December 22, 2025 • 33 mins
Former Republican candidate for Mayor of NYC and radio host Curtis Sliwa makes his return to the radio airwaves on 710 WOR, starting today, filling in for Mark Simone until January 2, 2026! Curtis discusses how he is spending his time after losing the mayoral race to mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. The Guardian Angels, Sliwa’s organization that helps the homeless, fights crime, and more, continues to be active in NYC and beyond. Curtis also breaks down recent events at his former radio station, which happens to be 710 WOR’s direct competitor. Curtis takes calls and speaks with listeners who are excited to hear him back on the air after his hiatus to run for mayor.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now the Guardian Angel of talk radio is here. Curtis
Leewah guest host the Mark Simone Show on seven to ten.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Woor foul.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
This is an early Christmas present for me to be
back on talk radio and the station that I listened
to all the time now war and to be substituting
for the best talk show hosts in all of New
York City, March Simon. Nobody's been doing it longer, and
nobody's been doing it better. I worked with March Simon
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over at WABC, and then he was a competitor against me.
So is nobody who knows talk radio better than March Simon.
So it's a real honor to be able to come
in and substitute for this life. And having met with
Tom Cutty, who's the program director who I knew at WPLJ.
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I remember what happened when Cumulus, who owned a cluster
of stations, they had decided that they wanted to get
out of the business in New York. That made no
sense to me, and they turned off the lights on
the most iconic FM.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Station with the call letters WPLJ.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Couldn't believe that, and Tom then obviously was picked up
by wor has been a great program director here and
I've had an opportunity to sample all of the hosts
and presenters here at WOOR from Larry Menty in the
Morning was so kind to me during the election cycle
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to obviously mark them all my biggest fan. Both in
twenty twenty one when I ran from mayor against Eric Adams,
and I did warn you, didn't I say, is he
that he would be a crook and there would be chaos,
But nobody wanted to listen. Everybody said to me, you
were right, we should have listened. Yeah, you should have listened.
And we suffered, and as a result of his massive failure,
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we ended up with Johann Mondami. We're gonna get into
all of that and a lot of the background that
went into clearly what is the most historic press I said,
president setting election that has ever taken place in the
City of New York for mayor. It took on international, national, regional,
and local ramifications for a number of reasons. We're going
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to explore all of that, and I'm going to dig
up the bones, because nobody knows where the bones are
buried more than courteously, and I will dig them up
and I will expose a lot of folks and what
they did during this election cycle to prevent a fair
square election in which people could go into the voting
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booths and choose candidates based on the issues. On this
desire to have you constantly play dropout, dropout, drop out,
drop out.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
We're going to get into all of that.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And as you heard at the top of the news hour,
iHeart again this powerful owner of so many radio stations
in the nation to be able to broadcast here as
I have from many of the different programs both on
FM and AM over the years as a guest, and
to hear Larry the news Guy talk about where I
will be at two o'clock this afternoon. It is a
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story that the local officials in New York City want
to go away.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
It is the.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Most horrific case that has ever occurred, a tragedy, a crime,
an act of.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Barbaric proportion.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
And in all my years of writing, the subways, and
I've been riding the subway since I was five years
old by myself nineteen fifty nine, took my first ride
on the L train. L stood for Lousey Line, Rockaway Parkway,
last stop in Kenarsi, where I was raised and I've
been riding ever since. It'll be forty seven years in
February since I started the Guardian Angels to protect people
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both in the subways and streets here, across the nation
and in thirteen countries around the world, and increasingly having
to come to the aid of women like the brin
and Kowam. Yeah, the Brina Kowam was homeless, emotionally disturbed,
like so many who live in the subways, and she
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was sent on fire by that illegal alien, Sebastian Zepeta
that we were housing in a homeless shelter at great
expense in East New York Samaritan House. I thought they
took care of people with drug issues, but they were
making a lot of money at our taxpayer's expense. And
he was a pyromaniac. We're going to go into all
of those details, but this is what I.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Do on a race basis.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Since the moment that I lost the election, I haven't
missed the beat. I've been down in the subways and
in the streets and taking care of those poor lost souls,
the homeless, the emotionally disturbed, who shouldn't be there, and
yet they live there. They reside there, no matter who
the mayor was, whether it was Comrade Bildeblasio, the part
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time mayor of the Dope from Park Slope, along with
his grift of wife Charline. We'll talk about that later on,
because he owes US one and a half billion dollars
money that was taken for a program called Thrive that
was supposed to help the emotionally disturb. I don't ever
remember one person having been helped, and then by Eric
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Adams Swagerman.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
With no plan.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
By the way, where is he? What country is Eric Adams?
The cor up one in today? Sort of like when
Matt Lower used to do the morning show at NBC.
You know what country is Matt Lwer in?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Today?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
This guy is, I mean, a grifter like you can't believe,
and oo far soon he will be gone. But I
also want to talk about what happened behind the scenes,
and I'm doing it on a radio station Wor of
which I made my very first appearance back in nineteen
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seventy one, having been named the newspaper Boy of the Year,
having delivered the daily news like so many people did,
and growing up saved five people in a burning building
at that time that got the attention of then President
Richard Nixon, got an award in the White House, and
then my very first interview upon my return to New
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York City was at fourteen forty Broadway, the mid morning
show hosted by Arlene Francis. Boy, I've had the bug
ever since talking on radio. So actually WOOR provided me
my baptism.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
In radio with my very first interview.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
As they escorted me around, I look at all the
various studios, the news room that had many men and
women that were processing the news back then, and it's
one of the most iconic symbols of talk radio in
the nation. With only three call letters WR everybody else right,
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it's four like where I was from where I spent
most of my life in talk radio WABC close to
thirty years. There were some other stations in between. You
know how long you've been in talk radio by the
number of radio stations that you've worked at. But WABC
was the bulk of my time there. In all different
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time slots. Morning Drive, it was Angels in the Morning
with my wife Lisa at that time. Then there was
a spot morning Drive with Ron Koby, whose Mommy was
a comedy for many years. I did mid mornings, I
did overnights, I did weekends. I was always available twenty
four to seven, three sixty five, so that the acronym
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stood for WABC, always broadcasting Curtis and so going into
this election cycle, early on, I made it very clear
that I would seek the Republican nomination a run for
mayor again, as I did in twenty twenty one. By
the way, with no help from WABC back then. None
people should know that the orders came from management and
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ownership that you were not to talk about Curtis Leewel
when he was running for mayor. In fact, you were
not to interview Curtis Lee were back in twenty twenty one,
there was a.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Big sign in the newsroom. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I mean, let's just say. There was no excuse for that.
And I wasn't supported by anybody. They were at WABC
running for mayor. Although they weren't insulting, they weren't personally
attacking me. The owner and operator John Katchamatidis was supporting
Eric Adams. Everyone was under the IMPRESSI that he was
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supporting me, because he would say, oh, with family here, Curtis,
he knows more about the city than everyone else.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
And let's face it, that's true.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Whether you like my politics or not, whether you like
my style or not, there's nobody who knows more about
the City of New York to me. But as it
goes from twenty twenty one to twenty twenty five, the
drum beat for me to drop out, and boy was
a steady drum beat from June. Excuse me, make that.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Just about July fourth, on our nation's birthday.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I remember, I was in Travis Staten Island, as I
am every year with the Guardian Angels, the longest running
Fourth of July parade in the nation. Eric Adams was
out there because he had been reborn, resurrected with the
failure of Andrew Cuomo, who threw in the tow when
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losing convincingly to Zorhan Mondami. Just give you an idea.
On March first, when Andrew cmo announced that he was
running for Maya for the Democratic nomination, he was clocking
at forty percent in the polls. Zorhan Mandami was dead
last in the Democratic primary at one percent. By June
twenty fourth, Zoron Mondami had beat him by thirteen percent
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because Andrew Cuomo mailed it in didn't run any kind
of a campaign, and so they resurrected Eric Adams, who
chose not to run. And this guy, right out of
the box, brought all the crooks back into the house
of Eric Adams and they were getting wind dined in
pocket lined by.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
The real estate interests.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And he crashed and burned and dropped out in September
and then boy died. They ratchet it up the masters
of the universe, the billionaires. John Casimatidis, owner and operator
who was the the maestro of the orchestra that was
constantly banging a drum that critically had to drop out,
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drop out for the good of the city.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
And I remember he.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Was saying, Oh, I'm gonna leave, I'm gonna sell my businesses.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
I'm down in Florida.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
The moment Zohan Mandami was announced the winner on November fourth,
all of a sudden he would saying, oh, we got
to work with the mayor.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Oh for the good of the city.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Because these billionaires, along with Ackman and others, made it
seem like they would be fear fright, hysteria, and all
they did was hype that every day.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
But you see, they always back channel. They always have
a backdoor.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
They always have a way to survive, whereas the working
class people that I represented in this election, because of
the fear in the fright, they had no options. So
it was an election cycle dominated by the masters of
the universe. Donald Trump, the President, was no friend of mine.
He went out of his way to disparage me on
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a regular basis. Talked about was Curtis a Republican? Is
he is he really? Is he ready for prime time?
And what about all those cats he and his wife
Nancy have rescued and kept from being euthanized in shelters.
So many people out there who do that for dogs
and cats. He disparaged really a nation of dog and
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cat lovers, But he went out of his way to
disparage me, along with Elin Musk and Steve Miller and
so many of the other masters of the universe and
the billionaires that he came down in the last few
weeks with twenty million dollars spent in advertising, the word
was a vote for Sliwa is a vote for Joran Mandami,
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vote for Andrew evilized Coomo, a guy responsible for the
deaths of fifteen thousand elderly people.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
At the height of the.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Pandemic and the lockdown, and a man was still paying
his victims for sexual harassment, thirteen of them who worked
for him, including a female state trooper, and the bill
will probably get up to sixty million dollars. And once again,
you know, whenever you speak to Eric Adams, I'm not guilty.
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I didn't do anything wrong. Andrew Cuomo, I didn't do
anything wrong. Donald Trump, I didn't do anything wrong. Nobody
does anything wrong. I'm somebody who is a lot different
when I do things wrong. When I mess up, I
fess up. And I certainly had a lot of opportunities
in my life.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
To do that. But this is an opportunity for all
of you to be hurt. In the words my.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Great mentor Bob Grant, who actually was broadcasting here at
w OR on two separate occasions, which we'll get into.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Later on, feel free to give me a cause.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Welcome back to the airwaves of New York City and
the Tri state area and beyond one of the most
powerful radio stations that have ever been created in this nation.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
WOR.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Give a call to eight hundred three two one zero
seven ten. That's eight hundred three two one zero seven ten,
and there's so much more to tell you about all
my fairweather friends at WABC, which the acronym has become
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always blaming Curtis and always bashing Curtis. You don't want
to go anywhere, Keep it right here at seven ten WOR.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Street Smart Straight Talk.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Curtis leewa guest host for Mark Simone on sevent ten WOO.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I said I would be back, and I'm back.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Your's Julie Curtis Sliwa on WORR Radio, substituting.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
For Mark Simone.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
If you're just joining us right now, My wife Nancy
listening as she is going off to celebrate the birthday
of her mother Beth. Wish I could have been with her,
but I would not turn down this opportunity, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
And on my way here.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
This morning, as I was riding on the subways as
I do each and every day, taking the car from
car to car, looking at the homeless, the emotionally disturb
any of them that I know by first name, and
walking down the block, and I know the outgoing mayor.
He can't leave fast enough for me. Eric Adams, who
knows what country is in today, A tax base expense
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says that there are no homeless settlements up in the street.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
They're all over the area in upper Midtown.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
And one thing that was normal for me for quite
some time, I joined the morning show with sid Rosenberg
five mornings a week. And I must tell you that
he turned out to be like Tessio from The Godfa.
He was actually setting up meetings with Andrew CuMo and
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backstabbing me all through that campaign.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
And I remember he had asked me originally he.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Could you come on one morning a week, then two, three,
four five.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I loved it. I love doing it.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Do whatever kind of radio that you want for unsue
my veins and arteries. But he pretended to be a friend,
and like so many, turned out to be a fair
with a friend. And I in that scene in The
Godfather where Don Corleon tells Michael, whoever set up the meeting,
that's the trader Tessio sid Roseberg paranoid, I would say,
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low self esteem. And if Bernard mcgirth, bless his soul,
who was his partner, were alive today, that never would
have happened. In fact, I was listening to Doctor lead
him in Great Doctor saved so many. I had stage
four prostate cancer almost took my life. But I remember
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sitting down with Bernard McGirk when he was explaining to
me his symptoms, and wow, I knew by then it
had metastasized and the last year of his life horrible
way to live. So that's why, if there's anything that
should come out of this program, men and ladies who
are listening, force your men folk to get that simple
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PSA test, a prick of the finger, that's all. It is,
a simple blood test. It has saved so many lives.
It's something that Bernard McGirk, or an iconic figure in
radio for so many years, as really the wingman for
don Imus, who could never have done what he did
in the mornings without Bernard McGirk in so many ways,
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probably would have been alive and well now if he
had taken a simple PSA test. And we're coming towards
the Christmas holiday New Year's some of those rare occasions
where family and friends get together, feel free to get
out that word. If you're forty five or older as
a male, you gotta get your yearly PSA test.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
It's a simple partcular finger. And women, I give you a.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
License to nagman to just be non stop chattering and
nattering away and force them to do the simple thing,
because you would be amazed the stronger the guy. And
Bernard McGirk was one of the strongest men alive. But
the stronger a guy is, the less likely they want
to go through that process because they feel what the
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outcome may be. Make sure you spread out that word
during this holiday gathering of so many. And then also
at WABC, whereas I had to deal with Tessio in
the morning, said Rosenberg, who I'm still pulling the knives
out of my back from him setting up these meetings
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with Andrew Como and working on his behalf every step
of the way, like a five dinners and five lunches
with the guy before he ever came on the radio.
And then all of a sudden, WABC turned into always
blaming Curtis for the rise of Jorhan Mandami, then always
broadcasting Cuomo in the last month, and then to this day,
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always bashing Curtis. And then there was Greg Kelly in
the afternoon. It's Greg Kelly who knew his father father,
great guy the son huh. During the primary, the Democratic primary,
he was actually advocating to his listeners that they support
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Jorhan Mandami over Andrew Cuomo.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Yeah, him.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
And then in the end, through the directions of John Katzimatitis,
the owners and operators and managers at WABC, he spoke
the party line. He said, oh, Curtis is running a
lazy campaign. Yeah, twenty hours a day of a twenty
four hour day, and obviously social networking that was getting
the message out in so many ways. But oh no, no,
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Curtis is a lazy campaigner. He doesn't know what he's doing.
And then finally, the worst trader of all, Dominic Carter.
Dominic Carter would not be in radio today if not
for my intervention on his behalf. Without going into great details,
he had problems, like we've all had problems in our life.
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I'm not going to get into the nitty gritty, but
he had done something that had basically made him an untouchable.
And I remember I went to the mat with management
and ownership at WABC. I said, look, give Dominic Carter
an opportunity. You know, he knows about New York City.
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He had been the voice and the image of New
York one for so many years and lost his job
because of that problem that I referred to and then
I schooled him. I took him into what I called
the talk radio boot Camp at WABC because we really
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didn't have a program director at that time, so I
worked as sort of the adjunct you have an adjunct
profession in college, I was the adjunct program director. There
were a number of figures there who were in the
critically with talk radio boot camp, and he listened. He
was a reporter, and I said, you no longer a reporter, Dominic.
He got to be a talk radio shows. He was
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the first to consistently cast dispersions against me in this campaign.
And it's not about just saying, oh, I don't think
you can win. That's fine. There was some here at
wr who said exactly that. But to get personal about it,
talk about how I wasn't running a good campaign, talk
about problems that I was having in the campaign, things
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that he knew nothing about, and doing it on a
regular basis, so.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
You should know.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
And I just gave you a thumbnail scare of the
problems that I had at WABC. And probably first and
foremost the image that went out during the campaign is
that I was an employee of WABC. I was on
leave from WABC. I was part of the dysfunctional family.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
No. No, when you leave to run for office, you're gone.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
You don't get paid, you don't get benefits, you don't
get anything. You're no longer an employee of WABC. But
they created that impression like somehow John Katzimatidis was still
pulling my strings that he could command me to drop out. Ay,
how did that work out? My former colleagues at WABC.
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In the next segment, I promise I've teased you enough,
we're going to go to the phone calls, our numbers one,
eight hundred and three to two, one zero, seven to ten.
We're also going to talk about at least the phonic
herself suddenly dropping out. I can give you all the
nitty gritty details of what is another shot across the
bow of a very weakened Republican party in both New
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York City and in New York State, right here in
my place to be for Mark Simone wor seventen.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Talk Radio with Street Crag.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Literally Curtis Leewa joined sevent ten WR the guest os
for Mark Samore.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Oh, I know that so many are saying, boy, can
I get what Curtis Lee was saying today in a podcast,
because he sounds like Michael Corleone and the Godfather in
that baptism scene in the church where he says I'm
settling all scores. In fact, that church is actually a
Mount Laredo on the south shore of Staten Island.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
That's where it was filmed. Amazing place if you've ever
been out there.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
But no, no, no, no, no, no no, I haven't
settled all scores, is he? My enemies will die of
a thousand cuts. This is just a little bit of
so much more to come. In fact, Mark Simon was
kind enough to allow me to substitute for him till
January two, along with Tom Cutty, the program director and
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obviously the big mockers at iHeart. So you're gonna be
listening every day ten to twelve and you will hear
more information that you never got before about this campaign
that we just got through that made headlines all across
the world, and how when all was said and done,
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the President of the United States, Donald Trump was calling
him remember Kami Mandami, Remember oh the Kami. Oh what
a love fest at the White House, And how he
threw at least the phonic right under the bus Oh,
you're gonna talk all about that in the next hour.
It's part of the reason that she unexpectedly dropped out.
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Well you thought unexpectedly. I kind of figured that was
going to happen. I'll let you know. But let's go
to the phones, as I promised a while back. First
call her up is Rich who's calling from icelip your
turn to be heard here on wor Rich.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Well, Curtis, when they can mock you about the seven
ten percent of the vote, but when you take seven ten,
fifteen to twenty percent of their ratings, you'll get the
last one. You put it right up there, took Ash.
I don't know if you're going to get a show there,
you better get.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
A show there.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
I don't want anybody to lose their job. But wherever
you go against you're going to destroy Curtis, You're going
to take them. You're going to take them down.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Uh. Rich, You know my style of radio. I am
old school. I never forgive and I never forget.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Oh, I have a lot that I'm going to be
sharing with all of you over the course of the
next few days till January twod and the welcoming in
of the new year. Let's go to Tony, who's calling
from white planes. Your turn to be heard at w
or tone.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
Yeah, Hi, Curtis, Curtis. The biggest backstare row is Dominic Carter.
He's like Salasso. He kept saying from day one he
can't win, he can't win, telling the drop out every day.
You know, you know why he wanted you to lose,
because he said so. He didn't want to prove himself wrong.
As a matter of fact, I even called up and
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I don't know if you remember, you were on the
air and I said, if Curtis wins, will you will
you apologize to Curtis? And you said no, he don't
have to apologize. But he kept saying from day one
that you can't win, you got to drop out. He's
the reason why we got Zoran. And then Benny gets
down the air and he lies and he says that
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if you dropped out, that Cromo were one who's like
if he I can't believe they even thought of him
being a mayor after.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Well, I got to tell you that point you made,
Tony to all of those naysayers out there who maybe
graduated school from social promotion and need remedial training in mathematics.
If you had taken every vote that I got in
this election and it had gone to Andrew evilized Cromo,
he still would have lost.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Curtis, That's exactly what I was going to tell you.
He got on the air and was saying that, like,
if you dropped out, that Clomo would have won with it.
So he's they're assuming that everybody that voted for you
would turned around and vote for Cromo. That was idiot.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Well it goes beyond that, Tony. It goes to the
fact that when Cromo was first running on March first
of twenty twenty four, whether it was Dominic Carter or
whether it was Tessio, said Rosenberg, that told they were saying, Curtis,
why you're knocking yourself out.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
There's gonna be a coronation.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
They all predicted that Cuomo would win in a runaway
victory in the Democratic primary, and they all act as
if they are savants, like they know everything. They know
nothing about nothing. To be honest, they're not out in
the streets. They didn't watch the Zoronistas in all five boroughs,
in all the neighborhoods like I did. Because I'm in
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all the three hundred and fifty neighborhoods. I'm in every
subway station, on every subway line. I could see the energy,
I could see the passion. There was nothing for Cuomo,
and yet they pretended as if he would suddenly be victorious.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
How did that work out?
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (28:47):
How come you didn't all move away? How you all
don movement? I'm selling? Oh yeah, yeah, they're all here.
They're in.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
What my grandfather Fidelo Bianchino used to say from about
the Italy Kiakia Pinocchio's let's go if we can. To Lily,
who's calling from Queen's your turn to be heard here
at WR Lily, Hi.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
Curtis, you made my Christmas gift. Curtis, and I'll never
put on ABC. Oh. I'd loved that for years, but
with what they did to you and Cindy Adams especially,
forget it, Curtis client issue something. I bought that Tony
Bennett book and Howard Beach at your campaign office, and
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I wonder if you got it.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I got it. I got it. They were great to
Howard Beach.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
I mean it was right up in fact, was right
up from Newpark Peacheria. I love Newpark pecheria. That's why
I had my first slice of peacha. Also in nineteen
fifty nine when visiting my aunt Mary and uncle Steven,
cousin Butchie and Joey g the chief from Howard be
Each nineteen fifty nine, my first life of pizza was
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said New Park Pizzeria, and I've been going there ever since.
Don't worry about it, Lily. You don't need to listen
to WABC. They've lost so many listeners. They're down in
the ratings. Just keep it right here to seven to
ten Worr. It's your new home away from home. Like
for me, it's part of my radio listening familia. Now
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this is my family. WABC stabbed me in the back,
like they did all the listeners. Don't listen to them.
Keep it right here at seven to ten WOR.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
The Beats Batch Curtis leewa guest host The Mark Simone
Show on seven ten woo.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
And you don't want to go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
He unexpected dropping out of the least staphonic. Who would
have been a great governor here in the state of
New York. And nobody knows that situation better than yours, truly.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Nope, And I'll tell you what aleis.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Stephonic was my biggest supporter during this mayoral campaign. She
was loyal with capital l she never vacillated, and she
is a woman of great character. And more importantly, in
the two debates that I had and running for mayor,
if I had to throw a lifeline at somebody that
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says I need you to substitute for me.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
I would have wanted at LEAs Stephonic up there.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
She has eviscerated the presidents of Ivy League universities. She
eviscerated Andrew evilized Cuomo up on the hell in Congress,
she eviscerated Kathy Grifter Hockel, who couldn't even remember who
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the migrant killers were. Of all the victims in New
York State, including Dobrina Kwam, who I will eulogize in
the next hour because from here Wor I will be
heading out to the f train platform in Coney Island.
We're on this date a year ago, at seven point
thirty in the morning, this monster set her on fire
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like a human torch. The cops ran up and down
on the platform like the Keystone Cops.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
People were filming it so it could be live.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
At five nobody helped this homeless woman from Tom's Riven,
New Jersey. It's quite a story. I am the Guardian Angels.
We will not forget. Unfortunately so many people did. And
I remember that moment when Congressman Elis Stefanic was cross
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examining Kathy Hokun said, tell me.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
The name of the person who set.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Debrin and Kuam on fire. She didn't know, like she
didn't know any of the other migrant names. You're not
gonna want to miss this, ladies and gentlemen, because everyone
is in shock that at least Stephonic is no longer
running to become governor or the state of New York
to save us. And there is a reason, and I
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trace it to President Donald Trump. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
threw her right under the bus, and that woman was
not going to take it. Are you going anywhere? Keep
it right here at seven ten WR
Now the Guardian Angel of talk radio is here. Curtis
Leewah guest host the Mark Simone Show on seven to ten.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Woor foul.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
This is an early Christmas present for me to be
back on talk radio and the station that I listened
to all the time now war and to be substituting
for the best talk show hosts in all of New
York City, March Simon. Nobody's been doing it longer, and
nobody's been doing it better. I worked with March Simon
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over at WABC, and then he was a competitor against me.
So is nobody who knows talk radio better than March Simon.
So it's a real honor to be able to come
in and substitute for this life. And having met with
Tom Cutty, who's the program director who I knew at WPLJ.
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I remember what happened when Cumulus, who owned a cluster
of stations, they had decided that they wanted to get
out of the business in New York. That made no
sense to me, and they turned off the lights on
the most iconic FM.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Station with the call letters WPLJ.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Couldn't believe that, and Tom then obviously was picked up
by wor has been a great program director here and
I've had an opportunity to sample all of the hosts
and presenters here at WOOR from Larry Menty in the
Morning was so kind to me during the election cycle
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to obviously mark them all my biggest fan. Both in
twenty twenty one when I ran from mayor against Eric Adams,
and I did warn you, didn't I say, is he
that he would be a crook and there would be chaos,
But nobody wanted to listen. Everybody said to me, you
were right, we should have listened. Yeah, you should have listened.
And we suffered, and as a result of his massive failure,
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we ended up with Johann Mondami. We're gonna get into
all of that and a lot of the background that
went into clearly what is the most historic press I said,
president setting election that has ever taken place in the
City of New York for mayor. It took on international, national, regional,
and local ramifications for a number of reasons. We're going
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to explore all of that, and I'm going to dig
up the bones, because nobody knows where the bones are
buried more than courteously, and I will dig them up
and I will expose a lot of folks and what
they did during this election cycle to prevent a fair
square election in which people could go into the voting
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booths and choose candidates based on the issues. On this
desire to have you constantly play dropout, dropout, drop out,
drop out.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
We're going to get into all of that.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And as you heard at the top of the news hour,
iHeart again this powerful owner of so many radio stations
in the nation to be able to broadcast here as
I have from many of the different programs both on
FM and AM over the years as a guest, and
to hear Larry the news Guy talk about where I
will be at two o'clock this afternoon. It is a
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story that the local officials in New York City want
to go away.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
It is the.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Most horrific case that has ever occurred, a tragedy, a crime,
an act of.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Barbaric proportion.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
And in all my years of writing, the subways, and
I've been riding the subway since I was five years
old by myself nineteen fifty nine, took my first ride
on the L train. L stood for Lousey Line, Rockaway Parkway,
last stop in Kenarsi, where I was raised and I've
been riding ever since. It'll be forty seven years in
February since I started the Guardian Angels to protect people
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both in the subways and streets here, across the nation
and in thirteen countries around the world, and increasingly having
to come to the aid of women like the brin
and Kowam. Yeah, the Brina Kowam was homeless, emotionally disturbed,
like so many who live in the subways, and she
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was sent on fire by that illegal alien, Sebastian Zepeta
that we were housing in a homeless shelter at great
expense in East New York Samaritan House. I thought they
took care of people with drug issues, but they were
making a lot of money at our taxpayer's expense. And
he was a pyromaniac. We're going to go into all
of those details, but this is what I.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Do on a race basis.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Since the moment that I lost the election, I haven't
missed the beat. I've been down in the subways and
in the streets and taking care of those poor lost souls,
the homeless, the emotionally disturbed, who shouldn't be there, and
yet they live there. They reside there, no matter who
the mayor was, whether it was Comrade Bildeblasio, the part
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time mayor of the Dope from Park Slope, along with
his grift of wife Charline. We'll talk about that later on,
because he owes US one and a half billion dollars
money that was taken for a program called Thrive that
was supposed to help the emotionally disturb. I don't ever
remember one person having been helped, and then by Eric
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Adams Swagerman.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
With no plan.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
By the way, where is he? What country is Eric Adams?
The cor up one in today? Sort of like when
Matt Lower used to do the morning show at NBC.
You know what country is Matt Lwer in?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Today?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
This guy is, I mean, a grifter like you can't believe,
and oo far soon he will be gone. But I
also want to talk about what happened behind the scenes,
and I'm doing it on a radio station Wor of
which I made my very first appearance back in nineteen
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seventy one, having been named the newspaper Boy of the Year,
having delivered the daily news like so many people did,
and growing up saved five people in a burning building
at that time that got the attention of then President
Richard Nixon, got an award in the White House, and
then my very first interview upon my return to New
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York City was at fourteen forty Broadway, the mid morning
show hosted by Arlene Francis. Boy, I've had the bug
ever since talking on radio. So actually WOOR provided me
my baptism.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
In radio with my very first interview.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
As they escorted me around, I look at all the
various studios, the news room that had many men and
women that were processing the news back then, and it's
one of the most iconic symbols of talk radio in
the nation. With only three call letters WR everybody else right,
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it's four like where I was from where I spent
most of my life in talk radio WABC close to
thirty years. There were some other stations in between. You
know how long you've been in talk radio by the
number of radio stations that you've worked at. But WABC
was the bulk of my time there. In all different
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time slots. Morning Drive, it was Angels in the Morning
with my wife Lisa at that time. Then there was
a spot morning Drive with Ron Koby, whose Mommy was
a comedy for many years. I did mid mornings, I
did overnights, I did weekends. I was always available twenty
four to seven, three sixty five, so that the acronym
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stood for WABC, always broadcasting Curtis and so going into
this election cycle, early on, I made it very clear
that I would seek the Republican nomination a run for
mayor again, as I did in twenty twenty one. By
the way, with no help from WABC back then. None
people should know that the orders came from management and
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ownership that you were not to talk about Curtis Leewel
when he was running for mayor. In fact, you were
not to interview Curtis Lee were back in twenty twenty one,
there was a.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Big sign in the newsroom. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I mean, let's just say. There was no excuse for that.
And I wasn't supported by anybody. They were at WABC
running for mayor. Although they weren't insulting, they weren't personally
attacking me. The owner and operator John Katchamatidis was supporting
Eric Adams. Everyone was under the IMPRESSI that he was
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supporting me, because he would say, oh, with family here, Curtis,
he knows more about the city than everyone else.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
And let's face it, that's true.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Whether you like my politics or not, whether you like
my style or not, there's nobody who knows more about
the City of New York to me. But as it
goes from twenty twenty one to twenty twenty five, the
drum beat for me to drop out, and boy was
a steady drum beat from June. Excuse me, make that.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Just about July fourth, on our nation's birthday.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I remember, I was in Travis Staten Island, as I
am every year with the Guardian Angels, the longest running
Fourth of July parade in the nation. Eric Adams was
out there because he had been reborn, resurrected with the
failure of Andrew Cuomo, who threw in the tow when
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losing convincingly to Zorhan Mondami. Just give you an idea.
On March first, when Andrew cmo announced that he was
running for Maya for the Democratic nomination, he was clocking
at forty percent in the polls. Zorhan Mandami was dead
last in the Democratic primary at one percent. By June
twenty fourth, Zoron Mondami had beat him by thirteen percent
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because Andrew Cuomo mailed it in didn't run any kind
of a campaign, and so they resurrected Eric Adams, who
chose not to run. And this guy, right out of
the box, brought all the crooks back into the house
of Eric Adams and they were getting wind dined in
pocket lined by.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
The real estate interests.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And he crashed and burned and dropped out in September
and then boy died. They ratchet it up the masters
of the universe, the billionaires. John Casimatidis, owner and operator
who was the the maestro of the orchestra that was
constantly banging a drum that critically had to drop out,
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drop out for the good of the city.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
And I remember he.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Was saying, Oh, I'm gonna leave, I'm gonna sell my businesses.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
I'm down in Florida.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
The moment Zohan Mandami was announced the winner on November fourth,
all of a sudden he would saying, oh, we got
to work with the mayor.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Oh for the good of the city.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Because these billionaires, along with Ackman and others, made it
seem like they would be fear fright, hysteria, and all
they did was hype that every day.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
But you see, they always back channel. They always have
a backdoor.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
They always have a way to survive, whereas the working
class people that I represented in this election, because of
the fear in the fright, they had no options. So
it was an election cycle dominated by the masters of
the universe. Donald Trump, the President, was no friend of mine.
He went out of his way to disparage me on
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a regular basis. Talked about was Curtis a Republican? Is
he is he really? Is he ready for prime time?
And what about all those cats he and his wife
Nancy have rescued and kept from being euthanized in shelters.
So many people out there who do that for dogs
and cats. He disparaged really a nation of dog and
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cat lovers, But he went out of his way to
disparage me, along with Elin Musk and Steve Miller and
so many of the other masters of the universe and
the billionaires that he came down in the last few
weeks with twenty million dollars spent in advertising, the word
was a vote for Sliwa is a vote for Joran Mandami,
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vote for Andrew evilized Coomo, a guy responsible for the
deaths of fifteen thousand elderly people.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
At the height of the.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Pandemic and the lockdown, and a man was still paying
his victims for sexual harassment, thirteen of them who worked
for him, including a female state trooper, and the bill
will probably get up to sixty million dollars. And once again,
you know, whenever you speak to Eric Adams, I'm not guilty.
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I didn't do anything wrong. Andrew Cuomo, I didn't do
anything wrong. Donald Trump, I didn't do anything wrong. Nobody
does anything wrong. I'm somebody who is a lot different
when I do things wrong. When I mess up, I
fess up. And I certainly had a lot of opportunities
in my life.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
To do that. But this is an opportunity for all
of you to be hurt. In the words my.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Great mentor Bob Grant, who actually was broadcasting here at
w OR on two separate occasions, which we'll get into.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Later on, feel free to give me a cause.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Welcome back to the airwaves of New York City and
the Tri state area and beyond one of the most
powerful radio stations that have ever been created in this nation.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
WOR.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Give a call to eight hundred three two one zero
seven ten. That's eight hundred three two one zero seven ten,
and there's so much more to tell you about all
my fairweather friends at WABC, which the acronym has become
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always blaming Curtis and always bashing Curtis. You don't want
to go anywhere, Keep it right here at seven ten WOR.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Street Smart Straight Talk.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Curtis leewa guest host for Mark Simone on sevent ten WOO.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I said I would be back, and I'm back.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Your's Julie Curtis Sliwa on WORR Radio, substituting.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
For Mark Simone.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
If you're just joining us right now, My wife Nancy
listening as she is going off to celebrate the birthday
of her mother Beth. Wish I could have been with her,
but I would not turn down this opportunity, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
And on my way here.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
This morning, as I was riding on the subways as
I do each and every day, taking the car from
car to car, looking at the homeless, the emotionally disturb
any of them that I know by first name, and
walking down the block, and I know the outgoing mayor.
He can't leave fast enough for me. Eric Adams, who
knows what country is in today, A tax base expense
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says that there are no homeless settlements up in the street.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
They're all over the area in upper Midtown.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
And one thing that was normal for me for quite
some time, I joined the morning show with sid Rosenberg
five mornings a week. And I must tell you that
he turned out to be like Tessio from The Godfa.
He was actually setting up meetings with Andrew CuMo and
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backstabbing me all through that campaign.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
And I remember he had asked me originally he.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Could you come on one morning a week, then two, three,
four five.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I loved it. I love doing it.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Do whatever kind of radio that you want for unsue
my veins and arteries. But he pretended to be a friend,
and like so many, turned out to be a fair
with a friend. And I in that scene in The
Godfather where Don Corleon tells Michael, whoever set up the meeting,
that's the trader Tessio sid Roseberg paranoid, I would say,
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low self esteem. And if Bernard mcgirth, bless his soul,
who was his partner, were alive today, that never would
have happened. In fact, I was listening to Doctor lead
him in Great Doctor saved so many. I had stage
four prostate cancer almost took my life. But I remember
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sitting down with Bernard McGirk when he was explaining to
me his symptoms, and wow, I knew by then it
had metastasized and the last year of his life horrible
way to live. So that's why, if there's anything that
should come out of this program, men and ladies who
are listening, force your men folk to get that simple
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PSA test, a prick of the finger, that's all. It is,
a simple blood test. It has saved so many lives.
It's something that Bernard McGirk, or an iconic figure in
radio for so many years, as really the wingman for
don Imus, who could never have done what he did
in the mornings without Bernard McGirk in so many ways,
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probably would have been alive and well now if he
had taken a simple PSA test. And we're coming towards
the Christmas holiday New Year's some of those rare occasions
where family and friends get together, feel free to get
out that word. If you're forty five or older as
a male, you gotta get your yearly PSA test.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
It's a simple partcular finger. And women, I give you a.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
License to nagman to just be non stop chattering and
nattering away and force them to do the simple thing,
because you would be amazed the stronger the guy. And
Bernard McGirk was one of the strongest men alive. But
the stronger a guy is, the less likely they want
to go through that process because they feel what the
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outcome may be. Make sure you spread out that word
during this holiday gathering of so many. And then also
at WABC, whereas I had to deal with Tessio in
the morning, said Rosenberg, who I'm still pulling the knives
out of my back from him setting up these meetings
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with Andrew Como and working on his behalf every step
of the way, like a five dinners and five lunches
with the guy before he ever came on the radio.
And then all of a sudden, WABC turned into always
blaming Curtis for the rise of Jorhan Mandami, then always
broadcasting Cuomo in the last month, and then to this day,
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always bashing Curtis. And then there was Greg Kelly in
the afternoon. It's Greg Kelly who knew his father father,
great guy the son huh. During the primary, the Democratic primary,
he was actually advocating to his listeners that they support
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Jorhan Mandami over Andrew Cuomo.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Yeah, him.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
And then in the end, through the directions of John Katzimatitis,
the owners and operators and managers at WABC, he spoke
the party line. He said, oh, Curtis is running a
lazy campaign. Yeah, twenty hours a day of a twenty
four hour day, and obviously social networking that was getting
the message out in so many ways. But oh no, no,
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Curtis is a lazy campaigner. He doesn't know what he's doing.
And then finally, the worst trader of all, Dominic Carter.
Dominic Carter would not be in radio today if not
for my intervention on his behalf. Without going into great details,
he had problems, like we've all had problems in our life.
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I'm not going to get into the nitty gritty, but
he had done something that had basically made him an untouchable.
And I remember I went to the mat with management
and ownership at WABC. I said, look, give Dominic Carter
an opportunity. You know, he knows about New York City.
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He had been the voice and the image of New
York one for so many years and lost his job
because of that problem that I referred to and then
I schooled him. I took him into what I called
the talk radio boot Camp at WABC because we really
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didn't have a program director at that time, so I
worked as sort of the adjunct you have an adjunct
profession in college, I was the adjunct program director. There
were a number of figures there who were in the
critically with talk radio boot camp, and he listened. He
was a reporter, and I said, you no longer a reporter, Dominic.
He got to be a talk radio shows. He was
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the first to consistently cast dispersions against me in this campaign.
And it's not about just saying, oh, I don't think
you can win. That's fine. There was some here at
wr who said exactly that. But to get personal about it,
talk about how I wasn't running a good campaign, talk
about problems that I was having in the campaign, things
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that he knew nothing about, and doing it on a
regular basis, so.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
You should know.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
And I just gave you a thumbnail scare of the
problems that I had at WABC. And probably first and
foremost the image that went out during the campaign is
that I was an employee of WABC. I was on
leave from WABC. I was part of the dysfunctional family.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
No. No, when you leave to run for office, you're gone.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
You don't get paid, you don't get benefits, you don't
get anything. You're no longer an employee of WABC. But
they created that impression like somehow John Katzimatidis was still
pulling my strings that he could command me to drop out. Ay,
how did that work out? My former colleagues at WABC.
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In the next segment, I promise I've teased you enough,
we're going to go to the phone calls, our numbers one,
eight hundred and three to two, one zero, seven to ten.
We're also going to talk about at least the phonic
herself suddenly dropping out. I can give you all the
nitty gritty details of what is another shot across the
bow of a very weakened Republican party in both New
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York City and in New York State, right here in
my place to be for Mark Simone wor seventen.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Talk Radio with Street Crag.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Literally Curtis Leewa joined sevent ten WR the guest os
for Mark Samore.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Oh, I know that so many are saying, boy, can
I get what Curtis Lee was saying today in a podcast,
because he sounds like Michael Corleone and the Godfather in
that baptism scene in the church where he says I'm
settling all scores. In fact, that church is actually a
Mount Laredo on the south shore of Staten Island.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
That's where it was filmed. Amazing place if you've ever
been out there.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
But no, no, no, no, no, no no, I haven't
settled all scores, is he? My enemies will die of
a thousand cuts. This is just a little bit of
so much more to come. In fact, Mark Simon was
kind enough to allow me to substitute for him till
January two, along with Tom Cutty, the program director and
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obviously the big mockers at iHeart. So you're gonna be
listening every day ten to twelve and you will hear
more information that you never got before about this campaign
that we just got through that made headlines all across
the world, and how when all was said and done,
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the President of the United States, Donald Trump was calling
him remember Kami Mandami, Remember oh the Kami. Oh what
a love fest at the White House, And how he
threw at least the phonic right under the bus Oh,
you're gonna talk all about that in the next hour.
It's part of the reason that she unexpectedly dropped out.
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Well you thought unexpectedly. I kind of figured that was
going to happen. I'll let you know. But let's go
to the phones, as I promised a while back. First
call her up is Rich who's calling from icelip your
turn to be heard here on wor Rich.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Well, Curtis, when they can mock you about the seven
ten percent of the vote, but when you take seven ten,
fifteen to twenty percent of their ratings, you'll get the
last one. You put it right up there, took Ash.
I don't know if you're going to get a show there,
you better get.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
A show there.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
I don't want anybody to lose their job. But wherever
you go against you're going to destroy Curtis, You're going
to take them. You're going to take them down.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Uh. Rich, You know my style of radio. I am
old school. I never forgive and I never forget.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Oh, I have a lot that I'm going to be
sharing with all of you over the course of the
next few days till January twod and the welcoming in
of the new year. Let's go to Tony, who's calling
from white planes. Your turn to be heard at w
or tone.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
Yeah, Hi, Curtis, Curtis. The biggest backstare row is Dominic Carter.
He's like Salasso. He kept saying from day one he
can't win, he can't win, telling the drop out every day.
You know, you know why he wanted you to lose,
because he said so. He didn't want to prove himself wrong.
As a matter of fact, I even called up and
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I don't know if you remember, you were on the
air and I said, if Curtis wins, will you will
you apologize to Curtis? And you said no, he don't
have to apologize. But he kept saying from day one
that you can't win, you got to drop out. He's
the reason why we got Zoran. And then Benny gets
down the air and he lies and he says that
(26:59):
if you dropped out, that Cromo were one who's like
if he I can't believe they even thought of him
being a mayor after.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Well, I got to tell you that point you made,
Tony to all of those naysayers out there who maybe
graduated school from social promotion and need remedial training in mathematics.
If you had taken every vote that I got in
this election and it had gone to Andrew evilized Cromo,
he still would have lost.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Curtis, That's exactly what I was going to tell you.
He got on the air and was saying that, like,
if you dropped out, that Clomo would have won with it.
So he's they're assuming that everybody that voted for you
would turned around and vote for Cromo. That was idiot.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Well it goes beyond that, Tony. It goes to the
fact that when Cromo was first running on March first
of twenty twenty four, whether it was Dominic Carter or
whether it was Tessio, said Rosenberg, that told they were saying, Curtis,
why you're knocking yourself out.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
There's gonna be a coronation.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
They all predicted that Cuomo would win in a runaway
victory in the Democratic primary, and they all act as
if they are savants, like they know everything. They know
nothing about nothing. To be honest, they're not out in
the streets. They didn't watch the Zoronistas in all five boroughs,
in all the neighborhoods like I did. Because I'm in
(28:28):
all the three hundred and fifty neighborhoods. I'm in every
subway station, on every subway line. I could see the energy,
I could see the passion. There was nothing for Cuomo,
and yet they pretended as if he would suddenly be victorious.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
How did that work out?
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (28:47):
How come you didn't all move away? How you all
don movement? I'm selling? Oh yeah, yeah, they're all here.
They're in.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
What my grandfather Fidelo Bianchino used to say from about
the Italy Kiakia Pinocchio's let's go if we can. To Lily,
who's calling from Queen's your turn to be heard here
at WR Lily, Hi.
Speaker 7 (29:09):
Curtis, you made my Christmas gift. Curtis, and I'll never
put on ABC. Oh. I'd loved that for years, but
with what they did to you and Cindy Adams especially,
forget it, Curtis client issue something. I bought that Tony
Bennett book and Howard Beach at your campaign office, and
(29:34):
I wonder if you got it.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I got it. I got it. They were great to
Howard Beach.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
I mean it was right up in fact, was right
up from Newpark Peacheria. I love Newpark pecheria. That's why
I had my first slice of peacha. Also in nineteen
fifty nine when visiting my aunt Mary and uncle Steven,
cousin Butchie and Joey g the chief from Howard be
Each nineteen fifty nine, my first life of pizza was
(30:04):
said New Park Pizzeria, and I've been going there ever since.
Don't worry about it, Lily. You don't need to listen
to WABC. They've lost so many listeners. They're down in
the ratings. Just keep it right here to seven to
ten Worr. It's your new home away from home. Like
for me, it's part of my radio listening familia. Now
(30:28):
this is my family. WABC stabbed me in the back,
like they did all the listeners. Don't listen to them.
Keep it right here at seven to ten WOR.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
The Beats Batch Curtis leewa guest host The Mark Simone
Show on seven ten woo.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
And you don't want to go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
He unexpected dropping out of the least staphonic. Who would
have been a great governor here in the state of
New York. And nobody knows that situation better than yours, truly.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Nope, And I'll tell you what aleis.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Stephonic was my biggest supporter during this mayoral campaign. She
was loyal with capital l she never vacillated, and she
is a woman of great character. And more importantly, in
the two debates that I had and running for mayor,
if I had to throw a lifeline at somebody that
(31:25):
says I need you to substitute for me.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
I would have wanted at LEAs Stephonic up there.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
She has eviscerated the presidents of Ivy League universities. She
eviscerated Andrew evilized Cuomo up on the hell in Congress,
she eviscerated Kathy Grifter Hockel, who couldn't even remember who
(31:50):
the migrant killers were. Of all the victims in New
York State, including Dobrina Kwam, who I will eulogize in
the next hour because from here Wor I will be
heading out to the f train platform in Coney Island.
We're on this date a year ago, at seven point
thirty in the morning, this monster set her on fire
(32:15):
like a human torch. The cops ran up and down
on the platform like the Keystone Cops.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
People were filming it so it could be live.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
At five nobody helped this homeless woman from Tom's Riven,
New Jersey. It's quite a story. I am the Guardian Angels.
We will not forget. Unfortunately so many people did. And
I remember that moment when Congressman Elis Stefanic was cross
(32:43):
examining Kathy Hokun said, tell me.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
The name of the person who set.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Debrin and Kuam on fire. She didn't know, like she
didn't know any of the other migrant names. You're not
gonna want to miss this, ladies and gentlemen, because everyone
is in shock that at least Stephonic is no longer
running to become governor or the state of New York
to save us. And there is a reason, and I
(33:14):
trace it to President Donald Trump. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
threw her right under the bus, and that woman was
not going to take it. Are you going anywhere? Keep
it right here at seven ten WR
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