December 30, 2025 • 33 mins
Curtis Sliwa is filling in for Mark Simone, bringing a different vibe to the show. Meanwhile, a major fraud center in Minneapolis has been shut down, with the FBI increasing its involvement. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is under growing pressure, possibly due to a scandal. Ilhan Omar is facing an investigation over how her net worth reportedly grew from $0 to over $30 million in just one year. There's a lot of speculation about her and the Somali community, with some people questioning whether they truly understand the situation or are just making assumptions. Curtis takes your calls! He discusses the fraud in Minnesota and speculation about the Somali community with callers.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now the Red Beret has returned to radio. Curtis Lee
Wall guest host the Mark Simone Show on sevent ten.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Woor, substituting for Mark, will be back on January second.
So I want to tiptoe around the tulips a little
bit and talk about Somalians and ripoffs of the taxpayers.
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Cause a lot of sensitive people out there. They know
that I know where all the bones are buried and
who buried it. So I'll do a tiny tim dance
around the tulips a little bit. So it's to not
aggravate Mark upon his return. Play the ukulele? Who's Who's
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his girlfriend? Remember he saw it on Ed Sullivan and
quite at MERV Griffin the talk shows. Remember who is it?
A quick little trip you here? One eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten. That's one eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten. Who's the girlfriend? Then he
played the ukulele too. But also I just want to
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before we talk about Somalian I give you a geography
and a history lesson and a lesson about ripoffs that
didn't start with the Somalians actually started. I first learned
about them in nineteen seventy five, and it wasn't in Minnesota,
was right in our tri state area. Get ready. But
as Tom Cuddy brought to my attention, our program director
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here wor you got to get the inside radio edition.
The headline Curtis Sleewer's radio persona resonates with a new generation.
And as you know, I'm on here my new found
friendly station at seven ten WR that I Nancy listened to.
But there's another station on also that's broadcasting talk and
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that's WNYC, which I actually was there for a while.
Believe it or not, you've been in this business, You've
been fired, you've been hired. That's just the nature of it.
It's like counting the rings of a tree to determine
how long the tree is out. So yes, they I'm
out there, and there are a number of Zorinistas. They
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listened to WNYC and Brian Lair he's been on forever,
like from ten to twelve, and apparently he had a
contest on his show and the first question was which
mayoral candidate listened to edm in this last mayoral election,
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And apparently a caller a Zorin East and nailed it
first right out of the box. At the start of
his program. Oh that's Chainsmokers, you know, Curtis EDM electronic
dance music, that's for sure. Under the Kasjusco bridge. We
saw Nancy and him there like really grooving into it,
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and it was. It was a great concert. And we
loved Chainsmokers all their songs, but especially Don't Let Me Down.
I liked the version with Daya singing. And then you
got to Alex Paul and Drew Taggart And this is
what we do in the wee hours in the morning
to decompress at the slaverer household with our six cats.
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That's tried. If you don't like it, tough noogies. But
we listened to a lot of EDM and we watched
the reruns of the Office. As I told you, my
favorite episode is the snowball fight. Was that not great?
You know when there was a little dusting of snow
and Scranton, Pennsylvania. Now there's a threat of more inclement
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weather in the anyway, the point is that's what we
do to decompress. I cannot listen to talk radio all day. Sorry,
gives me a headache, gives me a migraine. It's two repetitionous.
It's like you want to do good talk radio, you've
got to do two hours of preparation for every one
hour on the air, and you gotta be entertaining. I
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don't need to hear what was on the news from
the day before. I got it already. But maybe, like
you'll hear coming up little education on Somalians and Somali's
and also the ripoffs that have taken place there that
have gotten everyone bent out of shape, as they should.
But now that it's started and this is good, FBI,
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you know, Department of Homeland Service says, are we gonna
do that in other communities, including amongst many of our
political allies in France. Oh, that maybe is where you
want to draw the line. But anyway, high five to
Lenny Lowpate of having me as the first question out
of the box. Quick point I had been fired. I
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think it was like ninety three, right at the point
that Rudy Juliet he was elective mayor, and as I mentioned,
I went to his inauguration, sitting there watching little Andrew
Giuliani climb up the podium at Chris Farley popularized on
Saturday Night Live. Those were great bits, but also David Dinkins,
who I did not support, felt was a horrible mayor,
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was a gentleman and attended the inauguration to show the
passing of the mayoralty. And Rudy calls me up. He says,
I understand he got fired at WABC. I like you
to come over to WNYC, which at that time was
owned by the City of New York along with its
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TV station. And when we said we got to get
out of the business of subsidizing radio and TV, we
got these two big sticks. I'm sure there are commercial
outlets that'll be more than happy to have them. I
want you to come over do a program. You know,
they're all bent out of shape thinking you're going to
come over and just do it about communities. Nobody knows
more about New York City than you. I said, of course,
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weldn't know everything about the three hundred and fifty neighborhoods
in make up the city. And I went over there
and it was like mixing Aman You with Bleach. They
were all bent out of shape. Oh, very liberal, very progressive.
And the guy on before me, because I was on
from two to four, was the cultural guy. Lenny Lopate
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no longer alive, and he introduced me to the audience
by saying, and now you're gonna hear from the guy
that was forced on to us by Mayor elect Rudy Giuliani,
a guy who, uh, the best he can do is
read magazine covers and comic books. And I said, oh, really, Lenny, huh,
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that's that's all I'm known for reading magazine covers and
comic books. And then he broke wild on me. He
just he lost it. He says, I know you. You
went to a prestigious Jesuit high school. They kicked you
out brough Coprep. I went to Eastern District High School.
I lived in a cold water flat where the tilet
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was all the way down. We had to share it
on the floor. Guy went, I mean wild, he went Ghettowamie.
I lasted all the seven months I could not be there.
That was not my place to be WNYC. And I
ended up being hired back at WABC to do overnights
by a guy named Don Belucas, who was the general
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manager because the program director, John Minelly said you will
never work here at WABC, and come on, I noticed business. Okay,
they come, they go, and I got back there. But
I shout out to Lenny Loped you know, he was
one of the three moderators in that second debate. It
broke all records in terms of people watching the New
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York one host at LaGuardia Community College. You had Eron Lewis,
he was the moderator. You had Katie Katie Hanlin oh
mana mis pronouncing her name, I'll get it right from
the city. And then of course there was Brian Lair
and they had It was a good debate, a fair debate,
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fair to Cuomo, fair to me, fair to Zoran. Although
that's the one he was schmitzing it. Remember that's the
one where we had him on the ropes. It was
a tko, it wasn't a koe. And all of this
leading into his inauguration and as I said, the song
by the Clash, the greatest counterculture band of all time.
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Should I stay or should I go? Hmm to be determined.
But this light of the Cheech and Chong album, Remember Class, Class, Class,
and everyone shut up. Was that system of Mary Mark
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and common Sita whatever. We're gonna have a little lesson
on Somalia since everyone is a newfound expert on the
corruption in Minneso soda that has come with the migration
of refugees from the Somalian Civil War. It occurred back
in the early nineties. Remember it was Bush forty one
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who was going to bring him bread and peace and love.
And then all of a sudden, the warlords turned their
guns on the Americans and we were at war. There's
no other way to describe it. Oh, it's a police action. No,
it was a war. And again, Somalia was part of
the Italian provinces of then Benito Mussolini. This was before
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World War Two. Somalia, then there was Eritrea, always at
war with Ethiopia, and then of course Libya before Momar
Kaddafi came around with in his drug induced psychosis. They
were all Italian provinces. You know. I found out about it.
I was gone to our Lady of Miracles rectory where
the head preach, the monseignor was u Father Siminetti, and
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he had a big picture of Benito Mussolini taking care
of older natives from and that case was Ethiopia. My
mother had taken me there because she wanted me to
be an altar boy. I did not want to be
an Aultipoy for a lot of reasons, you know what
I'm hinting at. But I was patronizing the monseignor, Father Siminetti,
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who was eyebailing me a little too nicely, and he
was explaining to me how, Yeah, Benito Massolini was a
benevolent dictator. He took care of the people in Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya.
It would have been better for them better. Wasn't he
our enemy? Yeah? Yeah, but there was a lot of misunderstandings.
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I knew right then and there. I didn't want to
be anywhere near this mun signor Father Semene years ahead.
He is one of many of the priests that were
found to be perving yep altar boys, in which the
Archdiocese of Brooklyn, Queens was paying out millions and millions
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of dollars. You see. My intuition was, Mom, Francesca, my
beloved mother, who would go to the Lvena's, would go
to the stations of the Cross whenever cursed, would do
the rosaries. Mom, I'm not becoming an altar boy. So
I became a choir boy, and you wore all red
and the nuns took care of you. The nuns. They
were pious, they were chased, they were true believers, they
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were married to Jesus Christ. They had the wedding band on.
You went into the rectory. Boy, the priests were ostentageous. Hey,
you know, where'd you get this? You didn't get this
carpet from Kalvini carpet, that's for sure. Wow, that looks
like design of furniture. Trust me, never liked the priests.
I always trusted the nuns. And that's where my intuition
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saved me at that point from who knows, possibly becoming
another victim of that monster. But let's talk all about
some many of you became familiar with Somalia when you
were in your rock and roll days, you know, following
David Bowie, Ziggi Star. Does you remember those great albums?
You wouldn't know is he that's before your time? The
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Rising Fall of Ziggi, Stardust, Starman, Oh Space. Out of
these were great. But he married Iman. Whenever you're a
one named person, you're like super spectacular share Iman. She
was a high profile model for Hasace Calvin Kleines. She
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had been married at Spencer Heywood, the basketball player. They divorced.
She had been born in Mogadishu, well before Black Hawk Down.
By the way, that reminds me a black Hawk Down.
You know what that was the result of Bill Clinton
was in charge at the time, and he was seeking
out the warlord Adid, who by the way, was doing
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interviews with every network in the world. You know, he
got We're out there gonna find a deed. He's right
there in Mogadishu. He's doing interviews at CNN, with Fox
News Channel. To be beachd couldn't find them, so they
send the helicopters in to get our deed, the warlord,
and you know the disaster they followed. By the way,
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our Deed's son was a United States Marine translator at
that time for the Marines that were in Somalia. He
had been raised in Long Beach, California. When his father
died because we never got him guests who went back
to Somalia from Long Beach, California and declared himself to
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be the warlord taking over for his father. What a mess.
And then of course the Somalian pirates during the time
of the Smooth Operator. Barack Obama so much about Somalia
and so many of you have no idea, where it
is in the map, what its history is. All you
want to know is about all the fraud as you
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should want to know of what may be ten billion
dollars they got ripped off from the tax bears. When
we come back, I'll explain a little bit of that,
But then I'll say, we're not gonna stop here, are we?
Because you know they're Democrats, they voted in a block
they vote in a block code language. We're not gonna
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stop here, are we. We're gonna go after our friends too,
those that are supportive of our politics, those who have
ripped us off over the years to the tune of
billions and billions of dollars. Right we are. We're gonna
go the whole nine yards, right, FBI, all the federal agencies.
Not just after our perceived political enemies. We're gonna go
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after our friends. Still want to bet we don't. One
eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. That's one
eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. It's seven
ten w R. This is your new place to be the.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Streets Large Straight Talk. Curtis Lee were a guest host
for Mark Simone on sevent tenor.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Well, All the Talk is about Somalia and Somalians who
migrated to America during the Civil War, mostly in Minneapolis,
but some to Lewiston, Maine, where I saw them back there.
That was the site of the second Cassius Clay Sonny
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Listening fight. Although Cassius Clay had become Muhammad Ali, he
all of a sudden was following the teachings of the
nation of this almost sixty five. They chose Lewiston because
they wanted to have the fight in the Boston Garden
round two, but they were threats because he was now
Muhammad Ali said. They went to Lewiston, Maine. God and
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when I went up there after being in Portland, Maine,
very nice out. It's sort of like a lot of
Somalians there and some of the same charges of being
made of fraud investigations, mostly involving medicaid. And you heard
it all and seen it all. That young man Nick Shirley,
who I've met many times, he is sort of like
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a documentarian, did a forty five minute video I suggest
you a look at. It talks about ten years of
investigations that supposedly were taking place about no children being
inside the building daycare, Universal Childcare money being paid out billions,
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and obviously people getting lined, they were getting wine dine
pocket lined in the Somalian community. And ilhan Omar when
elected had nothing, had belly button lint, and all of
a sudden, the next year she had thirty mils. So
this is all good. We want this, We want us
to root out fraud because it costs you and me money.
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But does it stop here because it is a block vote?
Remember the term block vote? Does it stop here because
they are Democrats. They're going to vote for Democrats. It's
a democratic, prenominally democratic state. And for many of you,
you want to get that governor one way or the other,
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right in Ilhanomar. Okay, good, good. If the investigation leads
to that, good you gotta go. And by the way,
the call is is that if you are a naturalized
Somalian citizen and your foul guilty of fraud, you gotta
go too. Well, you gotta have due process. But I
don't have a problem with that. But now that was
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starting in twenty fifteen, is he twenty twenty? You remember
the lockdown and pandemic, right, you remember all the money
that the Trump administration had to issue unprecedented cause our
country and the world was becoming well, dissolving fiscally. So
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the Secretary of Treasury was.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Writing out checks, writing out checks, stimulus checks, paycheck protection programs,
moneies for businesses big and small to keep employees working.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Remember that it was like four trillion dollars. All we
did was what we always do in the federal government,
print money. That's why we have a thirty eight trillion
dollar debt that both parties contribute to. None of them
want to cut to it. So four trillion more dollars.
You know how much of that was stolen? They asked
the man about five hundred billion out of four trillion.
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We're some allians part of the I don't know, maybe,
but fake businesses that were set up loans on behalf
of nonexistent or shell companies. That's a little sophisticated businesses
claim hundreds of nonexistent employees to cure larger payments, and
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companies receive loans but laid off workers anyway and spent
the money on bling, bling sports cars and mansions. Were
some of them som allions possibly, but a lot of
them were people just like you and me that are
listening now. Some of you, in fact, may say, oh, Curtis,
please don't mention my name. They haven't caught up to
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me yet. Yeah, by the way, they haven't caught up
to almost everybody. Five hundred billion dollars that was stolen
from the COVID money they had to be issued to
keep to the country solvent. There was no oversight whatsoever.
Could we could go back over that and say they
should have been could have, would have. But that's not
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the only thing. We got medicaid mills all over our
Chi state area, three or four practitioners, high volume. They
build medicaid, not comprehensive care. You walk in there, are
you a doctor? Why do you need to know? And
they built us for millions and millions of dollars. And
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then the president likes to say, hey, we're bombing more
of those boats off of Venezuela because you know they're
bringing in fent it All and it's killing like close
to well did he say the other day two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars a boat, two hundred and fifty
thousand people whose lives are saved. Such nonsense. First of all,
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there's no fenton All going through Venezuela. But I would
say to the president he was very concerned about OxyContin
and oxy codon. And a lot of Americans died every
year on that one hundred thousand, right, especially Annaplasia. A
lot of Red States too, painkiller. You see that, You
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see that documentary, that movie you see dope sic? Did
you see that one? I'm trying to remember who we see.
They did a great job, Michael Keaton about the Sacler family,
the Purdue Pharmaceutical company family owned, how they made billions
and were responsible for the crime of the century addicting
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America the oxy conton an oxy codone. Did they go
to jail for that, is he No? Did they pay
fines for that? Yes? Did we send in F fourteen
jets and bomb their mansion? No? And there were a
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lot of Republicans that knew that was taking place in
the medicaid mills and through Medicare in their states. Nothing
was done, So no problem going after the fraud by
the Somalis in Minneapolis and Ilhio. My plot, Well, let's
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not stop. What about all the pelgrants that were issuing
on Chi state area for students that didn't exist, for
schools that didn't exist. You know what I'm talking about.
Come on, I know you're getting nervous out there. Look,
this is Mark some own show. He will be back
in back on the fifth. I'll be here on the second.
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So before we start pointing the fingers, let's make sure
now that we go after all the fraud. Are we
ready to do that? Or are we only ready to
go after the fraud perpetuated by political enemies and not
political friends? Huh? You see, this is a question you
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get a chance to answer here. It's your turn to
be heard. One eight hundred three to two one zero
seven ten. That's one eight hundred three to two one
zero seven ten on what I hope is your newfound
station for some of you who have been wandering up
and down on the dieouts sevent ten Voice of New York,
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because it certainly is for me and Nancy three two
one zero seven ten. Are we gonna go after our friends,
those that we know stole from us the taxpayers, or
we gonna protect them because they're politically aligned with us?
H It gonna be a double standard. I bet you
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there will be talk radio with street crack. Literally.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Curtis Leewad joined sevent ten w o R to guess
those from Mark Zamore.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
All right, my phone is blowing up, people saying, you're
not gonna be talking about me, are you? Curtis? Wait
and see. Well, not on the Marx Simo Show. He'll
be back on the fifth. But there will be a
time and a place. I'm gonna set it off because
I know we're air. Everybody's bones are buried and who
buried them? So when we talk about this fraud by
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Somalians in Minneapolis, Minnesota, good, let's get that money back.
Let's put them in jail if necessary, to port them.
Let's do that from ilin hol Omar right on down.
But are we gonna stop there? Are we going to
look in our own backyards, our own communities, see in
the Tri state area and beyond where those ripoffs have
been going on since nineteen seventy five by different religious groups,
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racial groups, secular groups, what I call the industrial complex,
nonprofit centers. Just with our shelters here in New York City.
You know there are five hundred contracts that result in kickbacks.
When Eric Adams on the way out crying, moaning and groaning,
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they didn't do anything wrong. Seven billion dollars he spent
on the illegal aliens, no big contracts and his crony's
got kickbacks on when are we gonna get that money? Huh?
They're gonna go after him, of course not. And what
about comrade Buildeblasi other part time may have the dope
from part slope over five years one point five billion
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dollars on a fake, phony, fraudulent Pagazi program called Thrive
that he had his griftil wife Charlene in charge of.
And I never heard one testimonial of one emotionally disturbed
persons that were supposed to being served to say. You know,
if not for Thrive, I might have taken my own life.
I thank for now. It's a rip off. This is
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just one of many Democrats and Republicans. So remember, don't
just look at those who were on the opposite side.
Gotta look at your own too. Let's go if we
can to murphew, I think he's calling from. Is that Pennsylvania?
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Your turn to be heard here at seven to ten?
Wo R yes, Murphy, No, it's keith k I e
oh keith I see is he here? Spelling problem? Well?
You a product of social promotion?
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Is he Okay, yes, k Curtis got a question for you.
Any chance you and Avery get back because that was
the funniest radio I've ever heard, better than Stern in
his heyday.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Oh yeah, that I used to do overnight with Avery.
He was the boardop and we would do riffs that
were very entertaining. That's why, you know, enough of the
political talk. It gives me migrating. So now it's maybe
Avery too will eventually end up here at wo R right,
right is he? That would be good? Yeah? Man, there
are so many refugees from WABC, which is always bashing Curtis,
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probably doing that as we speak. Let's go to Kathy's
calling from Brooklyn. Your turn to be heard here at
seven ten w R.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Hey, Curtis, I just wanted to say that you know
that most of the common denominator is the Dems. The
Dems knew what was going on, most likely in Minnesota,
they did nothing about it because everybody was getting their
pockets line. But don't sound hurt, Curtis. Don't change who
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you are by the way many of your so called
friends and co workers treated you, and I and many
others believed in you, so don't disappoint us by turning
into the same two faced people who stabbed you in
the back. Curtis, Please don't change who you are.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
No, no, no, I won't. I won't. I promise you
that everybody listening crush my heart and hope to die.
Remember how we would say that as kids, cross my
heart and hope to die. How many of our friends
and our cousins said that just to play kate their
parents or anyone. Of course, my aunt hoped to die.
I didn't love I didn't love it. No, no, no, no,
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I'm not gonna follow some of them who believe that gold.
Whoever has the gold makes the rules. They follow the
money like Eric Adams. Oh yeah, the price was right
for him to drop out. Will he ever admit how
how many millions he gotta? Is he? You think they
offered me ten? I hear they offered him double that
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he dropped out. I didn't so extrapolate from that, or
do you believe as I believe in? I know most
of you who are listening in the Golden Rule do
unto others as you would have them do unto you.
And it's not about following the money. Let's go to Pam,
who's calling from New Jersey. Your turn to be heard
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here on seven to ten wor Pam.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Hey, Curtis, I've got a funny story, at least it
is to me. You know, those hosts that were mocking
people who like cats and calling us, you know, crazy
and disturbed and all this and that, and they think
they're all that. Well, within a seventeen hour period, I
would say, Steve, you know Steve, he calls in like
four to seven times at the minimum, sometimes twice in
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the same hour, and with a different name and a
different accent, and they fall for it every time. I
have to chuckle about that.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
No, you're absolutely right. They got no ear for that.
Remember the first call I took here I'm studying for
Mark Simone. I realized that was a fake name and
a fake voice. If you've been doing this long enough,
I've been doing it a total love. When the ball
drops in Times Square will be thirty six. She is
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doing talk radio in one form or another. You could
be you listening. You see, that's the point. You got
to listen, and then you get these callers will get
through and you as the listeners out there, most of
you who will never call a talk radio program it's
such a miniscule number of the call and really more
of you should kind of talk radio that I do.
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I really like new callers. I want adversarial callers. I
want people who make you think and make you maybe
reassess the positions that you took instead of the amen choir.
I mean, I know listening. I know he's listening right
now doing a show prep. Greig Kelly at w ABC,
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all the same callers, sickle fans. Dominic called it the
same caller, sickle fans. Hey can't handle a negative phone
call or the phone screen that drops them. What do
you mean drop them? I want to hear what that
person has to say, because sometimes you, as the host,
the host, that you have to acknowledge Now you got me,
(30:55):
you were right. I've had to do that many times
in my life. See our elected officials, they never say that.
Trump never does, Adams never did, Cuomo never did. That's
so synonymous with elected officials will never acknowledge when they're wrong,
or they'll never acknowledge like you just taught me something.
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Let me reassess the position that I took. Care Oh,
by the way, I had teased you all about that
freak Jeffrey Epstein, and the number of shrinks and psychologists
now who all are self appointed experts on why this
guy was such a degenerate with so many rich friends
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and influential people who knew what he was doing but
decided to put window shades on their eyes and cotton
balls in their ears. And this one psychologists who actually
attributed to him binging on junk food as a direct
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contribution to his degenerate, perverse way of life. Wait, wait
till you hear this. You ain't going nowhere. Let's keep
it right here on your newfound station seven to ten
wor or the Voice of New York. Though Beret is back.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Curtis Sliwa guest host The Mark Simone Show on sevent ten.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Woah, Big Story, Martre Taylor Green No More. Trumper says
the final straw was when President Donald Trump was screaming
at her over the phone how she could not vote
to release all the Epstein files, not because he's implicated,
he's not, but because some of his friends are. Now
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the question is do you believe her or do you
believe him? I believe her, And then out of the
many files that have been released with us supposedly a
million more to come right, Pam Bondi, where were all
those files? What a liar she was. There's a psychologist
who waited in and said that Jeffrey Epstein, this sexual freak,
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that his appalling sexual predations with a result of him
ordering all these young foods on Amazon that went to
pedophile Island. Now look at this list. See if you
yourself have an insatiable appetite for Hostess ding Dongs, for
Drake's coffee Cakes, ring Dings, Twinkies, Devil Dogs, tutsiro pops,
(33:28):
and baby Ruths. She claims that his appalling sexual predations
could be culturally associated with adolescents and his massive need
to consume chunk food. And she gets paid for that
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a see tomorrow at the same time, say place
Now the Red Beret has returned to radio. Curtis Lee
Wall guest host the Mark Simone Show on sevent ten.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Woor, substituting for Mark, will be back on January second.
So I want to tiptoe around the tulips a little
bit and talk about Somalians and ripoffs of the taxpayers.
(00:31):
Cause a lot of sensitive people out there. They know
that I know where all the bones are buried and
who buried it. So I'll do a tiny tim dance
around the tulips a little bit. So it's to not
aggravate Mark upon his return. Play the ukulele? Who's Who's
(00:52):
his girlfriend? Remember he saw it on Ed Sullivan and
quite at MERV Griffin the talk shows. Remember who is it?
A quick little trip you here? One eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten. That's one eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten. Who's the girlfriend? Then he
played the ukulele too. But also I just want to
(01:14):
before we talk about Somalian I give you a geography
and a history lesson and a lesson about ripoffs that
didn't start with the Somalians actually started. I first learned
about them in nineteen seventy five, and it wasn't in Minnesota,
was right in our tri state area. Get ready. But
as Tom Cuddy brought to my attention, our program director
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here wor you got to get the inside radio edition.
The headline Curtis Sleewer's radio persona resonates with a new generation.
And as you know, I'm on here my new found
friendly station at seven ten WR that I Nancy listened to.
But there's another station on also that's broadcasting talk and
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that's WNYC, which I actually was there for a while.
Believe it or not, you've been in this business, You've
been fired, you've been hired. That's just the nature of it.
It's like counting the rings of a tree to determine
how long the tree is out. So yes, they I'm
out there, and there are a number of Zorinistas. They
(02:20):
listened to WNYC and Brian Lair he's been on forever,
like from ten to twelve, and apparently he had a
contest on his show and the first question was which
mayoral candidate listened to edm in this last mayoral election,
(02:43):
And apparently a caller a Zorin East and nailed it
first right out of the box. At the start of
his program. Oh that's Chainsmokers, you know, Curtis EDM electronic
dance music, that's for sure. Under the Kasjusco bridge. We
saw Nancy and him there like really grooving into it,
(03:04):
and it was. It was a great concert. And we
loved Chainsmokers all their songs, but especially Don't Let Me Down.
I liked the version with Daya singing. And then you
got to Alex Paul and Drew Taggart And this is
what we do in the wee hours in the morning
to decompress at the slaverer household with our six cats.
(03:24):
That's tried. If you don't like it, tough noogies. But
we listened to a lot of EDM and we watched
the reruns of the Office. As I told you, my
favorite episode is the snowball fight. Was that not great?
You know when there was a little dusting of snow
and Scranton, Pennsylvania. Now there's a threat of more inclement
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weather in the anyway, the point is that's what we
do to decompress. I cannot listen to talk radio all day. Sorry,
gives me a headache, gives me a migraine. It's two repetitionous.
It's like you want to do good talk radio, you've
got to do two hours of preparation for every one
hour on the air, and you gotta be entertaining. I
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don't need to hear what was on the news from
the day before. I got it already. But maybe, like
you'll hear coming up little education on Somalians and Somali's
and also the ripoffs that have taken place there that
have gotten everyone bent out of shape, as they should.
But now that it's started and this is good, FBI,
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you know, Department of Homeland Service says, are we gonna
do that in other communities, including amongst many of our
political allies in France. Oh, that maybe is where you
want to draw the line. But anyway, high five to
Lenny Lowpate of having me as the first question out
of the box. Quick point I had been fired. I
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think it was like ninety three, right at the point
that Rudy Juliet he was elective mayor, and as I mentioned,
I went to his inauguration, sitting there watching little Andrew
Giuliani climb up the podium at Chris Farley popularized on
Saturday Night Live. Those were great bits, but also David Dinkins,
who I did not support, felt was a horrible mayor,
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was a gentleman and attended the inauguration to show the
passing of the mayoralty. And Rudy calls me up. He says,
I understand he got fired at WABC. I like you
to come over to WNYC, which at that time was
owned by the City of New York along with its
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TV station. And when we said we got to get
out of the business of subsidizing radio and TV, we
got these two big sticks. I'm sure there are commercial
outlets that'll be more than happy to have them. I
want you to come over do a program. You know,
they're all bent out of shape thinking you're going to
come over and just do it about communities. Nobody knows
more about New York City than you. I said, of course,
(06:01):
weldn't know everything about the three hundred and fifty neighborhoods
in make up the city. And I went over there
and it was like mixing Aman You with Bleach. They
were all bent out of shape. Oh, very liberal, very progressive.
And the guy on before me, because I was on
from two to four, was the cultural guy. Lenny Lopate
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no longer alive, and he introduced me to the audience
by saying, and now you're gonna hear from the guy
that was forced on to us by Mayor elect Rudy Giuliani,
a guy who, uh, the best he can do is
read magazine covers and comic books. And I said, oh, really, Lenny, huh,
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that's that's all I'm known for reading magazine covers and
comic books. And then he broke wild on me. He
just he lost it. He says, I know you. You
went to a prestigious Jesuit high school. They kicked you
out brough Coprep. I went to Eastern District High School.
I lived in a cold water flat where the tilet
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was all the way down. We had to share it
on the floor. Guy went, I mean wild, he went Ghettowamie.
I lasted all the seven months I could not be there.
That was not my place to be WNYC. And I
ended up being hired back at WABC to do overnights
by a guy named Don Belucas, who was the general
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manager because the program director, John Minelly said you will
never work here at WABC, and come on, I noticed business. Okay,
they come, they go, and I got back there. But
I shout out to Lenny Loped you know, he was
one of the three moderators in that second debate. It
broke all records in terms of people watching the New
(07:46):
York one host at LaGuardia Community College. You had Eron Lewis,
he was the moderator. You had Katie Katie Hanlin oh
mana mis pronouncing her name, I'll get it right from
the city. And then of course there was Brian Lair
and they had It was a good debate, a fair debate,
(08:08):
fair to Cuomo, fair to me, fair to Zoran. Although
that's the one he was schmitzing it. Remember that's the
one where we had him on the ropes. It was
a tko, it wasn't a koe. And all of this
leading into his inauguration and as I said, the song
by the Clash, the greatest counterculture band of all time.
(08:28):
Should I stay or should I go? Hmm to be determined.
But this light of the Cheech and Chong album, Remember Class, Class, Class,
and everyone shut up. Was that system of Mary Mark
(08:50):
and common Sita whatever. We're gonna have a little lesson
on Somalia since everyone is a newfound expert on the
corruption in Minneso soda that has come with the migration
of refugees from the Somalian Civil War. It occurred back
in the early nineties. Remember it was Bush forty one
(09:11):
who was going to bring him bread and peace and love.
And then all of a sudden, the warlords turned their
guns on the Americans and we were at war. There's
no other way to describe it. Oh, it's a police action. No,
it was a war. And again, Somalia was part of
the Italian provinces of then Benito Mussolini. This was before
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World War Two. Somalia, then there was Eritrea, always at
war with Ethiopia, and then of course Libya before Momar
Kaddafi came around with in his drug induced psychosis. They
were all Italian provinces. You know. I found out about it.
I was gone to our Lady of Miracles rectory where
the head preach, the monseignor was u Father Siminetti, and
(10:02):
he had a big picture of Benito Mussolini taking care
of older natives from and that case was Ethiopia. My
mother had taken me there because she wanted me to
be an altar boy. I did not want to be
an Aultipoy for a lot of reasons, you know what
I'm hinting at. But I was patronizing the monseignor, Father Siminetti,
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who was eyebailing me a little too nicely, and he
was explaining to me how, Yeah, Benito Massolini was a
benevolent dictator. He took care of the people in Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya.
It would have been better for them better. Wasn't he
our enemy? Yeah? Yeah, but there was a lot of misunderstandings.
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I knew right then and there. I didn't want to
be anywhere near this mun signor Father Semene years ahead.
He is one of many of the priests that were
found to be perving yep altar boys, in which the
Archdiocese of Brooklyn, Queens was paying out millions and millions
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of dollars. You see. My intuition was, Mom, Francesca, my
beloved mother, who would go to the Lvena's, would go
to the stations of the Cross whenever cursed, would do
the rosaries. Mom, I'm not becoming an altar boy. So
I became a choir boy, and you wore all red
and the nuns took care of you. The nuns. They
were pious, they were chased, they were true believers, they
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were married to Jesus Christ. They had the wedding band on.
You went into the rectory. Boy, the priests were ostentageous. Hey,
you know, where'd you get this? You didn't get this
carpet from Kalvini carpet, that's for sure. Wow, that looks
like design of furniture. Trust me, never liked the priests.
I always trusted the nuns. And that's where my intuition
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saved me at that point from who knows, possibly becoming
another victim of that monster. But let's talk all about
some many of you became familiar with Somalia when you
were in your rock and roll days, you know, following
David Bowie, Ziggi Star. Does you remember those great albums?
You wouldn't know is he that's before your time? The
(12:14):
Rising Fall of Ziggi, Stardust, Starman, Oh Space. Out of
these were great. But he married Iman. Whenever you're a
one named person, you're like super spectacular share Iman. She
was a high profile model for Hasace Calvin Kleines. She
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had been married at Spencer Heywood, the basketball player. They divorced.
She had been born in Mogadishu, well before Black Hawk Down.
By the way, that reminds me a black Hawk Down.
You know what that was the result of Bill Clinton
was in charge at the time, and he was seeking
out the warlord Adid, who by the way, was doing
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interviews with every network in the world. You know, he
got We're out there gonna find a deed. He's right
there in Mogadishu. He's doing interviews at CNN, with Fox
News Channel. To be beachd couldn't find them, so they
send the helicopters in to get our deed, the warlord,
and you know the disaster they followed. By the way,
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our Deed's son was a United States Marine translator at
that time for the Marines that were in Somalia. He
had been raised in Long Beach, California. When his father
died because we never got him guests who went back
to Somalia from Long Beach, California and declared himself to
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be the warlord taking over for his father. What a mess.
And then of course the Somalian pirates during the time
of the Smooth Operator. Barack Obama so much about Somalia
and so many of you have no idea, where it
is in the map, what its history is. All you
want to know is about all the fraud as you
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should want to know of what may be ten billion
dollars they got ripped off from the tax bears. When
we come back, I'll explain a little bit of that,
But then I'll say, we're not gonna stop here, are we?
Because you know they're Democrats, they voted in a block
they vote in a block code language. We're not gonna
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stop here, are we. We're gonna go after our friends too,
those that are supportive of our politics, those who have
ripped us off over the years to the tune of
billions and billions of dollars. Right we are. We're gonna
go the whole nine yards, right, FBI, all the federal agencies.
Not just after our perceived political enemies. We're gonna go
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after our friends. Still want to bet we don't. One
eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. That's one
eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. It's seven
ten w R. This is your new place to be the.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Streets Large Straight Talk. Curtis Lee were a guest host
for Mark Simone on sevent tenor.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Well, All the Talk is about Somalia and Somalians who
migrated to America during the Civil War, mostly in Minneapolis,
but some to Lewiston, Maine, where I saw them back there.
That was the site of the second Cassius Clay Sonny
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Listening fight. Although Cassius Clay had become Muhammad Ali, he
all of a sudden was following the teachings of the
nation of this almost sixty five. They chose Lewiston because
they wanted to have the fight in the Boston Garden
round two, but they were threats because he was now
Muhammad Ali said. They went to Lewiston, Maine. God and
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when I went up there after being in Portland, Maine,
very nice out. It's sort of like a lot of
Somalians there and some of the same charges of being
made of fraud investigations, mostly involving medicaid. And you heard
it all and seen it all. That young man Nick Shirley,
who I've met many times, he is sort of like
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a documentarian, did a forty five minute video I suggest
you a look at. It talks about ten years of
investigations that supposedly were taking place about no children being
inside the building daycare, Universal Childcare money being paid out billions,
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and obviously people getting lined, they were getting wine dine
pocket lined in the Somalian community. And ilhan Omar when
elected had nothing, had belly button lint, and all of
a sudden, the next year she had thirty mils. So
this is all good. We want this, We want us
to root out fraud because it costs you and me money.
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But does it stop here because it is a block vote?
Remember the term block vote? Does it stop here because
they are Democrats. They're going to vote for Democrats. It's
a democratic, prenominally democratic state. And for many of you,
you want to get that governor one way or the other,
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right in Ilhanomar. Okay, good, good. If the investigation leads
to that, good you gotta go. And by the way,
the call is is that if you are a naturalized
Somalian citizen and your foul guilty of fraud, you gotta
go too. Well, you gotta have due process. But I
don't have a problem with that. But now that was
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starting in twenty fifteen, is he twenty twenty? You remember
the lockdown and pandemic, right, you remember all the money
that the Trump administration had to issue unprecedented cause our
country and the world was becoming well, dissolving fiscally. So
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the Secretary of Treasury was.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Writing out checks, writing out checks, stimulus checks, paycheck protection programs,
moneies for businesses big and small to keep employees working.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Remember that it was like four trillion dollars. All we
did was what we always do in the federal government,
print money. That's why we have a thirty eight trillion
dollar debt that both parties contribute to. None of them
want to cut to it. So four trillion more dollars.
You know how much of that was stolen? They asked
the man about five hundred billion out of four trillion.
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We're some allians part of the I don't know, maybe,
but fake businesses that were set up loans on behalf
of nonexistent or shell companies. That's a little sophisticated businesses
claim hundreds of nonexistent employees to cure larger payments, and
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companies receive loans but laid off workers anyway and spent
the money on bling, bling sports cars and mansions. Were
some of them som allions possibly, but a lot of
them were people just like you and me that are
listening now. Some of you, in fact, may say, oh, Curtis,
please don't mention my name. They haven't caught up to
(19:25):
me yet. Yeah, by the way, they haven't caught up
to almost everybody. Five hundred billion dollars that was stolen
from the COVID money they had to be issued to
keep to the country solvent. There was no oversight whatsoever.
Could we could go back over that and say they
should have been could have, would have. But that's not
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the only thing. We got medicaid mills all over our
Chi state area, three or four practitioners, high volume. They
build medicaid, not comprehensive care. You walk in there, are
you a doctor? Why do you need to know? And
they built us for millions and millions of dollars. And
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then the president likes to say, hey, we're bombing more
of those boats off of Venezuela because you know they're
bringing in fent it All and it's killing like close
to well did he say the other day two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars a boat, two hundred and fifty
thousand people whose lives are saved. Such nonsense. First of all,
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there's no fenton All going through Venezuela. But I would
say to the president he was very concerned about OxyContin
and oxy codon. And a lot of Americans died every
year on that one hundred thousand, right, especially Annaplasia. A
lot of Red States too, painkiller. You see that, You
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see that documentary, that movie you see dope sic? Did
you see that one? I'm trying to remember who we see.
They did a great job, Michael Keaton about the Sacler family,
the Purdue Pharmaceutical company family owned, how they made billions
and were responsible for the crime of the century addicting
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America the oxy conton an oxy codone. Did they go
to jail for that, is he No? Did they pay
fines for that? Yes? Did we send in F fourteen
jets and bomb their mansion? No? And there were a
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lot of Republicans that knew that was taking place in
the medicaid mills and through Medicare in their states. Nothing
was done, So no problem going after the fraud by
the Somalis in Minneapolis and Ilhio. My plot, Well, let's
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not stop. What about all the pelgrants that were issuing
on Chi state area for students that didn't exist, for
schools that didn't exist. You know what I'm talking about.
Come on, I know you're getting nervous out there. Look,
this is Mark some own show. He will be back
in back on the fifth. I'll be here on the second.
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So before we start pointing the fingers, let's make sure
now that we go after all the fraud. Are we
ready to do that? Or are we only ready to
go after the fraud perpetuated by political enemies and not
political friends? Huh? You see, this is a question you
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get a chance to answer here. It's your turn to
be heard. One eight hundred three to two one zero
seven ten. That's one eight hundred three to two one
zero seven ten on what I hope is your newfound
station for some of you who have been wandering up
and down on the dieouts sevent ten Voice of New York,
(23:06):
because it certainly is for me and Nancy three two
one zero seven ten. Are we gonna go after our friends,
those that we know stole from us the taxpayers, or
we gonna protect them because they're politically aligned with us?
H It gonna be a double standard. I bet you
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there will be talk radio with street crack. Literally.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Curtis Leewad joined sevent ten w o R to guess
those from Mark Zamore.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
All right, my phone is blowing up, people saying, you're
not gonna be talking about me, are you? Curtis? Wait
and see. Well, not on the Marx Simo Show. He'll
be back on the fifth. But there will be a
time and a place. I'm gonna set it off because
I know we're air. Everybody's bones are buried and who
buried them? So when we talk about this fraud by
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Somalians in Minneapolis, Minnesota, good, let's get that money back.
Let's put them in jail if necessary, to port them.
Let's do that from ilin hol Omar right on down.
But are we gonna stop there? Are we going to
look in our own backyards, our own communities, see in
the Tri state area and beyond where those ripoffs have
been going on since nineteen seventy five by different religious groups,
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racial groups, secular groups, what I call the industrial complex,
nonprofit centers. Just with our shelters here in New York City.
You know there are five hundred contracts that result in kickbacks.
When Eric Adams on the way out crying, moaning and groaning,
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they didn't do anything wrong. Seven billion dollars he spent
on the illegal aliens, no big contracts and his crony's
got kickbacks on when are we gonna get that money? Huh?
They're gonna go after him, of course not. And what
about comrade Buildeblasi other part time may have the dope
from part slope over five years one point five billion
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dollars on a fake, phony, fraudulent Pagazi program called Thrive
that he had his griftil wife Charlene in charge of.
And I never heard one testimonial of one emotionally disturbed
persons that were supposed to being served to say. You know,
if not for Thrive, I might have taken my own life.
I thank for now. It's a rip off. This is
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just one of many Democrats and Republicans. So remember, don't
just look at those who were on the opposite side.
Gotta look at your own too. Let's go if we
can to murphew, I think he's calling from. Is that Pennsylvania?
(26:04):
Your turn to be heard here at seven to ten?
Wo R yes, Murphy, No, it's keith k I e
oh keith I see is he here? Spelling problem? Well?
You a product of social promotion?
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Is he Okay, yes, k Curtis got a question for you.
Any chance you and Avery get back because that was
the funniest radio I've ever heard, better than Stern in
his heyday.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Oh yeah, that I used to do overnight with Avery.
He was the boardop and we would do riffs that
were very entertaining. That's why, you know, enough of the
political talk. It gives me migrating. So now it's maybe
Avery too will eventually end up here at wo R right,
right is he? That would be good? Yeah? Man, there
are so many refugees from WABC, which is always bashing Curtis,
(26:57):
probably doing that as we speak. Let's go to Kathy's
calling from Brooklyn. Your turn to be heard here at
seven ten w R.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Hey, Curtis, I just wanted to say that you know
that most of the common denominator is the Dems. The
Dems knew what was going on, most likely in Minnesota,
they did nothing about it because everybody was getting their
pockets line. But don't sound hurt, Curtis. Don't change who
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you are by the way many of your so called
friends and co workers treated you, and I and many
others believed in you, so don't disappoint us by turning
into the same two faced people who stabbed you in
the back. Curtis, Please don't change who you are.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
No, no, no, I won't. I won't. I promise you
that everybody listening crush my heart and hope to die.
Remember how we would say that as kids, cross my
heart and hope to die. How many of our friends
and our cousins said that just to play kate their
parents or anyone. Of course, my aunt hoped to die.
I didn't love I didn't love it. No, no, no, no,
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I'm not gonna follow some of them who believe that gold.
Whoever has the gold makes the rules. They follow the
money like Eric Adams. Oh yeah, the price was right
for him to drop out. Will he ever admit how
how many millions he gotta? Is he? You think they
offered me ten? I hear they offered him double that
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he dropped out. I didn't so extrapolate from that, or
do you believe as I believe in? I know most
of you who are listening in the Golden Rule do
unto others as you would have them do unto you.
And it's not about following the money. Let's go to Pam,
who's calling from New Jersey. Your turn to be heard
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here on seven to ten wor Pam.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Hey, Curtis, I've got a funny story, at least it
is to me. You know, those hosts that were mocking
people who like cats and calling us, you know, crazy
and disturbed and all this and that, and they think
they're all that. Well, within a seventeen hour period, I
would say, Steve, you know Steve, he calls in like
four to seven times at the minimum, sometimes twice in
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the same hour, and with a different name and a
different accent, and they fall for it every time. I
have to chuckle about that.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
No, you're absolutely right. They got no ear for that.
Remember the first call I took here I'm studying for
Mark Simone. I realized that was a fake name and
a fake voice. If you've been doing this long enough,
I've been doing it a total love. When the ball
drops in Times Square will be thirty six. She is
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doing talk radio in one form or another. You could
be you listening. You see, that's the point. You got
to listen, and then you get these callers will get
through and you as the listeners out there, most of
you who will never call a talk radio program it's
such a miniscule number of the call and really more
of you should kind of talk radio that I do.
(30:12):
I really like new callers. I want adversarial callers. I
want people who make you think and make you maybe
reassess the positions that you took instead of the amen choir.
I mean, I know listening. I know he's listening right
now doing a show prep. Greig Kelly at w ABC,
(30:35):
all the same callers, sickle fans. Dominic called it the
same caller, sickle fans. Hey can't handle a negative phone
call or the phone screen that drops them. What do
you mean drop them? I want to hear what that
person has to say, because sometimes you, as the host,
the host, that you have to acknowledge Now you got me,
(30:55):
you were right. I've had to do that many times
in my life. See our elected officials, they never say that.
Trump never does, Adams never did, Cuomo never did. That's
so synonymous with elected officials will never acknowledge when they're wrong,
or they'll never acknowledge like you just taught me something.
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Let me reassess the position that I took. Care Oh,
by the way, I had teased you all about that
freak Jeffrey Epstein, and the number of shrinks and psychologists
now who all are self appointed experts on why this
guy was such a degenerate with so many rich friends
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and influential people who knew what he was doing but
decided to put window shades on their eyes and cotton
balls in their ears. And this one psychologists who actually
attributed to him binging on junk food as a direct
(31:59):
contribution to his degenerate, perverse way of life. Wait, wait
till you hear this. You ain't going nowhere. Let's keep
it right here on your newfound station seven to ten
wor or the Voice of New York. Though Beret is back.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Curtis Sliwa guest host The Mark Simone Show on sevent ten.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Woah, Big Story, Martre Taylor Green No More. Trumper says
the final straw was when President Donald Trump was screaming
at her over the phone how she could not vote
to release all the Epstein files, not because he's implicated,
he's not, but because some of his friends are. Now
(32:40):
the question is do you believe her or do you
believe him? I believe her, And then out of the
many files that have been released with us supposedly a
million more to come right, Pam Bondi, where were all
those files? What a liar she was. There's a psychologist
who waited in and said that Jeffrey Epstein, this sexual freak,
(33:03):
that his appalling sexual predations with a result of him
ordering all these young foods on Amazon that went to
pedophile Island. Now look at this list. See if you
yourself have an insatiable appetite for Hostess ding Dongs, for
Drake's coffee Cakes, ring Dings, Twinkies, Devil Dogs, tutsiro pops,
(33:28):
and baby Ruths. She claims that his appalling sexual predations
could be culturally associated with adolescents and his massive need
to consume chunk food. And she gets paid for that
(33:51):
a see tomorrow at the same time, say place
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