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December 29, 2025 8 mins
Phil from Queens, NY, calls in to thank Curtis for his efforts in the NYC Mayoral Race and mentions that Mamdani has celebrations planned across the city for his upcoming inauguration. Bob from San Diego joins the conversation to reminisce about his school days in New York City, sharing memories of his time there.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The voice that fights for New York.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Literally, Curtis leewa guest hos for Mark Simone on sevent
ten wor.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Very good, very good? Is he.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Anyway coming off of that article in the Hollywood Reporter
that was making my phone singing ring?

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Not interested?

Speaker 2 (00:26):
And I introduced them the mister click. The headline was
Curtis Leewoo just wants to know where you're from.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
So I said, to is he on board operator? Where
you're from?

Speaker 2 (00:37):
He said, West Milford and I said, oh, that's where
Jungle Habitat was. Oh, that was great jungle habitat. And
then to know how my mind works, I'm thinking, oh,
the other great song from Cooling the Gang. The original
was Jungle Boogie back in nineteen seventy three, seventy four.
They were from Jersey City, from the wild and peaceful out.

(01:01):
And that's when is He walked away from me and said, man,
let me get out of here. Back to the boardroom. Anyway,
let's go to the phones. It's your turn to be heard.
It's Phil calling from Queens. Welcome to seven to ten
War film.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Hey, best witch is for a great happy new year.
Thank you for running. You know you're still a hero
to most New Yorkers. I'm hoping that you will stay
on the case because this, as Bob Gregg would say,
stake phony and fraud, is gonna be messing around. I
hope a lot of people will show up for peaceful
protests at his inauguration. If you notice, he has a

(01:41):
closed party. He's capturing emails and contacts for future fundraising
and future mobilization. And I just I know you're going
to stay on it. I just wanted to stay.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Hoty and we appreciate that. Phil understand this. I ain't
going nowhere. I improve, I don't move.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
I will be.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Part of that group that says to the barricades, Look,
Jahan Mandami won the election fair and square. It's a
fair election. He's entitled to have his celebration. Hey, that's
another cool in the Gang classic celebration. But anyway, the
point being he's entitled everywhere. Oh he's gonna have the blocks.

(02:23):
The guy gets elected, right, it's the first Muslim man.
Oh my god, let's get rid of no no, no no.
You can't deport people just because they're Muslim, Okay, especially
naturalized citizens, right, that means citizen. So people getting all
bent out of shit. He won.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Let them have this celebrations or nieces.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Okay, let's see what he actually does in running government.
But this is a worldwide network here seven to ten WR,
and we have people who are calling from all over America.
So let's immediately go if we can to Bob, who
was calling from San Diego.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Your turn to be heard here at seven to ten
wor Bob, good.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
To hear you back on the air, Curtis, I live
out here in San Diego, but I'm a New Yorker.
I moved here three years ago, helped the family out.
I had helped erase a grandchild out here. But it's
nice idea, but I really missed New York and hearing
you back on the air. You're a New York institution,

(03:32):
but we have so much in common. On the same
age as you. I also went to a Catholic high school,
and I remember seeing you maybe your senior year. You
were rather swimming meet at Brooklyn Prep. My school was
swimming against your school. I remember seeing you, and a
friend of mine told me you had been suspended and

(03:53):
you were the class president. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Now let me ask you a question, Bob.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
In normal gym class, when your school pool had pools
because a lot of the Catholic high schools had pools,
and so the public high schools have pools. I could
never figure out when you had to go to your
gym class, which was pool once a week, you had
to take your trunks off.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
You had to swim nude.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
The physical I guess a physical education teacher they called them, said,
oh no, you can't swim in the pool wearing trunks. Now,
I thought that was pretty pervy, especially with all that
chlorine in there. I mean you could dive from the
chlorine sort of a pool that hung over the pool,

(04:40):
and yet they demanded that you had to take your
trunks off when you dived into the pool. I thought
that was a bit freaky. Deekey Bob, Yeah, I kind
of remember that. My school, Manta Christy. We were a
dioceras in high school in Queens. We didn't have a pool.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
So we had to go work out at the Kipsbay
Boys Club in Manhattan, and they had that policy there.
You couldn't wear a suit.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yeah no, no, no, there's something there's something very very
Epstein about that. If you get to drift, ah, that's weird, now,
am Idi Christie, which are now Saint John's prepp there
in that story, which is the land of Zoran Mondami. Yeah,
ye see see how my mind works. A lot of

(05:25):
calls they're blazing away. But don't be glazing me in
these calls. Let's be talking about what's happening out there.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Let's go to frank I call it little Dublin.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
He's calling from a woodlawn right south of the west
Chester of Border McLean Avenue. Your turn to be heard
here at seven to ten wor Frankie.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
Hi.

Speaker 5 (05:52):
Curtis, Minnesota is not the only place that has problem
with these charity frauds. If you go through any neighborhood
in the Queens Brooklyn, you'll see storefront daycare centers, store
storefront tutoring learning centers. They're all scams that the Democrats
have set up to send money to their hacks in

(06:12):
the community. There's nothing going on at those places other
than stealing the money.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Well look, look, we've had medicaid mills here for years
in all different kinds of communities. They go in, they
write your script doctors whatever you want, and you become
a pill freak and they charge the taxpayers. And this
gone on for years like, oh, the Somalians are ripping

(06:38):
them off from Minnesota.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
No, no, no, no, New.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Like you're taking into all these places.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Don't act surprise. There is no oversight. There is no
oversight to most of the government. What they do is they
tax us from the cradle to the grave, and there's
no oversight. And then occasionally they determine, oh there's corruption there.
Let's see how many people actually get prosecuted and don't

(07:12):
fall through the cracks, and how many politicians elected officials
should go down for the count on that. Our numbers
one eight hundred and three to two, one zero seven ten.
For many of you, I know you used to listen
to WABC, which I was on always broadcasting Curtis became

(07:33):
always blaming Curtis for the election of Zorhanmandami, which is
just not the case. I understand from some people very
close to Andrew Cuomo over the weekend, I call them
como sexuals. That is the new year is upon us.
He's still crying. If only Curticians jomped out, it could

(07:56):
have been the mayor. Come on you, mama, Luke, it's over.
Just stay out in the Hamptons with your billionaire friends.
Just leave the subways and streets to me. I got
some stories about that coming up, you know. With the
end of the Metro card, the scammers were out in
force this morning in the subways, taking advantage of tourists

(08:20):
and the MTA money taking agency.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
They don't care.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
They don't care. They rip us off. Might as well
rip off the tourists too,
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