1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:05,640 Speaker 1: Now the Red Beret has returned to radio. Curtis Leewall 2 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:11,800 Speaker 1: guest host The Mark Simone Show on sevent tenor. 3 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:20,759 Speaker 2: I had my Christmas present last week substuoting for Mark Simon. 4 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 2: He's the best in the business. And then I get 5 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 2: my pre birthday gift substuting for Mark this week up 6 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:34,200 Speaker 2: until the second and that birthday March twenty six. I'll 7 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 2: be seventy two, and I know more about New York 8 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 2: City and politics and anybody alive. There's no doubt about it. 9 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 2: I challenge anybody because I know where all the bones 10 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 2: are buried in who buried them, And I don't mince 11 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:52,920 Speaker 2: my language. We are going to get into subject matter 12 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 2: that is of incredible importance to all of you if 13 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 2: you happen to live within New York State, and the 14 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:04,959 Speaker 2: same philosophy could be coming to a state where you 15 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 2: live or near you. Because I've spent incredible amount of 16 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 2: time since losing the election to Zoran Mondomi, and yes 17 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:17,920 Speaker 2: he is the mayor. He won fair and square. He 18 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 2: is gonna have his celebration after he has sworn in 19 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,199 Speaker 2: by Bernie the Out the Coca Sanders, originally from Brooklyn 20 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:31,119 Speaker 2: who went to Madison High School, which is also where 21 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer went. By the way, update on Chuck Schumer. 22 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:39,680 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, a lot of you are not gonna like it. 23 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 2: But the masters of the universe, the billionaires, they just 24 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 2: can't stop themselves from getting involved in things they know 25 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 2: absolutely nothing about. Big story, we're gonna get into it 26 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:58,639 Speaker 2: in this hour. It's how Elon Musk decides to weigh 27 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 2: in on the new fire commissioner, who he claims, as 28 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 2: a result of zarhon Mondami's appointment, that people will die 29 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 2: as a result. Now he knows nothing at all about 30 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 2: New York City. He happens to see somebody else who 31 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:19,520 Speaker 2: posted this, who themselves know nothing at all about the 32 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:22,080 Speaker 2: history of the fire department and fire commissioners in New 33 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,919 Speaker 2: York City, and he reposted and obviously he's in charge 34 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 2: of X and he's getting millions of hits like he 35 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 2: somehow knows all about this about the only thing he 36 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:36,639 Speaker 2: doesn't know is how to put out those fires from 37 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 2: his Tesla batteries in his electric cars, because when they 38 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 2: go on fire, Oh, it takes hours to put him out. 39 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 2: He hasn't even yet figured that out. But we'll talk 40 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 2: about that momentarily. Because he couldn't be more hopelessly wrong. 41 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,520 Speaker 2: And once again, I'll explain it from a historical performance. 42 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 2: Most of the fire car missioners of late most I'm 43 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 2: not just talking about those appointed by Eric Adams Swaggerman 44 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 2: with no plan. 45 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 3: I can't wait for him to get get out of here, 46 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:11,640 Speaker 3: get out of our lives. 47 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 2: But prior yeah, let's see Bloombert Giuliani think it's nobody's 48 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 2: even mentioning all the fire commissioners who served for those 49 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 2: mayors who had never put out a waste paper basket fire. 50 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,919 Speaker 2: But do you think that a guy like Elon Musk, 51 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 2: who is omnipotent, thinks he knows everything, like all those 52 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 2: billionaires and millionaires because they succeeded in business, they're very wealthy. 53 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 2: You think he'll apologize. 54 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 3: Of course not. They never do. 55 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 2: Like Trump yesterday, I had to turn it off in 56 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 2: the wee hours of the morning. He's he's standing there 57 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 2: with Zelenski and he's saying, yeah, Russia really wants to 58 00:03:55,880 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 2: see the Ukraine succeed. Man, they's no way. Yeah, if 59 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 2: Russia takes over the Ukraine again. By the way, the 60 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 2: Ukraine gave up it's nuclear arsenal. They had more nuclear 61 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 2: weapons than anyone else other than the United States, and 62 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 2: the old Soviet Union isn't. Back in nineteen ninety one, 63 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 2: Bill Clinton west president, and he convinced him give up 64 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 2: your nuclear payload. Yeah, how did that work out? But 65 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 2: when all of a sudden Trump is saying, oh, yeah, Russia. 66 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 2: I just spoke to Putin earlier today on the phone, Yeah, 67 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 2: Russia really wants to see the Ukraine succeed. And I'm like, 68 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 2: Zelenski say something. Of course he' isn't gonna say anything, 69 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 2: because nobody can ever challenge Donald Trump. 70 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 3: I believe you. 71 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:47,600 Speaker 2: Challenge authority no matter who's in charge, and when somebody 72 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:53,160 Speaker 2: makes absolutely ridiculous comments, you must challenge it, like when 73 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 2: Trump said that it was the Ukraine that started the war. 74 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:04,120 Speaker 2: How many Republicans challengship We're getting into Republican leadership, and 75 00:05:04,279 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 2: how so many Republicans are just afraid to challenge authority 76 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 2: at any level, local, regional, state, national, it's not you 77 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 2: know it, don't make a big deal about it. I 78 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 2: always make big deals about it because I believe you 79 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:23,119 Speaker 2: have to question authority, especially when it doesn't make sense, 80 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 2: like that ridiculous statement yesterday of mar A Lago where 81 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 2: the President says, yeah, Zonski, Russia really wants you to 82 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:38,159 Speaker 2: be successful in the Ukraine, and Zilenski, you bite your tongue, 83 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 2: don't say anything, or Trump and the administration will go 84 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 2: on a rampage against you. All right, put that aside, 85 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 2: as you know, I've spent a lot of time bisecting 86 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:53,919 Speaker 2: and dissecting the fact that Republican leadership here in the 87 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:56,840 Speaker 2: state of New York has decided they want a Uni party, 88 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:01,160 Speaker 2: they don't want a two party system. They have cans themselves, 89 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 2: and they have convinced a lot of the Republican registered 90 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 2: voters that Republicans cannot win a city wide election or 91 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 2: a state wide election. Now, for some of you, you 92 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 2: may say, well that that sounds pretty personal. 93 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 3: It is because I went through that. 94 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 2: From the highest levels of the White House to Elon 95 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:23,719 Speaker 2: Musk himself soon to be a trillionaire, the world's richest guy, 96 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 2: to a guy named Akman. 97 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:28,040 Speaker 3: Who the hell is this guy? Acman? 98 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 2: Every day he was tweeting Curtis, you can't win, drop out, 99 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 2: drop out, drop out travel and you know how that went. 100 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 2: And then in the waning days of the campaign, the 101 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 2: Republican leaders Republicans decided a vote for sle is a 102 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 2: vote for Mondami Voa Cuomo, U Discratsiata in every which way. 103 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 2: I mean, we could spend the rest of this program 104 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 2: just talking about what a disgrace that guy was, because 105 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 2: in their minds, there are two parties in New York State. 106 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:06,159 Speaker 2: Now there are moderate Democrats and there are socialist Democrats, 107 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 2: and Republicans don't have a chance to beat them citywide 108 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 2: or in statewide elections. Now put my election aside. Still 109 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 2: with atleast the Phonic we talked about her last week. 110 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 2: Suddenly she drops out and says, not only is she 111 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 2: dropping out of a Republican primary against Bruce Blakeman, but 112 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 2: she's not going to run for reelection in the House. 113 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 2: We lose a superstar because Republican leadership was working behind 114 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 2: the scenes. 115 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 3: To throw her under the bus. 116 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 2: You see, as much as Donald Trump, the President, threw 117 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 2: her under the bus. The worst part was is that 118 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 2: Alista Phonic had put together a campaign team mostly from 119 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 2: upstate New York, people that she knew, people that she trusted, 120 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 2: and the Park Avenue crowd down here, most of whom 121 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 2: are not Republicans, but they act like they can tell 122 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 2: Republicans what to do. And it's not Park Avenue in 123 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:08,240 Speaker 2: Brooklyn and Park Avenue in the Bronx, which they've never 124 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 2: traveled to. It's Park Avenue in Manhattan. Decided there's nobody 125 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 2: from downstate involved in the least the Phonics campaign. We're 126 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 2: gonna go all on board with Bruce Blakeman because Bruce 127 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 2: Blakeman is a winner. This is what they said. And 128 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 2: he won very convincingly the Nassau County executive position re 129 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 2: election against his Democratic opponent. And then I hear them 130 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 2: tell the yeah, and he's a winner. He's a winner. 131 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:41,040 Speaker 2: If you've been around long enough in politics, you've probably 132 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 2: lost more than you won. Remember, Donald Trump was an 133 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:46,920 Speaker 2: exception to the rule of twenty sixteen. He's on the 134 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 2: stage the announcements, the president. He shocked Hillary Rodham. Clinton 135 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 2: was in a fetal position at the Jacob Chavits Convention Center, 136 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 2: spent maybe a month in a fetal position. I couldn't 137 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 2: accept the fact that she had lost. Very unusual. So 138 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 2: I'm saying, look, I know, Bruce Blakeman, I like the guide, 139 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 2: but let's face it, who would you want to be 140 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 2: running against Kathy Hockel. I mean I remember Bruce Blakeman. 141 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:17,559 Speaker 2: He ran for state Controller as a Republican ninety eight 142 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 2: against Carl mc coole loss. He ran for the Nassau 143 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 2: County Legislature ninety nine loss, ran for the US Senate 144 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:28,960 Speaker 2: special election twenty ten, remember when Hillary decided she would 145 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 2: become Secretary of State and he lost the primary to 146 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 2: Joe dio Guardi. And in twenty fourteen he ran for 147 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 2: the House and lost to Kathleen Rice. So that doesn't 148 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 2: disqualify him because you know, people say, well, well you 149 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 2: got all no, no, no no. If you can run, 150 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:50,400 Speaker 2: he should run. But why did all of a sudden 151 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:58,080 Speaker 2: you notice people of great influence surround Kathy Hockel and 152 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:01,959 Speaker 2: we're meeting with her, and they have come to the conclusion. 153 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 2: And I know because people have shared the conversations with 154 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:10,960 Speaker 2: me that rather than put all of their fiscal resource 155 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:15,720 Speaker 2: and support behind Bruce Blakeuin, that they're actually gonna work 156 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:19,080 Speaker 2: for Kathy Hulkl to get re elected because she'll keep 157 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 2: Zoraan Mandami and the Democratic Socialist in check. 158 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:22,320 Speaker 3: Yeah. 159 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 2: Right, But they figure they'll have more control with her 160 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 2: because they don't think a Republican can win. This is 161 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 2: coming off the mayoral election, and by the way, President 162 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:36,440 Speaker 2: Donald Trump did at last Stefaniki disservice, throwing her under 163 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 2: the bus on a number of occasions that led to 164 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 2: her unexpected dropping out. Although I kind of felt it, 165 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:46,360 Speaker 2: I kind of felt it was coming. And now we 166 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 2: have what you're really not going to like, and that's 167 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 2: why we got to stop this. I was at a 168 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:54,839 Speaker 2: major gathering of Republicans yesterday. 169 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 3: In Midtown. 170 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 2: And I broke the news to all of them who 171 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:04,559 Speaker 2: had gathered for their holiday party, is that there are 172 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 2: Republican leaders now, and there are Republican business people Park 173 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:13,960 Speaker 2: Avenue people who are meeting with Chuck Schumer Despise loath 174 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 2: right the lowest of ratings of any major political figure 175 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,360 Speaker 2: in the country. It's down to about twenty eight percent. 176 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 2: And they have come to the conclusion that if he 177 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 2: decides to run for reelection, and let's face it, all 178 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:30,680 Speaker 2: these guys and gals, that's why you need term limits. 179 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:33,800 Speaker 2: It's until death do they part. They'll run forever. Get 180 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 2: the defibriator next to them. They could be in the ICU. 181 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 2: They want to run. But if Chuck Schumer decides to run, 182 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:51,080 Speaker 2: already Republican leaders and people, you know, the Acmans of 183 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 2: the world, who know nothing about politics. You know, they 184 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 2: know a lot about Wall Street, a lot about hedge funds. 185 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:59,400 Speaker 2: They've done very well in business, but they know nothing 186 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 2: about nothing when it comes to politics because they made 187 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 2: all the wrong choices. Are now meeting privately with Chuck 188 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 2: Schumer and saying, you know, you probably can't win a 189 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 2: Democratic primary if you run like Cuomo. But they'll probably 190 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 2: either be AOC running against you in a Democratic primary, 191 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 2: or if she decides to run for the presidency the 192 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 2: Democratic primary, there'll be somebody else from the socialist wing 193 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 2: of the Democratic Party and you'll lose. But then in 194 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 2: the general election, we'll do like we did for CuMo. 195 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:34,679 Speaker 2: We'll get Republicans to support you, independence Conservatives, and moderate 196 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 2: Democrats to stop a socialist from becoming a US Senate. 197 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 2: He's entertaining that why would they be doing that, because 198 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:49,319 Speaker 2: they have already cast their lot into a UNI party. 199 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:55,199 Speaker 2: They don't think that Republicans can win in statewide elections 200 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:59,440 Speaker 2: or citywide elections. So they are the masters of the universe. 201 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:03,320 Speaker 2: They think they know everything, and they know nothing about nothing, 202 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:08,560 Speaker 2: as you will learn when we discuss the how can 203 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,800 Speaker 2: we be kind to him, the very eccentric Elon Musk, 204 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 2: who decided to tweet his way into New York politics 205 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 2: a second time, because remember he had tweeted to his 206 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 2: massive following on x a vo for Slei is Avomandami 207 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 2: Voa Cuomo. Why wouldn't he He got a billion dollars 208 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 2: from the Buffalo billion and did nothing up there, a 209 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 2: billion dollars to do nothing, and seven Cuomo cronies went 210 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 2: to jail for that cause he likes Cuomo. But now 211 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 2: he's tweeted into something that he knows nothing about the 212 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:46,719 Speaker 2: fire department in New York City. And you will not 213 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 2: have heard this analogy from anybody. That's why I know 214 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:54,679 Speaker 2: where all the bones are buried and who buried them 215 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:58,000 Speaker 2: right now on my station, at the station that I 216 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 2: listened to along with Nancy ten wor and it should 217 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 2: be yours too. Our numbers one eight hundred three two 218 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:09,440 Speaker 2: one zero seven ten one eight hundred three two one 219 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:10,720 Speaker 2: zero seven ten. 220 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 1: Curtis leewa guest host for Mark Simone on sevent ten. 221 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 2: Woo. Well, well, Elon Musk, I'll be kind to him. 222 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 2: He's eccentric, done very well in his businesses. No doubt, 223 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 2: but I predict since our teen today has been Hollywood 224 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 2: because of the story in the Hollywood Reporter about me today. 225 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:46,360 Speaker 2: Curtis Leewa just wants to know where you're from. But 226 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 2: we know where Elon Musk is from. 227 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 3: He's from South Africa. 228 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 2: He convinced that the president of the United States we 229 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:56,040 Speaker 2: was friends with and he was no longer friends with, 230 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 2: and he was friends with, the Afrikaaners are under siege 231 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 2: in South Africa, and that they should be the only 232 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 2: people able to come into the United States. Well, number one, 233 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 2: that's wrong. I've had Guardian angels in Cape Town. There's 234 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 2: crime everywhere, and the people who are the victims of 235 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:16,840 Speaker 2: the crime of most are Black Africans in South Africa. 236 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 2: Will save that for a different thing. But remember it's 237 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 2: a year since Doze. Remember he took out that chainsaw. 238 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 2: He was going to cut all the waste. 239 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 3: Well what waste? He did nothing. 240 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 2: We're spending more money than ever before, thirty eight trillion 241 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 2: dollar debt and it's growing. Both parties responsible. 242 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 3: But let's talk about what he decided to do. 243 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 2: Yesterday, somebody had tweeted out there that with zarn Mondami's 244 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 2: appointment of Lilian Moon signor as a brand new fire 245 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 2: commissioner that people will die. So he knows nothing about this, 246 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 2: but he decides, Hey, I'm going to pimp that ride, 247 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 2: and actually millions ended up up looking at it on acient. 248 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:04,760 Speaker 2: I'm saying to myself, Hell, I'm Muskie. You don't know 249 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:09,000 Speaker 2: anything about the fire department. You have these electric batteries 250 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 2: of you as Tesla batteries. When they go on fire, 251 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:14,640 Speaker 2: it takes hours to put them out. Very difficult, I. 252 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 3: Might add, But let's deal with the substance of what he. 253 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:21,800 Speaker 2: Said, and everybody immediately well, you know, Eric Adams, he 254 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:28,640 Speaker 2: had two fire commissioners, Laura Kavanaugh and Tucker, who were 255 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 2: not firefighters. 256 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 3: That is true. 257 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 2: I didn't really like either. But you know, the fire 258 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 2: department is a department that can run on its own. 259 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 2: They don't need a fire commissioner. You know everything there 260 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 2: civil service, You work your way up. It's not as 261 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 2: political as the police department and other agencies. But let 262 00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 2: me give you an idea of all the people. Maybe 263 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 2: if somebody can alert Elon Musk all the people who 264 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 2: have served as fire commissioner in New York City under 265 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 2: different mayors, can we go back to David Dinkins. That 266 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:04,359 Speaker 2: wasn't that Eric Adams favorite mayor? 267 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:05,440 Speaker 3: Not Rudy right? David? 268 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:09,840 Speaker 2: Okay, Charlie Hines was the fire commissioner, Charlie Hines. I 269 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 2: never knew Charlie Hines would be a firefighter. He ended 270 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:16,199 Speaker 2: up becoming the King's County DA. Remember he was a 271 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:21,920 Speaker 2: special prosecutor assigned by Mario Cuomo to deal with the 272 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 2: Howard Beach situation. 273 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:29,919 Speaker 3: That was a volatile, racially charged situation. Love that that 274 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:32,639 Speaker 3: was Charlie Hines. Was he a firefighter? 275 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 4: No? 276 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:38,440 Speaker 2: Then in the aftermath of nine to eleven, Michael Bloomberg 277 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:41,520 Speaker 2: was elected because we said we needed a businessman. Who 278 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:45,920 Speaker 2: did he appoint to be the fire commissioner? Nicholas Scipetta. 279 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 2: Now I had had conversations with Nicholas Scapetta down in 280 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 2: Metro Tech. I would run a stickball contest every year 281 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:55,959 Speaker 2: between the firefighters and the NYPD. 282 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 3: Boy, this guy was quite a stickball player. He had 283 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:01,160 Speaker 3: gone to Seward Park High School. Told me he had 284 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 3: lived in an orphanage for a while. 285 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 2: His mother had been put into jail for stealing welfare 286 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 2: checks for a while. Speaking about Somalia and Minnesota, and 287 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:13,879 Speaker 2: then when she was released, the family was brought back together. 288 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:16,680 Speaker 2: I think a great guy. He had served under four 289 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 2: different mayors, Department of Investigation, Deputy mayor. He served under 290 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 2: Rudy Giuliani and put the child welfare agency back together 291 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:32,080 Speaker 2: again and was having problems, and then Bloomberg made him 292 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:33,199 Speaker 2: the fire commissioner. 293 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:34,679 Speaker 3: He had never put out a fire before. 294 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 2: You know what, Because the guy who had served before him, 295 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 2: Tommy Van Essen, was the ultimate firefighter a he was 296 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:47,440 Speaker 2: the president of the Firefighters Union, Rudy decided to make 297 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 2: him his fire department commissioner. He was the whirling Dutchman again, 298 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:57,480 Speaker 2: very good stickball player. I saw him play from Ozone Park. 299 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,159 Speaker 2: But the men and the women hated. 300 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:06,360 Speaker 5: Him because they said he was responsible for the faulty 301 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:11,800 Speaker 5: new digital radios, the broken repeater systems, the crowded channel congestion, 302 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:16,439 Speaker 5: the plague firefighting during the attack of nine to eleven, 303 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:18,760 Speaker 5: and that many of the firefighters who were up in 304 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 5: Towers one in towers two had no radio communication at 305 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:28,080 Speaker 5: all with their colleagues and more importantly, any of the 306 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 5: Office of the Emergency Management personnel. 307 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:34,120 Speaker 2: Or the cops. So they hate Tommy van Essen. Now 308 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 2: could you get any more of a firefighter than Tommy 309 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 2: van Essen actually fought fires, was the head of the union, 310 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:44,000 Speaker 2: the UFA, and went on to become the fire commissioner. 311 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:46,120 Speaker 3: Wait, doesn't stop there. 312 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 2: Who also became fire commissioner under Rudy Howard's safer. That's 313 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 2: one tough jew from the Bronx. He joined the DEA. 314 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,440 Speaker 2: He was busting drug dealers. You know, we're talking now 315 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:01,240 Speaker 2: all of a sudd and Trump wants to go after 316 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 2: the president of Columbia. He's a drug dealer. But he 317 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:08,919 Speaker 2: freed the former president of Honduras who he had in 318 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,920 Speaker 2: jail for being a drug dealer. All right, well, we'll 319 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 2: talk about that maybe tomorrow. How it's safe for one 320 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 2: tough juke. Went on to become the police commissioner after 321 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 2: Bill Bratton, but was first the commissioner of the fire 322 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 2: Department in New York never put out a fire. So 323 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:31,920 Speaker 2: do you think Elon Musk, facing all of this ack 324 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 2: act going back at him blowback, would pull that tweet 325 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:38,960 Speaker 2: and say, hey, I made a mistake. I should never 326 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 2: have waded into that conversation about who should be the 327 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:49,640 Speaker 2: fire commissioner. By the way, Lillian Bunsenira thirty one years 328 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 2: with the EMS. They're like ad seventy percent of the 329 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 2: responses to fire calls at EMS Man, they got one 330 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,640 Speaker 2: of the toughest jobs in the city, along with correction officers. 331 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,320 Speaker 3: It's like a perpetual nine to one one call. It 332 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:03,960 Speaker 3: can't even. 333 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 2: Stop to get a cup of coffee. They're racing from 334 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 2: one call to another, many of them emotionally disturbed persons. 335 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 2: Elon Musk, stay in your lane. Another example from Ackman 336 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 2: to Elon Musk, where billionaires the masters of the universe 337 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 2: talk about things as if there are authorities and they 338 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 2: know nothing about nothing. 339 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 3: But do you think Elon Musk will apologize? Of course 340 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:28,040 Speaker 3: you won't. 341 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 2: Our numbers one eight hundred three two one zero seven 342 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:36,880 Speaker 2: ten because they all think they're omnipotent, all knowing one 343 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 2: eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. On this 344 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 2: it should be your place to be from now on, 345 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 2: as it is for me and Nancy sevent ten war 346 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 2: The Voice of New York. 347 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 1: Curtis Slayway joined sevent ten WR to guess os from 348 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 1: Mark Simon. 349 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:01,600 Speaker 2: Well, well, I got some snail mail here. It's good 350 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:03,920 Speaker 2: to see, and right away I went to is He 351 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:08,360 Speaker 2: was a little Dizzy, our board operator also escape eat 352 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 2: from WABC, not his place to be. And I say, 353 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 2: is he we're friends right from our WABC days. Once 354 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 2: you open it up, who knows? 355 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:18,639 Speaker 3: You know? 356 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:21,199 Speaker 2: I got many many enemies out there, as many of 357 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 2: the listeners know. Could take me back to like remember 358 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:29,119 Speaker 2: two thousand and one, supposedly some guy in Trenton was 359 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 2: sending out mail that had cipro in it, or possibly 360 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:39,720 Speaker 2: sipro not zipro. Excuse me antracks the antrax sports. Remember 361 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:45,879 Speaker 2: you Inhale those that's it, You're dead on arrival. I 362 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 2: remember at the time the Patacki administration decided for he 363 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:52,920 Speaker 2: and his staff to be on the safe side because 364 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:56,120 Speaker 2: they were getting nefarious mail, along with people over at 365 00:22:56,160 --> 00:23:00,919 Speaker 2: the Fox News Channel and some other places. Take cipro 366 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:07,119 Speaker 2: as a prophylactic, you know, to prevent it. God forbid 367 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:11,640 Speaker 2: they did Inhale any of those anthrax spores. I said, 368 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,399 Speaker 2: is he you know, just you know for old time shake. Noah, 369 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 2: it's quite all right, quite a right, Curtis. Friendship only 370 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 2: goes so far, is he? You weren't gonna touch that, 371 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:26,920 Speaker 2: were you? But it does remind me about George Matacki. 372 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:32,280 Speaker 2: The greatest governent we've had in our lifetime, without a doubt, 373 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 2: three terms, no corruption, no chaos. Beat Mario Cuomo, who 374 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,639 Speaker 2: thought he was on his way possibly to becoming the 375 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:45,320 Speaker 2: first Italian American president of the United States. And nobody 376 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,480 Speaker 2: knew who George VATTACKI was. Nobody knew there were six 377 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 2: Republicans vying to run against Mario Cuomo at that time, 378 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 2: seeking a fourth term, and he superseded them. He had 379 00:23:56,960 --> 00:24:02,080 Speaker 2: been the mayor of p Skills Sentiments Senator. I remember 380 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:05,160 Speaker 2: giving a speech for him at the Yale Club on 381 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:08,480 Speaker 2: the day that I got fired in the morning Angels 382 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:10,960 Speaker 2: in the morning with my wife Lisa at the time, 383 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 2: but he had committed to his campaign manager. I would 384 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:15,480 Speaker 2: go to the Yale Club speak on his behalf. There 385 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:19,280 Speaker 2: were eight people there, four family members and four of 386 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:24,160 Speaker 2: his Yale graduate friends. That was it, and he beat 387 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 2: Mary o'como and turned out to be our greatest mayor. 388 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:32,679 Speaker 2: He tells a great story. The chauffeur knows everything I know. 389 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,679 Speaker 2: There's a phone calls of blazing. I'll get to them momentarily. 390 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 2: The chauffeur knows everything you know. Who was the chauffeur 391 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 2: for Nelson Rockefeller for a while the world's richest man, 392 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:47,560 Speaker 2: former governor Judge Battacki, and his job. When Nelson Rockefeller 393 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,720 Speaker 2: was traveling the state and spending time at a five 394 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 2: star hotel, you know, meeting up with his many gumatas, 395 00:24:56,320 --> 00:25:01,120 Speaker 2: Judge Battacki had to bring him a bottle of Dubena 396 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 2: and Oreo cookies. The world's richest man at that time 397 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 2: was drinking dubenat. It tells you all you need to know. 398 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:15,480 Speaker 2: The chauffeurs know everything. Let's get to the phones. I 399 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,800 Speaker 2: don't want to delay any longer. It's Norman who's calling 400 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,480 Speaker 2: from Long Island. Your turn to be heard at seven 401 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:22,880 Speaker 2: to ten wo. 402 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:27,800 Speaker 4: R Hi Curtis. I'm also Canarsie boy. I grew up 403 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 4: in Bayview and I had some famous people in my class, 404 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 4: like Jim McMillan, the basketball player Don Brockington who played 405 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 4: for the Packers. But I have two questions for you. 406 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 4: One question, do you think we can somehow where the 407 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,920 Speaker 4: Republicans can get behind Alice the Pronic to run for 408 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:48,440 Speaker 4: Senate against Schuma? 409 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:50,520 Speaker 3: Uh? 410 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:53,200 Speaker 2: First off, you would think so. Now you had mentioned 411 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 2: McMillan who went to Columbia, but he went to Jefferson 412 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,199 Speaker 2: first right on Pennsylvania Avenue along with Right. 413 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,399 Speaker 4: I had him in my class in Jefferson, my chemistry class. 414 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:05,400 Speaker 2: Right. And then then you mentioned the great running back 415 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 2: John Brockington, Well, I think went on to uh N 416 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:14,000 Speaker 2: Right went to Green Bay, Green Bay Packers, and you failed. 417 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:18,320 Speaker 3: To mention they're great. Coach Moe Finkelstein, Oh. 418 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, Mo, I had Bo. He's my health teacher. He 419 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,439 Speaker 4: used to walk around. You had to buy tickets for 420 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,160 Speaker 4: the football game every week. I mean we didn't learn 421 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,280 Speaker 4: any health there. We used to watch the films from 422 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:31,440 Speaker 4: the games. 423 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,159 Speaker 2: What they used to have was the game of the 424 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:37,440 Speaker 2: week would be on Channel eleven high school, whether it 425 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 2: was PSA, L or CHSL and Jefferson was a powerhouse then, so. 426 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:45,080 Speaker 3: They'd be on a lot. 427 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:49,119 Speaker 2: You know who the broadcaster was, Marty Klickman, who was 428 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:53,480 Speaker 2: broadcasting New York Giant football games, Marty Klickman. 429 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,200 Speaker 3: And do you know who was on the sidelines? 430 00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,400 Speaker 2: Who was the reporter on the sidelines, Not the way 431 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,240 Speaker 2: they do it now, some drop dead gorgeous woman that 432 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:06,120 Speaker 2: they go to, you know during the breaks. Elston Howard, 433 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 2: who had been the catcher MVP for the New York Yankees. 434 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 2: This is what you used to get high school football 435 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:17,920 Speaker 2: broadcasts on Channel eleven Saturday mornings, and you'd always see 436 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:21,200 Speaker 2: Mo Finkelstein. You'd see all of a Sudd, Marty Glickman, 437 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,919 Speaker 2: Mo tell us, how did you beat boys and girls 438 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 2: high this week? 439 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:26,680 Speaker 3: Tell us? 440 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 2: And Mo would go on and on and on. Boy, 441 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,040 Speaker 2: those are great memories, but I know that's not why 442 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:32,400 Speaker 2: you were. 443 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 4: Called football Court was king with Mo. 444 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,280 Speaker 3: That's for sure. All the memories. 445 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 2: By the way, who was the other famous alumni of 446 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 2: the Bayview Projects? So with two others one and went 447 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:53,360 Speaker 2: on not to own but to run Starbucks three times 448 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:58,920 Speaker 2: three times? And I have no love for this guy. 449 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:02,639 Speaker 2: I'll share that with you momentarily. And I know the 450 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 2: great NBA ball player went to Canarcie High School, went 451 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 2: on to success with the Detroit Pistons and the LA Lakers, 452 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:17,119 Speaker 2: and became quite a broadcaster and handle the sports talk show. 453 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 2: A little bit of trivia here one eight hundred and 454 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 2: three two one zero seven ten, let's go if we 455 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:29,240 Speaker 2: can to Mike, who I believe is calling from Long Island. 456 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 2: Your turn to be heard here at seven ten wor Mikey. 457 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:36,359 Speaker 4: Hike Curtis. I'm glad to hear you back on the radio. 458 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 4: I want to weigh in on the new fire commissioner. 459 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 3: Oh could you speak up a bit, Mikey, speak up 460 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 3: a bit. 461 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:48,480 Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Yeah, Kavanaugh on the Adams was 462 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 4: the first DEI commissioner. She couldn't handle the job, so 463 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,800 Speaker 4: they had that retired chief. I shall come back to 464 00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,479 Speaker 4: run things now. I know the same thing is going 465 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,200 Speaker 4: to happen with this thing that he he's gonna I mean, listen, 466 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 4: I don't know. Hopefully she'll be good, but if not, 467 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:09,240 Speaker 4: I hope defied. It's active and retired elicited to me, 468 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 4: do not step up to run the department for this guy, 469 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,240 Speaker 4: mean Danny, if he wants this to be the commissioner, 470 00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:21,120 Speaker 4: let him do it. Now, let her run it well 471 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:24,360 Speaker 4: what it is. But you named those other commissioners, but 472 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 4: they had they were credible administrators, who hold. 473 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 3: On incredible administrators. 474 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 2: But again, what did Ellen Musk tweet out as a 475 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaker 2: result of Lillian bon Signori being assigned fire commissioner by 476 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:45,840 Speaker 2: Jorhanmandami thirty one years ems? People will die yet, I 477 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:50,239 Speaker 2: just went to a litany of former fire commissioners who 478 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:56,640 Speaker 2: served under Dinkins, Giuliani, Bloomberg, and none of them had 479 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 2: ever even put out a waste paper bag. But they 480 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:05,880 Speaker 2: were good administrators. Well is that what may say? Fire commissioner. 481 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:10,320 Speaker 2: And by the way, the fire department can run on itself. Again, 482 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:14,959 Speaker 2: it's civil service to the highest level. The political appointment 483 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 2: is the fire commissioner. But I will tell you this, 484 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,600 Speaker 2: she deserves an opportunity. And again I speak on behalf 485 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 2: of EMS workers that I know work real hard constant calls. 486 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,880 Speaker 2: They don't have enough personnel. They only make about thirty 487 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,320 Speaker 2: five thousand to start. They don't have pay parody with 488 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:39,600 Speaker 2: the other uniform services who started at about fifty two thousand. 489 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 2: They have to deal with everybody that nobody else wants 490 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:45,280 Speaker 2: to deal with to take to the hospital. Many of 491 00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:47,560 Speaker 2: them don't want to go to the hospital, and they 492 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:49,320 Speaker 2: fight them in the back of the wagon. 493 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,400 Speaker 3: How do I know, Iron Guardian. 494 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 2: Angels have had to go in there and help the 495 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:58,120 Speaker 2: EMS people who immediately have to fight with somebody. They 496 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,480 Speaker 2: just put an IV into their arm and as soon 497 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,000 Speaker 2: as they drop that patient off, they're running to another 498 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:09,240 Speaker 2: nine to one. But oh no, Ellen Musk, he's an expert, right, 499 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,160 Speaker 2: He's gonna turn out to be the Howard Hughes of 500 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 2: our generation. Watch very successful in business, but very eccentric. 501 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,480 Speaker 3: Two Do Beat is back. 502 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:27,600 Speaker 1: Curtis leewa guest host The Mark Simone Show on seven 503 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 1: to TENOO. 504 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:34,240 Speaker 2: And as we approach the starting the new year, the 505 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 2: dropping of the ball in Times Square, I've met many 506 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:43,200 Speaker 2: people from Mexico City to Montreal to uh. 507 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,640 Speaker 3: Lagos, Nigeria who were here to watch that. 508 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 2: If you are from New York, you're really gonna be 509 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,160 Speaker 2: down there in the manners, of course not. We'll talk 510 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:53,480 Speaker 2: about that as we get closer to the end of 511 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:54,040 Speaker 2: the week. 512 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:55,080 Speaker 3: But I want to. 513 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,480 Speaker 2: Give a shout out because so often we in talk 514 00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 2: radio are negative about political figures and what they promised 515 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:04,840 Speaker 2: to do and don't do. I gotta give a shout 516 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:07,240 Speaker 2: out to Vinnie Ignizio. Now some of you might know 517 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,400 Speaker 2: him in Staten Island. He was the assemblyman, he was 518 00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,840 Speaker 2: city council member, and in the election at twenty twenty one, 519 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:17,520 Speaker 2: I remember when I was going to vote. Remember I 520 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,640 Speaker 2: had that little kitten in my hand, Gizmo, who Nancy 521 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:24,760 Speaker 2: had rescued from the shelter, like she's rescued dozens of 522 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,360 Speaker 2: others who would have been euthanized, and Gizmo became the 523 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,160 Speaker 2: most famous cat in the world. It was featured on 524 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,920 Speaker 2: Stephen Colbert went viral. They made fun of me, but 525 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:38,960 Speaker 2: Gizmo became a star. Remember they wouldn't let me take 526 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,400 Speaker 2: Gizmo in to vote. But when I did go in 527 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,000 Speaker 2: to vote in Nancy, right near Brandt's High School on 528 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:50,040 Speaker 2: the Upper West Side, the machine was not working, the 529 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:53,360 Speaker 2: scanning machine, so they had to call with the call 530 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:57,240 Speaker 2: a engineer on call. The engineer showed up like a 531 00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:01,560 Speaker 2: half hour later, and instead of adjusting things so that 532 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,880 Speaker 2: it could accept my ballot. Remember the ballot had to 533 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:09,280 Speaker 2: be filled out on both sides. Uh. The engineer, in 534 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,280 Speaker 2: front of all the TV cameras that were there to 535 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:17,240 Speaker 2: record my vote, karate chopped the machine. The director of 536 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,040 Speaker 2: the Board of Elections said, man, you can't do that. 537 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,320 Speaker 2: And that's when Vinnie Ignizio was hired as the deputy 538 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:29,320 Speaker 2: executive director of the Board of Elections and said to me, oh, 539 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,360 Speaker 2: we're going to reform things from these missteps, and he 540 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,520 Speaker 2: delivered on that promise. Do you realize we just went 541 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,200 Speaker 2: to an election cycle where there were two million, one 542 00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:41,520 Speaker 2: hundred thousand votes casts. There haven't been that many votes 543 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:45,520 Speaker 2: casts since nineteen sixty five, the election of John Lindsay 544 00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:49,600 Speaker 2: and no problems. And I haven't heard anybody out there, 545 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:53,200 Speaker 2: not in the media or anyone else praise those people 546 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:56,320 Speaker 2: I've been at odds with it before, who did an 547 00:33:56,360 --> 00:34:01,000 Speaker 2: absolutely outstanding job to process that vote. So my berets 548 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,960 Speaker 2: off to Vinnie Ignissio and everyone who was involved in 549 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:08,080 Speaker 2: that long election process to determine who the next mayor 550 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:09,839 Speaker 2: of the City of New York was. An the other 551 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,520 Speaker 2: down ballot votes that you made