
42:12
Speaker 2: of guff for throwing down the bird seat with the pigeons.
42:17
Speaker 2: But then usually the people who are saying something to
42:19
Speaker 2: me are walking their dog who's urinating on the sidewalk,
42:23
Speaker 2: so I'm not really sure where they are on their
42:26
Speaker 2: high horse telling me anything about cleanliness of animals. So
42:30
Speaker 2: you know, to each your own, I guess right, yeah,
42:32
Speaker 2: And it's.
42:33
Speaker 1: A much better remedy. If you don't want pigeons flocking around,
42:36
Speaker 1: you just put up a plastic owl. It's like in
42:40
Speaker 1: corn fields when they put up scarecrows. It has the
42:44
Speaker 1: same impact without damaging the pigeons. And it's a horrific
42:49
Speaker 1: death that they suffer because they get impaled. And some
42:53
Speaker 1: people in their minds, you know, that's a OK. But
43:00
Speaker 1: I think the broader issue is you know, and again
43:03
Speaker 1: it's what I based both of my campaigns on and
43:07
Speaker 1: running for New York. One of the many issues animal welfare.
43:10
Speaker 1: At Mahatma Gandhi. You know, there will be people who
43:13
Speaker 1: criticize him because they hate animals, said that a society
43:17
Speaker 1: that does not take care of its animals does not
43:19
Speaker 1: take care of its people. And you have seen how
43:22
Speaker 1: much time and energy we in the Guardian Angels, with
43:26
Speaker 1: your help, have put into caring for the homeless and
43:29
Speaker 1: the emotionally disturbed because we don't take care of them,
43:32
Speaker 1: and we don't take care of our animals. The abuse
43:35
Speaker 1: the dogs that are raised to fight and kill and maim,
43:41
Speaker 1: and nothing is done to stop that. As you mentioned,
43:44
Speaker 1: with spading and neutering, it would go a long way
43:47
Speaker 1: and keeping these many animals God's creatures out of harm's way.
43:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and again that's the whole goalpost of everything.
43:56
Speaker 2: You know, you don't want to have the breeder animals.
43:59
Speaker 2: I mean, there's no reason to keep creating you know,
44:03
Speaker 2: these you know, dogs and cats when the reality is
44:07
Speaker 2: there's not enough home for them all together. So I
44:10
Speaker 2: absolutely think that that has to stop right away. I mean,
44:13
Speaker 2: you can't be having not go on.
44:14
Speaker 1: Well, we'll be able to travel the vision with your
44:18
Speaker 1: mother best who just celebrated her birthday, who I believe
44:21
Speaker 1: out in Bohemia really introduced you to the life of
44:26
Speaker 1: people who dedicate themselves to animals, Would that be correct
44:30
Speaker 1: on that.
44:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, My mom's like first job, believe it or not,
44:34
Speaker 2: when she, you know, got a job in Long Island
44:38
Speaker 2: was working at an animal shelter, so you know, like
44:42
Speaker 2: a veterinarian office rather, so during the weekends when she
44:45
Speaker 2: would be working, I would go in with her. So
44:48
Speaker 2: it was as though they were all like I had
44:50
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of cats and dogs that I could
44:52
Speaker 2: visit because they were the ones who were sort of
44:54
Speaker 2: waiting in the the kennels like if either they were
44:57
Speaker 2: recovering or maybe they were for So that was actually
45:01
Speaker 2: very cool. I mean, And I also grew up with
45:03
Speaker 2: having a dog and cats in the household, so you know,
45:06
Speaker 2: I'm just very familiar with them in general. And yeah,
45:11
Speaker 2: I mean, and you know, of course, growing up in
45:13
Speaker 2: Long Island it's a lot more nature, so you know,
45:16
Speaker 2: you would, you know, you see things more often. Like
45:19
Speaker 2: I had a neighbor next to me who had, believe
45:21
Speaker 2: it or not, chickens and roosters and things like that,
45:25
Speaker 2: like a little farm going on, so you know, it's
45:27
Speaker 2: just a much more natural environment to see these animals.
45:30
Speaker 1: Well, the defining moment for me with you and your
45:34
Speaker 1: passion for animals was in that first campaign when I
45:37
Speaker 1: ran against Eric Adams twenty twenty one, and I warned
45:40
Speaker 1: everybody he would be corrupt and we would have chaos,
45:44
Speaker 1: but nobody listened. About halfway through the campaign and you
45:48
Speaker 1: were scrolling on the internet the death row list that
45:53
Speaker 1: they put up from the Animal Care and Control the shelters,
45:57
Speaker 1: because these are killed shelters, they are not no care shelters.
46:01
Speaker 1: And you said, I gotta run to East New York
46:04
Speaker 1: Glennon Boulevard to the animal shelter there that it's now
46:08
Speaker 1: closed to rescue this cat. And I remember you had
46:14
Speaker 1: cold and they said, yeah, well we're opening of five.
46:19
Speaker 1: And I said, Nancy, you can't go down there on
46:21
Speaker 1: your own. I mean, that's right by Saint Ford Shnada's,
46:25
Speaker 1: that's on Linen Boulevard. That psychology. No, you can't go there.
46:31
Speaker 1: That's Oh no, that's Psycher sells. They have drive by shootings.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with you. We got in the animal
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Speaker 1: welfare van of the Guardian Angels and we were driving
46:44
Speaker 1: halfway there. We were on Woodhaven Boulevard. It was like
46:46
Speaker 1: two o'clock in the afternoon, and they called you and
46:50
Speaker 1: just relate to our listeners all throughout the Tristate area
46:56
Speaker 1: in the world, the insensitivity of the people. They're knowing
46:59
Speaker 1: you were on your way to rescue this cat that
47:02
Speaker 1: was on death row.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I had already basically secured the rescue of
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Speaker 2: this this small kitten, and those are the ones that are,
47:13
Speaker 2: believe it or not, first to be put down in
47:15
Speaker 2: the shelter's a lot of times because if you don't
47:16
Speaker 2: have someone to bottle feed them, they you know, they
47:19
Speaker 2: don't have full time staff like that. So we were
47:22
Speaker 2: on our way and I got I got to call
47:24
Speaker 2: that the medical team. Ultimately they decided, well, I don't
47:28
Speaker 2: think this cat's gonna, you know, farewell, so we're just
47:31
Speaker 2: going to euthanize it, like you know. And that to
47:34
Speaker 2: me was incredible because when you adopt these cats, a
47:38
Speaker 2: lot of times when they do have any potential medical issues,
47:42
Speaker 2: they're not putting the bill for any of the medical care.
47:45
Speaker 2: So it's whether it's on them to you know, relinquish
47:50
Speaker 2: the animal, knowing that any medical care you have to supply.
47:53
Speaker 2: I mean, there's there's no cost to them to allow
47:56
Speaker 2: you to take that animal home. So again, they just
47:59
Speaker 2: decided well, the second look, and we don't really think
48:01
Speaker 2: this this cat's gonna you know, farewell, So we're just
48:03
Speaker 2: gonna go ahead and euthanize it, knowing I was on
48:05
Speaker 2: my way to get this cat. So that was really heartbreaking.
48:11
Speaker 1: Remember people need to know. My wife was crying for days.
48:15
Speaker 1: She pulled the vehicle over and I vowed to you
48:19
Speaker 1: right then, I said, if I become the mayor, this
48:22
Speaker 1: becomes a priority. Can you remember.
48:24
Speaker 2: And then the other side note to that was because
48:27
Speaker 2: you wound up mentioning that story about what happened with
48:31
Speaker 2: the animal care and control, right away they pulled my
48:35
Speaker 2: ability to actually get these animals from the shelter as
48:39
Speaker 2: like a stick of to you type moment, apparently because
48:43
Speaker 2: they don't like when people tell the truth about what's
48:44
Speaker 2: going on in the shelter system. So right away they
48:47
Speaker 2: took me off the list of being able to adopt
48:49
Speaker 2: these animals. So that was a real nice touch.
48:52
Speaker 1: So to all of our critics shout there, including the
48:54
Speaker 1: President of the United States, I remember Lush Maria Bartoloma.
48:59
Speaker 1: He was on the show Fox Business in the White
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Speaker 1: House and he was railing against you and I for
49:07
Speaker 1: rescuing cats and if we were, if I was elected,
49:10
Speaker 1: they would be in Gracie Mansion. And I'm saying to
49:13
Speaker 1: myself while I'm watching him almost with great delight, attacking us, saying,
49:19
Speaker 1: excuse me, mister president, you're realize in the room you're
49:22
Speaker 1: in now, was another great Republican president called Teddy Roosevelt
49:26
Speaker 1: who had eighty animals at the White House when he
49:28
Speaker 1: was president, dogs and cats in the White House, right
49:31
Speaker 1: where you're sitting now speaking to Maria Bartoloma. But of
49:37
Speaker 1: course he wouldn't care about that. Who cares only about
49:42
Speaker 1: Donald Trump? Up next, we got it. We have to
49:45
Speaker 1: have this conversation. It's the lead story today about student
49:48
Speaker 1: loans garnishing. The United States will bail out countries like Argentina,
49:55
Speaker 1: corrupt as they are, but our country will not bail
49:59
Speaker 1: out those who were in debt because of student loans.
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Speaker 1: We'll get an update from Nancy Slee Wes. We work
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Speaker 4: Talk Radio with Street Crab literally Curtis slawad joined sevent
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Speaker 4: ten WR to guess hose from Mark Samol.
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Speaker 1: At our newfound station seven to ten WR for so
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Speaker 1: many of you. You don't need to go where you
50:33
Speaker 1: used to listen to me or Nancy. I'll be here
50:38
Speaker 1: till January second, substituting for Mark Simone and I love radio.
50:43
Speaker 1: When I was growing up, I didn't make it through
50:46
Speaker 1: high school, got kicked out by the Jesuits of Brooklyn Prep.
50:50
Speaker 1: They shine the boots on my backside. I never looked back.
50:53
Speaker 1: It's pumping gas, packing shelves at an EMP. I remember
50:58
Speaker 1: listening to talk radio and then King of Talk Radio
51:02
Speaker 1: Bob Grant at the old WMCA, and then at night
51:05
Speaker 1: wn e W. Allison Steele the Nightbird, free form music radio.
51:11
Speaker 1: It was it could. It was a mood elevator because
51:15
Speaker 1: talk radio can be a real downer. Got to reach
51:18
Speaker 1: for the title and all on advil. Sometimes it's just negativity, negativity.
51:23
Speaker 1: And so what my wife Nancy has done for me
51:25
Speaker 1: is she knows she's working all day. I'm working all
51:28
Speaker 1: day and I'm in all the places that most people
51:31
Speaker 1: don't want to go can be pretty depressing. And she'll
51:34
Speaker 1: put on electronic dance music for me when I get
51:37
Speaker 1: to the house with the kiddies. You know, chain smokers
51:42
Speaker 1: are favorite don't let me down Paris. Last night you
51:45
Speaker 1: were playing for me was great. But you've also introduced
51:49
Speaker 1: me to songs and normally I would never listen to
51:52
Speaker 1: like Justin Bieber with that song stay with that video
51:57
Speaker 1: from Downtown LA that I'm familiar with. Wow, that was
52:00
Speaker 1: that's great. That's a mood elevator. Then Miley Cyrus. I
52:03
Speaker 1: would never listen to Miley Cyrus Midnight Sky. Oh that's great.
52:08
Speaker 1: Uh Post Malone, I liked him, he was out of
52:11
Speaker 1: Syracuse Sunflower. These all mood elevator's song. So boy, you
52:17
Speaker 1: really know how to get my mood back into gee
52:21
Speaker 1: And mostly it's with electronic dance music. And that's because
52:25
Speaker 1: you're of a different generation than me. I'm a baby boomer,
52:28
Speaker 1: but your generations of Millennials and Gen Zas have been
52:33
Speaker 1: just destroyed. The American dream has been robbed from you
52:37
Speaker 1: if you got sucked into these student loans. And now
52:41
Speaker 1: basically the president the government is saying, we're coming after
52:44
Speaker 1: you if you've defaulted. We're gonna take every nickel, diamond
52:48
Speaker 1: penny you have a make. We're gonna have a look
52:51
Speaker 1: underneath the uh, the Castro convertible that you might be
52:55
Speaker 1: sleeping on. We're gonna get you, my little pretty if
52:58
Speaker 1: it's the last thing we do. Could you explain how
53:02
Speaker 1: this American dream has been robbed from so many of
53:06
Speaker 1: your peers and your generation.
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Speaker 2: I mean, i'd say just the excess of burden some
53:15
Speaker 2: student loans. That's the really most surprising part to me
53:20
Speaker 2: that when I when I got out and you know, again,
53:23
Speaker 2: you're kind of going through the motions. It's you know,
53:26
Speaker 2: it's it's kind of forced on you in a way
53:29
Speaker 2: as you're going through you know, junior high high school,
53:32
Speaker 2: like obviously you have to go to college, Like how
53:34
Speaker 2: else would you expect to get any sort of job
53:37
Speaker 2: of values that you're going to need to have in
53:39
Speaker 2: the future. So, you know, and they're very quick to
53:43
Speaker 2: throw paperwork in front of you, where, well, this is
53:46
Speaker 2: how you go. You just sign.
53:47
Speaker 3: You know.
53:48
Speaker 2: It's like, you know again, I think it's very hard
53:50
Speaker 2: to comprehend when you're you know, like I was barely
53:53
Speaker 2: eighteen I think when I signed it, because I graduated
53:56
Speaker 2: it was July. You know, I turn eighteen July, and
54:00
Speaker 2: you know, you're basically taking on this level of debt
54:02
Speaker 2: that is really incomprehensible and by the time you actually
54:07
Speaker 2: graduate from school. What really surprised me was that the
54:10
Speaker 2: amount that I owed was way more than what I
54:13
Speaker 2: even borrowed. So you know, they they front end it
54:16
Speaker 2: with the interest, so it'll take you, you know, years,
54:21
Speaker 2: like paying the normal payment that you have to pay,
54:23
Speaker 2: it'll take you years just to get down to what
54:25
Speaker 2: you initially borrowed in the first place. And you know,
54:29
Speaker 2: they kind of have it where it's you know, like
54:32
Speaker 2: sort of based a little bit on your income, like
54:34
Speaker 2: the federal loans, at least, you know, they they try
54:36
Speaker 2: to be a little bit more flexible in terms of
54:38
Speaker 2: what your salary is. So you know, they have like
54:42
Speaker 2: they call it like income sensitive and you know, just
54:45
Speaker 2: all based upon that. But the reality is so anytime
54:49
Speaker 2: that you start to make a little bit more money,
54:51
Speaker 2: the student loan increases, like, you know, incredibly more So. Again,
54:55
Speaker 2: when I started working at the law firm and I
54:57
Speaker 2: was making an okay salary the first time, that's when
55:00
Speaker 2: the student loan. And that's also when the Obama Care
55:03
Speaker 2: kicked in because I didn't have health insurance. So all
55:05
Speaker 2: of a sudden, now I was getting a penalty for
55:08
Speaker 2: not having the health insurance and I had this massive
55:10
Speaker 2: student loan every month. I mean, you can bail your
55:12
Speaker 2: fort to just live, just pay your rent and pay
55:15
Speaker 2: your basic bills. When you're looking at things like that,
55:17
Speaker 2: I mean I was paying like twenty five hundred, close
55:20
Speaker 2: to three thousand a month just in student loans. I mean,
55:22
Speaker 2: and this is you know, looking down like the line
55:26
Speaker 2: of knowing you're going to have to be paying it
55:28
Speaker 2: for a decade or two, you know, based on how
55:31
Speaker 2: much you ultimately owe. So unfortunately I had to borrow
55:34
Speaker 2: a lot of money for everything, and law school is
55:37
Speaker 2: just way expensive. So yeah, I mean, it's really tough
55:42
Speaker 2: to get started in your life when you're right off
55:46
Speaker 2: the bat, you're paying you know, several grand a.
55:48
Speaker 1: Month, and so it makes you angry, makes you angry
55:50
Speaker 1: that that dream that was promised you if you did
55:53
Speaker 1: your four years, You graduate school, you get your degree,
55:57
Speaker 1: you know, your financial analyst, CPA, a lawyer, whatever, you
56:01
Speaker 1: do all of that, and now you're living in an
56:03
Speaker 1: apartment still with three other people, like you're back in
56:06
Speaker 1: your dormitory in school.
56:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I yeah, thankfully I didn't have to
56:13
Speaker 2: sort of go into that direction of having like multiple people.
56:16
Speaker 2: But I always had like maybe one roommate possibly, yeah,
56:21
Speaker 2: I mean, but again it's you know, you look at
56:23
Speaker 2: the costs for everything within New York City.
56:26
Speaker 1: I mean.
56:27
Speaker 2: And the first thing too that blew my mind was
56:29
Speaker 2: realizing that not only they're more expensive live in New
56:32
Speaker 2: York City, but then when you do your taxes, you're
56:34
Speaker 2: getting a city tax on top of that. Like wait, what,
56:37
Speaker 2: Like it already costs so much money to live here
56:39
Speaker 2: in the first place, and I'm not even sure what
56:41
Speaker 2: I'm paying for.
56:42
Speaker 1: Maybe some people from what you've just said, understand the
56:45
Speaker 1: anger that led to the election of Zorahan Mandami, who
56:48
Speaker 1: it was all about a cost of living affordability. And
56:53
Speaker 1: then to hear our presidents say, if you vote for
56:56
Speaker 1: Javier Milai of Argentina, my friend will bail out Argentina
57:02
Speaker 1: for the twentieth time. These dead beats, we bail them out,
57:06
Speaker 1: but won't even bail out people from this student loans
57:10
Speaker 1: in the United States.
57:11
Speaker 2: Unbelievabah, Like, I mean, I could see if you if
57:13
Speaker 2: you're if you have the money if And again I
57:16
Speaker 2: think they the disconnect too between the the charges that
57:21
Speaker 2: they have for you know, higher education to begin with,
57:25
Speaker 2: and then the likelihood of getting a job that really
57:28
Speaker 2: sort of fits the criteria to be able to pay
57:30
Speaker 2: that back. Like, I don't think there is any ramifications
57:34
Speaker 2: for these higher educational institutions to really I mean, they're
57:39
Speaker 2: not guaranteeing you jobs, so you know, the best they
57:43
Speaker 2: can do is maybe tell you, you know, try to like,
57:45
Speaker 2: you know, sort of gear you in the right direction,
57:47
Speaker 2: but you know, to be putting so much money in
57:49
Speaker 2: for something that you may or may not get down
57:51
Speaker 2: the road. I you know, I feel like they do
57:53
Speaker 2: take advantage of a lot of the young people out there.
57:57
Speaker 2: I always thought when I was younger too, that, oh,
57:59
Speaker 2: the people who straight out of school, when they just
58:02
Speaker 2: went into a job so like you know, especially like
58:04
Speaker 2: the ones that require more like the technical skills like
58:07
Speaker 2: the plumbing and things like that. I was like, oh, well,
58:10
Speaker 2: those people aren't going that. Like I had no idea
58:12
Speaker 2: how much ahead of the curve that they were, because
58:15
Speaker 2: right out the gate they have a skill that's you know,
58:18
Speaker 2: that that kind of really less a test of time.
58:21
Speaker 2: And then plus they don't have any of the student
58:23
Speaker 2: loan debt and they start making money years before you
58:25
Speaker 2: even get a chance to start making money. So those
58:27
Speaker 2: people really know what they're doing out there.
58:29
Speaker 1: Well, on that note, you have a chance to speak
58:31
Speaker 1: to Nancy. The best thing that ever happened in my life,
58:35
Speaker 1: my wife and yours truly right, he had our new station,
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Speaker 1: our favorite to listen to, seven ten WOR at one
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Speaker 4: Curtis leewa guest host for Mark Simone on sevent TENOO.
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Speaker 1: Two Great Christmas Presents broadcasting here on our new favorite station,
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Speaker 1: seven to ten WOR that many of you are discovering
59:13
Speaker 1: for the first time. I say we it's my wife, Nancy.
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Speaker 1: It is the best present that I've ever had, the
59:19
Speaker 1: best thing that ever happened in my life of seventy
59:22
Speaker 1: one years. And she remains on the line. But it's
59:25
Speaker 1: time for our listeners to be heard. Nancy. Let's go
59:30
Speaker 1: to Madeline, who's calling from the Bronx. Oh what a
59:34
Speaker 1: great day it is, Madeline.
59:37
Speaker 8: Yes, especially because I'm talking to you and then I
59:41
Speaker 8: remember you from I think nineteen seventy eight. That's fency
59:45
Speaker 8: but number four train Rock Brigade. I always tell you
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Speaker 8: that with a full of books here.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, hold on, hold on, hold on, if you can,
59:55
Speaker 1: please hold on. You're coming in, broken up, Crash. Let's
59:58
Speaker 1: see what you can do. I'd hate to see if
1:00:01
Speaker 1: the disconificator is preventing us from hearing folks from your borough,
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Speaker 1: the Bronx and the borough where I started the Guardian
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Speaker 1: Angels in nineteen seventy nine. On that note, will Crash
1:00:12
Speaker 1: goes to work. On that. Let's go to Carlotta, who's
1:00:16
Speaker 1: calling from Brooklyn. Your turn to be heard here at
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Speaker 1: seven ten wr Well.
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Speaker 2: How do you do it?
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Speaker 9: Merry Christmas? And God bless you for staying in the race,
1:00:27
Speaker 9: because if you order went out, we were being down
1:00:29
Speaker 9: to one party, a hard social and a soft social
1:00:32
Speaker 9: who could have turned hard. And this is very serious
1:00:36
Speaker 9: because if you were dropped out the way I look
1:00:38
Speaker 9: at it down this is a Crown Jewel New York.
1:00:40
Speaker 9: Down the road, the same thing could happen. We are
1:00:42
Speaker 9: going to go into one party. This is very scary times.
1:00:46
Speaker 9: The Marxists are here, Oh, Carlotta.
1:00:50
Speaker 1: Let me explain, Carlotta, it's already here. When I return
1:00:55
Speaker 1: Friday morning, I think I will be to have connected
1:00:59
Speaker 1: all the dots of how Republican leadership through Congresswoman Elease
1:01:04
Speaker 1: Stefanic under the bus and created the pathway for Bruce
1:01:09
Speaker 1: Blakeman eliminating a superstar. I mean, Republicans are the worst
1:01:16
Speaker 1: enemy of Republicans in New York City and in New
1:01:18
Speaker 1: York State. They do everything to help the Democrats to
1:01:22
Speaker 1: keep it a one party system. And I saw the
1:01:24
Speaker 1: grifter in chief last night. She was all over New
1:01:28
Speaker 1: York with Eric Adams Swaggerman with no plan. Oh, they
1:01:32
Speaker 1: were having a love fest, and she was surrounded by
1:01:37
Speaker 1: Republicans all.
1:01:38
Speaker 2: Day long.
1:01:42
Speaker 1: Who were making backroom deals. Oh, you had better be
1:01:46
Speaker 1: listening Friday morning. Hopefully I will have connected all the
1:01:50
Speaker 1: dots by then. Let's go if we can to Lenny,
1:01:54
Speaker 1: who's calling from Staten Island. Your turn to be heard?
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Speaker 1: He had seven to ten wor Lenny.
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Speaker 3: Hey, Curtis, we know each other. Got to hear your
1:02:03
Speaker 3: voice on the radio, and you gave me an early
1:02:06
Speaker 3: Christmas present. Let me tell you my son is on
1:02:09
Speaker 3: the DMZ in Korea. He just got promoted yesterday the
1:02:13
Speaker 3: sergeant staff Sergeant Lenny Wright. And that's why people listen
1:02:20
Speaker 3: to you. You bring the real stuff to us. By
1:02:24
Speaker 3: mentioning our servicemen who cannot be home for this time
1:02:28
Speaker 3: of year. It really it touched my heart, and I
1:02:32
Speaker 3: thank you very much for giving that shout out to
1:02:36
Speaker 3: the servicemen that are away from their families this time
1:02:39
Speaker 3: of the year.
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Speaker 1: God bless you. Thank you, Lenny, and to your son
1:02:43
Speaker 1: serving us there in the DMZ. Remember that's a war
1:02:46
Speaker 1: that never ended nineteen fifty three, still on there, separating
1:02:52
Speaker 1: South Korea from the evil seed of Kim Jung mentally
1:02:55
Speaker 1: ill and the crazies of North Korea. On that note, Nancy,
1:03:02
Speaker 1: as you prepare for our swinging soiree through the Tri
1:03:06
Speaker 1: State area members of your family, what was it like
1:03:11
Speaker 1: for you growing up in Bohemia and Suffolk County looking
1:03:16
Speaker 1: forward to Christmas?
1:03:19
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I mean, obviously it's I always enjoyed
1:03:23
Speaker 2: Christmas growing up. My mom is she's very into the tradition,
1:03:29
Speaker 2: and you know, the Christmas tree, the outdoor decorations we
1:03:35
Speaker 2: would have, you know, either people would come over. I
1:03:38
Speaker 2: mean mainly it was always kind of hosted at our
1:03:40
Speaker 2: house to some extent, so you know, I didn't really
1:03:43
Speaker 2: do a lot of traveling to other family member's house.
1:03:46
Speaker 2: It was just always you know, stationed at our house.
1:03:49
Speaker 2: And you know, back then we used to have the
1:03:50
Speaker 2: real winters, so a lot of times it was snow,
1:03:53
Speaker 2: which is always nice. And then being off of school
1:03:55
Speaker 2: as a kid, you know, you can't go wrong with
1:03:57
Speaker 2: that either. So it was always just a nice time
1:04:00
Speaker 2: out in Long Island growing up.
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Speaker 1: last minute present, and it's still available even though there
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Speaker 1: are no more Hess stations. Hesseout Marada, they had the
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Speaker 1: huge petrol chemical plant and the refinery in New Jersey
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Speaker 1: along the Cancer Belt. When you're on a New Jersey
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Speaker 1: Turnpike and you're going south, once you pass Newark Airport,
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Speaker 1: which is always a dollar short in a day late
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Speaker 1: for everything hit south DM boy. Then you look at
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Speaker 1: all the petro chemical plants, You look at all the
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Speaker 1: refineries that used to be Leon Hess's refinery. Who owned
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Speaker 1: the New York Jets at one point.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I never I never got a Hess truck, nor
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Speaker 2: did I give a Hess truck. But I would say
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Speaker 2: I always look forward to the stocking more than even
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Speaker 2: the presence. You know, I didn't have like a lot
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Speaker 2: of presents, but to me, the stocking was the best part,
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Speaker 2: like going there and then seeing that it was all
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Speaker 2: filled up and there was always nice goodies in there.
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Speaker 2: So I was really a fan of the stocking.
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Speaker 1: Let's go if we can to George, who's calling your
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Speaker 1: turn to be heard here at seven ten w or George.
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Speaker 10: Curtis Is George the court clerk. I just wanted to
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Speaker 10: tell you they did you bed in one way. I
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Speaker 10: don't want to keep bringing back the past. Like Einstein said,
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Speaker 10: only God could change the past. When they said, you
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Speaker 10: know about the Republican Party, you had the real you
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Speaker 10: had the seat. They gave it to you. The fact
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Speaker 10: nobody wanted to run against you, they gave it to you,
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Speaker 10: and that was very unfair. And also about the guy
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Speaker 10: at night, Lionel. He's a smart guy. He has a
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Speaker 10: great vocabulary and all of that.
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Speaker 9: You know.
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Speaker 10: I have a statue in my backyard and I'm not
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Speaker 10: a school ball. It was a court clerk for many years.
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Speaker 10: I'm a normal guy. I have a statue of Saint
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Speaker 10: Francis in my backyard. I feed birds, and Saint Francis said,
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Speaker 10: treat your animals like your brothers and your sisters. People
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Speaker 10: who don't like animals are weird. And as you know,
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Speaker 10: people who people who did harm to animals or half
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Speaker 10: of them when they used to come to court. I
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Speaker 10: used to read in their background they used to abuse
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Speaker 10: animals when they were a kid. I'm saying Lionel did that.
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Speaker 10: And I also say one other thing, if I could,
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Speaker 10: This is just a suggestion, and Nancy's dad, she should
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Speaker 10: listen to this. You are a very popular guy and
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Speaker 10: in Brooklyn, and then I know you're not gonna do it.
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Speaker 10: I try to call you a few months ago or
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Speaker 10: when things were getting hot for mayor and said, run
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Speaker 10: for borough president in Brooklyn. And this is why you
1:07:23
Speaker 10: have a say in the Brooklyn Zoo, which is world class,
1:07:26
Speaker 10: the aquarium. The you're half Polish, I know you are
1:07:29
Speaker 10: a half Italian. The people in Greenport, Greenpoint love you,
1:07:34
Speaker 10: even the yuppies. The will vote for you because you
1:07:37
Speaker 10: know the crime there. The Russians will vote for you.
1:07:40
Speaker 10: The Hassidic will vote for you. The people in Coney
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Speaker 10: Island will vote for you, even the gumbas, most of them.
1:07:47
Speaker 10: The Italians will vote for you. Even the gumbab gangsters
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Speaker 10: will vote for you.
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Speaker 1: Let me let me step in one second here. You
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Speaker 1: were born in green Point to Nancy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was Yeah, I was born in green Point.
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Speaker 9: You know.
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Speaker 2: I lived in Ridgewood for until I was about six
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Speaker 2: seven years old. That's before we went on to Long Island.
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Speaker 1: And you went to a Catholic school there where they
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Speaker 1: spoke Polish. Right.
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Speaker 2: Well, let's see, so they did speak polar but it
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Speaker 2: wasn't primarily Polish. I went to you know, our Lady
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Speaker 2: of Miraculous Metal, so that was very you know, like
1:08:22
Speaker 2: you had the nuns teaching type thing I went to.
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Speaker 2: You know, when I went to, I guess what the
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Speaker 2: I'm not even sure what you would call it. The
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Speaker 2: equivalent of like the preschool at this point they had
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Speaker 2: Polish speaking there. But yeah, in the actual Catholic school itself,
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Speaker 2: it was you know, definitely English, definitely English.
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Speaker 1: Well, Georgia the old Clark court clerk. You could forget
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Speaker 1: about running for Brooklyn Boro president. All you do is
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Speaker 1: cut ribbone. You do not thing. Most of these elected
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Speaker 1: officials they're impotent, they can do nothing. Oh boy, we're
1:08:59
Speaker 1: in for a ride. So on Mandami will be sworn
1:09:02
Speaker 1: in on January first by Bernie the out the Coca
1:09:05
Speaker 1: Sanders originally from Brooklyn went to Brooklyn the College and
1:09:11
Speaker 1: Tis James will be holding the Bible. And look, he's
1:09:17
Speaker 1: entitled to an opportunity to put his agenda into effect.
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Speaker 1: A grace period. Every person who is elected mayors should
1:09:24
Speaker 1: have a grace period. I know some of you are
1:09:26
Speaker 1: mumbling and grumbling. He won. He kicked Cuomo's butt in
1:09:31
Speaker 1: the primary where Cuomo was expecting a caronation and then
1:09:36
Speaker 1: instead of going back to his hobble and sliding under
1:09:39
Speaker 1: the rock in the Hamptons with his billionaire friends. He
1:09:42
Speaker 1: decided to re emerge and say, well, this time I'll
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Speaker 1: do it better.
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Speaker 5: Ha.
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Speaker 1: How did that work out? And Republicans backed Cuomo destroyed
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Speaker 1: the party here in New York City. And when I
1:09:55
Speaker 1: return on Friday, after visiting relatives on my wife side
1:10:01
Speaker 1: all throughout the tragedy state area, I believe I will
1:10:04
Speaker 1: have connected the dots and can tell you how Republicans
1:10:09
Speaker 1: stabbed at least staphonic in the back. Oh yeah, Republicans
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Speaker 1: in New York State and New York City seem to
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Speaker 1: be all gaga. Google for anyone who's a Democrat in
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Speaker 1: this case, the grifter in chief, Kathy