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January 2, 2026 18 mins
Curtis Sliwa filled in for Mark Simone and shared his experience from attending Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration at City Hall in New York City yesterday. He gave listeners an inside look at the atmosphere and key moments from the event. Additionally, Curtis discussed the recent increase in MTA subway fares, which affects New Yorkers and commuters throughout the Tri-State Area who rely on the subway system.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now the guardian Angel of Top Radio is here. Curtis
Leewah guest host the Mark Simone Show on seven ten.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Woar well, well this is it last time around that
I'll be substituting here for Mark Simon.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
He's back on Monday the fifth. But every time I
come here, I meet alumni from where I used to
be WABC. Is he the board up here crash so
many others who fled like refugees from a station that
has become synonymous now with always blaming Curtis for Zorroonmandami

(00:45):
being the mayor and always bashing Curtis. But anyway, so
is he patronizes me this morning? Oh don't don't do
that to me, please, A very busy New Year's Eve,
very busy New Year's dam. I'm going to get into
it momentarily, by the way, you want to make a

(01:05):
New Year's what a promise elected officials at the MTA
money taking agency, the most inept of the many state
agencies in New York. How about cleaning the subway cars,
the number two, three, and number one that are so

(01:26):
thick with flotsam and jetsam dirt that it was shameful
that I had to explain to tourists who were here
in New York City why we can't clean our subway cars.
I mean filthy dirty. Oh no, but you know our
business here is just to raise the fair and take

(01:47):
more money and provide no service. That's number one, number
two our New Year's resolution from the Sliwa family, we
posted it. You look at all my social network and
just go to act Curtis Lee, it's all there. And
Nancy and I said we want for New Years to

(02:10):
be a time we're all stray and shelter animals will
have a loving home. And there were people who attacked
us for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, haters, man, they hate
animals again. Mahatma Gandhi said, a society that does not
take care of its animals does not take care of

(02:31):
its people. How many homeless and emotionally disturbed persons that
I see today on the way to the studios of
wo or more that I could count on my fingers
and toes. Let that be said, And then the hawk
is talking out there. It's cold. I want to give
a shout out to the Guardian Angels because they were

(02:53):
at Coney Island yesterday for the annual polar Bear plunge.
Thousands on the beach who went running in to the surf,
some of them suffering from exposure. But hey, they were
out there. I gotta tell you that they were not

(03:14):
talking politics. They were saying, the hawk is talking. It
is cold out here, and yet they made the annual plunge. Meantime,
we might as well play from all the sad sack
reports of the inauguration yesterday at City Hall of Zorhan.

(03:37):
You know, ri Em, it's the end of the world
as we know it. Oh, it's over, My god. How
many months of a campaign did we have where Zorhan
was out there every day, every day? Right, He whopped
Cuomo in the primary, he beat me in Cuomo in

(03:57):
the general election. And yet people were shocked because all
of a sudden he gave a speech after he took
the oath on a Quran. Oh that's it, at the
end of the world. We'll get into that momentarily. Some
of my friends were like, freaking out, a Koran. You

(04:18):
know what that means, Curtis, Well, what does that mean?
Tell me, Well, let's get to what he actually said.
He said, I was elected as a democratic socialist and
I will govern as a democratic socialist.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Shocking right. He said that every step.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Of the way, all through the campaign, were you not listening?
Were you not listening? Well, let's face it, most New
Yorkers have no idea what a communist is a socialist.
If I took one hundred people put them up along
the wall, they have no idea. A socialist is not
a communist. Okay, It's almost like I have to take

(04:57):
everybody to school. And then naturally when Bernie the out
the Coca Sanders graduate of Madison High School not far
away sitting there, shiver me, Timbers, was Chuck E Chees, Schumer, schmuck,
the Putts who got up halfway and left. He went

(05:17):
to Madison High School. I can run down a whole
litany of people went to Madison High School. What Bernie
Brooklyn boy went to Brooklyn College. You know the rest
of the story. So he swears him in on the
frigid steps of city Hall, and then the crowd start
screaming tax, the ridge tax, the ridge tax, the ridge.
Isn't that what Zaran said all dren the campaign and said,

(05:41):
he said, I don't even believe there should be billionaires.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
Are you forgetting that?

Speaker 1 (05:48):
People elected this guy on three issues, freeze the rent
city buses, for free universal childcare, all right, and he
engine all of them yesterday. Now. Meantime, while everybody was
determining that this is it, it's over, people were like

(06:09):
getting in touch with me. And see, wait a second,
I'm reading the New York Post. Here it says that
you made a surprise appearance at Mandami's inaugural block party.
That's right, because I wasn't invited with the elites at
city Hall. I certainly wasn't invited like Eric Adams, who
one moment people may boom me. I don't know if

(06:32):
they want to be there. Oh god, what a crook.
The best thing about the dropping of the ball, I mean,
the absolute.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Best thing.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Was the way Andy Cohen went off on him with
Anderson there Anderson Cooper and just said, get out of here,
you cook, your corrupt, You're horrible. I mean, he just
went off. I thought we could revive a game, you know,
instead of the Wheel of Fortune you or by merv

(07:03):
Griffin with Pat Sajack and Vana White. I think came
about in seventy five, although I think the first host,
correct me if I'm wrong, was Chuck woolry. I think
could be wrong. I didn't ask for you, is he man?
Just stop patronizing me, do me a favor? Huh? That
really bothers me. And we could call it the wheel

(07:24):
of corruption. City Hall for sale under Eric Adams as
he left twenty nine indictments right either members of his administration,
top aids, allies, donors, including himself, and he's in moaning

(07:44):
and going on and do nothing wrong. Well, you know,
I don't generally like Andy Cohen. Obviously he had been
bending his elbow, he was half in the bag. But
I give him the applause. Thank god. That is the
best thing getting rid of the crook Eric Adams. And
by the way, I warned everybody when I ran against

(08:06):
him at twenty twenty one, is he You were there,
You remember at the time I said, this guy's a
crook and this guy is corrupt and we will have chaos.
Was that wrong? They had a survey on his way out.
It said zero percent of all those surveyed said he

(08:26):
did nothing good. I would give him, on one credit,
the best night light mayor we've ever had since Jimmy Walker,
because that's all he would do is go to a
nearby club to the break of dawn. It didn't matter
what burrow until four in the morning. Him and Jimmy
Walker had that. By the way, if you're watching any movies,

(08:48):
you watch the Bob Hope movie about the other corrupt
mayor Jimmy Walker. Really good performance. And that's the white
version of this swaggerman with no plan Eric Adams.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Ooofa.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
That made me feel good. But then all of these
people say, how come you went? How come you stood
in line with all the Zorinistas. Because I don't just
base what I say on what I hear in the
news or I see on TV or I scrolled to.
I like to be there in person. And so I

(09:23):
came out of the subway and I was online with
all the Zorinistas. Yea, the people who elected Mandami Meyer,
not the elites at city Hall. And I waited my
turn to get in and watch. I was online at twelve.
Didn't get into that. What they called that, I guess

(09:44):
they said it was going to be a block party.
There was no no real party, poorly organized. I didn't
get in till two thirty, that's how long the lines were.
And oh boy, people were saying, how come. All these
Zorinistas were hide fiving you.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Because they under stud I'm standing.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Out there with all them, you know, like a real person,
not up in the suites in the streets like I
always am, subways in streets and having a lot of
conversations all city and State. Was that they can believe it,
big article on the Wall Street Journal, Q and A
with me. You know at the end of the year,

(10:19):
if you get a chance, you gotta read these really
good But the main thing is I was saying to
h those who hates or On and a lot of
my fellow Republicans who are attacking. In fact, this was
some of the really crazy stuff Curtis to disease are

(10:39):
On and his wife rom the night before. You saw
how they went down into that subway that's underneath City Hall,
the first subway ever created in a vast subway system.
That is really an architect who will wonder he's got
the terror courtA Tiles brash shand of Lee is to say,
distinctly European appearance. I actually him credit. Remember the other

(11:01):
day I said, Wow, if I had been lucky enough
to been elected mayor, I would have never thought of that.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
Good, good, idea.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
So that's where he had his original swearing in. Once
the ball dropped in Times Square. Do you know what's
happened since people come up to me and they say, oh, man,
you know he got sworn in on the Koran. I said, yeah,
he's a Muslim. Did you you find that surprising? He
said that every day of the way. I think he
visited every mosque in the five boroughs. Surprise, surprise. Yeah.

(11:34):
But by him being sworn in down in that subway tunnel,
it was a secret message to Hamas that I got
your back, that I support you. I said, you really
believe that crap? Oh yeah, yeah, it's all subliminal. It's messaging.
I said's just a great location, a great venue. Oh no, no,

(11:55):
you don't. You don't understand chritis. I said, well, let
me get back to this whole like of being sworn
in on a Qur'an. I said, you realize that we've
had presidents who are not sworn in on a Bible.
In fact, they weren't sworn on any religious book. What

(12:16):
I remembered, you folks out there can correct me wrong
if I'm wrong, because you know I will admit when
I'm wrong. I will fess up when I mess up,
and feel free to do so, because that's really what
talk radio is. It's your turn to be heard. Eight
hundred three two one zero seven ten eight hundred three
two one zero seventy ten. If I remember from my

(12:39):
history lessons, Thomas Jefferson ever got sworn in as president
on a Bible. The guy who followed them, John Quincy Adams,
he believed separation of church in state. He got sworn
in on a book of laws. He refused to be
sworn in on a Bible. Franklin Pierce, another president of laws.

(13:00):
I'm not being sworn in on the Bible. And Calvin Coolidge,
one of our worst presidents, was a Puritan, and he said,
I'm not being sworn in on a Bible. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
But Curticiz's different. He was sworn in on a Koran.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
He's a Muslim, and anybody voting for him not realize
he was a Musclim.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, But Curtage, this is not right.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
I said, excuse me, Do I not remember a visit
that Johann Mandami took to the White House? You remember
that visit? Right? Oh?

Speaker 3 (13:38):
Man?

Speaker 1 (13:39):
Now, Cami Mandamie, I can't wait to take all the
money from the city. You can't be electing this guy,
this communist, right, Remember it wasn't Trump saying that like
every day, and then all of a sudden, I love fest.
A love fest was like Barney.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
I love you, you love me.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
Oh, we're gonna be helping him. We agree on a
lot more than I thought. I think he'll do a
great job. I'd be comfortable living in New York City
with Mondamie is Maya who said that Donald Trump. Oh,
they're the best, the best. He's gonna be fine. Hey, Zoon,

(14:21):
you wanna call me a fascist, don't worry, call me
a fascist. We got played ladies and gentlemen. And so
when I turned to Maga people and Republicans, I say,
you know, the president is embracing By the way, did
the President put out a tweet on truth social condemning
Joran Mondamie's swearing in by burning the out the Coca

(14:44):
Sanders with AOC they did? He No, he's embraced the guy.
Oh no, no, no, But there's a strategy here, Curtis.
You gotta understand that he's gonna let Zoron let his
guard down. He doesn't really mean it. What do you
mean he doesn't really mean it.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
He said it before the world.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
Oh you'll see Curtis, Yeah, yeah, yeah, you you you
gets like you keep believing that, all right, you keep
believing that the President said on November twenty first, in
the White House, with zor unerstanding right there, the better
he does, the happier I am. And by that, by

(15:32):
the way, hours before that, the House of Representatives had
passed a resolution denouncing the horrors of socialism. All the
Republicans that you hear from here at WOR and other stations,
and eighty six Democrats. So you figured that zarn MONDAMMI

(15:52):
was gonna catch a verbal beat down, and in fact
it was a love fest. So ladies and gentlemen, and
don't get on my case. This is what you do
to respect the process, the change of one party to
another party, one political ideology to another political ideology. That's

(16:16):
what our American democracy is about. So I didn't get
invited to the inauguration. I just showed up to the
block party so I could share some of my experiences
with all of you and see for myself.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
Because I challenge authority.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
I don't care if it's Trump Zorhan, Democrats, business leaders,
cultural leaders. I don't just repeat and regurgitate whatever I
hear from the people I like. I challenge authority, and
there's nobody out there who's gonna give you a better
analysis of what took place yesterday.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
In the freezing cold.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
And by the way, really didn't matter because most of
the zoronista's young millennials gen zas. If they had been older,
oh boy, it would have been ice cube. Hell. Our
numbers one eight hundred and three to one zero seventy ten.
That's one eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.

(17:18):
While online, I was alerting all these Zorinistas that artificial
intelligence is coming for you. We're gonna talk about that later.
I'm gonna do my tribute to Bernard McGirt that I
used to do every year at WABC that they never do.
I mean, that was a radio guy. And we're gonna

(17:39):
talk about the crime of the century. Up next, Bitcoin cryptocurrency.
I call it crime coin and the biggest Ponzi scheme
that has ever existed in American history. And some of
you are being lured into it because Trump, who said
it was bitcrime at one time, then got all that

(18:00):
money from the crypto monsters, and now he's the number
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