December 22, 2025 • 68 mins
Former Republican candidate for Mayor of NYC and radio host Curtis Sliwa makes his return to the radio airwaves on 710 WOR, starting today, filling in for Mark Simone until January 2, 2026! Curtis discusses how he is spending his time after losing the mayoral race to mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. The Guardian Angels, Sliwa’s organization that helps the homeless, fights crime, and more, continues to be active in NYC and beyond. Curtis also breaks down recent events at his former radio station, which happens to be 710 WOR’s direct competitor. Curtis takes calls and speaks with listeners who are excited to hear him back on the air after his hiatus to run for mayor. Curtis Sliwa fills in for Mark Simone and delves into the reasons why U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik has dropped out of the 2026 gubernatorial race in New York. Is President Trump to blame for Elise dropping out? Curtis takes your calls on Elise Stefanik’s decision to leave the race and discusses listener perspectives.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now the Guardian Angel of talk radio is here. Curtis
Leewah guest host the Mark Simone Show on seven to ten.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Woor wow.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
This is an early Christmas present for me to be
back on talk radio and the station that I listened
to all the time now war and to be substituting
for the best talk show hosts in all of New
York City, March Simon. Nobody's been doing it longer, and
nobody's been doing it better. I worked with March Simon
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over at WABC, and then he was a competitor against me.
So is nobody who knows talk radio better than March Simon.
So it's a real honor to be able to come
in and substitute for this let And having met with
Tom Cutty, who's the program director who I knew at WPLJ.
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I remember what happened when Cumulus, who owned a cluster
of stations, they had decided that they wanted to get
out of the business in New York. That made no
sense to me, and they turned off the lights on
the most iconic FM station with the call letters WPLJ.
Couldn't believe that, and Tom then obviously was picked up
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by wor has been a great program director here and
I've had an opportunity to sample all of the hosts
and presenters here at woor from Larry Menty in the
Morning was so kind to me during the election cycle
to obviously mark them all my biggest fan. Both in
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twenty twenty one when I ran from mayor against Eric Adams,
and I did warn you, didn't I say, is he
that he would be a crook and there would be chaos.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
But nobody wanted to listen. Everybody said to me, you
were right, we should have listened.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah, you should have listened, and we suffered, and as
a result of his massive failure, we ended up with
Johan Mandami. We're gonna get into all of that and
a lot of the background that went into clearly what
is the most historic press I said, president setting election
that has ever taken place in the City of New
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York for Maya. It took on international, national, regional, and
local ramifications for a number of reasons. We're going to
explore all of that, and I'm going to dig up
the bones, because nobody knows where the bones are buried
more than courteously, and I will dig them up, and
I will expose a lot of folks and what they
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did during this election cycle to prevent a fair square
election in which people could go into the voting booths
and choose candidates based on the issues. On this desire
to have you constantly play dropout, dropout, drop out, drop out.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
We're going to get into all of that.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And as you heard at the top of the news hour,
iHeart again this powerful owner of so many radio stations
in the nation to be able to broadcast here as
I have from many of the different programs both on
FM and AM over the years as a guest, and
to hear Larry the news Guy talk about where I
will be at two o'clock this afternoon. It is a
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story that the local officials in New York City want
to go away. It is the most horrific case that
has ever occurred, a tragedy, a crime, an act of
barbaric proportion. And in all my years of riding the subways,
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and I've been riding the subway since I was five
years old, by myself, nineteen fifty nine, took my first
ride on the L train. L stood for Lousey Line,
Rockaway Parkway, last stop in Kenarsi, where I was raised,
and I've been riding ever since. It'll be forty seven
years in February since I started the Guardian Angels to
protect people both in the subways and streets here, across
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the nation and in thirteen countries around the world, and
increasingly having to come to the aid of women like
the brin and Kowam. Yeah, the Brina Kowam was homeless,
emotionally disturbed, like so many who live in the subways,
and she was sent on fire by that illegal alien,
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Sebastian Zepeta that we were housing in a homeless shelter
at great expense in East New York Samaritan House.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I thought they took care of people with drug issues, but.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
They were making a lot of money at our taxpayer's expense.
And he was a pyromaniac. We're going to go into
all of those details, but this is what I do
on a regular basis. Since the moment that I lost
the election, I haven't missed a beat. I've been down
in the subways and in the streets and taking care
of those poor lost souls, the homeless, the emotionally disturbed,
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who shouldn't be there, and yet they lived there. They
reside there, no matter who the mayor was, whether it
was Comrade Bildeblasio, the part time mayor of the Dope
from Park Slope, along with his grift of wife Charlane.
We'll talk about that later on, because he owes US
one and a half billion dollars money that was taken
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for a program called Thrive that was supposed to help
the emotionally disturb. I don't ever remember one person having
been helped, and then by Eric Adams Swagerman with no plan.
By the way, where is he? What country is Eric
Adams the cor up one in today? Sort of like
when Matt Lower used to do the morning show at NBC.
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You know what country is Matt Lower in?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Today?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
This guy is, I mean, a grifter like you can't believe,
and oo far soon he will be gone. But I
also want to talk about what happened behind the scenes,
and I'm doing it on a radio station Wor of
which I made my very first appearance back in nineteen
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seventy one, having been named the newspaper Boy of the Year,
having delivered the daily news like so many people did,
and growing up saved five people in a burning building
at that time. That got the attention of then President
Richard Nixon, got an award in the White House, and
then my very first interview upon my return to New
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York City was at fourteen forty Broadway, the mid morning
show hosted by Arlene Francis.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Boy. I've had the bug ever since talking on radio.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
So actually WOOR provided me my baptism.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
In radio with my very first interview.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
As they escorted me around, I look at all the
various studios, the news room that had many men and
women that were processing the news back then, and it's
one of the most iconic symbols of talk radio in
the nation. With only three call letters WR everybody else right,
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it's four like where I was from where I spent
most of my life in talk radio WABC close to
thirty years. There were some other stations in between. You
know how long you've been in talk radio by the
number of radio stations that you've worked at. But WABC
was the bulk of my time there. In all different
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time slots. Morning Drive, it was Angels in the Morning
with my wife Lisa at that time. Then there was
a spot morning Drive with Ron Kooby, whose mommy was
a comedy for many years. I did mid mornings, I
did overnights, I did weekends. I was always available twenty
four to seven, three sixty five, so that the acronym
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stood for WABC, always broadcasting Curtis and so going into
this election cycle, early on, I made it very clear
that I would seek the Republican nomination a run for
mayor again, as I did in twenty twenty one. By
the way, with no help from WABC back then. None
people should know that the orders came from management and
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ownership that you were not to talk about Curtis Leewell
when he was running for mayor. In fact, you were
not to interview Curtis Lee were back in twenty twenty one,
there was.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
A big sign in the newsroom. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I mean, let's just say there was no excuse for that.
And I wasn't supported by anybody. They were at WABC
running for mayor. Although they weren't insulting, they weren't personally
attacking me. The owner and operator, John Katchimatidis was supporting
Eric Adams. Everyone was under the impress that he was
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supporting me because he would say, oh, with family here, Curtis,
he knows more about the city than everyone else, and
let's face it, that's true. Whether you like my politics
or not, whether you like my style or not. There's
nobody who knows more about the City of New York
to me. But as it goes from twenty twenty one
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to twenty twenty five, the drum beat for me to
drop out, and boy was a steady trump beat from June.
Excuse me, make that.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Just about July fourth, on our nation's birthday.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I remember, I was in Travis Staten Island, as I
am every year with the Guardian Angels, the longest running
Fourth of July parade in the nation. Eric Adams was
out there because he had been reborn, resurrected with the
failure of Andrew Cuomo, who threw in the tow when
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losing convincingly to zor Modi. Just give you an idea.
On March first, when Andrew Cuomo announced that he was
running for Maya for the Democratic nomination, he was clocking
at forty percent in the polls. Zorhan Mondomi was dead
last in the Democratic primary at one percent. By June
twenty fourth, Zoron Mondami had beat him by thirteen percent
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because Andrew Cuomo mailed it in, didn't run any kind
of a campaign, and so they resurrected Eric Adams, who
chose not to run. And this guy, right out of
the box, brought all the crooks back into the house
of Eric Adams and they were getting windyed in pocket
lined by the real estate interests. And he crashed and
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burned and dropped out in September. And then boy did
they ratchet it up. The masters of the universe, the billionaires.
John Casimatidis, owner and operator, who was the the maestro
of the orchestra that was constantly banging a drum that
critically had to drop.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Out, to drop out for the good of the city.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
And I remember he was saying, Oh, I'm gonna leave,
I'm gonna sell my businesses. I'm down in Florida. The
moment Johan Mandami was announced the winner on November fourth,
all of a sudden he would saying, oh, we got
to work with the mayor.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Oh for the good of the city.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Because these billionaires, along with Ackman and others, made it
seem like they would be fear fright, hysteria, and all
they did was hype that every day. But you see,
they always back channel, They always have a back door.
They always have a way to survive, whereas the working
class people that I represented in this election, because of
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the fear in the fright, they had no options.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
So it was an.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Election cycle dominated by the masters of the universe. Donald Trump,
the President, was no friend of mine. He went out
of his way to disparage me on a regular basis.
Talked about was Curtis a Republican?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Is he is?
Speaker 5 (11:58):
He?
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Really?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Is he ready for prime time? And what about all
those cats he and his wife Nancy have rescued and
kept from being euthanized in shelters. So many people out
there who do that for dogs and cats. He disparaged,
Really a nation of dog and cat lovers, But he
went out of his way to disparage me, along with
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Elon Musk and Steve Miller and so many of the
other masters of the universe and the billionaires that he
came down in the last few weeks with twenty million
dollars spent in advertising.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
The word was a vote for sliwa is a vote for.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Zoran Mandami, vote for Andrew evilized Coomo, a guy responsible
for the deaths of fifteen thousand elderly people at the
height of the pandemic, and the lockdown, and a man
was still paying his victims for sexual harassment, thirteen of
them who worked for him, including a female state trooper,
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and the bill will probably get up to sixty million dollar.
And once again, you know, whenever you speak to Eric Adams,
I'm not guilty. I didn't do anything wrong. Andrew Cuomo,
I didn't do anything wrong. Donald Trump, I didn't do
anything wrong. Nobody does anything wrong. I'm somebody who is
a lot different when I do things wrong. When I
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mess up, I fess up. And I certainly had a
lot of opportunities in my life to do that. But
this is an opportunity for all of you to be hurt.
In the words my great mentor Bob Grant, who actually
was broadcasting here at w OR on two separate occasions,
which we'll get into later on, feel free to give
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me a cause. I welcome back to the airwaves of
New York City and the Tri State area and beyond
one of the most powerful radio stations that have ever
been created in this nation. Woor give a call to
eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. That's eight
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hundred three two one zero seven ten. And there's so
much more to tell you about all my fairweather friends
at WABC, which the acronym has become always blaming Curtis
and always bashing Curtis. You don't want to go anywhere,
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Keep it right here at seven ten WOR.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Street Smart Straight Talk. Curtis leewa guest host for Mark
Simone on sevent ten WOO.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I said I would be back, and I'm back.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Your's Julie Curtis Sliwa on WORR Radio, substituting for Mark Simone.
If you're just joining us right now. My wife Nancy
listening as she is going off to celebrate the birthday
of her mother Beth, wish I could have been with her,
but I would not turn down this opportunity, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
And on my way here.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
This morning, as I was riding on the subways as
I do each and every day, taking the car from
car to car, looking at the homeless, the emotionally disturb
any of them that I know by first name, and
walking down the block, and I know the outgoing mayor
he can't leave fast enough for me. Eric Adams, who
knows what country is in today a taxpayers expense, says
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that there are no homeless settlements up in the street.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
They were all over the area in Upper Midtown.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
And one thing that was normal for me for quite
some time is I joined the morning show with sid
Rosenberg five mornings a week. And I must tell you
that he turned out to be like Tessio from the Godfather.
He was actually setting up meetings with Andrew Cuomo and
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backstabbing me all through that campaign. And I remember he
had asked me originally could you come on one morning
a week, then two, three, four five. I loved it.
I love doing it. Do whatever kind of radio that
you want for unsue my veins and arteries. But he
pretended to be a friend, and like so many, turned
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out to be a fair with a friend. And I
in that scene in The Godfather where Don Corleone tells Michael,
whoever set up the meeting, that's the trader Tessio sid
Rosenberg paranoid, I would say, low self esteem. And if
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Bernard mcgirth, bless his soul, who was his partner, were
alive today, that never would have happened. In fact, I
was listening to Doctor lead him in Great Doctor, Save
so Many. I had stage four prostate cancer almost took
my life, but I remember sitting down with Bernard McGirk
when he was explaining to me his symptoms, and wow,
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I knew by then it had metastasized and the last
year of his life.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Horrible way to live.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
So that's why, if there's anything that should come out
of this program, men and ladies who are listening, force
your menfolk to get that simple PSA test, a prick
of the finger, that's all. It is, a simple blood test.
It has saved so many lives. It's something that Bernard McGirk,
or an iconic figure in radio for so many years,
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as really the wingman for don Imus, who could never
have done what he did in the mornings without Bernard
McGirk in so many ways, probably would have been alive
and well now if he had taken a simple PSA test.
And we're coming towards the Christmas holiday New Year's some
of those rare occasions where family and friends get together,
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feel free to get out that word. If you're forty
five or older as a male, you gotta get your
yearly PSA test.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
It's a simple prick of the finger. And women, I
give you a.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
License to nagman to just be non stop chattering and
nattering away and force them to do the simple thing,
because you would be amazed. The stronger the guy, and
Bernard McGirk was one of the strongest men alive. But
the stronger a guy is, the less likely they want
to go through that process because they feel what the
outcome may be.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Make sure you.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Spread out that word during this holiday gathering of so many.
And then also at WABC, whereas I had to deal
with Tessio in the morning, said Rosenberg, who I'm still
pulling the knives out of my back from him setting
up these meetings with Andrew Como and working on his
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behalf every step of the way, like a five dinners
and five lunches with the guy before he ever came
on the radio. And then all of a sudden, WABC
turned into always blaming Curtis for the rise of Jorhan Mandami,
then always broadcasting Cuomo in the last month, and then
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to this day, always bashing Curtis. And then there was
Greg Kelly in the afternoon. It's Greg Kelly who knew
his father father, great guy the sun huh. During the primary,
the Democratic primary, he was actually advocating to his listeners
that they support Jorhan Mandami over Andrew Cuomo.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Yeah, him.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
And then in the end, through the directions of John Katzimatitis,
the owners and operators and managers at WABC, he spoke
the party line. He said, oh, Curtis is running a
lazy campaign. Yeah, twenty hours a day of a twenty
four hour day, and obviously social networking that was getting
the message out in so many ways. But oh no, no,
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Curtis is a lazy campaigner. He doesn't know what he's doing.
And then finally, the worst trader of all, Dominic Carter.
Dominic Carter would not be in radio today if not
for my intervention on his behalf. Without going into great details,
he had problems, like we've all had problems in our life.
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I'm not going to get into the nitty gritty, but
he had done something that had basically made him an untouchable.
And I remember I went to the mat with management
and ownership at WABC. I said, look, give Dominic Carter
an opportunity. You know, he knows about New York City.
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He had been the voice and the image of New
York one for so many years. Lost his job because
of that problem that I referred to. And then I
schooled him. I took him into what I called the
talk radio boot Camp at WABC because we really didn't
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have a program director at that time, so I worked
as sort of the adjunct Oh yeah, have an adjunct
profession in college.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
I was the adjunct program director.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
There were a number of figures there who were in
the critically with talk radio boot camp, and he listened.
He was a reporter, and I said, you no longer
a reporter, Dominic. He got to be a talk radio shows.
He was the first to consistently cast the spurgeons against
me in this campaign. And it's not about just saying, oh,
I don't think you can win. That's fine. There was
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some here at wr who said exactly that, but to
get personal about it, talk about how I wasn't running
a good campaign, talk about problems that I was having
in the campaign, things that he knew nothing about, and
doing it on a regular basis, so.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
You should know.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
And I just gave you a thumbnail scared of the
problems that I had at WABC. And probably first and
foremost the image that went out during the campaign is
that I was an employee of WABC. I was on
leave from WABC. I was part of the dysfunctional family.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
No.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
No, when you leave to run for office, you're gone.
You don't get paid, you don't get benefits, you don't
get anything. You're no longer an employee of WABC. But
they created that impression like somehow John Katzimatidis was still
pulling my strings that he could command me to drop out.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Ay, how did that work out? My former colleagues at WABC.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
In the next segment, I promise I teased you enough,
We're going to go to the phone calls, our numbers
one eight hundred and three to two, one zero, seven
to ten. We're also going to talk about at least
the phonic he suddenly dropping out. I can give you
all the nitty gritty details of what is another shot
across the bow of a very weakened Republican party in
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both New York City and in New York State right
here in my place to be for Mark Simone wor seventen.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Talk Radio with Street Crag.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Literally Curtis Leewa joined sevent ten WR the guest ohs
for Mark Samore.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I know that so many are saying, Boy, can I
get what Curtis Lee was saying today in a podcast
because he sounds like Michael Corleone and the Godfather in
that baptism scene in the church where he says I'm
settling all scores. In fact, that church is actually a
Mount Laredo on the south shore of Staten Island.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
That's where it was filmed. Amazing place if you've ever
been out there there. But no, no, no, no, no,
no no, I haven't settled all scores, is he My
enemies will die of a thousand cuts. This is just
a little bit of so much more to come.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
In fact, Mark Simone was kind enough to allow me
to substitute for him till January two, along with Tom Cutty,
the program director and obviously the big mockers at iHeart.
So you're gonna be listening every day ten to twelve
and you will hear more information that you never got
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before about this campaign that we just got through that
made headlines all across the world, and how when all
was said and done, the President of the United States,
Donald Trump was calling him remember Kami Mandami, Remember oh
the COMMI Oh, what a love fest at the White House,
And how he threw at least the phonic right under
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the bush.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Well, you're gonna talk all about that in the next hour.
It's part of the reason that she unexpectedly dropped out. Well,
you thought unexpectedly. I kind of figured that was going
to happen. I'll let you know.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
But let's go to the phones, as I promised a
while back. First call her up is Rich who's calling
from icelip your turn to be heard here on wor Rich.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
Well, Curtis, when they can mock you about the seven
to ten percent of the vote, but when you take seven, ten,
fifteen to twenty percent of their ratings, you'll get the
last one if you put it right up there. Took
a sh I don't know if you're going to get
a show there, you better get a show there.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
I don't want.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Anybody to lose their job. But whoever you go against,
you're going to destroy Curtis. You're going to take them,
You're going to take them down.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Uh. Rich, You know my style of radio. I am
old school. I never forgive and I never forget. Oh.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
I have a lot that I'm going to be sharing
with all of you over the course of the next
few days till January two and the welcoming in of
the new year. Let's go to Tony, who's calling from
white planes? Your turn to be heard at w or tone?
Speaker 6 (26:14):
Yeah, Hi, Curtis. Curtis the biggest backstare row is Dominic Carter.
He's like Salasso. He kept saying from day one he
can't win, he can't win, telling the drop out every day.
You know, you know why he wanted you to lose,
because he said so. He didn't want to prove himself wrong.
As a matter of fact, I even called up and
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I don't know if you remember, you were on the
air and I said, if Curtis wins, will you will
you apologize to Curtis? And you said no, he don't
have to apologize. But he kept saying from day one
that you can't win, you got to drop out. He's
the reason why we've got Zoran. And then then he
gets down the air and he lies and he says
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that if you dropped out, that Cromo were one who's
like if he I can't believe they even thought of
him being.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
A mayor after it, well, I got to tell you
that point you made, Tony to all of those naysayers
out there who maybe graduated school from social promotion and
need remedial training in mathematics. If you had taken every
vote that I got in this election and it had
gone to Andrew evilized Croomo, he still would have lost.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Curtis, That's exactly what I was going to tell you.
He got on the air and was saying that, like,
if you dropped out, that Clomo would have won with it.
So he's they're assuming that everybody that voted for you
would turned around and vote for Clomo. That was idiot.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Well it goes beyond that, Tony. It goes to the
fact that when Cromo was first running on March first
of twenty twenty four, whether it was Dominic Carter or
whether it was Tessio, said Rosenberg told they were saying, Curtis,
why you're knocking yourself out. There's gonna be a coronation.
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They all predicted that Cuomo would win in a runaway
victory in the Democratic primary, and they all act as
if they are savants, like they know everything. They know
nothing about nothing. To be honest, they're not out in
the streets. They didn't watch the Zoronistas in all five boroughs,
in all the neighborhoods like I did, because I'm in
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all the three hundred and fifty neighborhoods. I'm in every
subway station, on every subway line. I could see the energy,
I could see the passion. There was nothing for Cuomo,
and yet they pretended as if he would suddenly be victorious.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
How did that work out? Uh? How come you didn't
all move away? How you after moment I'm selling? Oh, yeah, yeah,
they're all here. They're in.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
What my grandfather Fidelo Bianchino used to say from about
the Italy Kiakia Pinocchio's let's go if we can. To Lily,
who was calling from Queen's your turn to be heard
here at WR.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Lily, Hi, Curtis, you made my Christmas gift, Curtis, and
I'll never put on ABC. Oh. I'd loved that for years,
but with what they did to you and Cindy Adams especially,
forget it, Curtis client issue something. I bought that Tony
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Bennett book and Howard Beach at your campaign office, and
I wonder if you got it.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I got it. I got it. They were great to
Howard Beach.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
I mean it was right up in fact, was right
up from Newpark Peacheria. I love Newpark Pecheria. That's why
I had my first slice of peacha. Also in nineteen
fifty nine, when visiting my aunt Mary and uncle Steven,
cousin Butchie.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
And Joey g the chief from Howard Each nineteen fifty nine,
my first life of pizza was said New Park Pizzeria,
and I've been going there ever since. Don't worry about it, Lily.
You don't need to.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Listen to WABC. They've lost so many listeners. They're down
in the ratings. Just keep it right here to seven
to ten, Worr. It's your new home away from home.
Like for me, it's part of my radio listening familia.
Now this is my family. WABC stabbed me in the back,
(30:33):
like they did all the listeners. Don't listen to them.
Keep it right here at seven to ten WOR.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
The Beret is back Curtis leewa guest host The Mark
Simone Show on seven ten woo.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
And you don't want to go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
He unexpected dropping out of the least Stephonic who would
have been a great governor here in the state of
New York. And nobody knows that situation better than yours, truly. Nope,
And I'll tell you why Aleis Stephonic was my biggest
supporter during this mayoral campaign. She was loyal with the
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capital l She never vacillated, and she is a woman
of great character. And more importantly, in the two debates
that I had and running for mayor, if I had
to throw a lifeline at somebody that say I need
you to substitute.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
For me, I would have wanted at least Stephonic up there.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
She has eviscerated the presidents of Ivy League universities. She
eviscerated Andrew evilized Cuomo up on the hell in Congress,
she eviscerated Kathy Grifter Hockel, who couldn't even remember who
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the migrant killers were. Of all the victims in New
York State, including Dobrina Kwam, who I will eulogize in
the next hour because from here Wor I will be
heading out to the f train platform in Coney Island.
We're on this date a year ago, at seven point
thirty in the morning, this monster set her on fire
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like a human torch. The cops ran up and down
on the platform like the Keystone Cops.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
People were filming it so it could be live at five.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Nobody helped this homeless woman from Tom's Riven, New Jersey.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
It's quite a story. I am the Guardian Angels. We
will not forget. Unfortunately so many people did.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
And I remember that moment when Congressman Elise Stefanic was
cross examining Kathy Hoklunn said, tell me the.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Name of the person who set Debrin and Kuam on fire.
She didn't know, like she didn't know any of.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
The other migrant names. You're not gonna I want to
miss this, ladies and gentlemen, because everyone is in shock
that Elis Stephonic is no longer running to become governor
or the state of New York to save us. And
there is a reason, and I trace it to President
Donald Trump. Oh yeah, oh yeah, threw her right under
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the bus, and that woman was not going to take it.
Are you going anywhere? Keep it right here at seventen Wor.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Now the Red Beret has returned to radio. Curtis leewa
guest host the Mark Simone Show on sevent tenor.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Doesn't get any better than this, beyond this iconic radio
station where the call letters the only place I know
of in America, and I've been on most stations from
time to time.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
It's only three letters wo r.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
And I remember the time that I had to carry
all the items from Bob Grant to King of Talk
Radio from the studios of WABC, where he had been
fired by Bob Iger of Disney. When Disney owned WABC
and other talk radio stations, why would they be in
the talk radio business.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
It's controversial, but they were.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
And nobody would help Bob Grant, who had helped so
many people at WABC. Nobody could touch Bob Grant, and
so I said, I'll bring it over, and I took
some of the hand trucks. I made trips back and
forth from WABC, which was the seventeenth floor to two
Penn Plaza right by Madison Square Garden up to fourteen
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forty Broadway.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
And everybody was amazed that I would do that. They say,
you know, if Bob Iger he is about this, he'll
fire you. You know what we're I gave in his direction?
So are you kidding? Are you kidding for this?
Speaker 3 (35:05):
A guy who put us on the map WABC, A
Bob Grinner, by the way, just a little bit of
information in the past. In nineteen seventy seven, Barry Farber
the great Barry Farber, no longer with us, was the
overnight host here at wo R. He had just run
against Bella Abzick for Congress and had lost as a
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Conservative Republican, and then he decided he was going to
run for mayor, as obviously I have twice, and in
nineteen seventy seven he was running against Ed Koch. Mario Como,
by the way, Andrew, I knew your father, Mario. You
know Mario Cmo. He was on the Liberal party line.
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There was Barry Farber on the conservative line, and Roy Goodman,
who was the Republican state Senator of the Upper east Side,
the heir to the exit Lacks fortune. He was a
Rockefeller Liberal Republican. They had twelve debates. Gabe Pressman was
the moderated twelve debates, and it was a catch who won.
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I think Barry Farber got four percent and Roy Goodman
got about four percent. It was Koch and Mario Ocomo
who split the rest of the votes. But it was
a great race to follow. So Barry Farber had left.
Bob Grant was the overnight host at war that I
listened to, and then later on he was to return
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to WOR as I had mentioned when being fired by
Bob Igar of Disney, and I had a substitute for
him for the first month. Uh, those fax machines didn't stop,
you know, it was like NonStop back then.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
The fax machine would run, you, Trader, why you there?
Bob Grant is your mentor. You wouldn't be on tour
Cradio WABC without him. I said, exactly right, but this
is the business we have chosen.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
And if I got fired, Bob Grant would say, why,
I hope he lands on his feet, and I knew
he would. Those fax machines kept running twenty four seven,
three six y five for like three straight weeks with
the most vile invectives that people could scratch out and
write out. And then of course there was Barry Gray
(37:30):
mid mornings. But I remember the personal situation involving Barry Gray,
who was missed the Second Amendment. Tough guy, but also
he was the leader of those that wanted to remove
the horse drawn carriages from Central Park, which I and
my wife Nancy were in favor of, and so many others.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
He was ahead of his time. On the morning.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Of June nineteenth, nineteen ninety two, on my way to
WABC to do the morning show Angels and the Morning
with my wife at the time, Lisa, now Lisa Ever's
over at Channel five. I was shot five times with
hollow point bullets on the orders of John Gotty Senior
to John Gotti Junior and the Gambino crime family. The
guy Michael Ianatti was the guy who shot me five times.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
He did twenty years for that.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
But the interesting thing is, since I was being rushed
to Bellevue Hospital, they didn't know if I would live
or die. Lisa was on her way there, and my
producer at that time, Mike Thompson, took over the show.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
And the first person to call.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
In that morning was Barry Gray, who had just finished
the overnight, said w Orr, concerned about what had happened
to me. Weeks later, when I came back on the air,
the first caller into the show.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Was Arry Gray.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
I mean, these are the men and in some cases
women like had men. Arlene Francis Lynn Samuels over at WABC.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Eclectic as she was.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
They paved the way for all of us in talk radio,
and I will always honor that tradition because without them,
there would be no talk radio as we know. It
now or podcasts or all the other affiliated ways that
you can get your news, your information, your talk.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
And remember, above any and all things, this is entertainment
because if it's not entertaining, you're not going to be listening.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
I guarantee. But this is my homage to Wor because
I've listened to wr In fact, does anybody know is he?
Where's Eric Adams today? What country is he in? His
tax payers expense? A man who got windined in pocket line,
the Swagerman with No Plan. There was a crooked mayor
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many years ago. Bob Hope actually played him in the movie.
You should get that movie. It's absolutely incredible. Bob Hope
did a magnificent job playing the Swagerman with No Plan.
At that time with the Flappers during the time of
Speakeasy's Jimmy Walker, he had, like Eric Adams, about fifty
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customized suits, and he had ladies galore. And FDR was
the governor who wanted to run for president on the
Democratic line, and he knew he had a problem because
Jimmy Walker was so hopelessly corrupt with the guidance of
Tammany Hall. And so he tells Jimmy Walker, you know
(40:36):
I'm going to have to use the power of the
governorship and fire you, which a governor can do. Governor
can fire the mayor, and Jimmy Walker understanding that his
days were numbered and that FDR needed to get Jimmy
Walker out of here so he could run for president
without having to also explain how that kind of corruption
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could exist while FDR was the governor.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
You know what Jimmy.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Walking did is he he took an ocean liner with
one of his gumadas, one of his many females, went
to Paris, who lived there for about ten years, came
back in the early forties, and you know what his
first job back was a talk show host here at WR.
You see, when you listen to me, you're gonna learn stuff.
(41:23):
You're gonna hear things that you probably wouldn't have heard
from other than March Simone himself, who knows more about
radio than any other person alive. Just to give you
an idea, I sat with March Simon early on in
the campaign, after I had announced for the Republican nomination
with my very dear friend Paul Carlucci aka Johnny Legit
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at Nicolas. For three hours we sat there. They were
gonna give me advice politically. We spoke for two and
a half hours about radio. That's all we talked about.
That's the love that Marc Simone has for radio. Paul Carlucci,
who at the time was the publisher of The New
York Post, now actually he had already left that position,
he had retired, and yours truly imagine two and a
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half hours all we talked about was radio. All we
talked to because that when you love radio, like so
many of you do, who listen to it morning, noon
and night, you understand what's good talk radio, and you
understand what's bad talk radio. I need you all to
do me a favor, though, when I run into you
in the streets, which I do quite often, so many
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people in so many places, do not, Please, do not treat.
Speaker 4 (42:31):
Me like a gabon.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
Do not tell me, oh, I voted for you, because
so far since the end of the campaign and the
announcement of the results that Zarroon Mandami would be sworn
in as mayor on January first of this year, everybody
comes up to me and says, I voted for you,
and then, being the Weisenheimer than I am, I do
a pivot in shift and I say, oh really, Oh yeah,
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my family voted for you too. Where you from I'm
from Scarsdale.
Speaker 4 (43:00):
I'd to do that. He couldn't vote for mayor.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
So don't tell me you voted for me, because I
will have to end up embarrassing you sometimes in front
of family and friends, because you're trying to pull my
chain and chew my shorts.
Speaker 4 (43:17):
Don't do that.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
If I had gotten every vote that people claimed that
they had cast on my behalf, I would have been
the mayor of the City of New York. So please, now,
let's get to the other key subject today. Give you
a little background information on what was a terrible loss
for the Republican Party nationally, the Republican Party in the
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state of New York, and the Republican Party in the
City of New York, where we are extraordinarily weak. It says,
if we had been exposed to kryptonite by mostly Republicans,
never mind the Democrats, by mostly Republicans, they go out
of their way to damage the brand and to damage
their candidates.
Speaker 4 (44:03):
You certainly saw that with me. Oh, vote for Aslee
was a vote for Zoran. Vote for Cromo.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
Yeah, Cromo, who did that President Donald Trump, who did that?
Elon Musk, who did that? The billionaires, the masters of
the universe spent twenty million dollars doing that in the
final weeks of the campaign. But put me aside. We
had a star in the Republican Party who could touch
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at least Stephanic. Do you not remember when she was
cross examining the presidents of the Ivy League schools?
Speaker 4 (44:44):
Do you not remember?
Speaker 8 (44:46):
You know?
Speaker 3 (44:47):
It was two years ago, December, two years ago, one
by one.
Speaker 4 (44:53):
First there was the Harvard president, Claudine Gay. She knocked
her out. Ding Gay resigned after being crush examined by
Elis Stefanic. Number two was Elizabeth Magill University of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
Knocked her out. She resigned right after that interrogation by
Elis Stephonic.
Speaker 4 (45:17):
The only one who suffered a TKO at the hands
of Elis Stephonic was Sally Cornbluff of MIT. She somehow
held on. And what was it about? It was simple.
Speaker 3 (45:31):
All that Elis Stephonic asked them is would you call
would you suggest that calling for genocide of Jews violated
the code of conduct at your university? And they all
did the chicken dance and said, well, depends.
Speaker 4 (45:51):
On whether you're this was amazing.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
It depends on whether you're speech crossed into action. After that,
they were dead on arrival.
Speaker 4 (46:07):
But that was the first of many cross examinations to.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
Come from one everyone realized was the star of the
Republican Party. Tough, smart, young, think she's a millennial, who
think she's like forty or forty one, gave up a
prestigious position as the US ambassador to the United Nations.
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She would have been a clone of Jeane Kirkpatrick.
Speaker 4 (46:38):
Oh, we have a lot to talk about, because there
were so many other situations that were taking place behind
the scenes that none of you are aware of.
Speaker 3 (46:46):
Why oh, why you saying to yourself. Would at least
stephonic have dropped out on this late Friday in an
election she had a real chance to win and really
the only person who could have totally turned this state around.
Speaker 4 (47:01):
They're not going anywhere. You're going to keep it right
here on the dial.
Speaker 3 (47:04):
If you're just discovering seven to ten WOORR, this is
your place to be. Forget WABC always bashing Curtis and
by the way, sinking in the ratings. Nobody giving them
the kind of attention that they were used to. But
thank you iHeart, thank you Tom Cuddy, thank you WR
(47:25):
for extending me this microphone till January second, because I
am going to be blazing and I'm gonna be glazing
some and I think is he most people would want
to be glazed by Curtis Sleewer. They would not want
to be put on blast, as you've heard some of
the people earlier today right here on your New Place
(47:47):
to Be seven ten wor the.
Speaker 1 (47:50):
Pulse of New York Now on the Voice of New
York Curtis Sleewald, guess hos for Marx them on seven
ten double.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
At the station that I listened to now seven ten wooh.
You don't need to be over at WABC. Don't waste
your time, just keep it right here. In fact, it's
soon your turn to be heard in this hour. If
you call eight hundred three two one zero seven ten,
that's eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten.
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We're talking about Alista Phonic, star of the Republican Party,
dropping out unexpected to sum on Friday, not to me.
She was my most loyal supporter during the mayoral campaign.
I can remember we were at the Union League Club.
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Was in the summer and she was speaking to a
group of people and she called me up from the
audience and she gave me the microphone. Midway through her speech,
she said, this is the guy that I'm supporting for
Maya Curtis Lee and nobody else. And don't ever, don't
ever say he should be dropping out. He's the Republican candidate.
I said to elist, you really want to give me
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the microphone, You may never get it back. She said,
go for it. She remained loyal. She was a woman,
a character, and you may have remembered in September twenty
twenty four the performance up on the Hill when she
eviscerated Andrew evilized Cromo at that Coronavirus Committee hearing in
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which she said, you will never be elected to anything
ever again. And boy, has she been so right on that.
And let's not forget all the other appearances she made
at the behest of the Republican Party for a very
weak Speaker of the House Johnson, who is having problems
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with female members. That's become quite apparent. And she gave
up the prize. She was announced to be our next
UN Ambassador United States UN Ambassador Boy Shades of Jeane Kirkpatrick,
shades of Adleist Stevenson. The cameras would have been there
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every time it would have been indicated that at least
Aphonic in the General Assembly or before the Security Council
was speaking on behalf of our nation. But because she
is the ultimate team player, she gave up that position
so she could come back and be the deciding vote
for President Donald Trump's legislation. He needed that vote because
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the margin in the House was so slim, and it
was anticipated that that favor would be returned to her
at some point.
Speaker 4 (50:49):
And then when she announced that she was running for
the governorship on the Republican line, so many Republicans, myself included,
was so happy.
Speaker 3 (50:58):
You got a superstar here. Fundraising machine. She had twelve
million dollars that she had already raised. And the President
Donald Trump realized that he had to clear out any
competition in a primary, so he convinced Congressman Mike Lawler
to bow out, and he did so, and he cleared
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the field. But then things began to go arrived. I'll
never forget this state for me. It was a day
in infamy. November twenty one.
Speaker 4 (51:29):
Zoran Mandami has been invited to come to the White House.
Four months.
Speaker 3 (51:34):
President Donald Trump had been calling him the Kami. Mandami
had cast all kinds of aspersions, talked about how he
would move in, he would run the city of New York.
He would not give him an opportunity. In fact, he
was with whole federal funds. If the voters elected Joran Mondami,
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that was a mistake because that just strengthened Jorhan Mandami
because it was now David versus Kala Zoron MONDAMMI didn't
have to campaign against Eric Adams, didn't have to campaign
against Andrew Cuomo, didn't have to campaign against me. He
could campaign against Donald Trump, who couldn't keep himself out
of the race.
Speaker 4 (52:14):
And then all of a sudden, it's love fest at
the White House. It was sort of like Barney talk.
I love you, you love me.
Speaker 3 (52:21):
I tell you all the times that I watched Barney
that cartoon with my sons growing up. I wanted to
pull a forty four magnum mountain blow Barney away on
the TV. I hated Barney with a passion, and there
it was Barney talk. Oh, Zorn, you want to call
me a fascist, go ahead, You're gonna be a great mayor.
Speaker 4 (52:39):
In fact, you may be the best mayor ever.
Speaker 3 (52:41):
And then, all of a sudden, towards the end of
the one hour sit down the love fest that President
Donald Trump had doing Barney Talk with Johan Mondami, a
reporter asked, mister President, do you agree with Congresswoman Elistefanik
who calls Zorhan I'm the ag hottest? In fact, they
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think her nickname was the Gehti souran Oran?
Speaker 4 (53:06):
Does she hot?
Speaker 3 (53:08):
And he could have sidestep that, he did not. He's
very good at side stepping questions and ignoring questions, but no, no,
on this one. He threw at least the fonic under
the bus. He goes, I disagree with her. In fact,
he'll probably turn out to be the greatest mayor of
New York City. He's a very reasonable guy. Hey, you
want to call me fascist again, go ahead, Zorn, throw
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it right under the bus. Okay, that was bad, but
the worst was just about ten days ago. He was
asked at the White House, you know, your friend Ruce Blakeman,
who just won reelection as a Nassau County executive as
a Republican, says he wants to run for the Republican nomination.
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What do you make of it? Oh, I like Elise,
I like Bruce Blakeman. He never bothered to try to
convince Bruce Blakeman not to run. There's no doubt that's
why Alis Stefani dropped out. Could you have been any
more loyal and a team player than Elise Stephonic The
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answer is no. In fact, you know what the campaign
would have been if she went into the primary. I
guarantee you somewhere along the line, a vote for Elise
Staphonic is a vote for Kathy Hocal, vote for Bruce Blakeman.
I guarantee you that. And so now she'll serve out
her term in the House. She will not run for reelection.
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She s dropped out. So although she wasn't asked to
drop out, wasn't that pretty.
Speaker 4 (54:44):
Much the same thing? Come on, ladies and gentlemen, I
know how many of you are.
Speaker 3 (54:47):
Come on, we can't say anything bad about President Donald Trump.
This was done on purpose, and the Republican Party, which
is hurting in New York State, is hurting now even more,
and boy has lost a real star in the Republican Party.
Elise Stefanic, when we return your phone calls one eight
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hundred and three to two one zero, seven ten, and
your place to be from now on as it is
mine seven ten WR.
Speaker 1 (55:19):
The Voice that fights for New York Literally Curtis leewa
guest HOS for Mark Simone on sevent ten WOR.
Speaker 3 (55:30):
All right, let's make sure h Wow, those phone lines
are blazing. He is he, But don't be glazing. I
mean when you get on, I don't need to be glazed.
Let's just say what is on your mind. That's what
talk radio is all about. And now you have a
friend of your own, WR seven ten. And if you
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listen to anyone else, you don't need to listen to
them anymore. Let's go to Phil, who is calling from Brooklyn.
Your turn to be heard here at WOR seven ten, Phil.
Speaker 9 (56:05):
Great Curtis. There's one part of the story that hasn't
been told yet that a lot of people are very
curious about. And that is why didn't the Conservative Party
give you their nomination for mayor after you had been
loyal to them and had such great relations with them
for decades.
Speaker 3 (56:22):
Well, to be honest with you, I'm not a conservative.
They are purists. To their credit, you have to agree
with them on all their policy positions. As you have stated, Phil,
I got along with them all the time. I went
to the same events. But you know, Rudy Giuliani didn't
run on the conservative line. He wasn't a conservative, at
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least when he was running for mayor of the City
of New York. I've never really been a conservative. I
disagree with them on some subjects, but I respect them.
Let's go if we can to Kevin, who's calling from Putnam?
Speaker 4 (56:57):
Your turn to be heard here at seven wo.
Speaker 10 (57:01):
R oh, Curtis. Uh, we love you. There's no better
way to say that we love you up in Putnam.
I wish we could have voted for you for other things,
but maybe should consider a run for governor. I don't know.
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Call me crazy, but no, no.
Speaker 4 (57:24):
No, you're not.
Speaker 3 (57:25):
You're not crazy, Kevin. But I am so upset with
my Republican party and I am a Republican.
Speaker 4 (57:33):
I'm nothing else. Even though you will hear you know
that detractors at my old place of business, WABC, said
that I was working for Johan Mandami, I was being
paid by to throw the election to him.
Speaker 10 (57:50):
I was listening to all of that from w ABC,
and I can tell you the guy you picked out
to be the I won't say it.
Speaker 3 (58:02):
Well, I will see you hesitate, but as you know,
I don't have a filter. It starts with the owner operator,
John Katzmatitis. He gave the signal to attack and undercut
courteously when create the image that Zoron Mandami was somehow
paying me off to deprive Andrew Cmo of an opportunity
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to destroy the city of New York like he did
the State of New York. And then naturally sid Rosenberg,
Tessio and Greg Kelly and Dominic Carter, they all follow
because whatever John tells him to do, they do. They're dutiful,
you know, They're like little dancing bears. Whereas when I
worked there, I had an agreement with John was if
I'm wrong, I'm gone. And I broke a lot of
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news there and the station benefited. They went right to
number one. They will no longer be number one because
if I have to, I'll be listening to w or morning,
noon and night wherever I go, and I'm everywhere in
this city. Let's go if we can to Mike, Who's
calling from Queen's your turn to be heard here at
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seven to ten wr Mike.
Speaker 8 (59:07):
Yes, sir, welcome back to the seven Never Ends. I'm
glad to hear you on the aircutter. That's what counts. Listen,
the staphanic thing is making my board boil because I
could read the teelies on the whole thing. We finally
get a star who can beat Hulko, and now she's gone.
And let me tell you something, Pal, one of the
big reasons you lost, in my opinion, is the chickens
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voted for Colonel Sanders, if you know what I mean,
so they can't blame you for everything. And if you
would have withdrawn, then what do you have here? Have pocus?
You either have a Republican party or you don't have
a Republican party. I'd never heard of any Democrats throwing
their elections to get a Republican elected. So anyway, welcome back, kid,
and you're doing a great job, and happy New York
and tell them missus we all said hello too. By night.
Speaker 3 (59:50):
I liked that he called me kid. I'm seventy one
years old. That makes me feel great. That's that's that's
other than substituting for Mark Simon to January tewod, that's
the second best Christmas present. I've gotten so far being
called kid, and it really is a president. This is
such a powerful vehicle, and that again, I want you
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to understand what's happening here. The Republican Party in New
York City and New York State is being destroyed by Republicans,
not by the Democrats. Republicans put me aside. Obviously, I
can't compare with Elis Stefani. She was the star of
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all stars. There's nobody out there they could do combat
with her, verbal combat in the ring and survive a
cross examination and interrogation by Elis Stefani. Everybody would agree that.
Look at the three presidents of the Ivy League schools
who went down. Claudia Gay Harvard after that retired Elizabeth
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Megel of University of Pennsylvania. After her cross examination by Elist,
retired Sally Cornbluff was holding onto the ropes TKO.
Speaker 4 (01:01:15):
The referee said, no, bos no us, it's over. It's over.
Released no more or she would have retired.
Speaker 3 (01:01:22):
She eviscerated andrew evilized Cuomo at the Corona's Virus Committee hearing.
And then remember it was June of this year, she
crossed examined Kathy Hokel on the hill and said, who
are these migrants who are killing citizens in New York State?
Speaker 4 (01:01:43):
Who are these illegal aliens?
Speaker 3 (01:01:44):
Do you know any of them? Uh? Do you know
who that woman was who was turned into a human
torch on January twenty second on that f train in
Coney Island?
Speaker 4 (01:01:59):
Do you know what inn is say? Her name?
Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:02:03):
No, you know who the migrant killer was. They was
being housed that It's Amaritian House shelter in East New York.
I thought they only deal with drug issues, but they were.
They were in it for the money, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (01:02:19):
You know his name, Kathy Hokel, mhm Sebastian Zapeta.
Speaker 3 (01:02:29):
Of Guatemala, that pyromaniac. Oh, I'm gonna you don't want
to go anywhere. I'm gonna give you more.
Speaker 4 (01:02:36):
Details on the how quickly everybody forgets Nobody could step
into the ring with at least Stefani and survive. Nobody
wanted to. They hesitated.
Speaker 3 (01:02:48):
You really think that Bruce Blakeman would have stood up
in a debate against at least Stefanic. Come on, guy
like Bruce, I like some of his policies. If given
the choice to vote between Bruce Blakeman and Kathy Hokele. Obviously,
I'm gonna vote for Bruce.
Speaker 4 (01:03:04):
Blakeman, but I'm not excited like I was with Eli Staphonic,
who also had a lot of young followers. Young you know, millennials,
gen zs. They are the majority of the population.
Speaker 3 (01:03:16):
I hate to tell you baby boomers out there, and
I'm one of you, we are no longer the majority.
Speaker 4 (01:03:20):
We are no longer the majority of the voters. We
are no longer going to be the shot callers. Baby
Boomers may have most of.
Speaker 3 (01:03:27):
The equity and wealth, but that will soon change too.
Bruce Blakeman is not going to be able to attract
younger voters. That's just not his style. It's not what
got him elected the county executive in Nassau County.
Speaker 4 (01:03:48):
And you really think that Kathy Hokele could have stood
on a debate stage and survived the withering cross examination
of Elis Staphonic, Say in a bazooka and what were
Kathy hoklovd a pop gun? In return?
Speaker 3 (01:04:06):
And now we're being deprived of all that. Who did that?
Not the Democrats, the Republicans. It goes right to the
White House itself. Donald Trump flipped the script on at
least Stephonic. You knew he was gonna do that to me.
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I was not his most loyal maga following at least
the Phonic was uber maga. Could you have been any
more loyal to the president? Any more of a team player?
Stop drinking the kool aid. The problem of a Republican
party is that, depending on what mood the President is
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in on any given day, he will side against the
Republican candidates.
Speaker 4 (01:04:57):
You don't cross the line. You don't cross the line,
and you.
Speaker 3 (01:05:03):
Don't listen to any other stations other than seven to
ten wor now.
Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
More with New York's iconics straight shooter Curtis Leewah guest
hosting from Mark Simone on sevent ten WOOR.
Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
I can assure you, ladies and gentlemen, this is live
in local. There's nothing in these past two hours there's
been pre recorded.
Speaker 4 (01:05:27):
I don't do that kind of radio.
Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
No does Mark Simon, who I'm substituting for till January
tewod and you know tomorrow, I think I gotta delve
into this. The new WWE Worldwide Wrestling Exhibition like the
old ww FA. Vince Mcmahonsenior and Bruno Sammartino that I
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grew up with Turning Point USA and the annual gathering
in Phoenix. I know most of the players who appeared.
Boy is anything more contrived nowadays it's like the old WWF,
like the WWE Come on. I'll bring it down for
you tomorrow. But right now I'm not going to be
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hanging out with influences or insiders, or billionaires.
Speaker 4 (01:06:18):
Or the masters of the universe. I never do.
Speaker 3 (01:06:21):
I'll be heading out to Coney Island with the Guardian
Angels to commemorate and memorialize the most horrific killing that
ever has occurred in the subway system.
Speaker 4 (01:06:33):
And that says a lot. Say her name.
Speaker 3 (01:06:37):
How come nobody in the city is saying her name,
DeBie Kwam To bring a Kwam from Tom's River who
had a great growing up period, which I'm going to
get into tomorrow. Things you didn't know about her, And
you say to yourself, somebody who suffered a mental health
lapse and ended up being on a f train, homeless,
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suffering emotional setbacks and set on fire by a monster,
A monster migrant from Guatemala, a pyromaniac boy the city
officials here, Eric Adams, a swaggerman with no plan, Jessica Tish,
the rest Governor, Kathy Hoko. They don't even they don't
even want to.
Speaker 4 (01:07:23):
Mention the name that we've seen the woman in the
CTA in Chicago set on fire. They keep talking about
that story, and rightfully so. The man was set on fire,
the homeless man in Times Square, in the subway station,
he was reunited with his long lost son. That's a great.
Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
Story, and we keep talking the moment that occurred. He
couldn't close that story fast enough. It is a fascinating story.
And I and the Guardian Angels we honored Debrina Kwam
by going out and helping the homeless and the emotionally
disturbed every day, those lost souls in the subways and streets.
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I can't wait to be back with all of you
tomorrow at my favorite radio station, and it should be
yours now sevent ten wor
Now the Guardian Angel of talk radio is here. Curtis
Leewah guest host the Mark Simone Show on seven to ten.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Woor wow.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
This is an early Christmas present for me to be
back on talk radio and the station that I listened
to all the time now war and to be substituting
for the best talk show hosts in all of New
York City, March Simon. Nobody's been doing it longer, and
nobody's been doing it better. I worked with March Simon
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over at WABC, and then he was a competitor against me.
So is nobody who knows talk radio better than March Simon.
So it's a real honor to be able to come
in and substitute for this let And having met with
Tom Cutty, who's the program director who I knew at WPLJ.
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I remember what happened when Cumulus, who owned a cluster
of stations, they had decided that they wanted to get
out of the business in New York. That made no
sense to me, and they turned off the lights on
the most iconic FM station with the call letters WPLJ.
Couldn't believe that, and Tom then obviously was picked up
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by wor has been a great program director here and
I've had an opportunity to sample all of the hosts
and presenters here at woor from Larry Menty in the
Morning was so kind to me during the election cycle
to obviously mark them all my biggest fan. Both in
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twenty twenty one when I ran from mayor against Eric Adams,
and I did warn you, didn't I say, is he
that he would be a crook and there would be chaos.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
But nobody wanted to listen. Everybody said to me, you
were right, we should have listened.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah, you should have listened, and we suffered, and as
a result of his massive failure, we ended up with
Johan Mandami. We're gonna get into all of that and
a lot of the background that went into clearly what
is the most historic press I said, president setting election
that has ever taken place in the City of New
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York for Maya. It took on international, national, regional, and
local ramifications for a number of reasons. We're going to
explore all of that, and I'm going to dig up
the bones, because nobody knows where the bones are buried
more than courteously, and I will dig them up, and
I will expose a lot of folks and what they
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did during this election cycle to prevent a fair square
election in which people could go into the voting booths
and choose candidates based on the issues. On this desire
to have you constantly play dropout, dropout, drop out, drop out.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
We're going to get into all of that.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And as you heard at the top of the news hour,
iHeart again this powerful owner of so many radio stations
in the nation to be able to broadcast here as
I have from many of the different programs both on
FM and AM over the years as a guest, and
to hear Larry the news Guy talk about where I
will be at two o'clock this afternoon. It is a
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story that the local officials in New York City want
to go away. It is the most horrific case that
has ever occurred, a tragedy, a crime, an act of
barbaric proportion. And in all my years of riding the subways,
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and I've been riding the subway since I was five
years old, by myself, nineteen fifty nine, took my first
ride on the L train. L stood for Lousey Line,
Rockaway Parkway, last stop in Kenarsi, where I was raised,
and I've been riding ever since. It'll be forty seven
years in February since I started the Guardian Angels to
protect people both in the subways and streets here, across
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the nation and in thirteen countries around the world, and
increasingly having to come to the aid of women like
the brin and Kowam. Yeah, the Brina Kowam was homeless,
emotionally disturbed, like so many who live in the subways,
and she was sent on fire by that illegal alien,
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Sebastian Zepeta that we were housing in a homeless shelter
at great expense in East New York Samaritan House.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I thought they took care of people with drug issues, but.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
They were making a lot of money at our taxpayer's expense.
And he was a pyromaniac. We're going to go into
all of those details, but this is what I do
on a regular basis. Since the moment that I lost
the election, I haven't missed a beat. I've been down
in the subways and in the streets and taking care
of those poor lost souls, the homeless, the emotionally disturbed,
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who shouldn't be there, and yet they lived there. They
reside there, no matter who the mayor was, whether it
was Comrade Bildeblasio, the part time mayor of the Dope
from Park Slope, along with his grift of wife Charlane.
We'll talk about that later on, because he owes US
one and a half billion dollars money that was taken
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for a program called Thrive that was supposed to help
the emotionally disturb. I don't ever remember one person having
been helped, and then by Eric Adams Swagerman with no plan.
By the way, where is he? What country is Eric
Adams the cor up one in today? Sort of like
when Matt Lower used to do the morning show at NBC.
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You know what country is Matt Lower in?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Today?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
This guy is, I mean, a grifter like you can't believe,
and oo far soon he will be gone. But I
also want to talk about what happened behind the scenes,
and I'm doing it on a radio station Wor of
which I made my very first appearance back in nineteen
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seventy one, having been named the newspaper Boy of the Year,
having delivered the daily news like so many people did,
and growing up saved five people in a burning building
at that time. That got the attention of then President
Richard Nixon, got an award in the White House, and
then my very first interview upon my return to New
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York City was at fourteen forty Broadway, the mid morning
show hosted by Arlene Francis.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Boy. I've had the bug ever since talking on radio.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
So actually WOOR provided me my baptism.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
In radio with my very first interview.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
As they escorted me around, I look at all the
various studios, the news room that had many men and
women that were processing the news back then, and it's
one of the most iconic symbols of talk radio in
the nation. With only three call letters WR everybody else right,
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it's four like where I was from where I spent
most of my life in talk radio WABC close to
thirty years. There were some other stations in between. You
know how long you've been in talk radio by the
number of radio stations that you've worked at. But WABC
was the bulk of my time there. In all different
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time slots. Morning Drive, it was Angels in the Morning
with my wife Lisa at that time. Then there was
a spot morning Drive with Ron Kooby, whose mommy was
a comedy for many years. I did mid mornings, I
did overnights, I did weekends. I was always available twenty
four to seven, three sixty five, so that the acronym
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stood for WABC, always broadcasting Curtis and so going into
this election cycle, early on, I made it very clear
that I would seek the Republican nomination a run for
mayor again, as I did in twenty twenty one. By
the way, with no help from WABC back then. None
people should know that the orders came from management and
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ownership that you were not to talk about Curtis Leewell
when he was running for mayor. In fact, you were
not to interview Curtis Lee were back in twenty twenty one,
there was.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
A big sign in the newsroom. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I mean, let's just say there was no excuse for that.
And I wasn't supported by anybody. They were at WABC
running for mayor. Although they weren't insulting, they weren't personally
attacking me. The owner and operator, John Katchimatidis was supporting
Eric Adams. Everyone was under the impress that he was
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supporting me because he would say, oh, with family here, Curtis,
he knows more about the city than everyone else, and
let's face it, that's true. Whether you like my politics
or not, whether you like my style or not. There's
nobody who knows more about the City of New York
to me. But as it goes from twenty twenty one
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to twenty twenty five, the drum beat for me to
drop out, and boy was a steady trump beat from June.
Excuse me, make that.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Just about July fourth, on our nation's birthday.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I remember, I was in Travis Staten Island, as I
am every year with the Guardian Angels, the longest running
Fourth of July parade in the nation. Eric Adams was
out there because he had been reborn, resurrected with the
failure of Andrew Cuomo, who threw in the tow when
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losing convincingly to zor Modi. Just give you an idea.
On March first, when Andrew Cuomo announced that he was
running for Maya for the Democratic nomination, he was clocking
at forty percent in the polls. Zorhan Mondomi was dead
last in the Democratic primary at one percent. By June
twenty fourth, Zoron Mondami had beat him by thirteen percent
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because Andrew Cuomo mailed it in, didn't run any kind
of a campaign, and so they resurrected Eric Adams, who
chose not to run. And this guy, right out of
the box, brought all the crooks back into the house
of Eric Adams and they were getting windyed in pocket
lined by the real estate interests. And he crashed and
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burned and dropped out in September. And then boy did
they ratchet it up. The masters of the universe, the billionaires.
John Casimatidis, owner and operator, who was the the maestro
of the orchestra that was constantly banging a drum that
critically had to drop.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Out, to drop out for the good of the city.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
And I remember he was saying, Oh, I'm gonna leave,
I'm gonna sell my businesses. I'm down in Florida. The
moment Johan Mandami was announced the winner on November fourth,
all of a sudden he would saying, oh, we got
to work with the mayor.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Oh for the good of the city.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Because these billionaires, along with Ackman and others, made it
seem like they would be fear fright, hysteria, and all
they did was hype that every day. But you see,
they always back channel, They always have a back door.
They always have a way to survive, whereas the working
class people that I represented in this election, because of
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the fear in the fright, they had no options.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
So it was an.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Election cycle dominated by the masters of the universe. Donald Trump,
the President, was no friend of mine. He went out
of his way to disparage me on a regular basis.
Talked about was Curtis a Republican?
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Is he is?
Speaker 5 (11:58):
He?
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Really?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Is he ready for prime time? And what about all
those cats he and his wife Nancy have rescued and
kept from being euthanized in shelters. So many people out
there who do that for dogs and cats. He disparaged,
Really a nation of dog and cat lovers, But he
went out of his way to disparage me, along with
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Elon Musk and Steve Miller and so many of the
other masters of the universe and the billionaires that he
came down in the last few weeks with twenty million
dollars spent in advertising.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
The word was a vote for sliwa is a vote for.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Zoran Mandami, vote for Andrew evilized Coomo, a guy responsible
for the deaths of fifteen thousand elderly people at the
height of the pandemic, and the lockdown, and a man
was still paying his victims for sexual harassment, thirteen of
them who worked for him, including a female state trooper,
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and the bill will probably get up to sixty million dollar.
And once again, you know, whenever you speak to Eric Adams,
I'm not guilty. I didn't do anything wrong. Andrew Cuomo,
I didn't do anything wrong. Donald Trump, I didn't do
anything wrong. Nobody does anything wrong. I'm somebody who is
a lot different when I do things wrong. When I
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mess up, I fess up. And I certainly had a
lot of opportunities in my life to do that. But
this is an opportunity for all of you to be hurt.
In the words my great mentor Bob Grant, who actually
was broadcasting here at w OR on two separate occasions,
which we'll get into later on, feel free to give
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me a cause. I welcome back to the airwaves of
New York City and the Tri State area and beyond
one of the most powerful radio stations that have ever
been created in this nation. Woor give a call to
eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. That's eight
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hundred three two one zero seven ten. And there's so
much more to tell you about all my fairweather friends
at WABC, which the acronym has become always blaming Curtis
and always bashing Curtis. You don't want to go anywhere,
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Keep it right here at seven ten WOR.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Street Smart Straight Talk. Curtis leewa guest host for Mark
Simone on sevent ten WOO.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I said I would be back, and I'm back.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Your's Julie Curtis Sliwa on WORR Radio, substituting for Mark Simone.
If you're just joining us right now. My wife Nancy
listening as she is going off to celebrate the birthday
of her mother Beth, wish I could have been with her,
but I would not turn down this opportunity, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
And on my way here.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
This morning, as I was riding on the subways as
I do each and every day, taking the car from
car to car, looking at the homeless, the emotionally disturb
any of them that I know by first name, and
walking down the block, and I know the outgoing mayor
he can't leave fast enough for me. Eric Adams, who
knows what country is in today a taxpayers expense, says
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that there are no homeless settlements up in the street.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
They were all over the area in Upper Midtown.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
And one thing that was normal for me for quite
some time is I joined the morning show with sid
Rosenberg five mornings a week. And I must tell you
that he turned out to be like Tessio from the Godfather.
He was actually setting up meetings with Andrew Cuomo and
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backstabbing me all through that campaign. And I remember he
had asked me originally could you come on one morning
a week, then two, three, four five. I loved it.
I love doing it. Do whatever kind of radio that
you want for unsue my veins and arteries. But he
pretended to be a friend, and like so many, turned
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out to be a fair with a friend. And I
in that scene in The Godfather where Don Corleone tells Michael,
whoever set up the meeting, that's the trader Tessio sid
Rosenberg paranoid, I would say, low self esteem. And if
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Bernard mcgirth, bless his soul, who was his partner, were
alive today, that never would have happened. In fact, I
was listening to Doctor lead him in Great Doctor, Save
so Many. I had stage four prostate cancer almost took
my life, but I remember sitting down with Bernard McGirk
when he was explaining to me his symptoms, and wow,
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I knew by then it had metastasized and the last
year of his life.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Horrible way to live.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
So that's why, if there's anything that should come out
of this program, men and ladies who are listening, force
your menfolk to get that simple PSA test, a prick
of the finger, that's all. It is, a simple blood test.
It has saved so many lives. It's something that Bernard McGirk,
or an iconic figure in radio for so many years,
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as really the wingman for don Imus, who could never
have done what he did in the mornings without Bernard
McGirk in so many ways, probably would have been alive
and well now if he had taken a simple PSA test.
And we're coming towards the Christmas holiday New Year's some
of those rare occasions where family and friends get together,
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feel free to get out that word. If you're forty
five or older as a male, you gotta get your
yearly PSA test.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
It's a simple prick of the finger. And women, I
give you a.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
License to nagman to just be non stop chattering and
nattering away and force them to do the simple thing,
because you would be amazed. The stronger the guy, and
Bernard McGirk was one of the strongest men alive. But
the stronger a guy is, the less likely they want
to go through that process because they feel what the
outcome may be.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Make sure you.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Spread out that word during this holiday gathering of so many.
And then also at WABC, whereas I had to deal
with Tessio in the morning, said Rosenberg, who I'm still
pulling the knives out of my back from him setting
up these meetings with Andrew Como and working on his
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behalf every step of the way, like a five dinners
and five lunches with the guy before he ever came
on the radio. And then all of a sudden, WABC
turned into always blaming Curtis for the rise of Jorhan Mandami,
then always broadcasting Cuomo in the last month, and then
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to this day, always bashing Curtis. And then there was
Greg Kelly in the afternoon. It's Greg Kelly who knew
his father father, great guy the sun huh. During the primary,
the Democratic primary, he was actually advocating to his listeners
that they support Jorhan Mandami over Andrew Cuomo.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Yeah, him.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
And then in the end, through the directions of John Katzimatitis,
the owners and operators and managers at WABC, he spoke
the party line. He said, oh, Curtis is running a
lazy campaign. Yeah, twenty hours a day of a twenty
four hour day, and obviously social networking that was getting
the message out in so many ways. But oh no, no,
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Curtis is a lazy campaigner. He doesn't know what he's doing.
And then finally, the worst trader of all, Dominic Carter.
Dominic Carter would not be in radio today if not
for my intervention on his behalf. Without going into great details,
he had problems, like we've all had problems in our life.
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I'm not going to get into the nitty gritty, but
he had done something that had basically made him an untouchable.
And I remember I went to the mat with management
and ownership at WABC. I said, look, give Dominic Carter
an opportunity. You know, he knows about New York City.
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He had been the voice and the image of New
York one for so many years. Lost his job because
of that problem that I referred to. And then I
schooled him. I took him into what I called the
talk radio boot Camp at WABC because we really didn't
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have a program director at that time, so I worked
as sort of the adjunct Oh yeah, have an adjunct
profession in college.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
I was the adjunct program director.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
There were a number of figures there who were in
the critically with talk radio boot camp, and he listened.
He was a reporter, and I said, you no longer
a reporter, Dominic. He got to be a talk radio shows.
He was the first to consistently cast the spurgeons against
me in this campaign. And it's not about just saying, oh,
I don't think you can win. That's fine. There was
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some here at wr who said exactly that, but to
get personal about it, talk about how I wasn't running
a good campaign, talk about problems that I was having
in the campaign, things that he knew nothing about, and
doing it on a regular basis, so.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
You should know.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
And I just gave you a thumbnail scared of the
problems that I had at WABC. And probably first and
foremost the image that went out during the campaign is
that I was an employee of WABC. I was on
leave from WABC. I was part of the dysfunctional family.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
No.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
No, when you leave to run for office, you're gone.
You don't get paid, you don't get benefits, you don't
get anything. You're no longer an employee of WABC. But
they created that impression like somehow John Katzimatidis was still
pulling my strings that he could command me to drop out.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Ay, how did that work out? My former colleagues at WABC.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
In the next segment, I promise I teased you enough,
We're going to go to the phone calls, our numbers
one eight hundred and three to two, one zero, seven
to ten. We're also going to talk about at least
the phonic he suddenly dropping out. I can give you
all the nitty gritty details of what is another shot
across the bow of a very weakened Republican party in
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both New York City and in New York State right
here in my place to be for Mark Simone wor seventen.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Talk Radio with Street Crag.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Literally Curtis Leewa joined sevent ten WR the guest ohs
for Mark Samore.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I know that so many are saying, Boy, can I
get what Curtis Lee was saying today in a podcast
because he sounds like Michael Corleone and the Godfather in
that baptism scene in the church where he says I'm
settling all scores. In fact, that church is actually a
Mount Laredo on the south shore of Staten Island.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
That's where it was filmed. Amazing place if you've ever
been out there there. But no, no, no, no, no,
no no, I haven't settled all scores, is he My
enemies will die of a thousand cuts. This is just
a little bit of so much more to come.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
In fact, Mark Simone was kind enough to allow me
to substitute for him till January two, along with Tom Cutty,
the program director and obviously the big mockers at iHeart.
So you're gonna be listening every day ten to twelve
and you will hear more information that you never got
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before about this campaign that we just got through that
made headlines all across the world, and how when all
was said and done, the President of the United States,
Donald Trump was calling him remember Kami Mandami, Remember oh
the COMMI Oh, what a love fest at the White House,
And how he threw at least the phonic right under
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the bush.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Well, you're gonna talk all about that in the next hour.
It's part of the reason that she unexpectedly dropped out. Well,
you thought unexpectedly. I kind of figured that was going
to happen. I'll let you know.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
But let's go to the phones, as I promised a
while back. First call her up is Rich who's calling
from icelip your turn to be heard here on wor Rich.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
Well, Curtis, when they can mock you about the seven
to ten percent of the vote, but when you take seven, ten,
fifteen to twenty percent of their ratings, you'll get the
last one if you put it right up there. Took
a sh I don't know if you're going to get
a show there, you better get a show there.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
I don't want.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Anybody to lose their job. But whoever you go against,
you're going to destroy Curtis. You're going to take them,
You're going to take them down.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Uh. Rich, You know my style of radio. I am
old school. I never forgive and I never forget. Oh.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
I have a lot that I'm going to be sharing
with all of you over the course of the next
few days till January two and the welcoming in of
the new year. Let's go to Tony, who's calling from
white planes? Your turn to be heard at w or tone?
Speaker 6 (26:14):
Yeah, Hi, Curtis. Curtis the biggest backstare row is Dominic Carter.
He's like Salasso. He kept saying from day one he
can't win, he can't win, telling the drop out every day.
You know, you know why he wanted you to lose,
because he said so. He didn't want to prove himself wrong.
As a matter of fact, I even called up and
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I don't know if you remember, you were on the
air and I said, if Curtis wins, will you will
you apologize to Curtis? And you said no, he don't
have to apologize. But he kept saying from day one
that you can't win, you got to drop out. He's
the reason why we've got Zoran. And then then he
gets down the air and he lies and he says
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that if you dropped out, that Cromo were one who's
like if he I can't believe they even thought of
him being.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
A mayor after it, well, I got to tell you
that point you made, Tony to all of those naysayers
out there who maybe graduated school from social promotion and
need remedial training in mathematics. If you had taken every
vote that I got in this election and it had
gone to Andrew evilized Croomo, he still would have lost.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Curtis, That's exactly what I was going to tell you.
He got on the air and was saying that, like,
if you dropped out, that Clomo would have won with it.
So he's they're assuming that everybody that voted for you
would turned around and vote for Clomo. That was idiot.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Well it goes beyond that, Tony. It goes to the
fact that when Cromo was first running on March first
of twenty twenty four, whether it was Dominic Carter or
whether it was Tessio, said Rosenberg told they were saying, Curtis,
why you're knocking yourself out. There's gonna be a coronation.
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They all predicted that Cuomo would win in a runaway
victory in the Democratic primary, and they all act as
if they are savants, like they know everything. They know
nothing about nothing. To be honest, they're not out in
the streets. They didn't watch the Zoronistas in all five boroughs,
in all the neighborhoods like I did, because I'm in
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all the three hundred and fifty neighborhoods. I'm in every
subway station, on every subway line. I could see the energy,
I could see the passion. There was nothing for Cuomo,
and yet they pretended as if he would suddenly be victorious.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
How did that work out? Uh? How come you didn't
all move away? How you after moment I'm selling? Oh, yeah, yeah,
they're all here. They're in.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
What my grandfather Fidelo Bianchino used to say from about
the Italy Kiakia Pinocchio's let's go if we can. To Lily,
who was calling from Queen's your turn to be heard
here at WR.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Lily, Hi, Curtis, you made my Christmas gift, Curtis, and
I'll never put on ABC. Oh. I'd loved that for years,
but with what they did to you and Cindy Adams especially,
forget it, Curtis client issue something. I bought that Tony
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Bennett book and Howard Beach at your campaign office, and
I wonder if you got it.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
I got it. I got it. They were great to
Howard Beach.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
I mean it was right up in fact, was right
up from Newpark Peacheria. I love Newpark Pecheria. That's why
I had my first slice of peacha. Also in nineteen
fifty nine, when visiting my aunt Mary and uncle Steven,
cousin Butchie.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
And Joey g the chief from Howard Each nineteen fifty nine,
my first life of pizza was said New Park Pizzeria,
and I've been going there ever since. Don't worry about it, Lily.
You don't need to.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Listen to WABC. They've lost so many listeners. They're down
in the ratings. Just keep it right here to seven
to ten, Worr. It's your new home away from home.
Like for me, it's part of my radio listening familia.
Now this is my family. WABC stabbed me in the back,
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like they did all the listeners. Don't listen to them.
Keep it right here at seven to ten WOR.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
The Beret is back Curtis leewa guest host The Mark
Simone Show on seven ten woo.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
And you don't want to go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
He unexpected dropping out of the least Stephonic who would
have been a great governor here in the state of
New York. And nobody knows that situation better than yours, truly. Nope,
And I'll tell you why Aleis Stephonic was my biggest
supporter during this mayoral campaign. She was loyal with the
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capital l She never vacillated, and she is a woman
of great character. And more importantly, in the two debates
that I had and running for mayor, if I had
to throw a lifeline at somebody that say I need
you to substitute.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
For me, I would have wanted at least Stephonic up there.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
She has eviscerated the presidents of Ivy League universities. She
eviscerated Andrew evilized Cuomo up on the hell in Congress,
she eviscerated Kathy Grifter Hockel, who couldn't even remember who
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the migrant killers were. Of all the victims in New
York State, including Dobrina Kwam, who I will eulogize in
the next hour because from here Wor I will be
heading out to the f train platform in Coney Island.
We're on this date a year ago, at seven point
thirty in the morning, this monster set her on fire
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like a human torch. The cops ran up and down
on the platform like the Keystone Cops.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
People were filming it so it could be live at five.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Nobody helped this homeless woman from Tom's Riven, New Jersey.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
It's quite a story. I am the Guardian Angels. We
will not forget. Unfortunately so many people did.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
And I remember that moment when Congressman Elise Stefanic was
cross examining Kathy Hoklunn said, tell me the.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Name of the person who set Debrin and Kuam on fire.
She didn't know, like she didn't know any of.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
The other migrant names. You're not gonna I want to
miss this, ladies and gentlemen, because everyone is in shock
that Elis Stephonic is no longer running to become governor
or the state of New York to save us. And
there is a reason, and I trace it to President
Donald Trump. Oh yeah, oh yeah, threw her right under
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the bus, and that woman was not going to take it.
Are you going anywhere? Keep it right here at seventen Wor.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Now the Red Beret has returned to radio. Curtis leewa
guest host the Mark Simone Show on sevent tenor.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Doesn't get any better than this, beyond this iconic radio
station where the call letters the only place I know
of in America, and I've been on most stations from
time to time.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
It's only three letters wo r.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
And I remember the time that I had to carry
all the items from Bob Grant to King of Talk
Radio from the studios of WABC, where he had been
fired by Bob Iger of Disney. When Disney owned WABC
and other talk radio stations, why would they be in
the talk radio business.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
It's controversial, but they were.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
And nobody would help Bob Grant, who had helped so
many people at WABC. Nobody could touch Bob Grant, and
so I said, I'll bring it over, and I took
some of the hand trucks. I made trips back and
forth from WABC, which was the seventeenth floor to two
Penn Plaza right by Madison Square Garden up to fourteen
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forty Broadway.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
And everybody was amazed that I would do that. They say,
you know, if Bob Iger he is about this, he'll
fire you. You know what we're I gave in his direction?
So are you kidding? Are you kidding for this?
Speaker 3 (35:05):
A guy who put us on the map WABC, A
Bob Grinner, by the way, just a little bit of
information in the past. In nineteen seventy seven, Barry Farber
the great Barry Farber, no longer with us, was the
overnight host here at wo R. He had just run
against Bella Abzick for Congress and had lost as a
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Conservative Republican, and then he decided he was going to
run for mayor, as obviously I have twice, and in
nineteen seventy seven he was running against Ed Koch. Mario Como,
by the way, Andrew, I knew your father, Mario. You
know Mario Cmo. He was on the Liberal party line.
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There was Barry Farber on the conservative line, and Roy Goodman,
who was the Republican state Senator of the Upper east Side,
the heir to the exit Lacks fortune. He was a
Rockefeller Liberal Republican. They had twelve debates. Gabe Pressman was
the moderated twelve debates, and it was a catch who won.
(36:13):
I think Barry Farber got four percent and Roy Goodman
got about four percent. It was Koch and Mario Ocomo
who split the rest of the votes. But it was
a great race to follow. So Barry Farber had left.
Bob Grant was the overnight host at war that I
listened to, and then later on he was to return
(36:35):
to WOR as I had mentioned when being fired by
Bob Igar of Disney, and I had a substitute for
him for the first month. Uh, those fax machines didn't stop,
you know, it was like NonStop back then.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
The fax machine would run, you, Trader, why you there?
Bob Grant is your mentor. You wouldn't be on tour
Cradio WABC without him. I said, exactly right, but this
is the business we have chosen.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
And if I got fired, Bob Grant would say, why,
I hope he lands on his feet, and I knew
he would. Those fax machines kept running twenty four seven,
three six y five for like three straight weeks with
the most vile invectives that people could scratch out and
write out. And then of course there was Barry Gray
(37:30):
mid mornings. But I remember the personal situation involving Barry Gray,
who was missed the Second Amendment. Tough guy, but also
he was the leader of those that wanted to remove
the horse drawn carriages from Central Park, which I and
my wife Nancy were in favor of, and so many others.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
He was ahead of his time. On the morning.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
Of June nineteenth, nineteen ninety two, on my way to
WABC to do the morning show Angels and the Morning
with my wife at the time, Lisa, now Lisa Ever's
over at Channel five. I was shot five times with
hollow point bullets on the orders of John Gotty Senior
to John Gotti Junior and the Gambino crime family. The
guy Michael Ianatti was the guy who shot me five times.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
He did twenty years for that.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
But the interesting thing is, since I was being rushed
to Bellevue Hospital, they didn't know if I would live
or die. Lisa was on her way there, and my
producer at that time, Mike Thompson, took over the show.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
And the first person to call.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
In that morning was Barry Gray, who had just finished
the overnight, said w Orr, concerned about what had happened
to me. Weeks later, when I came back on the air,
the first caller into the show.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Was Arry Gray.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
I mean, these are the men and in some cases
women like had men. Arlene Francis Lynn Samuels over at WABC.
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Eclectic as she was.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
They paved the way for all of us in talk radio,
and I will always honor that tradition because without them,
there would be no talk radio as we know. It
now or podcasts or all the other affiliated ways that
you can get your news, your information, your talk.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
And remember, above any and all things, this is entertainment
because if it's not entertaining, you're not going to be listening.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
I guarantee. But this is my homage to Wor because
I've listened to wr In fact, does anybody know is he?
Where's Eric Adams today? What country is he in? His
tax payers expense? A man who got windined in pocket line,
the Swagerman with No Plan. There was a crooked mayor
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many years ago. Bob Hope actually played him in the movie.
You should get that movie. It's absolutely incredible. Bob Hope
did a magnificent job playing the Swagerman with No Plan.
At that time with the Flappers during the time of
Speakeasy's Jimmy Walker, he had, like Eric Adams, about fifty
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customized suits, and he had ladies galore. And FDR was
the governor who wanted to run for president on the
Democratic line, and he knew he had a problem because
Jimmy Walker was so hopelessly corrupt with the guidance of
Tammany Hall. And so he tells Jimmy Walker, you know
(40:36):
I'm going to have to use the power of the
governorship and fire you, which a governor can do. Governor
can fire the mayor, and Jimmy Walker understanding that his
days were numbered and that FDR needed to get Jimmy
Walker out of here so he could run for president
without having to also explain how that kind of corruption
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could exist while FDR was the governor.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
You know what Jimmy.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Walking did is he he took an ocean liner with
one of his gumadas, one of his many females, went
to Paris, who lived there for about ten years, came
back in the early forties, and you know what his
first job back was a talk show host here at WR.
You see, when you listen to me, you're gonna learn stuff.
(41:23):
You're gonna hear things that you probably wouldn't have heard
from other than March Simone himself, who knows more about
radio than any other person alive. Just to give you
an idea, I sat with March Simon early on in
the campaign, after I had announced for the Republican nomination
with my very dear friend Paul Carlucci aka Johnny Legit
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at Nicolas. For three hours we sat there. They were
gonna give me advice politically. We spoke for two and
a half hours about radio. That's all we talked about.
That's the love that Marc Simone has for radio. Paul Carlucci,
who at the time was the publisher of The New
York Post, now actually he had already left that position,
he had retired, and yours truly imagine two and a
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half hours all we talked about was radio. All we
talked to because that when you love radio, like so
many of you do, who listen to it morning, noon
and night, you understand what's good talk radio, and you
understand what's bad talk radio. I need you all to
do me a favor, though, when I run into you
in the streets, which I do quite often, so many
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people in so many places, do not, Please, do not treat.
Speaker 4 (42:31):
Me like a gabon.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
Do not tell me, oh, I voted for you, because
so far since the end of the campaign and the
announcement of the results that Zarroon Mandami would be sworn
in as mayor on January first of this year, everybody
comes up to me and says, I voted for you,
and then, being the Weisenheimer than I am, I do
a pivot in shift and I say, oh really, Oh yeah,
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my family voted for you too. Where you from I'm
from Scarsdale.
Speaker 4 (43:00):
I'd to do that. He couldn't vote for mayor.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
So don't tell me you voted for me, because I
will have to end up embarrassing you sometimes in front
of family and friends, because you're trying to pull my
chain and chew my shorts.
Speaker 4 (43:17):
Don't do that.
Speaker 3 (43:18):
If I had gotten every vote that people claimed that
they had cast on my behalf, I would have been
the mayor of the City of New York. So please, now,
let's get to the other key subject today. Give you
a little background information on what was a terrible loss
for the Republican Party nationally, the Republican Party in the
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state of New York, and the Republican Party in the
City of New York, where we are extraordinarily weak. It says,
if we had been exposed to kryptonite by mostly Republicans,
never mind the Democrats, by mostly Republicans, they go out
of their way to damage the brand and to damage
their candidates.
Speaker 4 (44:03):
You certainly saw that with me. Oh, vote for Aslee
was a vote for Zoran. Vote for Cromo.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
Yeah, Cromo, who did that President Donald Trump, who did that?
Elon Musk, who did that? The billionaires, the masters of
the universe spent twenty million dollars doing that in the
final weeks of the campaign. But put me aside. We
had a star in the Republican Party who could touch
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at least Stephanic. Do you not remember when she was
cross examining the presidents of the Ivy League schools?
Speaker 4 (44:44):
Do you not remember?
Speaker 8 (44:46):
You know?
Speaker 3 (44:47):
It was two years ago, December, two years ago, one
by one.
Speaker 4 (44:53):
First there was the Harvard president, Claudine Gay. She knocked
her out. Ding Gay resigned after being crush examined by
Elis Stefanic. Number two was Elizabeth Magill University of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
Knocked her out. She resigned right after that interrogation by
Elis Stephonic.
Speaker 4 (45:17):
The only one who suffered a TKO at the hands
of Elis Stephonic was Sally Cornbluff of MIT. She somehow
held on. And what was it about? It was simple.
Speaker 3 (45:31):
All that Elis Stephonic asked them is would you call
would you suggest that calling for genocide of Jews violated
the code of conduct at your university? And they all
did the chicken dance and said, well, depends.
Speaker 4 (45:51):
On whether you're this was amazing.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
It depends on whether you're speech crossed into action. After that,
they were dead on arrival.
Speaker 4 (46:07):
But that was the first of many cross examinations to.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
Come from one everyone realized was the star of the
Republican Party. Tough, smart, young, think she's a millennial, who
think she's like forty or forty one, gave up a
prestigious position as the US ambassador to the United Nations.
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She would have been a clone of Jeane Kirkpatrick.
Speaker 4 (46:38):
Oh, we have a lot to talk about, because there
were so many other situations that were taking place behind
the scenes that none of you are aware of.
Speaker 3 (46:46):
Why oh, why you saying to yourself. Would at least
stephonic have dropped out on this late Friday in an
election she had a real chance to win and really
the only person who could have totally turned this state around.
Speaker 4 (47:01):
They're not going anywhere. You're going to keep it right
here on the dial.
Speaker 3 (47:04):
If you're just discovering seven to ten WOORR, this is
your place to be. Forget WABC always bashing Curtis and
by the way, sinking in the ratings. Nobody giving them
the kind of attention that they were used to. But
thank you iHeart, thank you Tom Cuddy, thank you WR
(47:25):
for extending me this microphone till January second, because I
am going to be blazing and I'm gonna be glazing
some and I think is he most people would want
to be glazed by Curtis Sleewer. They would not want
to be put on blast, as you've heard some of
the people earlier today right here on your New Place
(47:47):
to Be seven ten wor the.
Speaker 1 (47:50):
Pulse of New York Now on the Voice of New
York Curtis Sleewald, guess hos for Marx them on seven
ten double.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
At the station that I listened to now seven ten wooh.
You don't need to be over at WABC. Don't waste
your time, just keep it right here. In fact, it's
soon your turn to be heard in this hour. If
you call eight hundred three two one zero seven ten,
that's eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten.
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We're talking about Alista Phonic, star of the Republican Party,
dropping out unexpected to sum on Friday, not to me.
She was my most loyal supporter during the mayoral campaign.
I can remember we were at the Union League Club.
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Was in the summer and she was speaking to a
group of people and she called me up from the
audience and she gave me the microphone. Midway through her speech,
she said, this is the guy that I'm supporting for
Maya Curtis Lee and nobody else. And don't ever, don't
ever say he should be dropping out. He's the Republican candidate.
I said to elist, you really want to give me
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the microphone, You may never get it back. She said,
go for it. She remained loyal. She was a woman,
a character, and you may have remembered in September twenty
twenty four the performance up on the Hill when she
eviscerated Andrew evilized Cromo at that Coronavirus Committee hearing in
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which she said, you will never be elected to anything
ever again. And boy, has she been so right on that.
And let's not forget all the other appearances she made
at the behest of the Republican Party for a very
weak Speaker of the House Johnson, who is having problems
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with female members. That's become quite apparent. And she gave
up the prize. She was announced to be our next
UN Ambassador United States UN Ambassador Boy Shades of Jeane Kirkpatrick,
shades of Adleist Stevenson. The cameras would have been there
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every time it would have been indicated that at least
Aphonic in the General Assembly or before the Security Council
was speaking on behalf of our nation. But because she
is the ultimate team player, she gave up that position
so she could come back and be the deciding vote
for President Donald Trump's legislation. He needed that vote because
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the margin in the House was so slim, and it
was anticipated that that favor would be returned to her
at some point.
Speaker 4 (50:49):
And then when she announced that she was running for
the governorship on the Republican line, so many Republicans, myself included,
was so happy.
Speaker 3 (50:58):
You got a superstar here. Fundraising machine. She had twelve
million dollars that she had already raised. And the President
Donald Trump realized that he had to clear out any
competition in a primary, so he convinced Congressman Mike Lawler
to bow out, and he did so, and he cleared
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the field. But then things began to go arrived. I'll
never forget this state for me. It was a day
in infamy. November twenty one.
Speaker 4 (51:29):
Zoran Mandami has been invited to come to the White House.
Four months.
Speaker 3 (51:34):
President Donald Trump had been calling him the Kami. Mandami
had cast all kinds of aspersions, talked about how he
would move in, he would run the city of New York.
He would not give him an opportunity. In fact, he
was with whole federal funds. If the voters elected Joran Mondami,
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that was a mistake because that just strengthened Jorhan Mandami
because it was now David versus Kala Zoron MONDAMMI didn't
have to campaign against Eric Adams, didn't have to campaign
against Andrew Cuomo, didn't have to campaign against me. He
could campaign against Donald Trump, who couldn't keep himself out
of the race.
Speaker 4 (52:14):
And then all of a sudden, it's love fest at
the White House. It was sort of like Barney talk.
I love you, you love me.
Speaker 3 (52:21):
I tell you all the times that I watched Barney
that cartoon with my sons growing up. I wanted to
pull a forty four magnum mountain blow Barney away on
the TV. I hated Barney with a passion, and there
it was Barney talk. Oh, Zorn, you want to call
me a fascist, go ahead, You're gonna be a great mayor.
Speaker 4 (52:39):
In fact, you may be the best mayor ever.
Speaker 3 (52:41):
And then, all of a sudden, towards the end of
the one hour sit down the love fest that President
Donald Trump had doing Barney Talk with Johan Mondami, a
reporter asked, mister President, do you agree with Congresswoman Elistefanik
who calls Zorhan I'm the ag hottest? In fact, they
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think her nickname was the Gehti souran Oran?
Speaker 4 (53:06):
Does she hot?
Speaker 3 (53:08):
And he could have sidestep that, he did not. He's
very good at side stepping questions and ignoring questions, but no, no,
on this one. He threw at least the fonic under
the bus. He goes, I disagree with her. In fact,
he'll probably turn out to be the greatest mayor of
New York City. He's a very reasonable guy. Hey, you
want to call me fascist again, go ahead, Zorn, throw
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it right under the bus. Okay, that was bad, but
the worst was just about ten days ago. He was
asked at the White House, you know, your friend Ruce Blakeman,
who just won reelection as a Nassau County executive as
a Republican, says he wants to run for the Republican nomination.
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What do you make of it? Oh, I like Elise,
I like Bruce Blakeman. He never bothered to try to
convince Bruce Blakeman not to run. There's no doubt that's
why Alis Stefani dropped out. Could you have been any
more loyal and a team player than Elise Stephonic The
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answer is no. In fact, you know what the campaign
would have been if she went into the primary. I
guarantee you somewhere along the line, a vote for Elise
Staphonic is a vote for Kathy Hocal, vote for Bruce Blakeman.
I guarantee you that. And so now she'll serve out
her term in the House. She will not run for reelection.
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She s dropped out. So although she wasn't asked to
drop out, wasn't that pretty.
Speaker 4 (54:44):
Much the same thing? Come on, ladies and gentlemen, I
know how many of you are.
Speaker 3 (54:47):
Come on, we can't say anything bad about President Donald Trump.
This was done on purpose, and the Republican Party, which
is hurting in New York State, is hurting now even more,
and boy has lost a real star in the Republican Party.
Elise Stefanic, when we return your phone calls one eight
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hundred and three to two one zero, seven ten, and
your place to be from now on as it is
mine seven ten WR.
Speaker 1 (55:19):
The Voice that fights for New York Literally Curtis leewa
guest HOS for Mark Simone on sevent ten WOR.
Speaker 3 (55:30):
All right, let's make sure h Wow, those phone lines
are blazing. He is he, But don't be glazing. I
mean when you get on, I don't need to be glazed.
Let's just say what is on your mind. That's what
talk radio is all about. And now you have a
friend of your own, WR seven ten. And if you
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listen to anyone else, you don't need to listen to
them anymore. Let's go to Phil, who is calling from Brooklyn.
Your turn to be heard here at WOR seven ten, Phil.
Speaker 9 (56:05):
Great Curtis. There's one part of the story that hasn't
been told yet that a lot of people are very
curious about. And that is why didn't the Conservative Party
give you their nomination for mayor after you had been
loyal to them and had such great relations with them
for decades.
Speaker 3 (56:22):
Well, to be honest with you, I'm not a conservative.
They are purists. To their credit, you have to agree
with them on all their policy positions. As you have stated, Phil,
I got along with them all the time. I went
to the same events. But you know, Rudy Giuliani didn't
run on the conservative line. He wasn't a conservative, at
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least when he was running for mayor of the City
of New York. I've never really been a conservative. I
disagree with them on some subjects, but I respect them.
Let's go if we can to Kevin, who's calling from Putnam?
Speaker 4 (56:57):
Your turn to be heard here at seven wo.
Speaker 10 (57:01):
R oh, Curtis. Uh, we love you. There's no better
way to say that we love you up in Putnam.
I wish we could have voted for you for other things,
but maybe should consider a run for governor. I don't know.
(57:21):
Call me crazy, but no, no.
Speaker 4 (57:24):
No, you're not.
Speaker 3 (57:25):
You're not crazy, Kevin. But I am so upset with
my Republican party and I am a Republican.
Speaker 4 (57:33):
I'm nothing else. Even though you will hear you know
that detractors at my old place of business, WABC, said
that I was working for Johan Mandami, I was being
paid by to throw the election to him.
Speaker 10 (57:50):
I was listening to all of that from w ABC,
and I can tell you the guy you picked out
to be the I won't say it.
Speaker 3 (58:02):
Well, I will see you hesitate, but as you know,
I don't have a filter. It starts with the owner operator,
John Katzmatitis. He gave the signal to attack and undercut
courteously when create the image that Zoron Mandami was somehow
paying me off to deprive Andrew Cmo of an opportunity
(58:22):
to destroy the city of New York like he did
the State of New York. And then naturally sid Rosenberg,
Tessio and Greg Kelly and Dominic Carter, they all follow
because whatever John tells him to do, they do. They're dutiful,
you know, They're like little dancing bears. Whereas when I
worked there, I had an agreement with John was if
I'm wrong, I'm gone. And I broke a lot of
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news there and the station benefited. They went right to
number one. They will no longer be number one because
if I have to, I'll be listening to w or morning,
noon and night wherever I go, and I'm everywhere in
this city. Let's go if we can to Mike, Who's
calling from Queen's your turn to be heard here at
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seven to ten wr Mike.
Speaker 8 (59:07):
Yes, sir, welcome back to the seven Never Ends. I'm
glad to hear you on the aircutter. That's what counts. Listen,
the staphanic thing is making my board boil because I
could read the teelies on the whole thing. We finally
get a star who can beat Hulko, and now she's gone.
And let me tell you something, Pal, one of the
big reasons you lost, in my opinion, is the chickens
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voted for Colonel Sanders, if you know what I mean,
so they can't blame you for everything. And if you
would have withdrawn, then what do you have here? Have pocus?
You either have a Republican party or you don't have
a Republican party. I'd never heard of any Democrats throwing
their elections to get a Republican elected. So anyway, welcome back, kid,
and you're doing a great job, and happy New York
and tell them missus we all said hello too. By night.
Speaker 3 (59:50):
I liked that he called me kid. I'm seventy one
years old. That makes me feel great. That's that's that's
other than substituting for Mark Simon to January tewod, that's
the second best Christmas present. I've gotten so far being
called kid, and it really is a president. This is
such a powerful vehicle, and that again, I want you
(01:00:17):
to understand what's happening here. The Republican Party in New
York City and New York State is being destroyed by Republicans,
not by the Democrats. Republicans put me aside. Obviously, I
can't compare with Elis Stefani. She was the star of
(01:00:39):
all stars. There's nobody out there they could do combat
with her, verbal combat in the ring and survive a
cross examination and interrogation by Elis Stefani. Everybody would agree that.
Look at the three presidents of the Ivy League schools
who went down. Claudia Gay Harvard after that retired Elizabeth
(01:01:04):
Megel of University of Pennsylvania. After her cross examination by Elist,
retired Sally Cornbluff was holding onto the ropes TKO.
Speaker 4 (01:01:15):
The referee said, no, bos no us, it's over. It's over.
Released no more or she would have retired.
Speaker 3 (01:01:22):
She eviscerated andrew evilized Cuomo at the Corona's Virus Committee hearing.
And then remember it was June of this year, she
crossed examined Kathy Hokel on the hill and said, who
are these migrants who are killing citizens in New York State?
Speaker 4 (01:01:43):
Who are these illegal aliens?
Speaker 3 (01:01:44):
Do you know any of them? Uh? Do you know
who that woman was who was turned into a human
torch on January twenty second on that f train in
Coney Island?
Speaker 4 (01:01:59):
Do you know what inn is say? Her name?
Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:02:03):
No, you know who the migrant killer was. They was
being housed that It's Amaritian House shelter in East New York.
I thought they only deal with drug issues, but they were.
They were in it for the money, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (01:02:19):
You know his name, Kathy Hokel, mhm Sebastian Zapeta.
Speaker 3 (01:02:29):
Of Guatemala, that pyromaniac. Oh, I'm gonna you don't want
to go anywhere. I'm gonna give you more.
Speaker 4 (01:02:36):
Details on the how quickly everybody forgets Nobody could step
into the ring with at least Stefani and survive. Nobody
wanted to. They hesitated.
Speaker 3 (01:02:48):
You really think that Bruce Blakeman would have stood up
in a debate against at least Stefanic. Come on, guy
like Bruce, I like some of his policies. If given
the choice to vote between Bruce Blakeman and Kathy Hokele. Obviously,
I'm gonna vote for Bruce.
Speaker 4 (01:03:04):
Blakeman, but I'm not excited like I was with Eli Staphonic,
who also had a lot of young followers. Young you know, millennials,
gen zs. They are the majority of the population.
Speaker 3 (01:03:16):
I hate to tell you baby boomers out there, and
I'm one of you, we are no longer the majority.
Speaker 4 (01:03:20):
We are no longer the majority of the voters. We
are no longer going to be the shot callers. Baby
Boomers may have most of.
Speaker 3 (01:03:27):
The equity and wealth, but that will soon change too.
Bruce Blakeman is not going to be able to attract
younger voters. That's just not his style. It's not what
got him elected the county executive in Nassau County.
Speaker 4 (01:03:48):
And you really think that Kathy Hokele could have stood
on a debate stage and survived the withering cross examination
of Elis Staphonic, Say in a bazooka and what were
Kathy hoklovd a pop gun? In return?
Speaker 3 (01:04:06):
And now we're being deprived of all that. Who did that?
Not the Democrats, the Republicans. It goes right to the
White House itself. Donald Trump flipped the script on at
least Stephonic. You knew he was gonna do that to me.
(01:04:27):
I was not his most loyal maga following at least
the Phonic was uber maga. Could you have been any
more loyal to the president? Any more of a team player?
Stop drinking the kool aid. The problem of a Republican
party is that, depending on what mood the President is
(01:04:51):
in on any given day, he will side against the
Republican candidates.
Speaker 4 (01:04:57):
You don't cross the line. You don't cross the line,
and you.
Speaker 3 (01:05:03):
Don't listen to any other stations other than seven to
ten wor now.
Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
More with New York's iconics straight shooter Curtis Leewah guest
hosting from Mark Simone on sevent ten WOOR.
Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
I can assure you, ladies and gentlemen, this is live
in local. There's nothing in these past two hours there's
been pre recorded.
Speaker 4 (01:05:27):
I don't do that kind of radio.
Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
No does Mark Simon, who I'm substituting for till January
tewod and you know tomorrow, I think I gotta delve
into this. The new WWE Worldwide Wrestling Exhibition like the
old ww FA. Vince Mcmahonsenior and Bruno Sammartino that I
(01:05:51):
grew up with Turning Point USA and the annual gathering
in Phoenix. I know most of the players who appeared.
Boy is anything more contrived nowadays it's like the old WWF,
like the WWE Come on. I'll bring it down for
you tomorrow. But right now I'm not going to be
(01:06:13):
hanging out with influences or insiders, or billionaires.
Speaker 4 (01:06:18):
Or the masters of the universe. I never do.
Speaker 3 (01:06:21):
I'll be heading out to Coney Island with the Guardian
Angels to commemorate and memorialize the most horrific killing that
ever has occurred in the subway system.
Speaker 4 (01:06:33):
And that says a lot. Say her name.
Speaker 3 (01:06:37):
How come nobody in the city is saying her name,
DeBie Kwam To bring a Kwam from Tom's River who
had a great growing up period, which I'm going to
get into tomorrow. Things you didn't know about her, And
you say to yourself, somebody who suffered a mental health
lapse and ended up being on a f train, homeless,
(01:07:03):
suffering emotional setbacks and set on fire by a monster,
A monster migrant from Guatemala, a pyromaniac boy the city
officials here, Eric Adams, a swaggerman with no plan, Jessica Tish,
the rest Governor, Kathy Hoko. They don't even they don't
even want to.
Speaker 4 (01:07:23):
Mention the name that we've seen the woman in the
CTA in Chicago set on fire. They keep talking about
that story, and rightfully so. The man was set on fire,
the homeless man in Times Square, in the subway station,
he was reunited with his long lost son. That's a great.
Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
Story, and we keep talking the moment that occurred. He
couldn't close that story fast enough. It is a fascinating story.
And I and the Guardian Angels we honored Debrina Kwam
by going out and helping the homeless and the emotionally
disturbed every day, those lost souls in the subways and streets.
(01:08:00):
I can't wait to be back with all of you
tomorrow at my favorite radio station, and it should be
yours now sevent ten wor
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