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Speaker 1: Talk radio with Street Crab literally Curtis sleaywad joined seventy

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Speaker 1: ten WR to guess those from Mark Samore, Well, well

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Speaker 1: I got some snail mail here. That's good to see.

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Speaker 1: And right away I went to is he was a

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Speaker 1: little dizzy or board operator also escape eat from WABC,

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Speaker 1: not his place to be in, I say, is he?

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Speaker 1: We're friends right from our WABC days. Once you open

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Speaker 1: it up, who knows?

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 1: I got many many enemies out there, as many of

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Speaker 1: the listeners know. Could take me back to like remember

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Speaker 1: two thousand and one, supposedly some guy in Trenton was

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Speaker 1: selling sending out mail that had cipro in it. Well

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Speaker 1: possibly sippro, not zipro, excuse me antracks the antrax sports.

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Speaker 1: Remember you inhale those that's it. You're dead on a right.

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Speaker 1: I remember at the time the Pataki administration decided for

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Speaker 1: he and his staff to be on the safe side

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Speaker 1: because they were getting nefarious mail along with people over

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Speaker 1: at the Fox News Channel and some other places, that

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Speaker 1: they would take cipro as a prophylactic, you know, to

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Speaker 1: prevent it. God forbid they did inhale any of those

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Speaker 1: anthrax spores. I said, is he you know, just you

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Speaker 1: know for old time say Noah, it's quite all right,

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Speaker 1: It's quite a right, Curtis. Friendship only goes so far,

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Speaker 1: is he? You weren't going to touch that, were you?

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Speaker 1: But it does remind me about George Vataki, the greatest

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Speaker 1: governor we've had in our lifetime, without a doubt, three terms,

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Speaker 1: no corruption, no chaos. Beat Mario Cuomo, who thought he

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Speaker 1: was on his way possibly to becoming the first Italian

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Speaker 1: American president of the United States. And nobody knew who

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Speaker 1: George Battacky was. Nobody knew. There were six Republicans vying

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Speaker 1: to run against Mario Cromo at that time, seeking a

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Speaker 1: fourth term, and he superseded them. He had been the

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Speaker 1: mayor of Pe skill Semiment state senator. I remember giving

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Speaker 1: a speech for him at the Yale Club on the

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Speaker 1: day that I got fired in the morning Angels in

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Speaker 1: the morning with my wife Lisa at the time. But

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Speaker 1: he had committed to his campaign manager I would go

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Speaker 1: to the Yale Club speak on his behalf. There were

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Speaker 1: eight people there, four family members and four of his

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Speaker 1: Yale graduate friends. That was it, and he beat Mario

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Speaker 1: Ocormo and turned out to be our greatest mayor. He

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Speaker 1: tells a great story. The chauffeur knows everything. I know.

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Speaker 1: There's a phone calls of blazing. I'll get to them momentarily.

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Speaker 1: The chauffeur knows everything. You know. Who was the chauffeur

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Speaker 1: for Nelson Rockefeller for a while the world's richest man,

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Speaker 1: former Governor George Batacki and his job When Nelson Rockefeller

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Speaker 1: was traveling the state and spending time at a five

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Speaker 1: star hotel, you know, meeting up with as many gumatas judge.

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Speaker 1: Vataki had to bring him a bottle of Dubena and

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Speaker 1: Oreo cookies. The world's richest man at that time was

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Speaker 1: drinking dubenat It tells you all you need to know.

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Speaker 1: The chauffeurs know everything. Let's get to the phones. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to delay any longer. It's Norman who's calling

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Speaker 1: from Long Island. Your turn to be heard at seven

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Speaker 2: R Hi Curtis. I'm also Canarsie boy. I grew up

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Speaker 2: in Bayview and I had some famous people in my class,

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Speaker 2: like Jim McMillan, the basketball player Don Brockington who played

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Speaker 2: for the Packers. But I have two questions for you.

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Speaker 2: One question. Do you think we can somehow where the

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Speaker 2: Republicans can get behind a last the Ponic to run

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Speaker 2: for Senate against Schuma?

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Speaker 1: Uh? First off, you would think so. Now you had

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Speaker 1: mentioned McMillan went to Columbia, but he went to Jefferson

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Speaker 1: first right on Pennsylvania Avenue along with Right.

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Speaker 2: I had him in my class at Jefferson. He was

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Speaker 2: in my chemistry class.

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Speaker 1: Right. And then then you mentioned the great running back

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Speaker 1: John Brockington, Well, I think went on to uh run right,

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Speaker 1: went to Green Bay, Green Bay Packers, and you failed

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Speaker 1: to mention they're great. Coach Moe Finkelstein.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Mo, I had Bo. He's my health teacher.

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Speaker 2: He used to walk around. You had to buy tickets

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Speaker 2: for the football game every week. I mean we didn't

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Speaker 2: learn any health there. We used to watch the films

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Speaker 2: from the games.

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Speaker 1: What they used to have was the game of the

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Speaker 1: week would be on Channel eleven high school, whether it

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Speaker 1: was PSA, L or CHSL and Jefferson was a powerhouse then,

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Speaker 1: so they'd be on a lot. You know who the

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Speaker 1: broadcaster was, Marty Klickman, who was broadcasting New York Giant

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Speaker 1: football games. Marty Klickman and do you know who was

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Speaker 1: on the sidelines. Who is the reporter on the sidelines,

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Speaker 1: Not the way they do it now, some drop dead

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Speaker 1: gorgeous woman that they go to, you know during the breaks.

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Speaker 1: Elston Howard who had been the catcher MVP for the

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Speaker 1: New York Yankees. This is what you used to get

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Speaker 1: high school football broadcasts on Channel eleven Saturday mornings, and

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Speaker 1: you'd always see Mo Finkelstein. You'd see all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden Marty clickman, Mo, tell us, how did you beat

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Speaker 1: boys and girls high this week? Tell us? And Mo

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Speaker 1: would go on and on and on. Boy, those are

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Speaker 1: great memories, but I know that's not why you were called.

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Speaker 2: Football was king with Mo.

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Speaker 1: That's for sure. All the memories. By the way, who

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Speaker 1: was the other famous alumni of the baby you projects

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Speaker 1: so with two others. One went on not to own

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Speaker 1: but to run Starbucks three times three times, And I

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Speaker 1: have no love for this guy. I'll share that with

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Speaker 1: you momentarily. And another great NBA ball player, I went

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Speaker 1: to Canarcie High School, went on to success with the

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Speaker 1: Detroit Pistons and the LA Lakers and became quite a

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Speaker 1: broadcaster and handle the sports talk show a little bit

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Speaker 1: of trivia here one eight hundred and three two one

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Speaker 1: zero seven ten. Let's go if we can to Mike,

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Speaker 1: who I believe is calling from Long Island. Your turn

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Speaker 1: to be heard here at seven ten wor Mikey, Hike Curtis.

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Speaker 3: I'm glad to hear you back on the radio. I

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Speaker 3: want to weigh in on the new fire commissioner.

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Speaker 1: Now, could you speak up a bit, Mikey, speak up

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Speaker 1: a bit.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Kavanaugh on the Adams was the first DEI commissioner.

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Speaker 2: She couldn't handle the job, so they had that retired chief.

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Speaker 2: I shall come back to run things now. I know

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Speaker 2: the same thing is going to happen with this thing

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Speaker 2: that he's gonna I mean, listen, I don't know. Hopefully

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Speaker 2: she'll be good, but if not, I hope defied. It's

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Speaker 2: active and retired elicited to me. Do not step up

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Speaker 2: to run the department for this guy, mean, Danny, if

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Speaker 2: he wants this to be the commissioner, let him do

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Speaker 2: it now, let her run it well whatever whatever it is.

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Speaker 2: But you named those other commissioners, but they had they

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Speaker 2: were credible administrators.

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Speaker 1: Who hold on the incredible administrators. But again what did

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Speaker 1: Ellen Musk tweet out as a result of Lillian bon

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Speaker 1: Signori being a signed fire commissioner by Johanmandami thirty one

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Speaker 1: years EMS people will die yet. I just went to

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Speaker 1: a litany of former fire commissioners who served under Dinkins, Giuliani, Bloomberg,

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Speaker 1: and none of them had ever even put out a

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Speaker 1: waste paper basket. But they were good administrators. Well is

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Speaker 1: that what may say? Fire commissioner? And by the way,

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Speaker 1: the fire department can run on itself. Again, it's civil

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Speaker 1: service to the highest level. The political appointment is the

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Speaker 1: fire commissioner. But I will tell you this, she deserves

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Speaker 1: an opportunity. And again I speak on behalf of EMS

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Speaker 1: workers that I know work real hard constant calls. They

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Speaker 1: don't have enough personnel. They only make about thirty five

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Speaker 1: thousand to start. They don't have pay parody with the

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Speaker 1: other uniform services who started about fifty two thousand. They

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Speaker 1: have to deal with everybody that nobody else wants to

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Speaker 1: deal with to take to the hospit many of them

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Speaker 1: don't want to go to the hospital and they fight

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Speaker 1: them in the back of the wagon. How do I

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Speaker 1: know Iron Guardian angels have had to go in there

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Speaker 1: and help the EMS people who immediately have to fight

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Speaker 1: with somebody. They just put an IV into their arm,

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Speaker 1: and as soon as they drop that patient off, they're

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Speaker 1: running to another. Nine to one. I don't know Elon Muska.

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Speaker 1: He's an expert, right, He's going to turn out to

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Speaker 1: be the Howard Ughes of our generation. Watch, very successful

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Speaker 1: in business, but very eccentric.

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Speaker 2: Two