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Hour 1: Former radio station competitor talk. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Now the Guardian Angel of talk radio is here. Curtis
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Speaker 1: Leewah guest host the Mark Simone Show on seven to ten.
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Speaker 2: Woor foul.
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Speaker 3: This is an early Christmas present for me to be
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Speaker 3: back on talk radio and the station that I listened
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Speaker 3: to all the time now war and to be substituting
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Speaker 3: for the best talk show hosts in all of New
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Speaker 3: York City, March Simon. Nobody's been doing it longer, and
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Speaker 3: nobody's been doing it better. I worked with March Simon
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Speaker 3: over at WABC, and then he was a competitor against me.
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Speaker 3: So is nobody who knows talk radio better than March Simon.
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Speaker 3: So it's a real honor to be able to come
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Speaker 3: in and substitute for this life. And having met with
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Speaker 3: Tom Cutty, who's the program director who I knew at WPLJ.
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Speaker 3: I remember what happened when Cumulus, who owned a cluster
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Speaker 3: of stations, they had decided that they wanted to get
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Speaker 3: out of the business in New York. That made no
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Speaker 3: sense to me, and they turned off the lights on
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Speaker 3: the most iconic FM.
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Speaker 4: Station with the call letters WPLJ.
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Speaker 3: Couldn't believe that, and Tom then obviously was picked up
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Speaker 3: by wor has been a great program director here and
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Speaker 3: I've had an opportunity to sample all of the hosts
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Speaker 3: and presenters here at WOOR from Larry Menty in the
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Speaker 3: Morning was so kind to me during the election cycle
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Speaker 3: to obviously mark them all my biggest fan. Both in
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty one when I ran from mayor against Eric Adams,
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Speaker 3: and I did warn you, didn't I say, is he
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Speaker 3: that he would be a crook and there would be chaos,
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Speaker 3: But nobody wanted to listen. Everybody said to me, you
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Speaker 3: were right, we should have listened. Yeah, you should have listened.
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Speaker 3: And we suffered, and as a result of his massive failure,
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Speaker 3: we ended up with Johann Mondami. We're gonna get into
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Speaker 3: all of that and a lot of the background that
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Speaker 3: went into clearly what is the most historic press I said,
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Speaker 3: president setting election that has ever taken place in the
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Speaker 3: City of New York for mayor. It took on international, national, regional,
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Speaker 3: and local ramifications for a number of reasons. We're going
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Speaker 3: to explore all of that, and I'm going to dig
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Speaker 3: up the bones, because nobody knows where the bones are
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Speaker 3: buried more than courteously, and I will dig them up
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Speaker 3: and I will expose a lot of folks and what
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Speaker 3: they did during this election cycle to prevent a fair
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Speaker 3: square election in which people could go into the voting
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Speaker 3: booths and choose candidates based on the issues. On this
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Speaker 3: desire to have you constantly play dropout, dropout, drop out,
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Speaker 3: drop out.
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Speaker 4: We're going to get into all of that.
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Speaker 3: And as you heard at the top of the news hour,
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Speaker 3: iHeart again this powerful owner of so many radio stations
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Speaker 3: in the nation to be able to broadcast here as
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Speaker 3: I have from many of the different programs both on
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Speaker 3: FM and AM over the years as a guest, and
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Speaker 3: to hear Larry the news Guy talk about where I
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Speaker 3: will be at two o'clock this afternoon. It is a
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Speaker 3: story that the local officials in New York City want
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Speaker 3: to go away.
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Speaker 4: It is the.
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Speaker 3: Most horrific case that has ever occurred, a tragedy, a crime,
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Speaker 3: an act of.
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Speaker 4: Barbaric proportion.
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Speaker 3: And in all my years of writing, the subways, and
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Speaker 3: I've been riding the subway since I was five years
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Speaker 3: old by myself nineteen fifty nine, took my first ride
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Speaker 3: on the L train. L stood for Lousey Line, Rockaway Parkway,
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Speaker 3: last stop in Kenarsi, where I was raised and I've
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Speaker 3: been riding ever since. It'll be forty seven years in
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Speaker 3: February since I started the Guardian Angels to protect people
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Speaker 3: both in the subways and streets here, across the nation
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Speaker 3: and in thirteen countries around the world, and increasingly having
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Speaker 3: to come to the aid of women like the brin
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Speaker 3: and Kowam. Yeah, the Brina Kowam was homeless, emotionally disturbed,
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Speaker 3: like so many who live in the subways, and she
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Speaker 3: was sent on fire by that illegal alien, Sebastian Zepeta
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Speaker 3: that we were housing in a homeless shelter at great
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Speaker 3: expense in East New York Samaritan House. I thought they
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Speaker 3: took care of people with drug issues, but they were
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Speaker 3: making a lot of money at our taxpayer's expense. And
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Speaker 3: he was a pyromaniac. We're going to go into all
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Speaker 3: of those details, but this is what I.
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Speaker 4: Do on a race basis.
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Speaker 3: Since the moment that I lost the election, I haven't
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Speaker 3: missed the beat. I've been down in the subways and
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Speaker 3: in the streets and taking care of those poor lost souls,
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Speaker 3: the homeless, the emotionally disturbed, who shouldn't be there, and
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Speaker 3: yet they live there. They reside there, no matter who
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Speaker 3: the mayor was, whether it was Comrade Bildeblasio, the part
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Speaker 3: time mayor of the Dope from Park Slope, along with
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Speaker 3: his grift of wife Charline. We'll talk about that later on,
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Speaker 3: because he owes US one and a half billion dollars
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Speaker 3: money that was taken for a program called Thrive that
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Speaker 3: was supposed to help the emotionally disturb. I don't ever
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Speaker 3: remember one person having been helped, and then by Eric
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Speaker 3: Adams Swagerman.
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Speaker 4: With no plan.
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Speaker 3: By the way, where is he? What country is Eric Adams?
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Speaker 3: The cor up one in today? Sort of like when
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Speaker 3: Matt Lower used to do the morning show at NBC.
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Speaker 3: You know what country is Matt Lwer in?
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Speaker 4: Today?
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Speaker 3: This guy is, I mean, a grifter like you can't believe,
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Speaker 3: and oo far soon he will be gone. But I
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Speaker 3: also want to talk about what happened behind the scenes,
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Speaker 3: and I'm doing it on a radio station Wor of
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Speaker 3: which I made my very first appearance back in nineteen
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Speaker 3: seventy one, having been named the newspaper Boy of the Year,
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Speaker 3: having delivered the daily news like so many people did,
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Speaker 3: and growing up saved five people in a burning building
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Speaker 3: at that time that got the attention of then President
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Speaker 3: Richard Nixon, got an award in the White House, and
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Speaker 3: then my very first interview upon my return to New
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Speaker 3: York City was at fourteen forty Broadway, the mid morning
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Speaker 3: show hosted by Arlene Francis. Boy, I've had the bug
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Speaker 3: ever since talking on radio. So actually WOOR provided me
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Speaker 3: my baptism.
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Speaker 4: In radio with my very first interview.
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Speaker 3: As they escorted me around, I look at all the
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Speaker 3: various studios, the news room that had many men and
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Speaker 3: women that were processing the news back then, and it's
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Speaker 3: one of the most iconic symbols of talk radio in
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Speaker 3: the nation. With only three call letters WR everybody else right,
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Speaker 3: it's four like where I was from where I spent
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Speaker 3: most of my life in talk radio WABC close to
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Speaker 3: thirty years. There were some other stations in between. You
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Speaker 3: know how long you've been in talk radio by the
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Speaker 3: number of radio stations that you've worked at. But WABC
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Speaker 3: was the bulk of my time there. In all different
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Speaker 3: time slots. Morning Drive, it was Angels in the Morning
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Speaker 3: with my wife Lisa at that time. Then there was
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Speaker 3: a spot morning Drive with Ron Koby, whose Mommy was
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Speaker 3: a comedy for many years. I did mid mornings, I
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Speaker 3: did overnights, I did weekends. I was always available twenty
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Speaker 3: four to seven, three sixty five, so that the acronym
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Speaker 3: stood for WABC, always broadcasting Curtis and so going into
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Speaker 3: this election cycle, early on, I made it very clear
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Speaker 3: that I would seek the Republican nomination a run for
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Speaker 3: mayor again, as I did in twenty twenty one. By
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Speaker 3: the way, with no help from WABC back then. None
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Speaker 3: people should know that the orders came from management and
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Speaker 3: ownership that you were not to talk about Curtis Leewel
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Speaker 3: when he was running for mayor. In fact, you were
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Speaker 3: not to interview Curtis Lee were back in twenty twenty one,
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Speaker 3: there was a.
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Speaker 4: Big sign in the newsroom. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I mean, let's just say. There was no excuse for that.
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Speaker 3: And I wasn't supported by anybody. They were at WABC
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Speaker 3: running for mayor. Although they weren't insulting, they weren't personally
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Speaker 3: attacking me. The owner and operator John Katchamatidis was supporting
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Speaker 3: Eric Adams. Everyone was under the IMPRESSI that he was
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Speaker 3: supporting me, because he would say, oh, with family here, Curtis,
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Speaker 3: he knows more about the city than everyone else.
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Speaker 4: And let's face it, that's true.
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Speaker 3: Whether you like my politics or not, whether you like
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Speaker 3: my style or not, there's nobody who knows more about
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Speaker 3: the City of New York to me. But as it
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Speaker 3: goes from twenty twenty one to twenty twenty five, the
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Speaker 3: drum beat for me to drop out, and boy was
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Speaker 3: a steady drum beat from June. Excuse me, make that.
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Speaker 4: Just about July fourth, on our nation's birthday.
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Speaker 3: I remember, I was in Travis Staten Island, as I
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Speaker 3: am every year with the Guardian Angels, the longest running
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Speaker 3: Fourth of July parade in the nation. Eric Adams was
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Speaker 3: out there because he had been reborn, resurrected with the
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Speaker 3: failure of Andrew Cuomo, who threw in the tow when
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Speaker 3: losing convincingly to Zorhan Mondami. Just give you an idea.
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Speaker 3: On March first, when Andrew cmo announced that he was
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Speaker 3: running for Maya for the Democratic nomination, he was clocking
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Speaker 3: at forty percent in the polls. Zorhan Mandami was dead
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Speaker 3: last in the Democratic primary at one percent. By June
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Speaker 3: twenty fourth, Zoron Mondami had beat him by thirteen percent
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Speaker 3: because Andrew Cuomo mailed it in didn't run any kind
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Speaker 3: of a campaign, and so they resurrected Eric Adams, who
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Speaker 3: chose not to run. And this guy, right out of
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Speaker 3: the box, brought all the crooks back into the house
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Speaker 3: of Eric Adams and they were getting wind dined in
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Speaker 3: pocket lined by.
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Speaker 4: The real estate interests.
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Speaker 3: And he crashed and burned and dropped out in September
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Speaker 3: and then boy died. They ratchet it up the masters
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Speaker 3: of the universe, the billionaires. John Casimatidis, owner and operator
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Speaker 3: who was the the maestro of the orchestra that was
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Speaker 3: constantly banging a drum that critically had to drop out,
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Speaker 3: drop out for the good of the city.
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Speaker 4: And I remember he.
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Speaker 3: Was saying, Oh, I'm gonna leave, I'm gonna sell my businesses.
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Speaker 4: I'm down in Florida.
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Speaker 3: The moment Zohan Mandami was announced the winner on November fourth,
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Speaker 3: all of a sudden he would saying, oh, we got
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Speaker 3: to work with the mayor.
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Speaker 4: Oh for the good of the city.
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Speaker 3: Because these billionaires, along with Ackman and others, made it
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Speaker 3: seem like they would be fear fright, hysteria, and all
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Speaker 3: they did was hype that every day.
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Speaker 4: But you see, they always back channel. They always have
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Speaker 4: a backdoor.
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Speaker 3: They always have a way to survive, whereas the working
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Speaker 3: class people that I represented in this election, because of
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Speaker 3: the fear in the fright, they had no options. So
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Speaker 3: it was an election cycle dominated by the masters of
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Speaker 3: the universe. Donald Trump, the President, was no friend of mine.
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Speaker 3: He went out of his way to disparage me on
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Speaker 3: a regular basis. Talked about was Curtis a Republican? Is
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Speaker 3: he is he really? Is he ready for prime time?
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Speaker 3: And what about all those cats he and his wife
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Speaker 3: Nancy have rescued and kept from being euthanized in shelters.
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Speaker 3: So many people out there who do that for dogs
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Speaker 3: and cats. He disparaged really a nation of dog and
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Speaker 3: cat lovers, But he went out of his way to
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Speaker 3: disparage me, along with Elin Musk and Steve Miller and
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Speaker 3: so many of the other masters of the universe and
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Speaker 3: the billionaires that he came down in the last few
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Speaker 3: weeks with twenty million dollars spent in advertising, the word
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Speaker 3: was a vote for Sliwa is a vote for Joran Mandami,
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Speaker 3: vote for Andrew evilized Coomo, a guy responsible for the
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Speaker 3: deaths of fifteen thousand elderly people.
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Speaker 4: At the height of the.
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Speaker 3: Pandemic and the lockdown, and a man was still paying
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Speaker 3: his victims for sexual harassment, thirteen of them who worked
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Speaker 3: for him, including a female state trooper, and the bill
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Speaker 3: will probably get up to sixty million dollars. And once again,
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Speaker 3: you know, whenever you speak to Eric Adams, I'm not guilty.
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Speaker 3: I didn't do anything wrong. Andrew Cuomo, I didn't do
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Speaker 3: anything wrong. Donald Trump, I didn't do anything wrong. Nobody
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Speaker 3: does anything wrong. I'm somebody who is a lot different
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Speaker 3: when I do things wrong. When I mess up, I
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Speaker 3: fess up. And I certainly had a lot of opportunities
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Speaker 3: in my life.
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Speaker 4: To do that. But this is an opportunity for all
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Speaker 4: of you to be hurt. In the words my.
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Speaker 3: Great mentor Bob Grant, who actually was broadcasting here at
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Speaker 3: w OR on two separate occasions, which we'll get into.
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Speaker 4: Later on, feel free to give me a cause.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the airwaves of New York City and
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Speaker 3: the Tri state area and beyond one of the most
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Speaker 3: powerful radio stations that have ever been created in this nation.
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Speaker 4: WOR.
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Speaker 3: Give a call to eight hundred three two one zero
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Speaker 3: seven ten. That's eight hundred three two one zero seven ten,
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Speaker 3: and there's so much more to tell you about all
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Speaker 3: my fairweather friends at WABC, which the acronym has become
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Speaker 3: always blaming Curtis and always bashing Curtis. You don't want
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Speaker 3: to go anywhere, Keep it right here at seven ten WOR.
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Speaker 4: Street Smart Straight Talk.
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Speaker 1: Curtis leewa guest host for Mark Simone on sevent ten WOO.
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Speaker 4: I said I would be back, and I'm back.
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Speaker 3: Your's Julie Curtis Sliwa on WORR Radio, substituting.
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Speaker 4: For Mark Simone.
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Speaker 3: If you're just joining us right now, My wife Nancy
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Speaker 3: listening as she is going off to celebrate the birthday
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Speaker 3: of her mother Beth. Wish I could have been with her,
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Speaker 3: but I would not turn down this opportunity, that's for sure.
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Speaker 4: And on my way here.
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Speaker 3: This morning, as I was riding on the subways as
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Speaker 3: I do each and every day, taking the car from
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Speaker 3: car to car, looking at the homeless, the emotionally disturb
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Speaker 3: any of them that I know by first name, and
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Speaker 3: walking down the block, and I know the outgoing mayor.
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Speaker 3: He can't leave fast enough for me. Eric Adams, who
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Speaker 3: knows what country is in today, A tax base expense
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Speaker 3: says that there are no homeless settlements up in the street.
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Speaker 4: They're all over the area in upper Midtown.
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Speaker 3: And one thing that was normal for me for quite
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Speaker 3: some time, I joined the morning show with sid Rosenberg
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Speaker 3: five mornings a week. And I must tell you that
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Speaker 3: he turned out to be like Tessio from The Godfa.
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Speaker 3: He was actually setting up meetings with Andrew CuMo and
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Speaker 3: backstabbing me all through that campaign.
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Speaker 4: And I remember he had asked me originally he.
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Speaker 3: Could you come on one morning a week, then two, three,
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Speaker 3: four five.
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Speaker 4: I loved it. I love doing it.
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Speaker 3: Do whatever kind of radio that you want for unsue
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Speaker 3: my veins and arteries. But he pretended to be a friend,
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Speaker 3: and like so many, turned out to be a fair
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Speaker 3: with a friend. And I in that scene in The
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Speaker 3: Godfather where Don Corleon tells Michael, whoever set up the meeting,
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Speaker 3: that's the trader Tessio sid Roseberg paranoid, I would say,
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Speaker 3: low self esteem. And if Bernard mcgirth, bless his soul,
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Speaker 3: who was his partner, were alive today, that never would
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Speaker 3: have happened. In fact, I was listening to Doctor lead
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Speaker 3: him in Great Doctor saved so many. I had stage
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Speaker 3: four prostate cancer almost took my life. But I remember
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Speaker 3: sitting down with Bernard McGirk when he was explaining to
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Speaker 3: me his symptoms, and wow, I knew by then it
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Speaker 3: had metastasized and the last year of his life horrible
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Speaker 3: way to live. So that's why, if there's anything that
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Speaker 3: should come out of this program, men and ladies who
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Speaker 3: are listening, force your men folk to get that simple
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Speaker 3: PSA test, a prick of the finger, that's all. It is,
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Speaker 3: a simple blood test. It has saved so many lives.
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Speaker 3: It's something that Bernard McGirk, or an iconic figure in
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Speaker 3: radio for so many years, as really the wingman for
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Speaker 3: don Imus, who could never have done what he did
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Speaker 3: in the mornings without Bernard McGirk in so many ways,
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Speaker 3: probably would have been alive and well now if he
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Speaker 3: had taken a simple PSA test. And we're coming towards
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Speaker 3: the Christmas holiday New Year's some of those rare occasions
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Speaker 3: where family and friends get together, feel free to get
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Speaker 3: out that word. If you're forty five or older as
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Speaker 3: a male, you gotta get your yearly PSA test.
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Speaker 4: It's a simple partcular finger. And women, I give you a.
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Speaker 3: License to nagman to just be non stop chattering and
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Speaker 3: nattering away and force them to do the simple thing,
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Speaker 3: because you would be amazed the stronger the guy. And
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Speaker 3: Bernard McGirk was one of the strongest men alive. But
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Speaker 3: the stronger a guy is, the less likely they want
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Speaker 3: to go through that process because they feel what the
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Speaker 3: outcome may be. Make sure you spread out that word
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Speaker 3: during this holiday gathering of so many. And then also
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Speaker 3: at WABC, whereas I had to deal with Tessio in
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Speaker 3: the morning, said Rosenberg, who I'm still pulling the knives
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Speaker 3: out of my back from him setting up these meetings
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Speaker 3: with Andrew Como and working on his behalf every step
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Speaker 3: of the way, like a five dinners and five lunches
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Speaker 3: with the guy before he ever came on the radio.
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Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden, WABC turned into always
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Speaker 3: blaming Curtis for the rise of Jorhan Mandami, then always
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Speaker 3: broadcasting Cuomo in the last month, and then to this day,
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Speaker 3: always bashing Curtis. And then there was Greg Kelly in
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Speaker 3: the afternoon. It's Greg Kelly who knew his father father,
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Speaker 3: great guy the son huh. During the primary, the Democratic primary,
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Speaker 3: he was actually advocating to his listeners that they support
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Speaker 3: Jorhan Mandami over Andrew Cuomo.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, him.
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Speaker 3: And then in the end, through the directions of John Katzimatitis,
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Speaker 3: the owners and operators and managers at WABC, he spoke
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Speaker 3: the party line. He said, oh, Curtis is running a
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Speaker 3: lazy campaign. Yeah, twenty hours a day of a twenty
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Speaker 3: four hour day, and obviously social networking that was getting
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Speaker 3: the message out in so many ways. But oh no, no,
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Speaker 3: Curtis is a lazy campaigner. He doesn't know what he's doing.
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Speaker 3: And then finally, the worst trader of all, Dominic Carter.
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Speaker 3: Dominic Carter would not be in radio today if not
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Speaker 3: for my intervention on his behalf. Without going into great details,
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Speaker 3: he had problems, like we've all had problems in our life.
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to get into the nitty gritty, but
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Speaker 3: he had done something that had basically made him an untouchable.
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Speaker 3: And I remember I went to the mat with management
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Speaker 3: and ownership at WABC. I said, look, give Dominic Carter
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Speaker 3: an opportunity. You know, he knows about New York City.
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Speaker 3: He had been the voice and the image of New
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Speaker 3: York one for so many years and lost his job
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Speaker 3: because of that problem that I referred to and then
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Speaker 3: I schooled him. I took him into what I called
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Speaker 3: the talk radio boot Camp at WABC because we really
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Speaker 3: didn't have a program director at that time, so I
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Speaker 3: worked as sort of the adjunct you have an adjunct
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Speaker 3: profession in college, I was the adjunct program director. There
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Speaker 3: were a number of figures there who were in the
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Speaker 3: critically with talk radio boot camp, and he listened. He
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Speaker 3: was a reporter, and I said, you no longer a reporter, Dominic.
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Speaker 3: He got to be a talk radio shows. He was
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Speaker 3: the first to consistently cast dispersions against me in this campaign.
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Speaker 3: And it's not about just saying, oh, I don't think
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Speaker 3: you can win. That's fine. There was some here at
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Speaker 3: wr who said exactly that. But to get personal about it,
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Speaker 3: talk about how I wasn't running a good campaign, talk
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Speaker 3: about problems that I was having in the campaign, things
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Speaker 3: that he knew nothing about, and doing it on a
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Speaker 3: regular basis, so.
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Speaker 4: You should know.
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Speaker 3: And I just gave you a thumbnail scare of the
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Speaker 3: problems that I had at WABC. And probably first and
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Speaker 3: foremost the image that went out during the campaign is
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Speaker 3: that I was an employee of WABC. I was on
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Speaker 3: leave from WABC. I was part of the dysfunctional family.
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Speaker 4: No. No, when you leave to run for office, you're gone.
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Speaker 3: You don't get paid, you don't get benefits, you don't
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Speaker 3: get anything. You're no longer an employee of WABC. But
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Speaker 3: they created that impression like somehow John Katzimatidis was still
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Speaker 3: pulling my strings that he could command me to drop out. Ay,
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Speaker 3: how did that work out? My former colleagues at WABC.
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Speaker 3: In the next segment, I promise I've teased you enough,
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Speaker 3: we're going to go to the phone calls, our numbers one,
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Speaker 3: eight hundred and three to two, one zero, seven to ten.
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Speaker 3: We're also going to talk about at least the phonic
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Speaker 3: herself suddenly dropping out. I can give you all the
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Speaker 3: nitty gritty details of what is another shot across the
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Speaker 3: bow of a very weakened Republican party in both New
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Speaker 3: York City and in New York State, right here in
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Speaker 3: my place to be for Mark Simone wor seventen.
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Speaker 4: Talk Radio with Street Crag.
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Speaker 1: Literally Curtis Leewa joined sevent ten WR the guest os
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Speaker 1: for Mark Samore.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I know that so many are saying, boy, can
23:36
Speaker 3: I get what Curtis Lee was saying today in a podcast,
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Speaker 3: because he sounds like Michael Corleone and the Godfather in
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Speaker 3: that baptism scene in the church where he says I'm
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Speaker 3: settling all scores. In fact, that church is actually a
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Speaker 3: Mount Laredo on the south shore of Staten Island.
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Speaker 4: That's where it was filmed. Amazing place if you've ever
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Speaker 4: been out there.
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Speaker 3: But no, no, no, no, no, no no, I haven't
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Speaker 3: settled all scores, is he? My enemies will die of
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Speaker 3: a thousand cuts. This is just a little bit of
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Speaker 3: so much more to come. In fact, Mark Simon was
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Speaker 3: kind enough to allow me to substitute for him till
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Speaker 3: January two, along with Tom Cutty, the program director and
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Speaker 3: obviously the big mockers at iHeart. So you're gonna be
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Speaker 3: listening every day ten to twelve and you will hear
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Speaker 3: more information that you never got before about this campaign
24:38
Speaker 3: that we just got through that made headlines all across
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Speaker 3: the world, and how when all was said and done,
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Speaker 3: the President of the United States, Donald Trump was calling
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Speaker 3: him remember Kami Mandami, Remember oh the Kami. Oh what
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Speaker 3: a love fest at the White House, And how he
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Speaker 3: threw at least the phonic right under the bus Oh,
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Speaker 3: you're gonna talk all about that in the next hour.
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Speaker 3: It's part of the reason that she unexpectedly dropped out.
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Speaker 3: Well you thought unexpectedly. I kind of figured that was
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Speaker 3: going to happen. I'll let you know. But let's go
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Speaker 3: to the phones, as I promised a while back. First
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Speaker 3: call her up is Rich who's calling from icelip your
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Speaker 3: turn to be heard here on wor Rich.
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Speaker 5: Well, Curtis, when they can mock you about the seven
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Speaker 5: ten percent of the vote, but when you take seven ten,
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Speaker 5: fifteen to twenty percent of their ratings, you'll get the
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Speaker 5: last one. You put it right up there, took Ash.
25:37
Speaker 5: I don't know if you're going to get a show there,
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Speaker 5: you better get.
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Speaker 4: A show there.
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Speaker 5: I don't want anybody to lose their job. But wherever
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Speaker 5: you go against you're going to destroy Curtis, You're going
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Speaker 5: to take them. You're going to take them down.
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Speaker 4: Uh. Rich, You know my style of radio. I am
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Speaker 4: old school. I never forgive and I never forget.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I have a lot that I'm going to be
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Speaker 3: sharing with all of you over the course of the
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Speaker 3: next few days till January twod and the welcoming in
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Speaker 3: of the new year. Let's go to Tony, who's calling
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Speaker 3: from white planes. Your turn to be heard at w
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Speaker 3: or tone.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Hi, Curtis, Curtis. The biggest backstare row is Dominic Carter.
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Speaker 6: He's like Salasso. He kept saying from day one he
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Speaker 6: can't win, he can't win, telling the drop out every day.
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Speaker 6: You know, you know why he wanted you to lose,
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Speaker 6: because he said so. He didn't want to prove himself wrong.
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Speaker 6: As a matter of fact, I even called up and
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Speaker 6: I don't know if you remember, you were on the
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Speaker 6: air and I said, if Curtis wins, will you will
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Speaker 6: you apologize to Curtis? And you said no, he don't
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Speaker 6: have to apologize. But he kept saying from day one
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Speaker 6: that you can't win, you got to drop out. He's
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Speaker 6: the reason why we got Zoran. And then Benny gets
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Speaker 6: down the air and he lies and he says that
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Speaker 6: if you dropped out, that Cromo were one who's like
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Speaker 6: if he I can't believe they even thought of him
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Speaker 6: being a mayor after.
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Speaker 3: Well, I got to tell you that point you made,
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Speaker 3: Tony to all of those naysayers out there who maybe
27:17
Speaker 3: graduated school from social promotion and need remedial training in mathematics.
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Speaker 3: If you had taken every vote that I got in
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Speaker 3: this election and it had gone to Andrew evilized Cromo,
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Speaker 3: he still would have lost.
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Speaker 6: Curtis, That's exactly what I was going to tell you.
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Speaker 6: He got on the air and was saying that, like,
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Speaker 6: if you dropped out, that Clomo would have won with it.
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Speaker 6: So he's they're assuming that everybody that voted for you
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Speaker 6: would turned around and vote for Cromo. That was idiot.
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Speaker 3: Well it goes beyond that, Tony. It goes to the
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Speaker 3: fact that when Cromo was first running on March first
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Speaker 3: of twenty twenty four, whether it was Dominic Carter or
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Speaker 3: whether it was Tessio, said Rosenberg, that told they were saying, Curtis,
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Speaker 3: why you're knocking yourself out.
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Speaker 4: There's gonna be a coronation.
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Speaker 3: They all predicted that Cuomo would win in a runaway
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Speaker 3: victory in the Democratic primary, and they all act as
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Speaker 3: if they are savants, like they know everything. They know
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Speaker 3: nothing about nothing. To be honest, they're not out in
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Speaker 3: the streets. They didn't watch the Zoronistas in all five boroughs,
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Speaker 3: in all the neighborhoods like I did. Because I'm in
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Speaker 3: all the three hundred and fifty neighborhoods. I'm in every
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Speaker 3: subway station, on every subway line. I could see the energy,
28:33
Speaker 3: I could see the passion. There was nothing for Cuomo,
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Speaker 3: and yet they pretended as if he would suddenly be victorious.
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Speaker 4: How did that work out?
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Speaker 1: Uh?
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Speaker 4: How come you didn't all move away? How you all
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Speaker 4: don movement? I'm selling? Oh yeah, yeah, they're all here.
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Speaker 4: They're in.
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Speaker 3: What my grandfather Fidelo Bianchino used to say from about
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Speaker 3: the Italy Kiakia Pinocchio's let's go if we can. To Lily,
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Speaker 3: who's calling from Queen's your turn to be heard here
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Speaker 3: at WR Lily, Hi.
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Speaker 7: Curtis, you made my Christmas gift. Curtis, and I'll never
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Speaker 7: put on ABC. Oh. I'd loved that for years, but
29:20
Speaker 7: with what they did to you and Cindy Adams especially,
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Speaker 7: forget it, Curtis client issue something. I bought that Tony
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Speaker 7: Bennett book and Howard Beach at your campaign office, and
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Speaker 7: I wonder if you got it.
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Speaker 4: I got it. I got it. They were great to
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Speaker 4: Howard Beach.
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Speaker 3: I mean it was right up in fact, was right
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Speaker 3: up from Newpark Peacheria. I love Newpark pecheria. That's why
29:49
Speaker 3: I had my first slice of peacha. Also in nineteen
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Speaker 3: fifty nine when visiting my aunt Mary and uncle Steven,
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Speaker 3: cousin Butchie and Joey g the chief from Howard be
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Speaker 3: Each nineteen fifty nine, my first life of pizza was
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Speaker 3: said New Park Pizzeria, and I've been going there ever since.
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Speaker 3: Don't worry about it, Lily. You don't need to listen
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Speaker 3: to WABC. They've lost so many listeners. They're down in
30:14
Speaker 3: the ratings. Just keep it right here to seven to
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Speaker 3: ten Worr. It's your new home away from home. Like
30:21
Speaker 3: for me, it's part of my radio listening familia. Now
30:28
Speaker 3: this is my family. WABC stabbed me in the back,
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Speaker 3: like they did all the listeners. Don't listen to them.
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Speaker 3: Keep it right here at seven to ten WOR.
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Speaker 1: The Beats Batch Curtis leewa guest host The Mark Simone
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Speaker 1: Show on seven ten woo.
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Speaker 2: Oh.
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Speaker 4: And you don't want to go anywhere.
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Speaker 3: He unexpected dropping out of the least staphonic. Who would
30:55
Speaker 3: have been a great governor here in the state of
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Speaker 3: New York. And nobody knows that situation better than yours, truly.
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Speaker 4: Nope, And I'll tell you what aleis.
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Speaker 3: Stephonic was my biggest supporter during this mayoral campaign. She
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Speaker 3: was loyal with capital l she never vacillated, and she
31:15
Speaker 3: is a woman of great character. And more importantly, in
31:21
Speaker 3: the two debates that I had and running for mayor,
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Speaker 3: if I had to throw a lifeline at somebody that
31:25
Speaker 3: says I need you to substitute for me.
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Speaker 4: I would have wanted at LEAs Stephonic up there.
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Speaker 3: She has eviscerated the presidents of Ivy League universities. She
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Speaker 3: eviscerated Andrew evilized Cuomo up on the hell in Congress,
31:41
Speaker 3: she eviscerated Kathy Grifter Hockel, who couldn't even remember who
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Speaker 3: the migrant killers were. Of all the victims in New
31:53
Speaker 3: York State, including Dobrina Kwam, who I will eulogize in
31:58
Speaker 3: the next hour because from here Wor I will be
32:02
Speaker 3: heading out to the f train platform in Coney Island.
32:07
Speaker 3: We're on this date a year ago, at seven point
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Speaker 3: thirty in the morning, this monster set her on fire
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Speaker 3: like a human torch. The cops ran up and down
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Speaker 3: on the platform like the Keystone Cops.
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Speaker 4: People were filming it so it could be live.
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Speaker 3: At five nobody helped this homeless woman from Tom's Riven,
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Speaker 3: New Jersey. It's quite a story. I am the Guardian Angels.
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Speaker 3: We will not forget. Unfortunately so many people did. And
32:39
Speaker 3: I remember that moment when Congressman Elis Stefanic was cross
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Speaker 3: examining Kathy Hokun said, tell me.
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Speaker 4: The name of the person who set.
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Speaker 3: Debrin and Kuam on fire. She didn't know, like she
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Speaker 3: didn't know any of the other migrant names. You're not
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Speaker 3: gonna want to miss this, ladies and gentlemen, because everyone
33:03
Speaker 3: is in shock that at least Stephonic is no longer
33:06
Speaker 3: running to become governor or the state of New York
33:08
Speaker 3: to save us. And there is a reason, and I
33:14
Speaker 3: trace it to President Donald Trump. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
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Speaker 3: threw her right under the bus, and that woman was
33:24
Speaker 3: not going to take it. Are you going anywhere? Keep
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Speaker 3: it right here at seven ten WR