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Mikey in Long Island, NY, called Curtis to ask him if he used to shop at a certain spot in Carnarsie Brooklyn, NY? Sergio in New Jersey calls Curtis to ask him about the former great talk show host Bob Grant taking tiles from the radio station for personal use. Curtis has a great story about Bob Grant!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The voice that fights for New York. Literally. Curtis leewa
guest hose for Mark Simone on sevent ten Woor has
promised it's your turn to be heard here and when
I'm hoping so many of you will turn to seven
to ten wor for all your talk radio content as

(00:22):
I have. Let's go to if we can't, Mike, who's
calling from Long Island? Your turn to be heard here
at seven ten wor mikey.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Hey, Curtis, how you're don't It's great to hear you
back on the radio. I'm an old Kanassie boy. Had
a store on Avenue Well and Kanasi. I'm pretty sure
you used to shop there many years ago. My wife
and I started it. It's about fifty years ago we
started it. And I remember how you used to help
that community when mister Shopton had his march down Avenue

(00:55):
Well and Prish Realty was doing all of his things
and listen, I just want to tell you I thank
you for everything you've done in the past and how
certain people were promoting Clolo to be a mayor with
his background. He's a criminal. Politics is a dirty business. Unfortunately,
you were trying to do the right thing. And even

(01:18):
though my vote wouldn't count, I did contribute to your
running for election. And you're a Brookerman and everything you've
done be proud of. And I'm proud to know that
you're from a neighborhood. I grew up here.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
I just let me tell you Canarsi Oil roads lead
to Kanarcie the good and I might add the bad.
Give me an idea Avenue L Best Pizza Paulo, the
original pizza of Avenue L still there. Cross Street is
Channel twelve. The news outlet used to be like a
bull hack a wall bomb super market no more. And

(01:53):
got to tell you they were the little Casey's on
one side of Avenue L, the Gambino's on the other side.
They used to have to run the gauntlet and the
Avenue L boys who total degenerates. But I survived that.
It was like running through an Apache line from time
to time because I would not avoid going down Avenue
Hell oh yeah, Andrew evilized Cromo. How many of them

(02:20):
are out there and they keep you know, these bots,
they're like they're like the wave of drones. They get
used in the war between Russia and the Ukraine. Right,
they come in bots, spots spots, and so you split
the vote in the New York mayor's race to guarantee
that more crime could happen. Right, Curtis, right, you took

(02:43):
money from Zorhan. You know these, and you could tell
where they're being generated from countries all over the world,
and they come in and waves waves, and it all
started with Cuomo and their supporters of Cromo. By the way,
where is he? Oh yeah, he probably slit it under
his rock in the Hampton's hanging. Now with all of
his billionaire friends, the influencers, the insiders, they got him nowhere.

(03:06):
Maybe he should run for mayor of Southampton since he
spent all of his time in Southampton. Let's go if
we can. To Anne, who's calling from Staten Island. Your
turn to be heard here on seven to ten, wor Ann, Well,
let's see.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
I'm my sister, and Merry Christmas to you and your
sweet wife who we met, well, they met at a
fundraiser at the Belvedere with the field and we gave
to your campaign. We miss you. Greg Kelly's unhinged. You
should sue the station for slander, because you're excellent and
you should be the mayor, and we're heartbroken for you,

(03:46):
but you know what you do so much good. I
wish your good health and happiness and financy. I missed
her animal show ABC should go down the tubes. And
I have been listening now a few months to Oh Well.
I used to listen to Handy too, and I'm back
with them. I enjoyed them. And Greg Kelly's a total disgrace.

(04:07):
I think he's nuts.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Well, he has a little bots, a little titched, but
you know, he is doing what free speech allows you
to do in America. He has a right to do that.
Men have died in battle for us to have free
speech and also to be able to vote, which two million,

(04:28):
one hundred thousand people did in this last mayoral campaign,
a record that hadn't been seen since nineteen sixty five,
since I was all of eleven years old, And so
unfortunately John Lindsey get elected mayor of the City of
New York. By the way, pretty sure, don't we have
here a Wor the Dog Smart radio show?

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Don't we have that?

Speaker 1 (04:52):
I think I think a Wor I mean used to
be on the weekends here Wor you would have all
all the shows that were talking about gardening talking about finance, investments,
retirement animals. I mean, that was a fixture that I
would listen to. Bernie Meltzer. Oh yeah, oh wow, what

(05:14):
a following he had, Old Bernie. But no, and it's right.
Best thing that ever happened in my life was when
I met Nancy. We got married, and boy, she is
a animal rescuer like so many of you the listeners
here at WR are throughout the Tri State area and

(05:36):
throughout the country, and without her, I could not have
survived many many ordeals. I owe everything that I am
or I have at this point in my life to
my beautiful wife, Nancy. And they don't get any better
than that. You know, as Mahtma Gandhi said, is society
that takes care of its animals would take care of

(05:58):
its people. But a society that does not take care
of its animals will not take care of its people.
And that's exactly what we have in New York City.
As I began the show telling you about the year
anniversary of the horrible, horrific death of Debrina Kawama at
the subway station in Coney Island on the F train
when she was set up into a human torch and

(06:22):
how a year later they won't even say her name
because they don't even remember her name. Well, we did
that yesterday, and I want to Apploy wor Natalie in
the Morning for introducing that in the news the New
York Post for covering it. But many people out there
just have no idea what happened. Let's go to Sergio,

(06:45):
who's calling from New Jersey. Your turn to be heard
here at seven to ten. WA Sergio.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
Hi, Curtis. I was wondering if you can elaborate on
Bob Grant one time. Apparently he took some tile expended
twas on the studio and you had to go and
mediate for him to bring him back.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Let me correct you. The king of talk radio, Bob Grant,
who is my mentor, was the reason that I'm in
talk radio because when I was first on the air
at the old WABC, they didn't want to have me
on the air, and he said, you got to have
Curtis on the air because he knows where all the
bones buried and who buried them, and he had the
force in the talk radio world at that time that

(07:30):
his wish basically became the command of the suits. The
big markers. But he was a kleptomaniac in many, many ways,
no doubt about it. I think you're conflating two separate stories.
But let me tell you the best one that I
was personally involved in. He was given a loner Cadillac
back then in order to promote somebody purchasing a new car,

(07:55):
used car. They have a new fangled expression now pre
owned car. You know, for used cars. They would give
you a loan a car. And Bob Grant, I think
it was in Englewood, was promoting Cadillacs from Englewood. Everybody
back then. They wanted to the El Dorado, they wanted
the Fleetwood, the Seville. He had a car and his
driver would take him back and forth to Manalapan on

(08:17):
the Jersey Shore where he was living, and you have
to give it back after a certain point of time.
And the program director there, John Manelli, was intimidated by Bob,
as he could intimidate many, and Bob wouldn't give the
Cadillac back. So John Manelli said, he's your friend. Go
in there and tell them there are new rules in

(08:37):
the business. You can't snore like a lot of radio
people did. Both Am and FM four years schnore free stuff.
It's called pay for play, and we could get in trouble.
So I said, I got it John. I went in there.
It took me maybe an hour and a half to
convince the King of talk radio, Bob Grant, responsible for

(08:58):
my career, to give me the keys and that we
would get it back to the Cadillac dealership before they
would report that to the FCC to be in violation
of pay for play. But man, it was not easy.
It's Bob Grant back then, the king of talk radio.
Thought I'm entitled to the treasures like so many others.

(09:21):
And if you listen to me up until January two,
as I substitute for Mark Simone, you're gonna hear a
lot of other stories you had no idea about that
I want to share with you about this thing of ours,
talk radio, because this is the business that we have
chosen