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Mark's 10am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now the Guardian Angel of talk radio is here.
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  Speaker 2: Curtis Leewah guest host the Mark Simone Show on seven
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  Speaker 2: to ten.
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  Speaker 1: Woor foul.
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  Speaker 2: This is an early Christmas present for me to be
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  Speaker 2: back on talk radio and the station that I listened
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  Speaker 2: to all the time now war and to be substituting
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  Speaker 2: for the best talk show hosts in all of New
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  Speaker 2: York City, March Simon. Nobody's been doing it longer, and
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  Speaker 2: nobody's been doing it better. I worked with March Simon
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  Speaker 2: over at WABC, and then he was a competitor against me.
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  Speaker 2: So is nobody who knows talk radio better than March Simon.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a real honor to be able to come
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  Speaker 2: in and substitute for this life. And having met with
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  Speaker 2: Tom Cutty, who's the program director who I knew at WPLJ.
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  Speaker 2: I remember what happened when Cumulus, who owned a cluster
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  Speaker 2: of stations, they had decided that they wanted to get
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  Speaker 2: out of the business in New York. That made no
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  Speaker 2: sense to me, and they turned off the lights on
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  Speaker 2: the most iconic FM.
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  Speaker 3: Station with the call letters WPLJ.
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't believe that, and Tom then obviously was picked up
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  Speaker 2: by wor has been a great program director here and
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  Speaker 2: I've had an opportunity to sample all of the hosts
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  Speaker 2: and presenters here at WOOR from Larry Menty in the
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  Speaker 2: Morning was so kind to me during the election cycle
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  Speaker 2: to obviously mark them all my biggest fan. Both in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty one when I ran from mayor against Eric Adams,
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  Speaker 2: and I did warn you, didn't I say, is he
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  Speaker 2: that he would be a crook and there would be chaos,
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  Speaker 2: But nobody wanted to listen. Everybody said to me, you
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  Speaker 2: were right, we should have listened. Yeah, you should have listened.
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  Speaker 2: And we suffered, and as a result of his massive failure,
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  Speaker 2: we ended up with Johann Mondami. We're gonna get into
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  Speaker 2: all of that and a lot of the background that
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  Speaker 2: went into clearly what is the most historic press I said,
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  Speaker 2: president setting election that has ever taken place in the
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  Speaker 2: City of New York for mayor. It took on international, national, regional,
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  Speaker 2: and local ramifications for a number of reasons. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to explore all of that, and I'm going to dig
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  Speaker 2: up the bones, because nobody knows where the bones are
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  Speaker 2: buried more than courteously, and I will dig them up
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  Speaker 2: and I will expose a lot of folks and what
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  Speaker 2: they did during this election cycle to prevent a fair
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  Speaker 2: square election in which people could go into the voting
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  Speaker 2: booths and choose candidates based on the issues. On this
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  Speaker 2: desire to have you constantly play dropout, dropout, drop out,
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  Speaker 2: drop out.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to get into all of that.
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  Speaker 2: And as you heard at the top of the news hour,
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  Speaker 2: iHeart again this powerful owner of so many radio stations
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  Speaker 2: in the nation to be able to broadcast here as
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  Speaker 2: I have from many of the different programs both on
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  Speaker 2: FM and AM over the years as a guest, and
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  Speaker 2: to hear Larry the news Guy talk about where I
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  Speaker 2: will be at two o'clock this afternoon. It is a
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  Speaker 2: story that the local officials in New York City want
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  Speaker 2: to go away.
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  Speaker 3: It is the.
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  Speaker 2: Most horrific case that has ever occurred, a tragedy, a crime,
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  Speaker 2: an act of.
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  Speaker 3: Barbaric proportion.
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  Speaker 2: And in all my years of writing, the subways, and
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  Speaker 2: I've been riding the subway since I was five years
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  Speaker 2: old by myself nineteen fifty nine, took my first ride
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  Speaker 2: on the L train. L stood for Lousey Line, Rockaway Parkway,
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  Speaker 2: last stop in Kenarsi, where I was raised and I've
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  Speaker 2: been riding ever since. It'll be forty seven years in
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  Speaker 2: February since I started the Guardian Angels to protect people
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  Speaker 2: both in the subways and streets here, across the nation
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  Speaker 2: and in thirteen countries around the world, and increasingly having
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  Speaker 2: to come to the aid of women like the brin
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  Speaker 2: and Kowam. Yeah, the Brina Kowam was homeless, emotionally disturbed,
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  Speaker 2: like so many who live in the subways, and she
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  Speaker 2: was sent on fire by that illegal alien, Sebastian Zepeta
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  Speaker 2: that we were housing in a homeless shelter at great
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  Speaker 2: expense in East New York Samaritan House. I thought they
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  Speaker 2: took care of people with drug issues, but they were
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  Speaker 2: making a lot of money at our taxpayer's expense. And
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  Speaker 2: he was a pyromaniac. We're going to go into all
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  Speaker 2: of those details, but this is what I.
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  Speaker 3: Do on a race basis.
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  Speaker 2: Since the moment that I lost the election, I haven't
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  Speaker 2: missed the beat. I've been down in the subways and
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  Speaker 2: in the streets and taking care of those poor lost souls,
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  Speaker 2: the homeless, the emotionally disturbed, who shouldn't be there, and
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  Speaker 2: yet they live there. They reside there, no matter who
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  Speaker 2: the mayor was, whether it was Comrade Bildeblasio, the part
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  Speaker 2: time mayor of the Dope from Park Slope, along with
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  Speaker 2: his grift of wife Charline. We'll talk about that later on,
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  Speaker 2: because he owes US one and a half billion dollars
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  Speaker 2: money that was taken for a program called Thrive that
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  Speaker 2: was supposed to help the emotionally disturb. I don't ever
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  Speaker 2: remember one person having been helped, and then by Eric
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  Speaker 2: Adams Swagerman.
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  Speaker 3: With no plan.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, where is he? What country is Eric Adams?
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  Speaker 2: The cor up one in today? Sort of like when
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  Speaker 2: Matt Lower used to do the morning show at NBC.
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  Speaker 2: You know what country is Matt Lwer in?
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  Speaker 3: Today?
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  Speaker 2: This guy is, I mean, a grifter like you can't believe,
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  Speaker 2: and oo far soon he will be gone. But I
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  Speaker 2: also want to talk about what happened behind the scenes,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm doing it on a radio station Wor of
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  Speaker 2: which I made my very first appearance back in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: seventy one, having been named the newspaper Boy of the Year,
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  Speaker 2: having delivered the daily news like so many people did,
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  Speaker 2: and growing up saved five people in a burning building
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  Speaker 2: at that time that got the attention of then President
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  Speaker 2: Richard Nixon, got an award in the White House, and
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  Speaker 2: then my very first interview upon my return to New
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  Speaker 2: York City was at fourteen forty Broadway, the mid morning
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  Speaker 2: show hosted by Arlene Francis. Boy, I've had the bug
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  Speaker 2: ever since talking on radio. So actually WOOR provided me
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  Speaker 2: my baptism.
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  Speaker 3: In radio with my very first interview.
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  Speaker 2: As they escorted me around, I look at all the
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  Speaker 2: various studios, the news room that had many men and
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  Speaker 2: women that were processing the news back then, and it's
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  Speaker 2: one of the most iconic symbols of talk radio in
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  Speaker 2: the nation. With only three call letters WR everybody else right,
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  Speaker 2: it's four like where I was from where I spent
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  Speaker 2: most of my life in talk radio WABC close to
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  Speaker 2: thirty years. There were some other stations in between. You
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  Speaker 2: know how long you've been in talk radio by the
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  Speaker 2: number of radio stations that you've worked at. But WABC
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  Speaker 2: was the bulk of my time there. In all different
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  Speaker 2: time slots. Morning Drive, it was Angels in the Morning
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  Speaker 2: with my wife Lisa at that time. Then there was
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  Speaker 2: a spot morning Drive with Ron Koby, whose Mommy was
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  Speaker 2: a comedy for many years. I did mid mornings, I
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  Speaker 2: did overnights, I did weekends. I was always available twenty
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  Speaker 2: four to seven, three sixty five, so that the acronym
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  Speaker 2: stood for WABC, always broadcasting Curtis and so going into
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  Speaker 2: this election cycle, early on, I made it very clear
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  Speaker 2: that I would seek the Republican nomination a run for
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  Speaker 2: mayor again, as I did in twenty twenty one. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, with no help from WABC back then. None
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  Speaker 2: people should know that the orders came from management and
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  Speaker 2: ownership that you were not to talk about Curtis Leewel
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  Speaker 2: when he was running for mayor. In fact, you were
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  Speaker 2: not to interview Curtis Lee were back in twenty twenty one,
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  Speaker 2: there was a.
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  Speaker 3: Big sign in the newsroom.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, let's just say. There was no excuse for that.
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  Speaker 2: And I wasn't supported by anybody. They were at WABC
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  Speaker 2: running for mayor. Although they weren't insulting, they weren't personally
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  Speaker 2: attacking me. The owner and operator John Katchamatidis was supporting
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  Speaker 2: Eric Adams. Everyone was under the IMPRESSI that he was
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  Speaker 2: supporting me, because he would say, oh, with family here, Curtis,
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  Speaker 2: he knows more about the city than everyone else.
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  Speaker 3: And let's face it, that's true.
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  Speaker 2: Whether you like my politics or not, whether you like
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  Speaker 2: my style or not, there's nobody who knows more about
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  Speaker 2: the City of New York to me. But as it
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  Speaker 2: goes from twenty twenty one to twenty twenty five, the
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  Speaker 2: drum beat for me to drop out, and boy was
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  Speaker 2: a steady drum beat from June. Excuse me, make that
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  Speaker 2: just about July fourth, on.
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  Speaker 3: Our nation's birthday.
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  Speaker 2: I remember, I was in Travis Staten Island, as I
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  Speaker 2: am every year with the Guardian Angels, the longest running
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  Speaker 2: Fourth of July parade in the nation. Eric Adams was
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  Speaker 2: out there because he had been reborn, resurrected with the
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  Speaker 2: failure of Andrew Cuomo, who threw in the tow when
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  Speaker 2: losing convincingly to Zorhan Mondami. Just give you an idea.
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  Speaker 2: On March first, when Andrew cmo announced that he was
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  Speaker 2: running for Maya for the Democratic nomination, he was clocking
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  Speaker 2: at forty percent in the polls. Zorhan Mandami was dead
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  Speaker 2: last in the Democratic primary at one percent. By June
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  Speaker 2: twenty fourth, Zoron Mondami had beat him by thirteen percent
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  Speaker 2: because Andrew Cuomo mailed it in didn't run any kind
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  Speaker 2: of a campaign, and so they resurrected Eric Adams, who
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  Speaker 2: chose not to run. And this guy, right out of
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  Speaker 2: the box, brought all the crooks back into the house
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  Speaker 2: of Eric Adams and they were getting wind dined in
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  Speaker 2: pocket lined by.
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  Speaker 3: The real estate interests.
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  Speaker 2: And he crashed and burned and dropped out in September
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  Speaker 2: and then boy died. They ratchet it up the masters
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  Speaker 2: of the universe, the billionaires. John Casimatidis, owner and operator
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  Speaker 2: who was the the maestro of the orchestra that was
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  Speaker 2: constantly banging a drum that critically had to drop out,
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  Speaker 2: drop out for the good of the city.
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  Speaker 3: And I remember he.
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  Speaker 2: Was saying, Oh, I'm gonna leave, I'm gonna sell my businesses.
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  Speaker 3: I'm down in Florida.
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  Speaker 2: The moment Zohan Mandami was announced the winner on November fourth,
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden he would saying, oh, we got
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  Speaker 2: to work with the mayor.
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  Speaker 3: Oh for the good of the city.
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  Speaker 2: Because these billionaires, along with Ackman and others, made it
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  Speaker 2: seem like they would be fear fright, hysteria, and all
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  Speaker 2: they did was hype that every day.
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  Speaker 3: But you see, they always back channel. They always have
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  Speaker 3: a backdoor.
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  Speaker 2: They always have a way to survive, whereas the working
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  Speaker 2: class people that I represented in this election, because of
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  Speaker 2: the fear in the fright, they had no options. So
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  Speaker 2: it was an election cycle dominated by the masters of
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  Speaker 2: the universe. Donald Trump, the President, was no friend of mine.
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  Speaker 2: He went out of his way to disparage me on
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  Speaker 2: a regular basis. Talked about was Curtis a Republican? Is
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  Speaker 2: he is he really? Is he ready for prime time?
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  Speaker 2: And what about all those cats he and his wife
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  Speaker 2: Nancy have rescued and kept from being euthanized in shelters.
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  Speaker 2: So many people out there who do that for dogs
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  Speaker 2: and cats. He disparaged really a nation of dog and
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  Speaker 2: cat lovers, But he went out of his way to
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  Speaker 2: disparage me, along with Elin Musk and Steve Miller and
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  Speaker 2: so many of the other masters of the universe and
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  Speaker 2: the billionaires that he came down in the last few
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  Speaker 2: weeks with twenty million dollars spent in advertising, the word
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  Speaker 2: was a vote for Sliwa is a vote for Joran Mandami,
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  Speaker 2: vote for Andrew evilized Coomo, a guy responsible for the
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  Speaker 2: deaths of fifteen thousand elderly people.
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  Speaker 3: At the height of the.
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  Speaker 2: Pandemic and the lockdown, and a man was still paying
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  Speaker 2: his victims for sexual harassment, thirteen of them who worked
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  Speaker 2: for him, including a female state trooper, and the bill
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  Speaker 2: will probably get up to sixty million dollars. And once again,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whenever you speak to Eric Adams, I'm not guilty.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't do anything wrong. Andrew Cuomo, I didn't do
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  Speaker 2: anything wrong. Donald Trump, I didn't do anything wrong. Nobody
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  Speaker 2: does anything wrong. I'm somebody who is a lot different
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  Speaker 2: when I do things wrong. When I mess up, I
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  Speaker 2: fess up. And I certainly had a lot of opportunities
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  Speaker 2: in my life.
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  Speaker 3: To do that. But this is an opportunity for all
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  Speaker 3: of you to be hurt. In the words my.
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  Speaker 2: Great mentor Bob Grant, who actually was broadcasting here at
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  Speaker 2: w OR on two separate occasions, which we'll get into.
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  Speaker 3: Later on, feel free to give me a cause.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the airwaves of New York City and
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  Speaker 2: the Tri state area and beyond one of the most
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  Speaker 2: powerful radio stations that have ever been created in this nation.
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  Speaker 3: WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Give a call to eight hundred three two one zero
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  Speaker 2: seven ten. That's eight hundred three two one zero seven ten,
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  Speaker 2: and there's so much more to tell you about all
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  Speaker 2: my fairweather friends at WABC, which the acronym has become,
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  Speaker 2: always blaming Curtis and always bashing Curtis. You don't want
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  Speaker 2: to go anywhere, keep it right here at seven ten
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  Speaker 2: wor