FULL SHOW: Taking care of animals; Student loan crisis.

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. Curtis takes your calls on homelessness, Venezuela, student loans, and related topics. Curtis Sliwa fills in for Mark Simone. Curtis is joined by his wife, Nancy Sliwa, for a special hour dedicated to their shared passion for animals. Nancy shares stories about her upbringing, her lifelong love of animals, and how this passion brought the couple together. The Sliwas discuss their experiences rescuing and caring for animals at home, offering insights into the joys and challenges of animal rescue. Curtis takes calls with his wife, Nancy, from listeners, sharing what makes animals so important in their lives.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, well, well, Mark sim owners away and curtishly 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 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 a bosio

(02:36):
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 children of the Junior

(02:58):
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. Now you may say,

(03:19):
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 an impersonator

(03:43):
of Michael Jackson. He would do the moonwalk and sing
Billy Jean ended up in that subway, remember with Daniel Penny,
the marine who 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 disturbed for years,

(04:06):
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 spend millions and millions of

(04:27):
dollars for them. It's part of the nonprofit industrial complex
dealing with homeless. There's five hundred contracts out there, various agencies.
They are 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. I've seen them on occasion.

(04:51):
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 he died in the

(05:12):
arms of Daniel Penny, who did not want to kill him.
Was quite the Michael Jackson impersonator. 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

(05:32):
that has failed us over and overtaking 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 at 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

(05:54):
health care facility, not getting him help, but just putting
him on a list and checking it twice, madn 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 Lefiad starts

(06:18):
terrorizing the passengers. 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 in a show cold. Unfortunately, Jordans dies and

(06:39):
he goes for the 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

(07:02):
guy who came over the counter, 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

(07:24):
all these emotionally disturbed persons, We have all these homeless
nothing being done, nothing by Deblasio and his griff of
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

(07:45):
York State. That's why you need a two party system,
if not more the checks and balances. 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

(08:05):
they handle the emotionally disturbed and the homeless, many of
whom reside in Sarah Roosevelt Park. Now some 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.

(08:27):
It says big side pets are prohibited from the park,
but not drug dealers, drug users, or pervs pedophiles. It
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,

(08:50):
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 Narkan with us. You know
why these people are on the verge maybe of dying
having taken in fentanyl. Later on we're going to discuss,

(09:11):
you know, Venezuela, we're on the cusp of starting this
war supposedly because Maduro is helping to export the fentanyl
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

(09:32):
Saddam Hussein, you might as well look at how Kaida
there Osama been. Like they trying to conflate the two.
We're still looking for those weapons of mass destruction.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Right.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
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 ri 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

(10:26):
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 Cuomo the Mario coumol Bridge. To me,

(10:47):
it'll always be the tappanzee, which 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 extravaganz in New Year's

(11:10):
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
Zlenski 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.
All 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

(11:55):
arguing over what you get and we get. If there
is peace, an armistice, why don't we set up a
DMZ de militarized ump. It was a certain number of
miles whould separate both sides, and then of course there
would be troops that would guarantee the Ukrainian security on

(12:16):
the NATO side. Now, 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 neutral area in between. And it
sort of reminded me as I do the moonwalk, I
go into the time machine slowly, I turn step by step,

(12:41):
and hey, 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

(13:02):
if you attempt to bolt the cross to leave, to
leave the horror 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,

(13:24):
if not more. South Korea has four hundred and fifty
thousand on their side of the DMZ, which was set
up just about 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

(13:49):
all understand the sacrifice that those men and women are
making and being on the front line, knowing that any
moments especially there's a little portion there where you saw
that 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

(14:10):
to Kim Jung mentally ill, who's coming across. They shook
hands there and you have the North Korean guards staring
at the South Korean guards, I fortegating, mad dogging one another.
Do you know that war is still going on? It
was never ended. It was called the police action.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
Yea.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
And the Americans died. Fifty two thousand Americans died in
that Korean War. How 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.

(14:52):
I think there were twenty one soldiers who decided to
stay back in North Korea. Boy, I think they're in
need of a psychiatric 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

(15:12):
down from California from San Francisco, where I had a
chapter of The Guardian Angels to Los Angeles, right beautiful.
On the coach stopped in Carmel where Clint Eastwood remember
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, He was the
mayor at that time, continuing to make films. I remember
an old codger. They was telling me, Oh, yeah, you know, Clint,
he was in the Korean War. He was, oh, tell me,

(15:34):
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
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 shore, saved his life.
But he did service like so many other men and

(15:57):
women stationed around the world this Christmas New Year's holiday
that oftentimes we just don't think of at all, don't
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,

(16:20):
the Berlin Wall, in fact, I think it was put
up in nineteen sixty one on the orders of Nikita
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

(16:41):
subway or a bus there was there was an area
that showed that on television, and every day we'd have
to get underneath our our classroom tables that we worked
from desks, and we had to put our hands behind
our next and kiss Artuka sardupa air rage ciren will

(17:04):
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
wall on the western side West Germany obviously much larger
than East Germany. But helping the Stasi at that time

(17:25):
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
death strip that separated East from West because the Communists
were worried that so many of their people each day

(17:46):
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 of the wall. I happened to
be able to see it up close and personal after
the wall came down. I was that nineteen eighty nine

(18:10):
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 a weinstain on
his head, the glass nose, Perestroika. Communism was falling, and
we didn't move quickly enough to start teaching those folks
about democracy and capitalism. We were just stunned. So by

(18:34):
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
graffeited just like they were in the nineteen seventies and
eighties here, and I was stunned as I walked through Berlin,

(18:56):
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,
how many were killed and attempting to flee a DMC
that existed. I think this is a pretty good idea

(19:19):
that Zelenski has to end this carnage and think about it.
Think about it, and think about all those men and
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

(19:40):
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
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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 in the eleven o'clock hour,

(20:01):
listened to all the time seven to ten wor Street
Smart Straight Talk.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
Curtis leewa guest host for Mark Simone on sevent ten WAW.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Seeing crash here a board operator, knowing he'd been in
the business for thirty years, mostly at my other place
to be no longer WABC. A true savant. I mean
this guy was like Google before there was Google, and
rescued many hosts and hostesses by giving them information that
they weren't privy to. Never got the credit, never did.

(20:39):
But he went to Fordham University and he worked at WFUV,
great great radio station and produced many people in this
thing of art. Vince Scully, Pete Fornah Tell, Mike Green,
Michael k Charles Osgood. The list goes on and on
great station.

Speaker 5 (20:54):
There.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
The other guy who rescued w ABC was working he
after thirty years, himself a savant when it came to
music in trivia was Lura Fino. Yeah, Louis Fine was
on the board and unfortunately a very dear friend, Bernard McGirk,
died of prostate cancer. Again, I can't warn you enough.

(21:18):
A simple prick of the finger, now that you're going
to be with family and friends, Tell any male over
forty five, get that prick of the finger, get that
blood test. That's all it is. Look, I had stage
four prostate cancer. I survived Beranan McGirt did not, and
so they tried to go forward with Sid Rosenberg on
his own. It wasn't working out. He needed a wingman

(21:41):
and Lui Fino as he had done for over thirty years.
I remember he was hanging out of Beef Steak Charlie's
up there in Fordham. Roll remember beef Steak Charlie's. They
were everywhere. There were like sixty of them in the eighties.
Well you can eat salad, barn limited beer wine, sangreia,
you know, the cheapest of the cheap, but you leave
with a belly full, as many of the folks who
went to Fordham did. Great radio guy and he cap

(22:06):
he kept us at Rosenberg show alive. He threw him
a lifeline. Yeah, you see this thing of ours. You know,
what comes around goes around. But now I'm at my
place to be w or seven ten that I listened
to along with my wife, was going to give you
an update in the eleven o'clock arrow. You know, she's

(22:29):
all animal welfare all the time. And before we head
out on the road to visit family and relatives for
this Christmas vacation. Boy is a lot to catch up
too with all of you, but up next, as promise
your turn to be heard right here at seven ten
Worr the Beret is back.

Speaker 4 (22:49):
Curtis Sleepwa guest host the Mark Simone Show on seven tenor.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
As promised to the phones, we go because it's your
turn to be heard here at seven w pam in Pattison,
New Jersey. Thanks for joining us, then, thank you.

Speaker 6 (23:11):
And you probably remember me from the past and I
missed Nancy's Animal Hour. Also, you and I have something
in common from that other station called all day Bullying Callers.
The person who's on one to five in the morning
weekdays spent three out of the four hours mocking me

(23:34):
because I rescue cats and calling it a psychopathy. There
were a couple people who defended me. Your name was
mentioned in vain as a cat person who's you know,
we all have copathies and there's something wrong with us
and we don't like people. Just coming from a person
who has no children and no pets. Interesting.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Interesting, And I.

Speaker 6 (23:59):
Did not christiate it because I was one of the
people responsible for helping that station get on its seat.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
Oh no, no, I know, Ben, but I know you're
talking about Lionel. He's not alone. Look the President of
the United States, in the middle of the mayoral campaign
that he should have stayed out of, decided to chastise
me and my wife Nancy for rescuing cats like so
many others listening here in the Tri State area and

(24:29):
throughout the world on the Worldwide Net seven wor who
were going to be euthanized in shelters. Oh, this is
a bad thing. Well, I guess Mahatma Gandhi was a
bad person, right, who said a society that does not
take care of its animals does not take care of
its people. Look obvious, emotionally disturb people everywhere, Homeless people,

(24:53):
no way to go for Christmas and the holidays other
than the subways and parks and streets. And they want
to make fun of people who rescue animals. That's the
President of the United States in this case. She was
referring to Lionel others at Greg Kelly over at w

(25:13):
ABC's same thing, Same thing. Interesting little update. The incoming mayor,
Zoron Mandami. His wife has been a bit of an enigma.
The incoming first lady, her name is Rama, She's an
artist from like Bushwick. She's going to have a cat
at Gracie Mansion. I had no idea that Zoron was

(25:36):
allergic to cats, But in order to satisfy the desire
of his wife, he's going to take the shots because
he would have an allergy with the cat president in
Gracy Mansion. Good thing you don't hear anybody attacking him.
Of course not they attack him for other things. But oh,
if the worst thing we ever did in the world

(25:58):
was to rescue animals in need. These people hate animals
and that's what they do. Need to look at the
Pew Research study last year. Check it out right now.
If I would ask Crash, I wouldn't even have to
google a chat chet. He would conjure it right up.

(26:20):
So ninety seven percent of Americans, whether they voted for Trump,
will voted for Harris, or they don't vote now, view
their pets as family members, as people ninety seven percent.
So let them make fun of people who rescue animals

(26:42):
in distress or people in distress who are homeless or
emotionally disturbed, because let's face it, they have self centered
iron me in many instances miserable lives. We will be
talking to animal rescue rescue up Nancy in the upcoming hour.

(27:04):
Let's go to Stuart, who's calling from the Lower East Side,
the East Village. Your turn to be heard here at
seven ten wo R.

Speaker 5 (27:15):
Thank you. Myn was Stu pardon the voice and World
Trade Center and one of those idiots that ran in
the wrong direction to help that day. And thank God
for the World Trade Center Health Registry book. I just
wanted to say one. I love animals and to bid
they don't have a shot for an incoming mayor that
wants some handle cats. Stoley also likes New York Jews.

(27:38):
They don't have a shot for that too. Bet You,
I've met three times. I've always liked you. I voted
for you twice. You would have been the best man
of the city ever had. And I hate what they
did at ABC. I can't listen to the station. I
hate betrayal. I hate what they did to you. I
can't and listen to him when that one No.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
No, you don't have to. You don't have to. You
may not have been listening to seven to ten wor
for a long time. Now you have a friend of
your own.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Back.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
When Nancy joins me in the next hour. What we
used to do is for the holidays, we would come
on here and tend to all the shut ins and
people at no one. You know, these times of year
for them can be the most miserable times of the year.
While others are enjoying family and friends, there are a
lot of people they don't have family and friends who

(28:29):
are either available to them or are no longer around.
And we used to talk directly to them for hours
and hours and hours. Let's go to if we can. Anita,
who is calling from Maspith your turn to be heard
here at seven to ten. Woor Anita, How you doing, Curtis?

Speaker 7 (28:52):
I love listening to you on the radio now and
even more to actually speak to you in person. I
want you to know, on my property and on my block,
I had all the vote for Curtis signs and I
have a theory that I would like to ask your
opinion on. When I heard Greg Kelly and Sid Rosenberg

(29:16):
tell us to vote for Como, inside my body I
kept saying, what if they had said vote for Curtis
or wouldn't you I believe then have become our mayor.
Now if they would have talked in that vein, no.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
I would have had a much better shadow. We'll tell
you this, so I will be traveling with my wife
Nancy to visit her side of the family. We'll be
up in Capital Land, Albany, Rensalier, Troy, and we'll be
going for her mom and her stepdad's house from Pennsylvania.
So we'll be on the road. I have it on

(29:54):
pretty good authority. I have to check it out in
Capital Land while I'm there. The Republican leadership through Congresswoman
Elised Stophonic under the bus yep again on behalf of
a Democrat. That grifter Kathy Hoko, who you saw in
New York City yesterday basically having a love fest with

(30:17):
Eric Adams swagger man with no plan. Maybe she's going
to give him a parade through the canyony heroes just
to get him the hell out of here. You know
where he was. He traveled at our expense to Israel,
Uzbekistan that he can't even find on a map, Mexico,
and now we find out he went to Georgia and
not Atlanta, Georgia, the country the home of Joe Stalin.

(30:41):
He was in Tubilisi for a grand opening of a
five star hotel, probably getting wine dined in pocket lined man.
I can't wait till we are finished with a guy
who for four years pimped or at tax pay us expense,

(31:05):
barmbing up in the bullpen. The best thing that ever
happened to me animal lover extraordinaire my wife Nancy, who
will be joining all of us by phone in the
next hour as she is getting ready for our trip
to family members and friends who out to try state area.
Right here on your place to be seven to ten wor.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
Talk Radio with Street Crag literally Curtis Sleewad joined sevent
ten WR to guess those for Mark Samow.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
And this has been a wonderful Christmas present to be
back on the air at the Newfound station for so
many of you, and my wife Nancy and I seven
ten WR. More importantly, Nancy, are you there? Do we

(31:59):
have Nancy on the line?

Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (32:02):
Hello, oh yeah, oh yeah, we're getting here a little earlier,
just a little bit of a tease into the next hour.
You'll be with us a whole hour. But I remember
how you would join me often during the holidays, the
holiday atself, when there were so many shut ins and
lonely people, the worst day of the year for them,
and you would bring joy to them over the airwaves.

(32:24):
We're going to continue that tradition right here in the
next hour and also talk about animal rescue and all
the people who have decided to make fun of not
just you and me, but so many out there that
we know are dedicated to their pets who are like

(32:45):
family members and friends and ferrow animals who live out
in the fields or maybe their backyard or out in
their barn wherever they are listening here to seven to
ten wors. I know you're getting ready for our christ
State extravagance as we go from place to place visiting
your family members. Are you up for it?

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yes, I am definitely up for it.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
Yeah. And in fact, and Nancy likes that dog show
that is here on war. I think it's nine o'clock
on Saturdays. Very good, Very good. You don't want to
go anywhere. The best part of the Sliwa family is
coming up next. The best thing that ever happened to me,
Nancy Slee. We're right here at seven ten wor.

Speaker 4 (33:29):
Now the Red Beret has returned to radio. Curtis leewa
guest host the Mark Simone Show on sevent ten woor.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
So, yeah, I just came through the tunnel here at
ihearts sevent ten war. It's all red. You know, could
be the locker room for the Kansas City Chiefs Arrowhead
Stadium now moving to Kansas. You know, like Dorothy, you know,

(34:11):
clicking her red shoes. But I'm festooned all in red,
red satine jacket, red beret, feeling like Santi Claus and
also having received a gift to be able to broadcast
to all of you and our new found talk radio
station seven to ten WR that Nancy and I listened

(34:33):
to as often as possible. And she joins me right
now as she joined me at many times on WABC.
No longer our place to be where they're always bashing Curtis.
But I know you're busy getting ready for our trip
ahead the next two days, as we'll be dealing with
family members on your side of the family. So I'd

(34:54):
like you just to give everybody here an idea who
you are and whe you came from as long term listeners.
He at seven ten WA.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
Well that's a pretty tall order, but let's see. So
where I came from. I grew up in Long Island.
I graduated from Stonybrook, I went to law school in
Brooklyn and once I got to Brooklyn, I never looked back.
You know, I love being in the city, and living

(35:29):
in Brooklyn was the first time that I had discovered
all of these cats that wander around outside, and that's
when I first discovered the concept of the colony cats
and all the people out there who were taking care
of them, and you know, had like regular groups of
outdoor cats because as you know, the shelter system is

(35:51):
so filled up, and unfortunately, you know, they're they're a
kill shelter in the city, so you know, they bring
them in, they warehouse them a bit, and then after
that happens, they euphanize them pretty quickly, even when they
don't really have any significant types of problems. So you know,
that's not a great place to be. And I realize
that there's this incredible community of people out there who

(36:13):
are doing exactly what you know, it's passionate. I'm passionate about,
which is taking care of them, realizing that they can
live outside as long as you know, it's done within,
like the structure of the colony, which is making sure
they're spade and neutered, providing them with houses, especially in
inclement weather like right now where it's cold outside, and

(36:35):
you know, feeding them on a regular basis, so this
way they have a food source. So I mean, you know,
I guess that's the And then need I met you
about ten years ago or so, and you know we've
been together ever since. So that's that's me in a nutshell.
I guess.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
I remember you were living in Sunset Park at the time,
and you said, there are cats living in the alleyway,
you know, swear all the garage, and I said, I
didn't see any. I walked through the alleyway, I didn't
see anny. And then you walked through and you made
this sound like the female version of Doctor Doolittle. And

(37:12):
I mean, cats were coming out of every Nookrannian corner,
and they were rubbing up against your leg, the tails
in the air, all of them with all of their
own unique personalities as I observe them. And there are
so many people just like yourself, mostly women, some men

(37:33):
out of pocket who care for these animals, sometimes in distress.
Will also serve as a barrier because their presence keeps
the rats, the mice, the rodents away, and so they
earned their keep many times over without there having to
be pest asides. And all other kinds of alternatives they

(37:55):
used to try to eliminate the rats and the mice
that you'll never eliminated. You could have daytime with them,
but you can keep them at bay. What was it
like when people would turn to you and it'll call
you a cat lady or disparagingly make fun of you
because you and others were reaching into your pocket spending

(38:16):
your own money to care for these animals.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
Well, I mean, well, first of all, I don't get
offended by people. I you know, I usually try to
explain it to them, because you know, the misconception I
would I would get a lot of times is like
somehow I brought them there, like I created these cats,
and I try to you know, you have to explain no, no, no,
there's so many of them that live outside all the time,
and what I'm doing is basically caring for the ones

(38:42):
that are here. And if if for some reason, if
someone calls, like the you know, the shelter to come
pick them up, it just creates a vacuum in that area,
and then what happens is other cats in the area
move in. There's just so many cats, you don't see
them all the time, so I'm you know, I'm pretty
tough skinned, like I wouldn't really take it when people
are getting annoyed. But that's why you also have to

(39:02):
make sure you take care of these things in a
decent basis. So for example, you know, you don't leave
the food around, you don't do things that are going
to clearly bother neighbors, and you know, create nuisance. So
as long as and again that's also why you want
to make sure that you get the cats fixed. I mean,
that's essential. You can't keep having the kittens around. And
then plus, when they're fixed, they calm down a lot.

(39:22):
I mean, the the aggression that happens with the male
cats when they're not fixed, I mean, it's all territorial.
So you know, you can get their behavior to a
point where you know they're i mean again they're they're
the same as the indoor cats. It's just they need,
you know, the very specific attention because it's a tough
it's a tough time out there. You know, there's a

(39:43):
lot of cats that just inavertently stumble on poisons, things
of that nature, Like I would have to explain to people, like,
you know, don't inadvertently throw things down because that happens
a lot too. I mean, you know, it always bothers
me in the winter. Now, obviously you see a lot
of people throwing down the like rock salt. The city
throws down the rock salt. That's actually dangerous for animals
because they use like the cheapest variety. So you know,

(40:04):
you have this. I mean, it's a tough life for
them out there. So you know, I just you know,
I'm very compassionate. You know, I have people who you know,
you know, I feel like everyone can understand it if
you explain it to them, and then if they don't
understand it after that, then to heck with them, because
you know, they're living creatures and I can't see any
justification for letting someone's dislike of them ever stop the

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behavior of Karen for animals.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
Yeah, what I loved about Wisconsin when I was up
there organizing Guardian Angels and Milwaukee is they don't use
rock salt because they had, you know, years ago, they
had feet of snow. It's not like that as it
used to be. But they would put down a brine
of parmesan cheese, a brine really yeah, and naturally, I

(40:49):
mean even some people, you know, it's whole parmesan cheese.
Oh they'd be down there, you know, licking the asphalt.
But there were so many other alternatives. And I think
one singular thing that comes across is I've noticed some
time to time you'll be walking the streets where we
live and you'll see some pigeons in distress and you'll

(41:09):
feed them. Some people will refer them as rats with wings,
others as basically the official bird of New York City.
Fact that i'd been elected mayor, as you know, on
the campaign trail, I said we would have taken the
New York City flag. It's like some indescript bird on there.

(41:31):
I would put a pigeon. That's what New York City
is known for. And I noticed some people would be
talking and say she's feeding her pigeons, and I will
walk off to them and I'd say, you got a
problem with that? Oh no, Curtis, No, no, no no. You
know that's my wife, Nancy. You got a problem with that? No,
no no. And they they have spikes that they they

(41:54):
put on the windowsills.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
The aggression against the pigeons, I find really really just
to your point. The spikes that are allowed to be
put up and then now you have pigeons that are maimed.
I mean that to me. I can't believe that's even
legal that that happened. But I definitely catch a lot
of guff for throwing down the bird seat with the pigeons.

(42:17):
But then usually the people who are saying something to
me are walking their dog who's urinating on the sidewalk,
so I'm not really sure where they are on their
high horse telling me anything about cleanliness of animals. So
you know, to each your own, I guess right, yeah,
And it's.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
A much better remedy. If you don't want pigeons flocking around,
you just put up a plastic owl. It's like in
corn fields when they put up scarecrows. It has the
same impact without damaging the pigeons. And it's a horrific
death that they suffer because they get impaled. And some

(42:53):
people in their minds, you know, that's a OK. But
I think the broader issue is you know, and again
it's what I based both of my campaigns on and
running for New York. One of the many issues animal welfare.
At Mahatma Gandhi. You know, there will be people who
criticize him because they hate animals, said that a society

(43:17):
that does not take care of its animals does not
take care of its people. And you have seen how
much time and energy we in the Guardian Angels, with
your help, have put into caring for the homeless and
the emotionally disturbed because we don't take care of them,
and we don't take care of our animals. The abuse
the dogs that are raised to fight and kill and maim,

(43:41):
and nothing is done to stop that. As you mentioned,
with spading and neutering, it would go a long way
and keeping these many animals God's creatures out of harm's way.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
Yeah, I mean, and again that's the whole goalpost of everything.
You know, you don't want to have the breeder animals.
I mean, there's no reason to keep creating you know,
these you know, dogs and cats when the reality is
there's not enough home for them all together. So I
absolutely think that that has to stop right away. I mean,
you can't be having not go on.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
Well, we'll be able to travel the vision with your
mother best who just celebrated her birthday, who I believe
out in Bohemia really introduced you to the life of
people who dedicate themselves to animals, Would that be correct
on that.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
Yeah, My mom's like first job, believe it or not,
when she, you know, got a job in Long Island
was working at an animal shelter, so you know, like
a veterinarian office rather, so during the weekends when she
would be working, I would go in with her. So
it was as though they were all like I had
a whole bunch of cats and dogs that I could

(44:52):
visit because they were the ones who were sort of
waiting in the the kennels like if either they were
recovering or maybe they were for So that was actually
very cool. I mean, And I also grew up with
having a dog and cats in the household, so you know,
I'm just very familiar with them in general. And yeah,
I mean, and you know, of course, growing up in

(45:13):
Long Island it's a lot more nature, so you know,
you would, you know, you see things more often. Like
I had a neighbor next to me who had, believe
it or not, chickens and roosters and things like that,
like a little farm going on, so you know, it's
just a much more natural environment to see these animals.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
Well, the defining moment for me with you and your
passion for animals was in that first campaign when I
ran against Eric Adams twenty twenty one, and I warned
everybody he would be corrupt and we would have chaos,
but nobody listened. About halfway through the campaign and you
were scrolling on the internet the death row list that

(45:53):
they put up from the Animal Care and Control the shelters,
because these are killed shelters, they are not no care shelters.
And you said, I gotta run to East New York
Glennon Boulevard to the animal shelter there that it's now
closed to rescue this cat. And I remember you had

(46:14):
cold and they said, yeah, well we're opening of five.
And I said, Nancy, you can't go down there on
your own. I mean, that's right by Saint Ford Shnada's,
that's on Linen Boulevard. That psychology. No, you can't go there.
That's Oh no, that's Psycher sells. They have drive by shootings.

(46:37):
I'm gonna go with you. We got in the animal
welfare van of the Guardian Angels and we were driving
halfway there. We were on Woodhaven Boulevard. It was like
two o'clock in the afternoon, and they called you and
just relate to our listeners all throughout the Tristate area
in the world, the insensitivity of the people. They're knowing

(46:59):
you were on your way to rescue this cat that
was on death row.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
Yeah, so I had already basically secured the rescue of
this this small kitten, and those are the ones that are,
believe it or not, first to be put down in
the shelter's a lot of times because if you don't
have someone to bottle feed them, they you know, they
don't have full time staff like that. So we were
on our way and I got I got to call
that the medical team. Ultimately they decided, well, I don't

(47:28):
think this cat's gonna, you know, farewell, so we're just
going to euthanize it, like you know. And that to
me was incredible because when you adopt these cats, a
lot of times when they do have any potential medical issues,
they're not putting the bill for any of the medical care.
So it's whether it's on them to you know, relinquish

(47:50):
the animal, knowing that any medical care you have to supply.
I mean, there's there's no cost to them to allow
you to take that animal home. So again, they just
decided well, the second look, and we don't really think
this this cat's gonna you know, farewell, So we're just
gonna go ahead and euthanize it, knowing I was on
my way to get this cat. So that was really heartbreaking.

Speaker 1 (48:11):
Remember people need to know. My wife was crying for days.
She pulled the vehicle over and I vowed to you
right then, I said, if I become the mayor, this
becomes a priority. Can you remember.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
And then the other side note to that was because
you wound up mentioning that story about what happened with
the animal care and control, right away they pulled my
ability to actually get these animals from the shelter as
like a stick of to you type moment, apparently because
they don't like when people tell the truth about what's

(48:44):
going on in the shelter system. So right away they
took me off the list of being able to adopt
these animals. So that was a real nice touch.

Speaker 1 (48:52):
So to all of our critics shout there, including the
President of the United States, I remember Lush Maria Bartoloma.
He was on the show Fox Business in the White
House and he was railing against you and I for
rescuing cats and if we were, if I was elected,
they would be in Gracie Mansion. And I'm saying to

(49:13):
myself while I'm watching him almost with great delight, attacking us, saying,
excuse me, mister president, you're realize in the room you're
in now, was another great Republican president called Teddy Roosevelt
who had eighty animals at the White House when he
was president, dogs and cats in the White House, right
where you're sitting now speaking to Maria Bartoloma. But of

(49:37):
course he wouldn't care about that. Who cares only about
Donald Trump? Up next, we got it. We have to
have this conversation. It's the lead story today about student
loans garnishing. The United States will bail out countries like Argentina,
corrupt as they are, but our country will not bail

(49:59):
out those who were in debt because of student loans.
We'll get an update from Nancy Slee Wes. We work
our way right into Christmas Day at your newfound station.
A gift to all of you seven to ten wor.

Speaker 4 (50:14):
Talk Radio with Street Crab literally Curtis slawad joined sevent
ten WR to guess hose from Mark Samol.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
At our newfound station seven to ten WR for so
many of you. You don't need to go where you
used to listen to me or Nancy. I'll be here
till January second, substituting for Mark Simone and I love radio.
When I was growing up, I didn't make it through

(50:46):
high school, got kicked out by the Jesuits of Brooklyn Prep.
They shine the boots on my backside. I never looked back.
It's pumping gas, packing shelves at an EMP. I remember
listening to talk radio and then King of Talk Radio
Bob Grant at the old WMCA, and then at night
wn e W. Allison Steele the Nightbird, free form music radio.

(51:11):
It was it could. It was a mood elevator because
talk radio can be a real downer. Got to reach
for the title and all on advil. Sometimes it's just negativity, negativity.
And so what my wife Nancy has done for me
is she knows she's working all day. I'm working all
day and I'm in all the places that most people
don't want to go can be pretty depressing. And she'll

(51:34):
put on electronic dance music for me when I get
to the house with the kiddies. You know, chain smokers
are favorite don't let me down Paris. Last night you
were playing for me was great. But you've also introduced
me to songs and normally I would never listen to
like Justin Bieber with that song stay with that video

(51:57):
from Downtown LA that I'm familiar with. Wow, that was
that's great. That's a mood elevator. Then Miley Cyrus. I
would never listen to Miley Cyrus Midnight Sky. Oh that's great.
Uh Post Malone, I liked him, he was out of
Syracuse Sunflower. These all mood elevator's song. So boy, you

(52:17):
really know how to get my mood back into gee
And mostly it's with electronic dance music. And that's because
you're of a different generation than me. I'm a baby boomer,
but your generations of Millennials and Gen Zas have been
just destroyed. The American dream has been robbed from you

(52:37):
if you got sucked into these student loans. And now
basically the president the government is saying, we're coming after
you if you've defaulted. We're gonna take every nickel, diamond
penny you have a make. We're gonna have a look
underneath the uh, the Castro convertible that you might be
sleeping on. We're gonna get you, my little pretty if

(52:58):
it's the last thing we do. Could you explain how
this American dream has been robbed from so many of
your peers and your generation.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
I mean, i'd say just the excess of burden some
student loans. That's the really most surprising part to me
that when I when I got out and you know, again,
you're kind of going through the motions. It's you know,
it's it's kind of forced on you in a way
as you're going through you know, junior high high school,

(53:32):
like obviously you have to go to college, Like how
else would you expect to get any sort of job
of values that you're going to need to have in
the future. So, you know, and they're very quick to
throw paperwork in front of you, where, well, this is
how you go. You just sign.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
You know.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
It's like, you know again, I think it's very hard
to comprehend when you're you know, like I was barely
eighteen I think when I signed it, because I graduated
it was July. You know, I turn eighteen July, and
you know, you're basically taking on this level of debt
that is really incomprehensible and by the time you actually
graduate from school. What really surprised me was that the

(54:10):
amount that I owed was way more than what I
even borrowed. So you know, they they front end it
with the interest, so it'll take you, you know, years,
like paying the normal payment that you have to pay,
it'll take you years just to get down to what
you initially borrowed in the first place. And you know,
they kind of have it where it's you know, like

(54:32):
sort of based a little bit on your income, like
the federal loans, at least, you know, they they try
to be a little bit more flexible in terms of
what your salary is. So you know, they have like
they call it like income sensitive and you know, just
all based upon that. But the reality is so anytime
that you start to make a little bit more money,
the student loan increases, like, you know, incredibly more So. Again,

(54:55):
when I started working at the law firm and I
was making an okay salary the first time, that's when
the student loan. And that's also when the Obama Care
kicked in because I didn't have health insurance. So all
of a sudden, now I was getting a penalty for
not having the health insurance and I had this massive
student loan every month. I mean, you can bail your
fort to just live, just pay your rent and pay
your basic bills. When you're looking at things like that,

(55:17):
I mean I was paying like twenty five hundred, close
to three thousand a month just in student loans. I mean,
and this is you know, looking down like the line
of knowing you're going to have to be paying it
for a decade or two, you know, based on how
much you ultimately owe. So unfortunately I had to borrow
a lot of money for everything, and law school is

(55:37):
just way expensive. So yeah, I mean, it's really tough
to get started in your life when you're right off
the bat, you're paying you know, several grand a.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
Month, and so it makes you angry, makes you angry
that that dream that was promised you if you did
your four years, You graduate school, you get your degree,
you know, your financial analyst, CPA, a lawyer, whatever, you
do all of that, and now you're living in an
apartment still with three other people, like you're back in
your dormitory in school.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
Yeah, I mean I yeah, thankfully I didn't have to
sort of go into that direction of having like multiple people.
But I always had like maybe one roommate possibly, yeah,
I mean, but again it's you know, you look at
the costs for everything within New York City.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
I mean.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
And the first thing too that blew my mind was
realizing that not only they're more expensive live in New
York City, but then when you do your taxes, you're
getting a city tax on top of that. Like wait, what,
Like it already costs so much money to live here
in the first place, and I'm not even sure what
I'm paying for.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
Maybe some people from what you've just said, understand the
anger that led to the election of Zorahan Mandami, who
it was all about a cost of living affordability. And
then to hear our presidents say, if you vote for
Javier Milai of Argentina, my friend will bail out Argentina

(57:02):
for the twentieth time. These dead beats, we bail them out,
but won't even bail out people from this student loans
in the United States.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
Unbelievabah, Like, I mean, I could see if you if
you're if you have the money if And again I
think they the disconnect too between the the charges that
they have for you know, higher education to begin with,
and then the likelihood of getting a job that really
sort of fits the criteria to be able to pay
that back. Like, I don't think there is any ramifications

(57:34):
for these higher educational institutions to really I mean, they're
not guaranteeing you jobs, so you know, the best they
can do is maybe tell you, you know, try to like,
you know, sort of gear you in the right direction,
but you know, to be putting so much money in
for something that you may or may not get down
the road. I you know, I feel like they do
take advantage of a lot of the young people out there.

(57:57):
I always thought when I was younger too, that, oh,
the people who straight out of school, when they just
went into a job so like you know, especially like
the ones that require more like the technical skills like
the plumbing and things like that. I was like, oh, well,
those people aren't going that. Like I had no idea
how much ahead of the curve that they were, because
right out the gate they have a skill that's you know,

(58:18):
that that kind of really less a test of time.
And then plus they don't have any of the student
loan debt and they start making money years before you
even get a chance to start making money. So those
people really know what they're doing out there.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
Well, on that note, you have a chance to speak
to Nancy. The best thing that ever happened in my life,
my wife and yours truly right, he had our new station,
our favorite to listen to, seven ten WOR at one
eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. That's one
eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten, Street

(58:50):
Smart Straight Talk.

Speaker 4 (58:51):
Curtis leewa guest host for Mark Simone on sevent TENOO.

Speaker 1 (59:04):
Two Great Christmas Presents broadcasting here on our new favorite station,
seven to ten WOR that many of you are discovering
for the first time. I say we it's my wife, Nancy.
It is the best present that I've ever had, the
best thing that ever happened in my life of seventy
one years. And she remains on the line. But it's

(59:25):
time for our listeners to be heard. Nancy. Let's go
to Madeline, who's calling from the Bronx. Oh what a
great day it is, Madeline.

Speaker 8 (59:37):
Yes, especially because I'm talking to you and then I
remember you from I think nineteen seventy eight. That's fency
but number four train Rock Brigade. I always tell you
that with a full of books here.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
Anyway, hold on, hold on, hold on, if you can,
please hold on. You're coming in, broken up, Crash. Let's
see what you can do. I'd hate to see if
the disconificator is preventing us from hearing folks from your borough,
the Bronx and the borough where I started the Guardian
Angels in nineteen seventy nine. On that note, will Crash

(01:00:12):
goes to work. On that. Let's go to Carlotta, who's
calling from Brooklyn. Your turn to be heard here at
seven ten wr Well.

Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
How do you do it?

Speaker 9 (01:00:23):
Merry Christmas? And God bless you for staying in the race,
because if you order went out, we were being down
to one party, a hard social and a soft social
who could have turned hard. And this is very serious
because if you were dropped out the way I look
at it down this is a Crown Jewel New York.
Down the road, the same thing could happen. We are
going to go into one party. This is very scary times.

(01:00:46):
The Marxists are here, Oh, Carlotta.

Speaker 1 (01:00:50):
Let me explain, Carlotta, it's already here. When I return
Friday morning, I think I will be to have connected
all the dots of how Republican leadership through Congresswoman Elease
Stefanic under the bus and created the pathway for Bruce
Blakeman eliminating a superstar. I mean, Republicans are the worst

(01:01:16):
enemy of Republicans in New York City and in New
York State. They do everything to help the Democrats to
keep it a one party system. And I saw the
grifter in chief last night. She was all over New
York with Eric Adams Swaggerman with no plan. Oh, they
were having a love fest, and she was surrounded by

(01:01:37):
Republicans all.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
Day long.

Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
Who were making backroom deals. Oh, you had better be
listening Friday morning. Hopefully I will have connected all the
dots by then. Let's go if we can to Lenny,
who's calling from Staten Island. Your turn to be heard?
He had seven to ten wor Lenny.

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
Hey, Curtis, we know each other. Got to hear your
voice on the radio, and you gave me an early
Christmas present. Let me tell you my son is on
the DMZ in Korea. He just got promoted yesterday the
sergeant staff Sergeant Lenny Wright. And that's why people listen
to you. You bring the real stuff to us. By

(01:02:24):
mentioning our servicemen who cannot be home for this time
of year. It really it touched my heart, and I
thank you very much for giving that shout out to
the servicemen that are away from their families this time
of the year.

Speaker 1 (01:02:40):
God bless you. Thank you, Lenny, and to your son
serving us there in the DMZ. Remember that's a war
that never ended nineteen fifty three, still on there, separating
South Korea from the evil seed of Kim Jung mentally
ill and the crazies of North Korea. On that note, Nancy,

(01:03:02):
as you prepare for our swinging soiree through the Tri
State area members of your family, what was it like
for you growing up in Bohemia and Suffolk County looking
forward to Christmas?

Speaker 2 (01:03:19):
Well, you know, I mean, obviously it's I always enjoyed
Christmas growing up. My mom is she's very into the tradition,
and you know, the Christmas tree, the outdoor decorations we
would have, you know, either people would come over. I
mean mainly it was always kind of hosted at our

(01:03:40):
house to some extent, so you know, I didn't really
do a lot of traveling to other family member's house.
It was just always you know, stationed at our house.
And you know, back then we used to have the
real winters, so a lot of times it was snow,
which is always nice. And then being off of school
as a kid, you know, you can't go wrong with
that either. So it was always just a nice time
out in Long Island growing up.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
And I'm wondering how many people listening to us in
the Troy State area and beyond throughout the world on
the internet. At wor seven ten. Remember that last minute
present that either Mama or dad or maybe your older
brother or sister would get you at the Hess gas station,

(01:04:24):
which was the HESH truck, the hash car, you know,
a quickie. Many people would never go to Hesse because
it was considered low budget gasoline. Low budget wasn't like Sinoco,
you know, with all the five seven grades. But they
drive into Hesse where they wore the white suits and
it came out and pumped your gas and they said, no, no,

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not here for the gas, and please don't put that
dirty squeegee on my window. I'm here for THESS truck
last minute present, and it's still available even though there
are no more Hess stations. Hesseout Marada, they had the
huge petrol chemical plant and the refinery in New Jersey

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along the Cancer Belt. When you're on a New Jersey
Turnpike and you're going south, once you pass Newark Airport,
which is always a dollar short in a day late
for everything hit south DM boy. Then you look at
all the petro chemical plants, You look at all the
refineries that used to be Leon Hess's refinery. Who owned

(01:05:27):
the New York Jets at one point.

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
Yeah, I never I never got a Hess truck, nor
did I give a Hess truck. But I would say
I always look forward to the stocking more than even
the presence. You know, I didn't have like a lot
of presents, but to me, the stocking was the best part,
like going there and then seeing that it was all
filled up and there was always nice goodies in there.
So I was really a fan of the stocking.

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
Let's go if we can to George, who's calling your
turn to be heard here at seven ten w or George.

Speaker 10 (01:06:00):
Curtis Is George the court clerk. I just wanted to
tell you they did you bed in one way. I
don't want to keep bringing back the past. Like Einstein said,
only God could change the past. When they said, you
know about the Republican Party, you had the real you
had the seat. They gave it to you. The fact
nobody wanted to run against you, they gave it to you,
and that was very unfair. And also about the guy

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at night, Lionel. He's a smart guy. He has a
great vocabulary and all of that.

Speaker 9 (01:06:29):
You know.

Speaker 10 (01:06:30):
I have a statue in my backyard and I'm not
a school ball. It was a court clerk for many years.
I'm a normal guy. I have a statue of Saint
Francis in my backyard. I feed birds, and Saint Francis said,
treat your animals like your brothers and your sisters. People
who don't like animals are weird. And as you know,
people who people who did harm to animals or half

(01:06:54):
of them when they used to come to court. I
used to read in their background they used to abuse
animals when they were a kid. I'm saying Lionel did that.
And I also say one other thing, if I could,
This is just a suggestion, and Nancy's dad, she should
listen to this. You are a very popular guy and
in Brooklyn, and then I know you're not gonna do it.

(01:07:14):
I try to call you a few months ago or
when things were getting hot for mayor and said, run
for borough president in Brooklyn. And this is why you
have a say in the Brooklyn Zoo, which is world class,
the aquarium. The you're half Polish, I know you are
a half Italian. The people in Greenport, Greenpoint love you,

(01:07:34):
even the yuppies. The will vote for you because you
know the crime there. The Russians will vote for you.
The Hassidic will vote for you. The people in Coney
Island will vote for you, even the gumbas, most of them.
The Italians will vote for you. Even the gumbab gangsters
will vote for you.

Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
Let me let me step in one second here. You
were born in green Point to Nancy.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
Yeah, I was Yeah, I was born in green Point.

Speaker 9 (01:08:01):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
I lived in Ridgewood for until I was about six
seven years old. That's before we went on to Long Island.

Speaker 1 (01:08:07):
And you went to a Catholic school there where they
spoke Polish. Right.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
Well, let's see, so they did speak polar but it
wasn't primarily Polish. I went to you know, our Lady
of Miraculous Metal, so that was very you know, like
you had the nuns teaching type thing I went to.
You know, when I went to, I guess what the
I'm not even sure what you would call it. The
equivalent of like the preschool at this point they had

(01:08:32):
Polish speaking there. But yeah, in the actual Catholic school itself,
it was you know, definitely English, definitely English.

Speaker 1 (01:08:40):
Well, Georgia the old Clark court clerk. You could forget
about running for Brooklyn Boro president. All you do is
cut ribbone. You do not thing. Most of these elected
officials they're impotent, they can do nothing. Oh boy, we're
in for a ride. So on Mandami will be sworn

(01:09:02):
in on January first by Bernie the out the Coca
Sanders originally from Brooklyn went to Brooklyn the College and
Tis James will be holding the Bible. And look, he's
entitled to an opportunity to put his agenda into effect.
A grace period. Every person who is elected mayors should

(01:09:24):
have a grace period. I know some of you are
mumbling and grumbling. He won. He kicked Cuomo's butt in
the primary where Cuomo was expecting a caronation and then
instead of going back to his hobble and sliding under
the rock in the Hamptons with his billionaire friends. He
decided to re emerge and say, well, this time I'll
do it better.

Speaker 5 (01:09:45):
Ha.

Speaker 1 (01:09:45):
How did that work out? And Republicans backed Cuomo destroyed
the party here in New York City. And when I
return on Friday, after visiting relatives on my wife side
all throughout the tragedy state area, I believe I will
have connected the dots and can tell you how Republicans

(01:10:09):
stabbed at least staphonic in the back. Oh yeah, Republicans
in New York State and New York City seem to
be all gaga. Google for anyone who's a Democrat in
this case, the grifter in chief, Kathy