December 29, 2025 • 9 mins
Norman from Long Island calls to ask Curtis whether a strong Republican coalition rallying behind Elise Stefanik could help her win a Senate race against current House Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Mike from Long Island, NY, offers Curtis some insight into the new Fire Commissioner for New York City.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Talk radio with Street Crab literally Curtis sleaywad joined seventy
ten WR to guess those from Mark Samore, Well, well
I got some snail mail here. That's good to see.
And right away I went to is he was a
little dizzy or board operator also escape eat from WABC,
(00:24):
not his place to be in, I say, is he?
We're friends right from our WABC days. Once you open
it up, who knows?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You know?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I got many many enemies out there, as many of
the listeners know. Could take me back to like remember
two thousand and one, supposedly some guy in Trenton was
selling sending out mail that had cipro in it. Well
possibly sippro, not zipro, excuse me antracks the antrax sports.
(00:54):
Remember you inhale those that's it. You're dead on a right.
I remember at the time the Pataki administration decided for
he and his staff to be on the safe side
because they were getting nefarious mail along with people over
at the Fox News Channel and some other places, that
(01:15):
they would take cipro as a prophylactic, you know, to
prevent it. God forbid they did inhale any of those
anthrax spores. I said, is he you know, just you
know for old time say Noah, it's quite all right,
It's quite a right, Curtis. Friendship only goes so far,
(01:36):
is he? You weren't going to touch that, were you?
But it does remind me about George Vataki, the greatest
governor we've had in our lifetime, without a doubt, three terms,
no corruption, no chaos. Beat Mario Cuomo, who thought he
was on his way possibly to becoming the first Italian
(01:57):
American president of the United States. And nobody knew who
George Battacky was. Nobody knew. There were six Republicans vying
to run against Mario Cromo at that time, seeking a
fourth term, and he superseded them. He had been the
mayor of Pe skill Semiment state senator. I remember giving
(02:17):
a speech for him at the Yale Club on the
day that I got fired in the morning Angels in
the morning with my wife Lisa at the time. But
he had committed to his campaign manager I would go
to the Yale Club speak on his behalf. There were
eight people there, four family members and four of his
Yale graduate friends. That was it, and he beat Mario
(02:39):
Ocormo and turned out to be our greatest mayor. He
tells a great story. The chauffeur knows everything. I know.
There's a phone calls of blazing. I'll get to them momentarily.
The chauffeur knows everything. You know. Who was the chauffeur
for Nelson Rockefeller for a while the world's richest man,
former Governor George Batacki and his job When Nelson Rockefeller
(03:03):
was traveling the state and spending time at a five
star hotel, you know, meeting up with as many gumatas judge.
Vataki had to bring him a bottle of Dubena and
Oreo cookies. The world's richest man at that time was
drinking dubenat It tells you all you need to know.
(03:26):
The chauffeurs know everything. Let's get to the phones. I
don't want to delay any longer. It's Norman who's calling
from Long Island. Your turn to be heard at seven
to ten wo.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
R Hi Curtis. I'm also Canarsie boy. I grew up
in Bayview and I had some famous people in my class,
like Jim McMillan, the basketball player Don Brockington who played
for the Packers. But I have two questions for you.
One question. Do you think we can somehow where the
(03:58):
Republicans can get behind a last the Ponic to run
for Senate against Schuma?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Uh? First off, you would think so. Now you had
mentioned McMillan went to Columbia, but he went to Jefferson
first right on Pennsylvania Avenue along with Right.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I had him in my class at Jefferson. He was
in my chemistry class.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Right. And then then you mentioned the great running back
John Brockington, Well, I think went on to uh run right,
went to Green Bay, Green Bay Packers, and you failed
to mention they're great. Coach Moe Finkelstein.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Oh yeah, Mo, I had Bo. He's my health teacher.
He used to walk around. You had to buy tickets
for the football game every week. I mean we didn't
learn any health there. We used to watch the films
from the games.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
What they used to have was the game of the
week would be on Channel eleven high school, whether it
was PSA, L or CHSL and Jefferson was a powerhouse then,
so they'd be on a lot. You know who the
broadcaster was, Marty Klickman, who was broadcasting New York Giant
football games. Marty Klickman and do you know who was
(05:11):
on the sidelines. Who is the reporter on the sidelines,
Not the way they do it now, some drop dead
gorgeous woman that they go to, you know during the breaks.
Elston Howard who had been the catcher MVP for the
New York Yankees. This is what you used to get
high school football broadcasts on Channel eleven Saturday mornings, and
(05:32):
you'd always see Mo Finkelstein. You'd see all of a
sudden Marty clickman, Mo, tell us, how did you beat
boys and girls high this week? Tell us? And Mo
would go on and on and on. Boy, those are
great memories, but I know that's not why you were called.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Football was king with Mo.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
That's for sure. All the memories. By the way, who
was the other famous alumni of the baby you projects
so with two others. One went on not to own
but to run Starbucks three times three times, And I
have no love for this guy. I'll share that with
(06:15):
you momentarily. And another great NBA ball player, I went
to Canarcie High School, went on to success with the
Detroit Pistons and the LA Lakers and became quite a
broadcaster and handle the sports talk show a little bit
of trivia here one eight hundred and three two one
(06:37):
zero seven ten. Let's go if we can to Mike,
who I believe is calling from Long Island. Your turn
to be heard here at seven ten wor Mikey, Hike Curtis.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I'm glad to hear you back on the radio. I
want to weigh in on the new fire commissioner.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Now, could you speak up a bit, Mikey, speak up
a bit.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah, Kavanaugh on the Adams was the first DEI commissioner.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
She couldn't handle the job, so they had that retired chief.
I shall come back to run things now. I know
the same thing is going to happen with this thing
that he's gonna I mean, listen, I don't know. Hopefully
she'll be good, but if not, I hope defied. It's
active and retired elicited to me. Do not step up
(07:27):
to run the department for this guy, mean, Danny, if
he wants this to be the commissioner, let him do
it now, let her run it well whatever whatever it is.
But you named those other commissioners, but they had they
were credible administrators.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Who hold on the incredible administrators. But again what did
Ellen Musk tweet out as a result of Lillian bon
Signori being a signed fire commissioner by Johanmandami thirty one
years EMS people will die yet. I just went to
a litany of former fire commissioners who served under Dinkins, Giuliani, Bloomberg,
(08:09):
and none of them had ever even put out a
waste paper basket. But they were good administrators. Well is
that what may say? Fire commissioner? And by the way,
the fire department can run on itself. Again, it's civil
service to the highest level. The political appointment is the
(08:30):
fire commissioner. But I will tell you this, she deserves
an opportunity. And again I speak on behalf of EMS
workers that I know work real hard constant calls. They
don't have enough personnel. They only make about thirty five
thousand to start. They don't have pay parody with the
(08:51):
other uniform services who started about fifty two thousand. They
have to deal with everybody that nobody else wants to
deal with to take to the hospit many of them
don't want to go to the hospital and they fight
them in the back of the wagon. How do I
know Iron Guardian angels have had to go in there
and help the EMS people who immediately have to fight
(09:12):
with somebody. They just put an IV into their arm,
and as soon as they drop that patient off, they're
running to another. Nine to one. I don't know Elon Muska.
He's an expert, right, He's going to turn out to
be the Howard Ughes of our generation. Watch, very successful
in business, but very eccentric.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Two
Talk radio with Street Crab literally Curtis sleaywad joined seventy
ten WR to guess those from Mark Samore, Well, well
I got some snail mail here. That's good to see.
And right away I went to is he was a
little dizzy or board operator also escape eat from WABC,
(00:24):
not his place to be in, I say, is he?
We're friends right from our WABC days. Once you open
it up, who knows?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You know?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I got many many enemies out there, as many of
the listeners know. Could take me back to like remember
two thousand and one, supposedly some guy in Trenton was
selling sending out mail that had cipro in it. Well
possibly sippro, not zipro, excuse me antracks the antrax sports.
(00:54):
Remember you inhale those that's it. You're dead on a right.
I remember at the time the Pataki administration decided for
he and his staff to be on the safe side
because they were getting nefarious mail along with people over
at the Fox News Channel and some other places, that
(01:15):
they would take cipro as a prophylactic, you know, to
prevent it. God forbid they did inhale any of those
anthrax spores. I said, is he you know, just you
know for old time say Noah, it's quite all right,
It's quite a right, Curtis. Friendship only goes so far,
(01:36):
is he? You weren't going to touch that, were you?
But it does remind me about George Vataki, the greatest
governor we've had in our lifetime, without a doubt, three terms,
no corruption, no chaos. Beat Mario Cuomo, who thought he
was on his way possibly to becoming the first Italian
(01:57):
American president of the United States. And nobody knew who
George Battacky was. Nobody knew. There were six Republicans vying
to run against Mario Cromo at that time, seeking a
fourth term, and he superseded them. He had been the
mayor of Pe skill Semiment state senator. I remember giving
(02:17):
a speech for him at the Yale Club on the
day that I got fired in the morning Angels in
the morning with my wife Lisa at the time. But
he had committed to his campaign manager I would go
to the Yale Club speak on his behalf. There were
eight people there, four family members and four of his
Yale graduate friends. That was it, and he beat Mario
(02:39):
Ocormo and turned out to be our greatest mayor. He
tells a great story. The chauffeur knows everything. I know.
There's a phone calls of blazing. I'll get to them momentarily.
The chauffeur knows everything. You know. Who was the chauffeur
for Nelson Rockefeller for a while the world's richest man,
former Governor George Batacki and his job When Nelson Rockefeller
(03:03):
was traveling the state and spending time at a five
star hotel, you know, meeting up with as many gumatas judge.
Vataki had to bring him a bottle of Dubena and
Oreo cookies. The world's richest man at that time was
drinking dubenat It tells you all you need to know.
(03:26):
The chauffeurs know everything. Let's get to the phones. I
don't want to delay any longer. It's Norman who's calling
from Long Island. Your turn to be heard at seven
to ten wo.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
R Hi Curtis. I'm also Canarsie boy. I grew up
in Bayview and I had some famous people in my class,
like Jim McMillan, the basketball player Don Brockington who played
for the Packers. But I have two questions for you.
One question. Do you think we can somehow where the
(03:58):
Republicans can get behind a last the Ponic to run
for Senate against Schuma?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Uh? First off, you would think so. Now you had
mentioned McMillan went to Columbia, but he went to Jefferson
first right on Pennsylvania Avenue along with Right.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I had him in my class at Jefferson. He was
in my chemistry class.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Right. And then then you mentioned the great running back
John Brockington, Well, I think went on to uh run right,
went to Green Bay, Green Bay Packers, and you failed
to mention they're great. Coach Moe Finkelstein.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Oh yeah, Mo, I had Bo. He's my health teacher.
He used to walk around. You had to buy tickets
for the football game every week. I mean we didn't
learn any health there. We used to watch the films
from the games.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
What they used to have was the game of the
week would be on Channel eleven high school, whether it
was PSA, L or CHSL and Jefferson was a powerhouse then,
so they'd be on a lot. You know who the
broadcaster was, Marty Klickman, who was broadcasting New York Giant
football games. Marty Klickman and do you know who was
(05:11):
on the sidelines. Who is the reporter on the sidelines,
Not the way they do it now, some drop dead
gorgeous woman that they go to, you know during the breaks.
Elston Howard who had been the catcher MVP for the
New York Yankees. This is what you used to get
high school football broadcasts on Channel eleven Saturday mornings, and
(05:32):
you'd always see Mo Finkelstein. You'd see all of a
sudden Marty clickman, Mo, tell us, how did you beat
boys and girls high this week? Tell us? And Mo
would go on and on and on. Boy, those are
great memories, but I know that's not why you were called.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Football was king with Mo.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
That's for sure. All the memories. By the way, who
was the other famous alumni of the baby you projects
so with two others. One went on not to own
but to run Starbucks three times three times, And I
have no love for this guy. I'll share that with
(06:15):
you momentarily. And another great NBA ball player, I went
to Canarcie High School, went on to success with the
Detroit Pistons and the LA Lakers and became quite a
broadcaster and handle the sports talk show a little bit
of trivia here one eight hundred and three two one
(06:37):
zero seven ten. Let's go if we can to Mike,
who I believe is calling from Long Island. Your turn
to be heard here at seven ten wor Mikey, Hike Curtis.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I'm glad to hear you back on the radio. I
want to weigh in on the new fire commissioner.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Now, could you speak up a bit, Mikey, speak up
a bit.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah, Kavanaugh on the Adams was the first DEI commissioner.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
She couldn't handle the job, so they had that retired chief.
I shall come back to run things now. I know
the same thing is going to happen with this thing
that he's gonna I mean, listen, I don't know. Hopefully
she'll be good, but if not, I hope defied. It's
active and retired elicited to me. Do not step up
(07:27):
to run the department for this guy, mean, Danny, if
he wants this to be the commissioner, let him do
it now, let her run it well whatever whatever it is.
But you named those other commissioners, but they had they
were credible administrators.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Who hold on the incredible administrators. But again what did
Ellen Musk tweet out as a result of Lillian bon
Signori being a signed fire commissioner by Johanmandami thirty one
years EMS people will die yet. I just went to
a litany of former fire commissioners who served under Dinkins, Giuliani, Bloomberg,
(08:09):
and none of them had ever even put out a
waste paper basket. But they were good administrators. Well is
that what may say? Fire commissioner? And by the way,
the fire department can run on itself. Again, it's civil
service to the highest level. The political appointment is the
(08:30):
fire commissioner. But I will tell you this, she deserves
an opportunity. And again I speak on behalf of EMS
workers that I know work real hard constant calls. They
don't have enough personnel. They only make about thirty five
thousand to start. They don't have pay parody with the
(08:51):
other uniform services who started about fifty two thousand. They
have to deal with everybody that nobody else wants to
deal with to take to the hospit many of them
don't want to go to the hospital and they fight
them in the back of the wagon. How do I
know Iron Guardian angels have had to go in there
and help the EMS people who immediately have to fight
(09:12):
with somebody. They just put an IV into their arm,
and as soon as they drop that patient off, they're
running to another. Nine to one. I don't know Elon Muska.
He's an expert, right, He's going to turn out to
be the Howard Ughes of our generation. Watch, very successful
in business, but very eccentric.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
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