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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 tenor
Oh the hawk is talking outside it's cold and I'm
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gonna ask to wonder what he's gonna be like when
the ball drops in Times Square, or the tourists in
town and on. Nobody from our area is going into
Times Square when the ball drops, you have to wear
it depends. They put you in in cattle pens. You
stand there for hours while drunk people are blowing these
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horns in your ear, just so you can go back
to your country of origin and tell them you were
there when the ball dropped in Times Square. It is bizarre.
There are more depend sales on the island of Manhattan
New Year's Eve than any other day of the year,
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and these are generally by younger people who are drunk.
You know what that promulgates you to do, as you
stand for six hours or more in a cattle pen,
and if you leave, you can't come back. So we'll
give you updates on that. Again, it's substituting for Mark Simon.
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It's been great be able to take here to January second,
and then Mark will be back, So I want to
make sure is he who also is a refuge from WABC,
which used to be always broadcasting Curtis. Now it's always
bashing Curtis. And you've found a home of your own
here at seven to ten WOR and I hope so
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many of you newfound listeners have done such. It's a
great article if you get a chance to look at
brought to my attention by Tom Cuddy Side Radio, and
the headline is Curtis Lee was radio persona resonates with
a new generation. That means, you know, millennials, gen zs.
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I happen to be a baby boom, I like so
many of you, seventy one soon to be seventy two
on March twenty six. So that says a lot. And
that how we have to pivot and shift and understand
that the audience that we're talking to, no matter what
platform you're using, it's changing. We baby boomas when no
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longer the majority, I know for a lot of you.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
We pay the bills, we have the wealthechy Yeah yeah, yeah, Okay,
We're going to talk about that later on because there's
this concept out there and I had quite a battle
yesterday with the Wall Street Journal that he who has
the gold makes the rules, and I.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Said, no, no, no, no, no no. I operate by the Golden rule.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
We'll get it to that momentarily. We'll get into that momentarily,
but you gotta read this article. It's really great. It
shows you the shifting dynamics and it led to the
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election of Zoraimandami that's being talked about with his swearing in,
and I'll get into all those nitty gritty details with you,
but you got to read Inside Radio Curtis Lee was
radio persona resonates with a new generation and how WABC
so desperately wants me to come back. And it's sort
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of like I should be like lady God Guy's poker
face to them, right, But I can't. My expressions are
and they listen intently, as to so many WABC listeners,
who I hope we'll discover WOOR the voice of New
York seven to ten as a place for them to
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be as it was for me when I was growing
up from time to time, and I'm sure for many
of you, and of course they're the hardcore listeners to
this station. But you got said in the Morning, he's
tests healed from the Godfather. You got Greg Kelly, he's
Moe Green. And then there's Dominic Carter, he's Salazzo. And
so some people are on occasion they'll see me in
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the streets of the subways, because I'm in the streets
and subways every day. And oh, you're going back to WABC.
I said, no, I'm substituting for Mark Simone at war.
It for me would be like remember Lady Gaga. Speaking
of Lady Gaga, is he at the MTV Music Awards
in twenty ten when she showed up dressed up in
a raw flank steak dress? Oh? Is that that was
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solo budget? But it would be the equivalent of me
walking into a cage of hungry dobleman pinchers with pork
chop pants on. It ain't happening. So read the article.
It's really good. Some of you, if you are connecting
the dots, might actually figure out in which direction I'll
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be going. But yesterday a very intense sit down two
hours with the Wall Street Journal. And you know, the
Wall Street Journal is owned by Murdoch and represents the
interests of the masters of the universe, the billionaires, fortune
five hundred companies, hedge fund monsters, and people with a
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lot of money, and they believe in this concept. It's
clear when you read the newspaper that he who has
the gold makes the rules. Wealth financial power gives you
authority and control, and the person that has the power
to dictate the terms and set the conditions is he
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who has the gold. There are a lot of people,
especially in our country, who believe exactly that I don't.
I never have. It was never raised that way. Ashes
to add his dust to dust. You come into this
world with bupkus and you leave with bupkus. I don't
live along those lines. My belief is from any of you.
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No matter how you were raised, the way you were raised,
I'm sure you were exposed to the golden rule doing
to others as you would have them do unto you,
and that encourages fairness and empathy. So it was quite
a wrestling match between me and this very esteemed reporter.
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He covered me in the after baths and my lost
to Eric Adams in twenty twenty one. When I warned you,
remember heresy, I warned everyone he would be corrupt, it
would be chaos. The most corrupt mayor in the history
of New York City. And boy that says a lot,
because we've had a lot of corrupt mayors. So then
we got into the discussion about the new kid on
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the blocks or Hanmandami. Remember a year ago, not even
his neighbors in that storia knew for sure who's are
on my Domie was. I mean, let's face it, who
the hell knew who's are on Mondamie was? And now
he is an international figure, hated or loved, but he
is gonna be sworn in to office right after midnight,
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when the ball is dropping in Times Square and all
the outer towns are going cuckolamunga. Many of you will
be in other prices, maybe watching it on TV, and
he will be sworn in. And this is very cool.
I gotta give them props. Uh yeah, oh w yeah,
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you see you always four zoro. No, when you aren't props,
you aren't props. They have chosen the private ceremony of
swearing it at twelve midnight, when the ball drops in
the abandoned subway station that's right underneath City Hall, which
I've been into many times, not supposed to. It's magnificent.
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It is a remarkable architectural achievement right under City Hall Park.
It's got the terra cotta tiles, it's got twelve brass chandeliers,
there's a curved platform skylights. It's distinctly European. I mean,
I always would go to Europe and I would look
at their train facilities or their subway system ten times
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better than ours. Architecture design. You go to Paris Metro,
they have rubber wheels, you know. You go up to Montreal,
they play they play classical music. They have rubber wheels.
It doesn't attack your senses. That is a very cool place.
He's gonna be sworn in by Chis James, the Attorney General.
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And I'm sure with family and friends. That station was
actually put out of business in forty five. And if
you take the six train to the last stop, which
is City Hall, the sixth Strain, as you know, continues
going downtown, but it goes in sort of like an
oblong it goes around in order to go back uptown,
and that's when it passes through that station. So the
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reporter for the Wall Street Channel said, have you been
invited to that ceremony. I said, no, of course, not
not family and friends. He goes, well, what about the
next day on the first, when Bertie the outa Coaca
Sanders is going to be delivering the oath of office
to Zoran Mandami in the public inauguration right in front
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of City Hall. Jan and I haven't been to one
of those since Rudy Giuliani was inaugurated on the front
steps of the city Hall back in nineteen ninety four.
Remember when Andrew his son was climbing all over the
podium and how many times did Chris Farley do that
imitation and lampoon him in Saturday night Life.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
It was great.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
But I remember sitting there was cold, and the hawk
was talking and David Dinkins was there. See, that is
what should happen. And I know of late in local
elections and regional and statewide elections and certainly the federal election.
You know when Trump said I'm not gonna be there,
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Biden stole you late. No no, no, no, no, no, you lose
you sit there. This is what's great about America is
that there is the changeover of authority and power. And
you want everybody to see that. It's gracious that this
is what one of the things that are so great
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about the country. Well, the sitting mayor who decided he
wasn't gonna run for office because he was gonna get
beat if he ran a second time. Any which way
you looked at it, he's playing this game. You know
what was me? Maybe I'll go possibly could be Hey,
by the way, I want to write book. I got
that title here. I didn't do nothing wrong. I didn't
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do nothing wrong by Eric Adams and he said you
heard in the news clip. He wants to get involved
in cryptocurrency, which is the world of bitcoin, better known
as crime coin. With all those nefarious characters, they're perfect
for him. Cuomo, I don't know. Yeah, he's just sow loser.
He probably slid it under that rock out in the
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Hamptons with his billionaire friends. And do you know something,
I have not gotten an invitation. The question is what
should I do? Should I just show up? I mean
I competed against him. Should I sit there and say, yeah, yeah,
this is what our democracy is about. I lost. I'm
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not a sol loser like Cuomo or Eric Adams. And
then afterwards, you know they got that block party there
you know through the canyon the heroes like gonna be
forty fifty thousands zorin easters. So I want to ask
you a question. Should I Should I even bother showing up?
Because look, I'm the mayor of the people. Look, I'm
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in the subways and streets every day. You know, I
get it. Zoron is doing his initial swearing in at
midnight in the first subway station ever built in New
York City nineteen oh four. It is magnificent, but he's
trying to say, yeah, you see, I'm synergistic with the
pep KHN, So you don't write this Subways Cormo never
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did Adams on occasion, you know, with his posse of
twenty four bodyguards on the NYPD while he was on
his way to a club till the break a dawn,
because you know, man, he didn't leave clubs until like
four in the morning. Part of his problem. Although it's
interesting because Zoron Mandami and his father, the professor of
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African Studies at Columbia University, who is infamous in his
own right, actually had dinner at Eric Adams's invitation. Yeah yeah,
Eric Gadams, like tough guy, get out of here. You
had dinner with these guys and you know what he
said his interest was. And this is before Zoran obviously
was running for mayor. He was just the assemblyman that
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very few people knew in Estoria. He wanted to know
all about Ed I mean from Uganda. Ed I men yeah,
d I mean in Tebby remember working with Kadafi at
that time. I well, was Kadafi our friend or our fae?
I don't know one minute? He's a friend of fall anyway,
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he was an anti semi. Remember they took those Israelies.
They held them hostage, including BB's Bibe's brother who went
in there with the IDF to rescue you and unfortunately
he was the only one killed. And Ed I mean
who was best known for taking his political enemies and
feeding them to crocodiles in Lake Victoria, or so sometimes
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eating them. And then he was drilling out of Uganda
by Hansania and guess who who gave him a place
to stay until he died and went straight to hell
without an asbestos suit. Saudi Arabia the house of fraud,
with the fake phony, fraudulent princes, you know, with the
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schmantas on their heads and the fake beards and mustaches.
And then when you see him here in Manhattan, which
I've seen many times, they got the knockoff Armani suits,
they're chasing skirts, they're doing blow. It's the Western Way.
But when they go back to the land of Mecca
and Medina, all of a sudden they are the guardians
of the faith. Get out of here. So the question
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is should I stay or should I go? I haven't
been invited. It's not like I'm asking to be invited.
But the proper courtesy would be to show that this
is how them because he works. You got a winner
and you got a loser. And we would hope that
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jore On Mondami does well because if he does well,
the city does well. Or should I be like a
lot of other people say, oh, you don't want to
be seen there. Nah, he's gonna crash and burn. It's
gonna be horrible. So I'm gonna leave it up to
you or the audience. What should I do? Because the
Wall Street Journal wanted to know, and I said, I
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have no idea what I'm going to do. Maybe they'll
tell me the invitation was lost in the mail. You
know that's typical, right, Oh, we mailed it out to
snall mail. By the way, I opened up that envelope
that came in yesterday, the snail mail is the uh
there was no antras in there. You okay? I know
you took the ship pro a prophylactic just in case
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you're okay. So let's fire up the numbers. Here the
voice in New York seven to ten wor your new
station to be eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
I'm gonna put this all on all of you out
there to be my CONSEIGLIERI to give me a little guidance.
Tell me what should I do? You know me, I'll
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just show up anywhere, anytime, any place I'm missing in
New York City, There's no doubt about it. But would
that be ghosts? Would that be sort of low budget
for me just to show up, especially if you haven't
been invited? Or should I just moan and groan like
I'm Rodney danger Field, you know, the candidate who gets
no respect and just just to avoid going there, I'm
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leaving it up to all of you. One eight hundred
three to two one zero seven ten. That's one eight
hundred three to two one zero seven ten. Then yeah,
we'll get to the fraud by the Somalians in Minnesota.
I know you're all getting bent out of shape. And
what about all that COVID fraud from fortune five hundred
companies and businesses about five hundred million that they owe us.
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We're gonna go after them too, or are we just
stopping with the Somalians? Think about that, you see, challenge authority.
Don't just repeat what you last heard. This is good.
We're gonna after corruption. But are we gonna draw a
line and say, well, it's just the Somalians? Are we
gonna go after religious groups and secular groups that we
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know all about that we want to protect because they've
been ripping us off for years, for millions and billions
one eight hundred and three to two one zero seven ten.
Gotta be careful, is he? I don't want to blow
it up here for Mark Simon. This is his show.
So I'm just gonna give you a few orders. Hang
around for the entrees in your place to be seven
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ten wor