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John from Tappan, NY, called Curtis to discuss a host he believes is the answer to Curtis’s trivia question - someone who used to work at an old radio station. Bob from San Diego, CA, called Curtis to talk about the first “Subway Vigilante” movie. Navigated to New Chat I

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Talk radio with Street Crag.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Literally Curtis Slaywad joined seven to ten WR to guess
those for Mark Simoon Hottists working Guys and gals television
and radio. In his book of World records, readis filled
and none other. Bronxky proud of going to Cardinal Hayes

(00:25):
Catholic High School still open, thank god. Unfortunately nearby all
hollows closing, Great School Cathedral High School this year for girls.
Great school closing and Preston was on the cusp of
closing in the Tremont section. Great High School all girls.

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You know j Low Baby got back Jenny from the block.
Never contributed as far as I know a nickel diamond
penny to the alumni front and keep them open. They
were kept open by Balley's. I believe some arrangement was made.
Bought the Trump golf course nearby. But think about that.
He was Regis Philman, who appeared three times on the

(01:08):
Celebrity Jeopardy Again. The guy was constantly working out there.
He had the most appearances and in one appearance he
won fifty thousand dollars and gave it right to Cardinal Hayes.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
That's what you should do.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
If you're doing well and you realize that these Catholic
high schools, they gave so many an opportunity they might
not have had if they had to go to their
local neighborhood public high school. And like j Lo, hey,
j Lo, you forget your roots. Anyway, let's go to
the phones. It's Bob Who's calling from San Diego. Your

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turn to be heard here at seven to ten. Woo, Bob, Hey.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Curtis, good to hear you on the here. Earlier you
mentioned the first subway vigilante movie. There would, I think
would be the incident with Martin Sheen and Tony Mussanti.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Oh yeah, And if you haven't seen it, ladies and gentlemen,
you must. A great period piece, black and white, all
these different people getting on the number four train, you know,
coming out of the Bronx going down to Grand Central,
and masonte is a complete psycho. Martin Sheen, I think

(02:20):
that was like his debut. And remember the part that
Ed McMahon played.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yes, he actually he didn't want to take a cab
to Flushing from the Bronx, so he took the trains
and he played the father of a young girl.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
And he was on the car with his wife now
arguing with his wife. Great piece, she's going, let's take
a cab. We got a baby with us that nah,
I take that train, you know an oh boy, these
two psycho boys were in the car. It was like
cockwork Orange before his cockwork Orange. I mean, really, really

(02:57):
a great, great movie that's ever really gotten it, Stue.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
It really is a great movie. It just keeps building
and building until the climax. And by the way, you
can watch it free on YouTube. Just search on YouTube
for the incident.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah, please do, especially during Hoghliaday time. A lot of
people like to watch things. You gotta watch this movie.
Every station a different group gets on, or a different couple,
and they're all all of them went on to become
great stars and starletts, and they had their little cameo rolls.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Oh man, what a great, great movie.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Let's go if we can to John, who's calling from?
Is that old Japan?

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Curtis, what's up my brother?

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Noll?

Speaker 4 (03:45):
I just depend on the New York side.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Ah, okay, Curtis.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Good, I'm great to see it down shop on the
dial there, very good. I was incorrect. I thought Alex
Bennett would have been the name you were you were
looking for.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
You are absolutely correct, Alex Bennett evening show hosts at
WMC A Bob Grant was Drive Time. You couldn't have
been any more different, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
He Courtie, Listen, I'm trying. I know you're busy there.
If I want to ask this gum, you know why
I was a little bewildered. I used to be in
Manhattan Detectives. We had a homicide in nineteen ninety two,
fourteenth Street in the hole on the fourth train, a
young man, a hard working, stiff African American, Jerry Robinson,
on his way home at eleven o'clock at night. He

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gets held up in the hall at Fourteenth Street. He
pulls out a twenty five pops. Two guys kills one
of them. The third piece took off. They called him
the Blackbernie gets Barry Slotnick represented him at arrangements, and
then an eighteen b attorney took it from there on.
He took a fleet and I didn't do any time.

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It was it. It never got well. It hit the
paper that night, drove down in Raymonds, but afterwards it
never got any plate. I was wondering if you knew
about that.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
No, I do because I followed those cases. It was
really the team that you had. Barry Slotnik was the
lead attorney, and I'm trying to remember Miller, I think
was his partner.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
He had to go, No, Baker, Baker was his partner.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
A great team, and they made themselves available for those
kind of cases.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
More often than not.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
It was black victims fighting back against black assailians. But
you see, it didn't have the ammonium bleach. It didn't
have what you needed. White versus black. I mean that
got you the headlines that kept the headlines going for days.
It was black on black crime. Nothing a mere mention.

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By the way, you mentioned Alex Bennett. He was the
tokshow host at WMCA at night. His theme song was
do You Want to Be a Bird? A Class sixth
song from Easy Rider, and man, he would talk about
coming from concerts and he would be like be doing
therapy on himself before this guy did it Seagull remember

(06:14):
a Channel seven? Oh does anybody remember Seagull? I'm just
gonna give you a little hint there. And he would
do the same thing self there. And this guy supported
radical causes. Do you know who ended up taking over
the apartment of Alex Bennett, who went back to San
Francisco where he was from, to Radio Camel where they
spun stacks of wax, did a little bit of talk.

(06:37):
Bernard Getz, who's still in that apartment today right off
of sixth Avenue and fourteenth Street. Wow, the synergy is happening.
Let's go if we can to Stella in close. Your
turn to be heard here at seven ten wr Stella.

Speaker 5 (06:56):
Hello, listen to Curtis. Glad to hear you back, and
I'm glad to hear your voice. I'm very concerned and
so are a lot of people in my neighborhood and
queens about Mendanni taking over privately owned homes. Do you
know anything about that?

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Well, it's not just Mandami, this was the city of Yes.
I warned everybody about it. Eric Adams got windined in
pocket lined by the developers and realtors, as did Andrew
Evilize Cuomo. So they now have the authority because the
people voted this into the law because everybody's so affordable housing,

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and they thought, oh wow, affordable housing.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
I'm for that. No, no, no, no no.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
So if you happen to live in a residential community
and this is coming to a neighborhood near you. They
call it up zoning, density housing. Kathy Holkol tried that
and realize that wasn't going to work out to get
her elected against leez Elden, so she dropped it like
hot rock. But the whole idea was build high rise housing,

(08:04):
claim it's affordable near train stations along ther Metro North,
and people in residential area say, oh no, no, no,
no no, we don't need any density housing.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
We don't need any up zoning.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
There's zoning, there's elected officials, there's a process.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
So Kathy Hoko recognized that was a third rail.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
But in New York City, because the issue became affordable housing,
costs of living, they've pushed through this mandate that gives
developers and realtors the opportunity to come into your neighborhoods
in the outer boroughs, whether you live in the Bronx,
Staten Island, Queens of Brooklyn, and.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
They can come into your neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
They don't have to go through any zoning regulations any longer,
they don't have to meet with the community board, they
don't have to even meet with the local elected officials
if they want to put up a forty story high
rise by the way, with no parking and burden your infrastructure.
They have a right to do it. They've been given
a green light. Worse yet, they're putting up these lithium

(09:04):
ion battery warehouses, which is a real danger to the community.
They're in residential areas. They're supposed to be in industrial areas,
but then again, residential property is cheaper than industrial property.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Thirty eight in.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Staten Island, twelve in Brooklyn, eight in Queens formed the
Bronx none in Manhattan because we don't have enough electricity.
And wait if you think it's bad now, artificial intelligence
is going to need double the amount of electricity and
double the amount of water to run their filing centers.

(09:43):
You haven't heard much about that, have you? Of course,
not talk too much of talk radios. Are you you
see all those Somalian themes in Minnesota?

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Could you repeat each other anymore? Like parrots?

Speaker 2 (09:54):
How about actually talking about subject matter that affects everybody's.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Live And these.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
AI artificial intelligence filing cell centers that are gonna be
built in a neighborhood near you, and they require twice
the amount of electricity that's available on the grid.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Twice the amount of water that you don't even have
access to. And guess who's gonna pay for all of that?
You what is anybody telling you that? Of course not.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Oh and you don't want to miss Friday my annual
tribute to Bernard McGirt, best thing that ever happened at
to our radio. Oh my god, the guy had to
take so much abuse for from don Imus, without which
don would never have been able to function. And also
a plead to all of you to make sure whatever
men folks can run across this New Year's holiday, you

(10:47):
let them know to get that PSA simple prick of
the finger blood test. If only Bernard McGirk had done that,
he would not have died a horrible death from prostate cancer.
Look I had Stage four or I survive that some don't.
The test in most instances will help eliminate it.