January 2, 2026 • 41 mins
Curtis Sliwa filled in for Mark Simone and shared his experience from attending Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration at City Hall in New York City yesterday. He gave listeners an inside look at the atmosphere and key moments from the event. Additionally, Curtis discussed the recent increase in MTA subway fares, which affects New Yorkers and commuters throughout the Tri-State Area who rely on the subway system. Curtis takes your calls on Mayor Mamdani's inauguration, the MTA raising fares, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now the guardian Angel of Top Radio is here. Curtis
Leewah guest host the Mark Simone Show on seven ten.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Woar well, well this is it last time around that
I'll be substituting here for Mark Simon.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
He's back on Monday the fifth. But every time I
come here, I meet alumni from where I used to
be WABC. Is he the board up here crash so
many others who fled like refugees from a station that
has become synonymous now with always blaming Curtis for Zorroonmandami
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being the mayor and always bashing Curtis. But anyway, so
is he patronizes me this morning? Oh don't don't do
that to me, please, A very busy New Year's Eve,
very busy New Year's dam. I'm going to get into
it momentarily, by the way, you want to make a
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New Year's what a promise elected officials at the MTA
money taking agency, the most inept of the many state
agencies in New York. How about cleaning the subway cars,
the number two, three, and number one that are so
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thick with flotsam and jetsam dirt that it was shameful
that I had to explain to tourists who were here
in New York City why we can't clean our subway cars.
I mean filthy dirty. Oh no, but you know our
business here is just to raise the fair and take
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more money and provide no service. That's number one, number
two our New Year's resolution from the Sliwa family, we
posted it. You look at all my social network and
just go to act Curtis Lee, it's all there. And
Nancy and I said we want for New Years to
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be a time we're all stray and shelter animals will
have a loving home. And there were people who attacked
us for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, haters, man, they hate
animals again. Mahatma Gandhi said, a society that does not
take care of its animals does not take care of
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its people. How many homeless and emotionally disturbed persons that
I see today on the way to the studios of
wo or more that I could count on my fingers
and toes. Let that be said, And then the hawk
is talking out there. It's cold. I want to give
a shout out to the Guardian Angels because they were
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at Coney Island yesterday for the annual polar Bear plunge.
Thousands on the beach who went running in to the surf,
some of them suffering from exposure. But hey, they were
out there. I gotta tell you that they were not
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talking politics. They were saying, the hawk is talking. It
is cold out here, and yet they made the annual plunge. Meantime,
we might as well play from all the sad sack
reports of the inauguration yesterday at City Hall of Zorhan.
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You know, ri Em, it's the end of the world
as we know it. Oh, it's over, My god. How
many months of a campaign did we have where Zorhan
was out there every day, every day? Right, He whopped
Cuomo in the primary, he beat me in Cuomo in
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the general election. And yet people were shocked because all
of a sudden he gave a speech after he took
the oath on a Quran. Oh that's it, at the
end of the world. We'll get into that momentarily. Some
of my friends were like, freaking out, a Koran. You
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know what that means, Curtis, Well, what does that mean?
Tell me, Well, let's get to what he actually said.
He said, I was elected as a democratic socialist and
I will govern as a democratic socialist. Shocking right. He
said that every step of the way, all through the campaign,
were you not listening? Were you not listening? Well, let's
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face it, most New Yorkers have no idea what a
communist is a socialist. If I took one hundred people
put them up along the wall, they have no idea.
A socialist is not a communist. Okay, It's almost like
I have to take everybody to school. And then naturally
when Bernie the out the Coca Sanders graduate of Madison
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High School not far away sitting there, shiver me, Timbers,
was Chuck E Chees, Schumer, schmuck, the Putts who got
up halfway and left. He went to Madison High School.
I can run down a whole litany of people went
to Madison High School. What Bernie Brooklyn boy went to
Brooklyn College. You know the rest of the story. So
he swears him in on the frigid steps of city Hall,
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and then the crowd start screaming tax, the ridge tax,
the ridge tax, the ridge. Isn't that what Zaran said
all dren the campaign and said, he said, I don't
even believe there should be billionaires. Are you forgetting that?
People elected this guy on three issues, freeze the rent
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city buses, for free universal childcare, all right, and he
engine all of them yesterday. Now. Meantime, while everybody was
determining that this is it, it's over, people were like
getting in touch with me. And see, wait a second,
I'm reading the New York Post. Here it says that
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you made a surprise appearance at Mandami's inaugural block party.
That's right, because I wasn't invited with the elites at
city Hall. I certainly wasn't invited like Eric Adams, who
one moment people may boom me. I don't know if
they want to be there. Oh god, what a crook.
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The best thing about the dropping of the ball, I mean,
the absolute best thing was the way Andy Cohen went
off on him with Anderson there Anderson Cooper and just said,
get out of here, you cook, your corrupt, You're horrible.
I mean, he just went off. I thought we could
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revive a game, you know, instead of the Wheel of
Fortune you or by merv Griffin with Pat Sajack and
Vana White. I think came about in seventy five, although
I think the first host, correct me if I'm wrong,
was Chuck woolry. I think could be wrong. I didn't
ask for you, is he man? Just stop patronizing me,
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do me a favor? Huh? That really bothers me. And
we could call it the wheel of corruption. City Hall
for sale under Eric Adams as he left twenty nine
indictments right either members of his administration, top aids, allies, donors,
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including himself, and he's in moaning and going on and
do nothing wrong. Well, you know, I don't generally like
Andy Cohen. Obviously he had been bending his elbow, he
was half in the bag. But I give him the applause.
Thank god. That is the best thing getting rid of
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the crook Eric Adams. And by the way, I warned
everybody when I ran against him at twenty twenty one,
is he You were there, You remember at the time
I said, this guy's a crook and this guy is
corrupt and we will have chaos. Was that wrong? They
had a survey on his way out. It said zero
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percent of all those surveyed said he did nothing good.
I would give him, on one credit, the best night
light mayor we've ever had since Jimmy Walker, because that's
all he would do is go to a nearby club
to the break of dawn. It didn't matter what burrow
until four in the morning. Him and Jimmy Walker had that.
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By the way, if you're watching any movies, you watch
the Bob Hope movie about the other corrupt mayor Jimmy Walker.
Really good performance. And that's the white version of this
swaggerman with no plan Eric Adams. Ooofa. That made me
feel good. But then all of these people say, how
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come you went? How come you stood in line with
all the Zorinistas. Because I don't just base what I
say on what I hear in the news or I
see on TV or I scrolled to. I like to
be there in person. And so I came out of
the subway and I was online with all the Zorinistas. Yea,
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the people who elected Mandami Meyer, not the elites at
city Hall. And I waited my turn to get in
and watch. I was online at twelve. Didn't get into that.
What they called that, I guess they said it was
going to be a block party. There was no no
real party, poorly organized. I didn't get in till two thirty,
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that's how long the lines were. And oh boy, people
were saying, how come. All these Zorinistas were hide fiving
you because they under stud I'm standing out there with
all them, you know, like a real person, not up
in the suites in the streets like I always am,
subways in streets and having a lot of conversations all
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city and State. Was that they can believe it, big
article on the Wall Street Journal, Q and A with me.
You know at the end of the year, if you
get a chance, you gotta read these really good But
the main thing is I was saying to h those
who hates or On and a lot of my fellow
Republicans who are attacking. In fact, this was some of
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the really crazy stuff Curtis to disease are On and
his wife rom the night before. You saw how they
went down into that subway that's underneath City Hall, the
first subway ever created in a vast subway system. That
is really an architect who will wonder he's got the
terror courtA Tiles brash shand of Lee is to say,
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distinctly European appearance. I actually him credit. Remember the other
day I said, Wow, if I had been lucky enough
to been elected mayor, I would have never thought of that. Good, good, idea.
So that's where he had his original swearing in. Once
the ball dropped in Times Square. Do you know what's
happened since people come up to me and they say, oh, man,
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you know he got sworn in on the Koran. I said, yeah,
he's a Muslim. Did you you find that surprising? He
said that every day of the way. I think he
visited every mosque in the five boroughs. Surprise, surprise. Yeah.
But by him being sworn in down in that subway tunnel,
it was a secret message to Hamas that I got
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your back, that I support you. I said, you really
believe that crap? Oh yeah, yeah, it's all subliminal. It's messaging.
I said's just a great location, a great venue. Oh no, no,
you don't. You don't understand chritis. I said, well, let
me get back to this whole like of being sworn
in on a Qur'an. I said, you realize that we've
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had presidents who are not sworn in on a Bible.
In fact, they weren't sworn on any religious book. What
I remembered, you folks out there can correct me wrong
if I'm wrong, because you know I will admit when
I'm wrong. I will fess up when I mess up,
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and feel free to do so, because that's really what
talk radio is. It's your turn to be heard. Eight
hundred three two one zero seven ten eight hundred three
two one zero seventy ten. If I remember from my
history lessons, Thomas Jefferson ever got sworn in as president
on a Bible. The guy who followed them, John Quincy Adams,
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he believed separation of church in state. He got sworn
in on a book of laws. He refused to be
sworn in on a Bible. Franklin Pierce, another president of laws.
I'm not being sworn in on the Bible. And Calvin Coolidge,
one of our worst presidents, was a Puritan, and he said,
I'm not being sworn in on a Bible. Yeah. But
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Curticiz's different. He was sworn in on a Koran. He's
a Muslim, and anybody voting for him not realize he
was a Musclim. Yeah, yeah, yeah, But Curtage, this is
not right. I said, excuse me, Do I not remember
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a visit that Johann Mandami took to the White House?
You remember that visit? Right? Oh? Man? Now, Cami Mandamie,
I can't wait to take all the money from the city.
You can't be electing this guy, this communist, right, Remember
it wasn't Trump saying that like every day, and then
all of a sudden, I love fest. A love fest
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was like Barney, I love you, you love me. Oh,
we're gonna be helping him. We agree on a lot
more than I thought. I think he'll do a great job.
I'd be comfortable living in New York City with Mondamie
is Maya who said that Donald Trump. Oh, they're the best,
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the best. He's gonna be fine. Hey, Zoon, you wanna
call me a fascist, don't worry, call me a fascist.
We got played ladies and gentlemen. And so when I
turned to Maga people and Republicans, I say, you know,
the president is embracing By the way, did the President
put out a tweet on truth social condemning Joran Mondamie's
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swearing in by burning the out the Coca Sanders with
AOC they did? He No, he's embraced the guy. Oh no, no, no,
But there's a strategy here, Curtis. You gotta understand that
he's gonna let Zoron let his guard down. He doesn't
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really mean it. What do you mean he doesn't really
mean it. He said it before the world. Oh you'll
see Curtis, Yeah, yeah, yeah, you you you gets like
you keep believing that, all right, you keep believing that
the President said on November twenty first, in the White House,
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with zor unerstanding right there, the better he does, the
happier I am. And by that, by the way, hours
before that, the House of Representatives had passed a resolution
denouncing the horrors of socialism. All the Republicans that you
hear from here at WOR and other stations, and eighty
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six Democrats. So you figured that zarn MONDAMMI was gonna
catch a verbal beat down, and in fact it was
a love fest. So ladies and gentlemen, and don't get
on my case. This is what you do to respect
the process, the change of one party to another party,
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one political ideology to another political ideology. That's what our
American democracy is about. So I didn't get invited to
the inauguration. I just showed up to the block party
so I could share some of my experiences with all
of you and see for myself. Because I challenge authority.
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I don't care if it's Trump Zorhan, Democrats, business leaders,
cultural leaders. I don't just repeat and regurgitate whatever I
hear from the people I like. I challenge authority, and
there's nobody out there who's gonna give you a better
analysis of what took place yesterday in the freezing cold.
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And by the way, really didn't matter because most of
the zoronista's young millennials gen zas. If they had been older,
oh boy, it would have been ice cube. Hell. Our
numbers one eight hundred and three to one zero seventy ten.
That's one eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
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While online, I was alerting all these Zorinistas that artificial
intelligence is coming for you. We're gonna talk about that later.
I'm gonna do my tribute to Bernard McGirt that I
used to do every year at WABC that they never do.
I mean, that was a radio guy. And we're gonna
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talk about the crime of the century. Up next, Bitcoin cryptocurrency.
I call it crime coin and the biggest Ponzi scheme
that has ever existed in American history. And some of
you are being lured into it because Trump, who said
it was bitcrime at one time, then got all that
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money from the crypto monsters, and now he's the number
one advocate of crime coin one eight hundred three two
one zero sevent.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Ten Street Smart Straight Talk Curtis leewa guest host for
Mark Simone on sevent ten woor.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
But I tell you, is he stopped glazing me. Huh.
Don't patronize me, huh. Now I'm gonna teach everybody something
about crime coin aka bitcoin, the biggest Ponzi scheme ever,
Bernie Madoff, he can't touch this anyway. The other night,
before New Year's Eve, before the ball dropped, they're running
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across some of these young millennials. You know, they're all
into bigcoin. You know they're financial advisors. So let me
ask you a question. Who created crime coin aka bitcoin?
I don't know. Sato Shi Nakamoto, Hi Hi hi Ho
Shi na Kamoto. I didn't know that. You know, nobody
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ever saw this guy. They claim he created this electronic
care system mind like one million bitcoin, and then all
of a sudden, nobody hears from them, nobody sees them,
And in twenty eleven, three years later, he goes, I
moved on to other things. Ha moved on to other things.
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That's a racket. So he created this bitcoin and first
blockchain database that pave the way for cryptocurrency and what
I call a Ponzi scheme. And right away the FBI
and Interpol were warning us that organize international crime is
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gonna lawn the money through bitcoin and beware this wallet exploitation.
And so I'm talking to these folks and yeah, yeah,
but it's the coming way. Man. You can make a
lot of money. Ponzi schemes make a lot of money too.
Remember Bernie Madoff and Sam Blake Minfried. Remember the guy
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who looked like he fell out of his bunk, that
FTX boy who is in prison, but no doubt he's
probably gonna try to seek a pardon like the guy
who funded him into business originally. And this is what's
got my blood boiling with Donald Trump now, who at
first used to call bitcoin crin coin, used to say
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it was a scam, it was a Ponzi scheme, And
all of a sudden, he has become the first crypto president.
He's ended regulations, he launched a trump Coin, He's linking
crypto to the stock market world, liberty financial Oh boy, well,
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all this money borrowing for crypto and then there'll be
a crash and then and everybody will say that's what happens.
It's a gamble on Wall Street. No, no, no is
a difference. It was this guy Jao who actually put
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Sam Bankman Freed into business at FTX. He's the richest
man in crypto. He admitted to a federal government that
he did money laundering that allowed terrorists and other criminals
to move money on finance. They sent him to jail,
and guess who pardoned him, Donald Trump, the crypto president
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who owns his own crypto empire with his family. And
it's now called what is that, liberty, liberty world, liberty,
financial outrage. Oh you can't say that, Yes, I can
come on. Any of you out there, know this is
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a Ponzi scheme. People are gonna be lord in now
that the president and his family are all involved, and
you know they're giving their sanctifying it, and they're gonna
be investing money, and then the crypto criminals are gonna
rip them off. In fact, they're gonna use what they
call a wrench attack. The thief enters your house or
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your place of business. It's like being hitting ahead with
a wrench until you give up the password. You know
what that is? You have any ideas? He study up
on it, because your generation is getting all geeked up,
you know. Oh yeah, Bitcoin douche coin. Yeah, so these steams,
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many of them degenerate gamblers because they're young, and you know,
they're on FANDU and they're gambling away money they don't have.
There's still millions from bitcoin users. They empty their crypto wallets,
they under the money and then they laugh about it.
But are you being told about that? Ladies and gentlemen,
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do you ask about that? Do you challenge authority? Do
you say, why is the most powerful man in the world,
the President of the United States and his family, getting
involved in his business that appears to be by anyone
looking at it, a Ponzi scheme. Oh but you can't
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say that, Yes I can. I'm an American citizen. I
have a right to challenge authority, as all of you should.
And when I'm giving the opportunity to do talk radio,
I don't do talk radio like everybody else. You know,
they get their talking points, whether they're on the left
of the right, God forbid, they actually question their gods.
Zorhanmandamis he's now you know he's going to a form
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of idolatry, Donald Trump idolatry. You dare question anything that
doesn't make sense? Oh you're a call me whatever you want,
because I am Curtis Leewer. And when he doesn't sound
right and it looks crooked, look at Eric Adams, the
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most crooked mayor of all time. And I told you
about that when I ran against him in twenty twenty one.
And thank god Andy Cohen when the ball dropped in
Times Square, reiterated that I get the hell out of here.
Eric Adams. He has left a stain on the soul
of this city. And I told you about that. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's I'm on, dummy. I was elected as a democratic
socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist. Isn't
that what He's at every step of the way. Shocked?
And the President has said nothing, but it stole his virtues.
Wake up. I number's one eight hundred and three two
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one zero seven ten. That's one eight hundred three two
one zero seven ten.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Talk Radio with Street Crag literally Curtis Sliwad joined sevent
ten wor to guess those from Mark Samos.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
It's right. You know you have guests or callers. I
don't want them glazing me either, you know, patronizing me.
Really what you want as a guest who is an adversary?
And then you have a discussion likewise with callers who
needs this Barney talk all the time? I love you,
you love me? You know. You go to MSNBC, it's
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all the same people. It's like they're in their court,
acquire same thing Fox News Channel. The whole idea is
you get different points of view and you come to
your own conclusion. What's wrong with that? Oh no, it's
got to be all I love you, you love me. Get
out of here. That's that's not Curtis Sleeverer. Anyway, let's
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go to the phones. First up, it's in Brooklyn. Your
turn to be heard here on sevent ten wor Curtis.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
I just want to tell you from that other station
they censored me, going back to the month of October
when they started to ramp up their rhetoric against you.
I think you know who I am, and I was
one of your biggest cheerleaders, not only on that station
but everywhere. They would not take my calls. I tried
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to point out to everyone. I did a deep dive
into the details of all of these so called polls,
and I explained to them how there was no way
that Cuomo could ever win that election, and because of that,
they stopped taking my calls and I stopped listening to
that station.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Good good, Well, let me tell you, Jacqueline, for many
of you, and I know you're out there because you
come up to me all the time. You're texting me,
you're sending me emails, all of that. Good. Hey, you
don't need to go back to that back and Curtis stuff.
You stay right here seven ten w what right? You
got enough good talk here to satisfy your needs. Don't
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be a massive kiss and go back there. By the way,
updates when I do my tribute to Bernard mcgirka, they
never do with WABC any longer. Is that the guy
in the morning, you know, Sid Tessio. He's planning to
move to Florida. Oh yeah, yeah, they're hurts you a
get right there out of here. They're not gonna stay
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and fight. No, no, no, no, they don't believe improved.
Don't move. They want out. Look, you're free to go.
This is the greatness of America. If you're not happy
in our trach state area here or anywhere you move around,
it's called migration. It's what's made America great. I don't
fault any of you if you do that. I've chosen no, no, no, no,
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I improve, I don't move. I fight for what I
know is right. Unsure. I'm ondami is going to initiate
ate something that I'm in opposition to with others. It's
to the barricades, right out of them? Me? Is that
up to the barricades? See got a place you can come.
They don't need to go to WABC, always bashing Curtis
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and obviously where the talk show hosts and hostesses are
all preparing to abandon ship. Oh I know I have
it on good authority. Let's go to Russ who's calling
from White Plains. Your turn to be heard here at
WABC lost toys down there? Did they not know that
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you sacrificed an Ivy League education for freedom from Jackson Tis?
I mean, Curtis your crusader. Oh stop placing me. Here's
another one patronizing me. I did not sacrifice an Ivy
League education. Let's get the record straight. I was going
to Brooklyn Prep. I was a senior there. Jesuit High
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School was the last year they were open, seventy two.
I was the student government president. We took a pleb
site not to wear the jacketson ties, which were part
of the tradition. I tried to enforce the plever site.
The Jesuit's warned me, say, there will be consequences for
your actions. Why do you think your mom and dad
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and other parents worked so hard so their kids can
come and get a good Jesuit education. Part of it
is the discipline of wearing a jacket in tie. But hey,
as in the sixties the counter culture, don't trust anybody
over thirty. Challenge authority, as I always dot. But the
best lesson that I ever got taught was there are
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consequences for your actions. Uh. The headmaster was a guy
named Father Alexander. It was a prefect of discipline. Always
hated me. They marched me to my locker. I had
a clearer out. I thought everybody else would join me,
right to a walk out. They looked at me as
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if I was a member of the Leper college. And
I never heard from any of them. And I headed
home to Canarsy and I never looked back, never looked back.
Spent a few weeks in Canarsie High School, pretty good
local high school, but that was it. I had it
one out, started working. I was pumping gas, packing shelves
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at NAP and A and P, and then ended up
going up to the Bronx where I became the night
manager of Mickey D's. And that's where I started the
Guardian Angels. So I never finished high school technically, never
got a GED. I did have a partial scholarship that
was being offered to me from Brown in Providence because
they had just set up an environmental studies program. I
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had started some of the first recite kling centers all
over the country, although right there in Brooklyn, and they
wanted to give me a half scholarship, which I probably
would have taken if I graduated. But I my decisions
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caused me to suffer the consequences. And this is what
you have to learn and teach your children and grandchildren
growing up. And sometimes you have to learn the hard way.
There are consequences for your actions, and that's the way
it should be. Let's go to Leonora's calling from Connecticut.
Your turn to be heard on what I Hope is
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your favorite station seven to ten w or Leoni.
Speaker 5 (31:45):
It absolutely is, especially now that you're on it. Curtis,
I just want you to know I checked out for
the holidays. I didn't know where you were when I
put on War, and there you are. I freaked out.
I can't believe it. I'm thrilled you' here in. Anybody
who's who was pissed off that you didn't drop out
of that race can go spin because anybody who knows
you knows that you are not going to back down.
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And I'm proud you didn't. Mcdonmie was gonna win no
matter what. Cuomo was never gonna take it. I don't
care who was paying him or what was going on.
Mcdonmie was gonna take it. And I am proud you're
on w O War And I'm so excited to start
my new year out this way. So keep it going, Curtis.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
All right, Well, remember remember Leonora. For everyone who's just
listening now, I'm only here's upstanding for Mark Simon, the
best in the business. I mean, this guy's the smooth operator.
All right. I've worked side by side with Mark Simon.
I competed against Mark Simon. There were none betic, none
better than the business and the person who is jumping
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up and down looking forward to Mark's return on Monday.
The fifth is Greg Kelly over at WABC, because I'd
walk in. I'd walk into that studio. BB's sitting there
snacking off of Mark Simone's shows, taking off all kinds
of notes. That's how we would do a show prep,
which is a pretty good idea, especially when you're like
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Greg Kelly and you don't do any show prep and
you think you could sit there for three hours and
just do a stream of consciousness. Now it doesn't work.
So he'd be taking notes, you know, like comedians would
be stealing lines from one another. By the way, we're
gonna be talking about AI in the next hour, let
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me quantify it. It's like Joe Biden. It's a plagiarism
machine that steals and plunders all kinds of information. So
like comedians used to steal from one another, and Greg
Kelly steals from the best in the business, Mark Simon.
Not they're wrong with Dad. I know you're listening now, Greg,
You're disappointed because you the kind of stuff I'm talking about,
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you wouldn't be picking my pocket. But It's okay. Mark's
coming back on Monday. You'll have somebody to do your
show prep for you. Up next, gotta pay tribute to
one of the greats. I know he's on every Monday
with Larry Mente Warner Wolf. Oh, what a great story
(34:14):
about Warner Wolf still kicking it down to Fort Myers.
And then the tribute to Bernard McGirt that they don't
even do a WABC any longer, I mean, the most
loyal person ever ever in this thing of ours.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
Radio Now more with New York's iconic straight shooter Curtis
Slaywah guest hosting from Mark Simone on seven ten wo
wo oh.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
I look forward a Monday morning when Warner Wolf joins
Larry Minty as he does every Monday. I'm down there,
I think Fort Myers and Naples, Florida. I remember the
last I heard big time from Warner not him personally,
but scrolling through I saw the news that Warner Wolf
had decided to go out to the sign outside of
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his home in an uh you know, a compound, a
gated community where it was a homeowner's association and take
down the sign plantation. He didn't want it, thought that
they lived on a plantation. He didn't like the connotation,
and they locked him up and he fought it and
asked Warner Wolf a great, okay, let's go to the videotape. Well,
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you need to know about Warner Wolf's He spent many
years with him at WABC. That was a tough job
getting him over there because he no longer was doing
sports on television. Tim McCarthy, who was our general manager
at that time, comes to me, I'm doing the morning
program with Ron Koby, whose mommy is a coming the
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predecessor to zoron mondomi. If you want to know anything
about zoraon Mondomie, he's ron Coooby. Except now you could
get elected Maya saying that back then they'd want to
lock you up. But anyway, the point is, Tim McCarthy says,
I got a great addition in the morning show, what
a Wolf wants to do sports for you guys in
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the morning. I said, Oh man, it doesn't get any
better than that. Oh, ron Koby, Well he'll cut into
talk time, I said, trust me, Ron, people would much
rather listen to Warner Wolf than you and me, because
he doesn't just talk sports. He'll talk about whatever's on
his mind. I said, you know, Warner Wolf both made
his moans in radio before television. I said, his parents
(36:37):
were out in vaudeville. This guy's a great entertainer. No, no, no, Well,
eventually I was able to hold sway. Warna joined us.
What a great combination, and I will never forget one
of the greatest talk radio moments. He's describing how he
and his wife had gone on a tour of Europe
and I don't know if they were visiting Paris at
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the time or Vienna. One of those balconies were Hitler,
after taking over the country with the Nazis, had come
out onto the balcony, and you know there were cheering
tens of thousands of Vshi or Nazi sympathizers. And Warner said,
I walked out towards the balcony. I could imagine Adolf
(37:20):
Hitler standing there, and I had a twenty two, and
I walked up behind him and I pulled the trigger
and I blew his brains out. I don't care if
they would have shot me dead right there his body. Guy,
I said, you actually says yes, I've had that that
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that thought when I was there with my wife and
I thought about him many times, if only somebody had
done that when this monster was rising up. Man, I
was riveting talk radio. It was so good. And then
of how, of course his emphasis on sports talking about
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other issues of the day. I'll never forget. He's up
at a gym like fifteen nine Street, Columbus Circle nearby.
He lived there, and he'd be working out in the
public gym and guess who would come in and work
out next one Madonna. Yeah. And the guy was like
a Germapholbe. He would never open up the bathroom with
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his hands. You'd always have tissue paper and toilet paper
and you know, bounty towels, just like some of you
out there Germa folks. He would never talk on on
he doesn't touch it. And if I remember correctly, he
said I never drank water. It's like a Drummond Derry,
you know, a one hum camel never drank water. What
a great personality. Best thing that ever happened to me
(38:51):
in radio was bringing Warre a wolf on board, who,
by the way, remember had been with Imus in the
morning doing sports when the World Trade Center was attacked
on nine to eleven, And he didn't lived too far
away and he gave great commentary as to what was transpiring. Unfortunately,
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too many people never were exposed to warn a Wolf,
not only in terms of his great ability on television
doing sports, but how vaudevillian he was, what a great entertainer,
what great stories he could tell, which is everything that
makes radio great. It isn't just regurgitating what was in
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the news. Anybody could do that. It's connecting the dots
and relating it to stories that not only you grew
up with, but maybe you were personally involved with. And
the fact that you can turn to wr and he
won a Wolf with Larry MENTI in the Morning is
(39:59):
truly blessing of talk radio, because if you're listening to
WABC always bashing Curtis, you end up listening to the
Eye and Me guy. You know, Sid Rosenberg, it's all
about him. He thinks he knows everything about sports. At
that time, it was Warner Wolfe who was doing the
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sports on the I Miss in the Morning Show, and
the guy who made that show work was its executive producer,
Bernard McGirk. I will share with you some stories up next.
I do it. I did it every year when I
was at WABC, when he used to be always broadcasting
Curtis because they didn't do it, which they should have.
(40:43):
This guy knew more about radio, the ins and outs.
He would be a consigliary with the guests off I
miss when Imus would blow up. He'd booked the guests.
He'd read the books. That's why he was a constant
reader of books. And he would speak to I Miss
in the headphones, and I Miss would repeat what Bernie said,
(41:05):
and then I Miss, in a break, would scream unmentionables
to Bernie and his staff. Oh yeah, yeah, you don't
want to go anywhere. Attribute to Bernard McGirt, one of
the great voices in all of talk radio.
Now the guardian Angel of Top Radio is here. Curtis
Leewah guest host the Mark Simone Show on seven ten.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Woar well, well this is it last time around that
I'll be substituting here for Mark Simon.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
He's back on Monday the fifth. But every time I
come here, I meet alumni from where I used to
be WABC. Is he the board up here crash so
many others who fled like refugees from a station that
has become synonymous now with always blaming Curtis for Zorroonmandami
(00:45):
being the mayor and always bashing Curtis. But anyway, so
is he patronizes me this morning? Oh don't don't do
that to me, please, A very busy New Year's Eve,
very busy New Year's dam. I'm going to get into
it momentarily, by the way, you want to make a
(01:05):
New Year's what a promise elected officials at the MTA
money taking agency, the most inept of the many state
agencies in New York. How about cleaning the subway cars,
the number two, three, and number one that are so
(01:26):
thick with flotsam and jetsam dirt that it was shameful
that I had to explain to tourists who were here
in New York City why we can't clean our subway cars.
I mean filthy dirty. Oh no, but you know our
business here is just to raise the fair and take
(01:47):
more money and provide no service. That's number one, number
two our New Year's resolution from the Sliwa family, we
posted it. You look at all my social network and
just go to act Curtis Lee, it's all there. And
Nancy and I said we want for New Years to
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be a time we're all stray and shelter animals will
have a loving home. And there were people who attacked
us for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, haters, man, they hate
animals again. Mahatma Gandhi said, a society that does not
take care of its animals does not take care of
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its people. How many homeless and emotionally disturbed persons that
I see today on the way to the studios of
wo or more that I could count on my fingers
and toes. Let that be said, And then the hawk
is talking out there. It's cold. I want to give
a shout out to the Guardian Angels because they were
(02:53):
at Coney Island yesterday for the annual polar Bear plunge.
Thousands on the beach who went running in to the surf,
some of them suffering from exposure. But hey, they were
out there. I gotta tell you that they were not
(03:14):
talking politics. They were saying, the hawk is talking. It
is cold out here, and yet they made the annual plunge. Meantime,
we might as well play from all the sad sack
reports of the inauguration yesterday at City Hall of Zorhan.
(03:37):
You know, ri Em, it's the end of the world
as we know it. Oh, it's over, My god. How
many months of a campaign did we have where Zorhan
was out there every day, every day? Right, He whopped
Cuomo in the primary, he beat me in Cuomo in
(03:57):
the general election. And yet people were shocked because all
of a sudden he gave a speech after he took
the oath on a Quran. Oh that's it, at the
end of the world. We'll get into that momentarily. Some
of my friends were like, freaking out, a Koran. You
(04:18):
know what that means, Curtis, Well, what does that mean?
Tell me, Well, let's get to what he actually said.
He said, I was elected as a democratic socialist and
I will govern as a democratic socialist. Shocking right. He
said that every step of the way, all through the campaign,
were you not listening? Were you not listening? Well, let's
(04:44):
face it, most New Yorkers have no idea what a
communist is a socialist. If I took one hundred people
put them up along the wall, they have no idea.
A socialist is not a communist. Okay, It's almost like
I have to take everybody to school. And then naturally
when Bernie the out the Coca Sanders graduate of Madison
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High School not far away sitting there, shiver me, Timbers,
was Chuck E Chees, Schumer, schmuck, the Putts who got
up halfway and left. He went to Madison High School.
I can run down a whole litany of people went
to Madison High School. What Bernie Brooklyn boy went to
Brooklyn College. You know the rest of the story. So
he swears him in on the frigid steps of city Hall,
(05:30):
and then the crowd start screaming tax, the ridge tax,
the ridge tax, the ridge. Isn't that what Zaran said
all dren the campaign and said, he said, I don't
even believe there should be billionaires. Are you forgetting that?
People elected this guy on three issues, freeze the rent
(05:54):
city buses, for free universal childcare, all right, and he
engine all of them yesterday. Now. Meantime, while everybody was
determining that this is it, it's over, people were like
getting in touch with me. And see, wait a second,
I'm reading the New York Post. Here it says that
(06:15):
you made a surprise appearance at Mandami's inaugural block party.
That's right, because I wasn't invited with the elites at
city Hall. I certainly wasn't invited like Eric Adams, who
one moment people may boom me. I don't know if
they want to be there. Oh god, what a crook.
(06:35):
The best thing about the dropping of the ball, I mean,
the absolute best thing was the way Andy Cohen went
off on him with Anderson there Anderson Cooper and just said,
get out of here, you cook, your corrupt, You're horrible.
I mean, he just went off. I thought we could
(06:59):
revive a game, you know, instead of the Wheel of
Fortune you or by merv Griffin with Pat Sajack and
Vana White. I think came about in seventy five, although
I think the first host, correct me if I'm wrong,
was Chuck woolry. I think could be wrong. I didn't
ask for you, is he man? Just stop patronizing me,
(07:19):
do me a favor? Huh? That really bothers me. And
we could call it the wheel of corruption. City Hall
for sale under Eric Adams as he left twenty nine
indictments right either members of his administration, top aids, allies, donors,
(07:40):
including himself, and he's in moaning and going on and
do nothing wrong. Well, you know, I don't generally like
Andy Cohen. Obviously he had been bending his elbow, he
was half in the bag. But I give him the applause.
Thank god. That is the best thing getting rid of
(08:01):
the crook Eric Adams. And by the way, I warned
everybody when I ran against him at twenty twenty one,
is he You were there, You remember at the time
I said, this guy's a crook and this guy is
corrupt and we will have chaos. Was that wrong? They
had a survey on his way out. It said zero
(08:23):
percent of all those surveyed said he did nothing good.
I would give him, on one credit, the best night
light mayor we've ever had since Jimmy Walker, because that's
all he would do is go to a nearby club
to the break of dawn. It didn't matter what burrow
until four in the morning. Him and Jimmy Walker had that.
(08:45):
By the way, if you're watching any movies, you watch
the Bob Hope movie about the other corrupt mayor Jimmy Walker.
Really good performance. And that's the white version of this
swaggerman with no plan Eric Adams. Ooofa. That made me
feel good. But then all of these people say, how
(09:06):
come you went? How come you stood in line with
all the Zorinistas. Because I don't just base what I
say on what I hear in the news or I
see on TV or I scrolled to. I like to
be there in person. And so I came out of
the subway and I was online with all the Zorinistas. Yea,
(09:28):
the people who elected Mandami Meyer, not the elites at
city Hall. And I waited my turn to get in
and watch. I was online at twelve. Didn't get into that.
What they called that, I guess they said it was
going to be a block party. There was no no
real party, poorly organized. I didn't get in till two thirty,
(09:50):
that's how long the lines were. And oh boy, people
were saying, how come. All these Zorinistas were hide fiving
you because they under stud I'm standing out there with
all them, you know, like a real person, not up
in the suites in the streets like I always am,
subways in streets and having a lot of conversations all
(10:10):
city and State. Was that they can believe it, big
article on the Wall Street Journal, Q and A with me.
You know at the end of the year, if you
get a chance, you gotta read these really good But
the main thing is I was saying to h those
who hates or On and a lot of my fellow
Republicans who are attacking. In fact, this was some of
(10:34):
the really crazy stuff Curtis to disease are On and
his wife rom the night before. You saw how they
went down into that subway that's underneath City Hall, the
first subway ever created in a vast subway system. That
is really an architect who will wonder he's got the
terror courtA Tiles brash shand of Lee is to say,
(10:56):
distinctly European appearance. I actually him credit. Remember the other
day I said, Wow, if I had been lucky enough
to been elected mayor, I would have never thought of that. Good, good, idea.
So that's where he had his original swearing in. Once
the ball dropped in Times Square. Do you know what's
happened since people come up to me and they say, oh, man,
(11:18):
you know he got sworn in on the Koran. I said, yeah,
he's a Muslim. Did you you find that surprising? He
said that every day of the way. I think he
visited every mosque in the five boroughs. Surprise, surprise. Yeah.
But by him being sworn in down in that subway tunnel,
it was a secret message to Hamas that I got
(11:43):
your back, that I support you. I said, you really
believe that crap? Oh yeah, yeah, it's all subliminal. It's messaging.
I said's just a great location, a great venue. Oh no, no,
you don't. You don't understand chritis. I said, well, let
me get back to this whole like of being sworn
in on a Qur'an. I said, you realize that we've
(12:05):
had presidents who are not sworn in on a Bible.
In fact, they weren't sworn on any religious book. What
I remembered, you folks out there can correct me wrong
if I'm wrong, because you know I will admit when
I'm wrong. I will fess up when I mess up,
(12:26):
and feel free to do so, because that's really what
talk radio is. It's your turn to be heard. Eight
hundred three two one zero seven ten eight hundred three
two one zero seventy ten. If I remember from my
history lessons, Thomas Jefferson ever got sworn in as president
on a Bible. The guy who followed them, John Quincy Adams,
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he believed separation of church in state. He got sworn
in on a book of laws. He refused to be
sworn in on a Bible. Franklin Pierce, another president of laws.
I'm not being sworn in on the Bible. And Calvin Coolidge,
one of our worst presidents, was a Puritan, and he said,
I'm not being sworn in on a Bible. Yeah. But
(13:12):
Curticiz's different. He was sworn in on a Koran. He's
a Muslim, and anybody voting for him not realize he
was a Musclim. Yeah, yeah, yeah, But Curtage, this is
not right. I said, excuse me, Do I not remember
(13:33):
a visit that Johann Mandami took to the White House?
You remember that visit? Right? Oh? Man? Now, Cami Mandamie,
I can't wait to take all the money from the city.
You can't be electing this guy, this communist, right, Remember
it wasn't Trump saying that like every day, and then
all of a sudden, I love fest. A love fest
(13:55):
was like Barney, I love you, you love me. Oh,
we're gonna be helping him. We agree on a lot
more than I thought. I think he'll do a great job.
I'd be comfortable living in New York City with Mondamie
is Maya who said that Donald Trump. Oh, they're the best,
(14:17):
the best. He's gonna be fine. Hey, Zoon, you wanna
call me a fascist, don't worry, call me a fascist.
We got played ladies and gentlemen. And so when I
turned to Maga people and Republicans, I say, you know,
the president is embracing By the way, did the President
put out a tweet on truth social condemning Joran Mondamie's
(14:41):
swearing in by burning the out the Coca Sanders with
AOC they did? He No, he's embraced the guy. Oh no, no, no,
But there's a strategy here, Curtis. You gotta understand that
he's gonna let Zoron let his guard down. He doesn't
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really mean it. What do you mean he doesn't really
mean it. He said it before the world. Oh you'll
see Curtis, Yeah, yeah, yeah, you you you gets like
you keep believing that, all right, you keep believing that
the President said on November twenty first, in the White House,
(15:25):
with zor unerstanding right there, the better he does, the
happier I am. And by that, by the way, hours
before that, the House of Representatives had passed a resolution
denouncing the horrors of socialism. All the Republicans that you
hear from here at WOR and other stations, and eighty
(15:46):
six Democrats. So you figured that zarn MONDAMMI was gonna
catch a verbal beat down, and in fact it was
a love fest. So ladies and gentlemen, and don't get
on my case. This is what you do to respect
the process, the change of one party to another party,
(16:10):
one political ideology to another political ideology. That's what our
American democracy is about. So I didn't get invited to
the inauguration. I just showed up to the block party
so I could share some of my experiences with all
of you and see for myself. Because I challenge authority.
(16:35):
I don't care if it's Trump Zorhan, Democrats, business leaders,
cultural leaders. I don't just repeat and regurgitate whatever I
hear from the people I like. I challenge authority, and
there's nobody out there who's gonna give you a better
analysis of what took place yesterday in the freezing cold.
(16:57):
And by the way, really didn't matter because most of
the zoronista's young millennials gen zas. If they had been older,
oh boy, it would have been ice cube. Hell. Our
numbers one eight hundred and three to one zero seventy ten.
That's one eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
(17:18):
While online, I was alerting all these Zorinistas that artificial
intelligence is coming for you. We're gonna talk about that later.
I'm gonna do my tribute to Bernard McGirt that I
used to do every year at WABC that they never do.
I mean, that was a radio guy. And we're gonna
(17:39):
talk about the crime of the century. Up next, Bitcoin cryptocurrency.
I call it crime coin and the biggest Ponzi scheme
that has ever existed in American history. And some of
you are being lured into it because Trump, who said
it was bitcrime at one time, then got all that
(18:00):
money from the crypto monsters, and now he's the number
one advocate of crime coin one eight hundred three two
one zero sevent.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Ten Street Smart Straight Talk Curtis leewa guest host for
Mark Simone on sevent ten woor.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
But I tell you, is he stopped glazing me. Huh.
Don't patronize me, huh. Now I'm gonna teach everybody something
about crime coin aka bitcoin, the biggest Ponzi scheme ever,
Bernie Madoff, he can't touch this anyway. The other night,
before New Year's Eve, before the ball dropped, they're running
(18:41):
across some of these young millennials. You know, they're all
into bigcoin. You know they're financial advisors. So let me
ask you a question. Who created crime coin aka bitcoin?
I don't know. Sato Shi Nakamoto, Hi Hi hi Ho
Shi na Kamoto. I didn't know that. You know, nobody
(19:04):
ever saw this guy. They claim he created this electronic
care system mind like one million bitcoin, and then all
of a sudden, nobody hears from them, nobody sees them,
And in twenty eleven, three years later, he goes, I
moved on to other things. Ha moved on to other things.
(19:25):
That's a racket. So he created this bitcoin and first
blockchain database that pave the way for cryptocurrency and what
I call a Ponzi scheme. And right away the FBI
and Interpol were warning us that organize international crime is
(19:47):
gonna lawn the money through bitcoin and beware this wallet exploitation.
And so I'm talking to these folks and yeah, yeah,
but it's the coming way. Man. You can make a
lot of money. Ponzi schemes make a lot of money too.
Remember Bernie Madoff and Sam Blake Minfried. Remember the guy
(20:10):
who looked like he fell out of his bunk, that
FTX boy who is in prison, but no doubt he's
probably gonna try to seek a pardon like the guy
who funded him into business originally. And this is what's
got my blood boiling with Donald Trump now, who at
first used to call bitcoin crin coin, used to say
(20:34):
it was a scam, it was a Ponzi scheme, And
all of a sudden, he has become the first crypto president.
He's ended regulations, he launched a trump Coin, He's linking
crypto to the stock market world, liberty financial Oh boy, well,
(20:54):
all this money borrowing for crypto and then there'll be
a crash and then and everybody will say that's what happens.
It's a gamble on Wall Street. No, no, no is
a difference. It was this guy Jao who actually put
(21:14):
Sam Bankman Freed into business at FTX. He's the richest
man in crypto. He admitted to a federal government that
he did money laundering that allowed terrorists and other criminals
to move money on finance. They sent him to jail,
and guess who pardoned him, Donald Trump, the crypto president
(21:41):
who owns his own crypto empire with his family. And
it's now called what is that, liberty, liberty world, liberty,
financial outrage. Oh you can't say that, Yes, I can
come on. Any of you out there, know this is
(22:01):
a Ponzi scheme. People are gonna be lord in now
that the president and his family are all involved, and
you know they're giving their sanctifying it, and they're gonna
be investing money, and then the crypto criminals are gonna
rip them off. In fact, they're gonna use what they
call a wrench attack. The thief enters your house or
(22:24):
your place of business. It's like being hitting ahead with
a wrench until you give up the password. You know
what that is? You have any ideas? He study up
on it, because your generation is getting all geeked up,
you know. Oh yeah, Bitcoin douche coin. Yeah, so these steams,
(22:45):
many of them degenerate gamblers because they're young, and you know,
they're on FANDU and they're gambling away money they don't have.
There's still millions from bitcoin users. They empty their crypto wallets,
they under the money and then they laugh about it.
But are you being told about that? Ladies and gentlemen,
(23:06):
do you ask about that? Do you challenge authority? Do
you say, why is the most powerful man in the world,
the President of the United States and his family, getting
involved in his business that appears to be by anyone
looking at it, a Ponzi scheme. Oh but you can't
(23:26):
say that, Yes I can. I'm an American citizen. I
have a right to challenge authority, as all of you should.
And when I'm giving the opportunity to do talk radio,
I don't do talk radio like everybody else. You know,
they get their talking points, whether they're on the left
of the right, God forbid, they actually question their gods.
Zorhanmandamis he's now you know he's going to a form
(23:51):
of idolatry, Donald Trump idolatry. You dare question anything that
doesn't make sense? Oh you're a call me whatever you want,
because I am Curtis Leewer. And when he doesn't sound
right and it looks crooked, look at Eric Adams, the
(24:14):
most crooked mayor of all time. And I told you
about that when I ran against him in twenty twenty one.
And thank god Andy Cohen when the ball dropped in
Times Square, reiterated that I get the hell out of here.
Eric Adams. He has left a stain on the soul
of this city. And I told you about that. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
(24:39):
It's I'm on, dummy. I was elected as a democratic
socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist. Isn't
that what He's at every step of the way. Shocked?
And the President has said nothing, but it stole his virtues.
Wake up. I number's one eight hundred and three two
(25:00):
one zero seven ten. That's one eight hundred three two
one zero seven ten.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Talk Radio with Street Crag literally Curtis Sliwad joined sevent
ten wor to guess those from Mark Samos.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
It's right. You know you have guests or callers. I
don't want them glazing me either, you know, patronizing me.
Really what you want as a guest who is an adversary?
And then you have a discussion likewise with callers who
needs this Barney talk all the time? I love you,
you love me? You know. You go to MSNBC, it's
(25:36):
all the same people. It's like they're in their court,
acquire same thing Fox News Channel. The whole idea is
you get different points of view and you come to
your own conclusion. What's wrong with that? Oh no, it's
got to be all I love you, you love me. Get
out of here. That's that's not Curtis Sleeverer. Anyway, let's
(25:57):
go to the phones. First up, it's in Brooklyn. Your
turn to be heard here on sevent ten wor Curtis.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
I just want to tell you from that other station
they censored me, going back to the month of October
when they started to ramp up their rhetoric against you.
I think you know who I am, and I was
one of your biggest cheerleaders, not only on that station
but everywhere. They would not take my calls. I tried
(26:28):
to point out to everyone. I did a deep dive
into the details of all of these so called polls,
and I explained to them how there was no way
that Cuomo could ever win that election, and because of that,
they stopped taking my calls and I stopped listening to
that station.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Good good, Well, let me tell you, Jacqueline, for many
of you, and I know you're out there because you
come up to me all the time. You're texting me,
you're sending me emails, all of that. Good. Hey, you
don't need to go back to that back and Curtis stuff.
You stay right here seven ten w what right? You
got enough good talk here to satisfy your needs. Don't
(27:11):
be a massive kiss and go back there. By the way,
updates when I do my tribute to Bernard mcgirka, they
never do with WABC any longer. Is that the guy
in the morning, you know, Sid Tessio. He's planning to
move to Florida. Oh yeah, yeah, they're hurts you a
get right there out of here. They're not gonna stay
(27:33):
and fight. No, no, no, no, they don't believe improved.
Don't move. They want out. Look, you're free to go.
This is the greatness of America. If you're not happy
in our trach state area here or anywhere you move around,
it's called migration. It's what's made America great. I don't
fault any of you if you do that. I've chosen no, no, no, no,
(27:55):
I improve, I don't move. I fight for what I
know is right. Unsure. I'm ondami is going to initiate
ate something that I'm in opposition to with others. It's
to the barricades, right out of them? Me? Is that
up to the barricades? See got a place you can come.
They don't need to go to WABC, always bashing Curtis
(28:16):
and obviously where the talk show hosts and hostesses are
all preparing to abandon ship. Oh I know I have
it on good authority. Let's go to Russ who's calling
from White Plains. Your turn to be heard here at
WABC lost toys down there? Did they not know that
(28:39):
you sacrificed an Ivy League education for freedom from Jackson Tis?
I mean, Curtis your crusader. Oh stop placing me. Here's
another one patronizing me. I did not sacrifice an Ivy
League education. Let's get the record straight. I was going
to Brooklyn Prep. I was a senior there. Jesuit High
(29:02):
School was the last year they were open, seventy two.
I was the student government president. We took a pleb
site not to wear the jacketson ties, which were part
of the tradition. I tried to enforce the plever site.
The Jesuit's warned me, say, there will be consequences for
your actions. Why do you think your mom and dad
(29:24):
and other parents worked so hard so their kids can
come and get a good Jesuit education. Part of it
is the discipline of wearing a jacket in tie. But hey,
as in the sixties the counter culture, don't trust anybody
over thirty. Challenge authority, as I always dot. But the
best lesson that I ever got taught was there are
(29:48):
consequences for your actions. Uh. The headmaster was a guy
named Father Alexander. It was a prefect of discipline. Always
hated me. They marched me to my locker. I had
a clearer out. I thought everybody else would join me,
right to a walk out. They looked at me as
(30:11):
if I was a member of the Leper college. And
I never heard from any of them. And I headed
home to Canarsy and I never looked back, never looked back.
Spent a few weeks in Canarsie High School, pretty good
local high school, but that was it. I had it
one out, started working. I was pumping gas, packing shelves
(30:34):
at NAP and A and P, and then ended up
going up to the Bronx where I became the night
manager of Mickey D's. And that's where I started the
Guardian Angels. So I never finished high school technically, never
got a GED. I did have a partial scholarship that
was being offered to me from Brown in Providence because
they had just set up an environmental studies program. I
(30:58):
had started some of the first recite kling centers all
over the country, although right there in Brooklyn, and they
wanted to give me a half scholarship, which I probably
would have taken if I graduated. But I my decisions
(31:18):
caused me to suffer the consequences. And this is what
you have to learn and teach your children and grandchildren
growing up. And sometimes you have to learn the hard way.
There are consequences for your actions, and that's the way
it should be. Let's go to Leonora's calling from Connecticut.
Your turn to be heard on what I Hope is
(31:39):
your favorite station seven to ten w or Leoni.
Speaker 5 (31:45):
It absolutely is, especially now that you're on it. Curtis,
I just want you to know I checked out for
the holidays. I didn't know where you were when I
put on War, and there you are. I freaked out.
I can't believe it. I'm thrilled you' here in. Anybody
who's who was pissed off that you didn't drop out
of that race can go spin because anybody who knows
you knows that you are not going to back down.
(32:07):
And I'm proud you didn't. Mcdonmie was gonna win no
matter what. Cuomo was never gonna take it. I don't
care who was paying him or what was going on.
Mcdonmie was gonna take it. And I am proud you're
on w O War And I'm so excited to start
my new year out this way. So keep it going, Curtis.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
All right, Well, remember remember Leonora. For everyone who's just
listening now, I'm only here's upstanding for Mark Simon, the
best in the business. I mean, this guy's the smooth operator.
All right. I've worked side by side with Mark Simon.
I competed against Mark Simon. There were none betic, none
better than the business and the person who is jumping
(32:44):
up and down looking forward to Mark's return on Monday.
The fifth is Greg Kelly over at WABC, because I'd
walk in. I'd walk into that studio. BB's sitting there
snacking off of Mark Simone's shows, taking off all kinds
of notes. That's how we would do a show prep,
which is a pretty good idea, especially when you're like
(33:06):
Greg Kelly and you don't do any show prep and
you think you could sit there for three hours and
just do a stream of consciousness. Now it doesn't work.
So he'd be taking notes, you know, like comedians would
be stealing lines from one another. By the way, we're
gonna be talking about AI in the next hour, let
(33:26):
me quantify it. It's like Joe Biden. It's a plagiarism
machine that steals and plunders all kinds of information. So
like comedians used to steal from one another, and Greg
Kelly steals from the best in the business, Mark Simon.
Not they're wrong with Dad. I know you're listening now, Greg,
You're disappointed because you the kind of stuff I'm talking about,
(33:49):
you wouldn't be picking my pocket. But It's okay. Mark's
coming back on Monday. You'll have somebody to do your
show prep for you. Up next, gotta pay tribute to
one of the greats. I know he's on every Monday
with Larry Mente Warner Wolf. Oh, what a great story
(34:14):
about Warner Wolf still kicking it down to Fort Myers.
And then the tribute to Bernard McGirt that they don't
even do a WABC any longer, I mean, the most
loyal person ever ever in this thing of ours.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
Radio Now more with New York's iconic straight shooter Curtis
Slaywah guest hosting from Mark Simone on seven ten wo
wo oh.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
I look forward a Monday morning when Warner Wolf joins
Larry Minty as he does every Monday. I'm down there,
I think Fort Myers and Naples, Florida. I remember the
last I heard big time from Warner not him personally,
but scrolling through I saw the news that Warner Wolf
had decided to go out to the sign outside of
(35:07):
his home in an uh you know, a compound, a
gated community where it was a homeowner's association and take
down the sign plantation. He didn't want it, thought that
they lived on a plantation. He didn't like the connotation,
and they locked him up and he fought it and
asked Warner Wolf a great, okay, let's go to the videotape. Well,
(35:31):
you need to know about Warner Wolf's He spent many
years with him at WABC. That was a tough job
getting him over there because he no longer was doing
sports on television. Tim McCarthy, who was our general manager
at that time, comes to me, I'm doing the morning
program with Ron Koby, whose mommy is a coming the
(35:53):
predecessor to zoron mondomi. If you want to know anything
about zoraon Mondomie, he's ron Coooby. Except now you could
get elected Maya saying that back then they'd want to
lock you up. But anyway, the point is, Tim McCarthy says,
I got a great addition in the morning show, what
a Wolf wants to do sports for you guys in
(36:14):
the morning. I said, Oh man, it doesn't get any
better than that. Oh, ron Koby, Well he'll cut into
talk time, I said, trust me, Ron, people would much
rather listen to Warner Wolf than you and me, because
he doesn't just talk sports. He'll talk about whatever's on
his mind. I said, you know, Warner Wolf both made
his moans in radio before television. I said, his parents
(36:37):
were out in vaudeville. This guy's a great entertainer. No, no, no, Well,
eventually I was able to hold sway. Warna joined us.
What a great combination, and I will never forget one
of the greatest talk radio moments. He's describing how he
and his wife had gone on a tour of Europe
and I don't know if they were visiting Paris at
(36:58):
the time or Vienna. One of those balconies were Hitler,
after taking over the country with the Nazis, had come
out onto the balcony, and you know there were cheering
tens of thousands of Vshi or Nazi sympathizers. And Warner said,
I walked out towards the balcony. I could imagine Adolf
(37:20):
Hitler standing there, and I had a twenty two, and
I walked up behind him and I pulled the trigger
and I blew his brains out. I don't care if
they would have shot me dead right there his body. Guy,
I said, you actually says yes, I've had that that
(37:41):
that thought when I was there with my wife and
I thought about him many times, if only somebody had
done that when this monster was rising up. Man, I
was riveting talk radio. It was so good. And then
of how, of course his emphasis on sports talking about
(38:05):
other issues of the day. I'll never forget. He's up
at a gym like fifteen nine Street, Columbus Circle nearby.
He lived there, and he'd be working out in the
public gym and guess who would come in and work
out next one Madonna. Yeah. And the guy was like
a Germapholbe. He would never open up the bathroom with
(38:27):
his hands. You'd always have tissue paper and toilet paper
and you know, bounty towels, just like some of you
out there Germa folks. He would never talk on on
he doesn't touch it. And if I remember correctly, he
said I never drank water. It's like a Drummond Derry,
you know, a one hum camel never drank water. What
a great personality. Best thing that ever happened to me
(38:51):
in radio was bringing Warre a wolf on board, who,
by the way, remember had been with Imus in the
morning doing sports when the World Trade Center was attacked
on nine to eleven, And he didn't lived too far
away and he gave great commentary as to what was transpiring. Unfortunately,
(39:15):
too many people never were exposed to warn a Wolf,
not only in terms of his great ability on television
doing sports, but how vaudevillian he was, what a great entertainer,
what great stories he could tell, which is everything that
makes radio great. It isn't just regurgitating what was in
(39:37):
the news. Anybody could do that. It's connecting the dots
and relating it to stories that not only you grew
up with, but maybe you were personally involved with. And
the fact that you can turn to wr and he
won a Wolf with Larry MENTI in the Morning is
(39:59):
truly blessing of talk radio, because if you're listening to
WABC always bashing Curtis, you end up listening to the
Eye and Me guy. You know, Sid Rosenberg, it's all
about him. He thinks he knows everything about sports. At
that time, it was Warner Wolfe who was doing the
(40:19):
sports on the I Miss in the Morning Show, and
the guy who made that show work was its executive producer,
Bernard McGirk. I will share with you some stories up next.
I do it. I did it every year when I
was at WABC, when he used to be always broadcasting
Curtis because they didn't do it, which they should have.
(40:43):
This guy knew more about radio, the ins and outs.
He would be a consigliary with the guests off I
miss when Imus would blow up. He'd booked the guests.
He'd read the books. That's why he was a constant
reader of books. And he would speak to I Miss
in the headphones, and I Miss would repeat what Bernie said,
(41:05):
and then I Miss, in a break, would scream unmentionables
to Bernie and his staff. Oh yeah, yeah, you don't
want to go anywhere. Attribute to Bernard McGirt, one of
the great voices in all of talk radio.
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