December 24, 2025 • 20 mins
Curtis Sliwa fills in for Mark Simone, focusing on the ongoing homelessness crisis in New York City, particularly in parks and subways. He examines how the issue has evolved over the years and addresses questions about the impact of Venezuela on U.S. policy, including whether fentanyl or cocaine is the primary drug concern coming from the country. Curtis also discusses upcoming changes for student loan borrowers, highlighting the potential for wage garnishment starting January 2026 for those in default, and explores what these changes could mean for you.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, well, well, Mark sim owners away and curtiusly with
his here to play on talk radio, which I've been
involved with for what will be thirty six years in
January and crashes on the boards. Old WABC alumni will
(00:21):
talk about that later on. Not my place to be
any longer because it's always bashing Kurdish there. But I
am festooned in red and will be taking you the
rest of the way to Mark Returns on January second.
And you might, you might think that I was actually
a form of Santa Claus. What is that the miracle
(00:45):
on thirty fourth Street, you know where that crazed woman
walked in and stabbed a tourists from California multiple times.
Thank god she survived. Yeah, no, not see. I'm always
getting people coming up to me actually talking about crime
and things that are going wrong. Understood, understood. You see
(01:07):
the red beret, you see the red satin jacket that's
expected them in the subways and streets every day. But
last night, I once again attended in Washington Heights our
annual Junior Guardian Angels Christmas extravagance for Lease Navidad. They're
predominantly Dominicans. A lot of those kids. We give remedial
(01:29):
training after school at our headquarters there, you know, to
get them to be able to speak English and assimilate
to math, do the things that maybe they're not getting
in the public school system, which are many instances, is
failing our kids with spending credible amounts of money forty
one billion dollars alone in the city. That's one third
(01:50):
of the budget. But our program and a lot of
other programs around the city nourish these children who were
in need, many of them without fathers. The mothers were present,
or the older brothers or sisters, and it was great.
But I also ended up doing a moonwalk, so to speak,
(02:13):
because everywhere I went last night, and I'm always in
the subways and streets, I was involved in a flashback.
Let me you explain. I was not in a drug
induce psychosis. I had not been smoking Maui Wawi or
Hindu kush. Like the former mayor who Discratsia to build
(02:36):
a basil, who's in his midlife crisis. My god, that
guy cannot you know, he should keep his rocket in
his pocket because the guy is just chasing skirts all
over the place. Anyway, The point being is I'm up
there I'm watching Santi Claus give out presents to the
(02:56):
children of the Junior Guardian Angels program, and I'm thinking
about ten years. Do you know who would come in
and entertain the children? Because the leader there, super Stretcher's
been with me since he was fifteen years old, fifteen
years old in the Bronx nineteen seventy nine. He runs
the program. You know he had had in Jordan Neely.
(03:18):
Now you may say, who's Jordan Neely? Think about that? Think, think, think,
think moonwalk, Think Michael Jackson. He lived right across the
street in Washington Heights sink back May one, twenty twenty
three at Saint Jordan Neely, who was best known as
(03:42):
an impersonator of Michael Jackson. He would do the moonwalk
and sing Billy Jean ended up in that subway, remember
with Daniel Penny. The marine then ended up choking him
out because he was so emotionally disturbed, been living in
the subway and a dysfunctional way because he was emotionally
(04:05):
disturbed for years, for years, going through garbage cans, trying
to find a place to relieve himself, like so many
other who live in our subterranean. Dante's inferno that we
call the subway. And there's a group out there, the
Bowery Residence Committee. You should all know. We've spent millions
(04:26):
and millions of dollars for them. It's part of the
nonprofit industrial complex dealing with homeless. There's five hundred contracts
out there, various agencies. They're always kickbacks, always subcontracts. Really
needs to be investigated. But this group goes out there
in these orange Sherbet jackets. You almost never see them.
(04:48):
I've seen them on occasion. And their job isn't to
care for the emotionally disturbed. They're the homeless. It's to
count them. Yeah, count it once and count it to
And in reference to this very disturbed young man, Jordan Neely,
who was quite the entertainer ten years ago before unfortunately
(05:11):
he died in the arms of Daniel Penny, who did
not want to kill him. Was quite the Michael Jackson impersonated.
So you want to know what happened in between that
causted him to fall into the abyss. And even though
he came into contact with many homeless outreach persons of
this Bowery Residence Committee that has failed us over and over,
(05:34):
taking our money and provided little of any service. He
was put on a list of the fifty most dangerous
emotionally disturbed persons who live in the city subway system.
They are like four hundred and seventy two platforms and stations.
I've been to them all, imagine, and making a list,
not taking him to a mental health care facility, not
(05:55):
getting him help, but just putting him on a list
and checking it twice, madam am I. And then on
that fateful afternoon on May first, twenty twenty three, Jordan
nearly comes into that car, that f train car right
in the Lower east Side where I was yesterday. I
think he was at Broadway Lefiete, starts terrorizing the passengers.
(06:20):
Daniel Penny was living in the Lower east Side going
for a job interview. Did not look like your typical
jarhead marine. No, no, he was very very much like
almost a hippie so to speak, very bohemian. Puts him
inte show cold. Unfortunately, jordanan dies. He goes for the
(06:41):
interview or the first police precinct. The DTS say, okay,
you did the right thing. And then days later who
decides to windem Alvin Bragg, who turns all criminals loose,
but in dts, those that are defending themselves and everyone else.
You know that Jose Alba, remember in the bodega, who
unfortunately had to kill the guy who came over the counter,
(07:03):
who was threatening his life. It goes on and on,
but this case in particular, it's ten years ago. He
was entertaining junior Guardian Angels from time to time with
his skill level. He had skills, and so I was
like moonwalking back and saying, you know how long this
has been going on? We have all these emotionally disturbed persons,
(07:27):
We have all these homeless nothing being done, nothing by
Deblasio and his griff's wife Charlene. Remember they took one
and a half billion dollars over five years for a
program called Thrive. They never helped one emotionally disturbed person,
never investigated because it's a one party system in New
York City and New York State. That's why you need
a two party system, if not more the checks and balances.
(07:51):
So that was my experience there. Then I jump on
the A train and I head down to East Broadway
Guardian Angel headquarters in Chinatown to accompany them as they
go out and they handle the emotionally disturbed and the homeless,
many of whom reside in Sarah Roosevelt Park. Now some
(08:13):
of you probably have been through that over the years.
Goes between Canal Street and He's housed and Forsyth and Christie,
and there are all kinds of rules and regulations. Is
he let me tell you something, if you ever go there.
It says big signe pets are prohibited from the park,
but not drug dealers, drug users, or pervs, petophiles. It
(08:38):
says no scooters. And yet you see scooters going through
like mad crazed individuals who are ready to knock you down.
And it's just a miserable park. Miserable park, lots of problems,
lots of emotionally disturb lots of homeless. So we go
through there and we make sure things are cool, calm
and collected, and we have Narkhan with us. You know
(09:00):
why these people are on the verge maybe of dying
having taken in fentanyl. Later on we're going to discuss,
you know, Venezuela, we're on the cusp of starting this
war supposedly because Maduro is helping to export the fentanyl
(09:21):
into our country. That's a lie, that's like weapons of
mass destruction. Remember we got invade the Rock Saddam Hussein, right,
Dick Sheney, who was saying, oh, well, you know, forget
Saddam Hussein, you might as well look at how Kaida
there Osama been like and trying to conflate the two.
(09:41):
We're still looking for those weapons of mass destruction. Right.
There's no fentinol coming out of Venezuela. If anything, it's cocaine.
But that's one of the rationalsis. We are on the
cusp of war as troops being assembled on the island
of Puerto Rico. They're off in the Atlantic Ocean in
(10:05):
different parts, ready to strike a task force with a
aircraft carrier, the Gerald Ford and others. By the way,
have they renamed any of our battleships in honor of
President Donald Trump? Apparently he wants new battleships named in
his honor. He wants everything named in his honor. Right
there it is, see the Kennedy Center, it's now the
(10:25):
Trump Kennedy Center. He wants to coin You know, generally
these things happen once you're dead. No, I don't need
to hear that. Uh, Like the tappan Zee Bridge, right
there was renamed in the waning moments of a legislative
station by Andrew evilised Coomo the Mario Coumol Bridge. To me,
(10:47):
it'll always be the Tappanzee Bridge, which tad happens once
you're dead. Trump wants all these things while he's alive.
Oh boy, But let's discuss that, because we are at
a point with this holiday Christmas extravagance in New Year's
(11:09):
where a lot of men and women are overseas and
it comes on the cusp of another war that is
raging in the Ukraine. Putin, responsible for invading the Ukrains.
Zolenski did not take the opportunity to leave. He stood
the Ukrainian's battle back somewhat at an impasse. Putin wants
(11:34):
Zelenski to say no Mass, no Mass, and the carnage continues.
The carnage continues. And it was interesting that Zelenski, right
before the holiday, said, hey, I tell you what Putin
wants the eastern part of the Ukraine. Instead of arguing
(11:56):
over what you get and we get. If there is peace,
an armistice, why don't we set up a dmz DE
militarized zone And a certain number of miles would separate
both sides, and then of course there would be troops
that would guarantee the Ukrainian security on the NATO side. Now,
(12:18):
let's explore that, because that's a pretty damn good idea
to stop this carnage, because it doesn't seem like at
this point anything is going to do that, so a
mutual area in between it. And it sort of reminded
me as I do the moonwalk, I go into the
time machine slowly, I turn step by step, and hey,
(12:43):
we're still involved. In Korea, the Korean Peninsula thirty eighth parallel,
there is what one hundred and sixty mile long wall
barbed wire three miles wide in between, in which there
are sharpshooters on the North Korean side if you attempt
to bolt the cross to leave, to leave the horror
(13:09):
of Kim Jung mentally Ill's evil seat, that cult in
North Korea, which barely has about it one million, two
hundred thousand soldiers ready to go to battle, if not more.
South Korea has four hundred and fifty thousand on their
side of the DMZ, which was set up just about
(13:32):
the time I was born in nineteen fifty four, twenty
eight thousand United States troops across one hundred and sixty
miles to keep the peace. Hopefully you'll all understand the
sacrifice that those men and women are making and being
on the front line, knowing that any moment especially there's
(13:57):
a little portion there where you saw then President Donald
Trump in his first term walk like halfway across, and
then you saw a guy who was in need of
ozempic who was at the evil see the Kim Jung
mentally ill who's coming across. They shook hands there and
you have the North Korean guards staring at the South
(14:17):
Korean guards, I fortigating, mad dogging one another. Do you
know that war is still going on? It was never ended.
It was called the police action. Yeah, and the Americans died.
Fifty two thousand Americans died in that Korean War. How
(14:38):
many thousands were taking his POW's And I think once
there was the armistice, remember didn't end. The war was
to continue. It's officially a war now. I think there
were twenty one soldiers who decided to stay back in
North Korea. Well, I think they're in need of a
(14:59):
psychiatric Hey, can you imagine that I want to stay
in North Korea? But that's where a DMZ exists as
we speak. I'll never forget. I was going down from California,
from San Francisco, where I had a chapter of The
Guardian Angels, to Los Angeles, Why Beautiful. On the coach
(15:20):
stopped in Carmel where Clint Eastwood remember The Good, the Bad,
and the Ugly. He was the mayor at that time
and continuing to make films. I remember an old coat.
They was telling me, Oh, yeah, you know, Clint, he
was in the Korean War. He was, oh, tell me,
you know, I want to sop up all the information.
So yeah, he was stationed at Fort Ord. He was
a swimming instructor, he said. But it came into handy
(15:44):
use because he was on a flight that crashed. I
don't know if it was in the ocean somewhere, it
was in water, and he swam to chore saved his life.
But he did service like so many other men and
women stationed around the world this Christmas New Year's holiday
that oftentimes we just don't think of at all, don't
(16:08):
think of at all. And then, of course there was
the DMC that I grew up with, like so many
of the baby boomers in the Cold War, the Wall,
the Berlin Wall, in fact, I think it was put
up in nineteen sixty one on the orders of Nikita
(16:28):
kruz Jef remember said he would bury us at the
General Assembly in a drunken stupor too much vodka, he
took his shoe off, he banged the table, he said,
we will bury you. And man, whenever you took a
subway or a bus there was it was an area
that showed that on television and every day we'd have
to get underneath our our classroom tables that we worked
(16:53):
from desks, and we had to put our hands behind
our necks and kiss Artuka sardupa air rage siren will
go on. You never know, the big one could be
dropped at any moment in the midst of the Cold War,
and how many many women were assigned to guarding that
(17:18):
wall on the western side West Germany obviously much larger
than East Germany. But helping the Stasi at that time
was who Vladimir putin kg B guy on the eastern side.
And that all came to me because I remember, I
remember the scenes of the guard towers, the trenches, the
(17:39):
death strip that separated East from West because The Communists
were worried that so many of their people each day
were fleeing to the West and freedom, about one thousand
a day, that they decided to cut him down with
machine gun fire if you did try to cross over
for freedom. Some of the buildings actually were partially on
one side and another side of the wall. I happened
(18:02):
to be able to see it up close and personal
after the wall came down. I was that nineteen eighty
nine Bush forty one asleep at the wheel, CIA asleep
at the wheel. They had no idea this was happening.
It was part of Gorbachev, you know, with the weinstain
on his head, the glass nose, Perestroika. Communism was falling,
(18:24):
and we didn't move quickly enough to start teaching those
folks about democracy and capitalism. We were just stunned. So
by the time I got there organizing Guardian Angels. In Berlin,
you could take the Uban and the s Bahn one
was the underground subway that went from West Berlin to
East Berlin, and then the elevated and the trains were
(18:48):
graffited just like they were in the nineteen seventies and
eighties here, and I was stunned as I walked through Berlin,
walking through parks and plaza where everybody thought, oh this
is this is the American Way graffiti. But I will
tell you this, how many men and women served there,
(19:09):
how many were killed and attempting to flee a DMC
that existed. I think this is a pretty good idea
that Zelenski has to end this carnage and think about it.
Think about it, and think about all those men and
(19:29):
women who continue to serve in including those men and
women who already at a moment's notice to invade Venezuela
when our commander in chief gives them the word. Right
here at your place to be, our number is eight
hundred three two one zero seven ten. That's eight hundred
three to two one zero seven ten. This is the
(19:49):
station that maybe you're discovering for the very first time
in a long time. This is the station you should
be listening to from now on. Is I and my
wife Nancy will be joining me. They eleven o'clock hour,
listened to all the time, seven ten wor
Well, well, well, Mark sim owners away and curtiusly with
his here to play on talk radio, which I've been
involved with for what will be thirty six years in
January and crashes on the boards. Old WABC alumni will
(00:21):
talk about that later on. Not my place to be
any longer because it's always bashing Kurdish there. But I
am festooned in red and will be taking you the
rest of the way to Mark Returns on January second.
And you might, you might think that I was actually
a form of Santa Claus. What is that the miracle
(00:45):
on thirty fourth Street, you know where that crazed woman
walked in and stabbed a tourists from California multiple times.
Thank god she survived. Yeah, no, not see. I'm always
getting people coming up to me actually talking about crime
and things that are going wrong. Understood, understood. You see
(01:07):
the red beret, you see the red satin jacket that's
expected them in the subways and streets every day. But
last night, I once again attended in Washington Heights our
annual Junior Guardian Angels Christmas extravagance for Lease Navidad. They're
predominantly Dominicans. A lot of those kids. We give remedial
(01:29):
training after school at our headquarters there, you know, to
get them to be able to speak English and assimilate
to math, do the things that maybe they're not getting
in the public school system, which are many instances, is
failing our kids with spending credible amounts of money forty
one billion dollars alone in the city. That's one third
(01:50):
of the budget. But our program and a lot of
other programs around the city nourish these children who were
in need, many of them without fathers. The mothers were present,
or the older brothers or sisters, and it was great.
But I also ended up doing a moonwalk, so to speak,
(02:13):
because everywhere I went last night, and I'm always in
the subways and streets, I was involved in a flashback.
Let me you explain. I was not in a drug
induce psychosis. I had not been smoking Maui Wawi or
Hindu kush. Like the former mayor who Discratsia to build
(02:36):
a basil, who's in his midlife crisis. My god, that
guy cannot you know, he should keep his rocket in
his pocket because the guy is just chasing skirts all
over the place. Anyway, The point being is I'm up
there I'm watching Santi Claus give out presents to the
(02:56):
children of the Junior Guardian Angels program, and I'm thinking
about ten years. Do you know who would come in
and entertain the children? Because the leader there, super Stretcher's
been with me since he was fifteen years old, fifteen
years old in the Bronx nineteen seventy nine. He runs
the program. You know he had had in Jordan Neely.
(03:18):
Now you may say, who's Jordan Neely? Think about that? Think, think, think,
think moonwalk, Think Michael Jackson. He lived right across the
street in Washington Heights sink back May one, twenty twenty
three at Saint Jordan Neely, who was best known as
(03:42):
an impersonator of Michael Jackson. He would do the moonwalk
and sing Billy Jean ended up in that subway, remember
with Daniel Penny. The marine then ended up choking him
out because he was so emotionally disturbed, been living in
the subway and a dysfunctional way because he was emotionally
(04:05):
disturbed for years, for years, going through garbage cans, trying
to find a place to relieve himself, like so many
other who live in our subterranean. Dante's inferno that we
call the subway. And there's a group out there, the
Bowery Residence Committee. You should all know. We've spent millions
(04:26):
and millions of dollars for them. It's part of the
nonprofit industrial complex dealing with homeless. There's five hundred contracts
out there, various agencies. They're always kickbacks, always subcontracts. Really
needs to be investigated. But this group goes out there
in these orange Sherbet jackets. You almost never see them.
(04:48):
I've seen them on occasion. And their job isn't to
care for the emotionally disturbed. They're the homeless. It's to
count them. Yeah, count it once and count it to
And in reference to this very disturbed young man, Jordan Neely,
who was quite the entertainer ten years ago before unfortunately
(05:11):
he died in the arms of Daniel Penny, who did
not want to kill him. Was quite the Michael Jackson impersonated.
So you want to know what happened in between that
causted him to fall into the abyss. And even though
he came into contact with many homeless outreach persons of
this Bowery Residence Committee that has failed us over and over,
(05:34):
taking our money and provided little of any service. He
was put on a list of the fifty most dangerous
emotionally disturbed persons who live in the city subway system.
They are like four hundred and seventy two platforms and stations.
I've been to them all, imagine, and making a list,
not taking him to a mental health care facility, not
(05:55):
getting him help, but just putting him on a list
and checking it twice, madam am I. And then on
that fateful afternoon on May first, twenty twenty three, Jordan
nearly comes into that car, that f train car right
in the Lower east Side where I was yesterday. I
think he was at Broadway Lefiete, starts terrorizing the passengers.
(06:20):
Daniel Penny was living in the Lower east Side going
for a job interview. Did not look like your typical
jarhead marine. No, no, he was very very much like
almost a hippie so to speak, very bohemian. Puts him
inte show cold. Unfortunately, jordanan dies. He goes for the
(06:41):
interview or the first police precinct. The DTS say, okay,
you did the right thing. And then days later who
decides to windem Alvin Bragg, who turns all criminals loose,
but in dts, those that are defending themselves and everyone else.
You know that Jose Alba, remember in the bodega, who
unfortunately had to kill the guy who came over the counter,
(07:03):
who was threatening his life. It goes on and on,
but this case in particular, it's ten years ago. He
was entertaining junior Guardian Angels from time to time with
his skill level. He had skills, and so I was
like moonwalking back and saying, you know how long this
has been going on? We have all these emotionally disturbed persons,
(07:27):
We have all these homeless nothing being done, nothing by
Deblasio and his griff's wife Charlene. Remember they took one
and a half billion dollars over five years for a
program called Thrive. They never helped one emotionally disturbed person,
never investigated because it's a one party system in New
York City and New York State. That's why you need
a two party system, if not more the checks and balances.
(07:51):
So that was my experience there. Then I jump on
the A train and I head down to East Broadway
Guardian Angel headquarters in Chinatown to accompany them as they
go out and they handle the emotionally disturbed and the homeless,
many of whom reside in Sarah Roosevelt Park. Now some
(08:13):
of you probably have been through that over the years.
Goes between Canal Street and He's housed and Forsyth and Christie,
and there are all kinds of rules and regulations. Is
he let me tell you something, if you ever go there.
It says big signe pets are prohibited from the park,
but not drug dealers, drug users, or pervs, petophiles. It
(08:38):
says no scooters. And yet you see scooters going through
like mad crazed individuals who are ready to knock you down.
And it's just a miserable park. Miserable park, lots of problems,
lots of emotionally disturb lots of homeless. So we go
through there and we make sure things are cool, calm
and collected, and we have Narkhan with us. You know
(09:00):
why these people are on the verge maybe of dying
having taken in fentanyl. Later on we're going to discuss,
you know, Venezuela, we're on the cusp of starting this
war supposedly because Maduro is helping to export the fentanyl
(09:21):
into our country. That's a lie, that's like weapons of
mass destruction. Remember we got invade the Rock Saddam Hussein, right,
Dick Sheney, who was saying, oh, well, you know, forget
Saddam Hussein, you might as well look at how Kaida
there Osama been like and trying to conflate the two.
(09:41):
We're still looking for those weapons of mass destruction. Right.
There's no fentinol coming out of Venezuela. If anything, it's cocaine.
But that's one of the rationalsis. We are on the
cusp of war as troops being assembled on the island
of Puerto Rico. They're off in the Atlantic Ocean in
(10:05):
different parts, ready to strike a task force with a
aircraft carrier, the Gerald Ford and others. By the way,
have they renamed any of our battleships in honor of
President Donald Trump? Apparently he wants new battleships named in
his honor. He wants everything named in his honor. Right
there it is, see the Kennedy Center, it's now the
(10:25):
Trump Kennedy Center. He wants to coin You know, generally
these things happen once you're dead. No, I don't need
to hear that. Uh, Like the tappan Zee Bridge, right
there was renamed in the waning moments of a legislative
station by Andrew evilised Coomo the Mario Coumol Bridge. To me,
(10:47):
it'll always be the Tappanzee Bridge, which tad happens once
you're dead. Trump wants all these things while he's alive.
Oh boy, But let's discuss that, because we are at
a point with this holiday Christmas extravagance in New Year's
(11:09):
where a lot of men and women are overseas and
it comes on the cusp of another war that is
raging in the Ukraine. Putin, responsible for invading the Ukrains.
Zolenski did not take the opportunity to leave. He stood
the Ukrainian's battle back somewhat at an impasse. Putin wants
(11:34):
Zelenski to say no Mass, no Mass, and the carnage continues.
The carnage continues. And it was interesting that Zelenski, right
before the holiday, said, hey, I tell you what Putin
wants the eastern part of the Ukraine. Instead of arguing
(11:56):
over what you get and we get. If there is peace,
an armistice, why don't we set up a dmz DE
militarized zone And a certain number of miles would separate
both sides, and then of course there would be troops
that would guarantee the Ukrainian security on the NATO side. Now,
(12:18):
let's explore that, because that's a pretty damn good idea
to stop this carnage, because it doesn't seem like at
this point anything is going to do that, so a
mutual area in between it. And it sort of reminded
me as I do the moonwalk, I go into the
time machine slowly, I turn step by step, and hey,
(12:43):
we're still involved. In Korea, the Korean Peninsula thirty eighth parallel,
there is what one hundred and sixty mile long wall
barbed wire three miles wide in between, in which there
are sharpshooters on the North Korean side if you attempt
to bolt the cross to leave, to leave the horror
(13:09):
of Kim Jung mentally Ill's evil seat, that cult in
North Korea, which barely has about it one million, two
hundred thousand soldiers ready to go to battle, if not more.
South Korea has four hundred and fifty thousand on their
side of the DMZ, which was set up just about
(13:32):
the time I was born in nineteen fifty four, twenty
eight thousand United States troops across one hundred and sixty
miles to keep the peace. Hopefully you'll all understand the
sacrifice that those men and women are making and being
on the front line, knowing that any moment especially there's
(13:57):
a little portion there where you saw then President Donald
Trump in his first term walk like halfway across, and
then you saw a guy who was in need of
ozempic who was at the evil see the Kim Jung
mentally ill who's coming across. They shook hands there and
you have the North Korean guards staring at the South
(14:17):
Korean guards, I fortigating, mad dogging one another. Do you
know that war is still going on? It was never ended.
It was called the police action. Yeah, and the Americans died.
Fifty two thousand Americans died in that Korean War. How
(14:38):
many thousands were taking his POW's And I think once
there was the armistice, remember didn't end. The war was
to continue. It's officially a war now. I think there
were twenty one soldiers who decided to stay back in
North Korea. Well, I think they're in need of a
(14:59):
psychiatric Hey, can you imagine that I want to stay
in North Korea? But that's where a DMZ exists as
we speak. I'll never forget. I was going down from California,
from San Francisco, where I had a chapter of The
Guardian Angels, to Los Angeles, Why Beautiful. On the coach
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stopped in Carmel where Clint Eastwood remember The Good, the Bad,
and the Ugly. He was the mayor at that time
and continuing to make films. I remember an old coat.
They was telling me, Oh, yeah, you know, Clint, he
was in the Korean War. He was, oh, tell me,
you know, I want to sop up all the information.
So yeah, he was stationed at Fort Ord. He was
a swimming instructor, he said. But it came into handy
(15:44):
use because he was on a flight that crashed. I
don't know if it was in the ocean somewhere, it
was in water, and he swam to chore saved his life.
But he did service like so many other men and
women stationed around the world this Christmas New Year's holiday
that oftentimes we just don't think of at all, don't
(16:08):
think of at all. And then, of course there was
the DMC that I grew up with, like so many
of the baby boomers in the Cold War, the Wall,
the Berlin Wall, in fact, I think it was put
up in nineteen sixty one on the orders of Nikita
(16:28):
kruz Jef remember said he would bury us at the
General Assembly in a drunken stupor too much vodka, he
took his shoe off, he banged the table, he said,
we will bury you. And man, whenever you took a
subway or a bus there was it was an area
that showed that on television and every day we'd have
to get underneath our our classroom tables that we worked
(16:53):
from desks, and we had to put our hands behind
our necks and kiss Artuka sardupa air rage siren will
go on. You never know, the big one could be
dropped at any moment in the midst of the Cold War,
and how many many women were assigned to guarding that
(17:18):
wall on the western side West Germany obviously much larger
than East Germany. But helping the Stasi at that time
was who Vladimir putin kg B guy on the eastern side.
And that all came to me because I remember, I
remember the scenes of the guard towers, the trenches, the
(17:39):
death strip that separated East from West because The Communists
were worried that so many of their people each day
were fleeing to the West and freedom, about one thousand
a day, that they decided to cut him down with
machine gun fire if you did try to cross over
for freedom. Some of the buildings actually were partially on
one side and another side of the wall. I happened
(18:02):
to be able to see it up close and personal
after the wall came down. I was that nineteen eighty
nine Bush forty one asleep at the wheel, CIA asleep
at the wheel. They had no idea this was happening.
It was part of Gorbachev, you know, with the weinstain
on his head, the glass nose, Perestroika. Communism was falling,
(18:24):
and we didn't move quickly enough to start teaching those
folks about democracy and capitalism. We were just stunned. So
by the time I got there organizing Guardian Angels. In Berlin,
you could take the Uban and the s Bahn one
was the underground subway that went from West Berlin to
East Berlin, and then the elevated and the trains were
(18:48):
graffited just like they were in the nineteen seventies and
eighties here, and I was stunned as I walked through Berlin,
walking through parks and plaza where everybody thought, oh this
is this is the American Way graffiti. But I will
tell you this, how many men and women served there,
(19:09):
how many were killed and attempting to flee a DMC
that existed. I think this is a pretty good idea
that Zelenski has to end this carnage and think about it.
Think about it, and think about all those men and
(19:29):
women who continue to serve in including those men and
women who already at a moment's notice to invade Venezuela
when our commander in chief gives them the word. Right
here at your place to be, our number is eight
hundred three two one zero seven ten. That's eight hundred
three to two one zero seven ten. This is the
(19:49):
station that maybe you're discovering for the very first time
in a long time. This is the station you should
be listening to from now on. Is I and my
wife Nancy will be joining me. They eleven o'clock hour,
listened to all the time, seven ten wor
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