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Now the guardian Angel of top radio is here.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Curtis Leewa guest host the Mark Simone Show on seven
to ten.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Woo oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
My responsibility as being on Mark Simone's turf, the best
talk radio host in our region bar none. And I'm
sure Greg Kelly was listening over there at WABC doing
his show prep as he always did by listening to
Mark Simone. Hey, why not? He had good stuff and
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always says good stuff. He'll be back on the fifth
on Monday, but I'll be back on Friday. And the
kind of talk radio I do is different than most
because I believe that we have this opportunity to speak
to all of you now because of the technology, not
just throughout the Try State area, throughout the United States,
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but all over the world because any radio station can
be picked up virtually anywhere. And I've heard from a
lot of people listening to me on WOOR my place
to be seven to ten. Never again at WABC, which
the acronym stands for always blaming Curtis for Zaramandami being
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the mayor and always bashing Curtis even to this day.
You think they would give it up, right, Ain't coming
back there? Never I'd rather live in a homeless shelter.
I'd rather be stuck on the number four train and
going round than round.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
They're rout, is he?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Do you think people understand that? And this is a
much better station in a lot of different ways. But
this thing of ours, talk radio, it requires that you
pay homage to it. Now, Mark Simone does because nobody
knows more about radio and television then March some mom.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
And he talks about it regularly.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I listened to his show, and as you know now
you have the benefit doesn't have to be appointment radio.
You can always get it on the podcast. But I
want to touch on a few things before I do
my homage in these last two days, for the reason
that many of us have the opportunity to speak to
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all of you, whether in live form or if you
wanted to listen to three four days, a month later,
a year later on these podcasts. First off from Nancy
and yours. Truly, we have a special message. New Year's
message will be posting to all of you, the many
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hundreds of thousands who have now become followers all over
the world on all the platforms. So whether it's TikTok
that most of you know nothing about, Oh you gotta
be on TikTok, and he trust me, he didn't get
elected because he was on TikTok.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Two years ago.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
President Donald Trump is saying this is a red Chinese
threat to take over America, and then all of a
sudden he discovered, hey, maybe I can get a few
votes with this, and then all of a sudden, yeah,
we love TikTok. TikTok does not get you elected to anything.
So whether it's TikTok, Instagram or Facebook, where you're putting
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on there what you had for beakfast this morning at
the local diner. Do I need to see you having
eggs and pancakes, you know with toast? Yeah? Yeah, you
post what you had for lunch and then a mydaam,
your life must be so miserable?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Is that all you compose?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
And of course Ellen musk X, Twitter so many different
ways to get you a message out. But our message
to everybody listening right now and they'll be posted later
on at Kurtisley, which have a you can get that
social network.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
All Nancy and I want for this New Year's is
for all stray and shelter animals to have a loving home.
And I know for some of you we're like, oh,
here it goes with the animal welfare stuff. Yeah, and
again as we welcome in a new year, it doesn't
get any better than Mahatma Gandhi again a victim of
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an assassination because of his beliefs, but a man who's said,
is society that does not take care of its animals
does not take care of its people. And on my
way here to Wor seven ten to do this broadcast
to all of you, I had to pass the homeless
people and emotionally disturbed persons in the subway because the
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hawk is talking out there it's cold, and talk with them,
not many of them that I know.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
And see all the flots and jets.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
As I came up top to the street, I was
picking up the garbage. It was flying all over and
people are looking at me. You pick up garbage too,
and so what is it? That's where I was raised
by my grandfather, Fidela Biangino from Body, Italy, on my
mother's side, Trancesca side. He said, one young which means
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young man, young boy.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
You see garbage?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, like you heard Eric Adams say, we're gonna talk
about him a second, A Mama, luke.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
But anyway, you.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
See something, you see something.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Long before they ever quantified that statement, my grandfather would
tell me, Hey, you see garbage, you pick it up.
If you can't find a can and put it in,
you put it in your pocket until you can find
a can. That's where I was brought up, and many
of you listening now were brought up. And it used
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to be the sanitation department. After they pick up the garbage,
it had brooms on the truck. Remember when they would
have broom wear the brooms. Now, huh, they pick up
the garbage and that's it, not my job. Then we
have these business improvement districts. They hire mostly mental women
who have been down on their luck, and they go
out there and they change the trash can bags and
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they do a little sweeping and that's all good.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
We never needed that.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Years ago, everybody picked up the garbage.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
So people were looking at.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Me this morning on my way here to w oh,
like I believe, like I belong in the Museum of
Natural History, Like here is a species from a different
era that actually believes if you see something garbage on
the ground, you pick it up.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
The problem is.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
That the police commissioner Jessicatsh who you all fall and over.
Once she was sanitation commissioner, she took half the baskets
off the streets. Well, if there are less baskets, there'll
be less garbage.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Ough past the great poupon Jesscatage.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Maybe jeans or a limital driver on Park Avenue can
get you to one police plaza. That was a disastrous program.
Some of the folks in the MTA money taking agency,
you know, they were having the press conference. Ye, it's
the end of the metro card and now all of
a sudden you're gonna have to tap and go the
omni card, debit card, credit card. There will be nothing
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left the beginning of the year on your debut of
credit card.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
So good luck. And I'm saying to myself, are these
people delusional?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
One third of the people don't even pay their subway
fair to begin with, and that's gonna increase with Zora
on Mondamique. One half don't even pay the city bus fare.
They don't do a tap in go, they don't have
a metro card, and if you say anything to them,
they give you the finger.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
They're defiant. So they're all mourning the loss of the
Metro card. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Half the people didn't even use a Metro card to
get in on a bus, one third on the subway. Oh,
because of the crime that never gets dealt with.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
It's called fair evasion. That's a crime. Let's face it.
Let's not make any arrests.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Let's not make people pay the fair even though they
are all kinds of programs. If you're down on your luck,
half fair, one third fare, but you gotta go out
and get that right.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
We're not gonna bring it to eat. So that's my
first observation.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
And then all of a sudden, I'm on the subway
platform and I'm trying to give tourist directions because naturally
the token booth clerks who do nothing. Now it's like
a feather bettered job. They should be out of the
booth giving instructions to people at the machines to be
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able to pay their fare because he's getting scammed by
every hustler in the world. But they should also be
telling people how to get around town. So I'm helping
tourists and many of them already know me. Hey, Curtis,
I'm trying to get down to where else? The World
Trade Center, that's where they want to go. See the battery,
want to see the Statue of Liberty, all the places that.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
We folks, we don't go because we know that's where
all the tourists go.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Like, if any of you are schmucks or puttses and
you're gonna go down to Times Square to watch the
ball drop, did you not hear Jessica Tish say, Oh,
they're gonna be double screenings. They took all the garbage
cans away. There's no porter sands, there's none of that.
They can cattle cars. And you're gonna start moving at
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three o'clock. That's why they're gonna start letting you in.
And once you're in, you don't get out. You get out,
you don't come back. So imagine you've already been drinking
a few. It's three o'clock. The ball doesn't drop until
until all of a sudden the new year comes in. Right, say,
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let me, I'm not too good at nine hours?
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Right, nine hours?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
You think you could hold it in nine hours? Have
you been drinking a few, hoisting a few? That's why
on my way over here, I stopped at a few.
Dwayne Reid's and CVS's wiped out of depends wiped out
because people live their whole life to come to watch
the ball drop on Times Square, and they come from Monta,
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Mexico City, and they come from Kye Town, South Africa.
They come from everywhere because they want that experience. But
if you happen to be living in this Tri state
area and you're stupid enough to show up because you
want to be able to talk about it, don't waste
your time. But make sure you have depends on. Yeah,
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because remember, we come into this world with diapers at
some point, and most of us when we go out
of this world, we'll be wearing diapers.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
So get ready. And here's Jessicati saying, yeah, there'll be
two screenings.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Okay, Jessica, you'll keep talking and then of course, uh,
there's a boss. But thank god, just the final day
that Mama Luke, what a cry baby. Eric Adams the
most corrupt mayor in the history of New York City,
and that is saying a lot. The swaggerman with no
plan and the nightlife mayor. All he ever did was
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hang out in clubs till they break of dawn. And
a man who just waited to be wind eying the
pocket lined and if my sources are correct, decided to
drop out a running for mayor when the price was right.
Uh you remember that show the price was right? I
think he settled on twenty mil I think time will tell.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Because then he was like, well, should I go to
the inauguration at city? Should I ain't not go? I
wouldn't have made ask me to go and tell your
peeps's or an Easterns, don't yell at me, don't shout at.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
What a mama, luke what a baby?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
And so I guess the mayor had a conversation with him,
the incoming mayor, Yeah, yeah, you should be there.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Oh I'm gonna be.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
There, Like wow, wow, Eric Adams, He's the reason this
is so. Had Mandami, had he done anywhere of a
decent job, halfway job, he would have been the Democratic
incumbent mayor running for reelection. I would have been the
Republican candidate. And hey, it would have been tough. It's
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tough for a Republican to begin with. He failed, and
then they resurrected that political some beat Cuomo.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
By the way, has anybody seeing Cuomo?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Will he be at the inauguration, of course, not is
he anywhere other than hanging out with his billionaire friends
as he's slithered under his rock in the Hampton's where
he loves to be. Maybe he can launch it after
the run for mayor of Southampton. So here was Eric Adams.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
You were talking.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I'm gonna write a book. I got the title. I
didn't do nothing wrong. He's gonna get involved in cryptocurrency,
which is bitcoin, crime coin, and he wants to teach
a new generation of how to become criminals, because that's
what blockchain cryptocurrency is. It's a scam. We'll talk about
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that on Friday, my last day here. We're gonna talk
about AI. Oh my god, what a headache. And also
robotics because the masters of the universe are all telling
you to worry about it. We're gonna take your jobs,
but we're gonna give you a universal high income of
about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. You're
not gonna have to do nothing. You just sit at home,
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scratch your belly button. We're going to take care of you.
You trust any of them, We'll get into all of that.
These are subjects many of which don't get discussed and
talk radio. And then of course there is Eric Adams
on his way out, who has decided that, hey, you know,
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there are things I'm going to do to try to
make amends. He said, signing an executive order today. I
always had breaking news, right, Hey, this is Mark Simon's turf.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
It's not my turf. I had breaking news.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
He's using an executive order in the waning moments.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Of his.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Horrible mayoralty to have charter revision. Now what that is,
ladies and gentlemen. He's going to assign people to actually
put on the ballot this coming year, the gubernatory year,
the midterm elections on the back of your ballot.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Things that you as citizens can vote on.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I think the chairman is I gotta check my sources
on this, but got it on pretty good authority. My
husband and lawd David Pattison, the former governor, a man
who needs adderall. In this last mayoral election. First he
was Ferrick Adams and he was for co and he
was for Eric Adams and he was for Como. He
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gave me vertigo and I said, do me a favor,
don't endorse me. It's the kiss her death, and it
was so give him some adderall he'll be on the
charity commission. I guess the Mayor's going to have some others.
And there should be the question of sanctuary city up there,
which I talked about during the campaign.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Let the people vote.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Let the people, boy, A lot of people will come
out to vote in an election on that issue, whether
you're for it or against it. You can have town
hall meetings, you can have spirited debate. You will have
a lot of people coming out to vote in nothing
more because of that issue.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Let's see what.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Eric Adams is going to do. And how about putting
on the initiative and referendum for twenty twenty six, once and.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
For all, voting on the horse joint carriage issue. Let
the people decide.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
And on that note, it's gonna lead us into a
homage coming up to the man who was considered the
father of talk radio, and he started right here on WOR.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah, Yeah, our new.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Favorite station here in the Sleewer household. Nancy, yours truly
and yet are six cats we listen to seven to
ten WORR and so shit, all of you our numbers
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