December 29, 2025 • 34 mins
Curtis Sliwa fills in for Mark Simone and discusses a recent Hollywood Reporter article that highlights his signature habit of always asking new acquaintances where they are from. Curtis offers his perspective on the article and delves into why this personal touch matters to him. He also pays tribute to legendary French actress and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot, who has passed away at 91. Curtis reflects on Bardot’s life, her dedication to animal welfare, and draws parallels to the animal advocacy work he and his wife, Nancy Sliwa, are passionate about. Curtis takes your calls on the Hollywood Reporter profile, Brigitte Bardot’s legacy, and related topics.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Then and now the Guardian Angel of talk radio is here.
Curtis leewa guest host the Mark Simon Show on seven
ten WOO.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
And this I final weeks up stooding for Mark Simon.
Nobody better in the business. What a smooth operator. Think
of that song by Shada nineteen eighty four. Think of
that in nineteen eighty four. It's going to come back
when I talk about the two books being written by
Bernard about Bernard Gets that are being published at the
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same time the beginning of this year, forty one years
since the Subway Gumman. So we're going to connect all
the dots. But thanks to Mark Simon for giving me
this opportunity, Tom Cuddy, the program director, who I've known
for years from his stage over at WPLJ, and of
course the iHeart group of station's largest in the nation
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doesn't get any better than this. This is like a
second birthday present for me, because I got the Christmas
present which was substituting the first week. This will be
my Birthday present March twenty six aries fire. You know,
I don't go over under, I go right through. And
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who would have ever thought that I would have made
it to seventy two years old. So I got my
Christmas present substituting for Marquere and I'm getting my pre
birthday present. And then yesterday, because it's always busy in
my life, huge article came out. It had been done
weeks ago when it came out now and all of
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a sudden, my phone was like blowing up from Hollywood.
Oh yeah, everybody out there on the West coast Hollywood
that I've known over the years, where I've met over
the years, was calling me about this article the Hollywood Reporter.
That's the bible for their business out there. So whether
it's movies, TV, whether it's streaming music, whatever it is,
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that's their bible. And the article was Curtis Leewoo just
wants you to know, wants to know where are you from?
Because that's what I always asked, right is he? I
asked you where you're from? From? The Bronxes and No Jersey,
What high school do you go to? I always have
these series of questions because it tells me a lot
about who you are, where you're from, what your roots are.
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And so it is a huge article and I got
this one call from a guy. Now, all of a sudden,
he's interested in Curtius Slawak, can I do this? Can
I do that? Can you know they're all they're all
schmoozing you. Uh, they're pulling your chain and chewing your shorts.
And he's like, hey, you remember me. Remember I grew
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up in benson Hurst. Yeah, I remember you. Oh man,
I got I got ideas of what we can do.
I said, really, really, okay, Uh, could you share a
few with me? And he goes on and on things
he'd never be able to do in a month of Sundays.
But he's schnoring me. He snoring me, okay. And I
know this guy because in the midst of this mayoral
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election he became a Cuomo sexual. He donated a lot
of money from Hollywood to Cuomo and he.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Called me a clown. He thinks I'm gonna forget that, right.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
So he's going on and on. He's on the roll,
doing this typical routine they do out in Hollywood, And
I said, cause you hold a second, I gotta I
gotta take a call from mister click. And I hung
up the phone on him. Guy has no idea what
it is, so he must have assumed that there was
a break. He calls me right back, and I said, yeah,
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I had a great conversation with mister Click. I'm sorry
it took me a little bit of time to get
back to your call, but I I want you to
be able to talk to mister Click now. And then
hung up on him. You think that's do not You
think he finally understood that you don't play with Curtis
Lee right, You don't stroke me and think I'm not
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gonna remember. I don't forgive and I don't forget. Oh,
by the way, I hope Greg Kelly is listening over
at WABC because his show prep was always marked simone
the best in the business, and he's sort of been
a dollar short in a day late, not having a
routine to be able to pick pocket from. But that's okay.
Why wouldn't you listen to mark someone the best in
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the business. I certainly have over the years. But let's
talk about yesterday, because it was a Hollywood day. My wife, Nancy,
as you know animal welfare activists, was quest for him
by the loss of Bridgiet Buddo. Now, obviously my wife
is a millennial. She didn't know Bridge Bardeaux from her
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liberated sex bomb era of movies that she appeared in,
especially the ones that were made with Roger Vidim, who
then went on to marry years later Jane Fonda, Remember Barbarella. Yeah, okay,
but no, let's stick to Bridget Bardeus that one film
and God Created Woman. Right now, these are all in France,
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so you gotta have subtitles to them, right God Created Woman.
It opens up with her sun bathing in the news.
This is nineteen fifty six. Think about that, nineteen fifty six,
and later she emerges from the sea in a clinging
wet dress. I'll never forget that scene, and at the
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top of her career, with the paparazzi chasing her all over.
Remember this is the era Marilyn Monroe, so many other
sex bombs, but there was a certain sub a fair
about Bishard Bardell. So she's at the can Film Festival
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right there off the Mediterranean. She's in demand and at
the top of her movie making career. She walks away
from it. She goes to Sanchope and she sets up
an animal welfare sanctuary. She goes out to the Arctic
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and she confronts these barbarians who are clubbing baby seals
to death.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Confronts them.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, I'm sure some of them are like Brigard Bardeaux
my day. Who would ever think you would see Bridget
Bardeaux at the North Pole.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
But she was a fighter for animal welfare, and she
consistently railed against laboratory experiments against animals which are being
filtered out in the Trump administration in the Pentagon.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Also and other federal agencies.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Imagine it's still and you know, testing on beagles like
that that U discraciata Dr Fauci, testing on beagles, sending
them off to Tunisia, third world country, and then putting
cones around their heads and having sand.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Fleas eat the skin off their heads.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
For what purposes we spent money on that? It was
never explained, doctor Fauci. You will burn in hell for
that and many other things. By the way, he's a
boy from Bench and her screw up pharmacy. Uh then
went to Regis, the most prestigious of Jesuit high schools,
better than the one I went to Brooklyn Prep. But
he was a disgrace for many many reasons.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
All right, let's stick with it with Bridget Bartell.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
And then she says, I don't care about my past glory.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I am taking every franc, every euro that I.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Have, and I'm investing it in adopting unwanted animal snowkill
shelters Spain and neutering. Now, her politics was extreme right.
She was a follower of lapenn She hated Muslims. She
was cited for that many times for hate speech. But yesterday,
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for those in the animal welfare community, it was a
reminder how so many who have done so well in
Hollywood in a movie making and in TV production walked
away or in their final years bequeathed all their money
to animal welfare. Now, the complete opposite of Richard Bardot
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at that time was Dori Stay. She was America's sweetheart.
Remember Doris Stay. I remember seeing her in Pillow Talk
I think it was nineteen sixty with Rock Hudson. Who
know that Rock Hudson was gay, but he was. These
were great movies. But she was America's sweetheart. And then
while doing a film in about nineteen seventy one, she
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saw some people abusing animals and immediately I think she
was doing the film The Man who Knew Too Much
nineteen seventy one, she established actors and others for animals.
No de fur, no defer, and who joined the Mary
Tyler Moore, Angie Dickenson, Jane Meadows, and of course Bob
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Barker the price is right. If he saw you warring
wearing a fur, he would have punched your schnaz right
down your throat.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
And this became her passion.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
She lived by Karmel by the Sea, you know Clint
Eastwood where he became mayor Karmel by the Sea, a
lifelong Republican, died at ninety seven, bequeathed all of her
wealth to her at almost sanctuary. And then, of course
there was Betty White. Betty White died at about a hundred.
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I never forget seeing her on phil Donague in the
afternoons and she was talking about her animal welfare fund
and somebody was giving her a hard time. Yeah, look
Betty White, Golden Girls Hot in Cleveland, the Mary Tyler
Moore Show. Betty White an institution, bequeathed all her money
to her animal wildlife fund. And then, oh yeah, for
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the guys out there, there's Wakie Phoenix. Remember that great movie,
the first one, the Joker, not not the second one
with Oh god, that was not a good one. No, no, no, no, no,
the second movie could not touch the first one that
was classic. So here's Joaquin Phoenix. He's receiving the Academy award. Uh,
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he's speaking gibberish up there, who knew where his mind was,
like so many of these actors and actresses. And the
very next day he's out rescuing as she was known
to do animals in factory farms. He would actually go there.
He would say to those in charge of the farmers,
how much you want for that mother cow? How much
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you want for that new born calf? Spending his wealth
to do that great actor? So many others, and think
of it, people make fun of you. Would you make
fun of Doris Day? Would you make fun of Betty White? Well,
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they do make fun of Joaquin Phoenix. They say he
is looney Kazuni from parts on own great actor, no
doubt about it. And Bridget Bardeux, who when they said
are you a recluse, she said, no, I'm not a recluse.
I would rather deal with animals than with people. And
then the most recent maybe we'll get to it in
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this week when I'm substituting for Mark Simoon pigeons, which
in my mind street pigeons should be the official bird
of New York City, right, Oh man, you get such battles.
Some people say they're nothing more than rats with wings.
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You know, they put up spikes on their windows cells. Hey,
you don't want pigeons coming on your window cells. Put
up plastic owls. That's like a natural nemesis to them.
It sort of like when you go to a cornfield
and they put up scarecrows and keeps the crows who
have very smart. Pigeons very smart, but they will not
land on a window cell or any area that has
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a plastic owl in. And boy, tremendous controversy raging because
another great actress actually came to the support.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
The pigeons, the actress Sarah Paulson.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
She did a podcast in what she was saying, we
shouldn't be torturing the street pigeons. They're a part of
our New York City heritage and legacy, and they are
and they have performed so many services for us over
the decades, without which we might have suffered enormously. And
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I grew up with pigeons on the roof of my
grandfather and grandmother's house in Kannarci. My uncle Vincenz used
to have a pigeon coop. There were a lot of
pigeon coops back then, so I nurtured them, I fed them,
I trained them Boston Bulldies and Homer's, so I have
a direct infinity for pigeons. But boy, you talk about
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mixing ammonian bleach and my own wife. I'm so proud
of her, Nancy, who stood up to a comrade build
a blasio back then, the part time mayor, the dope
from Park Slope, when he said, if you feed pigeons,
we are gonna find you and my wife, Nancy, in
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classic Clint Eastwood terminology, turned to build a blasio on
the steps of city Hall when he was mayor unfortunately
for eight years, and said make my day as she
and others began feeding the pigeons right there. Oh you
can see all that. Just go to act Curtis Sliwer.
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It's all posted there. But what a day following the
Hollywood Reporter, I mean, dissing and dismissing somebody of great renown.
Gotta know you don't play with Curtis Sliwa, You don't
play with me. Coming up next, so we got to
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talk about two books that are being published by about
Bernard Getz forty one years later coming out at the
same time by the same publishing house, and I guarantee
you because of that, it'll probably be a movie made
about what occurred forty one years ago in December of
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the subways of New York City that I spend most
of my time in. Our number is eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten. That's eight hundred three two
one zero seven ten. Because this is the place for
you to be heard. Now if you if you weren't
part of the w R seven ten listenership, you need
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to now I Annancy are, and they are a growing
number of people out there. Justsu dial right in at
eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Curtis Sleewald, guess hos for marks them all on seven tenor.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Too bad? Is he who left WABC to come here
to be with everybody here at war along with Jacqueline
carl who I heard this morning newsgalp same thing. Great
to see all these people here. Even better is he
if you could have played coming back into this segment
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Cooling the Gang Hollywood Swinging, Now that's the original cool
in the Gang. Don't don't strain your brain. Is he
from Jersey City? That was Robert Coolbell and they were
followers of Schooy Louis fire Kin in the Nation of Islam.
So that becomes a choke because that was a favorite
group of mine. I mean, walking around today, coming out
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of the subway with the drizzle, the gray, it was
sort of like Winter Sadness another great song of his,
or Summer Madness, great stuff Old Cool in the gang.
But you don't have to do that because speaking about
coming out of the subways, I'm almost guaranteeing you out
there that there's gonna be a movie being made soon
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about the subway gunman Bernard Gets. Now it's not in
a Hollywood reporter, has been reported anywhere, but I was
on the line with a New York Times reporter who
was telling me, Curtis, how do you make what do
you make of this? Forty one years later, remember it
was in December of nineteen eighty four that Bernard Gets
shot Barry Allen, Troy Kanty, James Ramseur, Daryl Kaby once
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a piece as they were surrounding him, almost like in
a cockwork orange and then when Daryl Kby was on
the ground, he shot him once in the back and said,
you don't you know, looks so bad, bang, and then
fled into the subway and disappeared to New Hampshire eventually
turned himself in. So he got two books coming out
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from the same publishing house at the same time, and
so there's got to be something that's cole mingling, conflating
out conflating out there. And the one question he asked
me says, how would New York City treat the subway
gunman now if that had occurred this year as compared
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to forty one years ago, I still forget about it.
I mean, Black Lives Matter would be resurrected. You know,
they became big, large mansions, they became a real estate
firm at people's expense with donating money to that fraudulent operation.
But anyway, they'd be back out on the streets, no justice,
no peace, morning, noon and night, every day, every week,
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every month. And look at the hard time they gave
Daniel Penny, the marine who unfortunately had to choke Jordan
Neely to stop him from threatening people on that f
train back in May of twenty twenty three. A lot
of people forget that Olxlim shady Sharpton, who was protesting
against Bernard Gets during that trial, was also urging his
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friend Alvin Bragg to charge the two people who helped
restrain Jordan Neely with Daniel Penny. He wanted them charge
with manslaughter, along with aoc all our crazy Alexandria Cassio Cortes.
So the difference is the community was split back then
in nineteen eighty four, had half the people that were
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supporting Bernard Gets got half not no matter it depending
where you went. It became a racially charged issue and
it pitted white versus black, as so many instances that
it affected our city did back then, coming from the
time that Ed Koch was mayor for the last time
and then lost in that Democratic primary to David Dinkins,
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it was a racially charged era. Now, how many people
would have been standing up in support of Bernard Gets,
few of any. This city has changed significantly from forty
one years ago, and it's interesting that books coming out now. Also,
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I'm going to give you an update. You don't want
to go anywhere. Remember, I've been tracking it down how
Republican leadership in Washington and throughout New York State has
forsaken the Republican Party. Yep, they won a UNI party.
They want one party, and they're going to try to
convince all of you. In future elections they go with
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the moderate Democrat against the socialist Democrat because Republicans don't
have a chance to win in citywide elections and statewide elections.
Remember I spent last week upstate New York and Albany, Renseala, Troy,
Schenectady learning more. Last night I was at a Republican
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confab in New York City connecting the dots and oh,
you don't want to go anywhere, because not only did
they stab me in the back and at least Stephonic,
but they're gonna try to convince you if the Schmucker
putts Chuck e chees Schumer decides to run again, and
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that's always a possibility because they never quite understand till death,
do you part. They want to stay in office until
their room tempership. Oh no, no, no, you're gonna have
to listen. Oh man, this you'll say never never, Oh yeah,
it's already happening. And I'll connect all the dots of you,
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and then who weighs in on our fire Commissioner Ellen Musk.
You know this is why I say about the billionaires,
the masters of the universe. They know what they do.
They need to stay in their lane. Talk about a
schmucker of Putts. Does he not realize? Of course he doesn't.
How many fire commissioners we've had here in New York
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City that never put out a basket fire. And I'm
not just talking about with Eric Adams swager Man with
no plan who got wine din in pocket line. I
can't wait. I can't wait till he's out of here because.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
He's still covetching.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Oh woe is me. I'm such a victim. But now
it's time for you to be hurt. Call eight hundred
and three to two one zero sevent ten your newfound friend.
If you haven't listened before this seven ten war. That's
eight hundred three two one zero sevent ten.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Curtis Sleewah guess hose for Mark Simone on sevent ten?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Wor very good? Very good? Is he? Anyway? Coming off
of that article and the Hollywood reporter that was making
my phone singing ring not interested, and I introduced them
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to mister Click. The headline was Curtis LEEO just wants
to know where you're from. So I said to is
her board operator, where you're from. He said West Milford,
and I said, oh, that's where Jungle Habitat was. Oh,
that was great Jungle Habitat. And then to know how
my mind works, I'm thinking all the other great song
from Cooling the Gang. The original was Jungle Boogie back
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in nineteen seventy three, seventy four. They were from Jersey City,
from the Wild and Peaceful album. And that's when is
he walked away from me and said, man, let me
get out of here. Back to the boardroom.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Anyway, let's go to the phones. It's your turn to
be heard.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
It's Phil calling from Queen's Welcome to Seven to ten
war film.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Hey, best wishes her great happy new year. Thank you
for running. You know you're still a hero to most
New Yorkers. I'm hoping that you will stay on the
case because, as Bob Gregg would say, stake, phony and
fraud is gonna be messing around. I hope a lot
of people will show up.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
For peaceful protests at his inauguration.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
If you notice he has a closed party. He's capturing
emails and contacts for future fundraising and future mobilization. And
I just I know you're gonna stay on it. I
just wanted to stay Hotey, and.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I appreciate that. Phil understand this. I ain't going nowhere.
I improve, I don't move. I will be part of
that group that says to the barricades, Look, John MONDAMMI
won the election, fair and square. It's a fair election.
He's entitled to have his celebration. Hey, that's another cool
in the game, classic celebration. But anyway, the point being
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he's entitled. Everybody, Oh, he's gonna have the blocks. The
guy gets elected, right, the first Muslim man, Oh my god,
let's get rid of it. No, no, no, no, you
can't deport people just because you're Muslim, Okay, especially naturalized citizens. Right,
that means that is it. So people getting all bent
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out of shape. He won.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Let them have this celebrations or nieces.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Okay, let's see what he actually does in running government.
But this is a worldwide network here seven to ten WR,
and we have people who are calling from all over America.
So let's immediately go if we can to Bob, who's
calling from San Diego. Your turn to be heard here
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at seven ten. Woar, Bob.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Good to hear you back on the air. Curtz, I
live out here in San Diego, but I'm in New Yorker.
I moved here three years ago. Helped the family out
I had. I helped erase a grandchild out here. But
it's nice idea. But I really missed New York and
hearing you back on the air. You're a New York institution,
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but we have so much in common. On the same
age as you. I also went to a Catholic high
school and I remember seeing you, maybe your senior year.
You were rather swimming meet at Brooklyn Prep. My school
was swimming against your school. I remember seeing you, and
a friend of mine told me you had been suspended
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and you were the class president.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Yeah. But now let me ask you a question, Bob.
In normal gym class, when your school had pools, because
a lot of the Catholic high schools had pools, and
so the public high schools have pools, I could never
figure out when you had to go to your gym class,
which was pool once a week. You had to take
your trunks off, you had to swim nude. The physical
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I guess school education teacher they called them said, oh no,
you can't swim in the pool wearing trunks. Now, I
thought that was pretty pervy, especially with all that chlorine
in there. I mean you could die from the chlorine
sort of a pool that hung over the pool, and
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yet they demanded that you had to take your chunks
off when you dived into the pool. I thought that
was a bit freaky. Deekeey Bob.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
Yeah, I kind of remember that my school, Manta Christie,
we were a dioxus in high school in Queens. We
didn't have a pool, so we had to go work
out at the Kipsbay Boys Club in Manhattan, and they
had that policy there. You couldn't wear a suit.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yeah, no, no, no, there's something there's something very very
Epstein about that. If you get to drift. Ah, that's weird. Now,
am Iuti Christie, which are now Saint John's Prep there
in that story which is the land of Zoran Mondamie.
See see how my mind works. A lot of calls
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they're blazing away. But don't be glazing me in these calls.
Let's be talking about what's happening out there. Let's go
to Frank. I call it little Dublin. He's calling from
Woodlawn right south of the west Chester border McLean Avenue.
Your turn to be heard here at seven to ten
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wor Frankie.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
Hi. Curtis, Minnesota is not the only place that has
problem with these charity frauds. If you go through any
neighborhood in the Bronx Queens, Brooklyn, you'll see storefront daycare center,
storefront tutoring learning centers. They're all scams that the Democrats
are set up to send money to their hacks in
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the community. There's nothing going on at those places other
than stealing the money.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Well look, look, we've had medicaid mills here for years,
in all different kinds of communities. They go in, they
write your script doctors whatever you want, and you become
a pill freak and they charge the taxpayers. And this
gone on for years, and oh the Somalians are ripping
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them off in Minnesota. No, no, no, no, New York,
New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania. They get taken into all these places,
don't ask surprise, There is no oversight. There is no
oversight to most of the government. What they do is
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they tax us from the cradle to the grave, and
there's no oversight. And then occasionally they determine, oh there's
corruption there, let's see how many people actually get prosecuted
and the fall through the cracks, and how many politicians
elected officials should go down for the count on that.
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Our numbers one eight hundred and three to two, one
zero seven ten. For many of you, I know you
used to listen to WABC, which I was on always
broadcasting Curtis became always blaming Curtis for the election of Zorhanmandami,
which is just not the case. I understand from some
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people very close to Andrew Cuomo over the weekend I
call them Cromo sexuals that as the new year is
upon us, he's still crying. If only Curticians jomped down,
it could have been the mayor. Come on you, mama, Luke,
it's over. Just stay out in the Hamptons with your
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billionaire friends. Just leave the subways and streets to me.
I got some stories about that coming up, you know.
With the end of the Metro card, the scammers were
out in force this morning in the subways, taking advantage
of tourists and the empty money taking agency. They don't care,
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they don't care. They rip us off. Might as well
rip off the tourists too, and now.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
More with New York's iconic straight shooter Curtis Leewah guest
hosting from Mark Simone on sevent ten woor.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
So, now you've heard a lot about the phasing out
of the Metro card to do your swipe into the
subway system, and obviously they're going to, uh, what can
we call that? The tap and run, you know, with
your debut card, your credit card and the Omni card.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I'm a token guy myself, I try. I love it
when during the age of crack in the eighties you
had the token suckers. They would actually go up to
the portal where you put your subway token in. They
would stuff it with paper or paper clips so that
if we get caught, you wouldn't be able to go
through the turnstiles. You'd scream over to the boardop and
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excuse me, to the token booth clerk who was always
asleep in the booths, Hey yeah, go ahead through, And
then then all of a sudden the crackhead would come
and suck the token.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Right out of the portal and then sell it to
people for like half price. I mean that used to
be all over the place, so then they went metro card,
and then guys would bend the metro card and sell
you swipes there because they figured out how to steal
money from us through the MTA money taking agency. There's
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always been rusters, just like you have the turnstiles. Now
they say, oh, we have flippers here, we have guardrails here,
and people are still avoiding paying the fare. It's fair
evasion galore everywhere I go. But this morning, on my
way here to war seven to ten, I'm looking at
the these guys, these hustlers, and they're taking advantage of
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tourists in the subway because where they in front of
the machine that would give them their final Metro card
or their Omni card right to get into the subway.
So these huss that you give me the money and
I'll swipe you in. I go up to them and say, yo, man,
get the hell out of this station again talking with
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clerks doing nothing, not my business, as tourists are getting
ripped off. And then the guy has the nerve to
say to me, I voted for you. Could all of
you do me a favor? If all of you who
have come up to me actually voted for me, I
would be sworn in as the mayor and not Zor
on Mandami this coming January.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
First, please stop it already.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Most of you did not vote for me, but I
guess you feel like, Oh, I'm gonna make them feel good. Yeah,
I vote a for you?
Speaker 6 (33:58):
What?
Speaker 2 (33:58):
And then I ask you where you from? And you
tell me Scarsdale in Westchester? How did you do that?
Don't go anywhere up next? How the Republican leadership do
not want Republicans to win citywide or statewide ever again
in New York State. I'm gonna connect all the dots
for you.
Then and now the Guardian Angel of talk radio is here.
Curtis leewa guest host the Mark Simon Show on seven
ten WOO.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
And this I final weeks up stooding for Mark Simon.
Nobody better in the business. What a smooth operator. Think
of that song by Shada nineteen eighty four. Think of
that in nineteen eighty four. It's going to come back
when I talk about the two books being written by
Bernard about Bernard Gets that are being published at the
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same time the beginning of this year, forty one years
since the Subway Gumman. So we're going to connect all
the dots. But thanks to Mark Simon for giving me
this opportunity, Tom Cuddy, the program director, who I've known
for years from his stage over at WPLJ, and of
course the iHeart group of station's largest in the nation
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doesn't get any better than this. This is like a
second birthday present for me, because I got the Christmas
present which was substituting the first week. This will be
my Birthday present March twenty six aries fire. You know,
I don't go over under, I go right through. And
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who would have ever thought that I would have made
it to seventy two years old. So I got my
Christmas present substituting for Marquere and I'm getting my pre
birthday present. And then yesterday, because it's always busy in
my life, huge article came out. It had been done
weeks ago when it came out now and all of
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a sudden, my phone was like blowing up from Hollywood.
Oh yeah, everybody out there on the West coast Hollywood
that I've known over the years, where I've met over
the years, was calling me about this article the Hollywood Reporter.
That's the bible for their business out there. So whether
it's movies, TV, whether it's streaming music, whatever it is,
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that's their bible. And the article was Curtis Leewoo just
wants you to know, wants to know where are you from?
Because that's what I always asked, right is he? I
asked you where you're from? From? The Bronxes and No Jersey,
What high school do you go to? I always have
these series of questions because it tells me a lot
about who you are, where you're from, what your roots are.
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And so it is a huge article and I got
this one call from a guy. Now, all of a sudden,
he's interested in Curtius Slawak, can I do this? Can
I do that? Can you know they're all they're all
schmoozing you. Uh, they're pulling your chain and chewing your shorts.
And he's like, hey, you remember me. Remember I grew
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up in benson Hurst. Yeah, I remember you. Oh man,
I got I got ideas of what we can do.
I said, really, really, okay, Uh, could you share a
few with me? And he goes on and on things
he'd never be able to do in a month of Sundays.
But he's schnoring me. He snoring me, okay. And I
know this guy because in the midst of this mayoral
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election he became a Cuomo sexual. He donated a lot
of money from Hollywood to Cuomo and he.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Called me a clown. He thinks I'm gonna forget that, right.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
So he's going on and on. He's on the roll,
doing this typical routine they do out in Hollywood, And
I said, cause you hold a second, I gotta I
gotta take a call from mister click. And I hung
up the phone on him. Guy has no idea what
it is, so he must have assumed that there was
a break. He calls me right back, and I said, yeah,
(03:53):
I had a great conversation with mister Click. I'm sorry
it took me a little bit of time to get
back to your call, but I I want you to
be able to talk to mister Click now. And then
hung up on him. You think that's do not You
think he finally understood that you don't play with Curtis
Lee right, You don't stroke me and think I'm not
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gonna remember. I don't forgive and I don't forget. Oh,
by the way, I hope Greg Kelly is listening over
at WABC because his show prep was always marked simone
the best in the business, and he's sort of been
a dollar short in a day late, not having a
routine to be able to pick pocket from. But that's okay.
Why wouldn't you listen to mark someone the best in
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the business. I certainly have over the years. But let's
talk about yesterday, because it was a Hollywood day. My wife, Nancy,
as you know animal welfare activists, was quest for him
by the loss of Bridgiet Buddo. Now, obviously my wife
is a millennial. She didn't know Bridge Bardeaux from her
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liberated sex bomb era of movies that she appeared in,
especially the ones that were made with Roger Vidim, who
then went on to marry years later Jane Fonda, Remember Barbarella. Yeah, okay,
but no, let's stick to Bridget Bardeus that one film
and God Created Woman. Right now, these are all in France,
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so you gotta have subtitles to them, right God Created Woman.
It opens up with her sun bathing in the news.
This is nineteen fifty six. Think about that, nineteen fifty six,
and later she emerges from the sea in a clinging
wet dress. I'll never forget that scene, and at the
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top of her career, with the paparazzi chasing her all over.
Remember this is the era Marilyn Monroe, so many other
sex bombs, but there was a certain sub a fair
about Bishard Bardell. So she's at the can Film Festival
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right there off the Mediterranean. She's in demand and at
the top of her movie making career. She walks away
from it. She goes to Sanchope and she sets up
an animal welfare sanctuary. She goes out to the Arctic
(06:28):
and she confronts these barbarians who are clubbing baby seals
to death.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Confronts them.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, I'm sure some of them are like Brigard Bardeaux
my day. Who would ever think you would see Bridget
Bardeaux at the North Pole.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
But she was a fighter for animal welfare, and she
consistently railed against laboratory experiments against animals which are being
filtered out in the Trump administration in the Pentagon.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Also and other federal agencies.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Imagine it's still and you know, testing on beagles like
that that U discraciata Dr Fauci, testing on beagles, sending
them off to Tunisia, third world country, and then putting
cones around their heads and having sand.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Fleas eat the skin off their heads.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
For what purposes we spent money on that? It was
never explained, doctor Fauci. You will burn in hell for
that and many other things. By the way, he's a
boy from Bench and her screw up pharmacy. Uh then
went to Regis, the most prestigious of Jesuit high schools,
better than the one I went to Brooklyn Prep. But
he was a disgrace for many many reasons.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
All right, let's stick with it with Bridget Bartell.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
And then she says, I don't care about my past glory.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I am taking every franc, every euro that I.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Have, and I'm investing it in adopting unwanted animal snowkill
shelters Spain and neutering. Now, her politics was extreme right.
She was a follower of lapenn She hated Muslims. She
was cited for that many times for hate speech. But yesterday,
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for those in the animal welfare community, it was a
reminder how so many who have done so well in
Hollywood in a movie making and in TV production walked
away or in their final years bequeathed all their money
to animal welfare. Now, the complete opposite of Richard Bardot
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at that time was Dori Stay. She was America's sweetheart.
Remember Doris Stay. I remember seeing her in Pillow Talk
I think it was nineteen sixty with Rock Hudson. Who
know that Rock Hudson was gay, but he was. These
were great movies. But she was America's sweetheart. And then
while doing a film in about nineteen seventy one, she
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saw some people abusing animals and immediately I think she
was doing the film The Man who Knew Too Much
nineteen seventy one, she established actors and others for animals.
No de fur, no defer, and who joined the Mary
Tyler Moore, Angie Dickenson, Jane Meadows, and of course Bob
(09:34):
Barker the price is right. If he saw you warring
wearing a fur, he would have punched your schnaz right
down your throat.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
And this became her passion.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
She lived by Karmel by the Sea, you know Clint
Eastwood where he became mayor Karmel by the Sea, a
lifelong Republican, died at ninety seven, bequeathed all of her
wealth to her at almost sanctuary. And then, of course
there was Betty White. Betty White died at about a hundred.
(10:07):
I never forget seeing her on phil Donague in the
afternoons and she was talking about her animal welfare fund
and somebody was giving her a hard time. Yeah, look
Betty White, Golden Girls Hot in Cleveland, the Mary Tyler
Moore Show. Betty White an institution, bequeathed all her money
to her animal wildlife fund. And then, oh yeah, for
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the guys out there, there's Wakie Phoenix. Remember that great movie,
the first one, the Joker, not not the second one
with Oh god, that was not a good one. No, no, no, no, no,
the second movie could not touch the first one that
was classic. So here's Joaquin Phoenix. He's receiving the Academy award. Uh,
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he's speaking gibberish up there, who knew where his mind was,
like so many of these actors and actresses. And the
very next day he's out rescuing as she was known
to do animals in factory farms. He would actually go there.
He would say to those in charge of the farmers,
how much you want for that mother cow? How much
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you want for that new born calf? Spending his wealth
to do that great actor? So many others, and think
of it, people make fun of you. Would you make
fun of Doris Day? Would you make fun of Betty White? Well,
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they do make fun of Joaquin Phoenix. They say he
is looney Kazuni from parts on own great actor, no
doubt about it. And Bridget Bardeux, who when they said
are you a recluse, she said, no, I'm not a recluse.
I would rather deal with animals than with people. And
then the most recent maybe we'll get to it in
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this week when I'm substituting for Mark Simoon pigeons, which
in my mind street pigeons should be the official bird
of New York City, right, Oh man, you get such battles.
Some people say they're nothing more than rats with wings.
(12:26):
You know, they put up spikes on their windows cells. Hey,
you don't want pigeons coming on your window cells. Put
up plastic owls. That's like a natural nemesis to them.
It sort of like when you go to a cornfield
and they put up scarecrows and keeps the crows who
have very smart. Pigeons very smart, but they will not
land on a window cell or any area that has
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a plastic owl in. And boy, tremendous controversy raging because
another great actress actually came to the support.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
The pigeons, the actress Sarah Paulson.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
She did a podcast in what she was saying, we
shouldn't be torturing the street pigeons. They're a part of
our New York City heritage and legacy, and they are
and they have performed so many services for us over
the decades, without which we might have suffered enormously. And
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I grew up with pigeons on the roof of my
grandfather and grandmother's house in Kannarci. My uncle Vincenz used
to have a pigeon coop. There were a lot of
pigeon coops back then, so I nurtured them, I fed them,
I trained them Boston Bulldies and Homer's, so I have
a direct infinity for pigeons. But boy, you talk about
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mixing ammonian bleach and my own wife. I'm so proud
of her, Nancy, who stood up to a comrade build
a blasio back then, the part time mayor, the dope
from Park Slope, when he said, if you feed pigeons,
we are gonna find you and my wife, Nancy, in
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classic Clint Eastwood terminology, turned to build a blasio on
the steps of city Hall when he was mayor unfortunately
for eight years, and said make my day as she
and others began feeding the pigeons right there. Oh you
can see all that. Just go to act Curtis Sliwer.
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It's all posted there. But what a day following the
Hollywood Reporter, I mean, dissing and dismissing somebody of great renown.
Gotta know you don't play with Curtis Sliwa, You don't
play with me. Coming up next, so we got to
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talk about two books that are being published by about
Bernard Getz forty one years later coming out at the
same time by the same publishing house, and I guarantee
you because of that, it'll probably be a movie made
about what occurred forty one years ago in December of
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the subways of New York City that I spend most
of my time in. Our number is eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten. That's eight hundred three two
one zero seven ten. Because this is the place for
you to be heard. Now if you if you weren't
part of the w R seven ten listenership, you need
(15:43):
to now I Annancy are, and they are a growing
number of people out there. Justsu dial right in at
eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Curtis Sleewald, guess hos for marks them all on seven tenor.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Too bad? Is he who left WABC to come here
to be with everybody here at war along with Jacqueline
carl who I heard this morning newsgalp same thing. Great
to see all these people here. Even better is he
if you could have played coming back into this segment
(16:25):
Cooling the Gang Hollywood Swinging, Now that's the original cool
in the Gang. Don't don't strain your brain. Is he
from Jersey City? That was Robert Coolbell and they were
followers of Schooy Louis fire Kin in the Nation of Islam.
So that becomes a choke because that was a favorite
group of mine. I mean, walking around today, coming out
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of the subway with the drizzle, the gray, it was
sort of like Winter Sadness another great song of his,
or Summer Madness, great stuff Old Cool in the gang.
But you don't have to do that because speaking about
coming out of the subways, I'm almost guaranteeing you out
there that there's gonna be a movie being made soon
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about the subway gunman Bernard Gets. Now it's not in
a Hollywood reporter, has been reported anywhere, but I was
on the line with a New York Times reporter who
was telling me, Curtis, how do you make what do
you make of this? Forty one years later, remember it
was in December of nineteen eighty four that Bernard Gets
shot Barry Allen, Troy Kanty, James Ramseur, Daryl Kaby once
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a piece as they were surrounding him, almost like in
a cockwork orange and then when Daryl Kby was on
the ground, he shot him once in the back and said,
you don't you know, looks so bad, bang, and then
fled into the subway and disappeared to New Hampshire eventually
turned himself in. So he got two books coming out
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from the same publishing house at the same time, and
so there's got to be something that's cole mingling, conflating
out conflating out there. And the one question he asked
me says, how would New York City treat the subway
gunman now if that had occurred this year as compared
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to forty one years ago, I still forget about it.
I mean, Black Lives Matter would be resurrected. You know,
they became big, large mansions, they became a real estate
firm at people's expense with donating money to that fraudulent operation.
But anyway, they'd be back out on the streets, no justice,
no peace, morning, noon and night, every day, every week,
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every month. And look at the hard time they gave
Daniel Penny, the marine who unfortunately had to choke Jordan
Neely to stop him from threatening people on that f
train back in May of twenty twenty three. A lot
of people forget that Olxlim shady Sharpton, who was protesting
against Bernard Gets during that trial, was also urging his
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friend Alvin Bragg to charge the two people who helped
restrain Jordan Neely with Daniel Penny. He wanted them charge
with manslaughter, along with aoc all our crazy Alexandria Cassio Cortes.
So the difference is the community was split back then
in nineteen eighty four, had half the people that were
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supporting Bernard Gets got half not no matter it depending
where you went. It became a racially charged issue and
it pitted white versus black, as so many instances that
it affected our city did back then, coming from the
time that Ed Koch was mayor for the last time
and then lost in that Democratic primary to David Dinkins,
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it was a racially charged era. Now, how many people
would have been standing up in support of Bernard Gets,
few of any. This city has changed significantly from forty
one years ago, and it's interesting that books coming out now. Also,
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I'm going to give you an update. You don't want
to go anywhere. Remember, I've been tracking it down how
Republican leadership in Washington and throughout New York State has
forsaken the Republican Party. Yep, they won a UNI party.
They want one party, and they're going to try to
convince all of you. In future elections they go with
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the moderate Democrat against the socialist Democrat because Republicans don't
have a chance to win in citywide elections and statewide elections.
Remember I spent last week upstate New York and Albany, Renseala, Troy,
Schenectady learning more. Last night I was at a Republican
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confab in New York City connecting the dots and oh,
you don't want to go anywhere, because not only did
they stab me in the back and at least Stephonic,
but they're gonna try to convince you if the Schmucker
putts Chuck e chees Schumer decides to run again, and
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that's always a possibility because they never quite understand till death,
do you part. They want to stay in office until
their room tempership. Oh no, no, no, you're gonna have
to listen. Oh man, this you'll say never never, Oh yeah,
it's already happening. And I'll connect all the dots of you,
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and then who weighs in on our fire Commissioner Ellen Musk.
You know this is why I say about the billionaires,
the masters of the universe. They know what they do.
They need to stay in their lane. Talk about a
schmucker of Putts. Does he not realize? Of course he doesn't.
How many fire commissioners we've had here in New York
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City that never put out a basket fire. And I'm
not just talking about with Eric Adams swager Man with
no plan who got wine din in pocket line. I
can't wait. I can't wait till he's out of here because.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
He's still covetching.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Oh woe is me. I'm such a victim. But now
it's time for you to be hurt. Call eight hundred
and three to two one zero sevent ten your newfound friend.
If you haven't listened before this seven ten war. That's
eight hundred three two one zero sevent ten.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Curtis Sleewah guess hose for Mark Simone on sevent ten?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Wor very good? Very good? Is he? Anyway? Coming off
of that article and the Hollywood reporter that was making
my phone singing ring not interested, and I introduced them
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to mister Click. The headline was Curtis LEEO just wants
to know where you're from. So I said to is
her board operator, where you're from. He said West Milford,
and I said, oh, that's where Jungle Habitat was. Oh,
that was great Jungle Habitat. And then to know how
my mind works, I'm thinking all the other great song
from Cooling the Gang. The original was Jungle Boogie back
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in nineteen seventy three, seventy four. They were from Jersey City,
from the Wild and Peaceful album. And that's when is
he walked away from me and said, man, let me
get out of here. Back to the boardroom.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Anyway, let's go to the phones. It's your turn to
be heard.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
It's Phil calling from Queen's Welcome to Seven to ten
war film.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Hey, best wishes her great happy new year. Thank you
for running. You know you're still a hero to most
New Yorkers. I'm hoping that you will stay on the
case because, as Bob Gregg would say, stake, phony and
fraud is gonna be messing around. I hope a lot
of people will show up.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
For peaceful protests at his inauguration.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
If you notice he has a closed party. He's capturing
emails and contacts for future fundraising and future mobilization. And
I just I know you're gonna stay on it. I
just wanted to stay Hotey, and.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I appreciate that. Phil understand this. I ain't going nowhere.
I improve, I don't move. I will be part of
that group that says to the barricades, Look, John MONDAMMI
won the election, fair and square. It's a fair election.
He's entitled to have his celebration. Hey, that's another cool
in the game, classic celebration. But anyway, the point being
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he's entitled. Everybody, Oh, he's gonna have the blocks. The
guy gets elected, right, the first Muslim man, Oh my god,
let's get rid of it. No, no, no, no, you
can't deport people just because you're Muslim, Okay, especially naturalized citizens. Right,
that means that is it. So people getting all bent
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out of shape. He won.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Let them have this celebrations or nieces.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Okay, let's see what he actually does in running government.
But this is a worldwide network here seven to ten WR,
and we have people who are calling from all over America.
So let's immediately go if we can to Bob, who's
calling from San Diego. Your turn to be heard here
(25:46):
at seven ten. Woar, Bob.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
Good to hear you back on the air. Curtz, I
live out here in San Diego, but I'm in New Yorker.
I moved here three years ago. Helped the family out
I had. I helped erase a grandchild out here. But
it's nice idea. But I really missed New York and
hearing you back on the air. You're a New York institution,
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but we have so much in common. On the same
age as you. I also went to a Catholic high
school and I remember seeing you, maybe your senior year.
You were rather swimming meet at Brooklyn Prep. My school
was swimming against your school. I remember seeing you, and
a friend of mine told me you had been suspended
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and you were the class president.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Yeah. But now let me ask you a question, Bob.
In normal gym class, when your school had pools, because
a lot of the Catholic high schools had pools, and
so the public high schools have pools, I could never
figure out when you had to go to your gym class,
which was pool once a week. You had to take
your trunks off, you had to swim nude. The physical
(26:59):
I guess school education teacher they called them said, oh no,
you can't swim in the pool wearing trunks. Now, I
thought that was pretty pervy, especially with all that chlorine
in there. I mean you could die from the chlorine
sort of a pool that hung over the pool, and
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yet they demanded that you had to take your chunks
off when you dived into the pool. I thought that
was a bit freaky. Deekeey Bob.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
Yeah, I kind of remember that my school, Manta Christie,
we were a dioxus in high school in Queens. We
didn't have a pool, so we had to go work
out at the Kipsbay Boys Club in Manhattan, and they
had that policy there. You couldn't wear a suit.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yeah, no, no, no, there's something there's something very very
Epstein about that. If you get to drift. Ah, that's weird. Now,
am Iuti Christie, which are now Saint John's Prep there
in that story which is the land of Zoran Mondamie.
See see how my mind works. A lot of calls
(28:06):
they're blazing away. But don't be glazing me in these calls.
Let's be talking about what's happening out there. Let's go
to Frank. I call it little Dublin. He's calling from
Woodlawn right south of the west Chester border McLean Avenue.
Your turn to be heard here at seven to ten
(28:27):
wor Frankie.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
Hi. Curtis, Minnesota is not the only place that has
problem with these charity frauds. If you go through any
neighborhood in the Bronx Queens, Brooklyn, you'll see storefront daycare center,
storefront tutoring learning centers. They're all scams that the Democrats
are set up to send money to their hacks in
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the community. There's nothing going on at those places other
than stealing the money.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Well look, look, we've had medicaid mills here for years,
in all different kinds of communities. They go in, they
write your script doctors whatever you want, and you become
a pill freak and they charge the taxpayers. And this
gone on for years, and oh the Somalians are ripping
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them off in Minnesota. No, no, no, no, New York,
New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania. They get taken into all these places,
don't ask surprise, There is no oversight. There is no
oversight to most of the government. What they do is
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they tax us from the cradle to the grave, and
there's no oversight. And then occasionally they determine, oh there's
corruption there, let's see how many people actually get prosecuted
and the fall through the cracks, and how many politicians
elected officials should go down for the count on that.
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Our numbers one eight hundred and three to two, one
zero seven ten. For many of you, I know you
used to listen to WABC, which I was on always
broadcasting Curtis became always blaming Curtis for the election of Zorhanmandami,
which is just not the case. I understand from some
(30:22):
people very close to Andrew Cuomo over the weekend I
call them Cromo sexuals that as the new year is
upon us, he's still crying. If only Curticians jomped down,
it could have been the mayor. Come on you, mama, Luke,
it's over. Just stay out in the Hamptons with your
(30:42):
billionaire friends. Just leave the subways and streets to me.
I got some stories about that coming up, you know.
With the end of the Metro card, the scammers were
out in force this morning in the subways, taking advantage
of tourists and the empty money taking agency. They don't care,
(31:03):
they don't care. They rip us off. Might as well
rip off the tourists too, and now.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
More with New York's iconic straight shooter Curtis Leewah guest
hosting from Mark Simone on sevent ten woor.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
So, now you've heard a lot about the phasing out
of the Metro card to do your swipe into the
subway system, and obviously they're going to, uh, what can
we call that? The tap and run, you know, with
your debut card, your credit card and the Omni card.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I'm a token guy myself, I try. I love it
when during the age of crack in the eighties you
had the token suckers. They would actually go up to
the portal where you put your subway token in. They
would stuff it with paper or paper clips so that
if we get caught, you wouldn't be able to go
through the turnstiles. You'd scream over to the boardop and
(32:06):
excuse me, to the token booth clerk who was always
asleep in the booths, Hey yeah, go ahead through, And
then then all of a sudden the crackhead would come
and suck the token.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Right out of the portal and then sell it to
people for like half price. I mean that used to
be all over the place, so then they went metro card,
and then guys would bend the metro card and sell
you swipes there because they figured out how to steal
money from us through the MTA money taking agency. There's
(32:40):
always been rusters, just like you have the turnstiles. Now
they say, oh, we have flippers here, we have guardrails here,
and people are still avoiding paying the fare. It's fair
evasion galore everywhere I go. But this morning, on my
way here to war seven to ten, I'm looking at
the these guys, these hustlers, and they're taking advantage of
(33:03):
tourists in the subway because where they in front of
the machine that would give them their final Metro card
or their Omni card right to get into the subway.
So these huss that you give me the money and
I'll swipe you in. I go up to them and say, yo, man,
get the hell out of this station again talking with
(33:25):
clerks doing nothing, not my business, as tourists are getting
ripped off. And then the guy has the nerve to
say to me, I voted for you. Could all of
you do me a favor? If all of you who
have come up to me actually voted for me, I
would be sworn in as the mayor and not Zor
on Mandami this coming January.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
First, please stop it already.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Most of you did not vote for me, but I
guess you feel like, Oh, I'm gonna make them feel good. Yeah,
I vote a for you?
Speaker 6 (33:58):
What?
Speaker 2 (33:58):
And then I ask you where you from? And you
tell me Scarsdale in Westchester? How did you do that?
Don't go anywhere up next? How the Republican leadership do
not want Republicans to win citywide or statewide ever again
in New York State. I'm gonna connect all the dots
for you.
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