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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 leewa
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  Speaker 1: guest hose for Mark Simone on sevent ten Woor has
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  Speaker 1: promised it's your turn to be heard here and when
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  Speaker 1: I'm hoping so many of you will turn to seven
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  Speaker 1: to ten wor for all your talk radio content as
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  Speaker 1: I have. Let's go to if we can't, Mike, who's
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  Speaker 1: calling from Long Island? Your turn to be heard here
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  Speaker 1: at seven ten wor mikey.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Curtis, how you're don't It's great to hear you
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  Speaker 2: back on the radio. I'm an old Kanassie boy. Had
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  Speaker 2: a store on Avenue Well and Kanasi. I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 2: you used to shop there many years ago. My wife
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  Speaker 2: and I started it. It's about fifty years ago we
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  Speaker 2: started it. And I remember how you used to help
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  Speaker 2: that community when mister Shopton had his march down Avenue
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  Speaker 2: Well and Prish Realty was doing all of his things
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  Speaker 2: and listen, I just want to tell you I thank
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  Speaker 2: you for everything you've done in the past and how
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  Speaker 2: certain people were promoting Clolo to be a mayor with
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  Speaker 2: his background. He's a criminal. Politics is a dirty business. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: you were trying to do the right thing. And even
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  Speaker 2: though my vote wouldn't count, I did contribute to your
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  Speaker 2: running for election. And you're a Brookerman and everything you've
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  Speaker 2: done be proud of. And I'm proud to know that
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  Speaker 2: you're from a neighborhood. I grew up here.
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  Speaker 1: I just let me tell you Canarsi Oil roads lead
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  Speaker 1: to Kanarcie the good and I might add the bad.
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  Speaker 1: Give me an idea Avenue L Best Pizza Paulo, the
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  Speaker 1: original pizza of Avenue L still there. Cross Street is
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  Speaker 1: Channel twelve. The news outlet used to be like a
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  Speaker 1: bull hack a wall bomb super market no more. And
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  Speaker 1: got to tell you they were the little Casey's on
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  Speaker 1: one side of Avenue L, the Gambino's on the other side.
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  Speaker 1: They used to have to run the gauntlet and the
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  Speaker 1: Avenue L boys who total degenerates. But I survived that.
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  Speaker 1: It was like running through an Apache line from time
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  Speaker 1: to time because I would not avoid going down Avenue
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  Speaker 1: Hell oh yeah, Andrew evilized Cromo. How many of them
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  Speaker 1: are out there and they keep you know, these bots,
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  Speaker 1: they're like they're like the wave of drones. They get
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  Speaker 1: used in the war between Russia and the Ukraine. Right,
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  Speaker 1: they come in bots, spots spots, and so you split
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  Speaker 1: the vote in the New York mayor's race to guarantee
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  Speaker 1: that more crime could happen. Right, Curtis, right, you took
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  Speaker 1: money from Zorhan. You know these, and you could tell
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  Speaker 1: where they're being generated from countries all over the world,
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  Speaker 1: and they come in and waves waves, and it all
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  Speaker 1: started with Cuomo and their supporters of Cromo. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: where is he? Oh yeah, he probably slit it under
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  Speaker 1: his rock in the Hampton's hanging. Now with all of
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  Speaker 1: his billionaire friends, the influencers, the insiders, they got him nowhere.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he should run for mayor of Southampton since he
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  Speaker 1: spent all of his time in Southampton. Let's go if
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  Speaker 1: we can. To Anne, who's calling from Staten Island. Your
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  Speaker 1: turn to be heard here on seven to ten, wor Ann, Well,
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  Speaker 1: let's see.
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  Speaker 3: I'm my sister, and Merry Christmas to you and your
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  Speaker 3: sweet wife who we met, well, they met at a
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  Speaker 3: fundraiser at the Belvedere with the field and we gave
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  Speaker 3: to your campaign. We miss you. Greg Kelly's unhinged. You
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  Speaker 3: should sue the station for slander, because you're excellent and
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  Speaker 3: you should be the mayor, and we're heartbroken for you,
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  Speaker 3: but you know what you do so much good. I
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  Speaker 3: wish your good health and happiness and financy. I missed
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  Speaker 3: her animal show ABC should go down the tubes. And
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  Speaker 3: I have been listening now a few months to Oh Well.
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  Speaker 3: I used to listen to Handy too, and I'm back
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  Speaker 3: with them. I enjoyed them. And Greg Kelly's a total disgrace.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's nuts.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he has a little bots, a little titched, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, he is doing what free speech allows you
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  Speaker 1: to do in America. He has a right to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Men have died in battle for us to have free
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  Speaker 1: speech and also to be able to vote, which two million,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand people did in this last mayoral campaign,
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  Speaker 1: a record that hadn't been seen since nineteen sixty five,
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  Speaker 1: since I was all of eleven years old, And so
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately John Lindsey get elected mayor of the City of
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  Speaker 1: New York. By the way, pretty sure, don't we have
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  Speaker 1: here a Wor the Dog Smart radio show?
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  Speaker 2: Don't we have that?
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  Speaker 1: I think I think a Wor I mean used to
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  Speaker 1: be on the weekends here Wor you would have all
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  Speaker 1: all the shows that were talking about gardening talking about finance, investments,
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  Speaker 1: retirement animals. I mean, that was a fixture that I
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  Speaker 1: would listen to. Bernie Meltzer. Oh yeah, oh wow, what
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  Speaker 1: a following he had, Old Bernie. But no, and it's right.
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  Speaker 1: Best thing that ever happened in my life was when
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  Speaker 1: I met Nancy. We got married, and boy, she is
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  Speaker 1: a animal rescuer like so many of you the listeners
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  Speaker 1: here at WR are throughout the Tri State area and
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  Speaker 1: throughout the country, and without her, I could not have
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  Speaker 1: survived many many ordeals. I owe everything that I am
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  Speaker 1: or I have at this point in my life to
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  Speaker 1: my beautiful wife, Nancy. And they don't get any better
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  Speaker 1: than that. You know, as Mahtma Gandhi said, is society
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  Speaker 1: that takes care of its animals would take care of
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  Speaker 1: its people. But a society that does not take care
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  Speaker 1: of its animals will not take care of its people.
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  Speaker 1: And that's exactly what we have in New York City.
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  Speaker 1: As I began the show telling you about the year
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  Speaker 1: anniversary of the horrible, horrific death of Debrina Kawama at
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  Speaker 1: the subway station in Coney Island on the F train
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  Speaker 1: when she was set up into a human torch and
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  Speaker 1: how a year later they won't even say her name
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  Speaker 1: because they don't even remember her name. Well, we did
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  Speaker 1: that yesterday, and I want to Apploy wor Natalie in
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  Speaker 1: the Morning for introducing that in the news the New
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  Speaker 1: York Post for covering it. But many people out there
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  Speaker 1: just have no idea what happened. Let's go to Sergio,
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  Speaker 1: who's calling from New Jersey. Your turn to be heard
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  Speaker 1: here at seven to ten. WA Sergio.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Curtis. I was wondering if you can elaborate on
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  Speaker 4: Bob Grant one time. Apparently he took some tile expended
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  Speaker 4: twas on the studio and you had to go and
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  Speaker 4: mediate for him to bring him back.
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  Speaker 1: Let me correct you. The king of talk radio, Bob Grant,
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  Speaker 1: who is my mentor, was the reason that I'm in
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  Speaker 1: talk radio because when I was first on the air
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  Speaker 1: at the old WABC, they didn't want to have me
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  Speaker 1: on the air, and he said, you got to have
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  Speaker 1: Curtis on the air because he knows where all the
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  Speaker 1: bones buried and who buried them, and he had the
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  Speaker 1: force in the talk radio world at that time that
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  Speaker 1: his wish basically became the command of the suits. The
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  Speaker 1: big markers. But he was a kleptomaniac in many, many ways,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt about it. I think you're conflating two separate stories.
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  Speaker 1: But let me tell you the best one that I
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  Speaker 1: was personally involved in. He was given a loner Cadillac
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  Speaker 1: back then in order to promote somebody purchasing a new car,
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  Speaker 1: used car. They have a new fangled expression now pre
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  Speaker 1: owned car. You know, for used cars. They would give
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  Speaker 1: you a loan a car. And Bob Grant, I think
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  Speaker 1: it was in Englewood, was promoting Cadillacs from Englewood. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: back then. They wanted to the El Dorado, they wanted
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  Speaker 1: the Fleetwood, the Seville. He had a car and his
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  Speaker 1: driver would take him back and forth to Manalapan on
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  Speaker 1: the Jersey Shore where he was living, and you have
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  Speaker 1: to give it back after a certain point of time.
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  Speaker 1: And the program director there, John Manelli, was intimidated by Bob,
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  Speaker 1: as he could intimidate many, and Bob wouldn't give the
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  Speaker 1: Cadillac back. So John Manelli said, he's your friend. Go
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  Speaker 1: in there and tell them there are new rules in
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  Speaker 1: the business. You can't snore like a lot of radio
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  Speaker 1: people did. Both Am and FM four years schnore free stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's called pay for play, and we could get in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: So I said, I got it John. I went in there.
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  Speaker 1: It took me maybe an hour and a half to
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  Speaker 1: convince the King of talk radio, Bob Grant, responsible for
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  Speaker 1: my career, to give me the keys and that we
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  Speaker 1: would get it back to the Cadillac dealership before they
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  Speaker 1: would report that to the FCC to be in violation
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  Speaker 1: of pay for play. But man, it was not easy.
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  Speaker 1: It's Bob Grant back then, the king of talk radio.
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  Speaker 1: Thought I'm entitled to the treasures like so many others.
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  Speaker 1: And if you listen to me up until January two,
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  Speaker 1: as I substitute for Mark Simone, you're gonna hear a
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  Speaker 1: lot of other stories you had no idea about that
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  Speaker 1: I want to share with you about this thing of ours,
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  Speaker 1: talk radio, because this is the business that we have
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  Speaker 1: chosen