December 31, 2025 • 34 mins
Curtis Sliwa fills in for Mark Simone and shares some of the important values his family taught him, like always picking up and properly disposing of trash. With the Times Square New Year's Eve celebration happening tonight, Curtis offers some humorous advice for anyone planning to see the ball drop in person: you might want to wear some Depends diapers! Curtis takes calls from listeners about family values, New Year's Eve traditions, and more.
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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):
Woo oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
My responsibility as being on Mark Simone's turf, the best
talk radio host in our region bar none. And I'm
sure Greg Kelly was listening over there at WABC doing
his show prep as he always did by listening to
Mark Simone. Hey, why not? He had good stuff and
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always says good stuff. He'll be back on the fifth
on Monday, but I'll be back on Friday. And the
kind of talk radio I do is different than most
because I believe that we have this opportunity to speak
to all of you now because of the technology, not
just throughout the Try State area, throughout the United States,
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but all over the world, because any radio station can
be picked up virtually anywhere. And I've heard from a
lot of people listening to me on wor my place
to be seven to ten. Never again at WABC, which
the acronym stands for always blaming Curtis, for Zara Mandami
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being the mayor and always bashing Curtis even to this day.
You think they would give it up, right, Ain't coming
back there? Never I'd rather live in a homeless shelter.
I'd rather be stuck on the number four train and
going round than round. They're outd is he? You think
people understand that? And this is a much better station
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in a lot of different ways. But this thing of ours,
talk radio, it requires that you pay homage to it. Now,
Mark Simone does because nobody knows more about radio and
television then March some mom and he talks about it regularly.
I listened to his show, and as you know now
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you have the benefit doesn't have to be appointment radio.
You can always get it on the podcast. But I
want to touch on a few things before I do
my homage in these last two days, for the reason
that many of us have the opportunity to speak to
all of you, whether in live form or if you
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wanted to listen to three four days, a month later,
a year later on these podcasts. First off from Nancy
and yours, truly, we have a special message. New Year's
message will be posting to all of you, the many
hundreds of thousands who have now become followers all over
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the world on all the platforms. So whether it's TikTok
that most of you know nothing about Oh you gotta
be on tik talk did you see so on? He
trust me, he didn't get elected because he was on TikTok.
Two years ago. President Donald Trump is saying this is
a red Chinese stripe to take over America, and then
all of a sudden he discovered, hey, maybe I can
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get a few votes with this, and then all of
a sudden, yeah, we love TikTok. TikTok does not get
you elected to anything. So whether it's TikTok, Instagram or Facebook,
where you're you're putting on there what you had for
beakfast this morning at the local diner. Do I need
to see you having eggs and pancakes, you know with toast? Yeah? Yeah,
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you post what you had for lunch and then a
mad on am your life must be so miserable? Is
that all you compose? And of course Ellen Musk x,
Twitter so many different ways to get you a message out,
But our message to everybody listening right now and they'll
be posted later on at Curtisley whichever you can get
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that social network? Is that all Nancy and I want
for this New Year's is for all stray and shelter
animals to have a loving home. And I know for
some of you we're like, oh here it goes with
the animal welfare stuff. Yeah. And again as we welcome
in a new year, it doesn't get any better than
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Mahatma Gandhi again a victim of an assassination because of
his beliefs, but a man who's said, is society that
does not take care of its animals does not take
care of its people. And on my way here to
Wor seven ten to do this broadcast to all of you,
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I had to pass the homeless people and emotionally disturbed
persons in the subway because the hawk is talking out
there it's cold, and talk with them, many of them
that I know, And see all the flots and jets.
As I came up top to the street, I was
picking up the garbage. It was flying all over and
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people are looking at me. You pick up garbage too,
and so what is it? That's where I was raised
by my grandfather, Fidela Bianngino from body Italy. On my
mother's side, Francesca side. He said, one young which means
young man, young boy. You see garbage? Yeah, like you
heard Eric Adams say, we're gonna talk about him a
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second at Mama Luke. But anyway, you see something, you
see something. Hey. Long before they ever quantified that statement,
my grandfather would tell me, Hey, you see garbage, you
pick it up. If you can't find a can and
put it in, you put it in your pocket until
you can find a can. That's where I was brought up,
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and many of you listening now were brought up. And
it used to be the sanitation department. After they pick
up the garbage, it had brooms on the truck. Remember
when they would have broom were the brooms now? Huh?
They pick up the garbage and that's it, not my job.
Then we have these business improvement districts. They hire mostly
mental women who have been down on their luck, and
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they go out there and they change the trash can
bags and they do a little sweeping and that's all good.
We never needed that. Years ago, everybody picked up the garbage.
So people were looking at me this morning on my
way here to wo Oh, like I believe, like I
belong in the Museum of Natural History, Like here is
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a species from a different era that actually believes if
you see something garbage on the ground, you pick it up.
The problem is that the police Commissioner, Jessicatsh who you
all fall and over. When she was sanitation commissioner, she
took half the baskets off the streets. Well, if there
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are less baskets, there'll be less garbage. Ugh, past the
great poupon jescatage, Maybe Jeeves or a limo driver on
Park Avenue can get you to one police plaza. That
was a disastrous program. Some of the folks in the
MTA money taking agency, you know, they were having the
press conference. Yet it's the end of the metro card
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and now all of a sudden you're gonna have to
tap and go the omni card, debit card, credit card.
There'll be nothing left the beginning of the year on
your debit or credit card. So good luck. And I'm
saying to myself, are these people delusional? One third of
the people don't even pay their subway for their to
begin with, and that's gonna increase with zor on Mondamique.
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One half don't even pay the city bus fare. They
don't do a tap in go, they don't have a
metro card, and if you say anything to them, they
give you the finger. They're defiant. So they're all mourning
the loss of the Metro card. What are you talking about?
Half the people didn't even use a Metro card to
get in on a bus, one third on the subway. Oh,
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because of the crime that never gets dealt with. It's
called fair evasion. That's a crime. Let's face it. Let's
not make any arrests. Let's not make people pay the
fair even though they are all kind of programs. If
you're down on your luck, half fair, one third fare,
but you gotta go out and get that right. We're
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not gonna bring you to eat. So that's my first observation.
And then all of a sudden, I'm on the subway
platform and I'm trying to give tourist directions because naturally
the token booth clerks who do nothing. Now it's like
a feather bettered job. They should be out of the
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booth giving instructions to people at the machines to be
able to pay their fare because he's getting scammed by
every hustler in the world. But they should also be
telling people how to get around town. So I'm helping
tourists and many of them already know me. Hey, Curtis,
I'm trying to get down to where else? The World
Trade Center, that's where they want to go. See the battery,
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want to see the Statue of Liberty, all the places
that we folks, we don't go because we know that's
where all the tourists go. Like, if any of you
are schmucks or puttses and you're gonna go down to
Times Square to watch the ball drop, did you not
hear Jessica Tish say, Oh, they're gonna be double screenings.
They took all the garbage cans away. There's no porter sands,
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there's none of that. They cattle cars. And you're gonna
start mooing at three o'clock. That's when they're gonna start
letting you in. And once you're in, you don't get out.
You get out, you don't come back. So imagine you've
already been drinking a few. It's three o'clock. The ball
doesn't drop until, uh, until all of a sudden the
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new year comes in. Right, say, let me, I'm not
too good at nine hours? Right, nine hours? You think
you could hold it in nine hours? Have you been
drinking a few? Hoisting a few? That's why on my
way over here, I stopped at a few Dwayne Reid's
and CVS's wiped out of depends wiped out because people
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live their whole life to come to watch the ball
drop on Times Square, and they come from Monta, Mexico City,
and they come from ky Town, South Africa. They come
from everywhere because they want that experience. But if you
happen to be living in this Tri state area and
you're stupid enough to show up because you want to
be able to talk about it, don't waste your time.
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But make sure you have depends on. Yeah, because remember,
we come into this world with diapers at some point,
and most of us when we go out of this world,
we'll be wearing diapers. So get ready. And here's Jessicati saying, yeah,
there'll be two screenings. Okay, Jessica, you keep talking and
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then of course, uh, there's a boss. But thank god,
just the final day that Mama Luke, what a cry baby.
Eric Adams the most corrupt mayor in the history of
New York City, and that is saying a lot. The
swaggerman with no plan and the nightlife mayor. All he
ever did was hang out in clubs till they break
of dawn and a man who just waited to be
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wind eying them pocket lined, and if my sources are correct,
decided to drop out a running for mayor when the
price was right. Uh you remember that show the price
was right? I think I think he settled on twenty mil.
I think time will tell, because then he was like, well,
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should I go to the inauguration at city? Should ain't
not go?
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I wouldn't have made asked me to go in and
tell your peepsys An Easterns. Don't yell at me, don't
shout at what a mama, luke, what a baby? And
so I guess the mayor had a conversation with him,
the incoming mayor, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
You should be there. Oh I'm gonna be there, Like wow, wow,
Eric Adams, He's the reason this is sore. Had Mandami,
had he done anywhere of a decent job, halfway job,
he would have been the Democratic incumbent mayor running for reelection.
I would have been the Republican candidate. And hey, it
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would have been tough. It's tough for a Republican to
begin with. He failed, and then they resurrected that political
some be Cuomo. By the way, is anybody seeing Cuomo
Will he be at the inauguration, of course not. Is
he anywhere other than hanging out with his billionaire friends
as he's slithered under his rock in the Hampton's where
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he loves to be. Maybe he can launch it after
the run for mayor of Southampton. So here was Eric Adams.
You were told I'm gonna write a book. I got
the title ready. I didn't do nothing wrong. He's gonna
get involved in cryptocurrency, which is bitcoin crime coin, and
he wants to teach a new generation of how to
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become criminals, because that's what blockchain cryptocurrency is. It's a scam.
We'll talk about that on Friday, my last day here.
We're gonna talk about AI. Oh my god, what a headache.
And also robotics because the masters of the universe are
all telling you to worry about it. We're gonna take
your jobs, but we're gonna give you a universal high
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income of about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year.
You're not gonna have to do nothing. You just sit
at home, scratch your belly button. We're going to take
care of you. You trust any of them, We'll get
into all of that. These are subjects, many of which
don't get discussed and talk radio. And then of course
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there is Eric Adams on his way out, who has
decided that, hey, you know, there is things I'm going
to do to try to make amends. He said, signing
an executive order today. I always had breaking news, right, Hey,
this is Mark Simon's turf. It's not my turf. I
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had breaking news. He's using an executive order in the
waning moments of his horrible mayoralty to have charter revision.
Now what that is, ladies and gentlemen. He's going to
assign people to actually put on the ballot this coming year,
the gubernatory year, the midterm elections on the back of
your ballot, things that you as citizens can vote on.
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I think the chairman is I gotta check my sources
on this, but got it on pretty good authority. My
husband and lawd David Pattison, the former governor, a man
who needs adderall. In this last mayoral election. First, he
was Ferriick Adams, and he was for and he was
for Eric Adams and he was for Como. He gave
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me vertigo and I said, do me a favor and
don't endorse me. It's a kiss her death and it was,
so give him some adderall he'll be on the charity commission.
I guess the Mayor's going to have some others. And
there should be the question of sanctuary city up there,
which I talked about during the campaign. Let the people vote.
Let the people, boy, A lot of people will come
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out to vote in an election on that issue. Whether
you're for it or against it. You can have town
hall meetings, you can have spirited debate. You will have
a lot of people coming out to vote in nothing
more because of that issue. Let's see what Eric Adams
is going to do. And how about putting on the
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initiative and referendum for twenty twenty six, once and for all,
voting on the horse joint carriage issue. Let the people decide.
And on that note, it's gonna lead us into a
homage coming up to the man who was considered the
father of talk radio, and he started right here on WOR. Yeah, Yeah,
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our new favorite station here in the sleeper household. Nancy,
yours truly and yet our six cats we listen to
seven ten WOR and so shit, all of you our
numbers one, eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten.
That's one eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten.
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The Pulse of.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
New York Now on the Voice of New York, Curtis
Sleewall guest host marks them all on sevent ten wor.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Oh you're not gonna want to miss Friday one, I'm back.
We talk about artificial intelligence, like that Stephen King novel
What was that that collection of his works? Like em
You remember that song?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Is?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
He certainly doesn't remember that. That wasn't his play? Less
the End of the World as we know it?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Right?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
We'll discuss that because it affects everybody, everybody, and it's
moving too fast and too many of you may end
up losing your jobs unfortunately as a result of what
they call artificial intelligence. But let's talk about the homage
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to talk radio, of which many of you loved. You
grew up with it as I did, and the father
of talk radio is rarely, if ever recognized now and
it started all here at war seven ten. Who is
a guy? Barry Gray? Barry Gray was from Mike Believe
it was Red and Lion New Jersey got a job?
Is disc jockey bat then spinning stacks of wax I
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think he was playing a Woody Herman song, and then
Woody Herman called up. And then right after Woody Herman
hung up, instead of going back to playing records, Harry
Gray crushed over that maginal line and started to take
people that were calling up on the request line and
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having conversations with them. So the suits at w R
some of them were saying, wait, wait, you're just supposed
to be playing stacks of wax occasionally, you know, you
talk to Benny Goodman or Woody Herman. You don't be
taking calls. And others said, no, that was so fascinating.
That's how talk radio was invented, because talk radio is
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really about the conversation that we have with all of you.
It's not so much guest oriented, it's you. The call
is your turn to be hurt, so to get give
you an idea in the golden age of radio. He
then is hosting an overnight show at the Copa Cabana.
I mean that was the place you wanted to be.
I know you recognize that is the Barry Manilo the
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song Copa Cabana, East sixtieth Street, right off of Fifth Avenue.
Everybody wanted to go there. Couldn't go mob controlled by
Frank Costello, and he had like the first interview with
Dean Martin who was from Stubenville, Ohio, and the teen
that was put together Jerry Lewis, so as Martin Lewis.
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Jerry Lewis was from the Newert And boy, if you're
gonna watch one movie, you gonna watch one movie over
this weekend. You gotta see one of my favorites, The
King of Comedy with Jerry Lewis and Robert de Niro.
It is absolutely outstanding. Never gets the credit that it's due.
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But Barry Gway was such a listen to radio broadcast
again the father a talk radio, doing live talk radio
out of the most popular nightclub in America, the Corporate Cabanam.
And it was Walter Winshew who was despising him. Walter
Winshew who was the columnist at that time. Ed Sullivan
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was a columnist and they would do battle with one another.
But the one guy Walter Winshew hated the most was
Barry Gray. And apparently when Walter Winshell died penniless, he
was out there on Hollywood Boulevard. He was mimeographing what
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would have been his column for the day because nobody
wanted to syndicate him any longer, nobody wanted to print
it in the newspaper. He'd hand it on the corner.
Died penniless. But apparently when they cleaned out his office
after he passed away, I think only his daughter and
maybe two or three people attended his way, the most
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powerful on Sunday nights walk to Winchhill. Uh you ever
see the replays of The Untouchables with Robert Stacked after
that's the voice? Well, it all so many anyway, So
they're cleaning out his office and apparently he had up
pinned to the wall a photo of a bloodied Barry
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Gray who was beaten up by mobsters on his way
out of the Copacabana after hosting overnight radio, the most
listened to in the nation. And that just shows you
the intensity of this thing of ours. Now, why shouldn't we,
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I know, Mark Simond does. Why shouldn't we all pay
tribute to these men and women who paved the way
and made it so that we could talk to all
of you all over the world like we're doing right
now on our new favorite station. And it should be
yours seven ten WOR, but it is your turn to
be heard up next the format created by Barry Gray
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unexpectedly right here at seven ten WR our number is
one eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten.
That's one eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
And then in a stream of consciousness, I had a
conversation with Tom Cuddy, our program director, who knows so
much and has dealt with so many people. And the
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next home, we're going to talk about the hardest working
guy ever in radio and the hardest working guy ever
in TV. And they have a lot in common, and
they had a lot of impact on all of you
right here in the Tri State area. And yeah, one
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of them worked right here at seven ten WOR.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
The voice that fights for New York literally Curtis Leewad
guest hose for Mark Simone on sevent ten.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Woo Artificial Intelligence, AI busy, You're gone. If I remained
at talk radio show hosts, I'll be gone. There won't
be jobs for anybody, because let's leave it to the
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masters of the universe. Elon Musk any other billionaires, trillionaires
who said, don't worry, we'll have universal high income, We'll
take care of all of you from the cradle to
the grave. You're on one hundred and fifty five thousand
dollars a year and you can play with your belly
button lint at home. Yeah, well, you're gonna trust any
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of them before we go to the phones. I went
through Times Square earlier this week and they have what
they call their wishing wall. It's mostly for tour who
are dumb enough to show up and want to wait
for the ball to drop. Remember today, the rules are
three o'clock. That's when you got to get into your
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cattle pens. All the depends have been cleaned off the
racks at CBS and Dwayne Reid because you met you
met a double bundle yourself. Imagine you got to be
there from three to twelve when the ball drops nine hours.
You've been drinking a little bit, right, you know you're
gonna have to go and you can't squeeze your legs forever.
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But if you leave the cattle pen, you can't come back. Now,
why would anybody in their right mind who lives in
the Tri State area want to venture into that? Normally
they'd start loading up the cattle pens at six or
Jessica Tis, she wants everybody search twice. It's like taking
the list and then checking it twice. Ridiculous. But then again,
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you gotta be ridiculous to be there. That's why you
notice it's But anyway, so they're putting up these pasties
on this wishing wall. I got about two hundred thousand.
They'll be shredded up, put with the confetti that drops
with the release of the ball to welcome in twenty
twenty six. And there's one paste it stood out to me.
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It said, no more AI. Oh, we're gonna get into
that on Friday, and we're gonna talk about bitcoin, crime,
coin and driverless vehicles. A lot of you driving right now,
not gonna need you if you're doing this for a profession.
The masters of the universe don't want to have to
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pay any of you. They're gonna they're gonna take care
of you from the cradle to the grave. Yeah, yeah, right,
don't trust them. Let's go if we can to Bill,
who's calling? Your turn to be heard here at seven
to ten wor.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Billy Good Morning. Curtis comment on Walter Winstel's radio shows,
he had there was a major plumbing league in the
White House between nineteen thirty three and nineteen forty five,
and that leak went right to Walter Winch's radio show.
The League was the president himself Fdr Right. Everyone had
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been because of that League. He my god, he had.
Walter Winschell had more enemies after forty five Truman. Truman
hated Winschell, so after forty five his radio net just
collapsed on him.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Well, let me tell you one thing. When I was
over at WABC, no longer my place to be, we
had a crown jewel in broadcasting on Sunday Night who
just wanted to be like his mentor, Walter Winchell. His
name was Matt Trudge. The guy loved talk radio. I
know because when I met him in LA for the
first time, he was behind the seven and eleven serving
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not chosen slurpies. He was not the mad Trudge that
he became. And he would go and listen to Kiev
George Putnam. I would be a guest there, organizing Guardian Angels,
and we got to know one another. And George Putman
was sort of like the Bob Grant of LA and
he would regale us with stories. He wanted to be
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just like Walter Winchell. He had to hat the whole
nine yards. Lynn Samuel's another great hostess and talk creative
and never gets recognized, was his board operator. On Sunday nights.
They had ratings that nobody ever had. And you know
what happened. Bill, the program director at the time, Phil Boyce,
goes and the network wants to syndicate you. You're doing
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so well Monday through Friday from six to nine. And
Matt Judge said, all they want to do is Sunday nights.
Just like my mentor, Walter Winchell, I don't want to
do radio five days a week. And then Phil just
kept pressing him, and you know, somed he picked up,
he left, he went down to Miami. The rest is history.
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The person who got hired to fill that boy because
they were so hoping that Matt Drudge would get those
same ratings from Monday through Friday. Uh, take a guess
somebody who also his mentor when he was listening on
Hiatus to Bob Grant at WWB, Mark Levin, who grew
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up outside of Philadelphia, and that's how his radio career started.
If only they had left Matt Drudge alone with Lynn
Samuels's board operator, both of them very eccentric, but it
was some of the greatest radio of all time. And
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the ratings were through the roof. The other trick they
use over there at WABC, they had this thing they say,
look at the stream on my phone. Look at the stream,
Look how my ratings are going up. That's not ratings.
It's like the Wizard of Ours. It's like snake oil salesman.
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And they all buy that. You want real ratings. Boy,
I never seen ratings like Matt Drudge got on Sunday nights,
imitating his mentor, Walter Winschew, who would do only one
radio show a week on Sunday nights on the ABC network.
Thousands of radios would be tuned to him. Thousands of
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radio stations carried that the golden age of radio. Well,
let's go back to the phones in honor today of
the father of talk radio, Barry Gray, who really created
the format of taking calls. Let's go to Maria, who's
calling from Westchester. Your turn to be heard here at
seven to ten WR Hello.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Curtis, what an honor to talk to you. Can we
ask if Johan and Donnie will be taking his oath
of office with his hand on the Constitution. Well, one
of his swearing inns be based on the Constitution. Will
he respect this Constitution of the United States.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
I wouldn't know because I haven't been invited. You know,
you show that, Mama, lou carrincattam to show up. If
you tell you a zornista's not taboomy, oh my god.
I will try to find that out for you. Whether
he's taking it on a Koran, a Bible, based on
our United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights. I will
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certainly let you know by Friday, because, as I told
my wife Nancy, if I'm not invited, I'm going anyway, right,
you know me, what are they gonna do? Stop me?
I'll go there for that. What are that street party
they're gonna have? What are they gonna do? Say you
can't come here? Yeah, I'm the only real New Yorker
who was in this race. Hey, look, he won fair
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and square. But he says it's a block party for
people in New York City. Right, it didn't just say
a block party for those people who voted for him.
Am I correct on that? To be continued. That's why
you better be listening on Friday morning when I returned
for my final program here in substitute for Mark Simon.
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Let's go to Tony, who's calling from White Plains. Your
turn to be heard here at seven to ten war
the voice of New York Tone.
Speaker 7 (31:15):
Yeah, Hi, Churs, Chris. Before you mentioned Salatto over there
on the other station, I thought of that before you did.
But you gave him the perfect name, Salato, because that's
exactly what he means.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Well, let me clarify for our listeners, Tony, I did
not give him that name. It was actually another caller
who say. The Salazzo at WABC is Dominic Carter, Oh,
and he is, and the moo Green Greg Kelly, and
the Tessio who may have been the worst is Sid Rosenberg.
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And you know on Friday what I do every year,
I always do a tribute to Bernard McGirk, who was
I mean, not only the hardest working guy in radio,
but took so much grief from don Nimus said. I
witnessed personally what a great radio guy he was. Died
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way too early. If you're getting together with family and friends,
tell all the males get the PSA tests, the prick
of the finger, a simple blood test. If Bernard McGirk
had done that, he'd be alive today, and all the
nonsense that occurred against me a WABC, always bashing Curtains,
always blaming Curtis, would never have occurred if Bernard McGirk
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were alive and well. But we'll do that tribute on Friday.
This boy, he was an iconic figure in this thing
of ours radio.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Than now more with New York's iconic straight shooter Curtis
Leewah guest hosting from Mark Simone on seven ten Woo.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
You know, on a Miss Friday show My Superior and
see if a Mark Simon will go heavy into artificial intelligence.
I'm not a supporter at all. Neither should most of you,
except if you're in the medical field like we just
brought up Bernard McGirk. Will do my annual tribute to
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him on Friday. But probably had AI been available to
find localized cancers from medical imagery, it does a better
job than humans do, he might still be alive. I'll
give AI high five on that. Well, that's it, because
(33:44):
the list of things that is ruining is long. I
want to listen on Friday. But up next, my stream
of consciousness based on a conversation I had with program
director Tom Cuddy, who I've known for years over at
the old WPLJ. The two hardest working guys in radio
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and in television cross paths first in Los Angeles, but
their roots and most of what they did in their
lives were before all of you in our ChRI State
area and sometimes right here on 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):
Woo oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
My responsibility as being on Mark Simone's turf, the best
talk radio host in our region bar none. And I'm
sure Greg Kelly was listening over there at WABC doing
his show prep as he always did by listening to
Mark Simone. Hey, why not? He had good stuff and
(00:42):
always says good stuff. He'll be back on the fifth
on Monday, but I'll be back on Friday. And the
kind of talk radio I do is different than most
because I believe that we have this opportunity to speak
to all of you now because of the technology, not
just throughout the Try State area, throughout the United States,
(01:04):
but all over the world, because any radio station can
be picked up virtually anywhere. And I've heard from a
lot of people listening to me on wor my place
to be seven to ten. Never again at WABC, which
the acronym stands for always blaming Curtis, for Zara Mandami
(01:25):
being the mayor and always bashing Curtis even to this day.
You think they would give it up, right, Ain't coming
back there? Never I'd rather live in a homeless shelter.
I'd rather be stuck on the number four train and
going round than round. They're outd is he? You think
people understand that? And this is a much better station
(01:46):
in a lot of different ways. But this thing of ours,
talk radio, it requires that you pay homage to it. Now,
Mark Simone does because nobody knows more about radio and
television then March some mom and he talks about it regularly.
I listened to his show, and as you know now
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you have the benefit doesn't have to be appointment radio.
You can always get it on the podcast. But I
want to touch on a few things before I do
my homage in these last two days, for the reason
that many of us have the opportunity to speak to
all of you, whether in live form or if you
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wanted to listen to three four days, a month later,
a year later on these podcasts. First off from Nancy
and yours, truly, we have a special message. New Year's
message will be posting to all of you, the many
hundreds of thousands who have now become followers all over
(02:51):
the world on all the platforms. So whether it's TikTok
that most of you know nothing about Oh you gotta
be on tik talk did you see so on? He
trust me, he didn't get elected because he was on TikTok.
Two years ago. President Donald Trump is saying this is
a red Chinese stripe to take over America, and then
all of a sudden he discovered, hey, maybe I can
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get a few votes with this, and then all of
a sudden, yeah, we love TikTok. TikTok does not get
you elected to anything. So whether it's TikTok, Instagram or Facebook,
where you're you're putting on there what you had for
beakfast this morning at the local diner. Do I need
to see you having eggs and pancakes, you know with toast? Yeah? Yeah,
(03:38):
you post what you had for lunch and then a
mad on am your life must be so miserable? Is
that all you compose? And of course Ellen Musk x,
Twitter so many different ways to get you a message out,
But our message to everybody listening right now and they'll
be posted later on at Curtisley whichever you can get
(04:00):
that social network? Is that all Nancy and I want
for this New Year's is for all stray and shelter
animals to have a loving home. And I know for
some of you we're like, oh here it goes with
the animal welfare stuff. Yeah. And again as we welcome
in a new year, it doesn't get any better than
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Mahatma Gandhi again a victim of an assassination because of
his beliefs, but a man who's said, is society that
does not take care of its animals does not take
care of its people. And on my way here to
Wor seven ten to do this broadcast to all of you,
(04:43):
I had to pass the homeless people and emotionally disturbed
persons in the subway because the hawk is talking out
there it's cold, and talk with them, many of them
that I know, And see all the flots and jets.
As I came up top to the street, I was
picking up the garbage. It was flying all over and
(05:06):
people are looking at me. You pick up garbage too,
and so what is it? That's where I was raised
by my grandfather, Fidela Bianngino from body Italy. On my
mother's side, Francesca side. He said, one young which means
young man, young boy. You see garbage? Yeah, like you
heard Eric Adams say, we're gonna talk about him a
(05:28):
second at Mama Luke. But anyway, you see something, you
see something. Hey. Long before they ever quantified that statement,
my grandfather would tell me, Hey, you see garbage, you
pick it up. If you can't find a can and
put it in, you put it in your pocket until
you can find a can. That's where I was brought up,
(05:50):
and many of you listening now were brought up. And
it used to be the sanitation department. After they pick
up the garbage, it had brooms on the truck. Remember
when they would have broom were the brooms now? Huh?
They pick up the garbage and that's it, not my job.
Then we have these business improvement districts. They hire mostly
mental women who have been down on their luck, and
(06:12):
they go out there and they change the trash can
bags and they do a little sweeping and that's all good.
We never needed that. Years ago, everybody picked up the garbage.
So people were looking at me this morning on my
way here to wo Oh, like I believe, like I
belong in the Museum of Natural History, Like here is
(06:36):
a species from a different era that actually believes if
you see something garbage on the ground, you pick it up.
The problem is that the police Commissioner, Jessicatsh who you
all fall and over. When she was sanitation commissioner, she
took half the baskets off the streets. Well, if there
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are less baskets, there'll be less garbage. Ugh, past the
great poupon jescatage, Maybe Jeeves or a limo driver on
Park Avenue can get you to one police plaza. That
was a disastrous program. Some of the folks in the
MTA money taking agency, you know, they were having the
press conference. Yet it's the end of the metro card
(07:19):
and now all of a sudden you're gonna have to
tap and go the omni card, debit card, credit card.
There'll be nothing left the beginning of the year on
your debit or credit card. So good luck. And I'm
saying to myself, are these people delusional? One third of
the people don't even pay their subway for their to
begin with, and that's gonna increase with zor on Mondamique.
(07:39):
One half don't even pay the city bus fare. They
don't do a tap in go, they don't have a
metro card, and if you say anything to them, they
give you the finger. They're defiant. So they're all mourning
the loss of the Metro card. What are you talking about?
Half the people didn't even use a Metro card to
get in on a bus, one third on the subway. Oh,
(08:03):
because of the crime that never gets dealt with. It's
called fair evasion. That's a crime. Let's face it. Let's
not make any arrests. Let's not make people pay the
fair even though they are all kind of programs. If
you're down on your luck, half fair, one third fare,
but you gotta go out and get that right. We're
(08:25):
not gonna bring you to eat. So that's my first observation.
And then all of a sudden, I'm on the subway
platform and I'm trying to give tourist directions because naturally
the token booth clerks who do nothing. Now it's like
a feather bettered job. They should be out of the
(08:45):
booth giving instructions to people at the machines to be
able to pay their fare because he's getting scammed by
every hustler in the world. But they should also be
telling people how to get around town. So I'm helping
tourists and many of them already know me. Hey, Curtis,
I'm trying to get down to where else? The World
Trade Center, that's where they want to go. See the battery,
(09:07):
want to see the Statue of Liberty, all the places
that we folks, we don't go because we know that's
where all the tourists go. Like, if any of you
are schmucks or puttses and you're gonna go down to
Times Square to watch the ball drop, did you not
hear Jessica Tish say, Oh, they're gonna be double screenings.
They took all the garbage cans away. There's no porter sands,
(09:30):
there's none of that. They cattle cars. And you're gonna
start mooing at three o'clock. That's when they're gonna start
letting you in. And once you're in, you don't get out.
You get out, you don't come back. So imagine you've
already been drinking a few. It's three o'clock. The ball
doesn't drop until, uh, until all of a sudden the
(09:54):
new year comes in. Right, say, let me, I'm not
too good at nine hours? Right, nine hours? You think
you could hold it in nine hours? Have you been
drinking a few? Hoisting a few? That's why on my
way over here, I stopped at a few Dwayne Reid's
and CVS's wiped out of depends wiped out because people
(10:16):
live their whole life to come to watch the ball
drop on Times Square, and they come from Monta, Mexico City,
and they come from ky Town, South Africa. They come
from everywhere because they want that experience. But if you
happen to be living in this Tri state area and
you're stupid enough to show up because you want to
be able to talk about it, don't waste your time.
(10:43):
But make sure you have depends on. Yeah, because remember,
we come into this world with diapers at some point,
and most of us when we go out of this world,
we'll be wearing diapers. So get ready. And here's Jessicati saying, yeah,
there'll be two screenings. Okay, Jessica, you keep talking and
(11:04):
then of course, uh, there's a boss. But thank god,
just the final day that Mama Luke, what a cry baby.
Eric Adams the most corrupt mayor in the history of
New York City, and that is saying a lot. The
swaggerman with no plan and the nightlife mayor. All he
ever did was hang out in clubs till they break
of dawn and a man who just waited to be
(11:26):
wind eying them pocket lined, and if my sources are correct,
decided to drop out a running for mayor when the
price was right. Uh you remember that show the price
was right? I think I think he settled on twenty mil.
I think time will tell, because then he was like, well,
(11:48):
should I go to the inauguration at city? Should ain't
not go?
Speaker 4 (11:52):
I wouldn't have made asked me to go in and
tell your peepsys An Easterns. Don't yell at me, don't
shout at what a mama, luke, what a baby? And
so I guess the mayor had a conversation with him,
the incoming mayor, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
You should be there. Oh I'm gonna be there, Like wow, wow,
Eric Adams, He's the reason this is sore. Had Mandami,
had he done anywhere of a decent job, halfway job,
he would have been the Democratic incumbent mayor running for reelection.
I would have been the Republican candidate. And hey, it
(12:28):
would have been tough. It's tough for a Republican to
begin with. He failed, and then they resurrected that political
some be Cuomo. By the way, is anybody seeing Cuomo
Will he be at the inauguration, of course not. Is
he anywhere other than hanging out with his billionaire friends
as he's slithered under his rock in the Hampton's where
(12:49):
he loves to be. Maybe he can launch it after
the run for mayor of Southampton. So here was Eric Adams.
You were told I'm gonna write a book. I got
the title ready. I didn't do nothing wrong. He's gonna
get involved in cryptocurrency, which is bitcoin crime coin, and
he wants to teach a new generation of how to
(13:09):
become criminals, because that's what blockchain cryptocurrency is. It's a scam.
We'll talk about that on Friday, my last day here.
We're gonna talk about AI. Oh my god, what a headache.
And also robotics because the masters of the universe are
all telling you to worry about it. We're gonna take
your jobs, but we're gonna give you a universal high
(13:32):
income of about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year.
You're not gonna have to do nothing. You just sit
at home, scratch your belly button. We're going to take
care of you. You trust any of them, We'll get
into all of that. These are subjects, many of which
don't get discussed and talk radio. And then of course
(13:54):
there is Eric Adams on his way out, who has
decided that, hey, you know, there is things I'm going
to do to try to make amends. He said, signing
an executive order today. I always had breaking news, right, Hey,
this is Mark Simon's turf. It's not my turf. I
(14:16):
had breaking news. He's using an executive order in the
waning moments of his horrible mayoralty to have charter revision.
Now what that is, ladies and gentlemen. He's going to
assign people to actually put on the ballot this coming year,
the gubernatory year, the midterm elections on the back of
your ballot, things that you as citizens can vote on.
(14:41):
I think the chairman is I gotta check my sources
on this, but got it on pretty good authority. My
husband and lawd David Pattison, the former governor, a man
who needs adderall. In this last mayoral election. First, he
was Ferriick Adams, and he was for and he was
for Eric Adams and he was for Como. He gave
(15:02):
me vertigo and I said, do me a favor and
don't endorse me. It's a kiss her death and it was,
so give him some adderall he'll be on the charity commission.
I guess the Mayor's going to have some others. And
there should be the question of sanctuary city up there,
which I talked about during the campaign. Let the people vote.
Let the people, boy, A lot of people will come
(15:24):
out to vote in an election on that issue. Whether
you're for it or against it. You can have town
hall meetings, you can have spirited debate. You will have
a lot of people coming out to vote in nothing
more because of that issue. Let's see what Eric Adams
is going to do. And how about putting on the
(15:47):
initiative and referendum for twenty twenty six, once and for all,
voting on the horse joint carriage issue. Let the people decide.
And on that note, it's gonna lead us into a
homage coming up to the man who was considered the
father of talk radio, and he started right here on WOR. Yeah, Yeah,
(16:13):
our new favorite station here in the sleeper household. Nancy,
yours truly and yet our six cats we listen to
seven ten WOR and so shit, all of you our
numbers one, eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten.
That's one eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten.
(16:35):
The Pulse of.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
New York Now on the Voice of New York, Curtis
Sleewall guest host marks them all on sevent ten wor.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Oh you're not gonna want to miss Friday one, I'm back.
We talk about artificial intelligence, like that Stephen King novel
What was that that collection of his works? Like em
You remember that song?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Is?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
He certainly doesn't remember that. That wasn't his play? Less
the End of the World as we know it?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Right?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
We'll discuss that because it affects everybody, everybody, and it's
moving too fast and too many of you may end
up losing your jobs unfortunately as a result of what
they call artificial intelligence. But let's talk about the homage
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to talk radio, of which many of you loved. You
grew up with it as I did, and the father
of talk radio is rarely, if ever recognized now and
it started all here at war seven ten. Who is
a guy? Barry Gray? Barry Gray was from Mike Believe
it was Red and Lion New Jersey got a job?
Is disc jockey bat then spinning stacks of wax I
(18:04):
think he was playing a Woody Herman song, and then
Woody Herman called up. And then right after Woody Herman
hung up, instead of going back to playing records, Harry
Gray crushed over that maginal line and started to take
people that were calling up on the request line and
(18:27):
having conversations with them. So the suits at w R
some of them were saying, wait, wait, you're just supposed
to be playing stacks of wax occasionally, you know, you
talk to Benny Goodman or Woody Herman. You don't be
taking calls. And others said, no, that was so fascinating.
That's how talk radio was invented, because talk radio is
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really about the conversation that we have with all of you.
It's not so much guest oriented, it's you. The call
is your turn to be hurt, so to get give
you an idea in the golden age of radio. He
then is hosting an overnight show at the Copa Cabana.
I mean that was the place you wanted to be.
I know you recognize that is the Barry Manilo the
(19:12):
song Copa Cabana, East sixtieth Street, right off of Fifth Avenue.
Everybody wanted to go there. Couldn't go mob controlled by
Frank Costello, and he had like the first interview with
Dean Martin who was from Stubenville, Ohio, and the teen
that was put together Jerry Lewis, so as Martin Lewis.
(19:33):
Jerry Lewis was from the Newert And boy, if you're
gonna watch one movie, you gonna watch one movie over
this weekend. You gotta see one of my favorites, The
King of Comedy with Jerry Lewis and Robert de Niro.
It is absolutely outstanding. Never gets the credit that it's due.
(19:55):
But Barry Gway was such a listen to radio broadcast
again the father a talk radio, doing live talk radio
out of the most popular nightclub in America, the Corporate Cabanam.
And it was Walter Winshew who was despising him. Walter
Winshew who was the columnist at that time. Ed Sullivan
(20:17):
was a columnist and they would do battle with one another.
But the one guy Walter Winshew hated the most was
Barry Gray. And apparently when Walter Winshell died penniless, he
was out there on Hollywood Boulevard. He was mimeographing what
(20:38):
would have been his column for the day because nobody
wanted to syndicate him any longer, nobody wanted to print
it in the newspaper. He'd hand it on the corner.
Died penniless. But apparently when they cleaned out his office
after he passed away, I think only his daughter and
maybe two or three people attended his way, the most
(20:58):
powerful on Sunday nights walk to Winchhill. Uh you ever
see the replays of The Untouchables with Robert Stacked after
that's the voice? Well, it all so many anyway, So
they're cleaning out his office and apparently he had up
pinned to the wall a photo of a bloodied Barry
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Gray who was beaten up by mobsters on his way
out of the Copacabana after hosting overnight radio, the most
listened to in the nation. And that just shows you
the intensity of this thing of ours. Now, why shouldn't we,
(21:45):
I know, Mark Simond does. Why shouldn't we all pay
tribute to these men and women who paved the way
and made it so that we could talk to all
of you all over the world like we're doing right
now on our new favorite station. And it should be
yours seven ten WOR, but it is your turn to
be heard up next the format created by Barry Gray
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unexpectedly right here at seven ten WR our number is
one eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten.
That's one eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
And then in a stream of consciousness, I had a
conversation with Tom Cuddy, our program director, who knows so
much and has dealt with so many people. And the
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next home, we're going to talk about the hardest working
guy ever in radio and the hardest working guy ever
in TV. And they have a lot in common, and
they had a lot of impact on all of you
right here in the Tri State area. And yeah, one
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of them worked right here at seven ten WOR.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
The voice that fights for New York literally Curtis Leewad
guest hose for Mark Simone on sevent ten.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Woo Artificial Intelligence, AI busy, You're gone. If I remained
at talk radio show hosts, I'll be gone. There won't
be jobs for anybody, because let's leave it to the
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masters of the universe. Elon Musk any other billionaires, trillionaires
who said, don't worry, we'll have universal high income, We'll
take care of all of you from the cradle to
the grave. You're on one hundred and fifty five thousand
dollars a year and you can play with your belly
button lint at home. Yeah, well, you're gonna trust any
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of them before we go to the phones. I went
through Times Square earlier this week and they have what
they call their wishing wall. It's mostly for tour who
are dumb enough to show up and want to wait
for the ball to drop. Remember today, the rules are
three o'clock. That's when you got to get into your
(24:09):
cattle pens. All the depends have been cleaned off the
racks at CBS and Dwayne Reid because you met you
met a double bundle yourself. Imagine you got to be
there from three to twelve when the ball drops nine hours.
You've been drinking a little bit, right, you know you're
gonna have to go and you can't squeeze your legs forever.
(24:33):
But if you leave the cattle pen, you can't come back. Now,
why would anybody in their right mind who lives in
the Tri State area want to venture into that? Normally
they'd start loading up the cattle pens at six or
Jessica Tis, she wants everybody search twice. It's like taking
the list and then checking it twice. Ridiculous. But then again,
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you gotta be ridiculous to be there. That's why you
notice it's But anyway, so they're putting up these pasties
on this wishing wall. I got about two hundred thousand.
They'll be shredded up, put with the confetti that drops
with the release of the ball to welcome in twenty
twenty six. And there's one paste it stood out to me.
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It said, no more AI. Oh, we're gonna get into
that on Friday, and we're gonna talk about bitcoin, crime,
coin and driverless vehicles. A lot of you driving right now,
not gonna need you if you're doing this for a profession.
The masters of the universe don't want to have to
(25:39):
pay any of you. They're gonna they're gonna take care
of you from the cradle to the grave. Yeah, yeah, right,
don't trust them. Let's go if we can to Bill,
who's calling? Your turn to be heard here at seven
to ten wor.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Billy Good Morning. Curtis comment on Walter Winstel's radio shows,
he had there was a major plumbing league in the
White House between nineteen thirty three and nineteen forty five,
and that leak went right to Walter Winch's radio show.
The League was the president himself Fdr Right. Everyone had
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been because of that League. He my god, he had.
Walter Winschell had more enemies after forty five Truman. Truman
hated Winschell, so after forty five his radio net just
collapsed on him.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Well, let me tell you one thing. When I was
over at WABC, no longer my place to be, we
had a crown jewel in broadcasting on Sunday Night who
just wanted to be like his mentor, Walter Winchell. His
name was Matt Trudge. The guy loved talk radio. I
know because when I met him in LA for the
first time, he was behind the seven and eleven serving
(26:53):
not chosen slurpies. He was not the mad Trudge that
he became. And he would go and listen to Kiev
George Putnam. I would be a guest there, organizing Guardian Angels,
and we got to know one another. And George Putman
was sort of like the Bob Grant of LA and
he would regale us with stories. He wanted to be
(27:14):
just like Walter Winchell. He had to hat the whole
nine yards. Lynn Samuel's another great hostess and talk creative
and never gets recognized, was his board operator. On Sunday nights.
They had ratings that nobody ever had. And you know
what happened. Bill, the program director at the time, Phil Boyce,
goes and the network wants to syndicate you. You're doing
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so well Monday through Friday from six to nine. And
Matt Judge said, all they want to do is Sunday nights.
Just like my mentor, Walter Winchell, I don't want to
do radio five days a week. And then Phil just
kept pressing him, and you know, somed he picked up,
he left, he went down to Miami. The rest is history.
(27:57):
The person who got hired to fill that boy because
they were so hoping that Matt Drudge would get those
same ratings from Monday through Friday. Uh, take a guess
somebody who also his mentor when he was listening on
Hiatus to Bob Grant at WWB, Mark Levin, who grew
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up outside of Philadelphia, and that's how his radio career started.
If only they had left Matt Drudge alone with Lynn
Samuels's board operator, both of them very eccentric, but it
was some of the greatest radio of all time. And
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the ratings were through the roof. The other trick they
use over there at WABC, they had this thing they say,
look at the stream on my phone. Look at the stream,
Look how my ratings are going up. That's not ratings.
It's like the Wizard of Ours. It's like snake oil salesman.
(29:00):
And they all buy that. You want real ratings. Boy,
I never seen ratings like Matt Drudge got on Sunday nights,
imitating his mentor, Walter Winschew, who would do only one
radio show a week on Sunday nights on the ABC network.
Thousands of radios would be tuned to him. Thousands of
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radio stations carried that the golden age of radio. Well,
let's go back to the phones in honor today of
the father of talk radio, Barry Gray, who really created
the format of taking calls. Let's go to Maria, who's
calling from Westchester. Your turn to be heard here at
seven to ten WR Hello.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Curtis, what an honor to talk to you. Can we
ask if Johan and Donnie will be taking his oath
of office with his hand on the Constitution. Well, one
of his swearing inns be based on the Constitution. Will
he respect this Constitution of the United States.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
I wouldn't know because I haven't been invited. You know,
you show that, Mama, lou carrincattam to show up. If
you tell you a zornista's not taboomy, oh my god.
I will try to find that out for you. Whether
he's taking it on a Koran, a Bible, based on
our United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights. I will
(30:26):
certainly let you know by Friday, because, as I told
my wife Nancy, if I'm not invited, I'm going anyway, right,
you know me, what are they gonna do? Stop me?
I'll go there for that. What are that street party
they're gonna have? What are they gonna do? Say you
can't come here? Yeah, I'm the only real New Yorker
who was in this race. Hey, look, he won fair
(30:48):
and square. But he says it's a block party for
people in New York City. Right, it didn't just say
a block party for those people who voted for him.
Am I correct on that? To be continued. That's why
you better be listening on Friday morning when I returned
for my final program here in substitute for Mark Simon.
(31:09):
Let's go to Tony, who's calling from White Plains. Your
turn to be heard here at seven to ten war
the voice of New York Tone.
Speaker 7 (31:15):
Yeah, Hi, Churs, Chris. Before you mentioned Salatto over there
on the other station, I thought of that before you did.
But you gave him the perfect name, Salato, because that's
exactly what he means.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Well, let me clarify for our listeners, Tony, I did
not give him that name. It was actually another caller
who say. The Salazzo at WABC is Dominic Carter, Oh,
and he is, and the moo Green Greg Kelly, and
the Tessio who may have been the worst is Sid Rosenberg.
(31:52):
And you know on Friday what I do every year,
I always do a tribute to Bernard McGirk, who was
I mean, not only the hardest working guy in radio,
but took so much grief from don Nimus said. I
witnessed personally what a great radio guy he was. Died
(32:12):
way too early. If you're getting together with family and friends,
tell all the males get the PSA tests, the prick
of the finger, a simple blood test. If Bernard McGirk
had done that, he'd be alive today, and all the
nonsense that occurred against me a WABC, always bashing Curtains,
always blaming Curtis, would never have occurred if Bernard McGirk
(32:36):
were alive and well. But we'll do that tribute on Friday.
This boy, he was an iconic figure in this thing
of ours radio.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Than now more with New York's iconic straight shooter Curtis
Leewah guest hosting from Mark Simone on seven ten Woo.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
You know, on a Miss Friday show My Superior and
see if a Mark Simon will go heavy into artificial intelligence.
I'm not a supporter at all. Neither should most of you,
except if you're in the medical field like we just
brought up Bernard McGirk. Will do my annual tribute to
(33:18):
him on Friday. But probably had AI been available to
find localized cancers from medical imagery, it does a better
job than humans do, he might still be alive. I'll
give AI high five on that. Well, that's it, because
(33:44):
the list of things that is ruining is long. I
want to listen on Friday. But up next, my stream
of consciousness based on a conversation I had with program
director Tom Cuddy, who I've known for years over at
the old WPLJ. The two hardest working guys in radio
(34:06):
and in television cross paths first in Los Angeles, but
their roots and most of what they did in their
lives were before all of you in our ChRI State
area and sometimes right here on sevent ten wor
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