December 23, 2025 • 9 mins
John in Staten Island, NY, called Curtis to ask him what kind of dysfunctional operation is happening at Curtis's former radio station. Vic in Pennsylvania has a story to tell Curtis about how he used to listen to Sid Rosenberg alone, but now things are different.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Talk radio with street crack. Literally Curtis Lee wad joined
sevent ten WAR to guess ose for Mark Samo.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yeah, as I continue on till January twod here for
Mark Simone. I appreciate the time at my newfound radio station,
but I've listened to over the years from time to time,
and now I listen to it all the time. I's
so should you At seven ten WAR. A lot of
alumni WABC here that dysfunctional family. Is he our board
(00:38):
operator here? He fled the dysfunction as did Crash in
the mornings with Larry MENTI as a real sabant from
Morris Park, the Bronx, and I know to some of
you it sounds like Nichael Corleone. I'm settling all scores.
I am little by little by little by little. But
(00:58):
you have a right to know, and you have a
right to be heard. So let's go first to Sean,
who's patiently on the line from Rockland County. Your turn
to be heard here at seven ten w O wat Shawn.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Welcome home, Curtis.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
And those are the clowns at the other station.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I don't listen to them anymore.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
They just fake guy. See you got in here thirty
five years. You can tell fake fake voice. I know
who that is. Come on, it's Curtis Sleeve pro style. Here.
Let's go to Bob, who's calling from MONTFL Your turn
to be heard here at WOR seven ten.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Bob, Thank you, Curtis, and welcome back to what it's
no longer woman only radio. Thank goodness. And I just
want to say thank you to you and your wife
because those of us who know your history and we
lived it, we saw through other people at the other station.
You know Greg Kelly, obviously he's got like an anger problem,
(02:05):
too much estrogen. And there's another guy talk about Rockland
County dominic, Carter. I wish you would send the angels
up to Rockland County, Curtis. It is out of control.
It is out of control, and he lives with his
head you know where. Well, Well, thank you, thank you,
thank you. Even though I live in New Jersey. Thank you, Curtis.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, but all I need you to do is just
continue to listen to here seven ten w or or Bob.
You don't need to get Odjeda listening to all of them. Hey,
look in talk radio, you have a lot of eccentric characters.
I've certainly worked with them. I've certainly been called eccentric myself.
(02:48):
I've had my ups, my downs, but I think almost
all of them are well known to people. But sometimes
when you have an anger management issue, there are substances
out there that can keep that in check. Hey, look,
it's healthy, it's healthy. Let's go if we can to John,
(03:13):
who's calling from Staten Island. Your turn to be heard
here at seven to ten W John.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Hey, Curtis, I'm so happy to hear you back on
the radio. We've met a few times, so I'm so
happy to be talking to here. WABC is definitely a
dysfunctional family dominic. Carter shows up to work grumpy every
single day. Lionel screams into the microphone. Sid Rosenberg only
(03:41):
cares about himself to He's me me, Me Me Me,
I am grey uh and Greg Kelly. He takes calls
from wack o people who sent him books and they
wrote down a name to the wrong wrong people. Like
what kind of operation to they got going on over that?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
It looks John, John, that's their thing. If you're not
happy with their broadcast, now you have a place to
come to. Maybe I was the sheepherder, and you were
sheep for many years and that's all you listen to. Well,
now you have an opportunity to come on over and
graze on this talk radio field. Maybe my substituting for
(04:23):
Mark Simon will encourage more people to do that. I
would suggest now that we're in the age of social networking,
text it out, email it out, phone it out, get
the word out. You don't have to listen to that
any longer. And more choices, And this is my choice.
(04:43):
So I know for many of you who followed me
in talk radio for what it will be thirty six
years in January, you're welcome on over. Listen to seven
to ten wor as much as is humanly possible. And remember,
unlike years years ago where it was live and local,
(05:04):
that's it. If you missed the broadcast, you couldn't recover it.
Remember the great Bob Grant, nobody better King of Tark
Radio would do his opening monologue. You could never recapture that.
The whole Tri state area would stop to listen to
that opening monologue at three. Now, if you missed the program,
(05:25):
you can catch it on podcasts. See that's something that
never occurred before. Let's go if we can to uh Vic, Well,
I believe he's calling from Pennsylvania. Your turn to be
heard here at seven to ten, w or Vic.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Great to hear you, Curtis, Curtis, I want to tell
you a quick story. You know, I used to listen
to Sid and if it wasn't for Bernie's he would
be nothing. But what a phoney.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
The biggest phone he could be.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Well, they're all phonies there, but he seems to be
the biggest. Talk about ego, you know what I mean.
And at one point I called up when they were
taking calls, he stopped taking calls to let him know
he had bad now Trump and guess what he said,
Oh that's not true. I never bad. No Trump a
big liar. But man, could you imagine being in a
(06:19):
foxhol with any of these guys. I can't imagine it.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
No, no, no, I tell you. I tell you one
thing straight up. It was a much better show when
Bernard McGirk was with him, because it was ike, the
ying and the yang. Because when it's just said, it's I, I,
me and me, it's all about said. Look. I think
he said this himself many times. He has low self esteem.
He's paranoid, rotic. Look a lot of people in talker
(06:45):
ideo that's the case. But Bernard was the ying to
his yang. Bernard was given an opportunity to do a
program at WABC when I miss clearly was in his
latter years. Without Bernard McGirk, Imus could not function. I
was in the broadcast studio. I saw how Bernie would
(07:09):
feed him lines. Bernie read the books, wasn't Imus, And
towards the end of Imus's career, it was so obvious,
but it was Bernard mcgirk's wish to have his own show.
You know, Imus didn't want that. Oh no, oh no,
the show following Imus in the morning. Bernard McGirk said,
(07:30):
it should be my opportunity. And he was right after
all those years, and he said, if you can only
bring Sid Rosenberg up from Florida. He had just been
fired I think for like the third or fourth time.
Not they's wrong with that. That's how you know how
long you've been in talk radio, how many times you've
been fired. But he was not on the radio. Bernie said,
(07:51):
I want Sid to be with me. And I remember
going down Hollywood, Florida at the hard Rock We had
a Guardian into conference of the Floridian Guardian Angels, and
I told the general manager there I would go down
and just do a little background check on city. It
had some problems, and I talked to a lot of
(08:13):
people down there. They said, oh, no, no, no. His
days of gallimantin cavorting getting into trouble, which he's admitted,
is over. He's on the straight and arrow. I came back,
I gave the report. I remember walking into the office
of Chad Lopez. He had on his desk a contract
to hire Mike Lupeka, the great sports writer for the
(08:35):
Daily News, but horrible on the radio ESPN. You know,
just it's not his medium. I said, you can't do that,
you can't sign that. That'll destroy WABC. I said, come on,
do this for Bernard McGirk. He's never asked for anything
other than that, And that's what happened. They got that opportunity,
(08:57):
uh mid Morning and then eventually the Morning Show. And
it's unfortunate that Bernard McGirk is no longer with us
because that was the ying to Sid Yang, that was
his wingman. Sid was Bernard's wingman, and Bernard was certainly
(09:20):
sid Rosenberg's wingman in Godfather reference. When you talk about
Sid Rosenberg, think of Tessio.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Oh, yeah,
Talk radio with street crack. Literally Curtis Lee wad joined
sevent ten WAR to guess ose for Mark Samo.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yeah, as I continue on till January twod here for
Mark Simone. I appreciate the time at my newfound radio station,
but I've listened to over the years from time to time,
and now I listen to it all the time. I's
so should you At seven ten WAR. A lot of
alumni WABC here that dysfunctional family. Is he our board
(00:38):
operator here? He fled the dysfunction as did Crash in
the mornings with Larry MENTI as a real sabant from
Morris Park, the Bronx, and I know to some of
you it sounds like Nichael Corleone. I'm settling all scores.
I am little by little by little by little. But
(00:58):
you have a right to know, and you have a
right to be heard. So let's go first to Sean,
who's patiently on the line from Rockland County. Your turn
to be heard here at seven ten w O wat Shawn.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Welcome home, Curtis.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
And those are the clowns at the other station.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I don't listen to them anymore.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
They just fake guy. See you got in here thirty
five years. You can tell fake fake voice. I know
who that is. Come on, it's Curtis Sleeve pro style. Here.
Let's go to Bob, who's calling from MONTFL Your turn
to be heard here at WOR seven ten.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Bob, Thank you, Curtis, and welcome back to what it's
no longer woman only radio. Thank goodness. And I just
want to say thank you to you and your wife
because those of us who know your history and we
lived it, we saw through other people at the other station.
You know Greg Kelly, obviously he's got like an anger problem,
(02:05):
too much estrogen. And there's another guy talk about Rockland
County dominic, Carter. I wish you would send the angels
up to Rockland County, Curtis. It is out of control.
It is out of control, and he lives with his
head you know where. Well, Well, thank you, thank you,
thank you. Even though I live in New Jersey. Thank you, Curtis.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, but all I need you to do is just
continue to listen to here seven ten w or or Bob.
You don't need to get Odjeda listening to all of them. Hey,
look in talk radio, you have a lot of eccentric characters.
I've certainly worked with them. I've certainly been called eccentric myself.
(02:48):
I've had my ups, my downs, but I think almost
all of them are well known to people. But sometimes
when you have an anger management issue, there are substances
out there that can keep that in check. Hey, look,
it's healthy, it's healthy. Let's go if we can to John,
(03:13):
who's calling from Staten Island. Your turn to be heard
here at seven to ten W John.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Hey, Curtis, I'm so happy to hear you back on
the radio. We've met a few times, so I'm so
happy to be talking to here. WABC is definitely a
dysfunctional family dominic. Carter shows up to work grumpy every
single day. Lionel screams into the microphone. Sid Rosenberg only
(03:41):
cares about himself to He's me me, Me Me Me,
I am grey uh and Greg Kelly. He takes calls
from wack o people who sent him books and they
wrote down a name to the wrong wrong people. Like
what kind of operation to they got going on over that?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
It looks John, John, that's their thing. If you're not
happy with their broadcast, now you have a place to
come to. Maybe I was the sheepherder, and you were
sheep for many years and that's all you listen to. Well,
now you have an opportunity to come on over and
graze on this talk radio field. Maybe my substituting for
(04:23):
Mark Simon will encourage more people to do that. I
would suggest now that we're in the age of social networking,
text it out, email it out, phone it out, get
the word out. You don't have to listen to that
any longer. And more choices, And this is my choice.
(04:43):
So I know for many of you who followed me
in talk radio for what it will be thirty six
years in January, you're welcome on over. Listen to seven
to ten wor as much as is humanly possible. And remember,
unlike years years ago where it was live and local,
(05:04):
that's it. If you missed the broadcast, you couldn't recover it.
Remember the great Bob Grant, nobody better King of Tark
Radio would do his opening monologue. You could never recapture that.
The whole Tri state area would stop to listen to
that opening monologue at three. Now, if you missed the program,
(05:25):
you can catch it on podcasts. See that's something that
never occurred before. Let's go if we can to uh Vic, Well,
I believe he's calling from Pennsylvania. Your turn to be
heard here at seven to ten, w or Vic.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Great to hear you, Curtis, Curtis, I want to tell
you a quick story. You know, I used to listen
to Sid and if it wasn't for Bernie's he would
be nothing. But what a phoney.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
The biggest phone he could be.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Well, they're all phonies there, but he seems to be
the biggest. Talk about ego, you know what I mean.
And at one point I called up when they were
taking calls, he stopped taking calls to let him know
he had bad now Trump and guess what he said,
Oh that's not true. I never bad. No Trump a
big liar. But man, could you imagine being in a
(06:19):
foxhol with any of these guys. I can't imagine it.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
No, no, no, I tell you. I tell you one
thing straight up. It was a much better show when
Bernard McGirk was with him, because it was ike, the
ying and the yang. Because when it's just said, it's I, I,
me and me, it's all about said. Look. I think
he said this himself many times. He has low self esteem.
He's paranoid, rotic. Look a lot of people in talker
(06:45):
ideo that's the case. But Bernard was the ying to
his yang. Bernard was given an opportunity to do a
program at WABC when I miss clearly was in his
latter years. Without Bernard McGirk, Imus could not function. I
was in the broadcast studio. I saw how Bernie would
(07:09):
feed him lines. Bernie read the books, wasn't Imus, And
towards the end of Imus's career, it was so obvious,
but it was Bernard mcgirk's wish to have his own show.
You know, Imus didn't want that. Oh no, oh no,
the show following Imus in the morning. Bernard McGirk said,
(07:30):
it should be my opportunity. And he was right after
all those years, and he said, if you can only
bring Sid Rosenberg up from Florida. He had just been
fired I think for like the third or fourth time.
Not they's wrong with that. That's how you know how
long you've been in talk radio, how many times you've
been fired. But he was not on the radio. Bernie said,
(07:51):
I want Sid to be with me. And I remember
going down Hollywood, Florida at the hard Rock We had
a Guardian into conference of the Floridian Guardian Angels, and
I told the general manager there I would go down
and just do a little background check on city. It
had some problems, and I talked to a lot of
(08:13):
people down there. They said, oh, no, no, no. His
days of gallimantin cavorting getting into trouble, which he's admitted,
is over. He's on the straight and arrow. I came back,
I gave the report. I remember walking into the office
of Chad Lopez. He had on his desk a contract
to hire Mike Lupeka, the great sports writer for the
(08:35):
Daily News, but horrible on the radio ESPN. You know,
just it's not his medium. I said, you can't do that,
you can't sign that. That'll destroy WABC. I said, come on,
do this for Bernard McGirk. He's never asked for anything
other than that, And that's what happened. They got that opportunity,
(08:57):
uh mid Morning and then eventually the Morning Show. And
it's unfortunate that Bernard McGirk is no longer with us
because that was the ying to Sid Yang, that was
his wingman. Sid was Bernard's wingman, and Bernard was certainly
(09:20):
sid Rosenberg's wingman in Godfather reference. When you talk about
Sid Rosenberg, think of Tessio.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Oh, yeah,
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