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Speaker 1: Now the guardian Angel of talk radio is here. Curtis

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Speaker 1: Leewah guest host the Mark Simone Show on seven ten.

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Speaker 2: Woo, Well, well this is it last time around that

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Speaker 2: I'll be substituting here for Mark Simone's back on Monday

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Speaker 2: the fifth. But every time I come here, I meet

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Speaker 2: alumni from where I used to be WABC. Is he

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Speaker 2: the board up here crash so many others who fled

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Speaker 2: like refugees from a station that has become synonymous now

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Speaker 2: with always blaming Curtis for Zoronmandonmi being the mayor and

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Speaker 2: always bashing Curtis. But anyway, so is he patronizes me

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Speaker 2: this morning? Oh don't don't do that to me, please,

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Speaker 2: A very busy New Year's Eve, very busy New Year's dam.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to get into it momentarily, by the way,

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Speaker 2: you want to make a New Year's promise? Elected officials

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Speaker 2: at the MTA money taking Agency, the most inept of

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Speaker 2: the many state agencies in New York? How about cleaning

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Speaker 2: the subway cars, the number two, three, and number one

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Speaker 2: that are so thick with flotsam and jetsam dirt that

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Speaker 2: it was shameful that I had to explain to tourists

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Speaker 2: who were here in New York City why we can't

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Speaker 2: clean our subway cars. I mean filthy dirty. Oh no,

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Speaker 2: but you know our business here is just to raise

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Speaker 2: the fair and take more money and provide no service.

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Speaker 2: That's number one, number two our New Year's resolution from

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Speaker 2: the Sliwa family, we posted it. You look at all

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Speaker 2: my social network and just go to act Curtis Lee,

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Speaker 2: it's all there. And Nancy and I said we want

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Speaker 2: for New Years to be a time we're all stray

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Speaker 2: and shelter animals will have a loving home. And there

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Speaker 2: were people who attacked us for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, haters, man,

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Speaker 2: they hate animals again. Mahatma Gandhi said, a society that

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Speaker 2: does not take care of its animals does not take

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Speaker 2: care of its people. How many homeless and emotionally disturbed

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Speaker 2: persons that I see today on the way to the

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Speaker 2: studios of wo or more that I could count on

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Speaker 2: my fingers and toes. Let that be said, And then

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Speaker 2: the hawk is talking out there. It's cold. I want

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Speaker 2: to give a shout out to the Guardian Angels because

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Speaker 2: they were at Coney Island yesterday for the annual Polar

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Speaker 2: Bear plunge, thousands on the beach who went running into

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Speaker 2: the surf, some of them suffering from exposure. But hey,

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Speaker 2: they were out there. I gotta tell you that they

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Speaker 2: were not talking politics. They were saying, the hawk is talking.

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Speaker 2: It is cold out here, and yet they made the

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Speaker 2: annual plunge. Meantime, we might as well play from all

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Speaker 2: the sad sack reports of the inauguration yesterday at City

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Speaker 2: Hall of Zorhan. You know, em, it's the end of

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Speaker 2: the world as we know it. Oh, it's over, My god.

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Speaker 2: How many months of a campaign did we have where

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Speaker 2: Zorhan was out there every day, every day? Right, He

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Speaker 2: whooped Cuomo in the primary, he beat me in Cuomo

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Speaker 2: in the general election. And yet people were shocked because

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden he gave a speech after he

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Speaker 2: took the oath on a Quran. Oh that's it, the

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Speaker 2: end of the world. We'll get into that momentarily. Some

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Speaker 2: of my friends were like freaking out, a Koran. You

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Speaker 2: know what that means, Curtis, Well, what does that mean?

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Speaker 2: Tell me, Well, let's get to what he actually said.

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Speaker 2: He said, I was elected as a democratic socialist and

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Speaker 2: I will govern as a democratic socialist. Shocking, right. He

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Speaker 2: said that every step of the way, all through the campaign,

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Speaker 2: were you not listening? Were you not listening? Well, let's

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Speaker 2: face it, most New Yorkers have no idea what a

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Speaker 2: communist is a socialist. If I took one hundred people

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Speaker 2: put them up along a wall, they have no idea.

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Speaker 2: A socialist is not a communist. Okay, It's almost like

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Speaker 2: I have to take everybody to school. And then naturally

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Speaker 2: when Bernie the out the Coca Sanders graduate of Madison

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Speaker 2: High School not far away sitting there, shiver me, Timbers,

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Speaker 2: was Chuck E Chees, Schumer, schmuck, the Putts who got

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Speaker 2: up halfway and left. He went to Madison High School.

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Speaker 2: I can run down a whole litany of people went

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Speaker 2: to Madison High School. What Bernie Brooklyn boy went to

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Speaker 2: Brooklyn College. You know the rest of the story. So

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Speaker 2: he swears him in on the frigid steps of city Hall,

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Speaker 2: and then the crowd start screaming tax, the ridge tax,

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Speaker 2: the ridge tax, the ridge. Isn't that what Zaran said?

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Speaker 2: All drink to campaign and said, he said, I don't

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Speaker 2: even believe there should be billionaires? Are you forgetting that?

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Speaker 2: People elected this guy on three issues, freeze, the rent

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Speaker 2: city buses, for free universal childcare right, and evengine all

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Speaker 2: of them yesterday. Now. Meantime, while everybody was determining that

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Speaker 2: this is it, it's over, people were like getting in

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Speaker 2: touch with me, and see, wait a second, I'm reading

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Speaker 2: the New York Post. Here it says that you made

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Speaker 2: a surprise appearance at Mandami's inaugural block party. That's right,

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Speaker 2: because I wasn't invited with the elites at city Hall.

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Speaker 2: I certainly wasn't invited like Eric Adams, who one moment

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Speaker 2: to be there. Oh god, what a crook. The best

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Speaker 2: thing about the dropping of the ball, I mean, the

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Speaker 2: absolute best thing was the way Andy Cohen went off

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Speaker 2: on him with Anderson there Anderson Cooper and just said,

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Speaker 2: get out of here, you cook, your corrupt, You're horrible.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he just went off. I thought we could

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Speaker 2: revive a game, you know, instead of the Wheel of Fortune,

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Speaker 2: you or by merv Griffin with Pat say Jack and

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Speaker 2: Van White. I think came about in seventy five, although

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Speaker 2: I think the first host correct me if I'm wrong,

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Speaker 2: was Chuck Woolry. I think could be wrong. I didn't

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Speaker 2: ask for you, is he man? Just stop patronizing me,

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Speaker 2: do me a favor.

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Speaker 3: Huh?

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Speaker 2: That really bothers me. And we could call it the

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Speaker 2: wheel of corruption. City Hall for sale under Eric Adams

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Speaker 2: as he left twenty nine indictments right of either members

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Speaker 2: of his administration, top aids, allies, donors, including himself, and

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Speaker 2: he's in moaning and going on and do nothing wrong. Well,

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Speaker 2: you know, I don't generally like Andy Cohen. Obviously he

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Speaker 2: had been bending his elbow, he was half in the bag.

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Speaker 2: But I give him the applause. Thank god. That is

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Speaker 2: the best thing getting rid of the crook Eric Adams.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, I warned everybody when I ran

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Speaker 2: against him at twenty twenty one is he You were there?

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Speaker 2: You remember at the time I said, this guy's a

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Speaker 2: crook and this guy is corrupt and we will have chaos.

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Speaker 2: Was that wrong? They had a survey on his way out.

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Speaker 2: It said zero percent of all those surveyed said he

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Speaker 2: did nothing good. I would give him, on one credit,

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Speaker 2: the best night light mayor we've ever had since Jimmy Walker,

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Speaker 2: because that's all he would do is go to a

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Speaker 2: what burrow until four in the morning. Him and Jimmy

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Speaker 2: Walker had that. By the way, if you're watching any movies,

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Speaker 2: you watch the Bob Hope movie about the other corrupt

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Speaker 2: mayor Jimmy Walker. Really good performance, and that's the white

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Speaker 2: version of this swaggerman with no plan Eric Adams oofa.

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Speaker 2: That made me feel good. But then all of these

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Speaker 2: in line with all the Zorinistas. Because I don't just

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Speaker 2: I like to be there in person. And so I

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Speaker 2: all the Zorinistas, you know, the people who elected Mandami Meyer,

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Speaker 2: not the elites at city Hall. And I waited my

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Speaker 2: Didn't get into that. What they called that, I guess

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Speaker 2: There was no no real party, poorly organized. I didn't

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Speaker 2: get in till two thirty, that's how long the lines were.

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Speaker 2: And oh boy, people were saying, how come all these

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Speaker 2: Zornistas were hide fiving you because they unders stud I'm

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Speaker 2: standing there out there with all you know, like a

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Speaker 2: like I always am, subways in streets and having a

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Speaker 2: lot of conversations all City and State. Was that they

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Speaker 2: read these really good But the main thing is I

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Speaker 2: was saying to uh, those who hates Zoron and a

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Speaker 2: lot of my fellow Republicans who are attacking. In fact,

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Speaker 2: this was some some of the really crazy stuff Curtis

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Speaker 2: to disease are On and his wife rom the night before.

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Speaker 2: You saw how they went down into that subway that's

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Speaker 2: underneath City Hall, the first subway ever created in a

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Speaker 2: vast subway system. That is really an architect who will

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Speaker 2: wonder he's got the terror courtA tiles, brash sand of

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Speaker 2: Lee is just say distinctly European appearance. I actually gave

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Speaker 2: that's where he had his original swearing in Once the

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Speaker 2: ball dropped in Times Square? Do you know what's happened since?

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Speaker 2: People come up to me and they say, oh, man,

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Speaker 2: you know he got sworn in on the Koran. I said, yeah,

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Speaker 2: he's a Muslim. Did you you find that surprising? He

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Speaker 2: visited every mosque in the five boroughs. Surprise, surprise. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: But by him being sworn in down in that subway tunnel,

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Speaker 2: it was a secret message to Hamas that I got

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Speaker 2: your back, that I support you. I said, you really

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Speaker 2: believe that crap? Oh yeah, yeah, it's all subliminal. It's messaging.

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Speaker 2: I said, it's just a great location, a great venue.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, no, you don't. You don't understand critis. I said, well,

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Speaker 2: let me get back to this whole life of being

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Speaker 2: sworn in on a Qur'an. I said, you realize that

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Speaker 2: we've had presidents who are not sworn in on a Bible.

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Speaker 2: In fact, they weren't sworn on any religious book. I say,

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Speaker 2: talk radio is. It's your turn to be heard. Eight

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Speaker 2: history lessons, Thomas Jefferson ever got sworn in as president

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Speaker 2: on a Bible. The guy who followed them, John Quincy Adams,

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Speaker 2: he believed separation of church and state. He got sworn

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Speaker 2: in on a book of laws. He refused to be

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Speaker 2: sworn in on a Bible. Franklin Pierce, another president, book

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Speaker 2: of lows. I'm not being sworn in on the Bible.

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Speaker 2: And Calvin Coolidge, one of our worst presidents, was a Puritan,

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Speaker 2: and he said, I'm not being sworn in on a Bible. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: But curtisiz's different. He was sworn in on a Koran.

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Speaker 2: He's a Muslim, and anybody voting for him not realize

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Speaker 2: he was a Muslim. Yeah yeah, yeah, but Curtige, this

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Speaker 2: is not right. I said, excuse me, do I not

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Speaker 2: remember a visit? And Johann Mandami took to the White House.

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Speaker 2: You remember that visit? Right?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Man? Now, Cami Mandamie, I can't wait to take all

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Speaker 2: the money from the city. You can't be electing this guy,

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Speaker 2: this communist, right, Remember it wasn't Trump saying that like

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Speaker 2: every day. And then all of a sudden, I love fest.

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Speaker 2: A love fest was like Barney, I love you, you

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Speaker 2: love me. Oh, we're gonna be helping him. We agree

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Speaker 2: on a lot more than I thought. I think he'll

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Speaker 2: do a great job. I'd be comfortable living in New

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Speaker 2: York City with Mondamie is Maya who said that Donald Trump. Oh,

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Speaker 2: they're the best, They're the best. He's gonna be fine. Hey, Zo,

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Speaker 2: It's writing. You know, you have guests or callers. I

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Speaker 2: Let's go to the phones. First up, it's Jacqueline in Brooklyn,

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Speaker 4: Curtis, I just want to tell you from that other

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Speaker 2: Good good, Well, let me tell you, Jacqueline, for many

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Speaker 2: See got a place you can come. You don't need

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Speaker 2: did not sacrifice an Ivy League education. Let's get the

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Speaker 2: record straight. I was going to Brooklyn Prep. I was

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Speaker 2: a senior there. Jesuit High School was the last year

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Speaker 2: they were open, seventy two. I was the student government president.

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Speaker 2: We took a plever site not to wear the jacketson ties,

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Speaker 2: which were part of the tradition. I tried to enforce

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Speaker 2: the plever site. The Jesuit's warned me, there will be

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Speaker 2: consequences for your actions. Why do you think your mom

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Speaker 2: and dad and other parents work so hard so their

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Speaker 2: kids can come and get a good Jesuit education. Part

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Speaker 2: of it is the discipline of wearing a jacket in tie.

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Speaker 2: But hey, as in the sixties the counter culture. Don't

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Speaker 2: trust anybody over thirty. Challenge authority, as I always thought.

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Speaker 2: But the best lesson that I ever got taught was

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Speaker 2: there are consequences for your actions. Uh. The headmaster was

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Speaker 2: a guy named Father Alexander. There was a prefect of discipline.

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Speaker 2: All hated me. They marched me to my locker. I

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Speaker 2: had a clearer out. I thought everybody else would join me,

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Speaker 2: right to a walk out. They looked at me as

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Speaker 2: if I was a member of the Leper college. And

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Speaker 2: I had never heard from any of them. And I

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Speaker 2: headed home to Canarsie, and I never looked back, never

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Speaker 2: looked back. Spent a few weeks in Canarsie High School,

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Speaker 2: pretty good local high school, but that was it. I

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Speaker 2: had it one out, started working. I was pumping gas,

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Speaker 2: packing shelves at NAP and A and P, and then

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Speaker 2: ended up going up to the Bronx, who I became

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Speaker 2: the night manager of Mickey D's and that's where I

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Speaker 2: started the Guardian Angels. So I never finished high school technically,

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Speaker 2: never got a GED. I did have a partial scholarship

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Speaker 2: that was being offered to me from Brown in Providence

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Speaker 2: because they had just set up an environmental studies program.

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Speaker 2: I had started some of the first resit kling centers

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Speaker 2: all over the country, although right there in Brooklyn, and

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Speaker 2: they wanted to give me a half scholarship, which I

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Speaker 2: probably would have taken if I graduated, but I my

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Speaker 2: decisions caused me to suffer the consequences. And this is

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Speaker 2: what you have to learn and teach your children and

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Speaker 2: grandchildren growing up. And sometimes you have to learn the

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Speaker 2: hard way. There are consequences for your actions, and that's

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Speaker 2: the way it should be. Let's go to Leonora's calling

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Speaker 2: from Connecticut. Your turn to be heard on what I

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Speaker 2: hope is your favorite station seven to ten wor Leoni.

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Speaker 6: It absolutely is, especially now that you're on it.

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Speaker 4: Curtis.

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Speaker 6: I just want you to know I checked out for

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Speaker 6: the holidays. I didn't know where you were when I.

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Speaker 5: Put on WR and there you are.

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Speaker 6: I freaked out. I can't believe it. I'm thrilled you're

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Speaker 6: here in Anybody who's who was pissed off that you

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Speaker 6: didn't drop out of that race can go spin because

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Speaker 6: anybody who knows you knows that you are not going

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Speaker 6: to back down. And I'm proud you didn't. Mndonmie was

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Speaker 6: gonna win no matter what. Cuomo was never gonna take it.

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Speaker 6: I don't care who was paying him or what was

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Speaker 6: going on. Mcdonmie was gonna take it.

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Speaker 4: And I am.

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Speaker 6: Proud you're on w O WAR and I'm so excited

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Speaker 6: to start my new year out this way. So keep

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Speaker 6: it going, Curtis.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, remember remember Leonora. For everyone who's just

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Speaker 2: listening now, I'm only here upstanding for Mark Simon, the

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Speaker 2: best in the business. I mean, this guy's the smooth operator.

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Speaker 2: All right. I've worked side by side with Mark Simon.

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Speaker 2: I competed against Mark Simon. They were none better, none

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Speaker 2: better than in the business. And the person who is

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Speaker 2: jumping up and down looking forward to Mark's return on Monday.

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Speaker 2: The fifth is Greg Kelly over at WABC, because I'd

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Speaker 2: walk in. I'd walk into that studio. BB's sitting there

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Speaker 2: snacking off of Mark Simone's shows, taking all kinds of notes.

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Speaker 2: That's how we would do a show prep, which is

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Speaker 2: a pretty good idea, especially when you're like Greg Kelly

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Speaker 2: and you don't do any show prep, and you think

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Speaker 2: you could sit there for three hours and just do

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Speaker 2: a stream of consciousness. Now it doesn't work. So he'd

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Speaker 2: be taking notes, you know, like comedians would be stealing

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Speaker 2: lines from one another. By the way, we're gonna be

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Speaker 2: talking about AI in the next hour. Let me quantify it.

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Speaker 2: It's like Joe Biden. It's a plagiarism machine that steals

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Speaker 2: and plunders all kinds of information. So like comedians used

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Speaker 2: to steal from one another, and Greg Kelly steals from

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Speaker 2: the best in the business, Mark Siman. Not they're wrong

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Speaker 2: with Dad. I know you're listening now, Greg, You're disappointed

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Speaker 2: because you the kind of stuff I'm talking about. You

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Speaker 2: wouldn't be picking my pocket. But it's okay. Mark's coming

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Speaker 2: back on Monday. You'll have somebody to do your show

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Speaker 2: prep for you. Hup. Next, gotta pay tribute to one

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Speaker 2: of the greats. I know he's on every Monday with

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Speaker 2: Larry Mente Warner Wolf. Oh, what a great story about

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Speaker 2: Warner Wolf still kicking it down to Fort Myers. And

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Speaker 2: then the tribute to Bernard McGirt that they don't even

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Speaker 2: do a WABC any longer, I mean, the most loyal

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Speaker 2: person ever ever in this thing of ours radio Now.

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Speaker 1: More with New York's iconic straight shooter Curtis Leewah guest

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Speaker 1: hosting from Mark Simone on seven ten wo wo oh.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I look forward a Monday morning when Warner Wolf joins

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Speaker 2: Larry Minty as he does every Monday. I'm down there,

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Speaker 2: I think Fort Myers and Naples, Florida. I remember the

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Speaker 2: last I heard big time from Warner not him personally,

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Speaker 2: but scrolling through I saw the news that Warner Wolf

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Speaker 2: had decided to go out to the sign outside of

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Speaker 2: his home in an uh you know, a compound, a

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Speaker 2: gated community where it was a homeowner's association and take

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Speaker 2: down the sign plantation. He didn't want it thought that

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Speaker 2: they lived on a plantation. He didn't like the connotation,

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Speaker 2: and they locked him up, and he fought it and

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Speaker 2: asked Warner Wolf a great okay, let's go to the videotape. Well,

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Speaker 2: you need to know about Warner Wolf's He spent many

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Speaker 2: years with him at WABC. That was a tough job

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Speaker 2: getting him over there because he no longer was doing

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Speaker 2: sports on television. Tim McCarthy, who was our general manager

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Speaker 2: at the time, comes to me, I'm doing the morning

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Speaker 2: program with Ron Kooby, whose mommy is a coming. The

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Speaker 2: predecessor too, was zoron Mondomi. If you want to know

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Speaker 2: anything about zoraon Mondamie, he's Ron Koby. Except now you

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Speaker 2: could get elected. Maya saying that back then they'd want

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Speaker 2: to lock you up. But anyway, the point is, Tim

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Speaker 2: McCarthy says, I got a great addition in the morning show,

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Speaker 2: what a Wolf wants to do sports for you guys

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Speaker 2: in the morning. I said, Oh, man, he doesn't get

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Speaker 2: any better than that. Oh, Ron Cooby, Well he'll cut

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Speaker 2: into talk time, I said, trust me, Ron, people would

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Speaker 2: much rather listen to Warner Wolf than you and me,

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Speaker 2: because he doesn't just talk sports. He'll talk about whatever's

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Speaker 2: on his mind. I said, you know, Warner Wolf both

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Speaker 2: made his moons in radio before television. I said, his

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Speaker 2: parents were out in vaudeville. This guy's a great entertainer. No, no, no, Well,

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Speaker 2: eventually I was able to hold sway. Warner joined us.

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Speaker 2: What a great combination. And I will never forget one

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Speaker 2: of the greatest talk radio moments. He's describing how he

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Speaker 2: and his wife had gone on a tour of Europe

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Speaker 2: and I don't know if they were visiting Paris at

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Speaker 2: the time or Vienna. One of those balconies were Hitler,

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Speaker 2: after taking over the country with the Nazis, had come

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Speaker 2: out onto the balcony, and you know there were cheering

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Speaker 2: tens of thousands of Vshi or Nazi sympathizers. And Warner said,

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Speaker 2: I walked out towards the balcony. I could imagine Adolf

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Speaker 2: Hitler standing there, and I had a twenty two, and

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Speaker 2: I walked up behind him and I pulled the trigger

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Speaker 2: and I blew his brains out. I don't care if

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Speaker 2: they would have shot me dead right there his body.

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Speaker 2: I said, you actually says, yes, I've had that that

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Speaker 2: that thought when I was there with my wife and

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Speaker 2: I thought about him many times, if only somebody had

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Speaker 2: done that when this monster was rising up. Man, I

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Speaker 2: was riveting talk radio. It was so good. And then

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Speaker 2: of how, of course his emphasis on sports talking about

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Speaker 2: other issues of the day. I'll never forget. He's up

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Speaker 2: at a gym like fifty nine Street, Columbus Circle nearby.

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Speaker 2: He lived there, and he'd be working out in the

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Speaker 2: public gym and guess who would come in and work

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Speaker 2: out next one Madonna. Yeah. And the guy was like

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Speaker 2: a Germapholbe. He would never open up the bathroom with

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Speaker 2: his hands. You'd always have tissue paper and toilet paper

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Speaker 2: and you know, bounty towels, just like some of you

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Speaker 2: out there German folks. He would never talk on on

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Speaker 2: he doesn't touch it. And if I remember correctly, he

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Speaker 2: said I never drank water. It's like a drummondrry, you know,

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Speaker 2: a one hum camel never drank water. What a great personality.

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Speaker 2: Best thing that ever happened to me in radio was

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Speaker 2: bringing warn a Wolf on board, who, by the way,

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Speaker 2: remember I had been with Imus in the morning doing

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Speaker 2: sports when the World Trade Center was attacked on nine

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Speaker 2: to eleven, and they lived too far away, and he

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Speaker 2: gave great commentary as to what was transpiring. Unfortunately, too

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Speaker 2: many people never were exposed to warn a Wolf, not

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Speaker 2: only in terms of his great ability on television doing sports,

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Speaker 2: but how vaudevillian he was, what a great entertainer, what

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Speaker 2: great stories he can tell, which is everything that makes

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Speaker 2: radio great. It isn't just regurgitating what was in the news.

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Speaker 2: Anybody could do that. It's connecting the dots and relating

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Speaker 2: it to stories that not only you grew up with,

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Speaker 2: but maybe you were personally involved with. And the fact

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Speaker 2: that you can turn to wr and he won a

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Speaker 2: Wolf with Larry MENTI in the Morning is truly blessing

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Speaker 2: of talk radio because if you're listening to WABC always

599
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Speaker 2: bashing Curtis, you end up listening to the Eye and

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Speaker 2: Me guy. You know, Sid Rosenberg, it's all about him.

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Speaker 2: He thinks he knows everything about sports. At that time,

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Speaker 2: it was Warner Wolfe who was doing the sports on

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Speaker 2: the IMSS in the Morning show, and the guy who

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Speaker 2: made that show work was its executive producer, Bernard McGirk.

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Speaker 2: I will share with you some stories up next. I

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Speaker 2: do it. I did it every year when I was

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Speaker 2: at WABC, when he used to be always broadcasting Curtis,

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Speaker 2: because they didn't do it, which they should have. This

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Speaker 2: guy knew more about radio, the ins and outs. He

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Speaker 2: would be a CONSIGLIERI with the guests off, I miss

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Speaker 2: when Imus would blow up. He'd booked the guests. He'd

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Speaker 2: read the books. That's why he was a constant reader

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Speaker 2: of books. And he would speak to I miss in

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Speaker 2: the headphones, and I miss would repeat what Bernie said,

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Speaker 2: and then I Miss, in a break, would scream unmentionables

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Speaker 2: to Bernie and his staff. Oh yeah, yeah, you don't

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Speaker 2: want to go anywhere. A tribute to Bernard McGirt, one

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Speaker 2: of the great voices in all of talk radio.

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Speaker 1: Now the Red Beret has returned to radio. Curtis lee

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Speaker 1: Wall guest host The Mark Simone Show on seven Tenor.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I heard that update about Governor Schruell from a congresswoman.

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Speaker 2: She's going on a diner tour. Boy, nobody hears from

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Speaker 2: Jack Ciarelli any longer. Remember he was the big maga

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Speaker 2: trumper guy this time around, third time around, and her

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Speaker 2: whole campaign was affordably cost the living and he washed.

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Speaker 2: But you don't hear from him at all. I don't

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Speaker 2: know what he plans for doing. I've known Jack, there's

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Speaker 2: a good candidate. But the voters were interested in in

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Speaker 2: course of living affordability. That's what propelled Johann Mondamia New

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Speaker 2: York and in other races where Democrats beat Republicans around

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Speaker 2: the country and maywell end up determining the fate of

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Speaker 2: the House of Representative. You know, Trump, there was a

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Speaker 2: fake news, fake note. Now it's all about oh no

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00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 2: affordability courts OLIVI yeah, yeah, okay, get on board. But

635
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 2: it reminds me of a great radio figure who was

636
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 2: here from time to time, the King of talk radio,

637
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 2: Bob Grant. Yeah, he was here on two different occasions.

638
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 2: But when he was at WABC, was there. I was

639
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 2: at that time. There was the woman trying to become

640
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 2: governor there, Christine Todd Whittless. What the scratsiata what a shanda?

641
00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 2: Remember she's the one who was the epa chieftess for

642
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 2: Bush forty three and in the aftermath of the attack

643
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 2: of nine to eleven said, oh, no toxins in the air.

644
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 2: You don't need gloves or masks or has matt suits

645
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 2: just inhal exhil. Look how many died, Look how many

646
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 2: still suffered. But anyway, at that time it was governor

647
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,760
Speaker 2: of Florio, and Bob grand single handedly got her elected.

648
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:27,879
Speaker 2: He coined the phrase Florio Free in ninety three. And

649
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:31,320
Speaker 2: Florio was originally from Brooklyn. He worked in a butcher's shop,

650
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:35,239
Speaker 2: joined the US Navy, and he was paving the way

651
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:40,439
Speaker 2: for his reelection. He was raised in taxes and Bob

652
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 2: Grant took Christine Toddwitt lists of patrician by the hand,

653
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 2: took her on the bus tour from Camden County to

654
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 2: Hudson County. Of course, the stopover at his favorite haunt,

655
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,399
Speaker 2: the Rio Diner in Woodbridge, New Jersey. We're at the time.

656
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 2: Guess who the mayor was, is he? Well, yeah, the

657
00:43:56,840 --> 00:44:00,439
Speaker 2: guy who just lost his attempted political cost come back

658
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:06,319
Speaker 2: in Jersey City to become the mayor. As he addressed

659
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 2: a nation later on and said, I am a gay American.

660
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 2: You know that is yeah, like Como, he attempted to

661
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 2: come back. He was the mayor Woodbridge at the time.

662
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 2: Jim McGready. It was greed, greed, and he crashed in Burner,

663
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 2: Jersey City. But anyway, the point being is Bob Grant

664
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 2: single handedly took this woman and got her elected, and then,

665
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 2: in typical political fashion, she stuck the ship in his back,

666
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:40,840
Speaker 2: came up, did an interview in the studios at WABC

667
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:45,280
Speaker 2: at that time at two pen plasan Madison Square Garden.

668
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:49,720
Speaker 2: Here's the guy who got her elected. And because people

669
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:53,760
Speaker 2: were calling Bob Grant erasis, she chimed in, oh yeah,

670
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 2: she was stabbing him in the back. And Bob was

671
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:01,840
Speaker 2: always respectful to his guests on the radio. You know,

672
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 2: he would rail against them when he was doing his commentaries,

673
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 2: but he was always respectful. I was there at the

674
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 2: station that day. It was a horrific political performance, and

675
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 2: you got to understand that you may be loyal to

676
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 2: certain politicians, it doesn't matter. They care only about themselves.

677
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 2: And that was clearly evidenced with Christine Todd Whitless, miserable Verson,

678
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 2: but she had no loyalty. The guy who did have loyalty,

679
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:44,440
Speaker 2: it's the great Bernard McGirk. And I say great because

680
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 2: he earned it. His father was a bus driver, Irish

681
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 2: bus driver in the Bronx. His mother raised kids in

682
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:57,320
Speaker 2: the Monroe housing projects and Soundview that's where Wesley Snipes

683
00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 2: grew up. Yeah, Wesley, pay your taxes. I never did,

684
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:04,279
Speaker 2: and many others who grew up there. But when you

685
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 2: were white, back then, you were the minority, and it

686
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 2: was a tough upbringing. But when I've been to the

687
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 2: Monroe projects and I speak to the elderly African American women,

688
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 2: many of them still living there, they would say Bernard

689
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:21,279
Speaker 2: McGirk would walk around with books all the time. He'd

690
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:24,919
Speaker 2: be reading books. He'd be teaching kids to read, even

691
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:26,880
Speaker 2: the ones threatening him to give him a beat down.

692
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:30,239
Speaker 2: And as you know, Bernard was a tough guy. It

693
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 2: was a Hayes man, went to Cardinal Hayes. I think

694
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 2: he went to Mount Saint Vincent up in Riverdale, then

695
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:40,759
Speaker 2: left school, was driving livery cabs up in young because overnight,

696
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 2: you know how dangerous that is. Back then the Slobine projects,

697
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 2: Milford Gardens, thugs and then late and now you know

698
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 2: who's china hal at back then livery cabs, it's pimps,

699
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 2: it's prostitutes, it's John's, it's drug dealers, it's drug users

700
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:01,720
Speaker 2: and drunks who are getting out of the bars along

701
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 2: McLean Avenue in the wee hours of the morning. And

702
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 2: it was tough. He talked to me about all the

703
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:08,879
Speaker 2: times he got pissed, the whip guns to his head

704
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 2: Rob because back then it was cash and carry, and

705
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:17,799
Speaker 2: then he fell into radio. It's one of the best

706
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 2: things that ever happened on radio. At some point he

707
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 2: hooked up with Imus, who had had his ups and

708
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 2: downs and was just a nasty guy. Nasty guy, but

709
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 2: he became the lynchpin, the flywheel, the one person who

710
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:43,279
Speaker 2: was able to turn it around for don Imus, who

711
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 2: depended on which day it was, was probably in a

712
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 2: really bad mood if I remember correctly. There was i'mus

713
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:58,319
Speaker 2: Charles McCord, his news guy, Rob Bartlett, Lou Raffino, who

714
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:03,240
Speaker 2: is now said Roseen's wingman. If he hadn't gotten Lura

715
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 2: Fino here from w o WAL, I don't think sid

716
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:10,320
Speaker 2: Rosenberg would have cut it. Once Bernard McGirk passed away,

717
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:15,920
Speaker 2: we'll get into that momentarily. But by the time they

718
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:20,799
Speaker 2: came to WABC, this is after that Scarlet Knight situation

719
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 2: with Rutgers, which I think occurred in about two thousand

720
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 2: and seven. All of a sudden, MSNBC canceled them because

721
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:33,720
Speaker 2: they were simulcass and then WFA and canceled them. Fired

722
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 2: the imis fired Bernard McGirr kept the others on a

723
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:40,920
Speaker 2: little bit, but let them go too, and they were

724
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 2: in a lurch. They were persona no grade. They had

725
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:47,360
Speaker 2: a scarlet letter on them. They would called races, which,

726
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 2: let me tell you something, Bernard McGirr going up in

727
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 2: the projects with predominantly African Americans and Hispanics around him,

728
00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:58,800
Speaker 2: not far from the Soto Mayor Projects which used to

729
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:02,440
Speaker 2: be the Bronxdale Projects renamed in her honor, near the

730
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 2: Bruckta in the heart of the South Bronx. He was

731
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:10,239
Speaker 2: no racist. Probably the saddest moment that I experienced on

732
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 2: his behalf is that he was supposed to in two

733
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 2: thousand and seven be hired over at WRKO for the

734
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 2: morning program in Boston, and boy, they wanted him there

735
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:27,400
Speaker 2: desperately because he would have been a perfect fit Irish

736
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 2: And remember he used to do used to do the

737
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 2: imitations of John and Cardinal o'conna and Cardinal Egan. You know,

738
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:39,240
Speaker 2: you had that Federal Express envelope as like the cone

739
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:41,799
Speaker 2: on his head. He was great with the Irish brogue

740
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 2: man and loved him in Boston. So there I am

741
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:52,920
Speaker 2: in the studios a WRKO in Boston. I was leading

742
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 2: Guardian Angel patrols. Some black minister had said, don't come

743
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:59,840
Speaker 2: to Boston because you're just asking to end up in

744
00:49:59,880 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 2: a body bag. It was high crime. The mayor was

745
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 2: opposed to it, and so here it was. They were

746
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:12,240
Speaker 2: going to hire Bernard McGirk to be the co host

747
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:17,360
Speaker 2: with the former Speaker of the crooked Boston excuse me,

748
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:23,239
Speaker 2: Massachusetts Legislature, Tom Finneran, and then Alslom Shady Sharpton and

749
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:27,640
Speaker 2: Barack Obama started working the phones to all the advertisers

750
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:31,360
Speaker 2: and telling him, if you hire that racist Bernard McGirk,

751
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 2: we're going to launch a boycott. So when I got

752
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 2: there that morning, I said, hey, where's Burnie. Oh no, no, no,

753
00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:42,440
Speaker 2: they decided not to take him. Honest, but what that

754
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:45,920
Speaker 2: would help you, Thomas? You know you're a politician. I

755
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 2: was honest with him. Politicians make horrible talk show hosts

756
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 2: because they always speak with a seven second soundbelt. They're

757
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:57,280
Speaker 2: the worst. He goes, no, you're right, I needed Bernie.

758
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:01,280
Speaker 2: So once again Bernard McGirk was off into the ABYSS,

759
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:08,719
Speaker 2: labeled the racist. Meantime, unbeknownst to anybody, don Imus, who

760
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:11,799
Speaker 2: represented his whole crew, because you paid Imus and then

761
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:15,760
Speaker 2: he paid his crew, so you were subject to whatever

762
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:19,759
Speaker 2: Imus said you had to do. He was meeting with

763
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 2: the Buckley family who owned WOR, this station seven ten

764
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 2: at the time, family owned station, and they were on

765
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:30,800
Speaker 2: the cusp of hiring him. Now, remember the morning shows

766
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:35,759
Speaker 2: there had either been gambling one, two, three, or programs

767
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:40,960
Speaker 2: that sounded like the Gambling Show, you know, sound alikes,

768
00:51:41,239 --> 00:51:43,760
Speaker 2: So this would have been a major departure for them.

769
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:49,239
Speaker 2: I don't know what happened, but negotiations broke down and

770
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:53,919
Speaker 2: at that point WOR decided not to bring him into

771
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:58,760
Speaker 2: the mornings. That's like halfway through twenty two thousand and seven.

772
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:02,120
Speaker 2: And then towards the end of two thousand and seven,

773
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:06,360
Speaker 2: what happens. WABC hires Imus in the morning and his

774
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:09,839
Speaker 2: crew to replace Curtis and Cooby. They fired Kooby and

775
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:12,880
Speaker 2: they put me in a box doing overnight radio and

776
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:16,000
Speaker 2: that was syndicated across the nation. But they weren't gonna

777
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 2: let me go, and they say this, so wow. That

778
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 2: was all within a year, and every step of the way.

779
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:32,360
Speaker 2: Bernard McGirk was loyal to Imus and loyal to the team.

780
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:35,600
Speaker 2: Never told the stories. The horrific stories of how badly

781
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:39,760
Speaker 2: i'mus treated him and all the members of his staff.

782
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:43,960
Speaker 2: By the way, the executive producer, when you saw him

783
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:48,760
Speaker 2: in the studio, he was feeding information to Imus. Bernard

784
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 2: would read the books, he would give them the questions

785
00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 2: to ask. There were sometimes Imus was almost incoherent, and

786
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:00,759
Speaker 2: Bernard McGirk would save the day whether Imus was off

787
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:04,320
Speaker 2: in New Mexico and then eventually in Texas at Ranch whatever.

788
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:09,840
Speaker 2: And then he had a wish at WABC. He wanted

789
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:12,839
Speaker 2: to have his own show. He had earned it many

790
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 2: times over great talk show host and he said to

791
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:18,719
Speaker 2: management and ownership, I want to be able to bring

792
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:21,719
Speaker 2: up Sid Rosenberg from Florida, who was having a difficult time,

793
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:27,319
Speaker 2: and he convinced him. He convinced them that yeah, this

794
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 2: could be a good show. I remember I went down

795
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:32,680
Speaker 2: to Florida. I was hosting a Guardian Angel conference at

796
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:36,440
Speaker 2: the hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, and I was asking

797
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 2: questions about Sid because he had just been fired in

798
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:41,919
Speaker 2: another radio station. Assumed he had some of the same

799
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 2: problems he had before. He hadn't. I reported back to

800
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 2: ownership management and I told, man, you got it. You

801
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:51,879
Speaker 2: got to bring Sid up because he wanted to hire

802
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:56,240
Speaker 2: Mike Lupica, the sports writer at at the Daly News.

803
00:53:56,280 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 2: Great sports writer, but horrible talk show hosts. I'm a say,

804
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 2: convince them, you don't have to come into the station.

805
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:04,919
Speaker 2: You could do it from your basement and New Canaan, Yeah,

806
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:07,879
Speaker 2: just destroy the station even more, saying, God, they listen

807
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:12,200
Speaker 2: to me. They brought Sid Rosenberg up. Sid was a

808
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:18,000
Speaker 2: great addition. And then unfortunately Bernie and this is a

809
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 2: message to all of you to get to your menfolks

810
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:24,879
Speaker 2: that never took that PSA test. A simple prick of

811
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:28,400
Speaker 2: the finger, a simple prick of the finger. If he

812
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:32,920
Speaker 2: had had that blood test, it's simple. I can assure

813
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 2: you he would not have died of frog state cancer

814
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:39,680
Speaker 2: like so many men needlessly do because they don't get tested.

815
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:41,960
Speaker 2: If you're forty five or older, you gotta get tested.

816
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:45,480
Speaker 2: Women folk listening out there, you have the right to

817
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:48,359
Speaker 2: nag them, be all over them, make sure they get

818
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 2: that test, because the toughest guys are the ones least

819
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:54,040
Speaker 2: likely to take the test because they think, oh man,

820
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 2: it goes my manhood. You know, I'll have to be

821
00:54:57,280 --> 00:55:00,759
Speaker 2: using no longer the urino. I'll have to go into

822
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:03,520
Speaker 2: this stall and do a squad in for us. That's nonsense.

823
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:10,200
Speaker 2: I had stage four prostate cancer, but Bernie was old school.

824
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:13,640
Speaker 2: And when we return, I'll tell you exactly what happened there.

825
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:19,919
Speaker 2: For one year, this guy suffered and he had continued

826
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:27,040
Speaker 2: to do talk radio while his partner Sid Rosenberg was

827
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:29,759
Speaker 2: hoping that he would have a shot to do the

828
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:34,839
Speaker 2: show on his own. You imagine that this guy who

829
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:38,280
Speaker 2: had brought him, who said I want sit up here,

830
00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:43,000
Speaker 2: and all Sid was doing while Bertie was suffering, is

831
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:48,000
Speaker 2: I could do this show on my own. Really, No,

832
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:51,839
Speaker 2: you couldn't. No, you can't. And I'll give you the

833
00:55:51,880 --> 00:56:00,160
Speaker 2: rest of the real story as I do my homage

834
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 2: to a great all round figure and talk radio Bernard McGirk,

835
00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:07,160
Speaker 2: who should be honored on a regular basis for all

836
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:10,719
Speaker 2: he put up with, all he did and what he

837
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:15,759
Speaker 2: contributed to the thing of ours. One eight hundred three

838
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:18,560
Speaker 2: two one zero seven ten. That's one eight hundred three

839
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 2: to two one zero seven ten.

840
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:24,000
Speaker 1: Actual Curtis Sliwa guest host the Mark Simone Show on

841
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:26,880
Speaker 1: seven ten War.

842
00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:31,600
Speaker 2: Every year. When I said WABC not my place to be,

843
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:34,719
Speaker 2: you got to be listening to seven to ten War,

844
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:38,719
Speaker 2: it is the voice in New York. Don't be a

845
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:41,840
Speaker 2: Massachus and go back listening there because they don't do

846
00:56:41,960 --> 00:56:45,799
Speaker 2: these tributes to a guy who was so important to

847
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:51,400
Speaker 2: radio in general, never mind WABC. So Bernard McGirk is

848
00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 2: fighting to have his own program and without which I

849
00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 2: Miss could not exist without Bernie as his executive producer.

850
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:02,920
Speaker 2: So the deal is made. Burnie will continue to be

851
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:05,760
Speaker 2: the executive producer for don I Miss in the Morning

852
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:11,600
Speaker 2: six to ten, and they would replace Heraldo Rivera, who

853
00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:13,920
Speaker 2: was a prima donna at that time, never wanting to

854
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:17,200
Speaker 2: come and do the show in the studio with the

855
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:20,880
Speaker 2: new show Bernard McGirk and Sid Roseberg. Now everybody knew

856
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:24,840
Speaker 2: Bernard McGirk, come on, he was on with O'Reilly remember

857
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:28,200
Speaker 2: once a week before anybody really knew Gutfeld. Gutfeld now

858
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:32,840
Speaker 2: everybody knows him, But Bernie carried that segment until Gutfeld

859
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:39,640
Speaker 2: got his legs. So everybody knew Bernie, not everybody knew Sid.

860
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:43,000
Speaker 2: But it was a great program because in twenty sixteen,

861
00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:46,720
Speaker 2: remember it was the election of Trump versus Hillary, and

862
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:51,040
Speaker 2: Sid was truly a Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter, and as

863
00:57:51,080 --> 00:57:55,600
Speaker 2: you know, there was no bigger supporter of Donald Trump

864
00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:58,880
Speaker 2: than Bernard McGirk. So it's great to listen to them

865
00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:02,320
Speaker 2: back and forth. And then, as you know, Trump becomes president.

866
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:05,520
Speaker 2: Hillary was still in a fetal position at the Jacob

867
00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:09,440
Speaker 2: Chavich Senna willing to accept the coronation, and they had

868
00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:11,880
Speaker 2: a teller every day for a month. No, no, Hillary,

869
00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:14,120
Speaker 2: You're not the president. And finally bring it back to

870
00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 2: the Love Shack in Chappaqua, the whitest suburb in America

871
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:22,400
Speaker 2: where even the launch jockeys are white. So now they're

872
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:25,360
Speaker 2: moving along. They're doing mid mornings. Remember Bernie's still the

873
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:27,960
Speaker 2: executive producer in the morning for don Imus, who is

874
00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:32,400
Speaker 2: losing it. I mean, you could tell. And then finally

875
00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:36,800
Speaker 2: they determined that it's time for Imus to ride into

876
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:40,080
Speaker 2: the sunset. That's it, he's retiring. I think it was

877
00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:45,640
Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen. And so now it's Sid and Bernie

878
00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:48,520
Speaker 2: in the morning. But Bernie's the bus driver. Bernie did

879
00:58:48,520 --> 00:58:51,480
Speaker 2: all the show prep. Bernie is getting cuts, Bernie is

880
00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:55,040
Speaker 2: working hard like he always worked. He was the executive

881
00:58:55,080 --> 00:59:00,240
Speaker 2: producer and obviously the host, the go to hosts and said,

882
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 2: you could tell there was like resistance, resistance It's like

883
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:06,640
Speaker 2: Sid wanted to talk sports, okay a little bit of that,

884
00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:10,600
Speaker 2: and naturally all about himself, and he'll tell you, oh, look,

885
00:59:10,640 --> 00:59:16,080
Speaker 2: I'm paranoid, I'm insecure, I'm neurotic. But he had to

886
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:19,120
Speaker 2: tell you things about himself. Quite frankly, they weren't all

887
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:23,800
Speaker 2: that interesting. But Bernard would do the reading, do the research,

888
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:28,320
Speaker 2: and help do a really good morning program. But unfortunately

889
00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:31,800
Speaker 2: he did not pay attention to the warning signs that

890
00:59:31,880 --> 00:59:33,840
Speaker 2: maybe some of you guys are having out there. And

891
00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:36,080
Speaker 2: I beg you, I beseech you, as somebody who at

892
00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:39,880
Speaker 2: stage four prostate cancer, get the simple prick of the finger,

893
00:59:40,440 --> 00:59:44,160
Speaker 2: the blood test. That's all it is, because if you don't,

894
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:47,400
Speaker 2: you might end up like Bernard McGirk and so many

895
00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:50,800
Speaker 2: others that you knew. There was nobody healthier than Bernard mcgirky,

896
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:53,560
Speaker 2: lived in Long Beach, his wife, has two children. He'd

897
00:59:53,560 --> 00:59:58,200
Speaker 2: be on the board walk there riding his bicycle, healthy diet,

898
00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:00,920
Speaker 2: It wasn't better shape than any of us. In fact,

899
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:03,760
Speaker 2: in the lockdown and pandemic, I'll never forget the image

900
01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:07,200
Speaker 2: of Bernard McGirt coming off the Long Island railroad, dressed

901
01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:10,080
Speaker 2: like Lawrence of the Arabia with a shive in his

902
01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:13,880
Speaker 2: hand because all the emotionally disturbing and homeless people had

903
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:16,280
Speaker 2: taken over Penn Station. I know we and the Guardian

904
01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:19,240
Speaker 2: Angels were caring for him, and I would see I

905
01:00:19,280 --> 01:00:22,800
Speaker 2: would see Bernard emerge. Man, you didn't want to mess

906
01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:26,400
Speaker 2: with Bernard McGirt. He was prepared, but he was gonna

907
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:30,720
Speaker 2: get to that station and it was a great team.

908
01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:37,240
Speaker 2: In the morning, now everybody recommended to him, Bernie, Bernie,

909
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:41,200
Speaker 2: you better go talk to Curtison Studio B because he

910
01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:45,400
Speaker 2: was I'm not feeling well, and Bernie started to tell

911
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:49,880
Speaker 2: me what his symptoms were, and I kind of understood

912
01:00:49,880 --> 01:00:52,720
Speaker 2: it was prostate cancer, having been through the ordeal myself.

913
01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:56,080
Speaker 2: Luckily I survived. He didn't. He had not gotten a

914
01:00:56,120 --> 01:01:00,960
Speaker 2: PSA test. He had to go home and at times

915
01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:04,600
Speaker 2: do the broadcast from home laying down on the bed

916
01:01:04,920 --> 01:01:14,120
Speaker 2: parallel to the ceiling. Wow, there's cancer metastasized. I think

917
01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:18,000
Speaker 2: he went into his liver and then his brain and

918
01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:22,480
Speaker 2: then by twenty twenty two, unfortunately Bernard McGirk is dead.

919
01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:29,720
Speaker 2: They had a nice commemorative mass in Saint Patrick's Cathedral

920
01:01:31,120 --> 01:01:33,280
Speaker 2: and we all got a chance to speak on behalf

921
01:01:33,320 --> 01:01:35,520
Speaker 2: of Bernie and the many fans who had grown up

922
01:01:35,560 --> 01:01:40,440
Speaker 2: listening to Bernard McGirk filled Saint Patrick's Cathedral. People went

923
01:01:40,480 --> 01:01:43,240
Speaker 2: out to his wake in Long Beach, including at the

924
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:48,000
Speaker 2: time the Mayor of the City of New York, Eric Adams,

925
01:01:48,040 --> 01:01:50,520
Speaker 2: who always used to tell Bernie, and I tell Bernie,

926
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:54,160
Speaker 2: he's pulling your shorts. Oh this is my favorite morning show.

927
01:01:54,240 --> 01:01:56,680
Speaker 2: Meantime you knew it was Charlemagne. That god right, they

928
01:01:56,720 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 2: tell the mighty whities. Yeah, you're my favorite show. You

929
01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:01,080
Speaker 2: and said, meantime, he's listening to Charlemagne.

930
01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:01,360
Speaker 1: Guy.

931
01:02:01,440 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 2: He went all the way out there, and Bernie's father,

932
01:02:05,480 --> 01:02:09,360
Speaker 2: just like Bernie, looked at Eric Adams because he was

933
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:12,480
Speaker 2: sitting up in the front, and he said, what are

934
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:15,919
Speaker 2: you doing here? Looking for votes? And everybody busted out

935
01:02:16,040 --> 01:02:20,200
Speaker 2: laughing because they knew what that was about. But the

936
01:02:20,240 --> 01:02:22,720
Speaker 2: fact was that Sid was having a tough time carrying

937
01:02:22,720 --> 01:02:26,440
Speaker 2: this program. It really was. People were used to Bernie.

938
01:02:26,440 --> 01:02:29,600
Speaker 2: They wanted Bernie. Obviously he could no longer do it.

939
01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:33,520
Speaker 2: So the suits, the owners of WABC, said he needs

940
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:36,040
Speaker 2: a partner right away. They came to me because I've

941
01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:38,640
Speaker 2: not morning shows. I mean, you name it have done

942
01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:42,120
Speaker 2: him many times with Lisa Angels in the morning with

943
01:02:42,240 --> 01:02:45,600
Speaker 2: Ron Coolby, done a lot of morning shot and Nope,

944
01:02:45,920 --> 01:02:49,160
Speaker 2: not I. This guy does not want a partner. It

945
01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 2: is clear he's a diva. He thinks the show should

946
01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:58,400
Speaker 2: be all about him. And so they tried Andrew Giuliani,

947
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:01,160
Speaker 2: who was a rookie. I had him in the talk

948
01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:04,400
Speaker 2: radio boot camp there along with others like Dominic Carter

949
01:03:04,560 --> 01:03:08,880
Speaker 2: and others, and he was learning. And then one morning

950
01:03:08,960 --> 01:03:11,600
Speaker 2: he's on with SID and they get into an argument about,

951
01:03:11,720 --> 01:03:16,200
Speaker 2: of all things, former New York Yankee Paul O'Neill of

952
01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:19,480
Speaker 2: no consequence to the argument, and Sid uses that is

953
01:03:19,480 --> 01:03:22,320
Speaker 2: the excuse. I don't want him here anymore. He never

954
01:03:22,360 --> 01:03:28,360
Speaker 2: wanted a partner to begin with. Big mistake. And then

955
01:03:28,400 --> 01:03:33,960
Speaker 2: thankfully they brought over from here wr the former Border

956
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:38,120
Speaker 2: operator and great contributor Lou Raffino, who became SID swingman.

957
01:03:38,280 --> 01:03:44,000
Speaker 2: But I will tell you the show at times she

958
01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:47,640
Speaker 2: can't listen. It's all about said, I mean, you know,

959
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:51,760
Speaker 2: my whole life. Who cares? And then October seventh hit

960
01:03:51,840 --> 01:03:56,240
Speaker 2: the attack against all the Israelis and others in the

961
01:03:56,360 --> 01:04:00,880
Speaker 2: southern end of Israel thousand two hundred killed, two hundred

962
01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:06,160
Speaker 2: and fifty kidnapped, and said he would never really been

963
01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:08,640
Speaker 2: in tune with his Jewish roots, would always complain to

964
01:04:08,680 --> 01:04:11,160
Speaker 2: wish I had been born as supreme Cushine, He'll omit it.

965
01:04:12,040 --> 01:04:15,080
Speaker 2: Suddenly discovered his Jewish roots, and I may have created

966
01:04:15,120 --> 01:04:17,480
Speaker 2: the monster that he is now. And I dubbed him

967
01:04:17,560 --> 01:04:22,480
Speaker 2: King David the Second because now on almost any morning

968
01:04:23,440 --> 01:04:27,120
Speaker 2: you tune in, he's either talking about a Jewish event,

969
01:04:27,200 --> 01:04:29,800
Speaker 2: he went to a Jewish event, it's giving him an

970
01:04:29,840 --> 01:04:35,800
Speaker 2: honor Israel, BB Israel, anything related to the Jews, And

971
01:04:35,840 --> 01:04:38,200
Speaker 2: I'm saying to myself, you know, there's more to this

972
01:04:38,280 --> 01:04:42,280
Speaker 2: world than just Israel and Jews. I created a monster,

973
01:04:42,360 --> 01:04:46,840
Speaker 2: There's no doubt about it. But he got so self

974
01:04:46,880 --> 01:04:52,960
Speaker 2: absorbed you would think that he would bless his lucky stars,

975
01:04:53,120 --> 01:04:55,720
Speaker 2: that he would look high in the sky to Hashem

976
01:04:57,080 --> 01:04:59,600
Speaker 2: and say, man, I I'm telling you, I would not

977
01:04:59,640 --> 01:05:02,400
Speaker 2: be here if we went out for Bernie McGirk. I

978
01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:04,919
Speaker 2: would not be here. If Bernie McGirk had not said

979
01:05:05,040 --> 01:05:08,960
Speaker 2: his opportunity, which he could have handled solo, he said,

980
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:11,880
Speaker 2: I want to do this show would sit and it

981
01:05:11,960 --> 01:05:15,280
Speaker 2: was a great show, especially when they first came together

982
01:05:15,280 --> 01:05:19,720
Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen, said a true supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton,

983
01:05:19,760 --> 01:05:22,320
Speaker 2: although he doesn't like to talk about it now. And

984
01:05:22,440 --> 01:05:28,560
Speaker 2: the ultimate trumper before there was MAGA was Bernald McGirk.

985
01:05:30,240 --> 01:05:33,280
Speaker 2: So on that note, even though they won't do it

986
01:05:33,320 --> 01:05:37,280
Speaker 2: at WABC, I do it every year no matter where

987
01:05:37,320 --> 01:05:41,800
Speaker 2: I am, because if we don't honor all of those

988
01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:45,160
Speaker 2: who made this thing of ours possible, shame on us.

989
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:50,320
Speaker 2: You just don't understand how much abuse Bernard McGirk was

990
01:05:50,360 --> 01:05:55,280
Speaker 2: subjected to by Don Imus. How he kept that team together.

991
01:05:56,640 --> 01:06:01,320
Speaker 2: He was the consiglieri. Imus was out of control, Charles McCord,

992
01:06:01,600 --> 01:06:05,960
Speaker 2: Rob Bartlett, Litu Rafino, all the others. He would be

993
01:06:06,040 --> 01:06:08,760
Speaker 2: the ones. No, no, no, I'll get control of him.

994
01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:11,280
Speaker 2: He would do all the show prep, he would read

995
01:06:11,280 --> 01:06:15,360
Speaker 2: the books, he would feed don EMSs the lines. Did

996
01:06:15,360 --> 01:06:19,720
Speaker 2: don ever acknowledge that, of course not? It's it ever

997
01:06:19,800 --> 01:06:25,200
Speaker 2: acknowledge that, of course not. And all Bernard McGirk wanted

998
01:06:25,240 --> 01:06:28,440
Speaker 2: to do with his own program, Let's be the bus

999
01:06:28,560 --> 01:06:31,840
Speaker 2: driver and do all the heavy lifting and all the

1000
01:06:31,880 --> 01:06:36,280
Speaker 2: work that's necessary. Two hours of preparation is required for

1001
01:06:36,440 --> 01:06:40,640
Speaker 2: one hour talk radio. If you're good, If you're just

1002
01:06:40,720 --> 01:06:45,000
Speaker 2: repeating what you heard the night before. Anybody can do that,

1003
01:06:46,160 --> 01:06:49,720
Speaker 2: so to a WOR audience that may not have ever

1004
01:06:49,960 --> 01:06:55,560
Speaker 2: really experienced the greatness of Bernard McGirk. He so mightily

1005
01:06:55,640 --> 01:06:59,080
Speaker 2: contributed to this thing of ours and suffered in so

1006
01:06:59,240 --> 01:07:02,840
Speaker 2: many ways. It's important for us to acknowledge him each

1007
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:05,720
Speaker 2: and every day. Our number is one eight hundred and

1008
01:07:05,760 --> 01:07:11,000
Speaker 2: three two one zero seven ten. This is WOR seven ten,

1009
01:07:11,160 --> 01:07:13,440
Speaker 2: the Voice of New York, and it should be if

1010
01:07:13,480 --> 01:07:17,400
Speaker 2: you haven't listened before, your newfound station, the Pulse of

1011
01:07:17,520 --> 01:07:21,240
Speaker 2: New York. Now on the Voice of New York.

1012
01:07:21,840 --> 01:07:27,000
Speaker 1: Curtis Sleewald guess host marks them all on seven ten WOR.

1013
01:07:30,160 --> 01:07:32,560
Speaker 2: As we go to the phones, because it's your turn

1014
01:07:32,600 --> 01:07:36,720
Speaker 2: to be heard. What should be your talk radio station

1015
01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:39,320
Speaker 2: seven to ten WOR the Voice of New York. It

1016
01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:42,600
Speaker 2: certainly is in the Slieber family. Now, and don't be

1017
01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:48,080
Speaker 2: a massacres and go back to WABC, always blaming Curtis

1018
01:07:48,080 --> 01:07:50,920
Speaker 2: for Zara Mandamian, always bashing Curtis. I mean, that's what

1019
01:07:50,960 --> 01:07:55,680
Speaker 2: they do. Let's go to the phones if we can,

1020
01:07:55,800 --> 01:07:58,720
Speaker 2: and first up in the queue is Diane, who is

1021
01:07:58,760 --> 01:08:02,160
Speaker 2: calling from Summit. You're turning to be heard here on

1022
01:08:02,280 --> 01:08:05,040
Speaker 2: seven to ten wor Diane.

1023
01:08:05,320 --> 01:08:08,680
Speaker 7: Oh, thank you Curtis. I'm so grateful to speak with you.

1024
01:08:09,240 --> 01:08:13,320
Speaker 7: I cannot tell you have thrive of them with emotion.

1025
01:08:13,520 --> 01:08:18,120
Speaker 7: I am. I'm grateful to speak with you. I love

1026
01:08:18,280 --> 01:08:22,080
Speaker 7: to listen to you, and what you did speaking of

1027
01:08:22,200 --> 01:08:26,879
Speaker 7: Bernhard was so touching. However, I don't want to speak

1028
01:08:27,320 --> 01:08:32,120
Speaker 7: in an emotional fashion. I have a few quick comments

1029
01:08:32,160 --> 01:08:38,680
Speaker 7: to make. It was terribly disturbing, disgraceful and disappointing that

1030
01:08:38,960 --> 01:08:46,640
Speaker 7: the previous aw place you worked this you know, regarding you,

1031
01:08:47,200 --> 01:08:52,120
Speaker 7: that spoke about you after you've been such a royal person.

1032
01:08:53,800 --> 01:08:58,800
Speaker 7: I listened to you regularly. You are you would have

1033
01:08:58,840 --> 01:09:04,439
Speaker 7: good best menure. Okay, you are very intelligence codus. I

1034
01:09:04,720 --> 01:09:07,880
Speaker 7: really speak to my heart when I tell you how

1035
01:09:07,960 --> 01:09:12,360
Speaker 7: much I admire you. I'm trying to be so emotional.

1036
01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:15,519
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no no, no, you have you have a

1037
01:09:15,680 --> 01:09:19,759
Speaker 2: right to be emotional again. Feel free speaking.

1038
01:09:20,520 --> 01:09:24,440
Speaker 7: I'm speaking for the community. I'm speaking for many people.

1039
01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:27,360
Speaker 2: Right but I want to want to focus not so

1040
01:09:27,520 --> 01:09:33,559
Speaker 2: much on me. I'm still alive and well, at least

1041
01:09:33,560 --> 01:09:35,920
Speaker 2: I think for today. With all the people would love

1042
01:09:35,960 --> 01:09:39,840
Speaker 2: to kill me that's been my history. It's okay, So

1043
01:09:39,960 --> 01:09:45,559
Speaker 2: I love that edm song bunt oh. I enjoy I

1044
01:09:45,680 --> 01:09:48,639
Speaker 2: enjoy this day, another day of life. It's the best

1045
01:09:48,720 --> 01:09:52,120
Speaker 2: day of my life. It is because I'm alive. I

1046
01:09:52,160 --> 01:09:55,040
Speaker 2: have the best wife you could ever have, Nancy. I

1047
01:09:55,080 --> 01:09:58,679
Speaker 2: have our cats, and I have so many people who've

1048
01:09:58,720 --> 01:10:00,800
Speaker 2: gone up listening to me for thirty five years in

1049
01:10:00,880 --> 01:10:03,000
Speaker 2: talk radio, and all the people that I've reached out

1050
01:10:03,040 --> 01:10:05,280
Speaker 2: and touched all over the world. No, no, this is

1051
01:10:05,320 --> 01:10:11,240
Speaker 2: the tribute to Bernard McGirk who was not here. And

1052
01:10:11,280 --> 01:10:13,720
Speaker 2: if you want to honor Bernard McGirk as I do

1053
01:10:13,960 --> 01:10:18,000
Speaker 2: every year, as you should do, the way you can

1054
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Speaker 2: do it every day is to warn men forty five

1055
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Speaker 2: and older to get that simple prick of the finger

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01:10:24,360 --> 01:10:28,040
Speaker 2: that psa blood test that saves lives. I had stage

1057
01:10:28,040 --> 01:10:32,120
Speaker 2: four prostate cancer. You hear from doctor Gil lead him

1058
01:10:32,160 --> 01:10:37,360
Speaker 2: in often after other doctors have not done well for

1059
01:10:37,400 --> 01:10:41,320
Speaker 2: their patients. He oftentimes can patch people up and give

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Speaker 2: them life where they would have normally had a horrendous

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01:10:45,040 --> 01:10:50,120
Speaker 2: death like Bernard mcgirth did. So keep that in mind.

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01:10:50,760 --> 01:10:53,360
Speaker 2: That's how you honor the memory of Bernard McGirk. To

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01:10:53,360 --> 01:10:56,000
Speaker 2: make sure that doesn't happen to other men. A simple

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01:10:56,040 --> 01:10:58,519
Speaker 2: blood test and he would still be alive. He was

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01:10:58,560 --> 01:11:02,080
Speaker 2: the healthiest of all of us over there at WABC.

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Speaker 2: Let's go if we can with Chris Is calling from

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01:11:04,360 --> 01:11:07,479
Speaker 2: Beth Page. Your turn to be heard. He had seven

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01:11:07,479 --> 01:11:10,799
Speaker 2: to ten wor Chris Take Curtis.

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Speaker 5: I used to listen to and call you a lot

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01:11:13,560 --> 01:11:16,640
Speaker 5: on your on the other station, obviously, and I love you.

1071
01:11:16,640 --> 01:11:18,960
Speaker 5: You're great, But I have to push back on a

1072
01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:20,640
Speaker 5: couple of things if you don't, if you will, let me.

1073
01:11:21,560 --> 01:11:24,000
Speaker 5: First of all, I listen to Sid all the time.

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01:11:24,080 --> 01:11:26,120
Speaker 5: He used to have you on like five days a week.

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01:11:26,200 --> 01:11:28,680
Speaker 5: These guys were the best together. I don't know what

1076
01:11:28,760 --> 01:11:31,840
Speaker 5: the heck happened, And to this day Sib will even say,

1077
01:11:31,880 --> 01:11:34,840
Speaker 5: he goes, I love Curtis. I'm not, you know, I'm

1078
01:11:34,880 --> 01:11:37,880
Speaker 5: sorry that this election got between you guys. It's it's

1079
01:11:37,920 --> 01:11:40,960
Speaker 5: just it's lunacy to me that this has happened. You

1080
01:11:41,040 --> 01:11:42,280
Speaker 5: and Sid were tremendous.

1081
01:11:42,320 --> 01:11:44,720
Speaker 2: Well, you have to understand. You have to understand that

1082
01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:49,280
Speaker 2: all when he was saying that, Tessio, remember the godfather

1083
01:11:49,720 --> 01:11:56,559
Speaker 2: whoever arranged the meeting is the trader. That's Sid who

1084
01:11:56,600 --> 01:12:03,160
Speaker 2: all along was contacting people to for Cuomo, encouraging people

1085
01:12:03,360 --> 01:12:07,040
Speaker 2: to jump from my campaign to the Cuomo campaign. Look,

1086
01:12:07,160 --> 01:12:09,639
Speaker 2: I have all the evidence, There's no doubt about it.

1087
01:12:10,680 --> 01:12:14,080
Speaker 2: He had had five lunches, five dinners with Andrew Cmo.

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01:12:14,120 --> 01:12:18,599
Speaker 2: What's he having dinner for? That's how Andrew Cuomo Andrew

1089
01:12:18,640 --> 01:12:23,800
Speaker 2: evilized operated. I knew that Sid is a novice to politics.

1090
01:12:23,800 --> 01:12:26,840
Speaker 2: He never dealt with politics before. He is a sports guy,

1091
01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:33,240
Speaker 2: and then he became a CuMo sexual big time, oh

1092
01:12:33,560 --> 01:12:36,559
Speaker 2: big time. And the reason that I was on five

1093
01:12:36,640 --> 01:12:39,840
Speaker 2: times a week is I would not ever consider being

1094
01:12:39,880 --> 01:12:42,479
Speaker 2: his partner because he needs one, He desperately needs one.

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01:12:42,560 --> 01:12:44,840
Speaker 2: Lua Fino does a great job as his wingman. The

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01:12:44,880 --> 01:12:48,800
Speaker 2: board operator was great with Imus. That keeps him a

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01:12:48,800 --> 01:12:52,559
Speaker 2: little more focused. But when he got rid of Andrew

1098
01:12:52,600 --> 01:12:58,479
Speaker 2: Giuliani was trying, you can't see you can't disagree with's Sid.

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01:12:58,520 --> 01:13:02,200
Speaker 2: Now I could, because obviously I have more cred I'm older,

1100
01:13:02,200 --> 01:13:04,960
Speaker 2: I have more experience than Sid. They but others couldn't.

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01:13:05,720 --> 01:13:09,240
Speaker 2: You couldn't. So I got on once a week and

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01:13:09,280 --> 01:13:11,439
Speaker 2: then they said, well do it twice a week, three

1103
01:13:11,479 --> 01:13:13,960
Speaker 2: times a week, four times a week, five times a week.

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01:13:14,040 --> 01:13:18,400
Speaker 2: No problem. He needed that. I didn't mind doing the

1105
01:13:18,439 --> 01:13:24,080
Speaker 2: extra radio. But does Barney talk? You know, sit in friends?

1106
01:13:24,160 --> 01:13:27,240
Speaker 2: I love you, you love me? And then, my god,

1107
01:13:27,240 --> 01:13:30,599
Speaker 2: you can predict what the program is each and every day.

1108
01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:36,559
Speaker 2: I can tell all of you. If Bernard McGirk had

1109
01:13:36,600 --> 01:13:40,320
Speaker 2: survived as prostate cancer like luckily I had Stage four,

1110
01:13:41,600 --> 01:13:44,400
Speaker 2: what happened at WABC, to me would never have happened.

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01:13:45,840 --> 01:13:49,439
Speaker 2: Bernard McGirk a man of honor. You couldn't be any

1112
01:13:49,479 --> 01:13:52,519
Speaker 2: more loyal than Bernard. Look at all those years with Imus.

1113
01:13:52,520 --> 01:13:56,839
Speaker 2: Look at all those years he kept that's that program together.

1114
01:13:57,560 --> 01:13:59,839
Speaker 2: Look at all those years that he would be beaten

1115
01:14:00,120 --> 01:14:03,919
Speaker 2: down each and every day by Imus, who is a monster.

1116
01:14:05,720 --> 01:14:08,400
Speaker 2: And then he'd be the one to rally Charles McCord

1117
01:14:08,560 --> 01:14:14,280
Speaker 2: and Rob Bartlett and Lou Rafino and the other contributors

1118
01:14:14,280 --> 01:14:16,600
Speaker 2: and say, no, no, no, let's let's let's focus for

1119
01:14:16,640 --> 01:14:18,639
Speaker 2: another day. And he would do all the heavy lifting.

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01:14:18,640 --> 01:14:21,519
Speaker 2: He would do all the show prep, just like he

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01:14:21,560 --> 01:14:24,600
Speaker 2: did for the brand new show. Bernard McGirk and Sid Roseberg.

1122
01:14:25,920 --> 01:14:29,080
Speaker 2: Let's sit he now he thought he didn't need anybody.

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01:14:29,880 --> 01:14:33,639
Speaker 2: He does. You can't just do an I and ME show.

1124
01:14:35,080 --> 01:14:37,759
Speaker 2: You gotta do the work, and not just with your friends.

1125
01:14:37,840 --> 01:14:41,800
Speaker 2: You have to deal with your foes. Let's go if

1126
01:14:41,800 --> 01:14:44,000
Speaker 2: we can to Bob, who's calling from Perth? Hand boy?

1127
01:14:44,920 --> 01:14:48,960
Speaker 2: Your turn to be heard here on seven ten wor Bobby.

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01:14:50,240 --> 01:14:53,559
Speaker 3: Good morning courtage. How are you, sir? Happy New Year?

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01:14:53,640 --> 01:14:54,400
Speaker 3: Do you too, sir?

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01:14:54,840 --> 01:14:56,760
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, thank you. It's been greater. I've had

1131
01:14:56,760 --> 01:14:59,360
Speaker 2: a two week run here substituting for the best and

1132
01:14:59,439 --> 01:15:03,760
Speaker 2: talk creator Mark Sebone, and can't get any better than that.

1133
01:15:05,160 --> 01:15:08,280
Speaker 3: And I also know a good friend of yours that

1134
01:15:08,560 --> 01:15:15,040
Speaker 3: used to do Elvison personader there the Elvis, Paul Daniels.

1135
01:15:15,640 --> 01:15:20,080
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, Paul lifelong and a good Polish American too,

1136
01:15:20,120 --> 01:15:20,439
Speaker 2: I my.

1137
01:15:20,479 --> 01:15:24,800
Speaker 3: Add, absolutely yes, he is definitely well. Anyway, I want

1138
01:15:24,840 --> 01:15:31,759
Speaker 3: to say, what is uh the airplane, the helicopter, pilot

1139
01:15:31,840 --> 01:15:34,479
Speaker 3: and hook Who're gonna do at the outer bridge?

1140
01:15:35,240 --> 01:15:35,479
Speaker 2: Which?

1141
01:15:36,200 --> 01:15:39,519
Speaker 3: Uh you know how how bad that is? They fixed

1142
01:15:39,600 --> 01:15:42,560
Speaker 3: every other thing, but they can't fix the outer bridge.

1143
01:15:42,800 --> 01:15:46,719
Speaker 2: Out of bridge crossing. How many people over the years

1144
01:15:47,720 --> 01:15:50,640
Speaker 2: have done the hop skipping the jump? You know what

1145
01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:54,040
Speaker 2: that is? Is he they start out in Brooklyn, they

1146
01:15:54,080 --> 01:15:56,880
Speaker 2: cross the Arizona, they go to the south shore of

1147
01:15:56,920 --> 01:16:00,439
Speaker 2: Staten Island. Then across the outer Bridge crossing, go down

1148
01:16:00,520 --> 01:16:06,959
Speaker 2: to Manalapan the Jersey Shore. Next stop might be Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia, Texas, Tennessee,

1149
01:16:07,240 --> 01:16:11,839
Speaker 2: parts unknown. It all starts with the outer Bridge crossing.

1150
01:16:13,400 --> 01:16:17,000
Speaker 2: Are you are right? Oh, let me tell you something.

1151
01:16:18,280 --> 01:16:21,080
Speaker 2: I just want you to keep that focus. I know

1152
01:16:21,120 --> 01:16:25,120
Speaker 2: there are many many callers blazing away there, blazing away.

1153
01:16:25,680 --> 01:16:30,599
Speaker 2: Please at the start of the new year, sink back

1154
01:16:30,640 --> 01:16:32,720
Speaker 2: to all the greats in this thing of ours that

1155
01:16:32,760 --> 01:16:37,280
Speaker 2: we love so much talk radio, from Barry Gray to

1156
01:16:37,360 --> 01:16:43,400
Speaker 2: Bob Grant, to Barry Farbard and Samuels to Bernard McGirk,

1157
01:16:44,880 --> 01:16:49,000
Speaker 2: all the people who paved the way. None of them, though,

1158
01:16:49,040 --> 01:16:54,839
Speaker 2: suffered like Bernard McGirk suffered. You just have no idea

1159
01:16:54,920 --> 01:16:57,559
Speaker 2: what it was like to be in the imus cage

1160
01:16:57,840 --> 01:17:01,240
Speaker 2: in the morning. He had a deal with that monster,

1161
01:17:03,200 --> 01:17:06,040
Speaker 2: and then he had to prepare the show, he had

1162
01:17:06,080 --> 01:17:08,120
Speaker 2: to keep don I miss going. And then when his

1163
01:17:08,280 --> 01:17:09,280
Speaker 2: dream came.

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01:17:09,080 --> 01:17:12,920
Speaker 8: True, instead of saying what so many in our business, well, no, no, no, no,

1165
01:17:12,960 --> 01:17:14,479
Speaker 8: I want to do it my own, he said, I

1166
01:17:14,479 --> 01:17:17,080
Speaker 8: want to bring up my friend sid Rose Murty from Florida,

1167
01:17:17,600 --> 01:17:20,200
Speaker 8: who had lost every job down there and hadjust been

1168
01:17:20,280 --> 01:17:21,799
Speaker 8: fired from another radio station.

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01:17:21,880 --> 01:17:25,600
Speaker 2: I don't know why, but they were a great partnership.

1170
01:17:25,640 --> 01:17:33,960
Speaker 2: Twenty sixteen. Sid was for Hillary really legitimately, and Bernald

1171
01:17:34,040 --> 01:17:39,960
Speaker 2: McGirk was a Trumper before many became Trumpers. And then

1172
01:17:41,280 --> 01:17:45,400
Speaker 2: when Sid thought it could be his own, watch out

1173
01:17:45,439 --> 01:17:47,960
Speaker 2: the long knives come out. Oh by the way, he's

1174
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:50,960
Speaker 2: planning to move to Florida. Now, Oh yeah, he lives

1175
01:17:51,000 --> 01:17:53,040
Speaker 2: out there in the Irish Riviera. He's ready to sell

1176
01:17:53,080 --> 01:17:56,240
Speaker 2: this house. Hey, look, God bless all of you out there.

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01:17:56,400 --> 01:17:58,400
Speaker 2: If you don't want to stay in the land of

1178
01:17:58,439 --> 01:18:01,280
Speaker 2: mon Damie, I get it. That's what America is about.

1179
01:18:02,120 --> 01:18:04,439
Speaker 2: You get to move to the places you want to go,

1180
01:18:04,920 --> 01:18:07,760
Speaker 2: But don't pretend you're gonna stay and fight for what

1181
01:18:07,840 --> 01:18:11,360
Speaker 2: you know is right. Improve don't move. You gotta prove it.

1182
01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:15,719
Speaker 2: You gotta be a man of honor. You come into

1183
01:18:15,760 --> 01:18:19,719
Speaker 2: this world with nothing, you go out with nothing. God

1184
01:18:19,760 --> 01:18:24,040
Speaker 2: bless Bernard McGirk. He lived as a man of honor.

1185
01:18:25,120 --> 01:18:27,679
Speaker 2: He died as a man of honor.

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01:18:27,920 --> 01:18:33,040
Speaker 1: The voice that fights for New York Literally Curtis Leewad

1187
01:18:33,160 --> 01:18:38,400
Speaker 1: guest hos for Mark Simone on sevent tenor.

1188
01:18:39,240 --> 01:18:42,920
Speaker 2: As we move into this new year, the big talk

1189
01:18:43,080 --> 01:18:46,400
Speaker 2: is going to be about artificial intelligence. Was back in

1190
01:18:46,479 --> 01:18:50,440
Speaker 2: twenty fifteen that the masters of the universe, the billionaires

1191
01:18:50,600 --> 01:18:55,400
Speaker 2: Elon Musk and Sam Altman, who owned open ai, said

1192
01:18:55,439 --> 01:19:01,120
Speaker 2: we can't control this, thaying AI it releases demons. Now

1193
01:19:01,160 --> 01:19:05,120
Speaker 2: they don't care because they're making millions billions of dollars.

1194
01:19:05,960 --> 01:19:08,320
Speaker 2: People are gonna be wiped out, they're gonna lose their

1195
01:19:08,360 --> 01:19:13,040
Speaker 2: employment salesforce. Amazon already said we don't need you anymore.

1196
01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:17,760
Speaker 2: We got artificial intelligence. Yeah, and then they're gonna have

1197
01:19:17,800 --> 01:19:22,439
Speaker 2: to build these massive data centers, which requires double the

1198
01:19:22,479 --> 01:19:25,080
Speaker 2: amount of electricity that we have now where we're gonna

1199
01:19:25,120 --> 01:19:28,280
Speaker 2: get that from and lots of water, and it's gonna

1200
01:19:28,320 --> 01:19:33,120
Speaker 2: be put in neighborhoods near you. And software companies they're

1201
01:19:33,120 --> 01:19:38,320
Speaker 2: gonna use AI to write code. They're not gonna need

1202
01:19:38,360 --> 01:19:40,639
Speaker 2: people to do it. They got a white college job.

1203
01:19:40,760 --> 01:19:43,479
Speaker 2: You lived the American dream, you went four years of

1204
01:19:43,560 --> 01:19:48,240
Speaker 2: college education, you came out, you're CPA. You know you're

1205
01:19:48,240 --> 01:19:51,679
Speaker 2: a financial analyst, you're a lawyer. Hey, lawyers are using

1206
01:19:51,720 --> 01:19:53,880
Speaker 2: it to draft legal breach. They're not gonna need you,

1207
01:19:55,680 --> 01:19:57,680
Speaker 2: and they don't want to slow it down because the

1208
01:19:57,720 --> 01:20:02,960
Speaker 2: masters of the universe, I'm making money hand over fist.

1209
01:20:03,760 --> 01:20:07,120
Speaker 2: You're not regularly gonna hear people talking about that. Just

1210
01:20:07,200 --> 01:20:10,000
Speaker 2: keep that in mind, do your research, think for yourself,

1211
01:20:10,120 --> 01:20:13,960
Speaker 2: challenge authority, and oh bye. By the way, you know,

1212
01:20:14,040 --> 01:20:16,840
Speaker 2: the person who's gonna be happiest at Mark Simone is

1213
01:20:16,920 --> 01:20:21,120
Speaker 2: back on Monday. It's gonna be Greg Kelly, a WABC.

1214
01:20:21,640 --> 01:20:24,759
Speaker 2: That guy. He's been tortured for like two weeks because

1215
01:20:25,240 --> 01:20:27,439
Speaker 2: he did all of his show prep by listening to

1216
01:20:27,520 --> 01:20:31,519
Speaker 2: the best in talk radio, Mark Simone. And you should too.