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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from wor Now the wr Saturday

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Speaker 1: Morning Show. Here's Larry MINTI, welcome to Saturday Morning. On

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Speaker 1: this week's show, the Republican candidate in the New York

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Speaker 1: City election, Curtis Leewood, joins us to talk about the

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Speaker 1: results and zurin Mom Dannie, fresh off a tough election night,

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us. Hope you're holding

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Speaker 1: your head up high.

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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, And thanks for all the airtime you provided

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Speaker 2: me during the campaign so I could flesh out the

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Speaker 2: issues other than just talk about the daily conversation, which

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Speaker 2: is you should drop out. And Larry, even if you

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Speaker 2: took every vote that I'd got in this election and

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Speaker 2: you had transferred it to Andrew Cmo, he still would

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Speaker 2: have lost. So how did that work out? How did

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Speaker 2: that work out that I should drop out and all

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Speaker 2: the votes would put him over the top, do the mass?

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Speaker 2: It never worked out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, even when you had the high poll numbers, if

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Speaker 1: you took that amount, and first of all, we should

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Speaker 1: point out not all of those votes were going to transfer.

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Speaker 1: They were Republican votes. Who would half of them never

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Speaker 1: would have voted for Andrew Cuomo. So even if you

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Speaker 1: took all of the votes. Let's just say, in some

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Speaker 1: kind of magic world, you could take all the votes

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Speaker 1: that you had with your highest numbers and give them

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Speaker 1: to Andrew Cuomo. It still wouldn't have been enough.

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Speaker 2: Yep. And remember the masters of the universe weighed in

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Speaker 2: trump Elon Musk. Now a trillion are soon to be

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Speaker 2: a trillion. In other fact, there's other billionaires. And still

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Speaker 2: it wasn't going to turn Atreu Cuomo into the mayor.

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Speaker 2: He had too much baggage, he was too low, too hated.

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Speaker 2: But it is what it is. And now the people

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Speaker 2: must suffer because they didn't take the other alternative, which

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Speaker 2: was me, and now they must live with Joran Mandami.

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Speaker 2: So I noticed the fa fright in hysteria in the

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Speaker 2: beginning of the flight. I'm leaving. Well, all of you

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Speaker 2: can leave if that's what you want to do, but

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Speaker 2: I stay. I fight for what I know is right.

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Speaker 2: I improve, I don't move, And like the scene from

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Speaker 2: ley Miss at Abbels, I say to those who were

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Speaker 2: willing to join me to the barricades, to the barricades.

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Speaker 1: That's really well said. Look, I know during this campaign

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Speaker 1: you suffered a lot of backstabbing, and some of it

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Speaker 1: was vicious. Some of the people that you considered your

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Speaker 1: friends stabbed you in the back. Others others like myself,

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Speaker 1: I did a commentary saying you should drop out, but

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Speaker 1: I did it at least with love. There were others

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Speaker 1: that I think that you counted on that really turned

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Speaker 1: on you, that must have hurt.

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Speaker 2: Oh. Absolutely. From the station that I broadcast from thirty

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Speaker 2: five years, it stood for always Broadcasting Curtis WABC, it

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Speaker 2: became always Fashion Curtis, from Sid in the Morning to

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Speaker 2: Greg Kelly to Dominic Carty. It wasn't just me in

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Speaker 2: opposition to me staying in the race. As you appointed

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Speaker 2: at Larry, There's two ways to do it, but to

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Speaker 2: get vicious and personal and attack family members and then

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Speaker 2: also be responsible for the tidal wave of hate and

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Speaker 2: craziness that permeated the race so much so for the

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Speaker 2: first time in my life, I had to go out

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Speaker 2: and get armed guards for my wife. They were threatening

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Speaker 2: my wife. And I'm not saying people in particular, but

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Speaker 2: people who were off off there, off the edge to

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Speaker 2: begin with were just pushed in that direction. So I

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Speaker 2: had to have arm guards. My wife had to have

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Speaker 2: armed guards. I had to make sure that My staff

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Speaker 2: was protected and volunteers, and it was really a stain

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Speaker 2: on what I had done in New York. I should

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Speaker 2: be able to just go on, continue to serve the

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Speaker 2: people of New York in different capacities. But instead I

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Speaker 2: have people who walk around acting like Joran Mondomius of

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Speaker 2: Curtis Leeland. No, it's the Democratic Party. It's the failure

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Speaker 2: of Eric Adams to not be able to do his

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Speaker 2: fiduciary duty. He was corrupt. He paid the way for

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Speaker 2: Joan Mondami, and then they revived what is a zombie

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Speaker 2: politician Andrew Comos to come and basically do battle in

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Speaker 2: the Democratic primary. He failed, then he failed in the general,

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Speaker 2: and we know he's going to go back to the

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Speaker 2: Hampton's and hang out with his billionaire friends. Well, I

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Speaker 2: continue to try to improve New York City and lead

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Speaker 2: the loyal opposition to Johan Mandami.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what you got a national name. Two

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Speaker 1: weeks in a row, SNL has talked about you. What

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Speaker 1: did you think of their skits and what they did

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Speaker 1: last night on the Weekend Update.

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Speaker 2: Well, I love parodies and satire. I've done that my

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Speaker 2: whole life, So anytime that people provide a good way

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Speaker 2: for people to get a good laugh and try to

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Speaker 2: understand what's going on. I supported, Hey, it's flattering. Anytime

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Speaker 2: they would sort of point out who you are and

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Speaker 2: what you are, it's not going to be in the

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Speaker 2: most flattering way. But that's what comedy, satire and parodies

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Speaker 2: are and they love it. I can't get enough of

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Speaker 2: it my whole life. I've been doing parodies since satire

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Speaker 2: on TV and on the radio, So I give them

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Speaker 2: thumbs up for that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll tell you what. It's great to be impersonated

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Speaker 1: by Shane Gillis maybe the top comic in the country

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Speaker 1: right now. How do you think he did in the

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Speaker 1: debate impersonating you?

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Speaker 2: Oh, it'd be great. I just want Shane to wear

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Speaker 2: that red beret and come with me on the number

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Speaker 2: four train the Muggers Express and see if he's got

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Speaker 2: what it takes there. Glad.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what My guess is, if you reach

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Speaker 1: out to him, he would do it.

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Speaker 2: Oh, you're right. There's a lot of people I have

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Speaker 2: to reach out to. I've been reaching out to obviously,

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Speaker 2: all the people who supported me from day one, who

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Speaker 2: put their lives aside to give me an opportunity to

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Speaker 2: save the city. But that's one of the many people

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Speaker 2: I'll be reaching out to. As you know, there's another

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Speaker 2: chapter in my life. I shouldn't have been alive all

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Speaker 2: the times that I've been in the er or the

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Speaker 2: ICU for a number of physical reasons. So I have

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Speaker 2: a lot to be grateful too, and most importantly to you, Larry,

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Speaker 2: to your staff, to the people at war who are

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Speaker 2: always fair and square to me during a very tough campaign.

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Speaker 2: I just can't say that about the place that I

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Speaker 2: thought was family WABC. I will never return there. You

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Speaker 2: will never hear my voice there. I am old testament.

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Speaker 2: Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. I will

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Speaker 2: never forgive, I will never forget.

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Speaker 1: Well, listen, you are a hero to New York City.

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Speaker 1: You ran your campaign with nothing with but class. You

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Speaker 1: should hold your head up and I can hear from

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Speaker 1: your voice you are. You gave an exceptionable concession speech,

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Speaker 1: which is the way all concession speeches should be, and

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Speaker 1: they aren't always so, Curtis, I'm proud to know you

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Speaker 1: hold your head up high, and I can't wait to

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Speaker 1: hear and see the next chapter in your life.

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Speaker 2: Hit that Larry and again. We gotta save this city.

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Speaker 2: We know what Zoran is going to do. We gotta

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Speaker 2: stand and hit the barricades and fight for what we

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Speaker 2: know Israel.

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