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Curtis takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: The voice that fights for New York literally. Curtis Leewalk
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  Speaker 1: guest host for Mark Simone on sevent tenof Oh You
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  Speaker 1: Don't want to miss It, as I was up in
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  Speaker 1: the Capitol Land area for the Christmas holiday to be
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  Speaker 1: with Nancy and her family members. Also is doing some
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  Speaker 1: side work getting information about how the Republican leadership has
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  Speaker 1: thrown the party under the bus, this time against Congresswoman
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  Speaker 1: at least staphonic for Kathy the Grifter Hockel, who was
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  Speaker 1: in New York City meeting with key Republicans, lining them
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  Speaker 1: up because it's all about following the money. It's all
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  Speaker 1: about follow the money. Oh, I learned a lot at
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  Speaker 1: the Copper Crow right there on Broadway in Albany. Remember
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  Speaker 1: as the crow flies cool and by the way, the
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  Speaker 1: hawk's talking out there. So we'll talk about this hysteria
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  Speaker 1: and fear and is sweeping the area because oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: there might be six to eight ten inches maybe more
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  Speaker 1: of snow. When I'm saying to myself, boy, it used
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  Speaker 1: to be that all the time as we would approach
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  Speaker 1: the new year. But let's go to the phones right now,
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  Speaker 1: and it's Rob who's calling from Montclair, New Jersey. Your
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  Speaker 1: turn to be heard? He on seven to ten wor Rob.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Curtis. During the campaign, I heard you maligned a lot,
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  Speaker 2: and I told my friends, you know, I know one
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  Speaker 2: thing about this guy, and it tells me everything about him.
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  Speaker 2: I teach it a school when Montclair Montclair State University,
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  Speaker 2: and many many years ago, you came with. I guess
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  Speaker 2: it was a WABC basketball team to play the local people.
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  Speaker 2: You probably don't even remember. Well, you got there really
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  Speaker 2: early and I was going to teach a class and
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  Speaker 2: I recognize and I said, Curtis, could you speak to
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  Speaker 2: my class? You came, You spoke to him, You answered questions,
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  Speaker 2: You were as sweet as kind as a person could be.
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  Speaker 2: And that tells me everything I need to know about you.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. And you remember, and I remember we got beat
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  Speaker 1: badly the leader of the team at that point basketball
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  Speaker 1: team because I was known for my sharp elbows. You
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  Speaker 1: got into the paint. I was going to put a
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  Speaker 1: herding on your kidneys and your ribs. Don't come into
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  Speaker 1: the paint. You better be shooting from three point range.
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  Speaker 1: Was Mitch Dolan, who was the general manager and Grandpoopa
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  Speaker 1: of all the stations at that time over at WABC,
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  Speaker 1: and that guy was a sharp shooter from the outside.
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  Speaker 1: He used to call him, Hey, you know, he's like
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  Speaker 1: the six man off the bench. He come in, boom in,
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  Speaker 1: then knock a few back. Oh, I remember those memories.
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  Speaker 1: That was good, Rob, that was good. Let's go if
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  Speaker 1: we can to Ellen, who's calling also from New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: Your turn to be heard here at seven to ten
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  Speaker 1: wor Ellen.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Curtis. I am so thrilled to speak with you,
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  Speaker 3: and so thrilled that you're back on the air. I've
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  Speaker 3: listened to you for so many years with Angels in
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  Speaker 3: the Morning and Curtis and Coobe, and then of course
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  Speaker 3: I got very little sleep because I was listening to
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  Speaker 3: on the weekends overnight on that other station, in additional
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  Speaker 3: listening to your friend Frank overnight also. But I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to ask you something about your father. It's been bothering
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  Speaker 3: me for years. Do you happen to know if your
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  Speaker 3: father was a member of the National Maritime Union.
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  Speaker 1: YEP for close to fifty years he was a delegate.
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  Speaker 1: He would actually go to battle with the trustees and
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  Speaker 1: the leader of the National Maritime Union who was corrupt
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  Speaker 1: Joe Kern I know, and the.
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  Speaker 3: Reason I'm asking it's because for years my father had
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  Speaker 3: had a wholesale optical business, and then he lost it
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  Speaker 3: and he wound up working for the National Maritime Union
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  Speaker 3: in that building where all the seamen would comfort their
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  Speaker 3: medical needs. And I worked there in the summers, so
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  Speaker 3: chances are I saw you, I met your father.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. And plus back then, you'd have to shape
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  Speaker 1: up for work. So I'd go with my dad and
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  Speaker 1: he'd have to shape up. He was a boson at
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  Speaker 1: that time, which is like the equivalent of his sergeant.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's part of the union, National Maritime Union,
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  Speaker 1: but really a part of management. Also you can't win
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  Speaker 1: for it, and he'd have to shape up like everyone
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  Speaker 1: else to catch a ship that was going out right
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  Speaker 1: near fourteenth Street where you had the National Maritime Union headquarters.
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  Speaker 1: And it's that building that makes it look like it's
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  Speaker 1: the side of a passenger ship with all those odd windows.
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  Speaker 1: No longer obviously National Maritime Union. But boy, tremendous story.
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  Speaker 1: My dad would tell me when he would come home,
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  Speaker 1: he'd be shipped out eight months a year, at home
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  Speaker 1: four months a year, and to make ancillary income, he'd
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  Speaker 1: go out there because he was a master craftsman, and
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  Speaker 1: he worked for my cousin Joey g to teach from
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  Speaker 1: Howard beat You at a construction firm in order so
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  Speaker 1: that me, my older sister a leader, my younger sister
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  Speaker 1: Maria to get all the things that we wanted or
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  Speaker 1: didn't want, like my mother forcing me to play the
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  Speaker 1: piano for four years. I hated that every second of
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  Speaker 1: the day that I played. And then when it was
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  Speaker 1: time for my recital at a nearby synagogue in KNARSI,
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  Speaker 1: I was playing Rochmaninoff on the stage. My younger sister
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  Speaker 1: Maria had played, made every mistake in the world, got
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  Speaker 1: a standing ovation, didn't bother her. My oldest sister, a
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  Speaker 1: very accomplished pianist, and I played Rockmano Norf. Halfway through
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  Speaker 1: is He I forgot where I was. I walked away
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  Speaker 1: from the piano and never came back to play the
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  Speaker 1: piano again. I hated that my friends should be outside. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: come on, Curtis, gotta practice Mike piano. Really, are you
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  Speaker 1: a mama, Luke. Look as my mom and dad said,
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  Speaker 1: as long as we pay the bills here and you're
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  Speaker 1: living under our roof in our house, you'll follow our
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  Speaker 1: rules or Hey, you're welcome to hit the highway out
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  Speaker 1: there and see how difficult life is. Oh what what
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  Speaker 1: great role models they were. They're no longer with us anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Glenn, who's calling from New Jersey. Your
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  Speaker 1: turn to be heard here on seven ten.
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  Speaker 4: Wo Arglene, Hey, Goodbry Curtis over at the other station there, hre.
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  Speaker 4: Greg Kelly has been disparaging you incredible for the first
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  Speaker 4: hour of his show. He spoke nothing about anything but
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  Speaker 4: Curtis and Curtis, Curtis and so forth. He's a loser.
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  Speaker 4: And I had to call in and tell and tell
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  Speaker 4: Greg that he and w R O you a bet
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  Speaker 4: a gratitude for giving one hour of free publicity because
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  Speaker 4: I mentioned to him two quotes. T. T. Bonham said, famously,
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  Speaker 4: any publicity is good publicity, and Oscar Wilde said the
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  Speaker 4: only thing in the world worse than being talked about
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  Speaker 4: is not being talked about.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I gotta tell you, Glenn, so you know, Greg
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  Speaker 1: Kelly never comes prepared for a show. That's why you
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  Speaker 1: would listen to Mark Simon. That would be his show prep.
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  Speaker 1: You would actually admit that I'm listening to Mark and
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  Speaker 1: then taking notes he has no mark to listen to.
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  Speaker 1: He hates listening to me, and it gives him something
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  Speaker 1: to talk about because he'd always run out of steam.
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  Speaker 1: That's why they had me in the bullpen. You better
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  Speaker 1: jump in there with he's rowing. He's running out of
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  Speaker 1: things to talk about because he didn't do his show prep.
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  Speaker 1: You just don't come on the air and think think
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna be able to do talk radio. Oh no, oh,
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  Speaker 1: Bob by the way suggesting for me by a work
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  Speaker 1: crew at the MDA coming up. You're never gonna Oh yes,
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  Speaker 1: you might actually conceive of this. You don't want to
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  Speaker 1: go anywhere, And I'll tell you the true nitty gritty
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  Speaker 1: secret of what's going on behind the scenes as the
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  Speaker 1: Republican leadership in New York State now as they did
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  Speaker 1: in New York City, are selling out to moderate Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: and they did it against elistophonic