December 26, 2025 • 14 mins
Curtis Sliwa filled in for Mark Simone and discussed the reality of global warming. He explained the phrase “The Hawk is talking.”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now the Guardian Angel of talk radio is here. Curtis
leewa guest host the Mark Simone Show on sevent ten WOO.
As I continue on here in my substitution role, well
my new found friend and station seven to ten war
(00:25):
which I hope will be all of yours, substituting for
the best guy in talk radio in the trich State area,
bar Non Mark Simon. I mean, he's a smooth operator.
And I'll be with you until January second, the day
after the ball drops, you know, I'm in Times Square
(00:46):
with the Guardian Angels. And then the next day we'll
see about the inauguration of Jorhan Mandami with Bernie the
out the Coca Sanders standing there in city Hall. Look
a lot to deal with coming up, but a lot
to deal with it here and now, because is he
who was on the boards formerly a refugee from WABC.
(01:08):
Used to be always broadcasting Curtis No more, It's always
booked bashing Curtis so good, good that you hear? Is
he much better place? And as you know from my
many years of broadcasting, whenever the temperatures would get below freezing,
I would have a phrase that was taught to me
by my father Chester, who grew up in the Chicago
(01:31):
area right off of Lake Michigan, when there were real
winters with real snow storms twenty foot more before we
had global warming and climate change. I know a lot
of you it's a fake fake. It's not fake global
warming and climate change. Let me tell you something. It
is not fake. But no hawk is talking. Now, you're
(01:57):
not city. I've heard that phrase these over the years.
What does that mean? The hawk is talking? Actually came
out of Chicago's South Side, where my dad was from
and his family on the polar side of my family
forty six in Rockwell. I actually spent four years going
up there from ages one to five and then came
(02:18):
back to Brooklyn. But the hawk was talking. I think
it was first said by Louis Armstrong. That's say, play
that horn. Louis from North Corona in Queens, right opposite
where Tony Bennett grew up, the crooner from Estoria, the
Estoria kid. Yeah, oh they got him. You see him
(02:39):
near the house of Louis Armstrong. But Louis Armstrong would
come into the South Side black jazz clubs frequented by
whites and blacks interratio crowd and because it felt like
it was forty degrees below zero wind chill fact up
because the winds were coming off of Lake Michigan. He
(03:02):
would say, the hawk is talking because his lips, which
is so frozen. Like the other performers they tell you, basically,
it's gonna take like five or ten minutes from my
lips to unfreeze, so I could be able to play
that horn now, which probably didn't know, or maybe some
of you knew that Louis Armstrong probably consumed and inhaled
(03:27):
and exhaled more reef for more marijuana than anybody else
during the jazz era. That's what he was knowing. In fact,
he would actually shotgun you through the horn, which meant basically,
he would inhale it and then exhale it through the
horn and right into your schnizola. Long before the nineteen
sixties peace, love and happiness, Hate Ashbury Woodstock, half a
(03:52):
million strong up the New York State through it. Yeah,
a long time before the era that we called the
counterculture there. I grew up in the ear of the hippies,
era of the Hippies. Well, anyway, the hawk is talking,
and it reminded me at the times we would go
visit the Polish side of the family. Christmas Easter, my
(04:15):
dad had put everybody in the fifty four Ford station
wagon Old Betsy, you know, whitewall tires, wood panels, and
we'd be going through all different areas. I mean, we
ended up going across Phillipsburg from Jersey, across the bridge
through Easton, which was the home of Larry Holmes world
(04:37):
champion heavyweight. Obviously not back in the early sixties when
we were riding through there. And then I remember Allentown
and Bethlehem had the US Steel plan going. Now it's
a casino, and we go through Pittsburgh three ships round
the clock on an orange plume would hang over the
city because of all the steel mills. And then eventually
(04:58):
through Gary, Indiana, South Chicago, the steel mills there, going
three shifts right into Chicago itself. That's when Steele was
king in the United States. Now you have US Steel
partly owned by the Japanese partner owned by the United
States the Trump administration to keep all that steel being
made here, right, boy, that's a throwback. And I remember
(05:22):
we'd go out to the sleep With compound. By then
they were out in Lockport, which was between Joliet had
that walled prison there in Chicago, and they had the subdivisions,
and my job was to go out and slap the hogs.
Oh yeah, slap the hogs after the feed for the family.
(05:43):
And I learned there were the two of the smartest
animals ever, the hogs, the pigs and the crows who
were out there in the cornfields, you know, with these
scarecrows trying to scam away. My dad, in fact, when
he was young, had Jimmy the crow was his pet.
He would fly with him to and from school to
Sherman Park in his public school, and he would wait
(06:06):
there on the window sill until my dad was ready
to walk home again to the south side. Forty six
and Rockwell, that's a little bit of that side issue.
But let's talk about this storm warning and the fact
that many of you are you know, well, you gotta
sort of go back in time to remember when heavy
(06:27):
snowfalls were common, and now it's an exception to the rule.
And I've always said, why is it different now, I'd
say global warming, climate change. Look what's happening in southern
California there, it's like a tsunami has hit the area.
But oh no, no, it's of course not you know, okay,
(06:48):
you could have your opinion. I have my opinion. But
I remember it'd be like fourteen sixteen foot of snow
had to go out, put the chains on the tires
the buses, the klang klang huge, I mean, the sanitation
bulldozers would push the snow all to an area, you know,
(07:11):
almost like a mount rushmore there on the corners. You
don't have that anymore. And it's interesting as we were
hearing these forecasts, because Nancy was driving me all through
the tri state area visiting her relatives. Uh and uh. Also, oh,
some interesting information I picked up at a copper crow
(07:33):
remember as the crow flies. That's on Broadway and Olmony
Capitol Land. What is that is the crow flies? It's
the most direct straight line distance between two places. Yep,
a great place, Coppler. And man, did I learn a
lot about how Republicans are throwing the party under the
(07:54):
bus that will not have those chains, those old iron
chains at all. No, no, no no, but thrown under
the bush with as you know, Alice Stephonic leaving the race.
Oh that's gonna be Operation Hush hush mush much. You're
not gonna want to miss it. Because I'm connecting all
the dots as i worked my way through troy Almany,
(08:18):
connected the Hamilton Hill, all these places again with the
predictions where snow you know snow is coming. What I
said as the crow flies, a lot of crows up there,
smart animals, smart birds and anyway, I said to myself, Wow.
(08:40):
And then people coming up to me, no matter where
I was, because obviously I'm wearing the red butray, the
red Satine jacket, and be giving me all kinds of
information about what I should be doing with my life. Yeah,
is he I'm up there in Capitol lan oh Man.
You should be on WG wire. Heard you on wo
off and watch someone. I said, why would I want
to be on WGY ten, big station up there in Albany.
(09:01):
But I'm not coming up here at Albany. I've spent
time in the South End in Aubury, Hilm. I'm not
coming up to Albany. And then on my way down
at one of those rest stops in the New York
State Thruway, you know, before we hit Marwall. You know,
we went from Rockland and then into New Jersey and
then through Fortney over the GW Bridge and I looked
(09:23):
up and there was Eric Adams, a swaggerman with no
plans apartment and he's lived in for years, you know,
with his what is no his boo, his beard, Tracy
and then the other girl friend, the weightlifter underneath apartment
twenty two eighth. I'm not going to give you the address,
And I said to myself, man, I've come full circle.
(09:43):
And then as we finally get into the apartment, it's
in the wee hours in the morning, and what does
my wife do, Nancy the best thing that ever happened
to me. She starts binge watching The Office, you know,
the show from scraton New Jersey with Steve Correll as
Michael and Dwight and Jim. And she's got on the
(10:06):
episode which is I guess you'd call it the snowball
episode Classy Christmas, in which the whole concept is it's
not a real snowfall if it's just a dusting of snow.
Oh man, if you haven't seen this, you got you
gotta watch that episode. Well, one of my favorite TV shows. Again,
(10:28):
Nancy loves to binge watch, you know. As we come
into New Years. I'll be very busy, as I always am,
but uh never busy enough to miss Rod shirling in
the Twilight Zone and the non stop showing of some
of the greatest TV programs of all time. Speaking of
upstate New York state, if he was from Bington, New York,
(10:48):
Day finally put up a statue to his honor in
the park. Dep Boy, I'm moving in a lot of
different directions here because a true snow snowfall is determined
by whether you can make snowballs, whether it's packing snow,
because if it's too light, you can't make a snowfall.
Even if there's some accumulation, it's all about packing snow.
(11:13):
And already you heard the news reports are there. They're
moving out there with all the rock salt. They're spreading
it in advance. Why why you know is he where
the rock salt comes from? Do you have any idea
underneath Detroit? When I was in Detroit, they have canyons
under ground in which they're mining salt rock salt now
(11:37):
for de icing, But back then when I first saw it, leather,
food processing, all things underneath Detroit a thousand feet down.
I don't know if people will where are that. That's
where the salt comes from. And I'm saying, why are
you gonna throw salt on the ground. First of all,
it's gonna eat up the asphalt. Then you're gonna have
(11:57):
potholes of the size of lunar craters. And then while
you're driving along they already hate drivers in so many places,
especially New York City. Now you're undercarriage is gonna be
thrown out all of a sudden, Your bull bearings will
need adjustment, your trott will end up sort of becoming
(12:18):
bent into shape. You have to end up in a
fender bended shop. And a lot of that has to
do with it's sparing rock salt to ride. Why not
do what they do it up in Wisconsin where they're
used to actual snow or for Lake mission in Milwaukee.
Is they spread a combination of beats, Yeah, beats, a
(12:39):
brine or a cheese brine so that it doesn't end
up destroying the asphalt and creating those potholes which become
lunar craters. And by the way, then the deer come out.
That's the other problem in Wisconsin. The deer come out
and they want to lick up the beats and the
cheese offs, the asphalt, and boy, we saw a lot
(13:04):
of deer on all way down coming from Capital Land
last night. And I know for some of you you
look at deer as if it's agent Orange in hooves,
because they eat up everything like a pac Man packed woman.
Don't say that to my wife, Nancy, Oh my god,
you'd be going to war with her. Hey. Look, that's
(13:26):
just a little thumbnail sketch where I was and what
we were doing as a family. And also the information
that I learned on this lie hush hush, mush mush
about how key Republicans are working in tandem to destroy
(13:47):
the Republican Party as we know it in New York State,
New York City and actually turn it into a wing
of the old moderate Democratic Party. Well, you don't want
to go anywhere? Come on, are you gonna go anywhere?
All this information that I'm bringing to you, Like Paul Revere,
I'm warning you in advance, doing all the groundwork, And
(14:10):
now it's on your place to be seven ten wor
our favorite radio station in the SLIWA household. And yeah,
our cats love listening to it too, The Voice of
New York. The number is eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten. That's eight hundred three two one zero
seven ten
Now the Guardian Angel of talk radio is here. Curtis
leewa guest host the Mark Simone Show on sevent ten WOO.
As I continue on here in my substitution role, well
my new found friend and station seven to ten war
(00:25):
which I hope will be all of yours, substituting for
the best guy in talk radio in the trich State area,
bar Non Mark Simon. I mean, he's a smooth operator.
And I'll be with you until January second, the day
after the ball drops, you know, I'm in Times Square
(00:46):
with the Guardian Angels. And then the next day we'll
see about the inauguration of Jorhan Mandami with Bernie the
out the Coca Sanders standing there in city Hall. Look
a lot to deal with coming up, but a lot
to deal with it here and now, because is he
who was on the boards formerly a refugee from WABC.
(01:08):
Used to be always broadcasting Curtis No more, It's always
booked bashing Curtis so good, good that you hear? Is
he much better place? And as you know from my
many years of broadcasting, whenever the temperatures would get below freezing,
I would have a phrase that was taught to me
by my father Chester, who grew up in the Chicago
(01:31):
area right off of Lake Michigan, when there were real
winters with real snow storms twenty foot more before we
had global warming and climate change. I know a lot
of you it's a fake fake. It's not fake global
warming and climate change. Let me tell you something. It
is not fake. But no hawk is talking. Now, you're
(01:57):
not city. I've heard that phrase these over the years.
What does that mean? The hawk is talking? Actually came
out of Chicago's South Side, where my dad was from
and his family on the polar side of my family
forty six in Rockwell. I actually spent four years going
up there from ages one to five and then came
(02:18):
back to Brooklyn. But the hawk was talking. I think
it was first said by Louis Armstrong. That's say, play
that horn. Louis from North Corona in Queens, right opposite
where Tony Bennett grew up, the crooner from Estoria, the
Estoria kid. Yeah, oh they got him. You see him
(02:39):
near the house of Louis Armstrong. But Louis Armstrong would
come into the South Side black jazz clubs frequented by
whites and blacks interratio crowd and because it felt like
it was forty degrees below zero wind chill fact up
because the winds were coming off of Lake Michigan. He
(03:02):
would say, the hawk is talking because his lips, which
is so frozen. Like the other performers they tell you, basically,
it's gonna take like five or ten minutes from my
lips to unfreeze, so I could be able to play
that horn now, which probably didn't know, or maybe some
of you knew that Louis Armstrong probably consumed and inhaled
(03:27):
and exhaled more reef for more marijuana than anybody else
during the jazz era. That's what he was knowing. In fact,
he would actually shotgun you through the horn, which meant basically,
he would inhale it and then exhale it through the
horn and right into your schnizola. Long before the nineteen
sixties peace, love and happiness, Hate Ashbury Woodstock, half a
(03:52):
million strong up the New York State through it. Yeah,
a long time before the era that we called the
counterculture there. I grew up in the ear of the hippies,
era of the Hippies. Well, anyway, the hawk is talking,
and it reminded me at the times we would go
visit the Polish side of the family. Christmas Easter, my
(04:15):
dad had put everybody in the fifty four Ford station
wagon Old Betsy, you know, whitewall tires, wood panels, and
we'd be going through all different areas. I mean, we
ended up going across Phillipsburg from Jersey, across the bridge
through Easton, which was the home of Larry Holmes world
(04:37):
champion heavyweight. Obviously not back in the early sixties when
we were riding through there. And then I remember Allentown
and Bethlehem had the US Steel plan going. Now it's
a casino, and we go through Pittsburgh three ships round
the clock on an orange plume would hang over the
city because of all the steel mills. And then eventually
(04:58):
through Gary, Indiana, South Chicago, the steel mills there, going
three shifts right into Chicago itself. That's when Steele was
king in the United States. Now you have US Steel
partly owned by the Japanese partner owned by the United
States the Trump administration to keep all that steel being
made here, right, boy, that's a throwback. And I remember
(05:22):
we'd go out to the sleep With compound. By then
they were out in Lockport, which was between Joliet had
that walled prison there in Chicago, and they had the subdivisions,
and my job was to go out and slap the hogs.
Oh yeah, slap the hogs after the feed for the family.
(05:43):
And I learned there were the two of the smartest
animals ever, the hogs, the pigs and the crows who
were out there in the cornfields, you know, with these
scarecrows trying to scam away. My dad, in fact, when
he was young, had Jimmy the crow was his pet.
He would fly with him to and from school to
Sherman Park in his public school, and he would wait
(06:06):
there on the window sill until my dad was ready
to walk home again to the south side. Forty six
and Rockwell, that's a little bit of that side issue.
But let's talk about this storm warning and the fact
that many of you are you know, well, you gotta
sort of go back in time to remember when heavy
(06:27):
snowfalls were common, and now it's an exception to the rule.
And I've always said, why is it different now, I'd
say global warming, climate change. Look what's happening in southern
California there, it's like a tsunami has hit the area.
But oh no, no, it's of course not you know, okay,
(06:48):
you could have your opinion. I have my opinion. But
I remember it'd be like fourteen sixteen foot of snow
had to go out, put the chains on the tires
the buses, the klang klang huge, I mean, the sanitation
bulldozers would push the snow all to an area, you know,
(07:11):
almost like a mount rushmore there on the corners. You
don't have that anymore. And it's interesting as we were
hearing these forecasts, because Nancy was driving me all through
the tri state area visiting her relatives. Uh and uh. Also, oh,
some interesting information I picked up at a copper crow
(07:33):
remember as the crow flies. That's on Broadway and Olmony
Capitol Land. What is that is the crow flies? It's
the most direct straight line distance between two places. Yep,
a great place, Coppler. And man, did I learn a
lot about how Republicans are throwing the party under the
(07:54):
bus that will not have those chains, those old iron
chains at all. No, no, no no, but thrown under
the bush with as you know, Alice Stephonic leaving the race.
Oh that's gonna be Operation Hush hush mush much. You're
not gonna want to miss it. Because I'm connecting all
the dots as i worked my way through troy Almany,
(08:18):
connected the Hamilton Hill, all these places again with the
predictions where snow you know snow is coming. What I
said as the crow flies, a lot of crows up there,
smart animals, smart birds and anyway, I said to myself, Wow.
(08:40):
And then people coming up to me, no matter where
I was, because obviously I'm wearing the red butray, the
red Satine jacket, and be giving me all kinds of
information about what I should be doing with my life. Yeah,
is he I'm up there in Capitol lan oh Man.
You should be on WG wire. Heard you on wo
off and watch someone. I said, why would I want
to be on WGY ten, big station up there in Albany.
(09:01):
But I'm not coming up here at Albany. I've spent
time in the South End in Aubury, Hilm. I'm not
coming up to Albany. And then on my way down
at one of those rest stops in the New York
State Thruway, you know, before we hit Marwall. You know,
we went from Rockland and then into New Jersey and
then through Fortney over the GW Bridge and I looked
(09:23):
up and there was Eric Adams, a swaggerman with no
plans apartment and he's lived in for years, you know,
with his what is no his boo, his beard, Tracy
and then the other girl friend, the weightlifter underneath apartment
twenty two eighth. I'm not going to give you the address,
And I said to myself, man, I've come full circle.
(09:43):
And then as we finally get into the apartment, it's
in the wee hours in the morning, and what does
my wife do, Nancy the best thing that ever happened
to me. She starts binge watching The Office, you know,
the show from scraton New Jersey with Steve Correll as
Michael and Dwight and Jim. And she's got on the
(10:06):
episode which is I guess you'd call it the snowball
episode Classy Christmas, in which the whole concept is it's
not a real snowfall if it's just a dusting of snow.
Oh man, if you haven't seen this, you got you
gotta watch that episode. Well, one of my favorite TV shows. Again,
(10:28):
Nancy loves to binge watch, you know. As we come
into New Years. I'll be very busy, as I always am,
but uh never busy enough to miss Rod shirling in
the Twilight Zone and the non stop showing of some
of the greatest TV programs of all time. Speaking of
upstate New York state, if he was from Bington, New York,
(10:48):
Day finally put up a statue to his honor in
the park. Dep Boy, I'm moving in a lot of
different directions here because a true snow snowfall is determined
by whether you can make snowballs, whether it's packing snow,
because if it's too light, you can't make a snowfall.
Even if there's some accumulation, it's all about packing snow.
(11:13):
And already you heard the news reports are there. They're
moving out there with all the rock salt. They're spreading
it in advance. Why why you know is he where
the rock salt comes from? Do you have any idea
underneath Detroit? When I was in Detroit, they have canyons
under ground in which they're mining salt rock salt now
(11:37):
for de icing, But back then when I first saw it, leather,
food processing, all things underneath Detroit a thousand feet down.
I don't know if people will where are that. That's
where the salt comes from. And I'm saying, why are
you gonna throw salt on the ground. First of all,
it's gonna eat up the asphalt. Then you're gonna have
(11:57):
potholes of the size of lunar craters. And then while
you're driving along they already hate drivers in so many places,
especially New York City. Now you're undercarriage is gonna be
thrown out all of a sudden, Your bull bearings will
need adjustment, your trott will end up sort of becoming
(12:18):
bent into shape. You have to end up in a
fender bended shop. And a lot of that has to
do with it's sparing rock salt to ride. Why not
do what they do it up in Wisconsin where they're
used to actual snow or for Lake mission in Milwaukee.
Is they spread a combination of beats, Yeah, beats, a
(12:39):
brine or a cheese brine so that it doesn't end
up destroying the asphalt and creating those potholes which become
lunar craters. And by the way, then the deer come out.
That's the other problem in Wisconsin. The deer come out
and they want to lick up the beats and the
cheese offs, the asphalt, and boy, we saw a lot
(13:04):
of deer on all way down coming from Capital Land
last night. And I know for some of you you
look at deer as if it's agent Orange in hooves,
because they eat up everything like a pac Man packed woman.
Don't say that to my wife, Nancy, Oh my god,
you'd be going to war with her. Hey. Look, that's
(13:26):
just a little thumbnail sketch where I was and what
we were doing as a family. And also the information
that I learned on this lie hush hush, mush mush
about how key Republicans are working in tandem to destroy
(13:47):
the Republican Party as we know it in New York State,
New York City and actually turn it into a wing
of the old moderate Democratic Party. Well, you don't want
to go anywhere? Come on, are you gonna go anywhere?
All this information that I'm bringing to you, Like Paul Revere,
I'm warning you in advance, doing all the groundwork, And
(14:10):
now it's on your place to be seven ten wor
our favorite radio station in the SLIWA household. And yeah,
our cats love listening to it too, The Voice of
New York. The number is eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten. That's eight hundred three two one zero
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